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Lesson 28
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Lesson 28
Part Ⅰ Warming-up Exercises
A．Dates: World Famous Composers
1．Johann Bach, a famous German composer, was born on ____ and died on January 28, 1750.
2． George Handel, a well-known German-born British composer, was born on ____ and died on April 14, 1759.
3． Wolfgang Mozart was a brilliant Austrian composer, who was born on ____ and died on December 5, 1791.
4． Ludwig Beethoven, an ingenious German composer, was born on ____ and died on March 26,1827.
5． As one of the outstanding Austrian composers, Franz Schubert was born on January 31, 1797 and died on ____.
6． Felix Mendelssohn, another famous German composer, was born on February 3,1809 and died on ____.
7． Poland also produced a well-known composer, Frederic Chopin, who was born on ____ and died on October 17, 1849.
8． Franz Liszt was a renowned Hungarian composer. He was born on ____ and died on July 31, 1886.
9． Johann Strauss, another celebrated Austrian composer, was born on October 25, 1825 and died on ____.
10． As the most prominent Russian composer, Peter Tchai-kovsky was born on May 7,1840 and died on ____.
Score:____
B． Difficult Sentences
1．His ____________ were composed ___________________ the power to enjoy them.
2． But the poor ____ who had the room under the musician's _______or ____by the two thuds that the two shoes made as they landed on his ceiling.
Part Ⅱ Ludwig van Beethoven
Exercises:
Ⅰ．Column A Column B
__________ returned to Vienna
__________ died after a long illness
__________ performed before Mozart
__________ born in Bonn
__________ became totally deaf
Ⅱ． Beethoven never married . As a teacher, he was ____ (a．patient b．impatient) but ____(a．painstaking b．hardworking); he was ____(a．quiet b． calm)in piano playing but ____(a．extraordinary b．extravagant)in conducting. He was so ____(a． absorbed b．absent minded) that once he insisted on paying a waiter for a dinner he had not eaten or even ordered.
Part Ⅲ Musical Half Notes
Exercises:
1．musician/live/boarding house/get back/late
2．tired/ take off/ shoes/ throw/ floor/ fall/ asleep
3．lodger/ under/ wake up/ two thuds/ complain
4．promise/put/ quietly
5．next day/take off/one/throw/remember/put/ second/silently
6．wake/knock/ plead/ drop/other/ wait/ hour/as soon as/do/sleep
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