Discuss with your partners :

1. Have you ever been to an opera? 2. How would you define the opera ? 3. Do you like listening to the opera? Why or why not ? 4. Do you know the names of famous opera singers ? Which ones ? 5. Imagine what kind of life have opera singer ? Whats their daily routine ? What are their character like ? (personnality adjective)

Opera singer Cake, 1998

Vocabulary tape : a long narrow sticky material used to attach things together to call someone names : to insult to play a part : to play a role to rehearse : to practice in preparation of a public performance to be blessed : to be lucky to have something

I am an opera singer I stand on painted tape It tells me _________________________ And where to throw my cape I call my co-stars ____________ I call my co-stars names I play both good and evil ___________ I sing to Verdi's play

I am an opera singer I sing in foreign lands I've sung for Kings in __________ And emperors in ___________

And after each _______________ People stand around and wait Just to tell me that they love ____ ______ Just to tell me that I'm great

And every single ___________ By 10 a.m I'm dressed My rehearsals last for hours and hours With diligence, I have been ____________ Some people they call me monster Some people they call me saint My ___________ feeds my darker side Yet no one will complain

I am an opera singer I will sing when you're all dead I sing the mountains crumbling apart I sing _________ ________ ____ _____

I am an opera singer I sing in foreign lands Most people seem to ____________ Or at least know ___________________.