Unit 13. Films and cinema

PART A: READING

TEAcHER: nguyen thanh thuy


WARM UP Game- open pictures and guess What is it?


Look at small pictures,choose and answer the questions and guess “what is it” behind them
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Question 1:
Who is the main actress in “The ugly girl”?


Ngoc Hiep


Lose a turn


Get 5 points
Question 2:
What programme is on VTV3 at 6 pm?

Film
Question 3:
What kind of film is “Tom and Jerry”?
Cartoon
Question 4:
Who is the main actor in “Full house”?

Brain
BEFORE YOU READ
New words:
Sequence (n)

một chuỗi, 1 loạt
sự vận động

= Viewer: kh¸n gi¶

nhân vật
Motion (n)

Audience (n)
Character (n)
Decade(n)
Thập niên
Rapidly(adv)
= quickly
Scene(n)
cảnh
Check-vocabulary
Match the word in A with the definition in B
1.Audience
2.Decade

3.Sequence
4.Rapidly

5.Character
6.Scene

While you read
Set the scene
You are going to read the passage about cinema and do the Tasks.

Task 1
Decide which of the options below is the best title for the passage
The story of a Film Maker
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B.
A Brief History of Cinema
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The History of the Film Industry
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TASK 2
Answer the following questions
1.When did the history of cinema begin?

2.What did the scientists discover at that time?

3.How did the cinema develop in the first two decades of its existence?

4.Did film in the early days have sound?

5.When were audiences able to see long films?

6.When did the cinema really become an industry?

7.When was sound introduced?

8.What form of films appeared as the old silent films were being replaced by spoken?

1.In the early 19th centuary.
2.They discovered that when a sequence of still picture was set in motion,they could give the feeling of movement
3.It developed rapidly.
4.No, they didn’t
5.In the early 1910s.
6.In 1915
7.At the end of the 1920s
8.The musical cinema.
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After you read
Talk about the history of cinema, using these dates:19th century, 1905, 1910s, 1915, 1920s.

Learn new words by heart.

Find all kinds of film you know.

Prepare for your speaking activities.
homework
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