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◆Module 1 Learn to Talk◆
Speaking
Tyler: Nora.
Nora:What are you doing here?Before you say anything?
Tyler:I don't know where to start?I just…I am sorry.I shouldn't have walked out on you like that.
Director Gordon:Tyler,this is not the time.
Tyler:Please let me get this out.I've made every wrong decision I could possibly have made.
Nora:I am doing this without a partner.
Director Gordon:That's enough,Nora,check your dancers.Tyler,I don't think you realize how important this is.
Tyler:I do realize how important this is.That's exactly why I'm here.You said if I want something,I gotta fight for it,right?That's what I'm doing.I'm fighting for something real for the first time in my life.
Nora:I can't do this right now.This is everything I've worked for.
Tyler:I know and I am sorry.I want you to do this the way you imagined it.That's it.
Nora:I can't.It's too late.
Tyler:Ok,Good luck.
Nora:Tyler,do you remember the steps?
Tyler:Couldn't forget even if I wanted to.
Nora:Ok,everyone,we're back to the old dance with Tyler.
Listening
Hip⁃hop culture is mostly viewed as involving hip⁃hop music and certain types of fashion,but its history includes a lot more.Today,many aspects of hip⁃hop culture have become mainstream and its popularity not only in the inner cities,but also the suburbs and internationally.
DJ Clive Campbell,most popularly known as Kool Herc,started hip⁃hop culture with the creation of hip⁃hop music in the early 1970s.Like disco DJs,Campbell used two turntables.But Campbell originated the technique of using two copies of the same record to prolong the instrumental“break”portion of a song,allowing dancers（whom Campbell termed break⁃boys and break⁃girls）an opportunity to take the spotlight.Campbell's rhythmic announcements and Jamaican⁃accented toasting over the breaks inspired early rapping.
Hip⁃hop culture has had a large impact on American culture,specifically with hip⁃hop music,hip⁃hop dance（the most famous being break dancing）,fashion and slang.hip⁃hop culture began as a way for inner city blacks and Latinos in New York City to express themselves through new types of art,fashion,music and dance.hip⁃hop culture and style started in the Bronx borough of New York City.
The main aspect of hip⁃hop was DJing,rapping,graffiti writing and break⁃dancing.Hip⁃hop dance originated in 1970s South Bronx,New York City,with the sound of hip⁃hop music；reflecting the energies and attitudes of the culture.Borrowing moves from older styles of dance,such as jazz,gymnastics,it has evolved and grown in popularity.The main style of hip⁃hop is breaking,locking,popping and the wave.