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VIII. LOOKING BACK
Pronunciation
Listen and mark the stressed syllables in the following words. Then read them out.
perform concert final
singer famous enjoy
Vocabulary
Complete the text using the words in the box.
| artists music concerts instrument fans |
Our class survey revealed some surprising results about the students' (1) _____ habits. Most of them did not hesitate to say that they love music because they find it relaxing. Their favourite music is K-pop and British or American pop music as they are big (2) _____ of Korean and American (3) _____. Fourteen out of twenty students play a musical (4) _____ and most of them practise between one and three hours a week. Going to (5) _____ is usually popular among teenagers, but only eight people said that they like going to such music events.
Grammar
1. Match the two parts to make complete sentences.
| 1. She writes her own songs, | a. or we can stay at home to watch the final night of Vietnam Idol. |
| 2. He participated in many talent competitions, | b. so we decided to walk to the stadium. |
| 3. We can go to a live concert at City Theatre, | c. and they always have deep meanings. |
| 4. The traffic was really bad, | d. but the judges never liked his songs. |
2. There is a mistake in each sentence below. Find the mistake and correct it.
1. She asked him attend the school performance. ______
2. Don't let her to go to the music festival! ______
3. Their parents will never agree buy that expensive piano. ______
4. To develop her musical talent, her father made her to sing at family gatherings. ______
