Assignment for Monday, 13th August
Answer the questions
INTRODUCTION
1. Who are the old managers and the new managers of The Paris Opera House?
2. What are the questions that have no answers in this story?
3. Who wrote this story and what steps did he follow?
4. Who was Gaston Leroux, what did he want to do, and what did he really do until his father's death?
5. How did his life change after this event? What things did he do?
6. What was Leroux's big success?
7. When did he write The Phantom of the Opera?
8. Why isn't there a better scene for The Phantom than The Opera House?
9. What is this novel about?
10. What were other productions released by Leroux?
CHAPTER 1
Which character in the first chapter …?
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b) is the singing master?
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c) has a private box in the Opera?
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d) is in charge of Box Five?
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e) is found hanging in the third cellar?
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f) is the scenery manager?
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Answer the questions
1. What strange thing happened the evening of the retirement of the old managers of The Opera?
2. What was the ghost like?
3. Who was Joseph Buquet? What kind of man was he?
4. Describe what happened the evening Jammes saw the ghost.
5. What doesn't the ghost like? What is his secret?
6. What happened to Joseph Buquet?
7. Speak about the encounter between Sorelli and Count Chagny.
8. What was unusual about the performance that night?
9. Who are Philippe and Raoul Chagny?
10. Speak about the encounter between Christine and Raoul. What happened the night she sung like in heaven?
11. What did Raoul think when he heard Chistine talk with a man?
INTRODUCTION.
ReplyDelete1. The old managers are Monsieur Poligny and Monsieur Debienne. The new are Monsieur Richard and Monsieur Moncharmin.
2. Is there really a phantom in the opera house?
3.Gaston Leroux
4. Gaston Leroux was born in Paris in 1868. In his own time he was a celebrated journalist, an international adventurer ad one of the most popular writers of mysteries and horror stories in the whole world. From a Young age he wanted to bécame a writer, he was an excellent student who wrote poetry and short stories for his own pleasure.His father decided that his son should be a lawyer , so, he bagan to worked as one.
5.After his father's death, he gave up the law and had a wild time, enojoying pleasures offered by late-nineteenth-century Paris.He lost all of the fortune his father had left within a year. In 1890 he got a job on the newspaper L'Echo de Paris and became a full-time journalist.
6. Leroux's first big success,The Mystery of the Yellow Room, came out in 1907.
7.He wrote The Phantom of the Opera in 1910.
8. Because at the time in which the novel is set, the Opera House employed more than fifteen hundred people and had space to keep a number of white horses under the entranceway,ready for the use of the opera company.
9.The novel is about an intelligent and very talented but also violent and evil ghost.He does not have place in normal society because he is very ugly,he must wear a mask to cover his awful face, and he must live in the shadows.he tricks Christine and makes her part of his secret life by teaching her to sing more beautifully than anyone else in Paris,but,of course, evil cannot win in the end.
10. He also wrote stage plays,mostly based on his own books.He wrote for movies and in 1919 he formed his own production company,Cinéromans.
CHAPTER 1
a. Joseph Buquet.
b. Gabriel.
c. Philippe Georges Marie, Count of Chagny.
d. The ghost.
e. Joseph Buquet.
f. Mercier.
1.The ladies were talking when a ghost had appeared to them in the shape of a gentleman in fine clothes. He he suddenly stood in front of them in the passage and seem to had came straight through the wall.
2. The ghost was extraordinarily thin and his coat hangs on his skeleton.His eyes were very deep,just two big, black holes. His nasty yellow skin was tightly stretched across his bones and he didn´t have nose.
3. Joseph Buquet was in charge of moving scenary. He was a serious man, not one who imagined things.
4. A series of curious events that nobody could explain made everybody feel uncomfortable after what Joseph Buquet said. Then James cried that there were a ghost. After the first excitement, everything was quiet in the dressing room. Then James told everybody to listened. They could Heard somebody outside the door. Sorelli went up to it and in a shaky voice asked who was there. Nobody answered her, so she opened the door.She looked into the passage but it was empty so she closed the door again.
5.The ghost was just like Joseph Buquet description.
6. Joseph Buquet was dead, he was found hanging in the third cellar. His secret was that he had a box in the Opera. The Box Five.
7. Sorelli was on her way to gave her speech, with all the girls following closely behind, when she ran into Count Changy, who was coming upstairs.
9. Philippe Georges Marie, Count of Chagny was forty-one, good-looking and wealthy. Raoul was his brother, he was twenty years younger. Their parents had died when Raoul was very Young, so Philippe brought up the Young viscount, who later joined the navy.
10. Raoul saw Christine fainted at the end of the performance and decide to went to saw her. The doctor was with her, Raoul wanted to stayed there with her so the doctor sent everyone away except Raoul. She din’t know him, she had never seen him before. She asked to him, who was him. He answered her that he was the boy who went into the sea to rescued her scarf.
