LABORATORY EXERCISES (II) 1. Listen to the text "Drama, Music and Ballet in Britain", mark the stresses and tunes. Repeat the text following the model. 2. Record the dialogue "At the Box-Office" in pairs. Listen to the records and discuss them in class. 3. Listen to the dialogue "Pantomimes", mark the stresses and tones. Repeat it following the model. 4. Write a spelling-translation test: a) translate the phrases into English; b) check them with the key. 5. Respond to the following questions or statements and correct them if necessary. 6. Listen to the story. Write ten questions about the text. Suggest a title for the text and give reasons for your choice. Find evidence in the text to support the following statements. CURIOSITY QUIZ FOR EAGERS 1. What do you know about K. S. Stanislavsky, his role in the history of the Moscow Art Theatre and bis influence on world theatre? 2. Where do the following quotations come from? Who says the lines? Under what circumstances? a) The time is out of Joint Oh, cursed plight. That ever I was bom to set it right ' b) Beware, my lord, of the jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster, that doth mock The meat it feeds on. c) How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child. 3. What do you know about the problem of Shakespeare's authorship? 4. What do you know about the Sovremennik Theatre? about the Lenkom Theatre? about the Tovstonogov Theatre in St Petersburg? 5. Listen to a text connectid with the topic "Theatre".
