Music is everywhere

Grammar "k Indirect questions

aj Put the words in the co r rec t order to make indirect quest ions.

1 y o u / c a n / w h e r e / t e l l / post of f ice / me / is / the

Can you tell me where the post office is? 2 you / much / costs / d o / how /

this / know

3 te l l / us / starts / you / what / film / can / the / t ime

4 you / can / him / test / he / what / mark / got / ask / in / the

5 arrived / you / when / know / d o / they

6 speak / know / can / you / w h o / I / t o / do

7 you / t h e m / teacher / wi l l / be / te l l / w h o / the / can

8 is / you / name / what / know / d o / his

[~b~l Wri te the indirect quest ions in Exercise l a as d i rect quest ions.

1 Where is the post office?

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Anne Jacobs has an unusual job. She is responsible for choosing the music to play at G l obo G y m in London. Read the interview with her and match the quest ions with the replies.

1 What kind o f music d o you play at the gym? \TJ 2 Wha l l ype o f music is popular in the early

mornings, for example? 3 What did you play this morn ing when you

opened the gym? 4 What do people like t o listen t o whi le they

exercise in the afternoons? 5 What t ime does it start get t ing busy again? 6 And what kind o f music can we hear then? 7 How many clients has the gym got at the

moment? 8 And how many complaints have you had

about the music you play?

a None, incredibly. I guess I must be doing something right.

b Well , that's usually our busiest t ime , so something upbeat is good t o get our clients moving and

ready for the working day. c Let me see. Yes, I remember. It was a co l lec t ion

o f remixed songs by Madonna, Girls A loud and people like that .

d The gym starts filling up around 6 pm w i th people dropping in on their way home f r o m work.

e Over 500, I think. f All types. It depends on the t ime o f the day. g After lunch is our quietest t ime o f the day so we

usually play slower, more relaxing music. Chil l-out music, for example.

h Rock's p re t t y popular in the early evening. It helps people get in the m o o d for a night out .

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Make the questions in Exercise l c indirect questions.

1 Can you tel l us what kind of music you play at the gym?

2 Can you tel l us ?

3 Do you remember ?

4 Can you te l l us ?

5 Do you know ?

6 Can you te l l us ' ?

7 Do you know ?

8 Can you te l l us ?

vocabulary *k Making comparisons stronger At the G lastonbury music festival, Jenny saw several bands. Put the bands she ment ions in order of who she liked most .

'The White Stripes were a bit bet ter than Fatboy Slim, but no t much.' 'Keane were nearly as good as Coldplay but neither was as good as Elvis Costello.' A l though Echo and the Bunnymen are a big influence on Coldplay, Coldplay were far better. Echo and the Bunnymen were a lot bet ter than the other 80s band New Order.'

'The Magic Numbers were the best. They were just fantast ic ' 'Fat Boy Slim wasn't nearly as good as I t hought he wou ld be. It was def initely the worst show.'

1 1'he Magic Numbers

b j C o m p l e t e the sentences with the words in the box.

just far lo t nearly noth ing bet ter more a

1 I find classical music much more

relaxing than any pop music.

2 Music these days is no t as

imaginative as it was 20 years ago.

3 I th ink techno is a more exciting than the dance music o f the 1970s.

4 Country music is as

boring as folk music. I don ' t really

like either.

5 The Beatles are bet ter

than Oasis. I don ' t know how you

can compare them.

6 Bands' images are lo t

more impor t an t than their music

these days. It's a shame.

7 Pop music is like as

good as jazz.

8 The live version o f this song is even

than the studio version.

Pronunciation ic record (noun) vs. record (verb) • CD4T23 Listen and mark the

stress on the words in italics.

1 We export a lot o f coffee t o Europe. 2 Sugar is our biggest export. 3 There's been an increase in car t h e f t

recently. 4 The graph shows that the number

o f university students increases every year.

5 I'm sorry. I d idn ' t mean to insult you. 6 Don't do tha t w i t h your hand. It's

considered an insult here. 7 What a lovely present. Thank you. 8 We'd like t o present you w i th the

'student o f the m o n t h ' certif icate.

