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

Task 1. Try to respond to each questions by using text and your own knowledge.

1. 
   What is the text about?
   
2. 
   What is the main role of art in human life?
   
3. 
   Why culture is important for human life?
   
4. 
   Try to count types of art.
   
5. 
   Speak about the concept of value.
   
6. 
   What are the main goals and functions of art?
   

Task 2. Work with a partner. This exercise will help you think about how you learn by heart new words. Use your own dictionary. There are several words with the same meaning. Try to find these words synonyms.

1. I’m going to learn the art of acting deeply – (mastership, role, culture)
2. My country is a country of art and culture – (nursing, civilization, adding)
3. Famous actors work hard – ( poor, outstanding, lazy)
4. A person working in theatre should have elegant movements – (soft, gentle, aesthetic)
5. Theatre is my second home – ( playhouse, workshop, office).

Task 3.The “Machine” of emotions

Showing emotions on camera or on stage can be very hard for some beginners. This “Machine” of emotions is a mechanism in your imagination, composed of elements associated with the desired emotion. Description: Take one emotion – “anger”, then take a sheet of paper and write down situations that make you angry. For example, noisy neighbors, strict parents, a lot of homework, wrong haircut, etc. Then, with every situation you need to come up with some image (noisy neighbors – speakers, strict parents – a belt, etc.). Then, you connect together these images on the sheet of paper and at the end you will have the “machine of anger.” Do the same thing with many other emotions and when you need to act them, you can always take this “machine” and recall all of those images that make you angry, happy, irritated etc. These images will help you quickly get the desired emotion.

Grammar: can’t have, needn’t have