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MODULE 5 READING 1. Read the texts. Match the titles to the descriptions of unusual talents. One title is extra. 1. AN AMAZING DESIGN - E 2. THE MYSTERIOUS ARTIST - D 3. SCULPTURE BALANCED ON A SINGLE FEATHER- 0 4. THE UNUSUAL TOOL -A 5. AN EDIBLE PAINTING-C 6. A WALL AS A CANVAS - B A. For most of us a typewriter is a relic of the past. But for Keira Rathborne, it is a means to create really cool art. The 25-year-old graduate spends up to 90 hours creating each masterpiece, working at various letters and punctuation marks thousands and thousands of times to get the right image. Keira’s drawings range from beautiful landscapes to famous celebrities. Her favourite key for buildings and views is dashes and apostrophes, while for portraits she prefers brackets. Now she can type-draw almost anything by just tapping with one finger - quite amazing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwLenD_Qxrc http://www.boredpanda.com/typewriter-art-keira-rathbone/ B. For most part, elementary school student Solveig is just like any other 10-year-old. She loves to play with Barbies, ride her bike, and paint. However, unlike other kids her age, she doesn’t paint on a piece of paper or even a canvas - she paints on street walls! Solveig started her graffiti paintings two years ago, when she saw some other people doing it and thought it looked fun. Now she is known as the “Picasso of Street Painting”. In last two years, she has created 20 colourful, larger- than-Jife paintings. She has been recently invited by one of London’s leading newspapers, The Sun, to create something special for them. https://www.flickr.com/photos/supersolveig/
C. It took 10,000 pieces of pasta, countless hours of gluing and a huge backache - but the result looked good enough to eat and almost as good as the original Mona Lisa. Prudence Emma Statie, who created it, spent two weeks searching for different kinds of pasta which she arranged to capture every line of Mona Lisa’s smiling face. The brown, yellow and green shades of pasta almost match the colors of the real painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Ms. Statie, a food artist, said that this was the hardest food creation she had ever made, because she had to glue each piece of dry pasta to a wooden board. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8cIG3Hd_MY https://twitter.com/foodisart/media
D.For the past few months, residents of the town of Stourbridge in the United Kingdom have been waking up to a pleasant surprise. One day they found empty milk bottles with beautiful farm animals cut into the glass on their doorsteps. However, just like Santa, nobody had seen or known who this amazing artist was until now. Charlotte Hughes-Martin, a 30-year-old artist, finally confessed to being the secret “Santa”. Charlotte, who carves her creations in a studio at a former glass factory, said she was motivated by the desire to show people how even ordinary everyday items can be turned into beautiful pieces of art.
D. There are numerous amazing architectural designs but none is as creative, and unusual as Bulgaria’s Snail House! The house designed by local architect Simeon Simeonov looks as though the mollusk is crawling on the street’s sidewalk, except for the fact, that it is a little larger and more colourful than the real one. At first glance it may look just like a decorative structure, but a closer examination reveals some amazing features. The bee on top of the house is a chimney, and the snail horns act as night lights. The mouth-shaped door with red lips will bring a smile on the visitor’s face.
2. Read the text and match the titles to the paragraphs. One title is extra. http://www.classicalkidsnfp.org/
1. NEWSPAPER ANNOUNCEMENT-D 2. ORCHESTRA FEEDBACK-A 3. PRODUCER’S ADDRESS-E 4. KIDS’ REACTION -0 5. MUSICAL JOURNAL REVIEW -C 6. AUDIENCE FEEDBACK -B A. You can’t imagine how great it is to work with people who are so good at what they do - and to never have to worry about a thing. Honestly, you are so well organized and all so professional, it is a complete pleasure to work with you. So thanks for everything! Having received many awardsand honors, the Classical Kids isconsidered a leader in its field. Classical Kids are proud to say, “We’re making a difference!” B. The Classical Kids Livef series is amazing! The stories are engaging, the music is beautiful, and they are so educational! The series is designed to bring to life the extraordinary lives and the musical masterpieces of the great classical composers. Thank you, thank you for giving me the chance to bring my kids to such a wonderful performance ... one that brought me to tears! C. The Classical Kids are far and away the best for introducing children to classical music! Theatrical Symphony Concert Series has cooperated with hundreds of distinguished orchestras presenting over a thousand performances to bring to life Susan Hammond’s audio stories for student and family audiences. Over two million children and adults throughout North America and abroad have enjoyed these magically staged concerts. D. The Classical Kids are creating a brand new theatrical symphony concert production based on the life and music of George Gershwin, and it’s scheduled to premiere next season with the National Sym¬phony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.! George Gershwin’s music will touch the hearts of today’s young people, ensuring that his musical legacy lives on! Things are really moving quickly here at Classical Kids LIVE\ And we need your help now more than ever! I am thrilled to announce that the National Endowment for the Arts has given us a grant for the Gershwin production. However, it will only cover a small portion of our production creation costs. The rest must come from generous donations by donors like you. We know our new Gershwin production will be extremely popular with orchestras around the world!
