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     A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts,
     With a purpose in life and a good deed to do –
     And she’s even created a Beetles’ Tattoo.
So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers –
On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears.


12.2     V6    Cats is now available as a special video presentation. Watch the sequence
The Old Gumbie Cat and make sure you answered the questions in 12.1 correctly.


13      V7    Lloyd Webber’s string of hit musicals are all house-
hold names. How many of them do you know? Which of them
have you watched? Make presentations of some of Lloyd Web-
ber’s hits in class. The information below and sequences from
the Gothic melodrama of Phantom of the Opera on your video
tape may be useful.


The story of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s success began not in one of the prestigious
West End or Broadway theatres but in the assembly hall of a small West London
prep school in 1968. The couple of hundred parents who had gathered there for an
end-of-term concert were witnessing the birth of a modern musical phenomenon.
The engaging pop cantatahich their sons were singing – a piece called Joseph and
the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – had been composed by Andrew Lloyd
Webber, still not twenty years old.
     Twenty-four years later, the same composer became Sir Andrew when he was
knighted by the Queen for services to the arts in June 1992 …


                                    WRITING
14     Choose one of the topics below and write a composition/a letter of about 150-200
words. Before you start writing, discuss the topics with another student.



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