Soap Operas . The Real Reason Why Soap Operas Are Called Soap Operas. Lead-in. Watch the video “The real reason why soap operas are called soap operas”. What definition of a soap opera is given in the beginning of the video? . Watch again and mark sentenc

Soap Operas

Part 1

The Real Reason Why Soap Operas Are Called Soap Operas

Lead-in

Do you know what kind of series we call “a soap opera”? Why are they called like that?

Watch the video “The real reason why soap operas are called soap operas”. What definition of a soap opera is given in the beginning of the video?

Watch again and mark sentences true or false.

Soap operas were made for housewives.

Soaps are “operas” because of the same costumes like in real operas.

Soap operas were broadcast on the radio in 1940s.

Soap operas needed sponsors close to the main audience.

Soap operas are “soap” because there were soap ads in them.

Part 2

Have you ever seen these series?

Match the description of the most famous soap operas with their names. What is the same in the plots of these three series?

Coronation Street	1. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965.The series is set in Illinois in the fictional city of Salem and focuses on two families, the Brady and the Horton families.
Days of Our Lives	2. The show revolves around the eventful lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara, California. Other families featured on the soap were the rival Lockridge family, and the more modest Andrade and Perkins families.
Santa Barbara	3. It’d a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 1960. The programme centres around one street: a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford.