SOUND OF MUSIC:2

29th April 2020

SOUND OF MUSIC –2

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Good morning students welcome to another session of learning
Learning Outcomes:
Analyse the character and setting
List out word meanings

TODAY WE WILL DISCUSS PAGE 17 AND 18:

OPENING SCENE :
The scene is of the train platform- it is underground and there is a huge rush at the platform, people are pushing each other to get way. There is a small thin girl Evelyn standing at the railway platform waiting for the train. And just as she feels the vibrations of the approaching train, she realizes that the train is about to come, she gets nervous and excited. This is the train that will take Evelyn to London. She is going to London to learn music as she has got admission in the Royal Academy of Music. Right now, Evelyn is in Scotland.

 (Evelyn belongs to Scotland. Scotland is a country in Europe. Life in Scotland is not as fast as in London. London has a very fast life. It is urban whereas Scotland has farms and countryside.)
 So that is why Evelyn is nervous because she is leaving Scotland for London. And she is excited also because she is doing something that she always dreamt of.
She is going to the Royal Academy of Music to learn music.

EVELYN'S BACKGROUND:
Evelyn is seventeen years of age. She is a teenager and she is fresh from a Scottish farm. As Evelyn is from Scotland which has more of farms and country side, so, she has not seen fast life. That is why she is nervous and the writer says that she is fresh from a Scottish farm.

WHAT CHALLENGE DID SHE FACE?
But this aspiring musician faced a bigger challenge than most: she was profoundly deaf. Evelyn could not hear, and this was a bigger challenge for her. Moving from a rural area to a fast life was a smaller challenge. Evelyn faced a much bigger challenge that was her inability to hear.
THESE WERE THE TWO CHALLENGES SHE FACED IN HER LIFE. BUT SHE DID NOT GIVE UP 

Evelyn Glennie’s loss of hearing had been gradual.
Isabel Glennie is the name of Evelyn’s mother. Evelyn’s mother Isabel recollects one incident when Evelyn was eight years old. She says that Evelyn was waiting for her turn to play the piano but when her name was called out, she did not respond. And her mother realized that Evelyn did not respond to her name that means she did not hear her name being called out.
As Evelyn lost her sense of hearing in phases, It was a gradual process. In the beginning when she could hear partially, she manage to hide this disability from her friends and teachers.But by the time she was eleven her marks had deteriorated and her headmistress urged her parents to take her to a specialist.It was then discovered that her hearing was severely impaired as a result of gradual nerve damage.They were advised that she should be fitted with hearing aids and sent to a school for the deaf.

The doctor advised Evelyn’s parents that they should get hearing aids for her. (Hearing aids is an equipment that is fitted into your ear and it helps a person to hear to some extent.)

He also suggested that Evelyn should be sent to school for the deaf Children.

When Evelyn discovered that she could not hear and that she would be sent to a school for deaf children, that she was not as good as normal children, her world became colourless. It turned black.
 Now what does this mean “everything suddenly looked black”. It means that all of a sudden you get such bad news; you get some news that you don’t except. And in return you see  your world fading away ....you lose all hope . That is how Evelyn responded to this news.

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QUESTIONS:



1. How old was Evelyn when she went to the Royal Academy of Music?

A. Evelyn was seventeen years old when she got admission in the Royal Academy of Music, London. She was nervous as she boarded the train from Scotland as she lived on farms in the countryside and was not exposed to the life in cities. Evelyn was excited as she was about to begin her career in music which was her aim in life.



WORD MEANINGS:

jostle: push roughly
daunting: frightening, Scary
aspiring musician: a person who wants to be a musician
 gradual: in phases
conceal: to hide
profoundly deaf: absolutely deaf.
Deteriorated: worsened, reduces
Urged:  requested
impaired: weakened
Today’s home work:
Copy the word meanings  in your notebooks
Complete the aforementioned question
Go through the chapter again

THAT'S IT FOR TODAY !!! THANK YOU!!