Task : Designing Beijing opera masks

Skills building 1 adjectives used to describe characteristices or personality

Give their opposites stubborn sophisticated intelligent dishonest fair impulsive fierce loyal easy-going naive unintelligent honest unfair cool-headed mild disloyal

ambitious trustworthy crafty astute unambitious untrustworthy artless stupid

Step 1: getting to know the characters

Pre-listening

listening Listen to the conversation and write down each character’s characteristics.

Roles Characteristics King Alfred __________________ __________________ The princess _________________ stubborn; intelligent; powerful; fair intelligent; honest

The captain __________________ __________________ The prime minister ____________ King George _________________ brave; cool-headed; ambitious; dishonest fierce; violent loyal; trustworthy

One of the performers comes to you and asks for your advice. He wants to play a role that is the opposite of his last role. Listen to him and circle the adjectives he uses from the box below. Then, using the information you gathered in part A, choose a role for him.

fierce disloyal unintelligent untrustworthy easy-going unfair timid impulsive unambitious artless Role I choose for the performer: _______ the captain

Read the article and circle the colours you will use according to the personality of the role.

colors Character types it represents Typical examples red brave and loyal Guan Yu white dishonesty and betrayal Cao Cao and Qin Hui black fierce and violent Zhang Fei and Li Kui

Other colors colorsCharacters it represents yellow intelligence and ambition purple just and calm reddish purplefair and noble blue moral and stubborn green easily angered and violent