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Assistant: Leyenda: AMELIORER votre anglais - MEJORAR su inglés - Ihr Englisch VERBESSERN

Have you ever been to the theatre ?  Have you even seen a musical ?
As a student, I loved going to the theatre.  We often got cheap student tickets.  

In this video I talk briefly about London’s Theatre District, but then I take you back 400 years to one of the first London theatres… 3000 spectators squashed in like sardines !

You might also like :
"Stratford and Shakespeare" https://youtu.be/XC8yp1oHK3Y
“Crazy Nights”  https://youtu.be/dwedYXEFgIk

Favourite songs from the musicals :

The Phantom of the Opera : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL25rbnvM4o&ab_channel=Nightwish

Les Misérables – On My Own : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjfmP7h3gBw&ab_channel=engchi93

Cats – Memory : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gd_ohoPzYc&ab_channel=CatsTheMusical

Sister Act – Oh Happy Day : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-4mtA6Z88k&ab_channel=SonofManCanada

Mamma Mia! – Dancing Queen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sh3WENk7l8&ab_channel=Mammamiaworldwide

Evita – Don’t Cry for me Argentina : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD_1Z8iUDho&ab_channel=Madonna




Playlists : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1hkLZGmxdxwfhz72vKdtdA/playlists

- écouter l’anglais compréhensible (!) en choisissant une autre vidéo – il y a des légendes en anglais, voyager en anglais, des histoires en anglais, de la cuisine en anglais, de l’histoire en anglais,...

- escuche inglés comprensible (!) eligiendo otro video: hay leyendas en inglés, viajes en inglés, historias en inglés, cocina en inglés, historia en inglés,…

- Wenn Sie gerne Englisch hören, werden Sie wahrscheinlich meine anderen Videos gerne anhören. Es gibt Legenden auf Englisch, Reisen auf Englisch, Geschichten auf Englisch, Kochen auf Englisch, Geschichte auf Englisch,…

- if you like listening to English, you will probably enjoy my other videos.  There are legends in English, travel in English, stories in English, cooking in English, history in English,…


Learning tips : https://youtu.be/y98R-QV5mN4
- listen and watch all the video
(try to understand with the images, gestures and context - adjust the speed if necessary)
- listen again with the subtitles if necessary
- if you want to, write new words (not more than 10)
- listen again with NO SUBTITLES – you should understand more


smileEnglishstories - SMILE English stories with Rachel (me!)
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“I want to… understand English, listen to English I can understand, learn English vocabulary, learn English without grammar, have a conversation in English… improve my English!”

Is that you?

Perfect!  I think you are in the right place… because I want to help you to learn English, to acquire English… I want you to listen to English spoken naturally… and to understand English spoken naturally… to listen to English spoken in lots of different contexts!  I want you to enjoy English!

I want you to practice listening to English, but to listen to interesting English.  

English conversation is often an exchange of stories in English.  To have a conversation in English with someone when you travel in English, you need to master “English small talk”.  For example, you might need to :
- talk about yourself in English
- talk about family in English
- talk about food in English
- talk about weather in English
- talk about holidays in English
- talk about interests in English
- talk about sport in English

So, I am building my smileEnglishstories YouTube channel, to give you one opportunity to listen to English spoken naturally in lots of different contexts.  After all, in England we say, “Variety is the spice of life!”

And I tell you stories in English, because if you listen to interesting stories to learn English, you will be more motivated to listen to English and you will naturally improve your listening comprehension.

I try to use simple English when I make my smileEnglishstories YouTube videos.  Simple, but rich in content!  That means accessible English for beginners (good beginners), but still interesting English for elementary level and interesting English for intermediate levels.


In the comments section, do say what you enjoyed, ask questions or tell me what sort of videos you would like to see!  Then I can make videos you will want to watch!



MUSIC and SOUND effects
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Flute_tone_-Kushal_Parikh-827258279_Kushal Parikh_public

IMAGES and CLIPART
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
premier.gov.ru, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Globe from Millenium Bridge: Benjamín Núñez González / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Globe Theatre: Nigel Chadwick / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)