3. Read the text and mark the statements True (T), False (F), Not Stated (NS). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgEmSb0cKBg
The Sweet Whistling Language That Transforms Humans into Nightingales If you ever visit La Gomera, one of the small islands that make up the Canaries, you are guaranteed to hear some sweet nightingale. Wonderful whistling sounds! While some may come from the golden-voiced bird it-self, chances are most that you are hearing them coming from the resi- dents who, believe it or not, are pronouncing actual words to each other in a language they call “Silbo Gomera” (Spanish for “Gomeran Whistle”). Nobody knows for sure how this whistling language originated, since it was invented even before the original residents of the island came to settle there. It is believed that before the last of them left the island in the 16th century, they passed it on to the Spanish settlers who not only adopted it, but also, translated it to Spanish. Like most ancient languages, it was used until about the 19th century and then began to die down. By the late 20th century, hardly anyone could “speak” this unique whistling language. Alarmed at the loss of what was regarded as a cultural heritage, the local government decided to step in and make the language compulsory for all students. Today, all the residents of this tiny island are good at Silbo Gomera and take great pride in chirping (щебетать) away at each other. Also, while there are a few other whistling languages around the world, this is the only one that is fully developed - one where every vowel and consonant of the local spoken language, Castilian Spanish, can be mimicked by distinct whistles, making for some real sweet sounds! 1. The whistling language is one of the variants of Spanish. T 2. Tourists who come to the island learn the whistling language. NS 3. The inhabitants never speak, they either sing or whistle. NS 4. The language was used only in prehistoric times. F 5. The inhabitants of the island are proud of their native language. T 6. Silbo Gomera is an artificial language created in the 19th century. F 7. The local authorities open special schools to teach everybody the unique language. NS 8. There are a lot of whistling languages in the world like Silbo Gomera. F
4. Read the text and choose the right options to complete the sentences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KScPMs8YlDA Anna Netrebko Anna Netrebko is a Russian operatic soprano. One of the most in demand operatic singers, she has been nicknamed “La Bellissima - The Beauty” by fans. Netrebko was born in Krasnodar. While a student at the Saint Petersburg conservatoire, Netrebko worked as a caretaker washing the floors of Saint Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre. Later, she took part in the casting performing for the Mariinsky Theatre, where the famous conductor Valery Gergiev recognized her from her prior work in the theatre. He subsequently became her vocal adviser. Under Gergiev’s guidance, Netrebko made her operatic stage debut at the Mariinsky at the age of 22, as Susanna in Figaro’s Marriage. She went on to sing many prominent roles with the Kirov Opera. In 1995, at the age of 24, Netrebko made her American debut as Lyudmila in Glinka’s Ruslan and Ludmila at the San Francisco Opera. Following this successful performance, she became a frequent guest singer in San Francisco. She is known as an acclaimed interpreter of other Russian operatic roles, such as Natasha in Prokofiev’s War and Peace and Marfa in The Tsar’s Bride. In 2002, Netrebko made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera. In the same year, she sang her first Donna Anna at the Salzburg Festival’s production of Don Giovanni. She also performed at the Russian Children’s Welfare Society’s major fund raiser, the “Petroushka Ball”. She returned to the Ball in 2003 and 2006 and is an honorary director of the charity. She was triumphant wherever she performed. In 2008 her son Tiago Netrebko was born. In her first performance after her maternity leave, Netrebko sang Lucia in Lucia di Lammer- moor when it opened at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on 14 January, 2009. She then sang the same role in January and February, 2009 at the Metropolitan Opera. In February 2014, she performed the Olympic anthem at the opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi near her native Krasnodar. Due to her full voice and bright timber, she is usually casted as a young, innocent girl, and other such sympathetic characters. She is an excellent actress and displays deep emotion and passion in her singing. Her beautiful and soothing sound tends to fascinate the audiences. There is a great variety of characters to choose from ranging from leading roles to minor characters for any lyric soprano. It means that a lyric soprano will always have a place in opera. The most sought after lyric soprano at this time is the Russian singer Anna Netrebko, who’s again the leading lady in house at the Metropolitan Opera. 1. Anna Netrebko is from . a) Austria b) Italy c) the Russian Federation d) the USA 2. When Anna Netrebko studied at the conservatoire she worked as . a) a teacher b) a singer c) a cleaner d) a conductor 3. Valery Gergiev was Anna Netrebko’s . a) partner b) instructor c) director d) manager 4. Anna Netrebko made her debut in . a) Vienna b) Moscow c) Saint Petersburg d) Italy 5. Americans appreciate Anna Netrebko for her role . a) as Susanna in Figaro’s Marriage b) as Donna Anna c) in Russian operas d) as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor 6. Anna Netrebko takes part in the work of . a) boarding schools b) charity organizations c) festivals d) children’s concerts 7. Anna Netrebko at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. a) was a guest b) carried the fire c) was one of the jury d) sang 8. Anna Netrebko is the leading lady in many theatres because of her . a) beauty b) temperament c) talent d) soprano voice
