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ProjectPutting on a play

Drama

1. What do you know about drama? Drama means a piece of writing to be performed by actors, a play for theatre, television, radio, etc. 2. Have you ever seen dramas either on TV or in a theatre? 3. Have you ever acted in a drama?

4. In your opinion, in order to put on a drama, what preparations should be made? What steps are needed to prepare a play? (1) Listen to the director (2) Learn lines by heart (3) Find out when the character is on stage.

(4) Make a list of which acts and scenes you are in. (5) Dressed in your costume and waiting in the wings at least one scene before you go on stage. (6) Follow the stage directions.

Part A The invisible bench Read part A please, and answer the questions: 1) What kind of comedy does this play use? The play mainly uses the physical style of comedy. 2) What do you think of the children except Mike? They are dishonest, insincere, false/ hypocritical.

3) At the end of the play, Mike said, “No. I must have forgotten to tell you. ” What does he mean? He wanted to punish them or make fun of them. 4) Is there a bench in the play? No. There isn’t any.

Part B The important papers Read part B quickly and answer the questions. 1) What kind of comedy does this play use? The play uses the style of prop. Actors use the prop---- toilet paper and some other papers to perform the play. 2) Who do you think is the main character in the play? The king.

3) What does the king actually want? Toilet paper. 4) Why are the others unable to understand him? Because he was a king and he says that he wants important papers. The others would mistake them for some official documents. 5) How does the playwright make the play funny? The playwright uses a play upon words---- important paper and toilet paper---- to make people laugh.

Discussion What do you think each play wants to tell us? Play I Play II

Summary The two plays have a similarity. Both the plays tell us a phenomenon in our society. A group of people around us are hypocritical and proud of themselves. They save their faces at all costs, but actually they will suffer from their own actions. The playwrights write the plays in an ironic way. This kind of play always leads us to thinking, because they always reflect some social problems around us.

Act out the two plays

Language points 1. I am sitting on an invisible bench, of course. (line 8) invisible adj. 1) impossible to see: The aircraft is designed to be invisible to radar. These bacteria are invisible unless viewed with a microscope.

2) [before noun] describes money that is added to a country's economy by activities such as the service and financial industries rather than the production of goods in factories: an increase in invisible exportsTourism brings in 40% of the island's invisible earnings.

(2006上海) You can see the stars on a clear night, but in the daytime they are ________. A. unavoidable B. invisible C. inaccessible D. unavailable

2. You should join us. It’s nice and cosy. (line 18) cosy adj. comfortable and pleasant, especially (of a building) because small and warm This room is nice and cosy in the winter.He showed me into a cosy little room.

3. Mike looks annoyed. (line 25) annoyed adj. angry: I was so annoyed with him for turning up late.He was annoyed at the way she tried to take over the whole meeting.My parents were rather annoyed (that) I hadn't told them about the accident.She was annoyed to discover that her husband had taken her car keys.

annoying adj. making you feel annoyed: It's really annoying when a train is late and there's no explanation.He's got a really annoying laugh.

annoy vt. to make someone angry: Tim really annoyed me in the meeting this morning.I'm sorry. Is my cough annoying you? [+ that] It annoys me that she just expects us to help.It really annoysme when people expect me to tip as well as pay a service charge in a restaurant.

4. Mike stands up and wanders over to the middle of the stage and ‘sits’ down. (line 27) wanders vi. or vt. to walk around slowly in a relaxed way or without any clear purpose or direction: We spent the morning wandering around the old part of the city.She was found several hours later, wandering the streets, lost.He was here a moment ago but he's wandered off somewhere.

5. It got too crowded, so I moved the bench.（line 38) crowd adj. If a place is crowded, it is full of people.By ten o'clock the bar was crowded. group noun [C] a large group of people who have gathered together: A crowd of about 15,000 attended the concert.

难句解析 1. Both sit for a while, and shift, crossing and uncrossing legs, reading a book, writing in a notebook, or anything else one might do on a bench. (P14) [分析] 1）句子结构分析：在本句中，both为代词作主语；sit for a while, and shift为并列谓语；后面的几个V-ing形式作并列状语，one might do on a bench 为定语从句，修饰anything。

2）语言知识分析：or anything else指与前面相类似的事情，else一般用于疑问代词what / who / which和疑问副词where及不定代词anything / nothing / something等之后。

2. You look like you are sitting on an invisible bench. (P14) [分析] 1) 句子结构分析：you为主语，look为谓语动词，like you are sitting on an invisible bench为状语。 2) 语言知识分析：like为连词，相当于as if / as though,意为“好像，就像”。

词语辨析 look, glance, glare和stare 这四个词都有“看”的含义，一般都作不及物动词，常跟介词at构成动词词组。 ◎ look表示将视线集中于某物，仅表示视觉对某个对象的注意。当要表示注意某物时，要用look。如：look at me；look at the blackboard等。

◎ glance的原义为“闪现”，如活动着的反光物体在阳光下闪烁，后来演变为“迅速地看”，即“扫视”。glance at瞥一眼。 ◎ glare表示由于羡慕、恐惧、惊讶或无知而“用恐吓、凶狠或愤怒的眼光看”，即“怒目而视”或“瞪着”。如：They glared at me with hate. 他们用仇恨的目光瞪着我。

◎ stare指出于惊讶、愤怒、厌烦、无礼或无知而“长时间地看”、“凝视”。如：staring into the distance 凝视着远方用look, stare, glare或glance的适当形式填空。 1. They were ________ at the animal because it was the first time they had seen this kind of animal. looking

2. The boy just ________ at the girl because he was shy. 3. He ______ at his roommate because the guy had broken his walkman. 4. He ______ at the visitors in disbelief, because they claimed to have come from another planet. glanced glared stared

all, entire, total和whole 这四个词都可表示“全部”，但各有侧重。 ◎ all侧重于表示各个个体或各个部分组成的全部。如： All the men went. 所有的男人都去了。 ◎ entire指“全部的”、“整体的”，既不能有所削减，也不能有所增添，是比较正式的用语。如： The entire village was destroyed. 整个村子都被毁了。

◎ total指“总计”、“总量”、“总数”，强调一切都计算在内。如： What is the total population of China? 中国的人口是多少？ ◎ whole指“整个的数量或长、宽、广度”，强调毫无删除、分割或减少。如： I read the novel the whole afternoon. 整个下午我都在读小说。

▲ whole的语气比entire随便，这两个词的意义很接近，有时可互换使用。如： The whole / entire day was ruined.　一整天都给毁了。 The entire / whole country was affected by flood. 全国都受到了洪灾的影响。

▲ all 常位于定冠词、指示代词、物主代词、基数词之前；而whole位于这些词之后。如： All the world knows that. 全世界都知道这件事。 In the end, it will be destructive of our whole society. 它最终会毁灭我们整个社会。

用all, entire, total或whole填空： 1. I told him the ______ story. 2. He ate _____ the food. 3. He had spent the (1)______ month preparing for the National Oral English Contest. But when the moment came for him to get on the stage, he found himself extremely nervous and diffident (缺乏自信的). whole all whole

He even wanted to quit. Then his teacher told him that the (2) ______ school had (3) ______ confidence in him. Hearing that, he gathered up (4) ____ of his courage and confidence and decided to try his best. His performance was a great success and had won a storm of applause from the (5) ____________ audience. whole entire all entire/ whole

His efforts in the past month were well rewarded. With a (6) ______ score ranking the first place, he got the championship of the contest. total

Homework Review the whole unit after class.

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