Unit 13: FILMS AND CINEMA

Aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - Understand the history of cinema - Practice reading for main ideas, reading for detailed ideas and guessing meaning of the wor

Week: 29 Date of preparation : March 14th, 2017

Unit 13: FILMS AND CINEMA

(READING)

A. Aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

- Understand the history of cinema

- Practice reading for main ideas, reading for detailed ideas and guessing meaning of the words

B. Method: Communicative approach

C. Teaching aids: Text book, handouts, PowerPoint.

D. Procedures:

3’

5’

I. Class stabilization

II. Warm up: Crossword Puzzle

Questions:

1. What kind of film is it?

2. What’s her name?

3. What’s the name of the film?

4. Where is this film made?

5. Which film is it? (Trailer)

6. Which movie is the song from?

• Greeting

• Checking up the attendance

Whole class

• Ss raise their hands to answer the questions in horizontal rows

• There is a key letter in each row

• The key letters form the key word

• T gets Ss to find out the key word

• T introduces the new lesson

6’

Feedback:

Key word: CINEMA

III. New lesson

1. Pre-reading Activity 1: Guiding questions

Ask and answer the questions ( p.132)

- Do you want to see a film at the cinema or on

TV? Why?

- Can you name some of the films you have

seen?

- What kind of films do you like to see? Why?

2. While-reading Activity 2: Vocabulary

Find the word and match with the

definition (task 1, p.133)

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2

3

4

film-making industry series of related events or actions

a period of 10 years quickly and in a short time

Whole class

• T asks Ss the questions

Individually

• Ss do the task as directed

• T gives feedback

• T asks Ss to give the Vietnamese meaning of the words

Individually

10’

2’

5

6

part of a film

a person in a film

Feedback:

1. Cinema 2 Sequence 3 Decade

4 Rapidly 5 Scene 6 Actor

1. Cinema (n): điện ảnh

2. Sequence (n): dãy, chuỗi

3. Decade (n): thập kỉ

4. Rapidly (adv): nhanh chóng

5. Scene (n): cảnh phim

6. Actor (n): diễn viên

Activity 3: Pronunciation

Odd one out:

1.A decade B camera

3. character D rapid

2.A scene B audience

C sequence D people

3. A channel B character

C. change D choice

Feedback:

1. A 2 B 3 B

Activity 4: True or False statements

Game: Apple Hunting

1. The history of cinema began in the early

1890s

2. At that time, scientists discovered that the

feeling of movement could be given when a

sequence of still pictures were set in motion

3. Films in the early days didn’t have sound

4. In the early 1920s, audiences were able to

• T asks Ss to choose the correct answer

• T gives feedback

• T pronounces the words and Ss repeat

Whole class

• T divides the class into 2 teams

• Each team in turn chooses

an apple

• Every apple contains a statement

• T has Ss decide whether the statement is true or false

• T gets Ss to give the evidence

• T asks Ss to correct the false statements

• T gives feedback

• The winner is the team that gets the most apples

Individually

• Ss do the task as directed

• T gives feedback

see long films

5. At the end of the 1920s, films used changes

of scene and camera to tell a story

6. When the spoken films were being shown

on the screen instead of the old silent ones,

the musical cinema appeared

Feedback:

1 F (19th century)

2 T

3 T

4 F (In the early 1910s)

5 F (sound was introduced)

6 T

Activity 5: Multiple choice

Choose the best title (task 3, p.134)

Feedback:

B A brief History of Cinema

3 Post-reading:

Activity 6: Gap fill

Fill in the blank with a suitable word:

History of cinema began in the (1)………

Pair work

• T gives Ss handouts

• Ss do the task as directed

• T asks Ss to give the evidence

• T gives feedback

century At that time, films were just (2) ……

photographs and were about (3) ……… minute

in length By 1905; however, films were (4)

…… with the appearance of camera and (5)

……… In the early 1910s, audiences were able

to enjoy the first long (6)……… It’s not until

(7) ……… that the cinema really became an

industry However, the cinema (8) ………

completely at the end of the 1920s when the (9)

…… was introduced As spoken films were

shown on the screen, a new cinema form

appeared, the (10)……… cinema

Feedback:

1 19th 6 films

2 moving 7 1915

3 one 8 changed

4 longer 9 sound

5 actors 10 musical

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IV. Homework

- Learn by heart the vocabulary

- Prepare the next lesson: unit 13 speaking

Mrs Luu Nguyen Hong Anh Tao Hong Diep

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