Проектная деятельность по английскому языку

                                                                                                             Приложение 4

               Муниципальное бюджетное образовательное учреждение

                       Новосибирского района, Новосибирской области –

 Криводановская средняя  школа №22

                         Проект по английскому языку

                                            на тему

                   Famous people are

                     in all over world

Выполнил:

Matveev Alexander

 8 «A»

Проверил:

Елена Юрьевна Балубова,

учитель английского языка1в.к.

                                                  2019

                                                         Contents

Introduction………………………………………..3 Chapter1.Russian famous people……………………4 1.1Nyusha…………………………………………... 4 1.2Viktor Tsoi……………………………………….6 Chapter2.English Famous people…………………... 9 2.1The band-Thirty Seconds to Mars………………..9 2.2The band One Direction………………………… 11 Conclusions   ……………………………………...16 Literature   ………………………………………...17 Appendix 1.Questionnaire Results   ……………...18 Appendix 2.Nyusha………………………………..19 Appendix 3.Victor Tsoi……………………………20 Appendix 4.Thirty Seconds to Mars……………….21 Appendix 5.One Direction…………………………22

                                                       Introduction

          The topic of my work is «Famous people». This topic seems to me very interesting   because   the whole world is very rich with outstanding people. There are lots of famous British and Russian musicians, sportsmen, scientists, writers, explorers and so on. Almost everyone in the world admires someone. It is especially true for young people. Most of them have idols. They try to look and act like them. It is useful when a person looks up to someone with positive qualities or to someone who has done lots of good and worthy things. All the people have their celebrities in different areas, but idols are mostly found in such spheres like music or cinema.

It was interesting to know who would be famous among Russian and British people for students in our school.   

The purpose of this paper is to   study  the brightest people and to find out the best well-known people according to the students.

To achieve this aim we have learnt a great amount of information from the Internet, books and magazines and held the investigation – we asked our schoolmates (pupils of 6-7 forms) and   some   questions connected with the topic.                

The objectives of the work are:

·        to develop skills of research work;

·        to study the literature on the topic that is available on the internet and in the libraries and summarize the valuable information;

·        to conduct a survey and to discuss the results of our research paper at the school conference;

·        to increase a level of English;

·        to share opinions with our teachers about famous people.

Hypothesis: to identify an idol among students.

The subject of the investigation is the most popular celebrities among students.  

The object of the investigation  is outstanding celebrities.

                                                       Chapter 1.   

                                           Russian famous people             

1.1  Nyusha 1990–2006: Childhood and adolescence

          Anna Shurochkina was born on 15 August 1990 into a family of musicians(Appendix2). Her father, Vladimir Shurochkin (born April 12, 1966) was a former member of the musical group Laskoviy May ("Ласковый май"). Her mother, Irina Shurochkina sang in a rock band in her youth. When Anna was two years old, her parents divorced. However, the father and his daughter still spent a lot of time together. Nyusha's sister, Maria Shurochkina, was twice European Junior Champion in Synchronised swimming and her brother, Ivan Shurochkin, does Martial Arts Stunts. Nyusha first came to the studio at age 5, with her song "Песенка большой медведицы"or in English "Song of the Great Bear".

At age 11 she began performing on stage as the group Grizli. The group toured in Russia and Germany. At age 17 she changed her name from Anna to Nyusha.

Early career 2007–2009

In 2008 Nyusha took seventh place in the international contest "New Wave 2008" and also wrote the final song of the heroine in the dubbed version of the film Enchanted. In 2009, she released her first single "Вою на луну" or in English "Howl at the moon." Her composition won "Song of the Year - 2009". At the concert "Europa Plus Live 2009" she introduced the new songs "Angel" in Russian and the English "Why?"

