"The Phantom of Opera". Spotlight 10, module 7d.

What is music?

What genres of music can you name?

What music do you prefer?

Listen to the fragment of music. What genre is it?

What’s the topic of the lesson?

Musical

What musical exactly are we going to work with?

(the fragment which you’ve heard was from this musical)

The Phantom of the Opera

Who is the author of this musical?

Andrew Lloyd

Webber

Read his biography and answer the questions.

• What was his father?
• What educational organisations did he study?
• When did his fame start? Why?
• When did he compose the next successful rock-opera?
• When did he compose “The Phantom of the opera”?
• How do you think what the story is about?

Who is the author of the original novel “The Phantom of the opera”?

Gaston Leroux

Read his biography and answer the questions.

• What did he study?
• When did he work after the university?
• When was “The Phantom of the opera” written?
• How do you think what the story is about?

Read the text in SB p.128-129 and the text on the paper.

Compare these two texts.

Now compare these two pictures. What can you say about these Phantoms?

SB p.128 ex.3 (answers).

1 D

2 B

3 B

4 B

5 A

6 C

SB p.129 ex.4a (answers).

• Relaxed

• Quarrelling

2) Arguing

b) Plainly

3) Disappeared

c) Stalked

4) Trick

d) Vanished

5) Run away

6) Clearly

e) At ease

f) Practical joke

7) Walked in a stiff, angry way

g) Fled

e

a

d

f

g

b

c

Watch the trailer and say what plot twists could you notice.

Work with the text on papers.

• Find English equivalents in for the words given in Russian.
• Translate these words:

• Selfish

b) Recurrent trick

c) To consider

d) Deformed

e) Compassion

f) Assure

g) Deceive

True, false or no information?

• The action took place in London.
• The Phantom was considered the Master of the Opera.
• People in the theater were kind to him.
• Madam Gary knew nothing about his life.
• People weren’t compassioned to him.
• Christine was a pop singer.
• The Phantom was a good musician.
• She thought that he was the Angel of Music or the spirit of his father.
• The Phantom deceived her because he was very poor.
• Raul loved Christine for her beauty.
• The story is about brave people, who saved each other.

Answer the questions.

• Where and when did the action take place?
• What is Charlotte?
• What was the Phantom secretly?
• What did people feel about him?
• Who knew the truth of his life?
• Why was he called “devil’s child”?
• Where did she hide him?
• What was Christine?
• What did she think of the Phantom?
• Did the Phantom really love her?
• Why did he deceive her?
• What did the Phantom decide to do?
• What was Raul?
• Did he love Christine?
• What is the end of the story?
• What is the main idea of the film?
• Can love and evil be together?