Unit 12: Music

D. Writing (Trang 129 SGK Tiếng Anh 10)

Writing a profile (Viết tiểu sử sơ lược)

Task 1. Work in pairs. Use the prompts below to make up complete sentences about Scott Joplin, a famous American musician. (Làm việc theo cặp. Sử dụng các gợi ý dưới đây để dựng các câu đầy đủ về Scott Joplin, một nhạc sĩ nổi tiếng người Mỹ.)

Example:

Scott was bom in Texas in 1886, into a poor but musical black family.

Gợi ý:

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

2. Scott learned to play the works of composers like Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart as well as to compose music.

3. He quickly became famous.

4. His tunes were wonderful mixture of classical European and African beats which were known as Ragtime.

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. (Viết về cuộc đời của Văn Cao, dùng những từ gợi ý bên dưới.)

Gợi ý:

Van Cao was born on November 15^th, 1923 in Nam Dinh in a poor workers' family. He started composing music when he was very young. He wrote his first song in 1939, and quickly became famous. In 1944 he wrote Tien Quan Ca, our National Anthem. Van Cao not only wrote songs and poems, but also drew paintings. He died on July 10^th, 1995. He was known as a very talented musician and highly appreciated by the Vietnamese people.