Упр.6 Unit 3 Reader ГДЗ English Кузовлев 10-11 класс
What is one of the most popular music styles today?
Read the story and try to guess the meaning of the word “gap” (reading for the main idea).
Electronic Eden
It was the world’s biggest dance party, a Dionysian festival like no other. More than one million fans of gap music — but please call them ravers — crowded into Berlin’s Tiergarten park for the annual Love Parade. Forty colourfully decorated floats, each carrying gigantic loudspeakers, pumped out high-energy, synthetic songs. For two days a friendly chaos covered the German capital.
“This is the best time I’ve ever had in my life,” said Lars Johanson, a very tired 22-year-old business student from Stockholm, after 48 hours of partying.
After growing for a decade in British and German underground dance clubs, gap is developing into a mainstream, global movement. In Britain, gap groups have already scored No. 1 hits. In Moscow a gap dance party in Gorki Park earlier drew 30,000 enthusiasts. The city has about 50 gap clubs. In the trendy North Johannesburg section of Rosebank, two big dance clubs have turned gap. Tokyo is Asia’s gap capital, but the music catching fire in Southeast Asia as well.
Until recently, the U.S. record industry ignored the genre. But alternative, rap and country are losing commercial momentum. So record companies are looking to gap for a boost.
Nowadays, gap includes a variety of subgenres: drum & bass, psychedelia of acid trance — all with bits and pieces sampled from just about any kind of music. British bands (Prodigy, the Chemical Brothers) will dominate gap in America for a little while, but U.S. ravers expect that to change as its popularity grows.
To ravers, gap is more than just music. “There’s a whole lifestyle connected with it, from fashions to high-tech to certain kinds of vacations and sports,” says the editor of Germany’s biggest gap magazine. Sociologists say, “Gap culture is a youth movement, shrill, colourful and spontaneous. What makes it very different from past counter-culture movements is its tolerance and openness and its opposition to strict political ideologies. Anyone can join.”
Newsweek, June 28, 1997
- What does “gap” mean? Choose from the following.
- How can you prove your choice? Use the information from the story.
- What do people think about this music and the festival? (reading for specific information)
- What have you learned about this music? Organise information in the chart (reading for specific information).
2) Gap means dance music / electronic dance music.
3) We can prove it from the story: people call themselves ravers, they crowd into dance parties, floats pump out high-energy synthetic songs, and the text says that gap is a global movement with clubs, hits, and festivals.
4) People think this music and the festival are exciting, colourful, energetic and very popular. They also see them as a youth movement and a whole lifestyle.
5)
| What have you learned about this music? | Information from the story |
|---|---|
| Type of music | Electronic dance music |
| Sound | High-energy, synthetic songs |
| Popularity | It is becoming a mainstream global movement |
| Where it is popular | Britain, Germany, Moscow, Tokyo, Southeast Asia, the U.S. |
| Related culture | Fashion, high-tech, vacations and sports |
| Character | Tolerant, open, colourful, spontaneous |
