English for musical theatre actors 60211100 Study manual for students of musical theatre actor

Early Plays:
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590-91)
Henry VI, Part I (1592)
Henry VI, Part II (1592)
Henry VI, Part III (1592)
Titus Andronicus (1592)
The Taming of the Shrew (1593)
The Comedy of Errors (1594)
Love’s Labour’s Lost (1594-95)
Romeo and Juliet (1595)
Histories:
Richard III (1592)
Richard II (1595)
King John (1595-96)
Henry IV, Part I (1596-97)
Henry IV, Part II (1596-97)
Henry V (1598-99)
Later Comedies:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595-96)
The Merchant of Venice (1596-97)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597-98)
Much Ado about Nothing (1598)
As You Like It (1599-1600)
Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1601)
Troilus and Cressida (1602)
Measure for Measure (1601)
All’s well that Ends Well (1604-05)
Roman Plays:
Julius Caesar (1599)
Antony and Cleopatra (1606)
Coriolanus (1608)
Later Tragedies:
Hamlet (1600-01)
Othello (1603-04)
Timon of Athens (1605)
King Lear (1605-06)
Macbeth (1606)
Late Plays:
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1607)
The Winter’s Tale (1609)
Cymbeline (1610)
The Tempest
Task 4. Give the definitions to terms.

playwright
tragedy
prosperous years
merchant
poem
coat-of-arms
strange tale of witch
amateur

Task 5. Answer to the following questions.
1. What kind of tragedies do you know of W. Shakespeare?
2. How many comedies had been written by him?
3. Why is he important to actors career?
4. What was the best work of him?
5. Tell lifestyle of him.
6. How many children did he have ?

Task 6. Lines from a Hat
Some fun improve games take a little prep work but the reward is highly entertaining. For this one, audience members or participants have to write down random phrases and toss them in a hat. Players must start their scene and sporadically pull the phrases from the hat and incorporate them into the scene.
Task 7. Job Interview
Work is usually a good topic to begin with when teaching adults. Many are learning English in order to improve their career prospects. As a result, a job interview role play is an excellent way to get the class learning that all important material. Again, this can be scripted or non-scripted. A good idea would be to have the interviewer have a list of set questions, and the students can take it from there. For fun variations of this, have your students interview for weird or unusual positions such as an astronaut, the weather reader on a news channel, or a snake handler at a zoo to name some.
Task 8. Getting Everyone to Speak
A traditional method is to ask the class to pair off. Of course, one cannot monitor every student, particularly if the class is quite large. Therefore, it is important to make sure everyone is speaking and getting the most out of the language they know. If one has time, have each individual group come up to the top of the class and speak in front of everyone else. This will allow people to use their language more creatively.