Unit1 Laughter is good for you.Word power

高二选修 6

Do you know who is this man?Can you say out of some of his works?

• What do we call the person who acts in a play?• An actor or actress.• What do we call the person who is in charge of a play?• A director. what are the words that the actors say called?• lines• Where can the lines can be found?• In a script.• what is a script made up of?• Acts and scene.• What are the words called that tell the actors how to act?• They are called stage directions.

Remember the words in the shortest time

• Answers to part C:

• 1 actor 2 director 3 lines

• 4 cast 5 script 6 stage

• 7 acts 8 scenes 9 costume

• 10 wings 11 props 12 light

• 13 scenery 14 stage directions

A drama

cast directors, actors, actresses

script theme, lines, stage direction, acts/scenes

stage

wings, microphone, curtains, lights, scenery, set

others budge, props, costumes

Idioms about smiling and laughing

• To laugh one’s head off: to laugh one’s head off means to laugh very hard.

• I went to see the new comedy. It made me laugh my head off.

• To smile on someone: when luck is smiling on you, it means you are lucky or fortunate.

• Luck was smiling on me that day as I won first place in the competition.

• to have the last laugh: to make someone who has criticized or defeated you look stupid by succeeding in something more important or by seeing them fail

They fired her last year, but she had the last laugh because she was taken on by their main rivals at twice the salary.

• He laughs best who laughs last.

• all smiles: becoming happy again especially after feeling sad

When Mary found out about the holiday, she was all smiles.

• Write out the words according to the English explanations. 1 make somebody laugh or simile __________ 2 the person in charge of a play __________ 3 very good of high quality __________ 4 full of eagerness or interest __________ 5 perform without preparation __________

amuse

director excellent enthusiastic

improvise

• 6 take place, happen ____________• 7 worried or afraid ____________• 8 unlike anything else ____________• 9 text of a play, film, ____________• 10 instrument that changes sound waves into

electrical current used in broadcasting speech, music, etc. _____________

occur nervous unique

script

microphone

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