[00:06.48]The Phantom of the Opera
[00:09.64]The Paris Opera House was a huge building with seventeen floors
[00:15.91]of which seven were below the ground.
[00:20.17]Underneath the building there was a strange,dark lake.
[00:25.31]In the middle of this lake was an island and on that island
[00:31.37]one hundred years ago
[00:34.53]When he was born he was so ugly that his own mother made him wear a mask
[00:40.70]and forced him to leave home while still a child.
[00:45.35]Years later he made a secret home for himself inside the Paris Opera House
[00:52.19]What a man he was!Strong enough to kill with his hands
[00:57.94]and yet he loved music and sang with a wonderful voice.
[01:02.80]He used this voice to gain power over Christine
[01:07.66]a beautiful young singer at the Opera.
[01:12.41]He often sang to herlate at night from behind a secret wall in her room.
[01:18.97]She thought at first that he must be an angel.
[01:23.33]The Phantom taught her how to sing
[01:27.28]and forced the Opera's two managers to give her better roles in their shows.
[01:33.05]At first the managers were certain that he did not exist.
[01:38.80]They said he was a joke.
[01:42.16]Then one night when the Opera was crowded with people
[01:47.73]the huge glass chandelier fell from the roof,injuring a woman.
[01:54.39]After that,it was not surprising that the managers obeyed the Phantom's wishes
[02:01.55]and gave Christine the main role.
[02:05.62]But the Phantom wanted Christine for himself.
[02:09.88]In the endhe kidnapped her from the stage,in front of the whole audience.
[02:16.54]He took her down to his secret home on the lake.
[02:20.59]Only one man was brave enough to follow.
[02:24.56]He was Raoul a young man who loved Christine.
[02:29.21]But the Phantom captured him and kept him in a prison
[02:33.65]which was slowly filling with water.
[02:38.30]In the Phantom's house, Christine pulled off his mask.
[02:43.55]She finally saw the real man,and his horrible face,with no nose and yellow eyes.
[02:51.81]At first she was shocked at his appearance but then she felt very sorry for him.
[02:58.86]She understood how lonely his life had been.
[03:03.09]She gently kissed his face.
[03:06.33]No woman had ever touched the Phantom before.
[03:11.01]Christine's kiss made him cry with joy.
[03:15.66]He released Raoul and told him to take Christine away to safety.
[03:21.72]By now, a group of other people had reached the Phantom's house
[03:27.18]and burst in ready to kill him.
[03:31.54]But at that moment the Phantom disappeared magically and was never seen again.
[03:38.91]LISTENING page 6
[03:43.16]Taking notes about a person's career
[03:47.21]listen to the talk,and complete Debbie's notes below.
[06:13.71]speaking page10
[06:18.15]A Tailc time
[06:21.70]Stress in nouns and verbs
[06:25.75]Some two syllable words
[06:29.28](e.g.,conduct,contest,decrease,increase,export,import,object,record,transport)
[06:44.92]are used both as nouns and verbs.
[06:50.10]As nouns, the stress is on the firstsyllable.
[06:54.75]As verbs the stress is on the second syllable.
[06:59.29]Exercise A1
[07:03.05]nouns: conduct
[07:07.62]present contest
[07:12.35]record object
[07:16.90]transport
[07:19.54]verbs: conduct
[07:24.11]present contest
[07:28.55]record object
[07:33.41]transport
[07:36.78]Exercise A2
[07:40.54]Did the audience like the way she conducted the orchestra last night?
[07:45.68]Yes, in fact they presente her with flowers after the concert.
[07:51.28]I wish I'd been there.
[07:54.33]To see her get a present? [07:58.09]No, to hear her conducting
[08:01.85]Oh, you can hear her on the radio next week.
[08:06.22]They recorded the whole thing
[08:09.77]Did they record the contest as well?
[08:13.53]What contest?Nobody contested anything last night.
[08:19.70]Oh,I thought there was going to be a singing contest
[08:24.76]I must have been mistaken.
[08:28.21]MORE LANGUAGE INPUT(1) Reading
[08:36.75]The Grand Chandelier in the Shanghai Grand
[08:41.80]Theatre a You might know that The Blue Danube waltz
[08:46.34]is a very popular piece of music created by the famous Austrian composer
[08:53.11]Johann Strauss.
[08:56.45]Many people all over the world have heard of this famous waltz and danced to it [09:03.61]but have you ever heard of the crystal chandelier
[09:08.47]which is called 'The Blue Danube'?
[09:12.41]you step into the lobby of the new Shanghai Grand Theatre
[09:17.69]a huge and unusual crystal chandelier will immediately catch your eye.
[09:24.85]This chandelier was designed and made in Austria.
[09:29.81]It has three hundred lights and six panpipe like arms which support these lights.
[09:37.99]The huge crystal chandelier is more than seven metreshigh
[09:44.05]and three metres wide.
[09:47.39]Think how bright it is when it is switched on!
[09:52.25]It lights up the lobby of the theatre and throws light ontoits floor,
[09:58.41]which is as unusual as the chandelier itself.
[10:03.38]It is decorated with patterns of piano keys in black and white,
[10:10.51]and a very interesting painting of an ear and an eye.
[10:15.86]People say that the appearance of the chandelier
[10:20.83]and the magical effects its light creates on the lobby
[10:26.29]make them think of The Blue Danube waltz!
[10:30.96]Listing
[10:35.11]The Sydney Opera House
[10:39.27]you are going to hear a passage about the sydney opera house.
[10:44.31]Fill in the blanks with what you hear on the tape.
[10:48.86]Pay special affention to the numbers.
[10:52.70]The magnificent Sydney Opera House stands alone on Benne long Point
[10:58.76]surrounded by the waters of Sydney harbour.
[11:02.91]It was designed by the Danish architect jor Dtzon.
[11:08.06]The building has four main auditoriums:
[11:13.33]the Conert Hall with(1)___seats,
[11:18.97]the Opera theatre with(2)____seats,
[11:25.95]the Drama Theatre with(3)____seats and the Playhouse with 398 seats.
[11:34.91]There are also(4)____restaurants,six bars,
[11:39.95]and a multi storey undergroud car park which can park(5)___vehicles.
[11:47.21]Reservations and prices?Here is sone information:
[11:52.49]Premium $116-$132
[12:00.04]A Reserve (6)___
[12:07.61]B Reserve $84-$95
[12:14.07]C Reserve (7)___
[12:20.44]D Reserve $38(with restricted view)
[12:27.60]The prices given are in Australian dollars(ADS$).
[12:31.96]A(8)___percent discount is offered to groups of more than ten persons.
