Unit 13 Reading Films and Cinema

As the old silent films were being replaced by spoken ones, the musical cinema appeared.... The brown: Lucky color Congratulation!.?[r]

Unit 13

Period 80: A Reading

Before you read

Detective

film

Horror film

Thriller

film

Action

film

War film

Cartoon

film Love story

film

Romantic

film

Science Fiction film

Kinds of

films

Before you read

1.What do you see in these pictures?

2.Who is this?

3.Where can a lot of people see a film? 4.Name the films you see in the picture 5.What kind of film is it?

Who are they?

Which film do they role-play together?

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TITANIC

Group work Task 1: Match the words in column A with

their definitions in B

A

• 1 decade

• 2 rapidly

• 3 cinema

• 4 sequence

• 5 character

• 6 scene

B

• film-making industry

• series of related events

or actions

• a period of ten years

• quickly and in a short

time

• part of a film

• a person in a film

While you read

Task 2: Answer these questions:

1 When did the history of cinema begin?

2 What did scientists discover at that time?

3 How were the films in the early days?

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?

Choose the colors below to find the questions to answer:

The red: question 2

2 What did scientists discover at

that time?

 At that time scientists

discovered that when a

sequence of still pictures

were set in motion, they could give the feeling of movement.

1 When did the history of cinema begin?

• The yellow : question 1

The history of cinema began

in the early 19th century

5 When was sound introduced?

• The black: question 5

The sound was introduced

at the end of the 1920s

The pink: question 4

4 When were audiences able to see long films?

Audiences were able to see long films in the early 1910s

• The blue: question 3

days?

They were a sequence of

still pictures set in motion without sound.

–The white: question 6

6 What form of films appeared as the

old silent films were being replaced by

spoken ones?

As the old silent films were being replaced by spoken

ones, the musical cinema

appeared.

The brown: Lucky

color

Congratulation!

• What kind of film do you like best? Why?

• Write a short report about the last film you saw at a cinema.

• Did you enjoy it? Why? Why not?