Objectives: By the end of this unit, students should be able to use active vocabulary of this theme in different forms of speech exercises.
Students should be better at discussing leisure time.
Students should know the rule of the Passive Voice.
Methodical instructions: This theme must be worked out during three lessons a week according to timetable.
Lexical material: Introduce and fix new vocabulary on theme “Leisure time”. Discuss in groups how the students spend their free time. Speak about theatres and cinemas.
Grammar: Revise V3. Introduce and practice the Passive Voice.
A night at the theatre.
Here we are outside the theatre. It is the Library Theatre which is underneath the General Library in Manchester. We are going to see a modern play which is very popular with theatre-goers.
Passing through the revolving door and down the stairs we come to the box office where the tickets are sold. Luckily we booked our seats a few weeks ago or would not be able to get in, because for this play all the seats had already been sold. It is so popular that this is the second time it has been produced here.
We leave our raincoats in the cloakroom. At the entrance to the theatre itself an attendant in uniform tears our theatre tickets in half. He gives us our halves back so that we can find our seats by their numbers. Another attendant shows us to our seats and sells us a program that will tell us which parts the actors are playing and how many acts there in the play. Then we take our seats about halfway down the auditorium.
All around us people are settling down into their seats, reading their programmes, passing chocolates. Everybody is excited, looking forward to the play. We all have a clear view of the stage because the seats are set on wide steps which slope down to the level of the stage. On the front row, you are so close you can smell the paint on the scenery but not too close to spoil your view of the actors. Even on the back row you have a perfect view of the stage because this is a small theatre.
This auditorium holds only 300 seats, but many theatres are much larger. In a small theatre you can always be sure to hear and see everything and really feel that you are with the actors in everything they do and in all the places they visit. But many plays are still produced in very large, old theatres where it is difficult to see and hear properly if you are in the back rows. There are sometimes so many stalls (ground-floor seats) in these theatres that they are divided into orchestra stalls, center stalls, and rear stalls, with the pit behind them. Above, there is the dress circle and boxes, then the balcony and, high above, the gallery, or the “gods”!
The auditorium seems to be full now. In a few minutes the play will begin. The attendants close the doors and draw the curtains over them. The warning bell rings to tell everyone the play is about to begin. People whisper excitedly. Slowly the lights begin to come up on the stage.
Topical vocabulary.
1. leisure досуг
2. spare time свободное время
3. to entertain, entertainment(n) развлекать,развлечение
4. box office театральная касса
5. ticket билет
6. to book заказать
7. seat место
8. play пьеса,спектакль
9. cloak-room гардероб
10.cloak-room ticket номерок
11.drama theatre драматический театр
12.matinee дневной спектакль
13.to stage,stage (n) поставитьспектакль,сцена
14.orchestra оркестр
15.stalls,in the orchestra stalls партер,в первых рядах партера
16.row,on the front, back row ряд,в первом ряду,в последнем ряду
17.box,in the box ложа,в ложе
18.gallery, ”the gods” галерка
19.curtain (rises,falls) занавес (поднимется,опускается)
20.scene сцена,(часть действия)
21.scenery декорации
22. dress circle бельэтаж
23.audience зрительная аудитория
24.perfomance игра актеров,спектакль
25.to applaude,applause (n) аплодисменты
26.pit амфитеатр
27.theatre-goer театрал
Ex.1.Find in the text the equivalents to the following:
очень популярна среди театралов; театральная касса; купить билеты; поставлена (пьеса) во второй раз; гардероб; найти места (в театре); роль; передние (задние) ряды; зал вмещает; партер; амфитеатр; зал заполнен; загораются огни.
Ex.2.Match the words in column A with those in column B.
1. entertainment a) декорации
2. cloak-room b)театральная касса
3. matinee c) развлечение
4. pit d) аплодировать
5. box office e) бельэтаж
6. to applaude f) амфитеатр
7. scenery g) гардероб
8.cloak-room ticket h) спектакль
9. dress circle i) ложа,в ложе
10. box,in the box j) дневной спектакль
11. perfomance k) номерок