3: The street music _a_r_o_u_n_d__t_h_e__w_o_r_l_d__.
4: The _s_ig_n__if_i_c_a_n_c_e_ of
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the street music.
Careful-reading2: answering the questions:
•1. What places are mentioned related to the street music? •2. In Barcelona, where can you enjoy street music compared with London’s underground? •3. If you, as a pedestrian, have enjoyed the street music, do you have to pay for it? •4. Why are some people happy to throw some coins? •5. What effect does the street music have on the passersby? •6. What’s the writer’s opinion regarding street music?
• In a busy side road in the old district while in London, you will enjoy it in the und. If you, as a pedestrian, have enjoyed the street music, do you have to pay for it?
pedestrians
Fast-reading: skimming for the main idea of each paragraph
1: The street music in
_B_a_r_c_e_l_o_n_a____.
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2: The street music in __P_a_r_i_s__.
• They are grateful for the brief interval of music as they go shopping.
• 5. What effect does the street music have on the passersby?
• It can lift the spirits of the passengers, who hurry past on their way to work.
Significance of the street music :
alive a culture which has almost It keeps__d_i_s_a_p_p_e_a_r_e_d__in__o_u_r_l_iv__e_s_. ___________
It gives____li_fe_t_o_e_v_e_r_y_o_n_e_w_h_o__li_s_te_n_s_._____
A handle
Crowds always stand in a semi-circle.
Pedestrians / passersby make contributions to the street musician voluntarily / willingly.
The crowd is in a circle.=two semi-circles
• No. No one has to pay while some will happily throw into few coins—because all contributions are voluntary.
• 4. Why are some people happy to throw some coins?
It offers__r_e_li_e_f _fr_o_m__th_e__c_ar_e_s_o_f_t_h_e_d_a_y_.____
• The street musicians are keeping alive a culture which has almost disappeared in our busy, organized and regulated lives.
• 6. What’s the writer’s opinion regarding the street music?
• He likes it. Because he thinks the street musicians are keeping alive a culture which has almost disappeared in our busy, organized and regulated lives.
VOCABULARY AND READING
pedestrians/ passersby
street musician
side road
saxophone guitar
keyboard
quartet
violin flute organ cello
barrel organ
socket
Turn the handle
• General questions: • 1. What places are mentioned related to the
street music? • Barcelona in Spain, Paris in France,
New York in the U.S.A., Tokyo in Japan, London in the U.K., Vienna in Austria, Prague in The Czech Republic , Milan in Italy Andes in South America • 2. In Barcelona, where can you enjoy street music compared with London’s underground?