   "Choosing a Miracle"( "Выбирать чудо") popularity growth 2010-2011:

In 2010 Nyusha released her second single "Не перебивай" (Do not Interrupt). The song became the most popular Russian-language hit in April 2010. The singer was nominated for the award Muz-TV 2010 in the category "Breakthrough of the Year". Later in the year she also released the album " Выбирать чудо" (Choosing a Miracle). The third single is the album title, and peaked at number 1 in Russia by the end of 2010 and beginning of 2011, and is one of her most successful songs to date. It´s also one of her most viewed videos on YouTube.

In 2011, she released three new singles: "Больно" (It Hurts) and "Выше" (Higher). These are the fourth and fifth singles from her debut album, "Выбирать чудо". Both singles were number 1 in Russia, scoring her third and fourth number one singles respectively. She also released "Plus Pres" ("We can make it right"), a duet with the French Gilles Luka.

On March 22, Nyusha was nominated for the MUZ-TV in 2011, in the categories of "Best Singer" and "Best Album". In October, Nyusha won the nomination of "Best Russian Act" on the "MTV Europe Music Awards 2011". In December, the magazine "Billboard" included the song "Выбирать чудо" (Choosing a Miracle) in its list of the top publishing songs in 2011, and the song "Больно" (It Hurts) in the most impressive and memorable Russian pop songs in the last 20 years.

    Further success and development 2012–2013:

In January 2012, the song "Выше" began to occupy the top position in many charts around Russia. On April 28 she gave a concert in the famous "Crocus City Hall" in Moscow, because of her first tour promoting her debut album "Выбирать чудо" During the concert, the singer released three new songs: two singles ("Воспоминание" and "Объединение" ) and a duet with her father ("You are my life").

A month before the show, March 28 Nyusha was nominated again for the "MUZ-TV Awards 2012" in two categories ("Best Song" (for "Выше") and "Best Female Artist"). The award ceremony was held on June 1 in SC "Olympic". The singer won "Best Song". The same month she released officially the song "Воспоминание" (Memories), topping the charts in Russia and the Ukraine, becoming her fifth and first number one in those countries respectively. It's considered her most successful song to date and her most popular one. Also, this song was on top of the "Top Hit Weekly Audience Choice" for 19 consecutive weeks, more than any other in the history of the site. From September 6 the music channels started to promote the video of the song.

On November 27 premiered the video for "Это Новый Год" (It's New Year). The song was part of the soundtrack of the animated film "The Snow Queen". On December 1, Nyusha won two awards: the "Gramophone Golden Radio of Russia" (for the song "Воспоминание"), and a diploma from the festival "Song of the Year 2012" (for the song "Выше").

In March 2013, she released the song "Наедине" (Alone) as the second single of her second studio album, expected to be released by the end of the year. This song also topped the charts in Russia, becoming the sixth single to achieve it.

                                                    1.2 Viktor Tsoi

          Viktor  Robertovich Tsoi  was born in June 1962 and died in 15 August 1990). He was a Soviet musician, songwriter, and  a leader of the band Kino(Appendix3).

He is regarded as one of the pioneers of Russian rock and has many devoted fans across the countries of the former Soviet Union even today. Few musicians in the history of Russian music have been more popular or have had more impact on their genre than Viktor Tsoi and his rock band Kino. Aside from that, Tsoi contributed a plethora of musical and artistic works, including ten albums. Viktor Tsoi died in a car accident on August 15, 1990, aged 28.

Early life

Tsoi was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. He was the only child of Valentina Vasilyevna Tsoi  (8 January 1937 in Leningrad, Soviet Union – 28 November 2009 in Saint Petersburg, Russia), a Russian schoolteacher, and Robert Maximovich Tsoi (born 5 May 1938 in Kyzylorda, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union; today's Kazakhstan), a Soviet Korean engineer. Tsoi's Korean ancestry can be traced back to Sŏngjin,North Hamgyong, Korea (today's North Korea), where his great-grandfather Choi Yong-nam was born.

Tsoi attended Serov Artistic Academy in Leningrad from 1974 to 1977. In 1977, when Tsoi was 15 years old, the academy expelled him. The academy said that he was expelled for poor grades. RT said "Rock scene has a negative impact to the education"

Beginnings of Kino

Leningrad's Rock Club was one of the few public places where rock bands were allowed to perform. It was there in 1982, at their first annual Rock Concert that Viktor Tsoi made his stage debut. He was playing as a solo artist supported by two members of Aquarium. Tsoi's innovative lyrics and music impressed the crowd.

