E) Listen to the two dialogues again. Then retell in the part of Aileen (Cindy, the operator) how

B) Sum up the information in 3-4 sentences.

HOME ACTIVITIES

B) Watch the episode again and try to remember the details. Write out words and words combinations to characterize and describe her major detectives.

Complete the sentences below.

1. Agatha Christie was an immensely prolific writer and wrote _______

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2. What’s special about her detectives is that ______________________ __________________________________________________________

3. A. Christie’s writings appeal to ______________________________

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4. A. Christie learned about poisons _____________________________ __________________________________________________________

5. A. Christie was born in Devon ____________ and died ___________

6. She started writing ________________________________________

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7. Although she enjoyed her success she _________________________ __________________________________________________________

8. ‘The Mousetrap’ is ________________________________________

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(the longest running show in the world. It opened in London in 1952.)

9. ___________________ A. Christie disappeared for 11 days.

10. Agatha Christie was a very private person and __________________ __________________________________________________________

H. Poirot _________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Miss Marple _______________________________________________ __________________________________________________________

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c) Ask your fellow-students questions to get more information about A. Christie.

5. Listen to the text Reading books (by Thomas) and write a reproduction of it.

U Step II

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

PHONETIC EXERCISES

Intonation Drill

· Read after the teacher.

'All the 'world’s a mstage. ('William mShakespeare ['SeIkspER])

· Comment on the saying given above. Give its Russian equivalent.

GRAMMAR EXERCISES

The Infinitive

6. Repeat and add a sentence logically connected. Follow one of the two models.

Model 1: T – It’s a nice day today. (to stay at home)

St – It’s a nice day today. Why stay at home?

Model 2: T – I’m hungry. (to have a snack)

St – I’m hungry. Why not have a snack?

to see the doctor to hurry to sit in the gallery

to laugh to worry to go to a disco

to take a picture to go out for a change to make a scene

LISTENING AND SPEAKING

7. a) Listen to the dialogue between Cindy and Aileen; complete the following sentences:

1. The conference finishes __________________________________.

2. Aileen fancies __________________________________________.

3. Cindy suggests _________________________________________.

4. In case they haven’t got tickets for ______________________, Aileen would like to see ________________________________.

c)Listen to the dialogue between Cindy and the operator and answer the questions:

Why cannot Cindy and Aileen go to see Miss Saigon?
Are there any tickets available for Saturday or for Sunday?
Would they prefer the matinee or the evening performance?
How much does Ticketmaster charge as booking fee?
Why cannot the ladies buy the tickets at fourteen pounds fifty?
Are the eighteen pound fifty tickets in the stalls or in the dress circle?
At what price do the ladies book the tickets?

d) Give the Russian for:

booking fee; What do you fancy doing; a ticket agency; in the stalls; the dress circle; When would that be for; Row C; not too near the side.

