Unit 13. Films and cinema

CÂU HỎI KIỂM TRA BÀI CŨ
Where did you see it.
What kind of film is it?
3. What is it about?
4. Who is the main character?
5. Why do you prefer it to other films?

1. What is it?
2. What do people come here for?
3. Have you ever been here?
4. What kind of films did you see?


CINEMA
- Cinema (n) = film-making industry
- Sequence (n) = series of related events or actions
- Decade (n) = a period of ten years
- Rapidly (adv) = quickly and in a short time
- Scene (n) = part of a film
- Character (n) = a person in a film
Still (a) = silent
- Spread (v) = to extend over a place


1. When did the history of cinema begin?
?In the early 19th century. ( line 1)
2. What did scientists discover at that time?
At that time the scientists discovered that when a sequence of still pictures was set in motion, they could give the feeling of moment ( line 2,3 )
3. Did films in the early days have sound?
?No, they didn?t. ( line 5 )
4. When were audiences able to see long films?
? In the early 1910s. ( line 9 )
5. When was sound introduced?
?At the end of the 1920s ( line 14 )
6. What form of films appeared as the old silent films were being replaced by spoken ones?
?The musical cinema appeared( line 17 )
Complete the following sentences by using the events mentioned in the passage

1.______ is the year when films were about 5 or 10 minutes long.
2.______ is the year when the first long films were made.
3.______is the year when films became longer and better.
4. ______ is the year when sound was introduced and old silent films were replaced by the spoken ones.
1905
1910s
1915
1920s
1/ Write a summary of the history of the cinema.

2/ Prepare listening