ROCK AND POP MUSIC

A: Do you like listening to music?

B: Sure.

A: What kind of music do you prefer?

B: It depends. Mostly rock and pop music, but sometimes classical and country music. And you?

A: As for me, I listen to all kinds of music, even the music my parents listen to. For example, the Beatles, a British pop group.

B: I also like the Beatles. Their music is based on rock and roll exported from the USA. But it is very different from any other American music.

A: Yes, you are right. It was the birth of a new pop culture. It influenced the musical culture of many countries. By the way, do you remember their names?

B: Of course, I do. George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney. Do you know the names of any other British singers?

A: Naturally, Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones, Elton John and many others.

4.23 Read the text and say what main kinds of literature exist. Give examples of books written in different literary genres.

LITERATURE

In the ancient oral traditions, before stories and poems were written down, literature had a mainly public function – mythic and religious. Oral literature included folk tales, legends, proverbs and ancient epics, such as the Greek Odyssey. Poetry had an advantage over prose those days – it was easier to memorize.

As literary works came to be preserved in writing, and then printed, their role became more private, as a means for the expression of emotions. There appeared lots of different literary genres. Among them are adventure stories, detective stories, biographies and autobiographies, fantasy, science fiction, novels, historical novels and others.

Prose is sometimes defined as “words in their best order” and poetry as “the best words in their best order”.

4.24 Here are the names of some famous writers and poets. Say what countries they are from:

Russia, England, Scotland, America, the Ukraine

William Shakespeare, Mikhail Lermontov, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Anton Chekhov, Ray Bradbury, Alexander Pushkin, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Ivan Turgenev, Taras Shevchenko, Robert Burns

4.25 Read the texts about two great writers and add more facts of their lives.

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