Unit 7 Theme: Leisure time Grammar: The Passive Voice

Objectives: By the end of this unit, students should be able to use active vocabulary of this theme in different forms of speech exercises.

Students should be better at discussing leisure time.

Students should know the rule of the Passive Voice.

Methodical instructions: This theme must be worked out during three lessons a week according to timetable.

Lexical material: Introduce and fix new vocabulary on theme “Leisure time”. Discuss in groups how the students spend their free time. Speak about theatres and cinemas.

Grammar: Revise V_3. Introduce and practice the Passive Voice.

A night at the theatre.

Here we are outside the theatre. It is the Library Theatre which is underneath the General Library in Manchester. We are going to see a modern play which is very popular with theatre-goers.

Passing through the revolving door and down the stairs we come to the box office where the tickets are sold. Luckily we booked our seats a few weeks ago or would not be able to get in, because for this play all the seats had already been sold. It is so popular that this is the second time it has been produced here.

We leave our raincoats in the cloakroom. At the entrance to the theatre itself an attendant in uniform tears our theatre tickets in half. He gives us our halves back so that we can find our seats by their numbers. Another attendant shows us to our seats and sells us a program that will tell us which parts the actors are playing and how many acts there in the play. Then we take our seats about halfway down the auditorium.

All around us people are settling down into their seats , reading their programmes, passing chocolates . Everybody is excited, looking forward to the play. We all have a clear view of the stage because the seats are set on wide steps which slope down to the level of the stage. On the front row, you are so close you can smell the paint on the scenery but not too close to spoil your view of the actors. Even on the back row you have a perfect view of the stage because this is a small theatre.

This auditorium holds only 300 seats, but many theatres are much larger . In a small theatre you can always be sure to hear and see everything and really feel that you are with the actors in everything they do and in all the places they visit. But many plays are still produced in very large , old theatres where it is difficult to see and hear properly if you are in the back rows. There are sometimes so many stalls (ground-floor seats) in these theatres that they are divided into orchestra stalls, center stalls, and rear stalls, with the pit behind them. Above, there is the dress circle and boxes , then the balcony and, high above, the gallery, or the “gods”!

The auditorium seems to be full now. In a few minutes the play will begin. The attendants close the doors and draw the curtains over them. The warning bell rings to tell everyone the play is about to begin. People whisper excitedly. Slowly the lights begin to come up on the stage.

Topical vocabulary.

1. leisure досуг

2. spare time свободное время

3. to entertain, entertainment(n) развлекать,развлечение

4. boxofficeтеатральная касса

5. ticketбилет

6. tobookзаказать

7. seatместо

8. playпьеса,спектакль

9. cloak-room гардероб

10.cloak-room ticket номерок

11.dramatheatreдраматический театр

12.matineeдневной спектакль

13.tostage,stage(n) поставитьспектакль,сцена

14.orchestra оркестр

15.stalls,in the orchestra stalls партер,в первых рядах партера

16.row,onthefront,backrowряд,в первом ряду,в последнем ряду

17.box,in the box ложа,в ложе

18.gallery, ”the gods” галерка

19.curtain (rises,falls) занавес (поднимется,опускается)

20.sceneсцена,(часть действия)

21.sceneryдекорации

22. dresscircleбельэтаж

23.audienceзрительная аудитория

24.perfomanceигра актеров,спектакль

25.toapplaude,applause(n) аплодисменты

26.pit амфитеатр

27.theatre-goer театрал

Ex.1.Find in the text the equivalents to the following:

очень популярна среди театралов; театральная касса; купить билеты; поставлена (пьеса) во второй раз; гардероб; найти места ( в театре); роль; передние (задние) ряды; зал вмещает; партер; амфитеатр; зал заполнен; загораются огни.

Ex.2.Match the words in column A with those in column B.

1. entertainment a) декорации

2. cloak-room b)театральная касса

3. matinee c) развлечение

4. pit d) аплодировать

5. box office e) бельэтаж

6. to applaude f) амфитеатр

7. scenery g) гардероб

8.cloak-room ticket h) спектакль

9. dress circle i) ложа,в ложе

10. box,intheboxj) дневной спектакль

11. perfomance k) номерок

Ex.3. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.

1) В этом сезоне это самая популярная пьеса. 2) Я не театрал, но я тоже очень хочу посмотреть эту пьесу. 3) Мы купили билеты заранее в кассе театра и теперь не должны стоять в очереди, чтобы купить билет. 4) Это пьеса ставится в этом театре уже во второй раз. 5) Мы купили программку, чтобы узнать, кто играет главные роли, сколько актов в пьесе. 6) Зрительный зал вмещает 300 человек, это маленький театр. 7) Но большинство старых театров очень большие, партер в этих театрах даже делится на «передние ряды партера», «среднюю часть» и «задние ряды партера».8) За партером идет амфитеатр ,над ним бельэтаж, ложи, балкон и галерка.

Ex.4. Give words or word combinations for the definitions:

1. the part of the theatre where the audience sits;

2. a raised platform in a theatre where the actors appear;

3. the highest balcony where the cheapest seats are placed;

4. a place where hats and coats mat be left;

5. a piece of wood or metal with a number on it given in return for hat or a coat;

6. a set of actors in a play;

7. programme;

8. the main role;

9. a trial performance of a play;

10.a person who shows people to their seats;

11.seats in the theatre behind the stalls.