Before making it big, Tsoi said that the problem with music was that no one wanted to take chances. He wanted to experiment with lyrics and music in order to create something fresh that no one had ever heard before. Tsoi succeeded in his goal. Shortly after the concert he recruited other musicians and they formed Kino, which in Russian means both "cinema" and "film". They recorded a demo tape at Tsoi's apartment. This tape was quickly passed around Leningrad, and then all over the country by rock enthusiasts. Kino began to gain popularity.

First album

In 1982, Kino released their first Samizdat album 45. This album first showed Tsoi's willingness to approach political topics in his music, something few other artists were willing to do. In his song "Commuter Train" (Russian: Электричка) he discussed a man stuck in a train that was taking him where he didn't wish to go; this was clearly a metaphor for life in the Soviet Union, and the band was quickly banned from performing this song live. Regardless, the political message of the song made it popular among the youth of the anti-establishment movement that now began to look to Viktor Tsoi and Kino as their idols.

In 1982, Tsoi met Marianna  Rodovanskaya, whom he married in 1985. She was a source of support and family for Tsoi, giving birth to their son Alexander (Sasha) on 5 August 1985. Marianna Tsoy became the owner of rights to her husband's songs after his death. She survived Viktor by 15 years before dying from cancer in 2005.

Kino displayed more of their political views at the 2nd Leningrad Rock Club Concert. The band won the competition with Tsoi's anti-war song "I Declare My Home... [a nuclear-freezone]" (Russian: Я объявляю свой дом ... [безъядерной зоной]).The song's popularity was fueled by the ongoing Afghan War which was claiming the lives of thousands of young Soviet citizens. Several sources claim that Viktor Tsoi went to a psychiatric hospital to evade conscription, but it is considered a mere myth as doctor-patient confidentiality prevents any reliable source from revealing any relevant information.

Gorbachev era

Kino was still not getting Soviet media attention when Mikhail Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of CPSU in 1985. The social and economic reforms associated with the latter's name exposed social and economic problems of the Soviet Union allowing open discussion of them in the media. Restrictions on the media were loosened and rock bands became mentioned in the newspapers and shown on TV. In 1986 Tsoi used the open atmosphere and public sentiment to release a song titled "[We want] Changes!" (Russian: [Мыждем] перемен!). The song called on the young generation to demand changes within the current system and spread Kino's name all over the nation.

                                                   Chapter 2

                                           English famous people

                               2.1The band-Thirty Seconds to Mars

Thirty Seconds to Mars is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1998. The band consists of Jared Leto (lead vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards),Shannon Leto (drums, percussion) and Tomo Miličević (lead guitar, bass, strings, keyboards, other instruments) (Appendix4).

The band's debut album, 30 Seconds to Mars(2002), was produced by Bob Ezrin and released to critical acclaim but only to limited commercial success. The band achieved worldwide fame with the release of their second album A Beautiful Lie (2005), which received multiple certifications all over the world, including platinum in the United States. Their next release, This Is War (2009), reached the top ten of several national album charts and earned numerous music awards. In 2013, Thirty Seconds to Mars moved to Universal Music and released the fourth album, Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013), to critical and commercial success. As of September 2014, the band has sold over 15 million albums worldwide.

