Unit 05 Music to My Ears

Unit 5 Page 48 READING exercise 1 1 pop 2 rap 3 opera 4 jazz 5 dance music 6 rock Page 48 READING exercise 6 A BRIGHT STAR On Saturday May 19th 2018, millions of people around the world watched as Prince Harry married the American actress Meghan Markle at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, in front of 600 guests. As they signed the marriage register, a young cellist played three pieces of classical music. It was a dream come true for 19-year-old Sheku Kanneh-Mason. It was the biggest performance of his short professional career so far, and a sign that he was quickly becoming one of the most admired classical musicians in the world. This wasn't Sheku's first performance in front of the prince. A year earlier Harry was in the audience for a charity concert in London. Perhaps it was Sheku's performance at this concert that resulted in his royal invitation. The following April an excited Sheku announced on Twitter that Meghan had phoned him to see if he would like to play at the wedding. Sheku has been playing the cello since he was six. He is one of seven children in an amazingly talented family from Nottingham in England. Sheku and his six brothers and sisters are all extremely talented classical musicians. His eldest sister, Isata, won a scholarship to the famous Royal Academy of Music in London to study the piano. A few years later, Sheku followed her when he gained a place at the same institution to study the cello. He was only nine years old. He has been performing with Isata and his older brother Braimah for many years. In 2015 they decided to enter the talent show Britain's Got Talent as the Kanneh-Masons. Their performances on the show were watched by several million people and they reached the semi-finals. A year later Sheku entered the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, which he won. He became the first black musician ever to win the award. He was just 17 years old. As a result of this success he also got a contract with the music publishing company Decca to record an album. In 2018, he released his first album, Inspiration. The album spent four weeks in the UK top 40 charts and it contains many famous classical pieces. Sheku also includes classical versions of songs by Bob Marley and Leonard Cohen on the album. It has introduced a younger audience to classical music. The future is looking bright for Sheku Kanneh-Mason!

第五单元 第48页 阅读练习1 1个pop 2说唱 3歌剧 4爵士乐 5舞曲 6岩石 第48页 阅读练习6 一颗明亮的星星 2018年5月19日星期六， 全世界数百万人观看了哈里王子与美国女演员梅根·马克尔的婚礼 在温莎城堡的圣乔治教堂，600名宾客面前。 当他们在结婚登记簿上签名时，一位年轻的大提琴手演奏了三首古典音乐。 对于19岁的Sheku Kanneh Mason来说，这是梦想成真。 这是他短暂职业生涯中迄今为止最大的表现， 这表明他正迅速成为世界上最受尊敬的古典音乐家之一。 这不是Sheku第一次在王子面前表演。 一年前，哈里在伦敦参加了一场慈善音乐会。 也许正是Sheku在这场音乐会上的表演导致了他的皇室邀请。 次年四月，一位激动的Sheku在推特上宣布 梅根打电话给他，问他是否愿意参加婚礼。 Sheku从六岁起就开始拉大提琴了。 他是英国诺丁汉一个才华横溢的家庭中的七个孩子之一。 Sheku和他的六个兄弟姐妹都是非常有才华的古典音乐家。 他的姐姐Isata获得了伦敦著名的皇家音乐学院的奖学金，学习钢琴。 几年后，Sheku跟随她在同一所学校学习大提琴。 他只有九岁。 多年来，他一直与Isata和他的哥哥Braimah一起表演。 2015年，他们决定以Kanneh Masons的身份参加选秀节目《英国达人秀》。 他们在节目中的表演有数百万人观看，并进入了半决赛。 一年后，Sheku参加了英国广播公司年度青年音乐家比赛，并获得了冠军。 他成为有史以来第一位获得该奖项的黑人音乐家。 他只有17岁。 由于这一成功，他还与音乐出版公司Decca签订了录制专辑的合同。 2018年，他发行了自己的第一张专辑《Inspiration》。 这张专辑在英国前40名排行榜上停留了四周，其中包含了许多著名的古典曲目。 Sheku在专辑中还收录了Bob Marley和Leonard Cohen的经典歌曲。 它向年轻观众介绍了古典音乐。 Sheku Kanneh Mason的未来一片光明！