11. He listened the conversation and he was surprised when Christine opened the door and there wasn’t nobody in the room. And he was more surprised when he saw Joseph Buquet, who was dead.
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ReplyDeleteASSIGNMENT FOR WEDENSDAY, 22ND AUGUST.
ReplyDeleteChapter 2: Box 5
1. Speak about the retirement ceremony: Sorelli, Jammes, Giry, the managers: retiring and new.
2. Speak about the keys, the strange person in the dinner, what did he do?
3. What did the strange man say? How did M. Moncharmin and M. Richard react?
4. What did M. Moncharmin explain in his memories? 4. a) Why were M. Richard and M. Moncharmin amused? 4. b) What did the Memorandum Book contain? What were the attitudes to the rules of the ghost?
5. Describe what kind of people were M. Moncharmin and M. Richard?
6. Talk about the letter that the new managers received. Who sent it? What did it say? (demands)
7. What did the new managers think of the letter? What did they do?
8. What other two letters did the new managers receive?
9. What did the new managers know about Box 5 the morning after they decided to sell Box 5? (inspector’s report)
10. Speak about the conversation between the Box Keeper (Madame Giry) and M. Moncharmin and M. Richard.
11. What was Madame Giry like?
12. What did Madame Giry say about the Ghost and M. Poligny?
13. And about the ghost?
14. What did the managers do?
Chapter 3: THE ANGEL OF MUSIC
ReplyDelete1. What happened to Christine after that famous night?
2. What did Christine’s note to the Viscount say? What did he do?
3. Speak about Christine’s family and early years.
4. What did Daaé’s father do one summer?
5. What was the incident with the scarf?
6. What stories did Daaé’s father tell her?
7. Who did Daaé’s father meet three years later?
8. What happened after Daaé’s father die?
9. What does Raoul feel at present?
10. Talk about Raoul and Christine’s encounter.
11. What’s Christine’s secret? How did Raoul react?
12. What happened to Raoul that night at Perros Guirec?
13. What did Monsieur Richard and Monsieur Moncharmin see in Box 5?
Chapter 4: The Curse
ReplyDelete1. What were the conditions that the OG expressed to the managers in a letter?
2. How did M. Richard react to M. Giry?
3. What did Carlotta receive? How did she react? What did she do?
4. Was Carlotta or was M. Richard concerned about her health?
5. What did Carlotta receive? How did she react?
6. What was unusual that night?
7. Who were invited by M. Richard? What were his plans with that lady?
8. What was unusual after the managers returned at the end of the second Act?
9. What were Christine’s thoughts as she sang and when she saw Raoul?
10. What happened when Carlotta was singing?
11. And what happened the next day?
12. Speak about the Viscount’s visit to Madame Valérius.
13. Where dis Raoul go after that? What did he learn?
14. What happened in the woods?
Hello teacher, sorry for not to go to the institute! I would like to know if we have to do something for friday? Thanks! Luciana :)
ReplyDeleteChapter 5: A Party Mask
ReplyDelete1. What did Raoul think about Christine before going to the party? How did he meet her there?
2. What were his feelings towards Christine? Who did Raoul notice while he was following Christine?
3. Who came to the place where they were? What did Raoul do?
4. How did Christine react?
5. Why did Christine want to see Raoul
6. What was Christine like when she took off her mask?
7. After Christine left Raoul, where did he go?
8. What happened when Raoul was hiding behind the curtains?
9. What did Raoul do when he pulled back the curtain?
10. What happened the next day?
11. What did Raoul promise Christine?
Chapters 4–6
What happened when …?
a Madame Giry told the managers that she had
received a letter from the ghost?
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b Carlotta received a letter threatening her if she
appeared on stage that night?
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c Carlotta sang her only two lines in the second
act?
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d the managers returned to Box Five for the
third act?
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e the managers returned and found the opera
glasses and remembered Madame Giry’s
words?
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Answer the following questions.
After the chandelier fell, what happened to
a Carlotta? …………………………………….
b Christine Daaé? ……………………………..
c Madame Giry? ………………………………
Who speaks, writes or sings these words and
to whom?
a “But you know as well as I do that Christine
couldn’t marry, even if she wanted to.”
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b “The genius gives her lessons? Where?”
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c “Go to the masked party at the Opera on the
night after tomorrow.”
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d “Dear, it is a tragedy!”
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e “Our lives are joined forever and a day!”
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f “Who is this Erik?”
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Choose the correct word.
talent beautifully enthusiastic doubt
performance
Count Chagny was right. No (a) ………… had
ever equaled this one. Christine Daaé had shown
her true (b) ………… for the first time to the
surprised and (c) ………… audience. There
were many famous pieces (d) ………… sung by
the singers of the day, but Christine Daaé had
been, without (e) …………, the best.