Present Simple or Present Continuous? (19-30)
19. What the children now (do) ?
20. The shops( open) at 9 o`clock and ( close) at 5.30.
21. Julia (speak) 4 languages.
22. They (not listen) to music now.
23. Your brother often (go) cycling?
24. She usually (not go) to the park.
25. Where your parents (live)?
26. Listen ! The phone ( ring).
27. I (not play) tennis.
28. Look! It (snow).
29. It (snow) every year in this country.
30. We often (not go ) on picnics.

There are many different types of music. This menu is about the types of music I write about most often. Click on the links below to find out something about each one.

So what is this thing called ‘Classical Music’? What type of music is ‘classical’?

Well I looked in books, looked in dictionaries, and I looked on the internet. And I still can’t tell you what it is exactly. I know it when I hear it. But I can’t describe it exactly.

So let’s try a bad definition. Well, some people say that ‘classical music’ is ‘serious music’. This can be true. Classical music is often music to listen to carefully and think about. But I also know lots of very funny classical music. So not all classical music is serious.

Jazz! What fun! Tap your feet. Clap. Relax. Chill out.

That’s jazz!

If you don’t believe me, watch this video of a song called ‘Now you has jazz’. Listen carefully to the words as well as the music.

What is folk music? Well, there’s folk music and there’s folk music. And both of them are music by folks for folks.

Got it? Not really, I guess. I’ll try again, then!

There are two types of folk music. The first is normally very old and nobody really knows who the composer is. It is music that belongs to a people or a culture. It is the music of the ordinary people within that culture. And it is the music these people have played, or sung, to one another for a very long time. If you know any nursery rhymes, you will know some of this type of folk music.

From the moment of the emergence on the earth people used the natural tool - vocal chords and lungs to communicate with each other not only by means of speech, but also by means of singing. It is possible to imagine that in a protogenic condition the song was - and, possibly, never ceased to be - only word continuation. The person sang, wishing to express the inexpressible - the pleasure, a grief, to give a rhythm to the work or simply to continue silence, to deck it suddenly arisen sense of beauty. The first documentary certificates have appeared only while the song was included into church. It is very possible that priests borrowed a lot of things from national repertoire; thanks to the uniting power the church strongly influenced song evolution, favoring to continuous crossing in it religious and secular elements.

In a bosom of church there were the students speaking and singing in Latin organized in gangs голиаров who, despite the monastic attire, often undermined trust to episcopal ордонансам. Belonging to churchmen, they nevertheless willingly sang on Latin about terrestrial pleasures. Goliara бродяжили from Seine to Loire, from Loire to Garonne, singing on motive of "Dies irae" ("Day of anger") not of God's glory, not lives sacred, and terrestrial pleasures, wine and love.

  Minstrels became the first professional singers; the former jugglers have based in 1331 the corporation under the protection of St. Julien. "... At zhonglersky schools songs about acts" (chansons de geste) - songs about Guillaume Oranskom, about the rebelled barons were created ", - writes to Gui Erisman. - Such is an origin of troubadours and trouveres which can be united as usual the name of trouveres ("hunters"). вот это подойдёт?