Unit 13. Films and cinema

Welcome to our class!
Pronunciation
* Listen and repeat.
He feels happy enough.
I want a photograph for myself and my wife.
Would you prefer a full photograph or a profile?
Stephen is driving a van full of vines.
We used to live in a village in the valley.
They arrived in the village on a van.
* Practise these sentences..
Pronunciation
* Listen and repeat.
Grammar
* Participle adjectives
exciting excited
terrifying terrified
amusing amused
boring bored
Compare:
The bored children started to get restless.
The play was really boring.
2. I’m pleased with the result.
It’s a pleasing result.
=>The -ING adjectives: the ‘something’/ The –ED adjectives: the ‘someone’.
Exercise 1: Complete two sentences for each situation.
It’s been raining all day. I hate this weather. (depress)
The weather is ____________.
This weather makes me _________.
2. Astronomy is one of Tan’s main interests. (interest)
Tan is _______ in astronomy.
He finds astronomy very _________.
3. I turned off the television in the middle of the program. (bore)
The program was _________.
I was ________ with the program.
Exercise 1: Complete two sentences for each situation.
4. Lan is going to Singapore next month. She has never been there before. (excite)
Lan is really ______ about going to Singapore.
It will be an _______ experience for her.
5. Huong teaches small children. It’s a hard job. (exhaust)
Huong often finds her job _________.
At the end of the day’s work she is often ________.
Grammar
* “It is/ was not until ... that ...”
1. The Olympic Games doesn’t take place until 2008.
=> It is not until 2008 that the Olympic Games takes place.
2. The cinema did not become an industry until 1915.
=> It was not until 1915 that the cinema really became an industry.
3. She did not apply for a job until she married.
=> It was not until she married that she applied for a job.
It was not until (a point of time/ a clause) that – clause.
Đến tận .../ Mãi tới ...
Form:
Exercise 2: Rewrite these sentences.
1. She did not become a teacher until 1990.
2. He didn’t know how to swim until he was 30.
3. They didn’t begin to learn English until 1980.
4. The boy didn’t do his homework until his father came home.
5. The football match didn’t start until the lights were on.
=> It was not until 1990 that she became a teacher.
=> It was not until he was 30 that he knew how to swim.
=> It was not until 1980 that they began to learn English.
=> It was not until his father came home that the boy did his homework.
=> It was not until the lights were on that the football match started.
Grammar
* Article: A/ AN/ THE
A : a pencil a book a newspaper
AN: an umbrella an orange an ice-cream
Ex: I’ve got a pencil.
Ex: There is an orange on the table.
THE:
Ex: There are two books on the table: a new one and an old one. The new one is expensive.
Exercise 4: Put a, an or the in the numbered blanks
This morning I bought (0)_____ newspaper and (1)____ magazine. (2)____ newspaper is in my bag, but I don’t know where I put (3)_____ magazine.
I saw (4)____ accident this morning. (5)_____ car crashed into (6)____ tree. (7)_____ driver of (8)_____ car wasn’t hurt, but (9)____ car was badly damaged.
There are two cars parking outside: (10)___ blue one and (11)____ grey one. (12)____ blue one belongs to my neighbours; I don’t know who (13)____ owner of the grey car is.
My friends live in (14)____ old house in (15)_____ small village. There is (16)______ beautiful garden behind (17)____ house. I would like to have (18)_____ garden like that.