Стр.110 Unit 10 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 11 класс

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LISTENING

1 Why are some people so interested in celebrities? Discuss in pairs.

2 T073 Listen to the first part of a lecture about celebrity. Are the statements true or false?

1 To be a celebrity, you have to do something else apart from being famous.

2 Richard Branson was not famous until he tried to go round the world in a balloon.

3 Shakira was famous before her songs were

4 Kings and queens do not qualify for celebrity status.

5 The first modern celebrities were film actors.

6 The Hollywood film industry grew during the Great Depression.

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Part One

Good afternoon everyone! I must say, it’s nice to see so many of you here — or is it really that cold outside? No seriously, I hope you’ll find today’s talk interesting. Our topic is celebrity, and I’d like to start by asking: what is a celebrity? … Thank you — yes, a celebrity is certainly a famous person, and anything else? Well, a celebrity is, and I quote, ‘a person who is widely recognised in a society and commands public and media attention’. So, one needs to be famous to reach celebrity status, but this is not always enough. There has to be a level of public interest which may or may not be connected to the reason they are famous. A public figure such as a politician or industry leader may be famous but not a celebrity unless something else triggers media interest — for example, Virgin director Richard Branson attempting to go round the world in a balloon. At this point I should also make a distinction between national versus global celebrities: each nation has its own, mainly independent celebrity system, and as a result, people who are well-known in, for example, India, might be unknown abroad. Some celebrities can be considered ‘global’, that is, they are known across the world. Actors and musicians, and high-powered religious or political figures make up most of this group. An example of someone who crossed over from national to global status is Shakira: a singer who was well known in the Spanish-speaking world and then achieved international fame through English-language versions of her songs. Now — an important question is: how and when were the first celebrities created? Well, before the twentieth century, celebrity status was restricted to biblical or mythical figures, and royalty — for example some of the pharaohs of ancient Egypt. It took the film industry to invent the modern so-called ‘personality’, and the first truly global celebrity was Charlie Chaplin, the music hall entertainer from south London who found fame in Hollywood in the 1920s and 30s. At that time the growing mass media was helping to make celebrity culture a national pastime in the United States. Even during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Hollywood thrived, with about 80 million people a week going to the cinema.

Beth

CELEBRITY

What is a celebrity?

• definition: "person widely recognised in society who commands public & media attention"

• not always enough to be famous

• need something to start media interest, e.g. public figure like Branson going round world in balloon

National vs. global celebrities

• each nation has own celebrity system -> may be unknown abroad

• most global celebrities: actors, musicians, religious & political figures

• can cross over national -> global, e.g. Shakira: well-known in Spanish-speaking world before internationally famous

Leo

How and when were the first celebrities created? Before the twentieth century celebrity status was (strict?) to biblical mythical figures and royalty. For example fer of Egypt. The film industry invented the modem personality, and the first global celebrity was Charlie Chaplin. He was an entertainer - famous in Hollywood in the 1920s and task30s. The mass media made celebrity culture a national pass (past time?) in the United States. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Hollywood (?), approximately 80 million people a week went to the cinema.

3 Look at the notes that Beth and Leo made during the lecture. Why are Bethtasks notes easier to follow?

4 Read Train Your Brain and check your answers to Exercise 3.

TRAIN YOUR BRAIN Listening skills

Taking notes

To organise your notes:

• Give the notes a main heading in capital letters.

• Give each new topic a sub-heading and underline it.

• Put each fact or piece of information on a new line, beginning with a bullet point ( • ).

• Put inverted commas (task task) round any quotes or titles.

To save time

• Dontaskt try to write everything you hear.

• If you cantaskt catch a particular word or phrase, try to guess the meaning and write something similar.

• Leave out unnecessary words such as articles, pronouns and auxiliary verbs.

• Use abbreviations and symbols such as:

e.g., i.e., &, C20th, ->, vs., approx.

5 Rewrite Leotasks notes using Train Your Brain.

6 T074 Listen to the rest of the lecture and make your own notes. Then swap notes with a partner and compare the techniques you have used.

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Part Two

Now let us turn to the question of how one becomes a celebrity nowadays. Well, the obvious way is still to be a film star, sports person, supermodel or international musician … but we also now fi nd some authors, journalists and even lawyers joining the ranks. A reliable alternative is to belong to a celebrity family, for example the Jacksons or the Clintons, and just be famous for being famous. Another way of achieving celebrity status is to appear on a reality TV show, like Big Brother — however, this celebrity is often short-lived, and has no social or economic value. Alternatively, people like chefs, gardeners and interior decorators who have their own show will usually become a celebrity. But once again, their fame is only based on one programme and may not last. As the artist Andy Warhol once said: ‘In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.’ Of course, there are both advantages and disadvantages of being a celebrity. They have a great deal of money, and they have the freedom to do whatever they want. It seems simple for an actor to launch a singing career or for a singer to launch their own line of underwear, and the result is that they stay in the public eye for longer. However, the down side is that they cannot escape the public eye, and this can have a devastating effect on their private lives. Who knows, for example, how many Hollywood marriages end in divorce, or how many child celebrities have difficulty developing into well balanced adults? Finally, I want to talk about why so many people are obsessed with celebrities. One reason is that, in a very large impersonal world, celebrities provide human faces and human dramas. Another is that we live out our fantasies through them: we wish we could have their kind of freedom and power over people. This also means that we often resent celebrities, and therefore we are also fascinated by their downfall — take, for example, the case of Michael Jackson. Dr Doug Hartman, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota, says that celebrities have another function: since most of us know few people in common, the rich and famous become our link. Everybody knows them, so you can strike up a conversation with a lot of different people. As he says, ‘It’s a kind of way to bring us together.’ An interesting idea, don’t you think? OK, well to finish, I’ll leave you with this theory, which is that our obsession with celebrities may be primal, that is, one of our most basic instincts: some scientists gave a group of monkeys a choice — drink some juice or look at photos of the most popular monkey in the pack. Despite their thirst, the monkeys chose the photos. Well, thank you for your attention, everyone, and I’ll see you in two weeks, when our subject will be …

7 In groups, discuss what you would do or say if you could be famous for just fifteen minutes.