I Listen attentively to your fellow-students' reading of Ex. 2; correct their mis takes in the pronunciation of the sounds and stresses.



П. Listen to your fellow-students' reading of the word combinations from Ex. 3. What advice will you give them if they fail to pronounce them correctly?

Ш. Ask your fellow-student to read Ex. 4. In what way would you correct his mistake, should he intrude the [g] sound after [rj]? What recommendation would you give schoolchildren if they made a similar mistake?

IV. There is no denying the fact that appropriate reading matter in the target language can effectively be used for educational objectives as well. Try to recol lect an interesting class discussion you had in the course of teacher training that was both entertaining and instructive. Describe the discussion in terms of teach ing methods.

V. Think up a list of topics that could raise debates in your class. Select the best one and prepare yourself to conduct a class discussion on it. Use the following phrases (for the discussion leader):

1. Avoid elliptical, loaded or vague questions. 2. First arrange  in your mind all you are going to say. 3. Don't monopolize the discus­sion! 4. You are too subdued  подавлен. 5. What do you think on the point? 6. Do you share her view? 7. Give your reasons, etc.

VI It has been acknowledged by educationists that drama can help the devel opment of children in a number of specific ways. What are the implications of that view for teacher training in general/foreign-language teaching in particular?

VII Take up problem-solving situations 6-10 (See the Appendix). Discuss them in class.

CONVERSATION AND DISCUSSION

THE THEATRE

Topical Vocabulary

appeal привлекательность, притягательность n (the - of the theatre; visual -; auditory  -)

audience n (also: public n)

co - actor партнёр по роли n

costume  n

dialogue n (here: the spoken text of the play)

drama  n

dramatist  драматург n (also: playwright)

dramaturgy  драматургия n

effects n (light -; sound -)

entertainment увеселительное мероприятие, эстрадный концерт n

graphic изобразительный, наглядный a (- elements of the theatrical production)

house n (also: theatre -)

inflection модуляция, интонация n

make up грим, косметика n

perform представлять; играть, исполнять (пьесу, роль) v (also: act, play)

performance  n (also: production а) постановка (пьесы, кинокартины) б) художественное произведение, произведение искусства)

part партия, голосn (also: role)

plastic искусственный, надуманный; фальшивый; поверхностный; творческий, созидающий, креативный a (- elements of acting)

play for the gallery играть таким образом, чтобы получить большое одобрение аудитории (a/so: to play for the house)

play-acting игра в пьесе n (also: acting; playing; performance )

play-writing n

presentation показ; представление n (also: production)

fep., Fair Employment Practices (амер. "приём на работу без дискриминации") ??? n (i.e. repertory theatre  театр с постоянной труппой и подготовленным для сезона репертуаром)

rhythm  n (i.e. the rhythm of the production)

scene n

scenery (театральные) декорации сцены n (also: setting(s)) spectator n

stage a play представлять, ставить, показывать пьесу (to produce/to present a play)

stage-direction 1) сценическая ремарка (в письменном или печатном варианте пьесы) 2) режиссура, работа режиссёра, режиссёрское искусство n (i/e/ 1/ the art and technique of a stage director постановщик, режиссёр 2. pi. intructions as to actors' movements written into the script of the play)

synthetic неестественный, ненатуральный a

technique технические приёмыn (the - of acting)

theatre - goer театрал n "the fourth wall Четвертая стена, - воображаемая стена, через которую аудитория смотрит на действие, происходящее в театре. "

upstage 1) отойти вглубь сцены, чтобы заставить другого (актера) отвернуться от зала 2) переиграть (другого актера) , привлечь внимание публики к себе v (i.e move upstage of a co-actor, forcing him to act with his back to the audience and thus spoiling his perfomance)

The Main Genres  of the Theatre

drama , tragedy , comedy, farce , melodrama , opera , musical com­edy, musical, ballet , variety -show варьете

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I The theatre Is one of the greatest kinds of art. Its appeal is immense. What is its place among other arts? What is the secret of its appeal? What are the main prob­lems of play-writing and of play-acting?

A) Read the. following.

What is a Play?

A play is a story devised придуманная to be presented by actors on a stage be­fore an audience.

This plain statement of fact presents an exceedingly очень simple def­inition of the drama , — a definition so simple indeed as to seem at the first glance easily obvious and therefore scarcely  едва worthy  достойное of ex­pression. But if we examine  the statement thoroughly  основательно, phrase by phrase, we shall see that it sums up within itself the entire theory of the theatre, and that from this primary axiom  we may deduce делать вывод the whole practical philosophy of dramatic criticism .

It is unnecessary to linger задерживаться long over an explanation of the word story. A story is a representation of a series of events linked связанных to­gether by the law of cause закону причинности and effect and marching forward маршируя вперёд toward a predestined culmination , — each event exhibiting imagined characters героев performing imagined acts действия in an appropriate  соответствующих imagined setting декорациях.

The phrase 'devised придуманная to be presented' distinguishes the drama  sharply from all other forms of narrative . In particular it must be noted that a play is not a story that is written to be read. By no means никоим образом must the drama  be considered primarily as a department of literature, — like the epic  эпической поэме or the novel, for example. Rather точнее, from the standpoint of the theatre, should literary method be considered as only one of a multitude of means which the dramatist  драматург must employ to convey передать his story effectively to the audience. The great Greek dramatists need­ed a sense чувство of sculpture as well as a sense of poetry; and in the con­temporary  theatre the playwright драматург must manifest  ясно показывать the imagination фантазию of the painter as well as the imagination of the man of letters литератора. The ap­peal of a play is primarily visual rather than auditory. On the contem­porary  stage, characters properly должным образом costumed must be exhibited within a carefully designed and painted setting костюмы illuminated with appropri­ate соответствующими effects of light and shadow ; and the art of music is often called upon призывается to render исполнять incidental aid побочную поддержку to the general impression. The drama­tist  драматург, therefore, must be endowed  одарённым not only with the literary sense, but also with a clear eye for the graphic and plastic elements of pictorial графического effect, a sense of rhythm  and of music, and a thorough  полное knowledge

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of the art of acting. Since the dramatist  драматург must, at the same time and in the same work, harness  использовать and harmonise  the methods of so many of the arts, it would be uncritical to centre  studious  старательное consideration рассмотрение solely исключительно on his dialogue and to praise хвалить him or condemn осуждать him on the literary ground alone единственно.

It is, of course, true that the very greatest plays have always been great literature as well as great drama . The purely  чисто literary element — the final touch of style малая толика in dialogue — is the only sure antidote  противоядие against the opium  of time. Now that Aeschylus [i:skɪləs] Эсхил (древнегреческий поэт, родоначальник классической трагедии; 525-456 до н.э.) is no longer performed reg­ularly as a playwright, we read him as a poet. But on the other hand it must be granted предпологать that many plays that stand very high as drama do not fall within the range  направление of literature.

(From: Hamilton C. The Theory of the Theatre. N. Y., 1939.)

b) Answer the following questions:

1. Why is the theatre sometimes alluded to as a "synthetic" art? 2. What arts are involved in the production of a play? Which of them do you consider especially important for a successful presentation of a play? 3. Do you share the author's opinion that the dramatist  драматург must manifest  ясно показывать the imagination of the painter as well as the imagi­nation of the man of letters and that he should possess a sense of music and a thorough  полное knowledge of the art of acting? One might say that these aspects of the play are rather the concern  of the di­rector producing the play than of the author, aren't they? 4. Does drama  belong to literature? What is the author's opinion? What is your opinion?


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