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3. Give your impressions of a concert (recital) you have recently attended. Use the topical vocabulary. Outline 
for giving impressions: 
1. Type of event. 2. What orchestra, group performed? 3. Programme. Were the musical 
pieces well-known, popular, new, avant-guard, etc.? 4. Who was the conductor? 5. Was 
the event interesting and enjoyable in your opinion? 6. Name the soloists. 7. What did 
critics say about the event? Do you share their points of view? 8. What impression did the 
event make on you? Did you take a solemn
oath never to attend one/again ? 
4. Pair work. Make up and act out a dialogue. (Use the chiches of agreement, disagreement and reacting to 
opinion or persuasion (pp. 287, 290, 291): 
1. You are at a concert of contemporary music, about which you are not very 
knowledgeable. Your friend tries to initiate you in it. 2. Your father/mother cannot stand 
rock music and he/she never listens to it. You try to convince him/her that rock music is 
important in your life. 3. You are talking on the telephone with your friend who wants 
you to accompany her to a piano recital. You are reluctant to join her. 4. You are an ac-
complished jazz musician. But you never participated in jazz sessions. Your friend urges 
you to be more daring and try your

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hand at it. 5. Your sister has just come back from the Bolshoi Theatre where she heard 
Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmtia. She tries to describe how much she enjoyed the opera, but 
you, being no great lover of opera music, turn a deaf ear. 6. You are fond of 
Tchaikovsky's music and always ready to talk about it. Your friend asks you to tell 
him/her more. 
5. Below are opinions on the development of music.