Page 50 PRONUNCIATION exercise 1 Where have you been? The party's already started. Shh! I've been hiding in the kitchen. We've been looking for you everywhere. We want to play a game. Well, I've been trying to find a bin to put this sandwich in. It's horrible! Page 50 PRONUNCIATION exercise 3 Where have you been? The party's already started. Shh! I've been hiding in the kitchen. We've been looking for you everywhere. We want to play a game. Well, I've been trying to find a bin to put this sandwich in. It's horrible! Page 51 LISTENING exercise 9 and 10 Hi, there. I'm doing some research for the new school magazine about how important music is. Have you got time for a few questions? Sure, OK. I'm Dana, by the way. Great. Thanks, Dana. OK. Between 1 and 5 how important would you say music is to you? Five. Definitely. I don't think I could live without it. It's probably more important to me than fashion. I think I would only put friendship and family above it. Wow. And is that listening to music or playing it or both? Just listening, unfortunately. I mean, I'd love to play an instrument, but I can't. I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I gave up. I keep promising myself to start guitar lessons. One day I will. You should. I play the drums and I just love it. So what kind of music do you like? I like loads of different stuff. I love dancing, so I like a lot of the dance music. And I like a lot of old stuff. My dad was always playing music when I was little, so I like a lot of bands from the 1990s. I even like classical music, too, especially when I'm doing homework. It helps me concentrate, and sometimes when I've got a problem to sort out, listening to classical music can help. And is there any music you don't like? Well, I'm not keen on heavy metal or anything that's too loud, but the music I really don't like is jazz. And why's that? I just find it difficult to listen to. It's not relaxing at all. I get really irritated by it. My brother's a big jazz fan and when he plays it, I just have to leave the room; otherwise we'll start fighting. Oh dear. So just one more question. How important are lyrics for you? They're not very important. I don't really listen to them. As I said before, I like music to dance to or to relax to. It's not very important what they're singing about. Page 51 LISTENING exercise 11 Hi Ben. Can I ask you a few questions about music? It's for the school magazine. OK, what do you want to know? Well, from one to five, how important is music for you? Two, maybe. I mean I sometimes put the radio on, but I'd never buy any music. OK. Um ... So I guess you don't play any instrument? I had piano lessons when I was about 10. I did them for two years, then my mum let me give them up. I hated them. So, what kind of music do you like? Just the stuff that's on the radio, I suppose. But don't ask me to name any of the bands. I just don't know any. So, is there any music that you really don't like? Um, not really. I mean, I'm not too keen on classical music and jazz but otherwise I'll listen to anything. So, last question. How important are lyrics for you? Not at all. I never listen to lyrics.

第50页 拨款练习1 你去哪里了？聚会已经开始了。 嘘！我一直躲在厨房里。 我们到处找你。我们想玩一个游戏。 嗯，我一直在找一个垃圾桶来放这个三明治。太可怕了！ 第50页 拨款练习3 你去哪里了？聚会已经开始了。 嘘！我一直躲在厨房里。 我们到处找你。我们想玩一个游戏。 嗯，我一直在找一个垃圾桶来放这个三明治。太可怕了！ 第51页 听力练习9和10 你好。我正在为新校刊做一些关于音乐有多重要的研究。 你有时间问几个问题吗？ 当然，好的。顺便说一句，我叫Dana。 太棒了谢谢你Dana。 好的。在1到5之间，你认为音乐对你有多重要？ 五个。一定地。我想没有它我活不下去。 对我来说，这可能比时尚更重要。 我想我只会把友谊和家庭放在首位。 哇！那是听音乐还是演奏音乐，还是两者兼而有之？ 只是听，不幸的是。 我的意思是，我很想演奏一种乐器，但我不能。 我年轻的时候上过钢琴课，但我放弃了。 我一直答应自己开始上吉他课。总有一天我会的。 你应该。我打鼓，我很喜欢。 你喜欢什么样的音乐？ 我喜欢很多不同的东西。 我喜欢跳舞，所以我喜欢很多舞曲。 我喜欢很多旧东西。 我小时候，我爸爸总是演奏音乐，所以我喜欢很多20世纪90年代的乐队。 我甚至也喜欢古典音乐，尤其是当我做作业的时候。 它能帮助我集中注意力，有时当我有问题要解决时，听古典音乐会有所帮助。 还有你不喜欢的音乐吗？ 嗯，我不喜欢重金属或任何太吵的东西， 但我真正不喜欢的音乐是爵士乐。 为什么？ 我只是觉得很难听。 一点也不放松。我真的被它激怒了。 我哥哥是个爵士迷，当他演奏时，我只需要离开房间； 否则我们就开始打架。 哦，天哪。所以，还有一个问题。歌词对你来说有多重要？ 它们不是很重要。我真的不听他们的。 正如我之前所说，我喜欢音乐来跳舞或放松。 他们唱什么并不重要。 第51页 听力练习11 嗨，本。我能问你几个关于音乐的问题吗？ 这是给学校杂志的。 好吧，你想知道什么？ 那么，从一到五，音乐对你来说有多重要？ 两个，也许吧。 我的意思是，我有时会打开收音机，但我从不买任何音乐。 好吧。..所以我猜你不会演奏任何乐器？ 我大约10岁时上过钢琴课。 我做了两年，然后我妈妈让我放弃了。我讨厌他们。 那么，你喜欢什么样的音乐？ 只是收音机里的东西，我想。 但不要让我说出任何乐队的名字。我什么都不知道。 那么，你真的不喜欢什么音乐吗？ 嗯，不是真的。 我的意思是，我不太喜欢古典音乐和爵士乐，但除此之外，我什么都听。 那么，最后一个问题。歌词对你来说有多重要？ 一点也不。我从不听歌词。

