Unit 13. Festivals

TITANIC
TYPES OF FILMS:
Detective films
Science fiction films
Love story films
Cartoon films
Comedies
Horror films
Action films
Kungfu films
LOVE STORY FILMS
FULL HOUSE
MR BEAN
TOM & JERRY
THE RING
STAR
WARS
TYPES OF FILMS
DETECTIVE FILMS
SCIENCE FICTION FILMS
LOVE STORY FILMS
CARTOON FILMS
COMEDIES
HORROR FILMS
ACTION FILMS
KUNGFU FILMS
TITLES OF FILMS
FULL HOUSE
MR BEAN
TOM AND JERRY
THE RING
STAR WARS


What kinds of films do you like best?
Where do you want to see them? At home or at the cinema?
How often do you go to the cinema?
Cinema (n) = a building where films/movies are shown
E.g. The local cinema was being rebuilt.
Discover (v) = find out
E.g. Columbus discovered America in 1492.
Discovery (n)
Sequence (n) = series of related events or actions
In motion = moving ≠ still
E.g. They set the machinery in motion.
Movement (n) = an act of moving the body or part of it
E.g. hand/eye movements
V + “-ment”  N
Decade (n) = a period of ten years
Existence (n) = the state of being real/living
Exist (v)
Rapidly (adv) = quickly and in a short time ≠ Slowly
ADJ + “-ly”  ADV
Scene (n) = part of a film
Character (n) = a person in a film
E.g. Jack Dawson is the main character in Titanic


Film maker (n) = a person who makes films
Spread (v) = extend
E.g. Use of computers spread rapidly during this period.

Replace (v) = be used instead of sb/sth else
E.g. Teachers will never be replaced by computers in the classroom.

Find the word in the passage that can match with the definition on the right column:

Cinema
Sequence
Decade
Rapidly
Scene
Character
Decide which of the options below is the best title for the passage:

The Story of a Film Maker

A Brief History of Cinema

The History of the Film Industry
Work in pairs. Answer these questions:

When did the history of cinema begin?
What did scientists discover at that time?
Did films in the early days have sound?
When were audiences able to see long films
When was sound introduced?
What form of films appeared as the old silent films were being replaced by spoken ones?
In the early 19th century
At that time the scientists discovered that when a sequence of still pictures was set in motion, they could give the feeling of movement.
No, they didn’t.
In the early 1910s
At the end of the 1920s
The musical cinema appeared.
Decide which of the following statements are
True/False/No Information (T/F/NI)

The history of cinema began in the early 19th century.
The cinema developed slowly in the first two decades of its existence.
Films were made in a long period of time by 1905.
In the early 1910s the first long films appeared.
The introduction of sound spread from America to Vietnam in late 1920s.
The musical cinema was formed as the old silent films were being replaced by spoken ones
Work in groups. Summarize the main points of the passage by the following time prompts:
19th century, 1905, 1910s, 1915, 1920s

Memorise all the new vocab
Reread the passage
Do perfectly all the tasks
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