Music and emotionsOnline version Listen to this Ted talk and answer the questions by Federica Cassetti 1 Complete the sentence with the word you hear: "When I was younger I played the piano, later _________ guitar Written answer 2 Complete the sentence with the word you hear: "I _______ in every band" Written answer 3 Complete the sentence with the words you hear (two words): "I remember walking down the hallways of my school and I would ________ to myself on my leg" Written answer 4 Complete the sentence with the words you hear (two words): "Sometimes later in high school I started ___________ and it is the best class I've ever taken" Written answer 5 Complete the sentence with the words you hear (two words): "Every Wednesday we did something called rhythmic dictation and I was pretty good at it." Written answer 6 Complete the sentence with the word you hear: "Our teacher would give us an amount of _____________" Written answer 7 Complete the sentence with the words you hear (two words): "Our teacher would give us an amount of measures and a __________." Written answer 8 Complete the sentence with the word you hear: "And then he would __________ a rhythm to us." Written answer 9 Complete the sentence with the word you hear: "And we would have to write it down with the proper ________ and notes" Written answer 10 Complete the sentence with the words you hear (three words): "And all you had to do was ___________" Written answer 11 Complete the sentence with the words you hear (three words): "rhythms set a foundation for melodies and harmonies to __________." Written answer 12 Complete the sentence with the word you hear (the same word two times): "These other sounds they were ______ time and ______ key Written answer 13 Did you like the video? Select one or more answers a No b A bit c Yes d A lot Explanation 1 Take up = to learn or start to do something, especially for pleasure. Take up has several meanings; you can check them up here: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/take-up_1?q=take+up 2 When you are part of a band, you say you ARE in a band. The verb collocation for BAND is BE. I was in every band. 3 R H Y T H M S - Rhythm is one of the most difficult words to spell in the English language. Rhythm is something you tap; with your fingers, with your hands, with your feet... 4 MUSIC THEORY - The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "MUSIC THEORY". The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (key signatures, time signatures, and rhythmic notation); the second is learning scholars views on music from antiquity to the present; the third a sub-topic of musicology that "seeks to define processes and general principles in music". 5 Rhythmic dictation (or rhythm dictation): A theacher plays rhythm patterns and have students notate what they hear. 6 MEASURES: (British English usually bar) [countable] one of the short sections of equal length that a piece of music is divided into, and the notes that are in it. 7 TIME SIGNATURE: a sign at the start of a piece of music, usually in the form of numbers, showing the number of beats (= units of rhythm) in each bar. 8 SPEAK is the correct verb to go with RHYTHM when we do a rhythmic dictation. 9 REST: a period of silence between notes; a sign that shows a rest between notes 10 ADD A MELODY 11 PLAY ON TOP OF 12 OFF: used to say that something has been removed or become separated 13 Well, I liked it and I found it touching!
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