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73.8 What are or were these people? (painter? sculptor? novelist? poet? dramatist? songwriter?
composer? conductor? rock star? pop star? musician? singer? pianist? etc.) Some of them may
be more than one of these things.
1 Leo Tolstoy 7 Giuseppe Verdi 13. Henry Moore
2 William Wordsworth 8 Mick Jagger 14 Jorge Luis Borges
3 Henrik Ibsen 9 Milton Nascimento 15 Pablo Picasso
4 Yukio Mishima 10 Paul Tortelier 16 Saki
5 Anton Chekhov 11 Paul Simon 17 Leonard Bernstein
6 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 12 Mark Knopfler 18 Alberto Giacometti
73.2 What do you call the people who play the following instruments?
piano guitar drums violin cello flute

73.3 What types of painting are these?

73.4 Use the context and your own knowledge to fill the gaps in these sentences and dialogues.
1 He used to be conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic ..........0..00....
2 Phil Collins was in a famous ..............000.... called Genesis before he became a

3. A: Do you like oe. music?
B: Yes, very much.
A: And who’s your favourite ............0........ ?
B: It’s hard to say, but I love Bach and Vivaldi.
4 There’s going to be an... of his paintings at the new art ........000......0..
5 She used too... her own songs but now she mainly ...........0........ material
written by other people.
6 Thaven’t been to the ..................... since I saw The Marriage of Figaro last year.
7 I think The Great Gatsby is Scott Fitzgerald’s best ......0...0..00....., .
8 His first 2000, was performed in a very small theatre.

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