The Required Materials for the Final Exam 2nd term Grade 7. *English Exam will be one exam out of 40 in 20th of February, 2016

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1 The Required Materials for the Final Exam 2nd term Grade 7 *English Exam will be one exam out of 40 in 20th of February, Reading Comprehension ( unseen text with 10 questions) 2. 5 questions related to what is covered during the term.( Drama- Text VS Film) 3. Vocabulary words ( Theatre, script, protagonist, playwright, pantomime, improvisation, director, costume, climax, Antagonist) 5 questions about meanings and uses of the words with 5 marks 4. Grammar: Simple Tense, Continuous Tenses and Perfect tenses. 5 questions with 5 marks 5. Writing : Comparison essay with 15 marks. One of these two topics 1- Compare two characters ( Antigone VS Juliet 2- Compare Text with films Notes: A booklet for all required papers for the exam will be given to students again to make sure that they have all papers needed. Study well for the exam and take all teacher's comments in consideration. If you have any questions while studying ask me on my (amani_almoustafa@yahoo.com) All worksheets that are required for the exam are downloaded in the school website. Ms Amani Almoustafa English Teacher

2 English Required Worksheets for the final exam 2nd term Grade 7 Name:...

3 Date:... CCSS: RL.7.10, RL.7.5 DRAMA (Excerpts from De Luca, Grillo, Pace, Ranzoli, Literature and Beyond, Vol. I, Torino, Loescher, 1997, pp ) Drama is a word of Greek origin meaning "action" and referring to a performance on the stage in which actors act out the events and characters of a story. A dramatic work is usually called a play, but if you want to specify what type of drama it is, you can call it a comedy, a. tragedy, a farce or tragicomedy or other names. As wel1 as a play, drama usually involves o o o a playwright or dramatist, that is, the author of the play; a stage, that is, the area in a playhouse or theatre where the play is performed; an audience, that is, the people who go to the theatre to watch the performance. Watching a live performance, while sitting in a playhouse with a crowd of other spectators, is the best way of appreciating any play. Whenever you read a play, if you have no chance of seeing it performed, you should try to create a mental image of its performance In order to help you, we shall try to make you familiar with some basic dramatic conventions, that is, established ways of writing plays which have been used so often that they have become typical of the genre. Today a play can be performed not on1y in a theatre hut also on the radio or on media TV The use of these two mass media has made drama easy accessible to the vast majority. The cinema has also contributed to the popularity of drama by offering memorable fi1m versions of some of the most important works in the history of British theatre. DRAMATIC TEXT Dramatic texts usually come in the form of plays of varying length. As in fiction, a play usually tells a story. But the dramatic techniques used for organizing a story in a plot are very different from those used in fiction. Here are some basic structural conventions used in writing drama.

4 FEATURES OF A PLAY Plays are normally divided into major units called Acts, which are sometimes subdivided into Scenes. A scene usually shows a sequence of actions which happen in the same setting, that is, in the same place and in the same period of time. Modern plays may have one or two or three acts, whereas in the past, in the time of Shakespeare, for example, they had as many as five acts. A play traditionally tells a story which is organized by the playwright/dramatist in a plot. The plot contains the same events as the story but it may present them in a different chronological order. The story is slightly different from the plot because it consists of the main events arranged in chronological order. It can be quickly summarized. The order in which scenes and situations are arranged usually serves the purpose of creating dramatic tension, suspense and climax in order to capture the audience s attention. They are essential ingredients of a thriller. Before the actual text begins, you can usually find a list of the characters in the play headed either with the self-explanatory word Characters or with Cast. The characters of a play can be main/major characters or minor characters according to the importance of their role in the story. Plays develop through direct speech, usually in the form of a dialogue between the characters but occasionally in the form of a soliloquy when a character is alone on stage and utters his/her thoughts out loud. Plays usually include stage directions, where the dramatist intervenes to give instructions for the play s production. You can easily recognize stage directions because they are written in italics to distinguish them from the characters speeches. The aim of drama is not to re-create the world of nature but to offer a different model of our world

