Unit 13. Films and cinema

Teacher: Đặng Thị Kim Thảo
Rex Theatre
UNIT 13
PRE - READING
vocabulary
Action film
vocabulary
Cartoon film
vocabulary
Detective film
vocabulary
Horror film
vocabulary
Love story film
vocabulary
Science fiction film
Thriller
War film
Audience (n)
Cinema (n)
Decade (n)
Rapidly (adv.)
Scene (n)
Sequence (n)
Movement (n)
Character (n)
VOCABULARY:
Film- making industry
Series of related events or actions
group of people who have gathered together to hear or watch sb/sth
A period of 10 years
Quickly and in a short time
Part of a film
A person in a film
act of changing position
WHILE - READING
Task 1: Decide which of the options below is the best title for the passage
The Story of a Film Maker
A Brief History of cinema
The History of The Film Industry
In the first 2 decades of the cinema’s existence, it developed slowly
Films were little more than moving photographs, usually about 10
minutes in length.
3. They built special places where only films have been shown from 1915.
4. Sound was first introduced in cinema in America.
5. The musical cinema appeared in
its early days.

Task 2: Decide which statements true or false
rapidly
one
1920s
TASK 3: ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
NEXT
2
3
1
5
6
4
When did the history of cinema begin?
In the early 19th century
BACK
What did scientists discover in the early days of cinema?
BACK
When a sequence of still pictures were set in motion, they could give the feeling of movement
Did films in the early days have sound?
No, they didn’t
BACK
When were audiences able to see long films?
In the early 1910s
BACK
When was sound introduced?
At the end of the 1920s
BACK
What form of films appeared as the old silent films were being replaced by spoken ones?
The musical cinema
BACK
POST - READING

19th century
Talk about the passage, using the cues below
1910s
1905
1915
1920s
The history of cinema began
Films were about 5 or 10 minutes long
The first long films appeared
The cinema really became an industry
Sound was introduced
Summarize the passage
Prepare the speaking lesson
HOMEWORK