Стр.53 Unit 6 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 10 класс
SPEAK OUT Giving and justifying opinions Giving opinions In my opinion ... If you ask me ... To be honest, ...
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SPEAK OUT Giving and justifying opinions
Giving opinions
In my opinion ...
If you ask me ...
To be honest, ...
It seems to me ...
As far as I’m concerned ...
Frankly ...
Personally, I believe ...
Justifying opinions
Everybody knows that ...
The reason why ... is ...
I mean ...
The thing is ...
Look at ...
If you think about it ...
SPEAK OUT Agreeing and disagreeing
Informal
Agreeing
You are dead right.
That’s so true.
No doubt about it.
Partial agreement
Well, maybe, but ...
You’ve got a point, but ...
Disagreeing
Come off it!
No way!
Neutral/Formal
Agreeing
Absolutely!
That’s a good point!
I couldntaskt agree more.
Partial agreement
That may be true but...
I agree with you up to a point.
Disagreeing
I totally disagree with you.
I’m afraid I can’t agree with you.
New Orleans
Tuesday, 28 February 2006
I went to New Orleans only a week after Hurricane Katrina. Many streets were still under water and the city was a sad and lonely place. There was no music to be heard, only the sound of helicopters as rescuers searched for survivors. More than a thousand people had died. Tens of thousands had lost their homes. Perhaps four hundred thousand had fled.
The devastation was terrible: street after street of ruined houses and wrecked cars, dirty refrigerators under rotting trees. Tire city that many considered to be the most beautiful in North America looked as though it had been hit by a neutron bomb.
Six months later and it’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday and it’s the culmination of twelve days of parties and parades. A celebration of life, food and fun. The city is full of people in masks and costumes, spectacular floats drive along the streets, jazz bands play outside grocery stores. Music has returned to New Orleans.
There are not as many people as usual but that’s hardly surprising. Less than half the population has returned home since Katrina and much of the city is still a disaster zone. What, might seem surprising is that there is anyone celebrating at all. Samuel Spears, a refugee in Houston, is angry,
‘I can’t go home, but they can have a parade? Thattasks ridiculous!’ However, Rob Clemenz, a lawyer wearing a clown costume, believes that the festivities will help die city to recover. ‘We have to laugh. We need joy.’
Katrina has not been forgotten in the parades. There are people with hats that look like storm-damaged roofs and others with dirty lines on their trousers like the flood lines on the sides of their homes and a group dressed as blind men with walking sticks and dark glasses. On their T-shirts are the words ‘levee inspector’.
But there is more to Newtask Orleans than Mardi Gras. Songwriter Bob Dylan once said that New Orleans is a poem. Ittasks a city of culture, a city of art., and music is at its heart. This is die birthplace of jazz and home to a wonderful mix of funk, R’n’B, country, reggae and hip hop.
The French Quarter is alive with music again. On one side of the street a rock group plays a concert, on the other a blues singer gives a performance to make you cry and on stage in the Maple Leaf venue a jazz guitarist has his audience in die palm of his hand. Artists sell drawings and portraits without frames on die streets. A sculptor has collected bits of broken buildings and used them to make fantastic sculptures in a park. A dozen art galleries in the Warehouse District recently held a four-day exhibition to show they are back in business.
And it won’t stop with Mardi Gras. At the end of March there is the annual festival in honour of playwright Tennessee Williams, who set his play Streetcar Named Desire in die French Quarter. And at the end of April the Jazz and Heritage festival will take place as usual. It’s all summed up by a slogan on a T-shirt. It reads, ‘Katrina didn’t wash away our spirit.’ And it’s true. The spirit of this amazing city, die joy of music and the strength of life have survived the hurricane.
6 Choose the correct words.
1 Although the main 1) venue was destroyed in a tire, the music 2) festival was a great success. The organisers built a temporary 3) stage in the local park and the 4) bands were able to perform there.
2 A small metal 5) sculpture, has been stolen from the modern 6) exhibition, in the Warehouse gallery.
3 After die first 7) performance of her new play, the 8) playwright spoke to the 9) audience for more than an hour.
7 Work in groups and discuss one of the questions below. Use Speak Out.
1 Do you think it was right to celebrate Mardi Gras so soon after Hurricane Katrina?
2 Can you drink of any times when it is better to give in than to carry on? Choose from the ideas below:
a fight, a war, a sporting match, an exam, a job, a journey