1) Where and how can people entertain in Prague, in the Czech Republic,
in your town?
2) What kinds of „cultural“ activities can you remember?
• Which of them do you like doing?
• Which of them do you like watching? Where and how often?
3) What is „popular culture“?
4) What is your favourite kind of music and music style? Why?
• What kind of music / music style don´t you like at all? Why?
• Speak about you favourite singer / music band.
5) What kind of film do you like?
• Which do you like more: TV, video, or cinema? Why?
• Who is your favourite actor / actress / director? Why? Mention some of his / her films.
6) Speak about fine arts. Mention some painters, sculptors, architects etc. Where can wee see exhibitions or collections of fine arts?
Popular, or pop culture includes music, fashion, design, sport, film and media that are popular, well-liked and common.
Popular culture is always trendy, fashionable. It influences the behaviour and opinions of people.
Fans often behave like their idols (singers, actors) – put on the same clothes, wear the same hair-styles, use the same phrases or gestures.
Film idols like Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley, are part of many people´s lives.
Music
play a musical instrument (the piano, the violin, the (electric) guitar, the drums, the recorder, the keyboard…), play in a band, play in an orcherstra / chamber orchestra,
sing in a choir
popular artists: Vanessa Mae, Pavel Šporcl – professional behaviour and brilliant performance and informal style
listen to music on the radio, from CDs…
listen to rock, techno, house…
go to a concert of classical music, jazz music
go to a music club
The most famous Czech composers are: Bedřich Smetana (composed operas with typical Czech plots and the My Country set of symphonic poems), Antonín Dvořák (author of several operas including the world-famous Rusalka and the often-played quartett From the New World), or Leoš Janáček ( a popular 20th centrury composer).
There are several famous names among the English and American composers: Henry Purcell, Edgar Elgar, Benjamin Britten, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein
Theatre
The National Theatre, the Estate Theatre (Stavovské divadlo)
Drama (tragedies, comedies, shows, puppet shows), musicals, operas, ballet
Dance
dance lessons
balls
raves (mejdany)
parties
Film, cinema and TV
satellite TV, cable TV, digital broadcast, plasma TV (good quality picture and sound)
Multiplex cinema
Kinds of films: action films, comedies, horrors, western, war films, spy films, adventurous films, sci-fi, intellectual films, historical films, romantic films, thrillers, etc.
subtitled films, dubbed films
Oscar – a film prize awarded every year to the best film, actor, actress, director, cameraman atc.
Czech films awarded with Oscar: Obchod na korze, Ostře sledované vlaky, Kolja
The International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary – every year in July
Famous Czech film-makers: Miloš Forman, Miroslav Ondříček
Miloš Forman is a Czech-American film director, screenwriter, actor and professor. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus are among the most celebrated in the history of motion picture. As a director, Forman has been nominated for three Academy Awards of which he won two.
Further films: Black Peter, Loves of a Blonde, The Firemen´s Ball, Hair, Valmont, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Goya´s Ghosts
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Miroslav Ondříček – a famous cameraman, he worked with Forman on Hair, Amadeus etc.
Fine arts:
galleries
Famous painters:
John Constable (1776 –1837) was an English Romantic painter.
William Turner (1775 – 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter.
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James McNeill Whistler (1834 – 1903) was an American painter.
His most famous painting is Whistler´s Mother.
Famous architects:
Sir Christopher Wren (1632 – 1723) was one of the best known English architects in history. He rebuillt 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, completed in 1710.
Frank Lloyd Wright (Fallingwater House…) – New Opportunities Pre-Intermediate, SB, Review 15 and 16, p. 136 + picture on p. 133
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