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certainly does not exclude the expressions of virtue. Read the following dialogue 
where the characters make comments about themselves and others. Note down 
the expressions in bold type. Be ready to use them in dialogues in class:
Liz and Michael on the way home from a jazz concert.
Michael: 
Perhaps you might consider me a bit of a fanatic about 
jazz
 ... but that was a fantastic concert, wasn’t it?

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Liz: 
I’m not exactly — how shall I say? I suppose I’m not crazy 
about jazz
, and the melodies were hard to follow. Could you perhaps 
help me understand it better?
Michael: 
I’ve tried to help
 many people... 
I’ve done my best
 to open 
a jazz club, so I’ve become quite good at interpreting jazz
, though I had 
no one to rely on
. Anyway, in the first place there are two elements in 
jazz. One is the playing of instruments so that they sound like the half-
shouted, half-sung blues of Negro folk song. The other is the steady, 
unchanging 1–2–3–4 beat initiated from the French military marching 
music the blacks heard in New Orleans where jazz was born around 
1900.
Liz: 
Well, I’m an easy-going person really unless of course you 
start discussing
 jazz. 
Then I’m a bit vicious
. Basically 
I’m receptive 
to
 any music that has harmony and melody. 
That’s me
. But I didn’t 
even recognize any of the tunes, though I have heard some jazz music 
before.
Michael: Well, that’s not surprising, since another important feature 
of jazz is “improvisation” or “making it up as you go along”, therefore 
tunes can sound different each time you hear them.
Liz: