Unit 13. Films and cinema

TRAN THI TAM HIGH SCHOOL
TEACHER : LE VAN ANH
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I. DISCUSSION:
1.Do you want to see a film at the cinema or on TV ? Why ?
2.Can you name some of the films you have seen ?
3.What kind of films do you like to see ? Why ?
A. BEFORE YOU READ
I. DISCUSSION:
A. BEFORE YOU READ
Cartoon films
Horror films
Detective films
Love story films
Cinema
War films
Science fiction films

II: READING:



a.Listening:

II: READING:
b. vocabulary and structure

`motion (n):
set st in motion:
still (a):
spread (v):
`audience (n):
re`place (v):
exist (v) existen


move s.t
to extend over a place
thay thế


viewer
silent
the act of moving (sự chuyển động )
tồn tại
CHECKING VOCABULARY:


replace
motion
still
audience
replace
CINEMA 1924
CINEMA 2007
B. WHILE YOU READ
1.Task 1:
Instruction : You are going to read the passage silently and then do task 1.
+ First, read through the definitions provided in the task to identify the part of speech of the word to match each definition.
+ Then, go back to the passage and find the suitable words to fill the table.

ANSWER:


cinema
sequence
decade
rapidly
scene
character
Instruction: You are to read the passage again and answer the questions in the book.

+ First, read through the six questions to understand them and to underline the key words.
+ Then , locate the information for each question by finding the key words in the passage and mark the place.
2. Task 2
ANSWER:
1. The history of cinema began in the early 19th century. (line 1 )
2. At that time scientists discovered that when a sequence of still pictures were set in motion,they could give the feeling of movement.(line 2-3 )
3. No,they didn’t (line 5,lines 13-15: the early films were no more than moving photographs and it was not until the end of 1920 that sound was introduced )
4. In the early 1910s (line 9 )
5. At the end of the 1920s (line 14 )
6. The musical cinema (line 17 )
3. Task 3:
Instruction : Read the passage one more time and find the most suitable title for it.
+ First, read the options A, B, and C and find out the differences.
+ Then, go back to the passage, and read the first and the last sentence to decide the main idea.
Answer :
B (a brief history of cinema)



C. AFTER YOU READ
Instruction: You are going to work in groups and talk about the history of cinema, using these dates:
19th century, 1905, 1910s, 1915, 1920s


Suggested answer
Films were about 5-10 minutes long. (longer than early films which lasted only one minute )
The first long films were made.
Films became even longer and better. Cinemas were first built.
Sound was introduced and old silent films were replaced by the spoken ones.
D. HOMEWORK:
Write a summary of the passage using your notes taken for the After You Read task.
Match the titles of these films with their Vietnamese translations:

 

Extra activity
1. D
2. E
3. F
4. H
5. G
6. B
7. C
8. A
9. J
10. I
THANK YOU!