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5. Their Physics teacher often shows them slides in the lessons.
6. Films, slides and puppets make their studying interesting.
3. a) Try to guess the meaning of the words in the left-hand column. Match the words with their definitions.
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a. a play or film produced for the public or a process of producing it
b. a piece of writing or music
c. non-professional; someone who does an activity just for pleasure, not as a job
d. someone who writes plays
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b) Read the text and discuss the questions after it.
School plays have a long historical tradition. In St Petersburg, for example, as early as in 1721, it was ordered that the students of all public schools "should play comedies twice in a year". The plays included translations from the works of foreign playwrights. The teachers at the cadet school actively used theatre for teaching foreign languages and literature. As a result, the students of that school formed an amateur literary group. They met once a week and read their original compositions to each other. There was one student there whose works were so good that the president of the group showed them to the school administration and the administration paid money to publish them. That pupil later became famous as the founder of the Russian theatre.
Nowadays, almost all modern US high schools and colleges have some kind of theatre production programmes. Their role is educational. Such theatres usually present the classics as well as modern plays. Many theatres also produce their own original plays. Sometimes a professional actor may appear in a play, but all-student casts are more usual. The plays are shown not only to students and teachers of the school but also to their parents and those who live in the town. In this way schools become centres of culture.
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1. Is there an amateur theatre club in your school?
2. Who are the actors in it? Who directs it?
3. How often do they perform? Who they perform for?
4. If there is no such club in your school, would you like to have one? Why?
5. What would you like to do in that club: write plays, direct, perform, design costumes, do the music or something else?
6. How often should an amateur theatre meet for rehearsals?
7. Is it important to have a professional in an amateur theatre?
8. Is it easy to write a play? What should a playwright think of when writing it?
9. What play would you like to give in your amateur theatre? Why?
10. Whom of your classmates could you choose for leading roles in that play? Why?
11. How would you like the idea of performing that play in the English language?
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