I can use indefinite pronouns.
1 🎧3.07 VOCABULARY Work in pairs. Listen to the musical excerpts. Match the excerpts (1-9) with the musical genres below.
Musical genres blues classical country and western
folk heavy metal hip hop/rap jazz pop/rock techno
1 heavy metal
2 Read the article. What is unusual about John Cage's most famous composition?
Experimental music by John Cage
Most composers want their music to contain something different - a distinctive melody or rhythm, or an unusual harmony which no one has thought of before. But has anyone gone further than composer John Cage in the search for originality?
In 1951, John Cage wanted to find somewhere he could experience complete silence. He went inside a special soundproof room and expected to hear nothing, but instead heard two sounds, one high-pitched and one low-pitched. Later, the sound engineer explained that the first was the sound of his nervous system and the second was the sound of his blood circulating. Cage realised that nowhere is completely silent - you can always hear something. A year later, he composed his most famous piece: 4'33" ('four minutes and thirty-three seconds'). In this piece, the performer walks on stage and then... nothing happens. He or she does not play anything at all. Everybody in the audience listens to nothing for exactly four minutes and 33 seconds. Then the performer bows and everyone applauds!
3 Complete the table with indefinite pronouns from the article.
| Indefinite pronouns | |||
| 1________ | 2________ | someone | 3________ |
| nobody | anybody | somebody | 4________ |
| 5________ | anywhere | 6________ | everywhere |
| 7________ | 8________ | 9________ | everything |
4 Read the Learn this! box. Complete it with the words below. Use the article to help you.
affirmative negative plural questions singular
LEARN THIS! Indefinite pronouns
a We use indefinite pronouns beginning with some-in 1________ sentences. We use pronouns beginning with any-in 2________ sentences and 3________.
b Indefinite pronouns take a 4________verb form.
Nobody lives in that house.
c But if we refer back to everyone or everybody, we treat them as 5________.
Everyone is here, aren't they?
LOOK OUT!
! We use indefinite pronouns with some- when we make offers and requests, even though they are questions.
Would you like something to eat?
Can I talk to somebody about this job?
5 Read the Look out! box. Complete the dialogue with the correct indefinite pronouns.
Amelia Are you doing 1__________ this weekend?
Jake No, I'm not.
Amelia Would you like to do 2__________ How about the cinema? together, then?
Jake Not the cinema. There's 3__________ see. Let's go I want to different for a change. We could see some live music.
Amelia Is there 5__________ s in town that has live music?
Jake Yes - the Oxygen Arena. I can find the programme online. Wait a moment ...
Amelia Is 6__________ good playing?
Jake There's 7__________well-known, I'm afraid. But this band might be OK-Purple Dawn. They play hip hop.
Amelia I'll ask James. He knows 8__________ about hip hop.
