The one thing ( 1)persons /people around the world know about manchester in england is that it's the home of manchester united football club. but is manchester also(2) a /an important place in the world of classical music? yes, (3) is/ it is. there (4) 's/ are a famous school in the city centre called chetham's school of music, or "chets' for short. chets is a specialist school for talented young musicians from around the uk. can boys and girls go there? yes, (5) he/ they can. it's a mixed school and it (6) 's /'ve got around 290 students between the ages of eight and eighteen. they study academic subjects like maths, english and ict, but they also study music for three hours a day. students (7) play /plays musical instruments, like the piano or violin. for talented singers, one of their instruments (8) can/ cans be their voice. after leaving chets, students often go on to study at the famous royal northern college music in manchester. many of (9) it's/ its students become professional musicians manchester has got an orchestra, too, called the hallé. it (10) doesn't /don't perform just in manchester, it performs around the world. there's also the hallé youth orchestra. that's for young people in the region who (11) can/ can't play a musical instrument, but don't go to a music school like chetham's. its members play (12) brilliantly/ brilliant.