5 Date:... Elements of Drama The elements of drama, by which dramatic works can be analyzed and evaluated, can be categorized into three major areas: 1. Literary elements 2. Technical elements 3. Performance elements A: Literary Elements of Drama: Aristotle ( BC) was a Greek philosopher whose writings still influence us today. He was the first to write about the essential elements of drama more than 2,000 years ago. While ideas have changed slightly over the years, we still discuss Aristotle's list when talking about what makes the best drama. 1. Plot 2. Theme 3. Characters 4. Dialogue 5. Music/Rhythm 6. Spectacle (everything that the audience sees as they watch the play.) In the modern theater, this list has changed slightly, although you will notice that many of the elements remain the same. The list of essential elements in modern theater is as follows: 1. Characters 2. Plot 3. Theme 4. Dialogue 5. Convention ( what the director do to make the play desired by the audience) 6. Genre 7. Audience

6 B: Technical Elements in Drama : 1. Scenery (set):the theatrical equipment 2. Costumes :Clothing and accessories 3. Props: moveable object that appears on stage during a performance, from a telephone to a train 4. Lights 5. Sound 6. Makeup C :Performance Elements in Drama: include how the character act and speak to achieve the goal of the performance. The breath, vocal and non vocal expressions, the feeling and body language used to perform the play.

7 Date :... Texts VS Films Give example of a text that have been adapted as a film.... Which one did you enjoyed more the text or the film? Why? How can you compare texts to Films? Texts ( Books) Films Shared Area between texts and... films:

8 Date:... Vocabulary words- Drama The Word The meaning 1. Theatre To imitate or represent life in performance for other people; the performance of dramatic literature; drama, the milieu of actors, technicians, and playwrights; the place where dramatic performances take place. 2. Script The written text of a play. 3. Protagonist The main character of a play and the character with whom the audience identifies most strongly. 4. Playwright A person who writes plays. 5. Pantomime Acting without words through facial expression, gesture, and movement. 6. Improvisation A spontaneous style of theatre through which scenes are created without advance rehearsal or a script. 7. Director The person who oversees the entire process of staging a production. 8. Costume Clothing worn by an actor on stage during a performance. 9. Climax The point of greatest dramatic tension or transition in a theatrical work. 10. Antagonist A person or a situation that opposes another character s goals or desires. Now in your copybook, write a sentence for each word

9 Date:... Present Perfect S+ has/ have/+past Participial Perfect Tenses The Tense Use Examples 1. for something that started in the past and continues in the present: Present Perfect Continuous S+ has/have+ been + V(ing) 2. We often use a clause with since to show when something started in the past: when we are talking about our experience up to the present: With ever, never, already We often use the present perfect with time adverbials which refer to the recent past: just; only just; recently; We use the Present Perfect Continuous to show that something started in the past and has continued up until now 1. I have finished the home work I have worked here since I left school My last birthday was the worst day I have ever had Scientists have recently discovered a new breed of monkey They have been talking for the last hour

10 Past Perfect S+ Had + past participial The Past Perfect expresses the idea that something occurred before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past 1. I had never seen such a beautiful beach before I went to Kauai Past Perfect Continuous S+ had+been+ V(ing) We use the Past Perfect Continuous to show that something started in the past and continued up until another time in the past 1. They had been talking for over an hour before Tony arrived

11 Date:... Simple Tenses Tenses Uses Examples Simple Present S+ V1 Daily events and facts I go to school every day. The sun rises from the east... Simple past S+ V2 Simple Future S+ will+ v Actions that happened and finished in the past Actions that will happen in the future I visited my mom yesterday... I will go to zoo tomorrow.... Continuous Tenses Tense Uses Examples Present Continuous S+ is/am/are + V(ing) Actions that are long and continuous in the present He is studying at this moment... Past Continuous S+ was / were/ V(ing) Future Continuous S + will be + V (ing) Actions That were long and continuous in the past. Actions that will be long and continuous in the future They were studying yesterday when I came... I will be studying tomorrow at 8...

12 Writing Comparison Essays: Topics required for the exam are : 1. Antigone VS Juliet 2. Texts VS Films Important Reminders : Comparison essay should start with introduction paragraph which is a general idea about the topic. To introduce to your readers the topic you will be discussing in your topic. First Body Paragraph : Here mention all similarities between the two things or characters you are comparing. Use connecting words that show similarities such as: both, similarly, at the same way, just as etc... Second body paragraph : Here mention differences. use words that show differences such as : but, however, on the contrary, unlike etc... Concluding paragraph: Here you end up your essay with a summary or a personal opinion. Use words such as : Finally, At the end, In my opinion. Take the notes and comments that the teacher wrote for you in your essay tasks. Avoid the same mistakes.