Answer Sheet for Unit 10

Section 1: Vocabulary Practice

Exercise 1: Test Yourself

1. instrument
2. museum
3. screen
4. concerto
5. performance
6. poetry
7. play
8. orchestra
9. poem
10. actress
11. music
12. literature
13. star
14. musician
15. art
16. singer
17. actor
18. director
19. cinema
20. painting
21. exhibition
22. statue
23. author
24. play
25. sculpture
26. conductor
27. cast
28. sculptor
29. symphony
30. theatre
31. ballet
32. painter
33. portrait
34. landscape
35. oil painting
36. concert
37. artist
38. opera
39. composer
40. recording
41. soundtrack
42. gallery
43. novel
44. sketch
45. subtitles
46. novelist
47. stage
48. watercolour
49. perform
50. song

Section 2: Listening Comprehension

Exercise 1: Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth.
2. The piano.
3. One.
4. The ninth movement of the fourth symphony.
5. Schiller.

Exercise 2: Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dutch
2. Dutch
3. Sketches and watercolours.
4. His brother Theo was there.
5. A new style of painting.
6. In Arles.

Exercise 3: Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the 16th century.
2. Plays and poems.
3. Tragedies.
4. A theatre.
5. A lot.

Exercise 4: Multiple Choice Questions

1. His mother.
2. An actor and director.
3. A beautiful actress.
4. In Europe.
5. His first and most famous film.

Section 3: General Comprehension

Exercise 1: True/False Statements

1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE
6. TRUE
7. FALSE
8. FALSE
9. FALSE
10. TRUE

Section 4: Grammar Practice

Exercise 1: Transformation

1. I've got a friend that collects stamps.
2. There's a problem which worries me.
3. Beethoven was a composer who lived in Germany.
4. Shakespeare was an Englishman who wrote plays.
5. Peter told me about the film that starts at 8 o'clock.
6. I bought some theatre tickets that are not too expensive.
7. Van Gogh was a Dutchman who painted pictures.
8. There's an exhibition on which is worth seeing.

Exercise 2: Transformation

1. I'll pay for what I broke.
2. Did you read about what happened to Van Gogh?
3. Shakespeare's plays were what made him famous.
4. In 1888 Van Gogh painted what were considered his greatest works.
5. Haydn taught Beethoven what he knew.

Exercise 3: Transformation

1. He's an artist whose paintings are very famous.
2. He was a ballet dancer whose life ended tragically.
3. What's the name of the artist whose most famous painting is the Mona Lisa?
4. He was a film director whose wife was an actress.
5. She was a singer whose husband was a Greek millionaire.

Exercise 4: Selections

1. Van Gogh was an artist who lived in Paris.
2. I don't know what Beethoven composed.
3. The plays Shakespeare wrote were very successful.
4. Haydn was a musician.
5. A good writer is one whose books are successful.
6. How much do the theatre tickets cost?
7. What was the instrument he played best?
8. His plays are performed more often than ever.
9. Romeo and Juliet were lovers whose families hated each other.
10. The exhibition that we saw was very interesting.

Section 5: Consolidation

Exercise 1: True/False Statements

1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE
6. FALSE
7. FALSE
8. TRUE
9. FALSE
10. FALSE

Exercise 2: Dictation

1. The Renaissance, which began in Italy and spread to the rest of Europe, marked the end of the Middle Ages and the transition to modern times. Culture was born again, with an explosion of interest in all aspects of culture and science. The classical Greek and Roman philosophers were studied again. Painters, sculptors, architects and engineers applied new techniques, and experiments with musical form led to the development of new types of composition.

Exercise 3: Cloze

1. above
2. Born
3. one
4. among
5. towards
6. how
7. an
8. but
9. him
10. His

Exercise 4: Gap Filling

1. on
2. greatest
3. emotive
4. himself
5. made
6. all
7. ever
8. best
9. little
10. works
11. great
12. in
13. which
14. which
15. whose
16. that
17. what
18. who
19. lot
20. which