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theatres of that time performed romantic plays and the classics. So it looked more like the modern theatre we know. Reporter. Thank you, Mr Leary. Unfortunately, the time of our programme has run out. We will be glad to hear you again in our studio next week.
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Hello, dear friends! Welcome to the Puppet Museum. My name is Brian, I will be your guide today and show you the most interesting pieces in our museum. Look at this collection of puppets. They are all so different, yet they are all puppets. A puppet is any figure whose movements are controlled by a person. Puppets can be moved by hand, by strings or rods. A figure may represent a person, an animal, a plant or an object. Puppets usually appear as characters in plays called puppet shows. A person who operates a puppet is called a puppeteer.
We are now in the hall of shadow puppets. They are probably the oldest puppets on the planet. They were found in ruins of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. Shadow puppets are usually flat rod puppets. The puppeteer operates the puppet against a thin screen made of silk or cotton. A strong light shines on the screen from behind and above. The audience, which sits on the other side of the screen, sees only the moving shadows of the puppets. This puppet comes from Indonesia. It is operated by rods made of bamboo.
And here is the collection of marionettes. Marionettes are puppets controlled by strings. A marionette has a body with head, arms, hands, legs, and feet connected together with strips of cloth or other flexible material. Most marionettes have strings that run from the head, shoulders, hands, and knees to the control, a small wooden frame. One or more puppeteers above the stage operate the marionettes by moving the strings.
Rod puppets in this hall are operated by rods or sticks, usually from below the stage.
They have rods or sticks connected to movable arms and hands. Rod puppets are
often used to represent clouds, flowers, hats, trees or just simple shapes.
And in this hall, you can see our largest collection of hand puppets. They are the most
common puppets. They are controlled by a hand which is put inside the puppet. The
simplest kind of hand puppet is probably the finger puppet. You can see them on the
shelves here. Finger puppets have no moving parts and consist primarily of a cylinder
shape that covers the finger with the face over the fingernail. Sock puppets in this
section are a very simple type of hand puppets made from a sock.
Well, this is probably all I wanted to show you today. If you have any questions, I will be
glad to answer them.
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The word DVD is used for digital video disc. DVD is a round, flat platter on which motion pictures, computer programs or other pieces of information are kept. A DVD is the same size as a standard compact disc (CD) but it can keep much more information than a CD. There are several types of DVDs. DVD-Video (often simply called DVD) is for films and concert performances. The discs are played using a DVD player connected to a television set. DVD-Audio can be played on a DVD-Audio player and on some DVD-Video players. It keeps sound. DVD-ROM keeps programs for use with a computer.
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Teachers in our school always make our lessons interesting. For example, our History teacher brought these puppets to the lesson last week and we used them to act out the scene with the Zaporizhian Cossacks. We have different kinds of puppets in the English classroom, too — rod puppets, shadow puppets, hand puppets and finger puppets. We write our own plays in English and then we act them out with the puppets changing our voices. It's fun. Our English teacher often shows us parts of films or animated cartoons in English. We can watch them without sound and try to speak for
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