What A Wonderful World Of Cinema And Theatre Is!

Objectives: -to consolidate speaking and reading skills; -to practice using vocabulary; -to speak about different genres; -to express opinions.

What word or phrase is being defined? 1) a building for a performance of plays; 2) a man who acts on the stage or for cinema films; 3) the total number of actors in a play or film; 4) the people who watch a play at the theatre; 5)what these people do with their hands at the end of a play; 6) the person who makes a film; 7) journalists who write articles about films and plays; 8) the name of the articles they write; 9) the translation of the story of a film across the bottom of the screen; 10) to reserve tickets before the performance; 11) the most important actors or actresses in a film.

What information have you learned about a continuous programme in the cinema? 2 What role in the life of society does the cinema play?

Role-play the following situation. Having decided to spend a good evening you invite your friend to go to the cinema. You insist on watching an action film and you friend on melodrama. Try to convince him that yours will be impressive.

Globe Theatre

Globe Theatre Interior Audience members at the reconstructed Globe Theatre in London can sit on benches in one of the three covered galleries or stand in the open yard, just as audiences did in the original Globe Theatre of Shakespeare’s time. The projecting stage has a thatched roof and an elaborately decorated back wall. Large oak pillars, painted to look like marble, support a canopy, which has been painted to represent the heavens.

Old Vic Theatre The Old Vic Theatre is located in the South Bank part of London. It opened in 1818 and in the early 1900s became known for its productions of English playwright William Shakespeare’s plays. The theater closed in 1976 and was then renovated, reopening in the 1980s.

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A marvelous performance of an opera at the Royal Opera House, Britain’s foremost location for opera and ballet.