Musical Half-Notes G3p04

 VII. Practise in making announcements.

There will be a new film tomorrow. The monitor wants the class to know that he will collect the ticket money in the afternoon at about 3 o'clock. He makes the following announcement:
Attention please, everyone! There'll be a new film at Hongsheng Cinema, at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon. The price for tickets is ten fen each.
Those who want to see it, please let me know and have your money ready. I'll collect the ticket money at about 3 o'clock.
Thank you.
Now do the same with the following:
a basketball match, the school playground, 4o'clock, Thursday afternoon, between Class 1 and Class 2, everyone is asked to go and cheer for them after class

VIII. Read the following passage, then answer the questions:

Musical Half-Notes

A musician who played pop music in a club lived in a boarding-house in the centre of London. He always used to get back to his room very late at night and sometimes in the early hours of the morning. He would be so tired when he got back that he would sit on the edge of his bed, take off his shoes and throw them on the floor and say, "Thank goodness, another day is over." He would then get into bed and fall fast asleep.
But the poor lodger who had the room under the musician's was woken up each night, or early in the morning, by the two thuds that the two shoes made as they landed on his ceiling. Finally, he could not stand it any more and went and complained to the musician.
Naturally the musician was very upset and promised that, in future, after taking off his shoes, he would put them down as quietly as possible on the carpet.
The next day, he got back from his club at about one o'clock in the morning, went up to his room, sat on the edge of his bed, took off one shoe and threw it on the floor. He was just about to do the same with the other when he suddenly remembered the promise he had made the day before. So with great care he put the second shoe down silently on the carpet. Then he got into bed and fell fast asleep. An hour later, he was woken up by a violent knocking on his door. It was the lodger who slept in the room just under his.
"Please, please, please," the lodger pleaded, "drop the other shoe. I have been waiting for a whole hour for you to drop it. As soon as you do I can go to sleep."

1. Who was the story about? Where did he live?
2. When did he use to come back?
3. What did he usually do after he got back?
4. What was it that woke up the poor lodger in the room just under the musician's each night? What did he do at last?
5. What did the musician promise to do?
6. When did the musician get back from his club the next day? Did he keep his promise ?
7. Who knocked on the musician's door an hour later?
8. Why couldn't the poor lodger go to sleep?