Unit 4 Stage and screen Understanding ideas 公开课课件-2022-2023学年高一英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

Unit 4 Stage and screen Understanding ideas Warming-up What have you got from the video? Watch a video about Peking Opera and answer the question. Warming-up Jingju, or Peking Opera is an ancient performance art with a history of 200 years. Jingju has four kinds of roles according to different identities and personalities. The lyrics of Jingju are performed with singing or rhythmic speaking, accompanied by dozens of musical instruments. What have you got from the video? Warming-up Orchestra (管弦乐队) Costumes and masks (服装和脸谱) Stage set (舞台布景) Performers’ movements (演员的动作) Look at the pictures of two performances and talk about their differences and similarities. Consider the following： Warming-up It combines music, vocal performance, mime (哑剧), dance and acrobatics (杂技，杂耍); the instruments include jinghu and erhu. Facial make-up (mask) is very important; the costumes are graceful, elegant (优雅的) and brilliant in color and design. They both tell a character’s sex (性别) and status (身份地位) at first glance. Stages are square platforms exposed to the audience on three sides with very few props (道具) on the stage. Dance movements and acrobatic movements are basic skills. Facts about Peking Opera: Warming-up Everything is sung instead of being spoken. It combines a number of performing arts, such as acting, scenery, costume, and sometimes dance or ballet. The singers are on the stage. The orchestra is in front of the stage but lower down in the pit (凹陷处). Facts about western opera： Pre-reading Read the title and pictures to predict what the passage is mainly about. When HAMLET Meets PEKING OPERA While-reading 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 everybody knows “To be, or not to be”, right?