• CD4 T23 Listen again and repeat.

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vocabulary "ft Listening to music What are the words? C o m p l e t e the sentences .

1 I love dance music - anything w i th a good beat (tabe) t o it.

2 Most (scirly) these days are a bit

silly but occasionally yowge t a songwriter w i t h

something t o say.

3 Living in a small t o w n , we don ' t get much

(vile) music, a couple o f shows a year if we're lucky.

4 It's a great (neut). It's so easy t o

5 I haven't got a great voice so I t end no t t o sing — I just (muh) along.

6 I used t o work in a supermarket but tha t (kmauz) playing all day drove me

crazy so I left .

7 We (decorred) our first CD in my

dad's garage in three days.

8 (unranmtliest) music is great t o play in the background when you're working.

sing along to .

C o m p l e t e the text with the words in the box. There are t w o you won't need.

album track soundtrack tebel canned music cover cover band compose singer-songwriter

They say tha t a change is as good as a rest and this certainly seems t rue for Ricky Valentine. When he left Sony music t w o years ago t o sign for a small independent record \\abel , many people were predict ing we 'd heard the last f r o m him. But this is not t he case. His f i r s t 2 for Go-Go records is simply brill iant. Back from the Dead shows that Valentine is no t just a g r ea t 3 (we all knew tha t anyway) but tha t he can 4 music on a much more ambit ious level. This is n o t just a record o f Valentine and his guitar. This is Valentine, his guitar and a fu l l orchestra. At t imes you feel like you're listening t o the 5 o f some epic Ho l l ywood produc t ion . It's quite amazing and quite unlike anything he's done before. The opening 6 wh ich is a 7 o f U2's One is mind-blowing. The rest o f the songs (all original composit ions) don ' t disappoint. If you only buy one CD this year, makes sure it's this one.

Grammar "k Embedded questions C o m p l e t e the sentences with the co r rec t quest ion word , who, when, why, where, what or how.

1 I can't imagine . .who. t o l d him.

2 I've fo rgo t t en her

birthday is.

3 I wonder much it

costs.

4 He d idn ' t say he lives.

5 I don ' t know she

didn' t phone t o say 'happy

birthday'.

6 I don ' t understand

she likes about him.

Match the t w o parts of the sentences . Then add quest ion marks or full stops.

1 It's easy t o 2 Can you te l l 3 W h o t o l d you 4 I'm thinking about

where I want 5 Why d idn ' t you 6 I don ' t know where 7 I don ' t understand 8 Do you

how it works they went me why he d id that come t o my party know where he went t o go on holiday this year see why he's so happy,

where I live

Q L i t e r a t u r e in mind Read this extract f rom High Fidelity by Nick Hornby. These s ta tements are all true. Find ev idence for each one in the text. The re might be more than one thing for each statement .

1 Rob has been a DJ at the club before. 2 Rob doesn't th ink that Barry's band wi l l be good. 3 Barry and his band are very good. 4 The people in the club are not teenagers.

Rob, the owner of the music store, is working one night as DJ in a nightclub. Barry, who works in Rob's store, has a band which is going to play in public for the first time at the club.

Before the band come on, everything's bri l l iant. It used to take a bit of time to warm people up, but tonight they're 1 up for it straight away.

[And] I haven't lost any of the old magic. One sequence [of songs] has them begging for mercy. A n d then it's time for the band.

I've been told to introduce them; Barry has even written down what I 'm supposed to say: 'Ladies and gentlemen, be afraid. Be very afraid. Here comes .. . SONIC D E A T H M O N K E Y ! ' But [...] in the end I just sort of mumble the name of the group into the microphone.

They're wearing suits and skinny ties, and when they plug in there's a terrible feedback 2 whine which for a moment I fear is their opening number. But Sonic Death Monkey are no longer what they once were. They are no longer, i n fact, Sonic Death Monkey.

