High School Musical 3

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1 Learning Objectives: High School Musical 3 Poem & Songs Integrated Skills Development Listening Students will: Be introduced to one of the songs from the new movie, High School Musical 3. Discuss the process of incarnation in musical theatre and film. Learn the vocabulary related Broadway and income generated. Get feel mega musicals as a form of entertainment. Interesting Tidbit: Zac Efron, who plays High School Musical s Troy Bolton, graduated Arroyo Grande High School in June His favourite sports include golf, skiing, rock climbing, snowboarding, and surfing. He lives at home with his parents and his younger brother Dylan. They have an Australian Shepherd puppy, and a Siamese cat named Simon. 16, 16, 16 minutes left Better get it done 16, 16, 16 more minutes Get ready, GAME ON! This is the last chance to make our mark (Shoot!) History will know who we are (Yeah) This is the last game so make it count It s now or never This is the last time to get it right (Ooh) This is the last chance to make it or not (Yeah) We gotta show what we are all about (Team!) Work together Right now I can hardly breathe Ohh, you can do it Just know that I believe And that's all I really need Then come on! Make me strong It's time to turn it up GAME ON! WILDCATS! Gonna tear it up GO WILDCATS! WILDCATS! HEY WILDCATS! We're the champions GO, GO, GO TEAM! Oh! WILDCATS! The way we play tonight Is what we leave behind (that's right)

2 It all comes down to right now It's up to us (Let's go!) So what are we gonna be? T-E-A-M TEAM! Gotta work it out Turn it on Come on! This is the last time to get it right (Ooh) This is the last chance to make it on back (Yeah) We gotta show what we are all about (Team!) Work together Yeah n inference question. Refer to paragraph 5: This is the last chance to make our mark (Shoot!). You don t shoot in any of the other sports. Listening Questions 1. Who are The Wildcats? a school synchronised swimming team an American football team a school volleyball team a school basketball team factual question. Refer to paragraph 1: 16, 16, 16 minutes left. 2. Why do the singers keep repeating 16 at the beginning of the song? It s the number of players in the team. It s the age of the players in the team. It s the number of minutes left in the game. It s the number of goals they need to score. n inference question. Refer to paragraph 9 & 10: This is the last time to get it right (Ooh) This is the last chance to make it or not (Yeah). 3. What does the song tell us about the team? They will be relegated if they loose this game. They are in the cup final. It is their last game of the season. The coach is going to work in a different school next year.

3 factual question. Refer to paragraph 5 & 6: This is the last chance to make our mark (Shoot!) History will know who we are (Yeah). 4. Complete the following using words from the passage to show that the Wildcats want people to remember them. This is the last chance to make our mark History will know who we are Vocabulary Exercise Integrative use of listening, spelling and written structures 1. The new musical will open on Broadway next month. 2. The slumping economy has affected morale. 3. Simon and Julian were vying for her attention all through dinner. 4. I m going to keep a close eye on that naughty young girl. Vocabulary Reading Comprehension Broad way noun a street in New York City where there are many theatres. Broadway and the area around it is the centre of the city's theatre industry Example: The show will open on Broadway next week. close eye expression to watch something closely Example: I'm going to keep a close eye on that naughty young girl. Monster Musicals Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe gets naked, Tom Cruise's wife Katie Holmes does Arthur Miller and cartoon ogre Shrek vies with ballet-dancing Billy Elliot in a battle of the monster musicals. The new season on Broadway offers plenty for the theatre fan, but it is not just fans who keep a close eye on the ups and downs of New York's theatre world. The Broadway League, a trade association, says the 39 Broadway theatres contribute $5.1 billion per year to the economy of New York, on top of ticket sales, and support 44,000 jobs. "Every major tourism city has to have a driver, and for New York, the No. 1 driver is theatre," said Charlotte St. Martin, executive