Ex.5. Fill in the blanks with the corresponding words given below.

If you want to go ... we must first look through ... to find out what ... . As it is sometimes rather difficult to get .. we must book them at ... . Some people don’t like to have ... far from ... . They try to get tickets for ... . If we little money we take seats on ... . When we come to any theatre in our country we leave our coats in ... and take ... in order to get them back when ... is over. If we want to know ... we buy ... . After this we take our seats and wait for the lights to ... . Soon the lights go down, ... goes up, the play begins.

The curtain, a theatre, go down, the leading role, is on, the cast, tickets, a check, a playbill, seats, the performance, the stage, book, the stalls, the gallery, go up, box- office, cloakroom.

Ex.6.Speak on the following sub- topics:

1. My first visit to the theatre.

2. “Everybody is excited, looking forward to the play”

3. My leisure hours.

Grammar: The Passive Voice.

		to be + Participle II
Tense	Active		Passive
Present Past Future (Indefinite)	ask asked will ask		am/is/are asked was/were asked will be asked
Present Past Future (Continuous)	am /is/are asking was/ were asking will be asking		am/is/are being asked was/were being asked - ---
Present Past Future (Perfect)	have/has asked had asked will have asked		have/has been asked had been asked will have been asked

• We use the passive when it is not so important (or unknown) who or what did the action. We use the passive only when we don’t know or don’t want to say who did it.

My article was published yesterday. Rome wasn’t built in one day.

• Only the verbs which take an object can go into the passive. Intransitive verbs can’t be used in the Passive Voice. They are: to fly, to arrive, to be, to become, to have, to lack, to possess, to consist, to belong, to hold, to suit, to resemble, to fit, to appear, to seem, to come, to go, to last.

• If you want to say who did or what caused the action, use by or with It was destroyed by fire.

Ex.7. Define, what verbs are transitive and what verbs are intransitive?

To go, to take, to find, to lie, to stop, to win, to swim, to come, to speak, to show, to look at, to like ,to discuss, to stand, to spend, to miss, to stay, to listen to, to ski, to use, to change, to recognize, to skate, to hear, to build, to examine, to leave.

Ex.8.Put the sentences into the Passive Voice where possible.

1. Someone will drive you to the airport.2. Goldfish live in fresh water. 3.The Egyptians built pyramids.4. We walked four miles yesterday.5. They arrived at 7. Last night.6. They informed me about it. 7.I slept till 8. 8. It’s raining. 9.They have sold their car to pay the debts.10. They hold a meeting in the village hall once a week. 11. They have proved that there is no life on the Moon.

Ex.9. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Indefinite or Past Continuous Passive.

Example: They shut the window.-The window was shut.

1.The student (ask) to tell the story again.2. Such mistakes (make)by even the best students. 3. A modern tune (play) when we came into the hall. 4.Every morning the workers (tell) what they had to do. 5. The houses (build) of stone, brick and wood. 6.At last the problem (solve) to everyone’s satisfaction.7.A new museum then (open). 8. A week ago two students of our group (choose) for jury service.9.Last Friday he (meet) at the railway station.10.The living –room (sweep),(mop) and (dust). It is clean now.

Ex.10.Express the following sentences in the passive. Do not mention the subjects of the active verbs.

Example: They asked me my name and address.

1. Someone told us a very funny story yesterday. 2.The people gave him a hearty welcome. 3.They have offered my brother a very good job.4.The house agents showed us some very nice flats. 5. The secretary didn't tell me the exact time of my appointment. 6. The teacher hasn’t asked Peter any questions at this lesson.7.People wished the newly married couple a long and happy life.8.They never tell me the family news.9. He didn’t tell me the whole truth.

Ex.11.Open the brackets, using the correct form of the Passive Voice.

1.This copy (not read). The pages (not cut) 2.Why the car (not lock) or (put) into the garage? 3.I’m not wearing my black shoes today. They (mend).4. This room (use) only on special occasions.5. He was taken to hospital this afternoon, and (operate on) tomorrow morning.6. The damaged buildings (reconstruct) now, the reconstruction (finish) by the end of the year. 7.The paintings (exhibit) till the end of the month.8. She heard footsteps, she thought she (follow).9. Normally this street (sweep) every day, but it (not sweep) yesterday.

Ex.12.Translate into English.

1. Дом был отремонтирован, забор был покрашен и много новых фруктовых деревьев было посажено в саду к тому времени когда он вернулся. 2. Она показала мне статью которая была переведена ее братом. 3. Этот завод был построен к маю. 4. К семи часам вчера все документы были готовы. 5. Когда мы получили их телеграмму товары были доставлены в порт. 6.Где сейчас строят это здание? 7.Где строятся такие здания? 8.Когда будет построено это здание? 9.Опять обсуждается этот вопрос? 10.Лекции этого профессора всегда слушают с большим интересом.11.Его всегда любили б и ему всегда доверяли.

Задания на СРО:

Read the text “Living without TV” and ex. a, b, c, d, p. 113 (CliveOxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig,New English File,Intermediate, Oxford University Press 2006)