Music and society

1. Music is important in my life because it is very useful when I am sad. It
   keeps me company when I am alone. Some songs are very beautiful and
   their topics are about love, every day life or particular
   situations. When I travel by car with my mum, I always listened to
   the radio, in particular when there are my favourite songs.

2. I have never listened to medieval music because I always listen to new
   songs. I expect from this music to listen to a different music like
   today's one. I think it is quieter and slower. I am not interesting
   to listen to medieval music.

   
   

LADY DIAMOND

Comprehension

1. The Ballad is structured into 13 stanzas which are made up of four
   lines. There are repetitions, alliterations, rhymes and refrains.

2. No, it has not got a regular rhyme scheme.

3. The story is told through dialogue and narration. The longest
   descriptive passage is from the first line to the 18^th
   one.

4. The language is abstract and the style is a little bit complex.

    

Interpretation

1. The beginning "once upon a time...."
   remind me of a fable. Compared with the first stanza, there are few
   similarities.

2. In stanza two it refers to summer, because you pick up the corn in
   summer.

3. In stanza four it refers to winter, because it talks about a "winter
   night".

4. Diamond's hand is white and the kitchen boy's breast is white, too, because
   this understands that their relation was "legal".

5. She is very afraid for her father's reaction. 

6. The singer's side is on Diamond's.

THE HOUSE CARPENTER

Comprehension
 

1. The two characters speaking are a sailor and a young woman. He loves
   her, but she has an husband and a son.

2. He has given up to marry the king's daughter.

3. He wants the woman to leave with him.

4. She needs to know what he has to maintain her.

5. She was sad because she never sees her son.

6. The ship sinks and they die.