Thirty Seconds to Mars has consistently enjoyed sold out tours and numerous headlining festival slots. The band is noted for its energetic live performances and for fusing many music genres. They have been compared to the sounds of bands such as Pink Floyd, The Cure, Tool, and U2, for their philosophical and spiritual lyrics, concept albums and their use of experimental music

Formation and first years (1998–2000) Thirty Seconds to Mars started in 1998 in Los Angeles, California, as a collaboration between brothers Jared Leto and Shannon Leto, who had been playing music together since their childhood. The duo later expanded to a four piece when they added guitarist Solon Bixler and bassist Matt Wachter to the line-up. Additional guitarist Kevin Drake, who first auditioned for the position of bassist, also joined the band as a touring musician. The band played its first concerts under different names, before finally settling on the name "Thirty Seconds to Mars", which was taken from a rare manuscript titled Argus Apocraphex. Jared Leto spoke of the name as "a reference, a rough translation from the book. I think the idea is interesting, it's a metaphor for the future," he explained. "Thirty seconds to Mars—the fact that we're so close to something that's not a tangible idea. Also Mars being the God of War makes it really interesting, as well. You could substitute that in there, but what's important for my brother and I, is that it be imaginative and really represent the sound of our music in as unique a way as possible." He described it as a name that "works on several different levels, a phrase that is lyrical, suggestive, cinematic, and filled with immediacy." When Thirty Seconds to Mars first started, Jared Leto did not allow his vocation as a Hollywood actor to be used in promotion of the band.

By 1998, the group performed gigs at small American venues and clubs. Their eponymous debut album had been in the works for a couple of years, with Leto writing the majority of the songs. During this period, the band recorded demo tracks such as "Valhalla" and "Revolution", or "Jupiter" and "Hero", which later appeared on the band's debut album as "Fallen" and "Year Zero" respectively, but also "Buddha for Mary". Their work led to a number of record labels being interested in signing Thirty Seconds to Mars, which eventually signed to Immortal Records. In 1999, Virgin Records entered into the contract.

Musical style 

The style of the band's first studio album combined progressive metal and space rock with influences and elements from electronica, utilizing programming and synthesizers. Ryan Rayhill from Blender described the album as a "high-minded space opera of epic scope befitting prog-rock prototypes Rush," and wrote that Thirty Seconds to Mars "emerged with an eponymous debut that sounds like Tool on The Dark Side of the Moon," referring to the 1973 album by Pink Floyd.

Whereas the eponymous concept album's lyrics focus on human struggle and self-determination, A Beautiful Lie's lyrics are more personal and the music introduces intense screaming vocals. The transformation that resonates throughout the album reflects the personal and artistic changes experienced by the band members before and during the creation of the record. The album widened the band's sound by combining elements from progressive rock, hard rock and emo. Such alternative rock style has been compared to bands like The Cure, U2 and The Smashing Pumpkins.

Their third release This Is War was described as "an extremely progressive rock sound with killer choruses," drawing inspirations from experimental Pink Floyd to melodic M83. Chris Harris from Rolling  Stoneconsidered it "an ambitious collection of experimental rock" shaped by the band's personal struggles and legal battle with their record label. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of All Music acknowledged the band's progression, referring to the overall style of the record as a mixture of synth rock, heavy metal, and progressive rock.

In Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams the band experimented with different instruments and drew influences from a wider and more varied range of styles. The album mixes experimental instrumentation with elements both symphonic and electronic, and the music introduces a minimalist approach full of ethereal sonics. The record carries the concept album format of This Is War and expands the spectrum to revolve around the themes after which it is named.

                                                     2.2 One Direction

One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) are an English-Irish pop boy band  based in London, composed of  Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson. In addition, Zayn Malik was a member until his departure from the band, announced on 25 March 2015. (Appendix5). They signed with Simon Cowell's record label Syco Records after forming and finishing third in the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor in 2010. Propelled to international success by social media, One Direction's four albums, Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013) and Four (2014) broke records, topped charts in most major markets, and generated hit singles including "What Makes You Beautiful", "Live While We're Young", "Story of My Life" and "Steal My Girl".

Their achievements include five Brit Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, eleven MTV Europe Music Awards, and nineteen Teen Choice Awards out of nineteen nominations, among many others. According to Nick Gatfield, the chairman and chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment UK, One Direction represented a $50 million business empire by June 2012. They were proclaimed 2012's "Top New Artist" by Billboard. According to the Sunday Times Rich List, by April 2013, they had an estimated personal combined wealth of £25 million ($41.2m) making them the second-wealthiest musicians in the UK under 30 years of age. In 2014, Forbes listed them the second-highest earning celebrities under 30, with the group earning an estimated $75 million from June 2013 to June 2014.

