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Musicals

Learn English with this musicals English lesson

Date: Apr 18 2018

Intro

When it comes to live theater, original musicals are at the top. Actors perform amazing dance choreography and sing beautiful lyrics. Famous choruses become songs that everybody seems to know. And the collaborative work between the people playing the music and the people acting on stage is like magic.

Learn what Jessica and Brian think about musicals in today’s English lesson.

Vocab

chorus n.

Definition

Example I love the chorus to this song! I can't stop singing it.

choreography n.

Definition

Example I watch figure skating for the jumps, not the choreography.

original adj.

Definition

Example She used to sing other people's songs, but now she is a songwriter and sings original work.

lyrics n.

Definition

Example Bob Dylan writes the best song lyrics. He's amazing.

collaborative adj.

Definition

Example This project was a collaborative effort, everyone in the group helped out.

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Quiz

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Discussion

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What musicals are popular in your country? Do you like watching performances on stage or would you rather watch a movie?

Comments

ruiyamamoto

Japan

I love both musicals and movies.
I say each of them has some good points.of course bad point point, too.
you can go catch a movie with only ¥1300 or so in japan.yet you can’t watch musicals at that good price.

S&W

China

I had the same experience with ttsuka and ahmet55.Reffering to the musical movies,what comes to my mind was always a beatiful girl wearing white sari dancing and singing .The scene keep switching from the street to the gorgeous hall.

I love both of them performances on stage or watch a movie.I only care the musica and the performances.

ahmet55

Germany

I’m totally agreed with ttsuka, Indian movies are profoundly mixed up with particular kinds of romantic musicals films. Another thing is that i get familiar with 2 new members in this lesson of English baby. I want to say warm welcome to them. Hope to have a great time with them in lectures ahead.

Apart from the points i made above, I do love to watch actors and actors’ performance on stage in live. I ‘m pretty sure that it would be interesting.

ttsuka

Japan

The first thing comes to my mind, talking bout musical movies, is those Indian movies. Bollywood, is it? I wonder if live musicals are also very popular in India. The second thing comes to my mind is ‘Grease.’ Yes, I did watched it with a movie theatre full of girls, singing along. Oh, wait, then it was a live musical.

PS Are Jessica and Brian new staff or just guests? Hope they will stay.

julito

Argentina

Although I am not much into musicals i remember a very good musical running by the name of “All that jazz”, directed by the famous american coreographer Bob Fosse.

Michele1

Italy

Sometime, also a popular and well organized musicall , live broadcast TV, can evoke feelings, emotions similar those we feel in a theatre.. look at here ( only a excerpt ) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVcDdovVikI

enjoy it…

diva87

Morocco

all,types,is,popular,in,morocco,amazigh,arab,pop,hiphop,rap,,,,,ilove,watching,performance

on,stage,or,tv,or,listen,its,better

Jasonlongo

Congo, Democratic Republic Of The

I like movies than musicals, my opinion, don’t judge me !

Eric_

China

Actually,I seldom hear that there are some musicals performed in my city.

But it reminds me that when I was at univesity, we often watched that kind of show. The actors dance well,sing a lovely touched songs….great indeed:))