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The Connoisseurs of Shakespeare

Good morning, dear ladies and gentlemen! We are glad to see you at our contest “The Connoisseurs of Shakespeare”!

1. Под музыку на сцене появляются эльфы.

• Look! How many guests we are having today in our hall. They look happy and gay. By the way, do you know the reason they have come to us?

• We are in Classic School 11. These are the students and the participants of the festival. Have you forgotten about Shakespeare festival?

• Unfortunately, I have. We were busy doing different important things at home.

• Now we are invited by the students to Classic School 11 to take part in this festival.

• Besides, we have prepared a present- surprise too.

• What’s this?

• This is the magic stick. It makes wonders.

За сценой звучат голоса ведущих. Ничего не замечая, ведущие появляются.

В1- I can’t fully agree with you... It seems to me there are no such deep and strong feelings now as in the time of Romeo and Juliet. It is only at our English classes when we study the theoretical material about great writers, poets, playwrights and their works. We can only read about powerful and faithful love.

B2-I have another point of view. You are mistaken.

Ведущая не слышит его.

B1 - You can only make me change my mind if you show me the real Romeo and Juliet. But not in the books and films, only alive and concrete. Why are you silent?

У ведущей в руках волшебная палочка

В1 - I wish I saw Romeo and Juliet real and alive and all the other characters from Shakespeare’s books. I like them all very much.

B2- You will be a witness of such a performance. I’d like to invite you to the party, devoted to William Shakespeare.

1. On Shakespeare

(by John Milton)

What needs my Shakespeare for his honour’d Bones,

The labour of an age in piled Stones,

Or that his hallow’d reliques should be hid

Under a Stary pointing Pyramid?

Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame,

What needs’t thou such weak witness of thy name?

Thou in our wonder and astonishment

Hast built thyself a live-long Monument.

For whilst, to th’ shame of slow-endeavouring art,

Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart

Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued book

Those Delphic lines with deep impression took,

Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving,

Dost make us marble with too much conceiving,

And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie

That king for such a tomb would wish to die.

Нуждается ль, покинув этот мир,

В труде каменотесов мой Шекспир,

Чтоб в пирамиде, к звездам обращенной,

Таился прах, веками освященный?

Наследник славы, для грядущих дней

Не просишь ты свидетельства камней.

Ты памятник у каждого из нас

Воздвиг в душе, которую потряс.

К позору нерадивого искусства

Твои стихи текут, волнуя чувства,

И в памяти у нас из книг твоих

Оттиснут навсегда дельфийский стих.

Воображенье наше до конца

Пленив и в мрамор превратив сердца,

Ты в них покоишься

Все короли

Такую честь бы жизни предпочли.

( С.Я.Маршак)

1. Под звуки музыки П. И. Чайковского появляются герои произведений Шекспира, потом появляется и сам Шекспир

В1- Look! This man looks like William Shakespeare

B2- Really

B1- Sir, William Shakespeare, I know that one of your best friends, a playwright and a player Benjamin Jonson once said: “ You were not of an age, but for all time...”

W S: I, William Shakespeare from Stratford-upon-Avon, am addressing to you, all those who live in the third millennium, the greatest of all human epochs.

B2: Dear sir, William Shakespeare, it goes without saying that your books, sonnets, your characters have made your name immortal.

B1: Even with the beginning of a new century we can’t imagine our life without your masterpieces.

B2: Today we shall try to prove that William Shakespeare’s works move toward serious values. That’s why he is loved and honoured throughout the world. So, today let’s honour him in the best way we can do - organizing a contest.

B1: We shall start with musical presentation of the teams. Then the teams will compete in the Quiz-Game and perform their sketches

First of all, I want to announce Round 1. Each team should present itself

Musical Presentation of Team 1

Musical Presentation of Team 2

Musical Presentation of Team 3

B2: Sir, William Shakespeare, but very little is known about your life, especially your early years

В1: Could our teams tell us about your life?

Round 2. Speak about Shakespeare’s biography in 3 sentences, follow the other teams talk.

Команды рассказывают биографию Шекспира - по 3 предложения в логической последовательности.

Round 3.I invite 1 representative from each team .You will hear some statements. Agree or disagree with them.

1. Do you know that...

... William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1654 and died also on this date, April 23, 1616?

... John Shakespeare, the great playwright’s father, couldn’t write?

... William Shakespeare left Grammar School, where he studied when he was 13 years old and never went to school again?

... William Shakespeare traveled up to London on foot with a lot of money in his pockets because he wanted to become a playwright?

... William Shakespeare began to work in London holding horses of those Londoners who came to see the plays at the theatre?

. ..the signature of the greatest English men and women cover the walls and the ceiling of the room in which Shakespeare was born?

... William Shakespeare is called the Bard of London?

... William Shakespeare laid the scenes of his plays in Africa, Asia Minor and in many parts of Europe, yet never left England?

... it would be difficult to find a theatre which has at some time or the other stayed Shakespeare’s plays?

... some screen versions of Shakespeare’s works have appeared and among them we find “Romeo and Juliet”?

Round 4. The task was given to you to prepare a talk about some of the places dealing with Shakespeare. So you are welcome.

1. Предварительное задание командам - рассказать о двух достопримечательностях, связанных с Шекспиром.

