1.Read and translate the text
In Britain, though, cinemas sell crisps and candy in plastic wrappings. Little is more frustrating than trying to concentrate on the screen when you are sitting next to Mr and Mrs Greedy with Junior Greedies stuffing their faces with crunchy food from crinkly wrappes. The theatre is little better. Although Britain has a theatrical tradition that is richer and more varied than almost any country in the world (this is, after all, the nation that has produced Shakespeare, Laurence Olivier and a sector of London - the West End - packed with a lot of theatres and original productions), British audiences can be interminably irritating with their frequently snobby and smug attitudes. Worst of all are the regulars of the Royal Shakespeare Company who derive immense pleasure from spotting - or pretending to spot - the most of intellectual puns (plays on words) or witty quips. They then laugh ostentatiously in a theatrical manner to show the surrounding audience that they, and they only, have the intelligence to understand the true meaning of the play that they are watching.
2.Make 10 wh-questions to the text
3. Match the words connected with the theatre to their definitions:
1) Musical a) the planning of the dance moves in a show
2) Script b) when a show begins in a theatre
3) box office c) the spoken dialogue in a show
4) to open d) when a show lasts for a time in a theatre
5) to run e) an afternoon performance of a show
6) special effects f) all the performers in a show
7) choreography g) the background and scenery for a show
8) matinee h) a show with singing and dancing
9) set i) technical illusions
10) cast j) a theatre’s ticket-selling service.
4.Using the word combination to make a dialoge
- Lets go to the cinema
- What’s on?
-Do you have any tickets?
-Two tickets ,please
-Do they sell popcorn?
- I would like a Coke, please
