Masha lives in Moscow and is 13 years (1)_old__. She’s got a hew pen friend called Claudia, who’s German. They send e-mails (2) _to__ each other in English, but Masha feels she’s not very good (3)_at_writing e-mails in English and wants to improve. Paulo is 15. He’s very good at English, but he has (4) __to have an important exam at the end of the year and he’s not looking forward to it. He isn’t sure if it’s a good idea to stay up all night (5) _before___ an exam. He’d like to know what the best ways to prepare for an exam are. Freda enjoys her English classes at (6) __school_, but she does badly when they have grammar tests. She knows what present simple and present continuous are, but she (7) __makesmistakes when she uses them. She wants a book which she can use to study at home to help (8) _to__ improve her grammar. Jonathan loves English lessons in the classroom, but he’s not fond (9) _of___ doing homework. He spends hours every evening doing, it, but his teacher is often unhappy with what he (10)_has__done. He needs some help! Irini is 14 years old. She finds her lessons a bit boring sometimes, and is not very good at being quiet (11) __in__ class. Her teachers often tell her to behave. She doesn’t want to get a bad report at the (12) _end_of term, but she thinks she will. She’s beginning to think she wants to try to be better in class.
Music surrounds us since childhood. And then we come first musical instruments. Remember his first drum or tambourine? A brilliant glockenspiel, in which the plates were needed to knock a wooden stick? A pipes with holes on the side? They are at a certain skill you can even play simple melodies.
Toy tools - is the first step into the world of real music. Now you can buy a variety of musical toys: from simple drums and harmonicas until almost the present piano and synthesizers. Do you think this is only the toys? Not at all: in the preparatory classes of musical schools of these toys are made whole orchestra of noise, in which the kids enthusiastically blow in pipes, banging drums and tambourines, maracas pushing the rhythm and play the first song on the xylophone ... and this is their first real step into the world music. In the world of music has its own order and classification. Instruments are divided into groups: strings, keyboards, drums, horns, and another reed. Which of them appeared before what later, it is difficult to say for sure. But the ancient people, archers, and noticed that a stretched string sounds, reed tube, if to blow them, emit whistling sounds and rhythm beat comfortable on all surfaces all means at hand. These items were the forefathers of stringed, wind and percussion instruments, already known in ancient Greece. As long ago appeared reed, but the keyboards were invented a little later. Consider these main groups
String - Bowstring can be considered the prototype of stringed instruments - one of the most important groups of any orchestra. The sound here is published by the oscillating string. To enhance the sound of steel strings to pull over a hollow body - so there lute and mandolin, dulcimer, harp ... and a good friend to us gitara.Strunnye plucked instruments
String group is divided into two main groups: bowed and plucked instruments. For stringed violin include all grades: violins, violas, cellos and double basses huge. The sound of them is removed the bow, which lead on a taut string. For plucked the bow is not necessary: a musician fingers zaschipyvaem string, causing it to oscillate. Guitar, balalaika, lute - plucked instruments. As beautiful harp, which publishes such gentle cooing sounds. But bass - bowed or plucked instrument? Formally, it refers to the bow, but often, especially in jazz, playing it tweaks.
Toy tools - is the first step into the world of real music. Now you can buy a variety of musical toys: from simple drums and harmonicas until almost the present piano and synthesizers. Do you think this is only the toys? Not at all: in the preparatory classes of musical schools of these toys are made whole orchestra of noise, in which the kids enthusiastically blow in pipes, banging drums and tambourines, maracas pushing the rhythm and play the first song on the xylophone ... and this is their first real step into the world music.
In the world of music has its own order and classification. Instruments are divided into groups: strings, keyboards, drums, horns, and another reed. Which of them appeared before what later, it is difficult to say for sure. But the ancient people, archers, and noticed that a stretched string sounds, reed tube, if to blow them, emit whistling sounds and rhythm beat comfortable on all surfaces all means at hand. These items were the forefathers of stringed, wind and percussion instruments, already known in ancient Greece. As long ago appeared reed, but the keyboards were invented a little later. Consider these main groups
String -
Bowstring can be considered the prototype of stringed instruments - one of the most important groups of any orchestra. The sound here is published by the oscillating string. To enhance the sound of steel strings to pull over a hollow body - so there lute and mandolin, dulcimer, harp ... and a good friend to us gitara.Strunnye plucked instruments
String group is divided into two main groups: bowed and plucked instruments. For stringed violin include all grades: violins, violas, cellos and double basses huge. The sound of them is removed the bow, which lead on a taut string. For plucked the bow is not necessary: a musician fingers zaschipyvaem string, causing it to oscillate. Guitar, balalaika, lute - plucked instruments. As beautiful harp, which publishes such gentle cooing sounds. But bass - bowed or plucked instrument? Formally, it refers to the bow, but often, especially in jazz, playing it tweaks.