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?
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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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