5. a) Read the text and match the titles to the paragraphs. One title is extra. 1. THE FAMOUS TRADEMARK 2. RUSSIAN CINEMA TREASURE HOUSE 3. UPDATE MODERNIZATION 4. THE PLACE FOR FESTIVALS 5. THE EMBLEM OF THE STUDIO 6. THE BIGGEST & OLDEST FILM CITY Mosfilm, the Russian Hollywood, Marks Its 90th Anniversary A. Mosflim needs no special introduction because it has been Europe’s largest movie studio for many decades. It was founded on January 24, 1924. This year will see its 90th anniversary. Mosfilm is an entire movie town in the southwest of today’s Moscow. It is the studio where the best pictures of Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alexander Dovzhenko, Sergei Bondarchuk, and Andrei Tarkovsky were made, the studio that houses the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. B. When the first full-length film Up on the Wings (director Boris Mikhin) was released onto screens of the country in January, 1924, it became a creative collective team. Since then this state enterprise has been producing films constantly and got its present name in 1935. The famous image - the sculpture Worker and Peasant Woman by V. Mukhina in front of the Spasskaya tower - appeared for the first time in 1947 in the film Spring by Grigoriy Alexandrov. Over the years, Mosfilm studio has produced more than 2,500 films and several generations of viewers, both at home and abroad, were brought up with these films. Many of them are included in the world treasury of cinematography and have won prizes at many festivals in our country and abroad. Now the studio remains faithful to its creative traditions and continues to be the largest production studio in Europe. A. Over the last nine years Mosfilm has been actively upgrading its production facilities and technical resources. Mosfilm put a colossal amount of effort into modernizing its pavilions and studios, equipping them with the latest hardware and filming equipment according to the most demanding modern standards. The Sound Studio and mixing studio were outfitted with the latest digital equipment, making them the world’s first studios to receive certificates from Dolby Laboratories in 2006. B. Today Mosfilm is synonymous with advanced technologies, continuous film production, creative professionals, and unique collections of historical costumes, props and retro cars. Mosfilm is proud to have its brand on most of Russian motion pictures, television and video products. With a production capacity of over 100 films a year, Mosfilm creates, releases and sells motion pictures, television series, and videos. It handles everything from the script to final film copies. b) Read the text again and mark the statements True (T), False (F), Not Stated (NS). 1. Many world famous directors used Mosfilm as a movie studio. T 2. Some best European films were also made there. DS 3. The famous sculpture by Mukhina won the competition to become the studio symbol. T 4. The famous film studio is a private organization. DS 5. Many of Mosfilm films are outstanding and world famous. T 6. Technically the studio doesn’t suit modern standards. F 7. Some years ago the studio was modernized by some European companies. DS 8. Nowadays Mosfilm concentrates on producing TV serials. F
GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY 6. Read the text and choose the right options.
Thelma Levett Is No Ordinary Balloon Lady! https://ru-ru.facebook.com/smudgyclownballoons/
Thelma Levett can twist a balloon into a masterpiece. Over the years, she (1) life-sized tricycles, Barbie dolls and even a pink Cadillac that she “drove” around town much (2) the disappointment of the local authorities. Now, she has (3)_ with something even more incredible - a real-life wedding dress complete with lace sleeves. The wedding gown was inspired by the one Kate Middleton (4) had at her wedding. As you can (5) , it was not an easy task. She had (6)_ the dress in a record four days - during which time she blew and twisted the
Lady Gaga! a) made b) makes c) has made d) is making a) for b) to c) of d) with a) appeared b) come in c) come on d) come up a) dressed b) put c) worn d) showed a) brainstorm b) fantasize c) feature d) imagine a) completed b) to complete c) completing d) complete a) convenient b) convenience c) comfort d) comfortable a) on b) off c) for d) around a) looked b) looks c)has looked d) had looked a) hugest b) gigantic c) most d) biggest
7. Read the text and fill in the gaps transforming the capitalized words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt4m44Tpl3U
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