Unit 13. Films and cinema

WARMER: Recognise the films.
Journey to the West
Canh Dong Hoang
Charles Chaplin
Titanic
Films And Cinema
Reading
Lesson A:
Unit 13
VOCABULARY
discover (v):
history (n):
motion (n):
movement (n):
audience (n):
replace (v):
form (n):
introduce (v):
lịch sử
phát hiện, tìm ra
sự vận động
chuyển động
khán giả
thay thế
hình thức, hình dạng
giới thiệu, đưa vào
history
form
movement
audience
discover
introduce
motion
replace
PRE-READING:
1) Did films in the early days have sounds?
2) Is cinema an industry?
3) Are there differences between the modern films and the old ones?
WHILE-READING:
TASK 1: Choose the best title for the passage.
A) The Story of a Film Maker
B) A Brief History of Cinema
C) The History Of the Film Industry
TASK 2:
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1) When did the history of cinema begin?
The history of cinema began in the early 19th century.
2) What did scientists discover at that time?
At that time, scientists discovered that when a sequence of still pictures were set in motion, they could give the feeling of movement.
Audiences were able to see long films in the early 1910s.
3) When were audiences able to see long films?
4) When was sound introduced?
Sound was introduced at the end of the 1920s.
As the old silent films were being replaced by spoken ones, the musical cinema appeared.
5) What form of films appeared as the old silent films were being replaced by spoken ones?
Task 3: Finding the words from context.
Sequence
Decade
Rapidly
Scene
Character
1.Film-making industry
2.Series of related events or actions
3.A period of ten years
4.Quickly and in a short time
5.Part of a film
6.A person in a film
Cinema
POST-READING: Work in groups
Talk about the passage.
19th century
1910s
1915
1905
1920s
HOMEWORK:
Write the answers to the questions from 1 to 6 in Task 2 (page 133 and 134).
Prepare the Speaking lesson.