Unit 4 Understanding ideas 课文知识点详解课件-2022-2023学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

When HAMLET PEKING OPERA meets 1 Before-reading课前词汇复习 transform… 把……转变成…… on the edge of one’s 极为激动 date back 追溯到;源于 start 以…….开始 all the right boxes 事情发展如人所愿,一切顺利 get 传达;解释清楚 move 搬走;搬开 move 前进;向前发展 every aspect 从各个方面 all (its) aspects 全面地 get 克服 get 染上 into seat to with tick across away forward from in over into Predict: What might the passage talk about?文章知识点讲解 When HAMLET meets PEKING OPERA from Europe from China I thought I knew a lot about Hamlet. As a high school student with English literature as one of my main subjects, I have to! Shakespeare’s Hamlet is probably the most important play by the most important writer in English. Almost everyone knows “To be, or not to be”, right? Having seen quite a few productions of Hamlet and read the play many times, I was full of confidence – until the Peking Opera came to town! 我本以为自己对于《哈姆雷特》了解得相当多。作为高中生,英国文学是我的一门主课,《哈姆雷特》是我必学的内容!莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》应该是最重要的英语作家创造的最重要的戏剧了。几乎人人都知道“生存,还是毁灭”,对吗?我看过好几部《哈姆雷特》的影视作品,这部戏剧我也读过很多遍了,因此(对于了解《哈姆雷特》这方面)我信心满满—直到城里来了京剧表演! Dating back to the 18th century, Peking Opera has over two hundred years of history. Does this mean it’s easier than a Shakespeare play to understand? To find out the answer, I just had to go and see The Revenge of Prince Zidan – the Peking Opera version of Hamlet. 京剧的起源可追溯到18世纪,距今已有两百多年历史。这是否意味着京剧比莎士比亚的戏剧更好懂呢?为了找到答案,我必须去看看《王子复仇记》—京剧版的《哈姆雷特》。 Starting with an orchestra playing traditional Chinese instruments, the opera brought a completely new sound to my Western ears. At first, I thought what I heard was a violin, but later I learnt that it was an instrument with two strings called jinghu. Then, seeing the main characters come on stage, I was surprised! The customes and masks were amazing. The performers of course sang in Chinese, but the music, exaggerated movements and mime helped get the meanings across to the audience. The voices themselves sounded really unique – some of the female voices were so high that I was sure they could break glass! And the stage was really simpl