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Performing Arts

year 3, second semester

Main topic : Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Aim : Develop your understanding, translating and writing skills.

Method : Reading, watching, analysing and translating drama and critical texts.

Websearch Class documents and activities
About Arthur Miller :

  • Read about Arthur Miller on Enclyclopedia Britannica

  • Read about Volker Schlöndorff on Enclyclopedia Britannica

  • Watch an interview of Arthur Miller on his life and career


    Answer the six questions below:
    1. How was Death of a Salesman received when it came out ?
    2. What do we learn about his childhood ?
    3. What did his marriage with Mary Slattery bring him ?
    4. Why did Miller go into psychoanalysis ?
    5. Why was The Crucible a political play ?
    6. What happened to his friendship with Elia Kazan ?
  • About Death of a Salesman :

  • Watch an analysis of the play and film film

  • Read an analysis of Death of a Salesman
  • Script exerpts and commentaries :
  • Class documents, and commentaries
  • Commentary on text two : reading A / reading B
  • Commentary on text three : Part one ; Part two ; Part three
  • Commentary on text four : reading A ; reading B
  • Commentary on text five: Part one ; Part two ; Part three
  • Commentary on text 6 : reading A / reading B.
  • Commentary on text 7 : reading A / reading B.
  • GRAMMAR :

    Grammatical self-service / Grammar exercises

    VOCABULARY

    Drama vocabulary list

    Vocabulary exercise 1 and 2.

    PHONETICS

    Word-stress in English

    Word stress on suffixes 1
    Word stress on suffixes 2
    Word stress on suffixes 3
    Word stress on suffixes 4
    How to pronounce the letter O ?
    How to pronounce the letter A ?
    How to pronounce the letters A and O ?
    How to pronounce the letters EA ? (part A)
    How to pronounce the letters EA ? (part B)
    Full forms and reduced forms
    How to pronounce long words ? sentence 1 / sentence2 / sentence 3 / sentence 4
    How to pronounce the consonants H - P - T - K - L in British English?

    Some extra activities at the Maison des langues