4 driv er noun something that provides impetus or motivation, e.g. within an organisation Example: Every major tourism city has to have a driver, and for New York, the No. 1 driver is theatre, said Charlotte St. Martin, executive director of the Broadway League. gloom y adjective making you feel that things will not improve Example: Despite the gloomy economy, St. Martin said ticket sales had not been hit and the weak dollar was attracting more foreign visitors. slump ing adjective [from to slump] to suddenly go down in price, value, or number Example: The slumping U.S. economy is bad news for investors. vies verb [from to vie] to compete very hard with someone in order to get something Example: Harry Potter star director of the Broadway League. Broadway producers will be trying to break the $1 billion barrier in annual ticket sales this season at a time when the slumping economy is making consumers think twice about spending $100 on theatre tickets. Among the most anticipated new shows is "Shrek", based on the 1990 book and the 2001 Oscar-winning DreamWorks film about a green ogre and a princess. Also based on a movie is "Billy Elliot", the story of a British boy from a coal-mining town who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer. A hit in London, it has songs by Elton John and was adapted from the Universal Pictures film. ESTABLISHED BRANDS "Last year we didn't have a lot of well-known titles, brands that were already established, and this year we have more of those," St. Martin said. In that category she also pointed to a revival of "West Side Story" and "9 to 5", with music by Dolly Parton and based on the 1980 film starring Parton and Jane Fonda. Fans of the French Revolution tale "Les Miserables" will be the prime target for another big new show, "A Tale of Two Cities," based on the Charles Dickens novel. Disney, whose mega-shows "The Lion King", "Mary Poppins" and "The Little Mermaid" regularly gross more than US$3 million a week between them, has no new offerings this year. Coming to the end of his Harry Potter years, Radcliffe will make his Broadway debut, and get naked, in Peter Shaffer's psychological thriller "Equus" with Richard Griffiths.

5 Daniel Radcliffe gets naked, Tom Cruise's wife Katie Holmes does Arthur Miller and cartoon ogre Shrek vies with ballet-dancing Billy Elliot in a battle of the monster musicals. Despite the gloomy economy, St. Martin said ticket sales had not been hit and the weak dollar was attracting more foreign visitors. Additionally, Americans are choosing domestic vacations and New York as a destination. "For us right now it's still all talk and no reality," St. Martin said of recession fears. "We're still achieving better results than we were at the same time last year." Questions for Speaking and Journalling 1. Are the High School Musical movies incarnations of other musicals? 2. Do you think that musical theatre can still exist as a creative art form? Discuss. reference question. Refer to paragraph 10: Fans of the French Revolution tale Les Miserables Reading Comprehension Questions 1. According to the article, what is Les Miserables about? dreams and how they work the rebellion of the upper classes the French Revolution the slumping economy n inference question. Refer to paragraph 13: St. Martin said ticket sales had not been hit and the weak dollar was attracting more foreign visitors. This statement indicates that foreigners are getting value for their money when purchasing Broadway tickets. 2. Why was the weak dollar attracting foreign visitors? A weaker dollar allows visitors the freedom to invest in a Broadway musical. A weaker currency means value for money for foreign visitors to the US. A weaker dollar is seen as a valuable commodity for US citizens. A weaker dollar does not attract foreign visitors.

6 reference question. In paragraph 4, driver refers to the backbone of the tourism industry. 3. In paragraph 4, what does driver mean? an inhibitor the backbone a natural desire a piece of software reference question. Refer to paragraph 13: gloomy economy ticket sales had not been hit and the weak dollar [and] Americans are choosing domestic vacations and New York as a destination. 4. According to the article, why do Americans prefer not to travel outside of their country recently? Many Americans are too fat to fly. They do travel outside of America. They worry about their safety after 9/11. The economy is bad. reference question. Refer to paragraph 11: regularly gross more than US$3 million a week Therefore, a month s ticket sales would be US$12 million. 5. How much does Disney generate from The Lion King, Mary Poppins and The Little Mermaid in a month? US$3 million US$12 million US$1 billion per musical US$5.1 billion for all three musicals reference question. all talk refers to a situation where no action has been taken to bring about results. 6. In the last paragraph, all talk means... a promising speech a great conversationalist something completely untrue nothing concrete to support something vocabulary question. Refer to anticipated in the dictionary. 7. Which word in the text is similar in meaning to eagerly awaited? Quote your answer from the passage. anticipated

7 Speaking Integrative use of listening and speaking 1. The slumping U.S. economy is bad news for investors. 2. A gloomy feeling hung over the town like a thick fog. 3. They were eagerly anticipating their trip to Spain. 4. There are many reality TV programmes in America. 5. He always dreamed of acting on Broadway. Usage Put the following in the right part of speech. e.g. Disney has no new offerings (offer) this year. 1. Shrek is an Oscar-winning (win) film. 2. This production is a revival (revive) of a famous musical. 3. The new show is based (base) on Dickens s A Tale of Two Cities. 4. The continuously slumping (slump) economy accounts for declining ticket sales. 5. Cinemas have taken record bookings (book) for High School Musical The theatre world has gone through lots of ups and downs (down). Special thanks to