Стр.32 Unit 4 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 8 класс
- T031 Listen to these three pieces of music. Which one do you like best? Which adjectives could describe each piece?
Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin
Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven
The Cat Waltz by Frederic Chopin
exciting, melodic, boring, catchy, dramatic, irritating, mysterious, sentimental
- Read anecdotes A–C below and match them to pictures 1–3.
Eureka moments!
A One day in the 1920s, the great American composer George Gershwin was travelling to a concert in Boston. While he was sitting alone on the train, he suddenly got the idea for his most famous work, Rhapsody in Blue. When you listen to the music today, you can clearly hear the train wheels and the whistle!
B Night was falling and the Moon was shining. Beethoven was walking around Vienna – he was looking for inspiration. As he was passing a small house, he heard one of his compositions. Somebody was playing it on the piano but kept on making mistakes. Beethoven was intrigued and decided to find out who it was. He entered the house and realised that the girl at the piano was blind. He sat and played music to her for over an hour. Suddenly the Moon appeared at the window. Beethoven was excited by the special atmosphere in the room and began to compose his famous Moonlight Sonata.
C In the summer of 1837, the Polish composer Chopin was living in Paris. Late one evening he was composing alone in his music room. While he was sitting at the piano, a small kitten suddenly ran across the piano keys. Chopin liked the strange melody and he tried to write it down. In 1838 he published a new composition. The little? – The Cat Waltz!
- Match sentences 1 and 2 with uses of the Past Continuous a and b.
1. Night was falling and the Moon was shining.
2. Late one evening Chopin was composing in his music room.
a) setting the scene at the beginning of a story
b) saying that somebody was in the middle of an action at a particular time
- Look at the sentence and answer the questions.
While Gershwin was travelling by train, he suddenly got the idea for Rhapsody in Blue.
1. Did these actions happen:
a) one after another?
b) at the same time?
2. Which action was shorter and which tense do we use to talk about it?
1. The actions happened at the same time. The shorter action was got the idea, and we use the Past Simple to talk about it.
2. The Past Continuous is used for the longer action in progress: was travelling.
