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Module 2 Arts and crafts
Oxford English
Unit
3
Traditional skills
Period 6
More practice
Study skills
1
Brainstorm
Answer the following questions.
Do you know anything about shadow puppet plays?
What equipment do the actors need for a shadow puppet
play?
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More practice
Read the article on page 45 and group the paragraphs by their general ideas.
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 5
Introduces Wang Weifang, the shadow puppet play actor.
Describes shadow puppets and how to put on a shadow puppet play.
Describes the current state of shadow puppet plays
and how Wang feels about them.
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Shadow puppet plays
Puppets made of (1) ______________
cut out in different (2) __________
painted in bright (3) __________
put on (4) __________
What actors do stand behind (5) _____________ with lights behind it
(6) ________ the puppets close to the screen
(7) ________ the puppets around
do the (8) ________ of different characters
Shadow puppet plays nowadays not as (9) ________ as before
hard leather
shapes
colours
a stick
a white screen
hold
move
voices
popular
Read the article again and complete the table.
Why can the audience not see Wang and his friends?
What are shadow puppets made of?
During a shadow puppet play, where does Wang stand?
Who does the voices of the different characters?
Why do Wang and his friends put on shadow puppet plays?
Because they are standing behind the screen.
They are made of hard leather.
He stands behind a white screen with lights behind it.
Wang Weifang and his friends.
Because they want to keep this traditional art form alive.
A Read this newspaper article about shadow puppet plays and answer the questions below.
B In pairs, talk about Wang’s work during a shadow puppet play.
stand behind a white screen
hold the puppets close to the screen
move the puppets around
do the voices of different characters
Read the introduction on page 46.
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Study skills
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A Look at the poster and tick (√) the