· you arranged to go to the theatre

· you booked the tickets

· the tickets were booked

ACTIVE VOCABULARY   1. (the) stalls – партер; (the) dress circle – бель-этаж; (the) upper dress-circle– балкон первого яруса; (the) gallery (balcony) – балкон второго яруса (галерка) / in the stalls (dress-circle, etc) – партере (бельэтаже и т.д.)   2. entrance fee – входная плата (при посещении музея и т.п.); booking fee – плата за бронирование билета   3. to fancy sth/doing sth – иметь желание/пристрастие к чему-либо; хотеть чего-либо; нравиться, любить что-либо: e.g. What do you fancy for your dinner? What do you fancy doing at the weekend?   4. audience['O:dIRns] – публика, зрители, аудитория: e.g. There were several famous people in the audience. / (television) viewer ['vju:R] – телезритель: e.g. The concert was seen by 500 million viewers around the world. / spectator [spek'teItR] – зритель (в особенности, спортивных мероприятий): e.g. The stadium holds 50 thousand spectators. 5. applause [R'plO:z] – аплодисменты: e.g. The young actress won the applause of the audience. / a storm of applause – гром аплодисментов / to applaud[R'plO:d] – аплодировать: e.g. The audience applauded the singer for five minutes. 6. curtain ['kR:tn] – 1. занавеска, портьера, штора: e.g. Please draw the curtains. – Пожалуйста, задерните шторы. 2. занавес (театр.): e.g. When the curtain fell the audience burst into a storm of applause. / curtain call – вызов актера (на сцену): e.g. Lily Fenton took three curtain calls. – Лили Фентон вышла три раза на аплодисменты.   7. stage – сцена, подмостки (театр.); to be/go on the stage – быть/стать актером; to leave the stage – уйти со сцены, бросить сцену; to write for the stage – писать для театра: e.g. Like many of his contemporaries, Shakespeare wrote for the stage. – Как многие его современники, Шекспир писал для театра. / to stage – ставить (пьесу), инсценировать: e.g. The new opera was staged last winter. / scene [si:n] – 1. место действия: e.g. The scene is laid in France. – Действие происходит во Франции. 2. сцена, картина, явление (театр.): e.g. The duel scene in Hamlet was dramatically staged. 2. объяснение, крупный разговор, скандал; to make/stage a scene – устраивать сцену, скандал: e.g. Don’t make a scene in public. / scenery [\'si:nRrI] – 1. пейзаж: mountain scenery – горный пейзаж; 2. (театральные декорации): e.g. The scenery was artistically made. [ Note that the word sceneryis uncountable!]   9. cast [kQ:st] – состав, исполнители: e.g. An all-star cast includes Michael Douglas as the US President. / After the first night, there was a big party for the cast. [ Note that the word castis used in the singular!]   10. playwright ['pleIraIt] (syn. dramatist) – драматург: e.g. Ben Jonson was a 17^th-century playwright.

8. Answer the teacher’s questions.

9. A group of exchange students from Britain (the USA) are visiting Moscow and taking a course of Russian at your university. Follow the instructions below:

Hosts: Find out what theatre your guests would like to go to and what he/she would like to see. Give advice based on your personal experience. There should be a dilemma – explain what it is and what possible solution you can think about.

Guests: Find out who the most popular playwrights are and what Moscow theatres stage their plays. Ask if it is possible to book the tickets and how much they may cost. Try to suggest a solution to the dilemma.

Kind of performance	Names of plays	Kind of theatre	Names of theatres
opera ballet ['bWleI] drama comedy tragedy musical puppet show	1. The Swan [swOn] Lake 2. The Queen of Spades 3. An Ideal Husband 4. The Seagull 5. A Streetcar Named Desire 6. Twelfth Night	drama theatre opera and ballet theatre puppet theatre puppet theatre	1. The Bolshoy Theatre 2. The Moscow Art Theatre (MHAT) 3. The Satire ['sWtaIR] Theatre 4. The Maly Theatre 5. The Vakhtangov Theatre

WATCHING AND SPEAKING

10. a) Watch the video episode Shakespeare and complete the sentences below.

1. Hamlet was written in ______________.

2. Shakespeare was born _____________________________________.

3. His father traded in _______________________________________.

4. Young Shakespeare was interested in the travelling actors who _____ __________________________________________________________

5. Ann Hathaway was _______________________________

6. When they got married, William was _____and Ann was _______.

7. Shakespeare wrote his first play in________. It was _____________.

8. The Globe was ___________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9. The Globe could hold _____________.

10. The parts of women were played _________________________

11. Shakespeare returned to Stratford in ____________ after ____________________.

12. There are _________ theatres in Stratford where you can see one of Shakespeare’s plays ______________________________

13. Hamlet and Macbeth are ________________________________ _______________________________________________________.

14. Shakespeare’s plays are translated ___________________________ and ______________________________________________________.

15. Shakespeare died on ______________, in ________.

b) Say which of the following Shakespeare’s plays are comedies, tragedies or historical plays:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Twelfth Night, or What you Will The Merry Wives of Windsor As you Like It Romeo and Juliet

Macbeth Richard III King Lear Henry VI Othello

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