Words and words combinations: To do(to show) a new play – ставить новую пьесуEvening performance – вечерний спектакльMatinee - утренний спектакльTo be рорulаr with — пользоваться успехом, быть популярнымTo be on - идтиTo be in the repertoir — быть в репертуареTo be off - быть снятым с репертуараThe Drama Theatre — драматический театрTo be a success — пользоваться успехомTo be a failure – провалиться (о спектакле)To book seats -заказать билетыBox-office — касса (театральная)Составить краткий текст​

The friendship of horse and man has more than one hundred years.  The horse has long been a special position in the human soul.  This noble animal helps, delights and even heals a person.  It is not surprising that such a special relationship between a horse and a man begins to emerge from childhood and help children's toys in this.  As it often happens, little men are trained during the game.  Thus, one of the initial applications of rocking horses in the Middle Ages was associated with training in horse riding.  This toy not only entertains, but teaches the balance, so necessary for riding.  Indeed, in the Middle Ages the horse was of great importance in human life.  The Middle Ages - the era of knights, beautiful ladies and warhorses.  And it's hard to imagine without riders.  Meanwhile, the history of horse-rocking began much earlier in the fifth century AD.  in Greece.  By the XVII-XVIII centuries, rocking horses acquired the familiar look.  However, the wide distribution of rocking horses was obtained only thanks to English nobles only in the 19th century.  At that time it was for the most part a toy of future kings or noble nobles, and the rocking horses themselves were made by masters of carving and richly decorated.  The rich history of the toy can not but abound with myths and legends.  Most of all they were put together in the story "Wooden horse" by the Spanish writer Fernando H.M. Dominguez Gonzalez.  Thus, it is generally believed that Genghis Khan, before becoming the conqueror of many peoples who were feared in the most remote, known at that time, corners of the earth, honed his character and his imagination on the rump of one of the wooden horses.  The legend tells that he never left his wooden horse, and even in the farthest cold steppes she occupied an honorable place in his tent.  Another famous commander in his childhood could not imagine his existence without this legendary toy.  As the legend says, Alexander the Great, when he was a child, could not fall asleep without skipping a few hours on his wooden horse.  Few people know that one of the legendary historical Spanish heroes Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, known as the "Sid Conqueror", met his future wife, Jimena, when they were children.  This happened during a visit to the castle of one of their common relatives.  Both stubborn, with character, began to fight for the right, who would first climb a beautiful wooden horse that stood in one of the huge salons, black as agate, the size of a real one, with a harness adorned with jewels.  You can find many interesting facts from the long life of rocking horses.  Meanwhile, a mass toy for children, produced in-line, the rocking horse was only at the end of the XIX century.  At the same time, still preserved individual samples of this toy are real works of art.  So, in the Museum of Childhood in London, a horse, created in the distant 1605, is kept.