After the release of Four, One Direction became the first band in the U.S. Billboard 200 history to have their first four albums debut at number one. Their third album, Midnight Memories, was the biggest-selling album worldwide of 2013 despite being released in later November. In 2014, Billboard named One Direction the top artist of the year.

2010–11: The X Factor

In 2010, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson auditioned as solo candidates for the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor. They failed to progress to the "Boys" category at "judges' houses" but were put together to form a five-piece boy band at Wembley Arena, in London, England, in July 2010, during the "boot camp" stage of the competition, thus qualifying for the "Groups" category. Nicole Scherzinger, a guest judge, and Simon Cowell have both claimed to have come up with the idea of forming the band. In 2013, Cowell said that it "took him 10 minutes to put them together as a group". Subsequently, the group got together for two weeks to get to know each other and to practice. Styles came up with the name One Direction. For their qualifying song at "judges' houses", and their first song as a group, One Direction sang an acoustic version of "Torn". Cowell later commented that their performance convinced him that they "were confident, fun, like a gang of friends, and kind of fearless as well." Within the first four weeks of the live shows, they were his last act in the competition. The group quickly gained popularity in the UK.

One Direction finished in third place and immediately after the final, their song "Forever Young", which would have been released if they had won The X Factor, was leaked onto the internet. Shortly afterwards it was confirmed that One Direction had been signed by Cowell to a reported £2 million Syco Records record contract. Recording for their debut album began in January 2011, as they flew to Los Angeles to work with Red One, a record producer. A book licensed by One Direction, One Direction: Forever Young (Our Official X Factor Story), was published by HarperCollins in February 2011, subsequently topping The Sunday Times Best Seller list. The same month, the boy band and other contestants from the series participated in the X Factor Live Tour. During the tour, the group performed for 500,000 people throughout the UK. After the tour concluded in April 2011, the group continued working on their debut album. Recording took place in Stockholm, London and Los Angeles, as One Direction worked with producers Carl Falk, Savan Kotecha, Steve Mac, and Rami Yacoub, among others.

Musical style

One Direction's debut studio album, Up All Night (2011), is predominantly a pop music record, containing elements of teen pop, dance-pop, pop rock, with electropop and rock influences. Digital Spy's Robert Copsey described the album as a "collection of PG pop rock with killer choruses", while The New York Times considered it "full of easy rock-inflected pop, blithe and sometimes clever." Jason Lipshutz of Billboard acknowledged that the album demonstrates an originality in sound that was "necessary for the revitalization of the boy band movement". The songs "One Thing" and "What Makes You Beautiful" were particularly noted for the genres of power pop and pop rock, for their "powerhouse" guitar riffs and "forceful" choruses.

Their second studio album, Take Me Home (2012), is characterised by rock-inherited pop, prominent electric guitar riffs, bright synthesisers, a homogeneous sound and message, and the pitch-correcting soft ware Auto-Tune. Alexis Petridis of The Guardian interpreted its signature sound as a "peppy, synth-bolstered take on early-80s new-wave pop, heavy on clipped rhythms and chugging guitars," which, he said, is at least an improvement on the substitute contemporary R&B "that was once the grim lot of the boyband." Jon Caramanica, writing in The New York Times, considered the album "far more mechanical" than their debut album, although noted that it is sonically and lyrically similar. The album's lyricism speaks of falling in love, unrequited love, the insistence that flaws are what make a person unique, commitment, jealousy and longing for past significant others.

