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

1. 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

email(amani_almoustafa@yahoo.com)

All worksheets that are required for the exam are downloaded in the school website .

Ms Amani Almoustafa

English Teacher

English

Required Worksheets for the final exam 2nd term

Grade 7

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CCSS: RL.7.10, RL.7.5

DRAMA

(Excerpts from De Luca, Grillo, Pace, Ranzoli, Literature and Beyond, Vol. I, Torino, Loescher, 1997, pp. 224-268)

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 a playwright or dramatist, that is, the author of the play; o a stage, that is, the area in a playhouse or theatre where the play is performed;

o 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.

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

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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 (384-322 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

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.

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Texts VS Films

Give example of a text that have been adapted as a film .

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Which one did you enjoyed more the text or the film ? Why ?

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How can you compare texts to Films ?

Shared Area between texts and

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Texts ( Books)

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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

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Perfect Tenses

The Tense Use Examples

Present Perfect

S+ has/ have/+Past

Participial

1. for something

that started in the

past and

continues in the

present:

1. I have finished the home work

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2. We often use a

clause with since to

show when

something started

in the past:

1. I have worked here since I left school.

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when we are

talking

about our

experience

up to the

present:

With ever ,

never,

already

1. My last birthday was the worst day I have ever had.

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We often use the

present perfect with

time adverbials

which refer to the

recent past: just;

only just; recently;

1. Scientists have recently discovered a new breed of

monkey.

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Present Perfect

Continuous

S+ has/have+ been +

V(ing)

We use the Present

Perfect Continuous

to show that

something started in

the past and has

continued up until

now

1. They have been talking for the last hour

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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.

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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.

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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

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Simple past

S+ V2

Actions that happened and

finished in the past

I visited my mom yesterday

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Simple Future

S+ will+ v

Actions that will happen in

the future

I will go to zoo tomorrow.

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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

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Past Continuous

S+ was / were/ V(ing)

Actions That were long and

continuous in the past.

They were studying yesterday

when I came

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Future Continuous

S + will be + V (ing)

Actions that will be long and

continuous in the future

I will be studying tomorrow at 8

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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.