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Vocabulary
to book the seats (tickets) in advance
pay box, box-office (booking-office)
to stand in the queue -
the performance (show)
to make a great impression on
to be based on real life
in advance
to impress [lm'pres] ,
stage [steidʒ] -
row -
scenery ['si:n(ə)ri]-
to book tickets at the box-office (beforehand) ()
to be on the stage
to be a success -
to burst into applause
to absorb
Exercise 1: Read and translate the text:
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place.
The performers may communicate to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance. Elements of design are used to amuse spectators, make them absorb into the world of art and relax and forget about their problems. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek.
Modern Western theatre derives in large measure from ancient Greek drama, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre scholar Patrice Pavis defines theatrical language, stage writing, and the specificity of theatre that differentiate theatre from the other performing arts, literature, and the arts in general.
Theatre today includes performances of plays and musicals. Although it can be defined broadly to include opera and ballet, those art forms are outside the scope of this article.
Exercise 2: Finish sentences according to the text:
1. Theatre is a
2. of gesture, speech, song, music or dance.
3. The specific place of the performance is
4. borrows technical terminology, classification into
5. as synonymous expressions that
6. Theatre today includes
7. the scope of this article.
Exercise 3: Read and dramatize the dialogues with your groupmate:
At the Theatre
- Do you often go to the theatre?
- Yes, I do.
- What kind of theatres do you prefer to attend?
- I prefer drama theatres.
- Do you prefer classic or modern plays?
- I prefer modern plays.
- Where do you like to sit?
- I like to sit in the stalls within first twelve rows.
- Do you get tickets beforehand or on the night of the performance?
- I prefer to book tickets beforehand.
- What play did you see last?
- I saw Hamlet by Shakespeare.
- Did you like it?
- Oh, I liked it very much. The performance was a great success with the public.
- Was the scenery good too?
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- Yes, it was. Public burst into applause when the curtain went up.
Exercise 4. Answer the following questions:
1. Can you speak German? 2. Can your mother speak English? 3. Could you speak English three years ago? 4. Can you skate? 5. Will you be able to skate tomorrow? 6. Which of your friends can play tennis? 7. Where can you see the films? 8. Will you be able to go to the cinema this evening? 9. Where can you buy books? 10. How can you get to school? 11. What poems can you recite?
Exercise 5. Make the following interrogative and negative:
1. Peter can make a shelf. 2. Ann could go there yesterday. 3. His friends will be able to help him on Sunday. 4. Our pupils can read and speak English. 5. The tourists will be able to reach the village before dark. 6.1 can show you the way to the park. 7. He could buy the ticket beforehand. 8. You will be able to catch the train.
Exercise 6. Insert the necessary modal verbs (can/ may/ must):
1. They understand me and I rely on them and believe them.
2. John go wherever he wants, I dont prohibit him.
3. You stay here for some time.
4. You go, she waits for you. Hurry up!!!
5. I dont know French, but I do it.
6. Peter help you now, just call him.
7. I go out? Yes, you . No, you
8. Everyone know this rule.
9. She read different books in English, German and French.
10. she be fifty?
11. You be there in a minute!!!!
12. I do all these exercises by my own? somebody help me?
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Vocabulary
opera
dramatic play
comedy
dress-rehearsal
opening performance (opening night) 쒺
a play (an opera) begins its run on June 10 () 10 .
a stage
an audience
an inspiration
Exercise 1: Read and translate the text:
The 20-th century brought great change into the theatre. Television, radio, cinema, video created the new world of art. But still there are hundreds of musical comedy theatres, drama theatres, opera houses, puppet theatres, philharmonics and conservatoires where the audience is excited at the prospect of seeing a play and the actors are most encouraged by the warm reception. But first, Id like to tell you some words about the theatre. It is a building where plays, operas or ballets are performed. Of course, it has a stage for the actors and an auditorium where the audience sits.
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The curtain usually separates the stage from the auditorium. As a rule, the curtain is dropped of lowered between the scenes or acts of a play. The most expensive seats are in the stalls, boxes and dress-circles. The seats in the balcony and the upper circle are comparatively cheaper. A system of lights illuminates the stage. While the curtain is down, the workers on the stage can change the scenery and prepare the stage for the next part of the performance.
A play lives a long life and it makes its appearance on the stage before the audience. It is a real part of art and its creation calls for inspiration, talent and artistic ingenuity. A playwright conceives an idea and after months of hard work his idea develops into the script of the play. And finally, when everything is ready and the rehearsal goes off without a hitch (), a dress rehearsal is called. After some time the curtain rises, the play faces the audience on its first night.
Exercise 2: Answer the questions according to the text:
1. What did the 20-th century bring into the theatre?
2. What can you say about the theatre nowadays?
3. What is the theatre?
4. What is the curtain for?
5. Where are the most expensive seats?
6. Where are the cheaper seats?
7. What illuminates the stage?
8. When can the workers change the scenery?
9. What is a real part of art?
10. What does a playwright conceive?
Exercise 3: Think over and express your ideas about the followings:
Nowadays theatres are becoming less and less popular, and cinema has got big popularity instead.
Lutsk theatre stages dramas and plays based on classical novels.
Nowadays people do not like opera and ballet.
At the theatre the decorations are rich and the famous actors play very well.
There is a storm of applause after the performance.