Page 52 READING exercise 3 THE FUTURE OF LIVE MUSIC Technology has always played an important part in the development of pop music – from the instruments that the bands play and the live shows that they perform to the way we listen to music in our homes or on the move. But advances in technology over the next few years are promising to bring even bigger changes. HOLOGRAMS For around 50 years, people of all ages have been enjoying ABBA's music. They have played almost 100 international concerts, but since 1982, when the band played their last show, fans have had little hope of ever seeing their favourite group live on stage again. That is now about to change as the band have announced plans for their first shows in nearly forty years. Bands from the 70s and 80s playing together again is nothing new, but it is no surprise that a band as big as ABBA are planning to do things a little bit differently. The four members of the band will not be on the stage together. Instead, they will appear as holograms. The holograms will show the band as they looked back in 1979, when ABBA were the biggest band in the world. And they won't be the only band to have returned to the stage via holograms. In 2018 Freddie Mercury appeared in hologram form alongside Queen in Las Vegas, even though he died more than 25 years ago. VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) VR technology has made lots of progress recently. You may soon be able to enjoy watching your favourite band live without even leaving your house. Developers have been making plans to launch a new app that will alow fans to watch live concerts that are being streamed directly to VR headsets. Not only will you be able to watch the band from the crowd, but you will also have the possibility of watching the show on stage with the band. And all of this will cost you about a tenth of the ticket price for the venue. These advances in technology are very exciting, but do fans really want to watch a show knowing that their musical heroes aren't really there? And can watching through a VR headset ever really match up to the experience of actually being there? Is the latest technology really always the best? Perhaps we should look at the case of viny. Who would have thought that a format that was replaced by the CD, then downloading and, finally, streaming, would have made such a big return. Perhaps sometimes the old-fashioned ways of doing things might just be better. Page 53 VOCABULARY exercise 8 1 bass guitar 2 trumpet 3 saxophone 4 drums 5 piano 6 keyboard 7 guitar 8 violin

