Unit 13. Films and cinema

Thanh My Tay High School
Unit 13: Film and cinema
Skill: Reading
Watch these following films
What kinds of film?
audience: khán giả
motion(n): sự vận động, chuyển động
news
Ex: News from Vietnam to England
Spread (v): truyền đi
film maker (adj): nhà làm phim
vocabulary
audience (n): khán giả
motion (n): sự vận động, sự chuyển đông
spread (v): truyền đi
rapid (adj)=fast: nhanh

Answer the questions
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?
Task 1: Match the words with the suitable definition
Task 2: Answer the questions
1. When did the history of cinema begin?
- It began in the early 19th century. (line 1)
2. What did scientists discover at that time?
- At that time, they discovered that when a sequence of still pictures were set tin motion, they could give the feeling of movement. ( line 2 and 3)
3. By 1905, were films about five or ten minutes long?
- Yes, they were. ( line 6 and 7)
4. When were audiences able to see long films?
- In the early 1910s, they were able to see them. ( line 9 and 10)
5. Was sound introduced at the early 1920s?
- No, it was not. It was introduced at the end of the 1920s. ( line 13 and 14)
Task 3: Decide which of the options below is the best title for the passage
A- A brief History of cinema
B- the Story of a Film maker
C- The History of the Film Industry

Discuss to fill in the blanks
long, silent, interesting, simple, colorful, short,...
Films nowadays
long
interesting
colorful
...


Films years ago
short
silent
simple
...
Homework