Стр.52 Unit 6 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 10 класс
READING AND VOCABULARY
Work in pairs. Look at the photos, the fact box and the newspaper extract and answer the questions. Use Speak Out on page 29 to help you.
- What issue does the material deal with?
- How is the information in the fact box and in the newspaper article related to the photos?
- What kind of damage can hurricanes cause?
- How can we help people who have suffered natural disasters?
- There appear to be more natural disasters than before. Why could that be?
FACT BOX
New Orleans, Louisiana
1718 — New Orleans is founded by the French.
1803 — Napoleon sells Louisiana to the USA for about $15 million.
1838 — The first Mardi Gras takes place.
About 1900 — a new style of music is born — jazz! Many famous musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Lenny Kravitz were born in New Orleans.
Population of New Orleans: August 2005, before Hurricane Katrina — 484,000. February 2006 — almost 200,000.
Monday, 29 August 2005
Hurricane Katrina Hits New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina has hit New Orleans with winds of 200 kilometres per hour. The levees which protect the city have broken and the waters of Lake Pontchartrain are pouring through the streets. Large areas of the city have been flooded and emergency services are looking for survivors.
Read the article on page 53 quickly and choose the most appropriate title.
- Disaster in New Orleans
- We will survive
- The show must go on
Read the article again. Are the statements true or false? Listen and check.
- One week after Hurricane Katrina everyone had left New Orleans.
- The writer compares Katrina to a bomb.
- By February 2006 most of the inhabitants of New Orleans had returned home.
- Not everyone agreed it was a good idea to celebrate Mardi Gras so soon after Katrina.
- There were no references to the hurricane in the parades.
- The author is impressed by the reaction of the people of New Orleans to the disaster.
Put these words from the text in the correct categories.
artist, audience, band, concert, drawings, exhibition, festival, frames, galleries, group, guitarist, play (n), performance, playwright, portraits, sculptor, sculptures, songwriter, stage, venue
Art, Theatre, Music
Work in pairs. What kinds of music are mentioned in the text? Can you think of any more? Make a list and compare it with another pair’s.
1.
- The material deals with natural disasters, especially Hurricane Katrina and its effects on New Orleans.
- The fact box and the newspaper article are related to the photos because they all show New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, flooding, destruction, and the city’s recovery.
- Hurricanes can destroy houses, flood streets, damage roads and cars, and cause deaths and homelessness.
- We can help by giving food, water, clothes, shelter, money, and by supporting rescue and recovery work.
- There could be more natural disasters because of climate change, global warming, and environmental damage.
2. a) Disaster in New Orleans
3.
- False
- True
- False
- True
- False
- True
4.
| Art | Theatre | Music |
|---|---|---|
| artist, drawings, exhibition, galleries, portraits, sculptor, sculptures | audience, concert, festival, play, performance, playwright, stage, venue | band, group, guitarist, songwriter |
5. The text mentions jazz, funk, R’n’B, country, reggae and hip hop. Other kinds of music: pop, rock, classical, blues, soul, rap.
