Entertainment (Unit 24)

Question 1

enjoy (v)

Answer 1

to get pleasure from something: Did you enjoy your meal?

Question 2

entertain (v)

Answer 2

to give a performance that people enjoy:

The children sang and danced to entertain the crowd.

Question 3

play (v)

Answer 3

to have a particular part in a play or film:

She played Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Question 4

act (v)

Answer 4

to perform in plays and films:

I´ve always wanted to act.

Question 5

star (v)

Answer 5

if you star in a film, play, television programme, etc, or if it stars you, you are the main actor or performer in it:
He starred in the school play.
No one has yet been chosen for the starring role.

Question 6

auditiion (n)

Answer 6

an occasion when you sing, dance or act so that someone can decide if you are good enough to perform:
Good luck with your audition for the play.

Das Vorsprechen

Question 7

rehearsal (n)

Answer 7

an occasion when you practise for the performance of a play, concert, etc:
We´ve got rehearsals every night this week.

Die Probe (daheim übe ich allein, dann fahre ich zur Probe)

Question 8

rehearse (v)

Answer 8

to practise a play, concert, etc before giving a performance:
How many times are you gooing to rehearse that song before the talent show?

(etwas) einstudieren

Question 9

practise (v)

Answer 9

to repeat an activity regularly so that you become better at it:
How many hours a day do you practise?

üben

Question 10

scene (n)

Answer 10

a part of a play, book, filmx, etc in which events happen in the same place or period of time:
I love the opening/ending scene of Macbeth.

Szene

Question 11

scenery (n)

Answer 11

the furniture and painted background on a theatre stage:
The play was good but the scenery wasn´t very realistic.

Das Bühnenbild/Die Kulisse

Question 12

stage (n)

Answer 12

the part of a theatre where the actors or musicians perform:

They had now been on stage for over four hours.

Question 13

band (n)

Answer 13

a group of musicians who play popular music:

He used to play in a jazz band.

Question 14

orchestra (n)

Answer 14

a large group of musicians who use many different instruments in order to play mostly classical music:
There are over fifty people in the school orchestra.

Question 15

group (n)

Answer 15

a small set of musicians who play pop music:

Would you like to be in a pop group?

Question 16

review (n)

Answer 16

an article in which someone gives their opinion of a play, book, exhibiton, etc:
The film got really good reviews.

Question 17

review (n)

Answer 17

an article in which someone gives their opinion of a play, book, exhibiton, etc:
The film got really good reviews.

Bewertungen

Question 18

criticism (n)

Answer 18

a comment or comments that show that you think something is wrong or bad:
The new plans drew fierce criticism from local people.

Question 19

ticket (n)

Answer 19

a piece of paper that shows that you have paid to do something such as go to a concert, visit a museum, or travel on a train, bus, plane, etc.:
We´ll send your tickets a week before your flight.

Question 20

fee (n)

Answer 20

an amount of money that you pay to be allowed to do something such as join an organisation:
The gallery charges a small entrance fee.

Question 21

novel (n)

Answer 21

a long written story about imaginery characters and events:

Have you read any of Martin Amis´novels?

Question 22

fiction (n)

Answer 22

books and stories about imaginery events and people:

Hardy wrote poetry as well as fiction.

Question 23

comic (n)

Answer 23

a magazine that contains stories told in a series of drawings:
My little brother gets a comic every Friday.

Question 24

cartoon (n)

Answer 24

a film or TV Programme made by photographing a series of drawings so that things in them seem to move;
a humorous drawing or series of drawings in a newspaper or magazine:
There´s a funny cartoon in today´s paper.

Question 25

comedian (n)

Answer 25

someone whose job is to entertain people by making them laugh:
The comedian was so bad the audience didn´t let him finish his act.

Question 26

watch (v)

Answer 26

to look at someone or something for a period of time:

Did you watch the news last night?

Question 27

see (v)

Answer 27

to watch something such as a film or television programme:

Have you seen American Beauty?

Question 28

look (v)

Answer 28

to direct your eyes towards someone or something so that you can see them:
Dan looked at his watch.

Question 29

listen (v)

Answer 29

to pay attention to a sound, or to try to hear a sound:

Do you like listening to music?

Question 30

hear (v)

Answer 30

to realise that someone or something is making a sound:

Mary heard the sound of voices.