Unit 13. Films and cinema

films
and cinema
Unit 13
Period 80: A. Reading
Before you read
Detective
film
Horror film
Thriller film
Action
film
War film
Cartoon film
Love story film
Romantic film
Science
Fiction film
Kinds of films
Before you read
1.What do you see in these pictures?

2.Who is this?

3.Where can a lot of people see a film?

4.Name the films you see in the picture.

5.What kind of film is it?
Who are they?
Which film do they
role-play together?
Kate Winslet
Leonardo
Dicarpio
TITANIC
Group work
Task 1: Match the words in column A with their definitions in B

A
1. decade
2. rapidly
3. cinema
4. sequence
5. character
6. scene
B
film-making industry
series of related events or actions
a period of ten years
quickly and in a short time
part of a film
a person in a film
While you read
Task 2: Answer these questions:

1. When did the history of cinema begin?

2. What did scientists discover at that time?

3. How were the films in the early days?

4. When were audiences able to see long films?

5. When was sound introduced?

6. What form of films appeared as the old silent films
were being replaced by spoken ones?
Choose the colors below to find the questions to answer:
The red: question 2
? At that time scientists discovered that when a sequence of still pictures were set in motion, they could give the feeling of movement.
The yellow: question 1



The history of cinema began in the early 19th century
The black: question 5

The sound was introduced at the end of the 1920s
The pink: question 4
Audiences were able to see long films in the early 1910s
The blue: question 3
They were a sequence of still pictures set in motion without sound.
The white: question 6
As the old silent films were being replaced by spoken ones, the musical cinema appeared.
The brown: Lucky color

Congratulation!
What kind of film do you like best? Why?
Homework:

Write a short report about the last film you saw at a cinema.
Did you enjoy it? Why? Why not?