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Mr. Brown: And what about the time between the rehearsals and the performances?
Mr. Smith: I give music lessons in-between. Mr. Brown: When do you manage to sleep then? Mr. Smith: Why! That I do during my rehearsals.
26-Use the following words and expressions in sentences of your own:
a box-office, a bill, a stage, the stalls, the gallery, the cast, a cloak-room, a playbill, an usher, an evening performance, a rehearsal, to dance a main part, to play the leading role, to get curtain calls, a matinee pcrformence.
27.How will you act and what will you say if:
-you want to know what is on?
-you don't know how to get to the theatre?
-you come to the box-office to buy tickets?
-you don't know where to leave your things?
-you can't find your seat?
-you want to know the cast?
-you are eager to listen and your neighbour is talking all the time?
-you come home very late?
28.Speak about any composer or musician, using the key expressions given below:
1)to be bom in;
2)to be fond of music;
3)to play the piano;
4)to devote oneself to music;
5)to compose songs(musical comedies, operas);
6)to be very gifted(talented);
7)to be a success with the public.
29.Say what they do:
A dancer, an usher, an actor, a conductor, a singer, a ticket-taker, an actress, a musician, a composer, a prompter, a producer, a spectator, a playwright.
SO.Name all the plays you have seen this year.
31 .Translate into Russian;
l.'Tm sorry, I have not booked the seats for this show?" - "Don't worry. The play is not worth seeing".2.To my mind one of the singers is extremely gifted. She has a wonderful voice. She performed four songs and each of them was met with a storm of applause.3.They sang to the accompaniment of
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guitars.4.The play deals with the events of our time. The scene is laid in Minsk in 199].5."Is it easy to get tickets for this performance?" - "By no means".6.Thc Opera-House in London is inside fruit, flower and vegetable market called Covent Garden. There are seats for 2,000 persons and though this theatre is rather big it looks very cosy.
32.Read the dialogue and role-play it:
At the Box-Office
-What is on this evening?
-„Spartacus"
-Oh, will you give me two tickets , please?
-I'm sorry, there are no tickets left.
-For which shows are there tickets left?
-We have seats for „Stone Flower" on Sunday and for „Spartacus" on Tuesday and Thursday.
-Well, give me two tickets for „Spartacus" on Tuesday, please.
-Here you are. Tuesday, at 7 o'clock, seats numbers 8 and 9 in the twelfth row.
-Thank you very much. How much will that be?
-Forty thousand roubles, please.
-Here you are.
-Thank you.
33.Read the text and say what new facts you have found in it:
Theatres. Cinemas and Concert Halls in London
There are more than 50 theatres in the West End of London. And many other small theatres and theatre clubs are in Greater London. Some of the plays and shows last for a few weeks, some go on for years. Many of the shows which go on in the West End are light comedies, but some theatres put on more serious plays. One of the leading companies is the Royal Shakespeare Company,at the Aldwych [' r3:ldwitf] Theatre. There they put on new and old plays, and some Shakespearian plays.
The National Theatre is also very famous. The building is modem, and the plays are classics and new productions.
There are many cinemas in London. Some cinemas show lots of comedies and long epic films. Other cinemas show a large number of continental films or films for young people. Some cinemas show films in the afternoon, early evening and late evening. Others have continues programmes from about two o'clock in the afternoon. You can buy tickets in most large stores and hotels.
London is a very musical capital. Every evening you can see or hear opera,
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