'We're not called Sonic Death Monkey any more,' Barry says when he gets to the mike. 'We might be on the edge of becoming the Futuristics, but we haven't decided vet. Tonight, though, we're Backbeat. One two three . . . W E L L S H A K E I T U P BABY .. . ' A n d they launch into Twist and Shout, note perfect, and everyone in the place goes mad.

A n d Barry can sing.

They play Route 66 and Long Tall Sally and Money and Do You Love Me? and they 3 encore wi th I n The Midnight Hour and La Bamba. Every song, in short, i s 4 naff and recognizable, and guaranteed to please a crowd of thirtysomethings who think that hip-hop is something their children do in music and movement classes. The crowd are so pleased, in fact, that they 5 sit out the songs I have lined up for them to get them going again after Sonic Death Monkey have frightened and confused them.

'What was all that about?' I ask Barry when he comes up to the deck, sweaty and half-cut and pleased wi th himself.

'Was that all right?'

' I t was better than what I was expecting.'

b j (Circle) the words or phrases which are c losest in meaning to the under l ined words in the text.

1 a t ry ing t o leave

2 a an alcoholic drink 3 a play extra songs 4 a unknown 5 a don ' t like

b enthusiastic b an electric shock b play badly b badly sung

b don ' t dance t o

c co ld c an unpleasant high sound c play the same songs again c unfashionable c go outs ide t o sit d o w n

Read the text again and answer the quest ions.

1 What is ' the o ld magic' tha t Rob says he hasn't lost?

2 Why does Rob 'just sort o f mumble the name o f the group' when he introduces them?

3 What does the c rowd th ink o f t he songs Rob plays when the band has finished? 4 What , in your op in ion , does Rob feel about the evening at the club?

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unit check Fill in t h e spaces C o m p l e t e the text with the words in the box.

sensation household best huge which name themselves far live charts

The Arct ic Monkeys conf i rmed ; themselves as an Indie music 2 w i t h the release o f their

first CD, Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not. It entered the album 3 at number one

and became t h e 4 -selling album o f all t ime. The CD sold 360,000 cop ies , 5 more than Richard Ashcroft 's second-placed Keys to the World. In a couple o f months , the band f r o m Sheffield

had gone from being almost unknown to being a 6 name in t he UK. The four boys s tarted t o

make a 7 fo r themselves locally w i t h t h e i r 8 shows in 2003. People could then

get their songs for free on the i n t e rne t , 9 is how their popular i ty really grew. They then had a couple o f number one singles, / bet you look good on the dance floor and When the sun goes down, but no one was qui te expect ing t h e 1 0 success o f their debut album.

Choose t h e c o r r e c t answers Q vocabulary (^Tftde) the co r rec t answer: a, b or c.

1 Do you know how ?

a o ld is she b o ld her is c (q jdshe j^ )

Their new CD is like as good as their first one.

a nowhere b no t c noth ing

Wha t an annoying tune ! I just can't get it o u t o f my a head b m o u t h c ears

4 Can you te l l me what language in Brazil?

a they speak b speak they c d o they speak

5 My dad thinks he's really coo l singing t o my

music. I th ink he's embarrassing.

a on b along c o u t

6 Do you know what ?

a did he say b he said c said he

7 It's as ho t today as it was yesterday.

a far b just c even

8 I d idn ' t understand what

a said he b did he say c he said

9 If you forget the words, just along.

a hum b sing c yawn

Under l ine the cor rec t word .

1 He's nowhere far / close / near as famous as his brother.

2 It's so embarrassing when my dad sings along / though / on t o songs on the radio.

3 I love alive / live / life music. I go t o at least t w o concerts a m o n t h .

4 I used t o work in a shopping centre but the tinned / frozen / canned music they played all day drove me mad.

5 My brother's band has just signed t o a big record sign / label / brand.

6 This CD is noth ing near / like / far as good as their last CD.

7 The words / tune / track is easy t o remember but t he lyrics are d i f f icu l t .

8 I'm in a band tha t mainly plays cover / copy / fake versions o f famous songs.

9 I can't choose between t hem. I th ink they're just / even / the same as good as each other.

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