Unit 13. Films and cinema

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UNIT 13: FILMS AND CINEMA

LESSON A: READING

I Objectives

By the end of the lesson s will be able to:

Develop such reading micro-skills as skimming for main ideas, summarising main ideas, scanning for specific ideas, and guessing meaning in context

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UNIT 13: FILMS AND CINEMA

B PRE – READING:

• 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? 3/ What kind of films do you like to see? Why?

Actor /ˈæk.tər/: (n)

nam diễn viên

Nam diễn

viên

ACTRESS: /ˈæk.trəs/ (N) Nữ diễn viên

EX: Columbus discovered America

Discover /dɪˈskʌv.ɚ/ (V) Khám phá

Audience(s)

/ˈɔː.di.əns/

Viewer(s) /ˈvjuː.ər/ (N) Khán giả

He is a character of a famous film in 2013

Character

This is a scene in the film “The heirs”

Scene /siːn/ (N) Cảnh (phim)

Ex: He bought me a new smart phone to replace

the old one

Replace

• 2010 2020

/ˈdek.eɪd/ (N) Thâp kỷ

• Motion /ˈməʊ.ʃən/: the act of moving

Di chuyển

: cảnh phim

: một thập kỷ : sự chuyển động

VOCABULARY

1 Film - making industry

2 Series of related events or actions

4 Quickly and in a short time

Cinema Sequence Decade Rapidly Scene Character

TASK 1

Task 2

1 When did the history of cinema begin?

2 What did scientists discover at that time?

3 Did film in the early film have sound?

4 When were audiences able to see long films?

5 When was sound introduced?

6 What form of films appeared as the old silent films were being replaced by spoken ones?

Answers:

1 In the early 19th century (line 1)

2 At that time the scientists discovered that when a sequence of still pictures was set in motion, they

could give the feeling of movement (lines 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 (line17)

• Task 3

A The Story of a Film Maker

B A Brief History of Cinema

C The History of the Film Industry

1 19 th century: History of cinema

began

2 1905: Films were about 30

minutes long (longer than

early films which lasted only

4 1915: Films became even

longer and better

5 1920s: The cinema didn’t

change completely at the end

• Do you like to watch film?

• How many hours do you spend to watch film everyday?

• Do you think all kind of films are suitable for you to watch?