[00:08.80]A journalist (J) is interviewing the director (D) of a play.
[00:13.84]J:What do you do in the theatre?
[00:17.40]D:I'm a director.I direct plays.
[00:21.84]J:Some of us do not know much about the theatre.
[00:26.28]Could you explain exactly what you do?
[00:30.22]D:Yes.At the very beginning I choose a play and the actors.
[00:36.70]Then for a period of several weeks we practise doing the play.
[00:42.27]At the end of this period we put the play on in a theatre
[00:47.44]J:What do you do as a director.
[00:50.96]D:First,I tell the actors where to stand and where to move.
[00:55.93]We practise entrances and exits.
[00:59.77]J:Do you direct comedies?
[01:03.01]D:Yes,I love doing comedies.You need to practise a lot with the actors before.
[01:10.37]The timing is very important,
[01:13.90]not only for the movements but also for the lines of the dialogue.
[01:19.36]J:What do you plan to do next?
[01:23.12]D:There's a particular comedy which I have decided to do.
[01:28.16]I've chosen the main actors and we intend to put it on next January.
[01:34.01]J:I hope it will be very successful.
[01:37.96]D:It will certainly be very funny!
[01:41.72]Lesson 18 1 Reading comprehension
[01:51.70]Read the passage to find the answers to these questions:
[01:56.74]1.What kind of films did Chaplin act in?
[02:02.31]2.Which were more popular,his early films or his later films?
[02:08.86]CHARLIE CHAPLIN (1)
[02:12.62]Charlie Chaplin,who died in 1977,
[02:17.80]is considered one of the greatest and funniest actors in the history of the cinema.
[02:24.04]During his lifetime,he acted in 13 films,
[02:29.50]and he wrote,directed and acted in 69 other films.
[02:35.98]Chaplin was born in London in 1889 and first acted when he was five years old.
[02:44.34]At the age of eight,he joined a group of child dancers,
[02:49.67]and at seventeen he set off for the USA with a group of comedy actors.
[02:56.43]During a second trip to the USA in 1912,
[03:01.58]an important film director saw Chaplin acting a very funny part in a play.
[03:08.42]As a result,Chaplin got his first film part in the States.
[03:14.27]As early as his second film,Chaplin had developed his own manner of acting,
[03:21.12]the one that was to become world-famous.
[03:23.96]He wore a small black hat,very wide trousers,
[03:28.54]a moustache and carried a stick that he swung in the air as he walked.
[03:34.60]Even his way of walking down the street and turning a corner
[03:40.06]could be recognized as his own.
[03:43.71]In less than three months Chaplin acted in 11 films.
[03:49.46]After a short while he started directing films himself.
[03:54.92]During his first year,Chaplin acted in 35 films,
[04:00.98]many of which he wrote and directed himself.
[04:05.42]Chaplin's earliest films were silent,
[04:09.65]because the equipment for adding sound to films had not yet been developed.
[04:15.90]The development of films with sound became a problem for Chaplin,
[04:21.54]as he was uncertain about making films with dialogue.
[04:26.81]Instead,he continued to make films without dialogue,
[04:32.27]but he added music,which he wrote himself.
[04:36.64]Two of his greatest films,"City Lights" and "Modern Times" were of this kind.
[04:44.08]Chaplin's later films,however,were not well received.
[04:49.52]He made only six films between 1940 and 1966
[04:56.36]and only the first of these is still popular today.
[05:01.51]Chaplin lived the last years of his life in Switzerland,
[05:06.68]where he was buried in 1977.
[05:11.12]Before he died,
[05:14.17]he was honoured in a number of ways for his contributions to the film industry.
[05:20.65]Lesson 19 1 Reading comprehension
[05:31.81]CHARLIE CHAPLIN (2)
[05:35.88]One of Charlie Chaplin's most famous films was "The Gold Rush",
[05:42.36]which was made in 1925.
[05:46.31]The film was set in California in the middle of the nineteenth century
[05:52.47]At that time,gold was discovered in California
[05:57.64]and thousands of people rushed there to look for gold,
[06:02.89]so it became known as "the gold rush".
[06:07.33]People said gold could easily be picked up by washing sand from the river
[06:13.39]in a pan of water.
[06:16.84]This was known as "panning for gold".
[06:21.49]In the film,Chaplin and his friend are in California.
[06:26.95]So far,they have been unlucky in their search for gold and have no money at all.
[06:34.32]Chaplin and his friend are caught on the edge of a mountain
[06:39.49]in a snow storm in a small wooden house.
[06:44.24]They have nothing to eat.
[06:47.30]They are so hungry that they cook a pair of shoes,
[06:52.55]by boiling them in a pan of water.
[06:57.10]Chaplin sits down at the table and eats the shoe with a knife and fork,
[07:03.05]enjoying every mouthful.
[07:05.90]He makes it seem as if this is one of the most delicious meals
[07:12.14]that he has ever enjoyed.
[07:15.59]Words and expressions Unit 5
[07:20.56]Charlie Chaplin direct director comedy
[07:24.33]查理.卓别林 vt.导演 n.导演 n.喜剧
[07:28.10]line particular actress act
[07:31.64]n.台词 特殊的;特别的 n.女演员 vi.表演
[07:35.18]intend lifetime set off moustache
[07:38.76]vt.想要，打算 n.一生 动身 n.小胡子
[07:42.34]swing(swung swung) after a (short)while silent add...to
[07:48.52]挥舞摆动 不久以后 adj.无声的 把…加到…上
[07:54.70]uncertain be uncertain about bury honour(honor)
[07:58.63]adj.不确定的 对…不确定 vt.埋葬 vt.尊敬
[08:02.56]contribution appearance stage set
[08:06.19]n.贡献 n.出现，露面 n.阶段 vt.设置
[08:09.82]California search in (one's) search forstorm
[08:14.05]加利福尼亚 n.搜寻 寻找 n.暴风雨
[08:18.29]wooden mouthful as if in a hurry
[08:21.97]adj.木制的 n.满口的 好象 匆忙的
[08:25.65]have...on piano play the piano pianist
[08:29.78]藏着,穿着 n.钢琴家 弹钢琴 n.钢琴家
[08:33.91]excite exciting manager Syd
[08:37.33]vt.使兴奋 adj.兴奋的 n.经理 西德
[08:40.75]film Switzerland bring up pick out
[08:44.38]vt.拍摄 n.瑞士 教育 挑出 |