Задание

Read the text. Decide if the statements are true or false.

The Story of the Boy Who Sang in the Streets

This house stands in the town of Eisenach in Germany. It looks very much the same today as it did when Sebastian was a little boy. Many people go there to visit this house because the little boy grew up to be a famous man. In Eisenach, there is a statue of Bach near the palace. In the same town in which Sebastian was born there stands on the top of a hill a very famous castle built many hundreds of years ago. This castle is called the Wartburg.

As a boy, little Sebastian used to climb the hill with his friends, and they, no doubt, had a happy time playing about the castle grounds. In one of its great halls, the minstrels of Germany held their Song Contests. When Sebastian was old enough he used to travel on foot, just as the minstrels did; his purpose was to go to hear fine organ players. Once as he sat wearily by the roadside someone threw a herring to him so that he might eat as he rested.

When Sebastian was ten years old his father and mother died. So he went to live with his brother, whose home was a few miles away. Of this brother, Sebastian had music lessons, and he improved so rapidly that he used to beg to be allowed to play the pieces in a big book in the library. But the brother refused him this pleasure. However, little Sebastian was eager to learn all the music he could find, so he used to sit up at night and copy these pages while his brother was asleep.

Sebastian Bach had a very large family, twenty children altogether. Two of them studied music faithfully with their father. One was Friedemann, for whom the father wrote a book called Little Preludes. Friedemann’s brother, Philipp Emanuel Bach, was a fine clavichord player. He wrote a book about music and composed many pieces.

TRUE

FALSE

As a little boy, he sang in the streets.

He went to live with his uncle.

For his little son, Friedemann, he wrote a song of Little Preludes.

His parents died when he was ten years old.

He used to walk long distances to hear famous organists.