TEACHERS AND ACTORS То be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of the good actor: you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.

Watch a good teacher and you will see that he doesn't sit motionless before his class: he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.

The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn't mean that he will indeed be able to act well on stage: for there are very important differences between the teacher's work and the actor's. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays the certain part; even his movements and the way he uses his voice are usually fixed before. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.
A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don't understand something, they say so. The teacher therefore has to suit his act to the needs of his audience, which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.

I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were unable to take part in a stage-play because their brains wouldn't keep strictly to what another had written.

ответьте на следующие вопросы:
1. Why does a good teacher need some of the gifts of a good actor?
2. Is there anything in common between the teacher's work and the actor's?
3. What are the differences between the teacher's work and the actor's?
4. Why must a good teacher improvise in the course of the lesson?
5. What are the gifts of an actor that a good teacher must have?
6. Do you think a good teacher can make a good actor? Explain your point.
7 What is the difference between the audience of students and that of theater-goers?
8. What is your idea of an ideal teacher?
9. What qualities in a teacher do you dislike?
10. Why would (wouldn’t) you like to become a teacher?
11. What are, in your opinion, advantages and disadvantages of the teachers work?

Верны ли следующие утверждения?
1. A good teacher doesn't sit motionless before his class.
2. The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor means that he will be able to act well on stage.
3. A teacher's audience takes an active part in his play.

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