u12. Music Writing

⇒ He is a famous American musician.. Use the prompts below to make up complete sentences about Scott Joplin, a famous American musician 1.. He/ learn/ play/ music/ when/ very young.. Sc

Unit 12 Music

D Writing

I Warm Up

II Task 1

III Task 2

1 Do you know Scott Joplin?

⇒ Yes, I do/ No, I don’t

2 Who is he?

⇒ He is a famous American musician.

3 Where and when was he born?

⇒ He was born in Texas in 1886.

4 When did he die?

⇒ He died in 1917

5 What did he do?

⇒ He composed music

II Task 1 Work in pairs Use the prompts below

to make up complete sentences about Scott Joplin,

a famous American musician

1 He/ learn/ play/ music/ when/ very young.

2 Scott/ learn/ play/ works/ composers/ Bach,

Beethoven, and Mozart/ as well as/

compose/ music.

3 He/ quickly/ become/ famous.

4 His tunes/ be/ wonderful mixture/ classical

European and African/ beats/ which/ be/

known/ as Ragtime.

5 All in all/ he/ write/ 50 piano rags/ and be/

called/ King of Ragtime.

6 Scott Joplin/ die/ 1917

The keys

1 He learned to play music when he was very young.

2 Scott learned to play the works of

composers like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart

as well as to compose music.

3 He quickly became famous.

4 His tunes were wonderful mixture of

classical European and African.

5 All in all, he wrote 50 piano rags, and was called the King of Ragtime.

6 Scott Joplin died in 1917

Task 2 Write about the life story of van Cao, using the prompts below.

appreciated by the Vietnamese people

A profile of Van

Cao

Van Cao was born in Nam Dinh in 1923, into a poor worker family He could

compose music when he was very young

He composed his first song in 1939 and quickly became famous Tien Quan Ca, the Vietnamese National Anthem, was composed in 1944 His artistic works

were songs, poems and paintings He

died in 1995 Van Cao was known as a

very talented musician and is highly

appreciated by the Vietnamese people