老师：Hello everyone. Welcome to our English classroom. I'm your teacher for today's lesson. I'm Chen Yao from the Experimental High School attached to Beijing Normal University. I feel greatly honored to teach you here, and I do hope that my teaching today can be of some help to your English learning.
老师：Today we are going to learn topic talk. You must have Learned that the theme of this unit is art. I think it generally refers to issue in Chinese. So before we get started into our lesson, I want you to get a clear picture of two terms we're going to deal with throughout the whole unit. The first one is art. When we talked about art, what comes into your mind? Masterpieces by famous painters like a Starry Night, the thinker sculpture. Yes, they are art. According to dictionaries, art is creation or expression of something beautiful, especially in a visual form. For example, painting and sculpture. The second term is the arts. The arts are activities which people can take part in for enjoyment or to create works which express serious meanings or ideas of beauty. Good. Next, let's look at some art forms. I'm going to play a video clip before you watch it. I have three questions for you in the show. Question 1, how many singers are there? Question 2, what type of music are they playing? Question 3, are the fans enjoying the show? Please watch carefully and later I'll collect answers from you. To the hotel.
老师：Okay. In the video, you can see more than one singer singing and playing music. We call them a band. A band refers to a group of musicians who play modern music together. And the band is giving a band performance on the stage.
老师：As for the type of music they are playing, I don't think they're playing jazz or classical music. I bet they are playing country rock music. Do you think the fans are enjoying the performance? Yes, indeed. They are definitely feeling happy and cheerful. So we can say they are enjoying the uplifting atmosphere here.
老师：Band performance, jazz and classical music are different art forms. The next art form I'd like to mention is drama. Drama includes a broad range of work. It refers to a play in a theater or on radio or on TV. In drama, there is one type that aims to make the audience laugh.
老师：It is comedy. For example, Home Alone is a Christmas comedy. In the comedy, there is a talented boy. Each time he succeeds in defeating the bad guys who want to hurt him.
老师：There is another art form that combines drama, music, song and sometime dance. It is called opera. Here is a very good example, a worldwide famous opera, Carmen. In China, we have a very unique type of opera. Yes, this is Beijing Opera.
老师：And the clothes actors and actresses wear in dramas, plays, operas are called costumes. Okay. Can you name the ar
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