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Lessons in Life
Unit 2
Starting out & Understanding ideas
1
Developing ides
The Blue Bird
Do you know the symbolic meaning of the Blue Bird in Chinese and Western cultures?
Activity 1
Read the introduction to The Blue Bird (《青鸟》) and answer the questions:
1. What is The Blue Bird?
2. Who are the main characters?
3. What is the main plot?
v. 上演,举办
It’s a 1908 Nobel Prize winning play by Belgian play wright Maurice Maeterlinck and the first foreign play staged in China.
Tyltyl and Myteyl, bother and sister.
Tyltyl and Myteyl travel magical places to find the Blue Bird of Happiness.
4
Viewing
Look at the play script and identify its elements.
title
setting
stage directions
characters
dialogues
幕
场
落幕
5
Reading
Read the play script and underline the following information.
ACT Ⅳ SCENE Ⅱ
Characters
Setting
Plot
The children come to the Palace of Happiness and are welcomed by a troop of Happiness …
ACT Ⅵ SCENE Ⅱ
Characters
Setting
Plot
The children return home without finding the Blue Bird…
ACT IV SCENE II—The Palace of Happiness
Setting
the Palace of Happiness
Characters
Tyltyl, (Mytyl) , Mummy Tyl, the neighbour Berlingot, the little girl
Plot
The children _________________ a troop of Happinesses, but the children ______________them. The (chief) Happinesses tell them that ______________________. Tyltyl wonders whether there are happinesses in his home, and all the Happinesses _______________. The (chief) Happinesses tell him that his home is filled with Happinesses: the Happiness of________________________________________________
___________________. But Tyltyl just wants to ask the Happinesses one thing: _____________________________.
are welcomed by
do not recognise
they are all around them
burst out laughing
Being Well, of Pure Air, of Loving One’s Parents, of the Blue Sky and of the Forest
the whereabouts of theBlue Bird
ACT VI SCENE II—The Awakening
Setting
Tyltyl’s home
Characters
Tyltyl, (Mytyl) , a troop of Happine