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1 SPEAKING Look at the photo. What are the people doing? Would you like to be an actor? Why? / Why not?2 Read the text. What three things does it mention that a RADA student learns?RADA A Becoming a truly great actor requires talent, hard work and hours of study. In Britain, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) (1) .................. trained and produced many of the country's most famous actors since it was established in 1904, but just how does RADA turn passionate young hopefuls into respected professionals? B One of the methods RADA teaches is the Stanislavski acting technique. The technique was devised (2) .................. the famous Russian actor Konstantin Stanislavski in 1911, after he had been performing in theatres (3) .................. over thirty years. It requires actors to really live the role that they are playing. The actors not (4) .................. have to learn the lines that they have to say, but also recreate everything about the character's life. C But if modern audiences would be surprised to discover that students learn an acting technique that is over a century old, they might (5) ................. astonished to discover that they also study a form of theatre that has been around for over two millennia: Greek tragedy. The Greeks used to study playwriting and acting and produced some important theoretical works on the subject. Their ideas are still considered very relevant today and anybody (6) ................. wants to obtain a degree from RADA has to study them. D RADA students also spend many hours training their voices and learning (7) ................. use their bodies to communicate in the same way that a musician learns how to play an instrument. A RADA student's objective is to use their creativity to transform written words into a three-dimensional character. Evidently, becoming an actor is (8) ................ serious business and definitely not for people who are only interested in fame. |
3 USE OF ENGLISH Complete the text about RADA. Write one word in each gap.4 Listen to an interview about how actors prepare for their roles. Match the people (1-3) with the things that they did (A-C).1 Konstantin Stanislavski 2 Meryl Streep 3 Leonardo DiCaprio A studied psychiatric patients. B prepared a list of questions. C prepared for a film about the Second World War. 5 Listen again. Are the sentences true or false? Write T or F.1 Copying certain emotions is not so difficult for actors. 2 The Stanislavski system involves actors asking themselves questions about their own acting ability. 3 Meryl Streep studied a foreign language. 4 Meryl Streep wanted to read poetry in a foreign language. 5 Leonardo DiCaprio met people who had had experiences that he wanted to recreate in a film. 6 Leonardo DiCaprio visited a psychiatric hospital on an island to prepare for a film. 6 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Look at the picture and discuss the questions.1 Can you name the arts form in the brochure? Give a short presentation on its history. 2 How has the Đồng Ấu Bạch Long group contributed to the development of the arts form?
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