Unit 13. Films and cinema

TRIEU PHONG HIGH SCHOOL
TEACHER : LE QUANG NGHIA
CINEMA 1924
CINEMA 2007

ACROSS: 2. A film that makes you laugh is a... .
5.The person who makes a film.
7. All the people who act in a film. 8 .The story of a film.
DOWN: 1. The music of a film.
3.The word of a film. 4. A film that frightens you is a....film
6. The most important actor in film.


KEY
COMEDY
DIRECTOR
CAST
PLOT
SOUNDTRACK
SCRIPT
HORROR
STAR
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 ?
BEFORE YOU READ

II VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURE
`motion (n):
set st in motion:
still (a):
spread (v):
`audience (n):
re`place (v):
It was not until TIME that CLAUSE


“đến tận lúc....thì.....”; “mãi đến... mới.... ”
Ex: It was not until 1915 that cinema really became an industry.




move st
to extend over a place
thay thế


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


replace
motion
still
audience
replace
listen
WHILE YOU READ
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.
Task2
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 )
Task3:
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 (the passage briefly presents the development of the cinema from the old silent films to musicals)



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


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.
Suggested answer
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!