score – муз. оркестровать
• horn – рожок, рог, горн, труба, духовой инструмент
• conductor – дирижёр
• surround sound system – система объёмного звучания
• store – сохранять, запоминать
• film – плёнка
• to playback – воспроизводить, считывать
• speaker – динамик, громкоговоритель, акустическая система, колонка
• subwoofer – низкочастотный динамик, отдельная низкочастотная колонка
• panning – панорамирование
• overdubbing – накладывание одной (магнитофонной) записи на другую
• entertainment – сфера развлечений
• alarm – тревога
• emergency – чрезвычайные обстоятельства
• to locate – определять местонахождение
7. Scan the reading passage. What are the answers to the questions in exercise 5?
8. Read the text quickly. Put the names and the events mentioned in the text in the chronological order.
Richard Wagner; military preparations; the Renaissance composers; Walt Disney’s Fantasia; Hector Berlioz and his Symphonie Fantastique, invention of multitrack recording, panning and overdubbing; Bell Laboratories.
9. Find the English equivalents for the following words and expressions in the passage.
Церковная музыка; заполнять огромные пространства храма звуком хора или органа; величественные и сложные; зрительный зал; в течение 30х; в прошлом известные как; провели эксперименты; инициировал идею; выходящий в прокат мультфильм; непосредственно на самой плёнке; три передних динамика и два задних; без низкочастотного динамика; который сегодня широко распространён; подготовка к войне; дальнейшее развитие технологий объёмного звучания; источник звука; различные сигналы тревоги; на борту военных судов; немедленно определить местонахождение.
10. Read the text in more detail and find the answers to the following questions.
1) What did the Renaissance composers try to do for listening church music in surround?
2) What was so special about Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique regarding surround sound?
3) How are Richard Wagner’s works described in the article?
4) What kind of experiment did the Bell Laboratories specialists do with different audio formats?
5) What technology did Disney engineers develop in order to record the soundtrack for the animated film Fantasia?
6) How did the military forces employ multichannel audio systems?
11. Match the people (1—7) with their achievements (a-g).
1) specialists at Bell Laboratories
2 Richard Wagner
3) the military
4) Walt Disney
5) the Renaissance composers
6) Hector Berlioz
7) Disney engineers
a) his music was performed by orchestras so big that the musicians had to play scattered around the concert hall: in the foyer, under the stage, and even in the audience;
b) the location of the sound was identified by the multichannel audio system;
c) they wrote music designed to achieve spatial effects in large cathedrals;
d) used his great idea in one of the upcoming animated films;
e) the score of his work required that the musicians playing the horns had to stand at the rear of the hall;
f) did experiments with various multichannel audio formats;
g) invented a new technology called Fantasound
12. All the terms in the left column below are mentioned in text 1. Match the terms with their definitions in the right column.
Grammar revision: regular and irregular verbs
Regular verbs
The past simple and past participle of regular verbs end in —ed.
Describe-described-described, include-included-included
Irregular verbs
Irregular verbs do not follow this rule. For some irregulars, all the three forms are the same.
Hit-hit-hit, let-let-let, put-put-put
For other irregular verbs, the past simple is the same as the past participle.
Tell-told-told, make-made-made, catch-caught-caught
With some other verbs, the three forms are different.
Write-wrote-written, do-did-done, show-showed-shown
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