Module 10 Lao She’s TeahouseUnit 2 It takes place in a teahouse

What works of Lao She do you know?

What are the people in the pictures doing?

acrobatics

waiter

customer

waitress

performance

audience

Qing Dynasty

silver

Read the passage and answer the questions:

1. When does the story start?

2. What do people do in Lao She’s Teahouse today?

3. Who is the important person in Teahouse?

4. Where did Lao She study and work?

5. What was he named by people?

Read the passage again and complete the sentences:

1. The play shows _____________ life in China between 1898 and 1945.

2. It asks us ____________ the teahouse as the centre of the neighborhood.

3. It says ___________ to old Beijing and its people.4. Then Wang loses _____________.5. Lao She learned ______________ at the Teacher’s

School in Beijing.6. Lao She taught ___________ to the English in

London.

the audience

to see

goodbye

the teahouseto teach

Chinese

Match the words and expressions with their meanings:

• audience

• continue

• customer

• neighborhood

• take place

• war

• part of a town where people live

• to star doing something again after stopping

• fighting between countries

• to happen

• a person buying tings

• people watching a play or film

The Sound of Music

Homework: