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b) Team up with your partner who will be ready to give critical remarks on the statements given above. Use the 
cliches expressing criticism. 
c) As a group, now decide which event you will all attend together. When giving your criticism try to be honest, but 
tactful.

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9. Group work. Discuss the effect of rode music on young people. After a proper discussion each group 
presents its critical remarks. First read this: 
There are world-wide complaints about the effect of rock. Psychologists say that listening 
to rock music results in "escapism" (abandoning social responsibilities). They also add 
that some rock rftiislc (for example certain heavy metal songs) affect young people like 
drugs. There are well-known cases of antisocial and amoral behaviour on the part of 
young "music addicts". How cfo you feel about this opinion? 
10. Most of the expressions which you found in the dialogue (Ex. 7) are used to criticise something or 
somebody. 
Below is a review of the Russian Festival of Music hi which a Scottish journalist extolls the virtues of Russian 
music, a) Read the text and note down any useful expressions in giving a positive appraisal of music, 
b) Discuss the text with your partner. 
A Feast of Russian Arts 
The strong and impressive Russian theme at this year's Edinburgh Festival 
commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.
The festival opened on August 9 with three giant companies, the Orchestra of the 
Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and Leningrad's Gorky Drama Theatre, and the spectacular 
young traditional folk music and dance group Siverko, from the arctic city of 
Arkhangelsk.
Other musicians in the first week included the Bolshoi Sextet, and the final week sees 
the arrival of the Shostakovich Quartet.
The first of the four programmes by the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, in an Usher 
Hall draped with garlands, was a fascinating demonstration of Russian tone quality