Unit 15. Films
LISTENING WARM-UP
Look at the pictures. In pairs, ask and answer the following questions:
- How often do you go to the cinema?
- Have you ever been to an outdoor cinema?
- How do outdoor cinemas differ from indoor cinemas?
- How could cinemas be improved to attract more people?
DEVELOP YOUR LISTENING SKILLS
WORDPERFECT
Read these sentences and then use the words in italics to complete the sentences below.
Key.1 credits
2 critics
3 on location
4 the pictures
5 intermission
6 western
7 stunt man
8 extra
9 film buff
10 bit part
• It's not going to be a studio production. The whole movie is going to be filmed on location in the Alps.
• When people say they are going to 'the pictures', they mean they are going to the cinema.
• It's a typical western. It's set in the Wild West in the late 1800s and it's about a group of cowboys who are attacked by some Indians.
• Terry Fisher and Barbara Walker are both film critics; they write film reviews for national newspapers.
• At the cinema, the short break in the middle of the film is sometimes called the intermission.
• A film buff is a person who likes films a lot, and knows a lot about them.
• I'd love to be a stunt man; it must be great fun doing all the dangerous stunts in a movie.
• Film credits at the end of a film tell us the names of the actors and the other people who were involved in the production of the film.
• If an actor has a bit part in a film, they only have a very small speaking role.
• If you are an extra in a movie, you can be seen in the background, but you don't have any lines to say.
1 I can't remember her name! We'll have to look at the ________________ at the end.
2 Most of the ________________ said it was a dreadful movie, but I really enjoyed it.
3 Making the movie was actually extremely hard, as we shot the whole thing ________________ in the desert.
4 Do you fancy going to ________________ tonight? I think that Jim Carrey comedy is still on.
5 Shall we get some popcorn during the ________________?
6 Have you seen that ________________ where Clint Eastwood plays a cowboy who hardly ever speaks?
7 Did you do the fight scenes yourself, or did a ________________ stand in for you?
8 I'd love to be an ________________, just to see what it's like on a film set.
9 Aleksei's a real ________________; he'll know who directed Night of the Living Dead.
10 I've been offered a ________________ in a movie! I'm only in one scene, but it's a start!
PRACTISE YOUR LISTENING SKILLS
Listening know-how
• Выполняя задание А, внимательно прочитайте и прослушайте вопросы.Постарайтесь определить ключевые слова и фразы, которые вы можетеуслышать в тексте. Во время прослушивания запишите ключевые слова.
• Выполняя задание В. помните, что слова или фразы, которые необходимовписать в пропуск, должны полностью совпадать с теми, которые выуслышите при прослушивании текста.
Перефразировать услышанное не нужно.
GRAMMAR FOCUS Tapescript1 I went to that new little cinema round the corner last night. Got there late, of course. 2 I saw the new Julia Robins movie the other day. Nothing special, to tell you the truth. 3 You seen Darren's new DVD player? Doesn't know how to work it yet, though. 4 I can't believe I fell asleep during the movie. Had a great cast, anyway. 5 Sindy got Tom Hanks' autograph when she went to Hollywood. Said he was very polite too, apparently. / Key.1b 2a 3b 4a 5a We'd thought it was one of those spaghetti westerns from the 60s. Turned out to be a ridiculous thing about a couple of struggling art students in New York. |
The second sentence has no subject. It is implied.
What turned out to be a ridiculous thing? The film.
You will hear five people talking. Each person says two sentences.
For each speaker, circle the implied subject in the second sentence.
1 a the cinema 2 a the movie 3 a the DVD player 4 a the movie 5 a Sindy | b the speaker b the speaker b Darren b the speaker b Tom Hanks |
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