Erica Futterman for Rolling Stone favored their live acoustic performances as both showing, "Horan's ability to play guitar, as well as One Direction's admirable live vocals. There was no need to worry about a backing track or a bum note, a pleasant realization at a pop show." Herald Sun '​s Cameron Adams opined that One Direction have "strong pop voices". Melody Lau of the National Post wrote, "It's easy to get lost in inherent appeal of their perfectly coiffed dos and almost-too-put-together preppy style but somewhere in the midst of all the love-struck squeals of teenage girls are guys who can actually sing and, to a certain extent, entertain." Jane Stevenson of the portal site Canoe concurred: "What I didn't really prepare myself for was that they all can actually sing in concert." Chris Richards, writing in The Washington Post, dissented from the approval: "As the five traded couplets, it was tough to imagine a future Justin Timberlake, Ricky Martin or Bobby Brown emerging from the pack. No one voice stood out." Mike Wass of Idolator felt One Direction's "surprisingly accomplished effort" of Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody" proved that One Direction are "more than capable" of evolving their sound.

Their third album Midnight Memories (2013) is a pop rock record, a slight departure from the band's original teen pop sound. Liam Payne called Midnight Memories a "slightly rockier and edgier" album than their previous material. The album is heavily influenced by 80's rock and folk music and briefly integrates elements of dub step, notably in "Little White Lies". The album's lyrical themes primarily revolve around love, heartbreak and sexual intercourse. Many critics praised its lyrical depth and musical composition, as well as the group's level of involvement in the production process.

Their fourth album Four (2014) was released on 17 November 2014. Payne once again claimed that the album would be "edgier" and that the group had written most of the songs for it; Horan came up with the name of the album, commemorating the fact that it is One Direction's fourth record to date and that it has been four years since the band's formation. Signifying a further maturation of their pop sound, the album's first single, Steal My Girl, was dubbed by Billboard as "no What Makes You Beautiful, but its Coldplay-like piano pop could be a good direction", and that the band was "not entirely ready to let go of its bubble-gum days". Rolling Stone described the record as "saturated with retro vibes"; its songs "split the difference between big, splashy Eighties pop rock and more elegant Seventies flavors - a very millennial move that's not so far from what Haim's hit Days Are Gone did last year."

                                                        Conclusions

According to the results of the survey we can make some conclusions.

The main aim and objectives were achieved by means of learning a great amount of information from the Internet, books and magazines and held the investigation – we asked our schoolmates (pupils of 6-7 forms) and  some   questions connected with the topic.                

         We studied all celebrities who were given more voices then others. Every famous person had its own hard way to be popular. Nyusha began her career at  age of 5 and she began performing on stage as the group Crizli at the age of 11 and then she changed her name and became popular singing by her own.(Appendix2) .Victor Tsoi made his stage debut in 1982 at the age of 20 after many changes in his life and a public liked him too.(Appendix3). The band One derection became popular after their 3-d album   which was the biggest –selling of 2013 and in 2014 billboard named the band the top artist of the year.(Appendix 5). And the last group «30 seconds to mars» (Appendix 4) achieved worldwide fame with the release of the 2-d album «A beautiful lie». (Appendix 6).This band became popular among our students too.

        There are many notebooks, badges, bags with the images of these famous people in Russian today. (Appendix  Avon).
        The disciples gave their preference to the band: «30 seconds to Mars» because they like their work, style, voices.
        And as it turned out, the students prefer more international stars than the Russian. (Appendix 1).

       As  one  proverb says: «Tastes differ».

                                    Literature

1.     Александр Житинский. «Цой forever»

2.     One Direction: Where We Are (100% Official): Our Band, Our Story

3.     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyusha

4.     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Seconds_to_Mars

Appendix 1

                          Questionnaire Results

                         Students (35 students were asked)

21 people answered that they prefer foreign celebrities. And only 14 said that they like Russian stars.

According to a poll in the first place among foreign stars were an American rock  band «30 seconds to Mars».
Among Russian - singer Nyusha.

Their preference was explained by the fact that foreign stars  have choreography, the singing, the design of the entire show better than Russian.

                                                                                                                 Appendix2

Nyusha

Victor Tsoi                                                                                             Appendix 3

       

30 seconds to Mars                                                                             Appendix 4

One Derection                                                                                      Appendix 5