Prime Time 7, Coursebook plus Semester Self-checks

Listening: Shakespeare on the silver screen You are going to listen to two experts talking about adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. First you will have 45 seconds to study the task below, then you will hear the recording twice. While listening, complete the sentences (1–5) using a maximum of four words. Write your answers in the spaces provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. 0 James Hansen wants to know what Shakespeare would do today as … . a filmmaker ✔ 1 It is certain that Shakespeare … . 2 The most important thing for him was to attract as … . 3 Shakespeare was … as Steven Spielberg or George Lucas today. 4 On stage it is impossible to show a character … . 5 Film is a completely new genre … moving images. 1  12 3.10 Can keep up with an animated conversation between native speakers. (B2) Language in use: Shakespeare’s plays and money Read the text about Shakespeare. In most lines (1–12) there is a word that should not be there. Write these words in the spaces provided. 2–4 lines are correct. Make a ✔ in the space if the line is correct. There are two examples (0, 00) at the beginning. For almost a quarter of a century, Shakespeare wrote like as many as two, like 0 sometimes even three plays a year. With attending rehearsals, learning ✔ 00 new roles and taking to care of his family back in Stratford, he must have 1 been able a very busy man. The plays earned him about four pounds: once 2 the play was finished, it was sold to a playing company to who then owned 3 all the rights. Elizabethans had a rather lax attitude towards copyright of or 4 plagiarism, so making money out of a play was a difficult job. 5 Shakespeare, however, was a clever businessman but who held shares 6 not only in The Lord Chamberlain’s Men and more the Globe, but 7 also in the Blackfriars Theatre. So selling his plays up to these companies 8 to a certain degree meant selling them to himself, and to being 9 highly interested in their financial success: the money spent the 10 plays earned would at least in parts go into his pockets, too. 11 2  149 Check-out Now you can • Discuss quotations and visual input. • Structure and share information. • Write an article. • Extract information from a reading passage. • Read and understand plays. • Write comments. Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv