Упр.1 Юнит 2 Step 8 ГДЗ Rainbow English 11 класс
1 Listen to five texts about Russian composers (1—5) and match them with the statements (a—f).There is one statement you don’t have to use.
Решение #
Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Баранова, Афанасьева, Михеева 11 класс, Дрофа:
1 Listen to five texts about Russian composers (1—5) and match them with the statements (a—f).There is one statement you don’t have to use.
a) This composer wrote music that helped people to struggle and survive.
b) This composer was in the military service before he began teaching music.
c) This composer spent the last years of his life in Germany.
d) This composer didn’t have any brothers or sisters.
e) This composer changed his musical style.
f) This composer admired the music of a certain foreign composer.
Текст аудирования:
Text 1
Mikhail Glinka was the first Russian composer who became famous outside his country. People say that he is the father of Russian music. Glinka was the son of a rich merchant. He spent a lot of time travelling about Europe where he learned about progressive trends in the music of the time. Anyhow, later on, he managed to find his own language in composition.
Text 2
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer and a teacher of classical music. Born in Tikhvin, near Novgorod, to an aristocratic family, Nikolai showed talent for music from an early age.
Nevertheless, he studied at the Russian Imperial Naval College in Saint Petersburg and then became an officer in the Russian fleet. Later Rimsky-Korsakov became professor of composition at Saint Petersburg Conservatoire.
Text 3
Sergei Prokofiev is widely admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. He was an only child in the family. His mother was a pianist and her son’s first music teacher. By the age of nine he had composed his first opera. His compositions were famous for their originality. For some time Prokofiev lived abroad, in the USA, France and Germany. In 1934 he returned to his motherland.
Text 4
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in 1840 to a middle-class family. Like Schumann, a German composer who had a strong influence on him, Tchaikovsky studied law, but later entered St Petersburg Conservatoire as he wanted to devote his life to music. He became one of the greatest composers ever lived. A true romantic, he wrote music which was deeply Russian by nature.
Text 5
Dmitry Shostakovich was born in 1906 in St Petersburg. He began taking piano lessons at a very early age and became a winner of prestigious competitions. At the age of 13 he began to attend classes in the Conservatoire. After finishing school Shostakovich started earning money as a concert pianist. At the same time he wrote compositions. His 5th Symphony was a great success and remains one of his most liked works. His 7th Symphony became symbolic. It’s associated with Russian people fighting against Nazi aggression during the Second World War.