3 Complete these extracts with the expressions Andy used (from exercise 2). Then listen and check.

I have to say that for me (1)___________________ when I have to think about (2)_________________ could possess people to want to have that fate in life, to be famous, and it certainly make me realize that (3) _______________ .	I think that a lot of people who (6) ______ _________________________ fame really don't care what they might be famous for – they just want to be famous. Fame is (7) __________________ .
...I'm the kind of person, if I'm shopping, walking in the street, and I'm not even that keen when I (4) _______________________ . I know, because I do like to walk around and be a little bit lost in my own world really, (5) ___________________ .	They want to be the centre of attention, they crave adulation, they want to (8) _________ _________________ pop stars and film stars.

TASK 3

1. You will hear the first part of the interview with Daniel Pollack, a famous American pianist. For questions 1 – 4 , choose the answer ( A, B, C or D ) that best reflects what you heard in the audio segment. ( Track 02 )

1. How much time did Daniel Pollack have to prepare for the international piano competition?

A two weeks

B two months

C two years

D almost a year

2. What did Daniel Pollack learn when he arrived in Moscow for the competition?

A that he would have to withdraw from the competition

B that he had prepared the wrong musical composition

C that he had been invited to tour all over the Soviet Union

D that he needed to learn only the Prokofiev 7- th Symphony

3. Who was the chairman of the international competition?

A Vladimir Horowits

B Sergei Rachmaninov

C Dmitriy Shostakovitch

D Sviatoslav Richter

4. Who was the first American to record for the Soviet Melodia record label?

A Daniel Pollack

B Van Cliburn

C Samuel Barber

D George Clooney

2. You will hear the second part of the interview with Daniel Pollack, a famous American pianist. For questions 5 – 8 , choose the answer ( A, B, C or D ) that best reflects what you heard in the audio segment. (Track 04)

5. Where did both Pollack and Van Cliburn pursue their study of music?

A London School of Music

B Juilliard School of Music

C Moscow School of Music

D New York School of Music

6. What did Russians call Daniel Polack?

A their musical grandchild

B their brother

C their saviour

D American prodigy

7. Which one of the following behaviours does NOT describe what Russian audiences did when they heard Daniel Pollack perform?

A they threw flowers

B they applauded in unison

C they showered him with affection

D they invited him to become a Russian citizen

8. How did Daniel Pollack travel to his concert venues in the former Soviet Union?

A by car

B by train

C by plane

D on foot

TASK 4

1. You will hear the song Happy Dance by Christine Lavin. Complete the sentences by writing the correct word or words (no more than two in each case) based on the recording you have heard.

1. But no one dared utter that out loud.

When the preacher said, " ______________ or forever hold your peace ... "

2. We watch you try to make her happy, as the days and weeks and months and years _______________ .

3. She's been an _______________ .

Think of her as potato chips dipped in chocolate that crack.

4. But what a __________________ of luck! You are no longer stuck to the human equivalent of a ___________ voodoo curse!

5. We never liked her and we never understood how you _______________ a mental snow globe.

TASK 5

1 Listen to the song Mary C. Brown and the Hollywood Sign (Track 38) and set down a paragraph gist of it.