107 The Vegetable Orchestra We eat vegetables every day, but what else can we do with vegetables? In Austria, there is a vegetable orchestra. They
make all their own instruments – trumpets,
drums, violins, clarinets – and they make
them all from vegetables.
The orchestra plays concerts all over
the world. Before each concert, the
musicians go to the market and buy
fresh vegetables. Then they make their
instruments slowly and carefully. It takes
about three hours because they have to make
more than forty instruments for each concert.
They love inventing new instruments with
different vegetables from around the world.
People always enjoy listening to the
Vegetable Orchestra, and after each
concert, they enjoy a bowl of vegetable soup!
The orchestra’s cook makes it from unused
vegetables. It’s delicious!
Unit 4 Skills: Reading and writing Look below! What are these instruments made from? 18 Read again and correct the sentences. The Vegetable Orchestra is from Russia.
2 They make all their instruments from fruit.
3 They buy their vegetables at the supermarket.
4 The musicians make their instruments quickly.
5 They need more than twenty instruments for
each concert.
6 People enjoy noodles after the concert.
CD2 14 17 Read and listen. Design an unusual instrument. What is it made from?
What does it sound like?
How do you play it?
Now write about it in your notebook. Your turn! Skills
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