2. Под звуки мелодии на экране появляется изображение театра

В1: There was a sign on its main door: “All the world is a stage”.

B2: All the world’s a stage

And all the men and women merely players:

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,

His acts being seven ages.

At first the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;

And then the whining school-boy, with his satchet

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwillingly to school.

And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad

Made to his mistress’ eyebrow.

Then a soldier,

Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,

Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation

Even in the cannon’s mouth.

And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,

With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws and modem instances;

And so he plays his part.

The sixth age shifts

Into the lean and slipper’s pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;

His youthful nose, well saved, a world too wide

For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice

Turning again toward childish treble, pipes

And whistles in his sound.

Last scene of all, that ends his strange eventful history,

Is second childishness and mere oblivion

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

В1: Весь мир театр. В нем женщины, мужчины - все актеры.

У них свои есть выходы, уходы,

И каждый не одну играет роль.

Семь действий в пьесе той. Сперва младенец,

Ревущий горько на руках у мамки...

Потом плаксивый школьник с книжной сумкой,

С лицом румяным, нехотя, улиткой

Ползущий в школу. А затем любовник,

Вздыхающий, как печь, с балладой грустной

В честь брови милой. А затем солдат,

Чья речь всегда проклятьями полна,

Обросший бородой, как леопард,

Ревнивый к чести, забияка в ссоре,

Готовый славу бренную искать

Хоть в пушечном жерле. Затем судья

С брюшком округлым, где каплун запрятан,

Со строгим взором, стриженой бородкой,

Шаблонных правил и сентенций кладезь,-

Так он играет роль. Шестой же возраст –

Уж это будет тощий Панталоне,

В очках, в туфлях, у пояса - кошель,

В штанах, что с юности берег, широких

Для ног иссохших; мужественный голос

Сменяется опять дискантом детским:

Пищит, как флейта... А последний акт,

Конец всей этой странной, сложной пьесы-

Второе детство, полузабытье:

Без глаз, без чувств, без вкуса, без всего.

Весь мир театр. В нем женщины, мужчины - все актеры.

У них свои есть выходы, уходы,

И каждый не одну играет роль.

В2: Shakespeare wrote 37 plays. What are they?

1. На экране фрагмент кинофильма Ф. Дзефирелли « Ромео и Джульетта» с изображением сцены на балу. Звучат первые аккорды мелодии под названием «Тема любви» Нино Рота в переложении Г. Фиртича.

В1: This wonderful love story is about two lovers, Romeo and Juliet. Unfortunately, they died, but they didn’t stop loving each other. They stayed young forever!

Round 5. You are welcome to present the abstracts from Shakespeare’s play.

1. Play “Romeo and Juliet”

2. The song “A Time For Us” «Наступит время»

B2: Listen to the song and say what this song is about.

1. Play “ King Lear”

2. Play “ Hamlet”

XII.

Шекспир наблюдает за игрой актеров, после окончания сцены он говорит:

- It was marvelous. I couldn’t take my eyes off the stage. The actor’s playing was superb. Thank you!

XIII. Round 6. Now you should try to explain the meaning of the following quotations.

Try to guess the meaning of the following expressions. Then pass me your answers in writing.

• All the world is a stage

• To be or not to be? That is the question.

• Cowards die many times before their death

• Better a witty fool than a foolish wit

• Have more than you show. Speak less than you know.

• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

• Brevity is the soul of wit.

• The fool thinks he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

• There is no darkness but ignorance.

Round 7. You have prepared your puzzles. I invite 2 representatives from each team to solve them. While they are doing this you are welcome to enjoy yourself.

XIV. Предварительное задание- составить кроссворд по заглавным буквам главных героев представляемой пьесы.

Doing the crosswords.

Read the sentences (on the cards, which are given to the pupils) and think of the correct word to go in each gap in the sentence and write this word in the heart. When finished there will be the names of characters.

XV. Исполняется песня « Love Story»

Round 8. Our last competition. Our teams have prepared the beautiful sonnets of Shakespeare. So listen to them and enjoy yourself.

XVI. Предварительное задание- подготовить один из сонетов Шекспира и найти как можно больше его переводов, можно добавить свой вариант

XVII. Quiz. Do you know Shakespeare?

1. Where is Stratford situated?

2. On what day did Shakespeare die?

3. How old was he?

4. Who and what were his parents?

5. What did Shakespeare write?

6. What else is he famous for?

7. What was his wife's name?

8. Where are Shakespeare’s plays performed in Stratford?

9. Who gave the bronze statue of Shakespeare to Stratford?

10. Where is Shakespeare buried?

11. How many children did Shakespeare have? What were their names?

12. What girl falls in love with a man before she sees his face or knows his name?

13. Whose last words are, “ Thus with a kiss I die”.

14. In what tragedy do all the main heroes die at the end of the play?

15. Which father has three daughters?

XVIII. Прощание Шекспира.

• I am thankful to everybody, who has taken part in our festival. I am impressed by the fact that in spite of the centuries my creative activity and my characters inspire you and don’t leave you indifferent. My plays and my poetry live side by side in your lives, in your hearts, in your souls.

Dear guests, I thank you very much for your warm support and attention.