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Drama Excerpt
Part
Three
Selecting Language Resources
Learning Targets
• Develop language resources to use while speaking and writing about drama.
• Use an expanded set of words to speak and write precisely. • Adjust language choices to suit the academic setting.
The chart presents words and phrases you will use in discussion and writing. Think about each word or phrase. Circle Q, H, or T to indicate how well you know it. Work with a partner, asking your partner to explain each word or phrase. Listen closely to the explanation, and then write your partner’s name in the In Our Own Words column along with his or her condensed idea.
ACTIVITY 3.1
WoRD ConnECTIonS
Etymology
The Latin word scriptum, meaning “writing,” gives us many English words. In addition to script, describe, prescription, and scripture all come from this root.
Rating
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T
I have seen this word or phrase, but I have questions about its meaning.
I have heard this word or phrase but do not know it well.
I know this word or phrase so well that I could teach it to someone else.
Word or Phrase
Definition
In our own Words
script
Rating Q H T
a copy of a play used by those putting it on
act
Rating Q H T
one of the main divisions of a play
scene
Rating Q H T
a separate part of an act in a play
gesturing
Rating Q H T
moving some part of the body, usually the arms and hands, to show some idea or feeling
visualize
Rating Q H T
to form a picture of something in the mind
insult
Rating Q H T
to say or do something on purpose that hurts a person’s feelings or pride
quarrel
Rating Q H T
an argument or disagreement, especially an angry one
Unit 4 • The Challenge of Comedy • Part 3: from A Midsummer Night’s Dream 169
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