Let's listen to music! |
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Do you like music? |
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Do you listen at home? |
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Look at the pictures on these pages. |
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These machines play music. |
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There are old machines and new machines. |
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First there was the phonograph. |
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Thomas Edison invented it in 1877. |
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He recorded music onto the cylinder. |
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The cylinder is wood and metal. |
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It turned round and round. |
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It played the music. |
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After that there was the gramophone. |
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It played round, flat discs. |
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There were songs on the discs. |
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Usually, there was only one singer and a piano. |
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Many people liked these big gramophones. |
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A family listened together in their living room. |
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Next, people invented the microphone. |
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They recorded big bands. |
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There were lots of drums, trumpets and singers. |
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It was very exciting. |
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lots of people wanted the music. |
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The new gramophones were smaller. |
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They were plastic and wood. |
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The plastic was bright and colourful. |
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The discs were plastic, too, and they were big. |
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Later, people invented a smaller plastic disc. |
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It was the CD. |
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You can play a CD in a small machine. |
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This is a CD player. |
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You can easily use this in your bedroom. |
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This is a very small machine. |
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It's an iPod*. |
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People can listen to music in the street or on the bus. |
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They use earphones. |
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This boy is listening to a very big band and the music player is in his hands! |
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Listen 5 times |
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