unit 13 A-Reading (hay)

What is the name of this film?

Where do you often go to see films?
CINEMA

Unit 13
Lesson: READING

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Do you want to see a film at the cinema or on TV?
Why?

Name the following films

SPIDER MAN

FULL HOUSE

TOM AND JERRY

BACK
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

KINDS OF
FILMS
Horror film
Cartoon film
Action film
detective film

Love story
film

While you read
The history of what we call cinema today began in the
early 19
th
century. At that time, scientists discovered that
when a sequence of still pictures were set in motion, they
could give the feeling of movement. In the first two
decades of its existence, the cinema developed rapidly. In
those early days, films were a little more than moving
photographs, usually about one minute in length. By 1905,
however, films were about five or ten minutes long. They
used changes of scene and camera positions to tell a story,
with actors playing character parts. In the early 1910s,
audiences were able to enjoy the first long films, but it was
not until 1915 that the cinema really became an industry.
From that time, film makers were prepared to make longer
and better films and build special places where only films
were shown. The cinema changed completely at the end of
the 1920s. This was when sound was introduced. The
change began in American and soon spread to the rest of
the world. As the old silent films were being replaced by
spoken ones on the screen, a new cinema form appeared,
the musical cinema.


audience: khán giả

motion(n): sự vận
động, chuyển động

news
Ex: News from Vietnam to England
Spread (v): truyền đi

film maker (adj): nhà làm phim

2. 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
a. film-making industry
b. series of related
events or actions
c. a period of ten years
d. quickly and in a short
time
e. part of a film
f. a person in a film

. audience:
. motion (n):

Vocabulary
. spread ( v):
. musical cinema:
Nhân vật
truyền đi
Rạp phim có âm thanh nghe nhạc
Chuyển động
. decade (n):
. sequence (n):
. character (n):
. scene (n):
. rapidly (adv):
Thập niên
Chuỗi
Khán giả
Cảnh
Nhanh chóng
. Film maker (n):
Nhà làm phim

3. Task 2: Complete the sentences with the words /
phrases in task 1
( scenes, sequence, cinema, rapidly,
decades, character):
1. The history of _________ started in the early 19
th

century.
2. The cinema developed _________ in the first two
____________ of its existence.

3. A _______________ of pictures could give the feeling
of movement when they were set in motion
4. Films used changes of ____________ to tell a story.
5. Actors play _____________ parts in a film.
cinema
rapidly
decades
sequence
scenes
character

4. Task 3: Answer these questions :
1.
1.
When did the history of cinema begin?
When did the history of cinema begin?
2. What did scientists discover at that time?
2. What did scientists discover at that time?
3. Did the films in the early days have sound?
3. Did the films in the early days have sound?
4.
4.
When were audiences able to see long films?
When were audiences able to see long films?
5. When was sound introduced?
5. When was sound introduced?
6. What form of films appeared as the old silent films were
6. What form of films appeared as the old silent films were
being replaced by spoken ones?
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?
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At that time scientists discovered that
At that time scientists discovered that
when a sequence of still pictures were set
when a sequence of still pictures were set
in motion, they could give the feeling of
in motion, they could give the feeling of
movement
movement
.
.

1. When did the history of cinema
begin?
•
The yellow: question 1
The history of cinema began in the early
The history of cinema began in the early
19th century
19th century

5. When was sound introduced?
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The black: question 5
The sound was introduced at the end of
The sound was introduced at the end of
the 1920s
the 1920s