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VI. Further Listening and Speaking

Task 1: Karaoke

Dalin: It s Mike s birthday on Friday, so a bunch of us are going to go to the karaoke bar. Would

you like to come with us?

Laura: Karaoke bar? You have a special place just for singing? In America, bars sometimes have

a karaoke night where the customers can sing a song, but we haven t special karaoke bars!

Dalin: Really? In China, karaoke is a very popular way for friends ro spend time together. We can

select the music that ur group enjoys. We mostly sing pop songs.

Laura: Do you sing individually or in groups? Singing is not a very in thing, so I don t sing very

well.

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Task 2: When was music first sent down a telephone line?

So you think downloading music from the Internet through a phone line is a really cool modern thing? Not so. In 1896, Thaddeus Cahill Filed a patent on the instrument for transmitting music electronically, and until 1914 he sent music signals down telephone lines with this instrument. And he wasn t even the first. Elisha Gray transmitted music over a telephone line in 1876, which was the same year the telephone was invented. Gray invented the first electronic music instrument in 1874, calling it the “Musical Telegraph”. Alexander Graham Bell also designed an experimental “Electric Harp” for speech to be transmitted over a telephone line using technology similar to Gray s. Bell was a speech teacher for the deaf. In 1879 he created an instrument to measure hearing loss. That is why the degrees of loudness came to be measured in bels or decibels.

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Task 3: Thank You for the Music

I m nothing , in fact I m a bit of a bore

If I tell a , you re probably heard it before

But I have a , a wonderful thing

Cause everyone listens when I start to sing

I m so grateful and

All I want is to sing it out

So I say

Thank you for the music, the songs I m singing

Thanks for all the they re bringing

Who can live without it, I ask in all

What would life be

Without a song or a dance what are we

So I say thank you for the music