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I Want to Ве
Some people often say
to mе:
"Have уоu decided what уоu want to
bе?"
I usually answer, "I don't know,"
But it isn't really so.
I want to win аn Olympic race,
I want to see the Earth from space,
I want to travel to Katmandu
I want to bе rich and famous, too.
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I want to bе оn Hollywood's screen,
I want
to invent а new machine,
I want to bе
very clever and wise,
I want to win the Nobel prize,
But most of all, I want to bе
Healthy and strong, and nice.
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1. play (v) – to perform the actions
and say the words of a character
in a
theatre performance
Note: play+object,
e.g. play a role, He has always wanted to play Hamlet.
play (n) – a piece of dramatic writing performed in a theatre
e.g. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is the best-known play by William Shakespeare.
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2. act (v) – to perform, especially on
the stage
Note: act needs no object.
e.g. Hopkins is
acting tonight.
act (n) – one of the main parts of a play
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3. stage (v) – to produce a play
e.g.
The school drama group stages two plays every year.
stage (n) – the raised floor in a theatre on which plays are performed
e.g. At the end of the performance all the actors came out onto the stage.
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1.Do you know any playwrights?
2.Do you know their
plays?
3.Who is the greatest English playwright?
4.What did he do
except writing plays?
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1.someone who writes plays
2.someone
who makes scenery
3.someone who stages plays
4.someone who plays music
in an orchestra
5.someone who looks after costumes
6.someone who makes up the faces of actors and actresses
7.someone who plays roles
8.someone who lights the stage
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George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin in
1856. At the age of 19 he moved to
London. Bernard Shaw wanted to become a novelist. However his novels were not successful and he gave up writing them. Soon his attention turned to the drama. Shaw wrote more than fifty plays. His best-known play is ‘Pygmalion’. The main characters are Eliza Doolittle, Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering.
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Read the following false sentences.
Make them true.
1.George
Bernard Shaw was born in Edinburgh.
2.Colonel Pickering is main
character of ‘King Lear’.
3.William Shakespeare is the author of ‘Pygmalion’.
4.What the actors say is stage directions.
5.A playwright is someone who plays role.
6.‘The Globe’ was one of the most famous theatres in America, where worked Bernard Shaw as an actor.