第52页 阅读练习3 现场音乐的未来 技术一直在流行音乐的发展中发挥着重要作用—— 从乐队演奏的乐器和他们表演的现场表演中 我们在家里或移动中听音乐的方式。 但未来几年的技术进步有望带来更大的变化。 全息图 大约50年来，所有年龄段的人都喜欢ABBA的音乐。 他们已经举办了近100场国际音乐会，但自1982年乐队举办最后一场演出以来， 粉丝们几乎没有希望再次看到他们最喜欢的乐队在舞台上表演。 随着乐队宣布了近四十年来的首场演出计划，这种情况即将改变。 70年代和80年代的乐队再次在一起演奏并不是什么新鲜事， 但像ABBA这样大的乐队也就不足为奇了 他们计划以稍微不同的方式做事。 乐队的四名成员将不会一起登台。 相反，它们将以全息图的形式出现。 全息图将显示1979年回顾时的乐队， 当时ABBA是世界上最大的乐队。 他们不会是唯一一个通过全息图重返舞台的乐队。 2018年，弗雷迪·默丘里以全息图的形式与女王一起出现在拉斯维加斯， 尽管他已经去世25年多了。 虚拟现实 VR技术最近取得了很大的进步。 你可能很快就能享受看你最喜欢的乐队现场表演，甚至不用离开你的房子。 开发人员一直在计划推出一款新应用程序 这将允许粉丝观看直接流式传输到VR耳机的现场音乐会。 你不仅可以在人群中观看乐队， 但你也可以和乐队一起在舞台上观看演出。 所有这些费用大约是场地门票价格的十分之一。 这些技术进步非常令人兴奋， 但粉丝们真的想在知道他们的音乐英雄并不存在的情况下观看一场演出吗？ 通过VR耳机观看真的能与实际在场的体验相匹配吗？ 最新的技术真的总是最好的吗？ 也许我们应该看看维尼的案子。 谁会想到，一种被CD取代的格式， 然后是下载，最后是流媒体，会带来如此巨大的回报。 也许有时候，老式的做事方式可能会更好。 第53页 词汇练习8 1把低音吉他 2喇叭 3萨克斯管 4鼓 5钢琴 6个键盘 7吉他 8小提琴

Page 54 DEVELOPING SPEAKING exercise 8 Tom! Hi! Here you are, looking in the music shop window. Why am I not surprised!? Oh, hi Laura. You OK? Well, I'm fine. But you don't look very happy. What's up? Nothing. Oh, come on. What's the matter? Well, I'm just a bit upset. Look. There's that keyboard, the one I've always wanted, 25% off. Down to £240. And I still can't afford it. Oh, I see. But you've been saving for ages, haven't you? Yes, and I've saved £150. But it's not enough, is it? Even with 25% off, I still need another £90. Can't you ask your parents to help? Can they lend you some money? No way. They've just bought a car. They haven't got any spare money at the moment. Tell me about it. I asked my parents to lend me some money the other day. They were nice about it, but they said no. They're saving to go to Canada to see my uncle. OK, there's no point in standing here looking in the window. I'll just have to forget about it for now. Let's go. Well, if you say so. What a shame. Hello! Looking at the keyboards? Come in and have a look. You can try one if you want. Thanks, but no thanks. I can't afford the one I want. That black one, the Condor. That one? I've got another one in the shop. It's got a scratch on it, so I'm thinking of taking another £100 off the price. Interested? Absolutely! I can't wait to see it! Come on, Tom, let's go in!

第54页 发展口语练习8 汤姆！你好给你，在音乐商店橱窗里看。为什么我不感到惊讶！？ 哦，嗨，劳拉。你没事吧？ 嗯，我很好。但你看起来不太高兴。怎么了 没有什么。 哦，得了吧。怎么了？ 嗯，我只是有点沮丧。 你看。有那个键盘，我一直想要的，打七五折。低至240英镑。 但我还是买不起。 哦，我知道了。但你一直在存钱，不是吗？ 是的，我存了150英镑。 但这还不够，是吗？ 即使有25%的折扣，我还需要90英镑。 你不能请你父母帮忙吗？他们能借你一些钱吗？ 不可能。他们刚买了一辆车。 他们现在没有多余的钱。 跟我说说吧。前几天我向父母借了一些钱。 他们对此很好，但他们拒绝了。 他们正在存钱去加拿大看望我叔叔。 好吧，站在这里看窗户是没有意义的。 我现在只能把它忘了。走吧。 好吧，如果你这么说。太遗憾了。 你好看键盘？进来看看。 如果你愿意，你可以试试。 谢谢，但不用了。 我买不起我想要的。 那个黑色的，秃鹰。 那个？我在商店里又买了一个。 它上面有划痕，所以我想再降价100英镑。 感兴趣？ 当然！我等不及要看了！ 来吧，汤姆，我们进去！