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10. Answer the following questions. For questions 1–16 choose the answer 
which you think fits best according to the text
1. Who were Henry Wood and Robert Newman and what did they 
launch in 1895?
2. Why wasn’t the idea of cheap and standing concerts new?
3. What did the concerts have in common?
4. What kind of audience were the early Proms aimed at?
5. What can you say about the programs of the early proms?
6. What kind of music had Wood introduced by the fifth season?
7. What was one very positive by-product of World War I?
8. How successful were the Proms in the after-war period?
9. What can be said about the 1930s?
10. What role did the Royal Albert Hall play in the history of the 
Proms?
11. When were the Proms broadcast and televised for the first 
time?
12. The history of the Proms during the 1960s is essentially that 
of a transformation.
What transformation?
13. Whose orchestra became the first of many distinguished foreign 
companies to play at the Proms?
14. Who became the chief conductor of the BBC SO?
15. What makes the Proms so special and different from other 
concerts and what have many foreign musicians expressed astonish-
ment at?
16. What has made the Proms a unique and irreplaceable festival?

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UNIT FIVE
RAISING CHILDREN
THEMATIC VOCABULARY
I
Child
, baby, kid, infant, toddler, teenager, youngster, adolescent, 
youth, lad, lass, tomboy, offspring.
II
Traits of character
:
1) active, energetic, lively, sociable, outgoing, decisive; passive, 
lazy, reserved, quiet;
2) careful, conscientious, efficient; careless, sloppy, impulsive, 
rash;
3) honest, reliable, truthful, sincere, frank; dishonest, deceitful, 
unreliable, insincere, two-faced;
4) kind, considerate, thoughtful, sympathetic, generous; unkind, 
inconsiderate, thoughtless, selfish, mean, greedy, tight-fisted;
5) polite, well-mannered, civil, tactful, diplomatic; rude, ill-man-
nered, cheeky, nasty, hostile;
6) determined, single-minded, persistent; stubborn, obstinate, 
pig-headed;
7) tolerant, patient, easy-going, open-minded; intolerant, impa-
tient, narrow-minded;
8) shy, modest, self-conscious; arrogant, big-headed, pushy, bossy, 
patronizing, domineering.