Day 2 - Theater

Today’s class will focus on theater while incorporating grammar, reading, listening, and conversation practice, as usual.

Grammar: Past Continues tense  - just like the Present Continues - refers to an action in progress, but in the past.

Reading: In the following text, students will read an introduction to a television play: بهترین تله تئاترهای تاریخ تلویزیون ایران | 66 اثر ناب و تماشایی

Listening: As a part of our listening practice, we will watch a television play after reading the introduction: تله تئاتر " خرده جنایت های زن و شوهری " با بازی محمدرضا فروتن و نيكي كريمي

Conversation topic: Are you interested in theater?

Homework:
- Monologue: tell the story of a theater you have watched.
- Write a draft of your everyday life in Yerevan.

Vocabulary:

Persian Transcription English
تله تئاتر teleteātr   television play
نویسنده‌ nevisande writer
معاصر mo'āser contemporary
نمایش‌نامه‌نویس namāyešnāmenevis playwright
منتشر شده montasher šode published
فلسفه falsafe philosophy
نظیر nazir like, similar
ترجمه شدن tarjome šodan to be translated
خشک xošk dry
جدی jeddi serious
روبه‌رو بودن ruberu budan to face
قرار است qarār ast it is supposed
اختلاف extelāf disagreement
به شکل واضح be šekl-e vāzeh clearly 
بیان کردن bayān kardan to say, to express
روانکاوانه ravānkāvāne psychoanalytic
تماشاگران tamāšāgarān audience, spectators
منتقدان montaqedān critics
فیلم‌سازی filmsāzi filmmaking
عکاسی 'akkāsi photography