[00:13.53]A:Look,it's raining.
[00:16.93]I'm not going out this morning
[00:20.82]B:Nor/Neither am I.
[00:23.30]A:I haven't got anything to do this afternoon
[00:27.48]B:Nor/Neither have I.
[00:30.28]But if clears up,I want to go to the cinema then
[00:35.06]A:So do I.There's a good film on at the Peace Cinema.
[00:40.96]B:Yes,so I have heard.A:Look,it isn't raining any more
[00:47.46]B:That's good.Then,I can go there by bike.
[00:52.35]A:So can I.Let's go together
[00:57.73]Listening Comprehension
[01:01.83]Listen and fill in the blanks.
[04:12.37]Text The Waltz King
[04:17.36]New Words and Expressions
[04:21.67]waltz
[04:25.95]Johann Strauss the Younger
[04:35.25]composer
[04:40.53]Danube
[04:45.54]Vienna
[04:50.43]Austria
[04:55.34]conductor
[05:00.93]career
[05:06.13]ambition
[05:11.30]musician
[05:16.19]meanwhile
[05:21.59]secretly
[05:27.18]violin
[05:32.20]orchestra
[05:37.50]fashionable
[05:42.70]disobey
[05:47.90]tour
[05:52.18]Poland
[05:56.96]wherever
[06:01.06]tunet
[06:06.16]appoint
[06:10.73]imperial
[06:16.01]ball
[06:20.79]later on
[06:26.09]resign
[06:31.29]settle
[06:35.70]opertta
[06:41.08]comedy
[06:45.76]ballet
[06:50.17]Cinderella
[06:55.16]talented
[07:00.18]symphony
[07:04.36]beat
[07:07.83]We remember Johannn Strauss the Younger
[07:15.12]as the composer of the popular waltz"The Blue Danube
[07:20.61]but this is just one of the many beautiful waltzes
[07:26.09]that he composed.Born in Vienna,Austria on 25th October 1825,
[07:37.30]Johann loved musiceven when he was very young.
[07:44.48]He wrote his first waltz at the age of six.
[07:49.68].His father,a conductor and also a famous waltz composer,
[07:56.26]did not want Johann to follow a music career.
[08:01.18]After graduation.Johann became a bank clerk,but his ambition
[08:09.77]to be a musician was still with him.Meanwhile,
[08:15.57]encouraged by his mother,Johann secretly studied the violin
[08:22.57]and musical composition.Then,at the age of nineteen,
[08:29.68]he decided to leave his job and to devote himself to music.
[08:35.97]Thus,Johann formed his own orchestra
[08:41.17]and played in a fashionable restaurant his orchestra andmusic
[08:47.99]were very popular with the public.
[08:52.38]But,Johann's father was angry with him for disobeying his wish.
[08:58.38]When his father died,Johann combined his own orchestra
[09:04.97]with that of his father's and made a successful tour of Austria,
[09:11.05]Poland Germany and Russia.Wherever he played,
[09:17.17]his beautiful waltzes won the hearts of his audience
[09:22.55]and soon he became known throughout Europe as "The Waltz King"
[09:28.95]although he also wrote many other dance tunes.
[09:34.56]The Emperor of Austria was so pleased with Johann's music
[09:41.15]that he appointed Johann the conductor at the imperial court balls of Vienna
[09:49.04]Later on,Johann found that he had no time to compose while working as a conductor
[09:58.02]so he resigned and handed his orchestra over to his brothers.
[10:04.60]Johann then settled down in Vienna
[10:10.12]where he began composing operettasor light musical comedies.
[10:17.01]Altogether he wrote 16 operettas and all of them became very successful.
[10:25.32]He also composed the popular ballet "Cinderella".
[10:31.20]In all,the talented Johann Strauss wrote more than 500 waltzes,
[10:38.88]dance tunes and operettas.The light and charming tunes
[10:45.69]he composed give us a musical pictureof the life of Europe as it was in his time.
[10:54.08]His music is still very popular today and is played by light orchestras
[11:01.58]as well as large symphony orchestras;
[11:06.36]and even modern musical groups have given some of his tunes a new beat
