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From the Ted Talk by Cara Greene Epstein: How theater weathers wars, outlasts empires and survives pandemics
Unscramble the Blue Letters
Now, many art forms conenct us to our emotions, but what makes the theater unique is that it reveals us to ourselves onstage so that we can see that our levis are about our relationships and our connections to others — to our parents, to our chredlin, to our teachers, to our tormentors, to our lovers, to our friends. What we do when we engage with theater is we eepcrenixe in real time, in real space, those raliesniphots and connections changing in the present — the relationships between characters onstage, yes, but also the relationships between characters and the audience and the relationships between audience members themselves.
Open Cloze
Now, many art forms _______ us to our emotions, but what makes the theater unique is that it reveals us to ourselves onstage so that we can see that our _____ are about our relationships and our connections to others — to our parents, to our ________, to our teachers, to our tormentors, to our lovers, to our friends. What we do when we engage with theater is we __________ in real time, in real space, those _____________ and connections changing in the present — the relationships between characters onstage, yes, but also the relationships between characters and the audience and the relationships between audience members themselves.
Solution
- relationships
- experience
- connect
- children
- lives
Original Text
Now, many art forms connect us to our emotions, but what makes the theater unique is that it reveals us to ourselves onstage so that we can see that our lives are about our relationships and our connections to others — to our parents, to our children, to our teachers, to our tormentors, to our lovers, to our friends. What we do when we engage with theater is we experience in real time, in real space, those relationships and connections changing in the present — the relationships between characters onstage, yes, but also the relationships between characters and the audience and the relationships between audience members themselves.
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Important Words
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