Task 2: Jazz Singer
1. Choose the best answer (a, b or c) for each of the following questions.
(1) What did the interviewee try to do before she became a jazz singer?
(2) How did she become a singer? a. All by her diligence though she had no gift for music. b. All by her interests in music. c. All by accident. A pianist discovered her talent.
(3) Which of the following statements is right according to the singer? a. She has been successful ever since she gave up dancing and began to sing. b. To attend to the public's taste sometimes she has to choose what she didn't want to sing. c. She tries to know a lot about the public and changing fashions in order to keep her top position.
(4) How does she look at the scandal attached to her life? a. She feels she has always been her true self in her music. And she's singing from deep down inside herself. b. She is very tired of explaining to the public all the scandal is not true. c. She doesn't care for the scandal at all because she thinks it normal to every famous person just like her.
2. True or False Questions.
(1)
When she was a kid she was very interested in singing; after she grew up she made her dream come true.
(2)
There are two kinds of blues, the happy blues and the sad blues.
(3)
West 42nd Street was the street for dance those days.
(4)
When she started singing, she actually knew quite a lot about singing.
(5)
She became a successful and professional musician with the help of a lot of other people.
(6)
She often tries to change the fashions and she has made it.
(7)
There is a feeling of understanding between her and her audience.
(8)
She won't sing anything that she doesn't believe in.
(9)
She sings according to how she feels and she never sings the same way twice.
3. Complete the following sentences with what you hear on the tape.
(1) The interviewer is the
, the
the world has ever known.
(2) One night it's a little bit
, the next night it's a little bit
. It's all according to
. I never feel
. The blues is
.
(3) If you want to
you really have to know your job ... Otherwise you find yourself
and back on the streets where
.
(4) That's true
.
(5) I've never
from my music because I won't sing just any
.
Task 2: Jazz Singer
1. Choose the best answer (a, b or c) for each of the following questions.
(1) What did the interviewee try to do before she became a jazz singer?
(2) How did she become a singer? a. All by her diligence though she had no gift for music. b. All by her interests in music. c. All by accident. A pianist discovered her talent.
(3) Which of the following statements is right according to the singer? a. She has been successful ever since she gave up dancing and began to sing. b. To attend to the public's taste sometimes she has to choose what she didn't want to sing. c. She tries to know a lot about the public and changing fashions in order to keep her top position.
(4) How does she look at the scandal attached to her life? a. She feels she has always been her true self in her music. And she's singing from deep down inside herself. b. She is very tired of explaining to the public all the scandal is not true. c. She doesn't care for the scandal at all because she thinks it normal to every famous person just like her.
2. True or False Questions.
(1)
When she was a kid she was very interested in singing; after she grew up she made her dream come true.
(2)
There are two kinds of blues, the happy blues and the sad blues.
(3)
West 42nd Street was the street for dance those days.
(4)
When she started singing, she actually knew quite a lot about singing.
(5)
She became a successful and professional musician with the help of a lot of other people.
(6)
She often tries to change the fashions and she has made it.
(7)
There is a feeling of understanding between her and her audience.
(8)
She won't sing anything that she doesn't believe in.
(9)
She sings according to how she feels and she never sings the same way twice.
3. Complete the following sentences with what you hear on the tape.
(1) The interviewer is the
, the
the world has ever known.
(2) One night it's a little bit
, the next night it's a little bit
. It's all according to
. I never feel
. The blues is
.
(3) If you want to
you really have to know your job ... Otherwise you find yourself
and back on the streets where
.
(4) That's true
.
(5) I've never
from my music because I won't sing just any
.