Favourite clipart and photo ressources :
https://wpclipart.com/
https://www.needpix.com/
Ttulo: London's West End; Musicals, Plays, more than 200 theatres... but which is MORE than 400 years old?
Descripcin: Hello there!
I am sure you have watched TV,&nbsp;
well at least once or twice,
but have you ever been to the theatre?
Do you like going to the theatre?
Do you like watching musicals?
Have you ever been on the stage?
Have you ever sung in front of a lot of people?
Have you ever acted in front of a lot of people?
There have been theatres in&nbsp;
London for more than 400 years,
and today there are more&nbsp;
than 230 theatres in London.
So I thought it might be nice&nbsp;&nbsp;
if I took you back 400 years
to one of the first theatres in London.
So we need to be posh to go&nbsp;
to the theatre in London.
So here's my bag.
Are you ready?
Let's go!
If you are new to my channel,&nbsp;
welcome to smile English stories,&nbsp;
where you can listen to English&nbsp;
in lots of different contexts.
If I speak too slowly or too quickly
you can change the speed in YouTube.
The biggest theatre district&nbsp;
(the main theatre area)&nbsp;
of London today is called the West End,
and in the West End today,&nbsp;
musicals are very popular.
They're perhaps more popular than plays.
When I was a student in London,&nbsp;
I liked going to the theatre,
and sometimes we got cheap (not&nbsp;
expensive) student tickets.
I went to see "Les Misérables" which is&nbsp;
based on the French book by Victor Hugo.
"Les Misérables" has been showing&nbsp;
in London for a long time.
It's the second longest running&nbsp;
musical in London (or show)
and it has been in London since 1985.
But it's not the longest running show in London.
The longest running show is actually
a play called "The Mousetrap" by Agatha Christie,
and I think my mum saw the play&nbsp;
when she was a student in London...
...a long time ago (sorry mum!)
I think the most famous&nbsp;
London musicals are probably&nbsp;
the musicals written by a guy&nbsp;
called Andrew Lloyd Webber.
You might have heard of "Cats".
I saw "Cats" in London, but&nbsp;
now "Cats" is not in London...
...it's travelling (or it was travelling&nbsp;
before Covid) around the world.
So I did see it with my daughter in Paris.
In London I bought the programme,
and in Paris I bought the mug!
"Has the moon lost her&nbsp;
memory? She is smiling alone."
A musical I would love to see&nbsp;
is the "Phantom of the Opera".
I only have the DVD of the film.
But I think it's beautiful dramatic music!
But let's take a step back to&nbsp;
the 1600s, Elizabethan times.
Queen Elizabeth the first&nbsp;
loved the theatre and the arts,
nd she often had actors at her palace in London.
So she must have been really happy
when the first London theatre opened back in 1576.
It was called "The Theatre" (very inventive!)...
...and the next year, another London theatre&nbsp;
opened, in 1577, called simply "The Curtain".
Now you might remember a little video
I made last year about a man called Shakespeare.
In 1599, when Shakespeare was just 35 years old,
he opened a theatre in London&nbsp;
called the "Globe Theatre".
If you looked down on the "Globe Theatre",
you would see it was round, almost like a circle.
It was made of wood, and it had 20 sides.
And if you looked at the side of the theatre,
you would see it was nine metres tall,
so it was quite a tall building,
and you would see it was an open theatre.
It had a thatched roof,&nbsp;&nbsp;
but not over all the theatre,
only around the outside of the theatre.
So now if we open the theatre,
you can see the inside of the theatre.
There was a big stage in&nbsp;
the middle of the theatre.
The stage is where the actors would stand.
And around the stage was the open place (the&nbsp;
open area) where the spectators would stand.
It was called "the yard".
My French friends say that&nbsp;
it always rains in England...
...that's not true, but it does sometimes rain!
So if you paid a little more money,
you could sit in the galleries around the yard,
and the galleries were under the roof,
so you didn't get wet if it rained!
And there were one, two,&nbsp;
three levels of galleries.
You could put three thousand&nbsp;&nbsp;
spectators in the "Globe Theatre"
(oh really?)
The "Globe Theatre" was not closed,
it was an open air theatre,
and in the galleries you did not stand,
you could sit on a wooden bench.
But in 1613, there was a&nbsp;
disaster at the "Globe Theatre".
During the performance of Henry VIII,
there was always a special effect,
there was a big cannon that fired.
But one day the cannon fired
and little sparks&nbsp;&nbsp;
of fire hit the thatched roof of the theatre...
...and the theatre set on fire
...and the theatre started to burn,
not just a little...
...one hour later all the theatre&nbsp;
had burned down to the ground!
...one hour later all the theatre&nbsp;
had burned down to the ground!
The theatre had vanished (the&nbsp;
theatre had disappeared).
But Shakespeare and his actor friends were rich&nbsp;
so they built another&nbsp;
theatre which opened in 1614,
but the theatre closed 30 years later.
But in 1997 a new "Globe&nbsp;
Theatre" opened in London,
and today you can go and see plays in the theatre,
or visit the theatre.
The theatre is in the centre of London
near the River Thames,
and opposite Saint Paul's Cathedral.
If you are visiting Saint Paul's Cathedral,
you can walk across the river over the famous&nbsp;
Millennium Bridge to get to the theatre.
If you want to go to the theatre today,
you need to buy tickets in a box office,
either online, on the internet, or at the theatre.
In Shakespeare's time there was a box too.
People came round the theatre with a box,
and you put your money in the&nbsp;
box to pay for the ticket.
In the first "Globe Theatre",
the cheapest tickets were the tickets&nbsp;
for the yard where you stood up,
and they cost one old English penny,
which was like one loaf of bread.
The most expensive tickets (for the posh people)
were in a special place in the galleries,
and they cost six pence, which&nbsp;
is like six loaves of bread!
If you go to the "Globe Theatre" in London today,
the cheapest tickets are about five English pounds&nbsp;&nbsp;
today...
...that's about three loaves of bread...
but the most expensive&nbsp;
tickets are about 50 pounds,&nbsp;
that's 35 loaves of bread!
Things are different today,
things have changed!
So before the curtain goes down,
I just wanted to say...
...if you want to learn more about Shakespeare,
...you could watch my&nbsp;
Shakespeare video from last year,
with beautiful photographs of his birth place,
the place he was born, in Stratford in England,
or you could watch my version of one of his plays.
And if you want to go to the theatre in London,
I heard you can book tickets for May or June!??!
So let's hope that Covid will&nbsp;
let us go back to the theatre,
because it has been a very&nbsp;
difficult time for people&nbsp;
working in the theatre this year and last.
Take care and see you next time! Bye!
I forgot...
I put some links to my favourite musical music
under the video.
I can't put it in the video&nbsp;
because it's copyright!
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