Answer Sheet for Unit 10

Section 1: Vocabulary Practice

Exercise 1: Test Yourself

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

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