tuan28 tiet77 u13 reading

Unit 13


Before you read

Action
film

Horror

Detective
film

Kinds of
films

Science
fiction

War film
Cartoon

Thriller

Martial art

Romantic


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 picturte.
5.What kind of film is it?


Kate Winslet

Who are they?
Which film do they
role-play together?

TITANIC

Leonardo
Dicarpio


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.


• The yellow: question 1
1

. When did the history of cinema

begin?

The history of cinema began
in the early 19th century


• The black: question 5

5

. When was sound introduced?

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
3

. How were the films in the early

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!


Homework:
• Write a short report about the last
film you saw at a cinema.
• Did you enjoy it? Why? Why not?