ARTS
Warming up:
Here is a list of the arts. Look at them and say which of them you prefer and which of them you understand better than the others. The following word patterns can help: Personally I am sure that…/ As far as I know…/ Frankly speaking…/ I consider…/ In my opinion…/ To my mind…
Literature
Dancing
Music
Painting and Drawing
Sculpture
Theatre
Cinema
Answer the questions about art.
1. Which of the arts from the list above can you call visual arts (изобразительное искусство)?
2. What role do arts play in your life?
3. What countries are famous for great literature, visual arts, cinema, theatre?
4. Can you do anything in the way of the arts yourself? What can you do? Are you really good at it? Would you like to be?
General Vocabulary
Nouns
1. audience – аудитория, публика
2. Baroque – барокко
3. collaboration - сотрудничество, совместная работа
4. craft - ремесло, ручной [кустарный] труд
5. creation – творение, создание
6. creativity - творчество
7. critics - критика
8. elite /eı`lı:t/ - элита
9. ensemble /ənsɔmb(ə)bl/ /a:nsa:mb(ə)l/ -- ансамбль (муз., арх.)
10. founder - основатель
11. genre /`ʒɔηrə/ /ʒa:ηrə/- жанр
12. marble - мрамор
13. medium - средство
14. perception - восприятие
15. performance – представление, выступление, игра
16. performer - исполнитель
17. plastic arts – пластическое искусство
18. Renaissance /rə`neısəns/ – эпоха возрождения
19. repertoire /`repətwα:/ - репертуар
20. sequel – продолжение (книги, фильма)
21. social impact – социальное воздействие
22. studio – студия, мастерская
23. surrealist /sə`rıəlıst/ - сюрреалист
24. synthesis - синтез
25. technique - техника
26. tool - инструмент
Verbs
1. to cast – зд. лить, отливать (сталь)
2. to evolve - эволюционировать, развиваться
3. to fire – зд. обжигать (керамику, глину)
4. to impress – произвести впечатление
5. to influence - влиять
6. to mold – зд. прессовать, формовать, отливать в форму (гипс)
7. to score – иметь успех, добиться успеха, муз. оркестровать
8. to showcase - выставлять, демонстрировать, показывать (в наиболее выгодном свете; с наилучшей стороны)
9. to stage – ставить (пьесу, спектакль)
10. to weld – сваривать
Adjectives
1. aesthetic - эстетический
2. artistic - художественный
3. chamber (theatre, orchestra) - камерный
4. collaborative - совместный
5. humanistic - гуманистический
6. iconic - культовый
7. repulsive – отталкивающий, вызывающий отвращение
8. sophisticated – утонченный, предназначенный для людей с тонким вкусом, сложный для понимания
Phonetic exercise
Pronounce the words correctly. Pay attention to the way of pronunciation of stressed vowels.
/α:/ - art, craft, cast, marble, drama, march, draftsman
/eı/ - creation, renaissance, collaboration, chamber, bass
/æ/ - plastic, canvas, camera, jazz, band, clarinet, allegory, ballet
/ıə/ - surrealist
/αı/ - intertitle, icon
/αıə/ - satire, fire
/e/ - aesthetic, repertoire, impress, epic,
/ı:/ - technique, medium, elite, beat, reeded, sequel
/ı/ - symphony, lyrics, synthesis
/ə:/ - verse, circle
/כu/ - mold, composer, oboe, novel, prose, vocal, folk
/ɔ/ - horror, waltz, bandoneon, evolve
/ɔ:/ - performance, stall, audience, orchestra, cornet, chords
/u:/ - cartoons, tool, blues, flute, bassoon
*Следующее задание повышенной сложности:
Text 1
Exercise 1. Read the text. Theatre and Cinema: How It All Began
The first theatrical performances took place in ancient Greece. The Greek drama developed from hymns sung by Dionysius [daiəˈnisies], the God of wine and good life. The first known actor was called Thespis. He was the leading singer and travelled from his birthplace to Athens in a cart that carried all his belongings and could easily be turned into a stage for performance. At Athens he won the prize at a new drama festival. People believe that he was also the first man who separated himself from other singers to make a dialogue with them. He was the first professional performer who was brave enough to play a god. Before him this role had always belonged to priests or kings.
Cinema is much younger than theatre. It was born at the end of the 19th century. The first people who showed the first movies to a paying public were Lumieˈre [ˈlu:mieə] Brothers of France. They did this at the Grand Café, Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, on 20th February 1896. This was the first cinema show and it was quickly followed by many others in all parts of the world. The first films showed moving people and transport and short comedies. In 1901 France was the first country to produce a dramatic film, The Story of the Crime, which was followed by The Great Train Robbery in the United States in 1903.
At first films were shown anywhere: in music halls, clubs and shops. By 1908 special film theatres were built to give regular programmes. At this time cinema rapidly developed in both the New and the Old World. Charlie Chaplin made his first film, Making a Living, in 1914 in the USA. The Russian film industry was now going its own way. Russia’s great achievement in cinema was connected with its directors such as Eisenstein (The Battleship “Potemkin”), Pudovkin (Mother), Dovzhenko (Earth) and others. Then in 1927, Warner Brothers in Hollywood made the first film in which an actor sang and spoke. The film was called Jazz Singer. It opened a new era in films - the era of the “talkies”. The film mostly told its story with titles, but it had three songs and a short dialogue. There were long lines of people in front of the Warner Theatre in New York. The silent film was dead within a year. The first one hundred percent sound film, The Lights of New York, appeared in 1928. The first colour films were made in 1930s, but black-and-white films are still made today.
Exercise 2. Now that you’ve read the text, say:
1) in what country theatre was born
2) why we remember Thespis
3) when cinema was born
4) why the film Jazz Singer is important in the history of cinema
5) when the first colour films appeared
Exercise 3. Find in the text the names of these films:
1. «Зарабатывая на жизнь»
2. «История преступления»
3. «Огни Нью-Йорка»
4. «Броненосец Потемкин»
5. «Большое ограбление поезда»
6. «Земля»
7. «Мать»
Exercise 4. Retell the text giving the main idea in 10-15 sentences.
Text 2
