Unit 13

Before you read

Detective

filmHorror

ThrillerAction

film

War film

CartoonMartial art

Romantic

Science

fiction

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 picturte.

5.What kind of film is it?

Who are they?

Which film do they role-play together?

Kate Winslet Leonardo Dicarpio

TITANIC

Group workTask 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?1. When did the history of cinema begin?

2. What did scientists discover at that time?2. What did scientists discover at that time?

3. How were the films in the early days?3. How were the films in the early days?

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 6. What form of films appeared as the old silent films were being replaced by spoken ones?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 At that time scientists discovered that when a discovered that when a sequence of still pictures were sequence of still pictures were set in motion, they could give set in motion, they could give the feeling of movement.the feeling of movement.

1. When did the history of cinema begin?

•The yellow: question 1

The history of cinema began in The history of cinema began in the early 19th centurythe early 19th century

5. When was sound introduced?

•The black: question 5

The sound was introduced at The sound was introduced at the end of the 1920sthe end of the 1920s

The pink: question 4

4. When were audiences able to see long films?

Audiences were able to see Audiences were able to see long films in the early 1910slong 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 As the old silent films were being replaced by spoken being replaced by spoken ones, the musical cinema ones, the musical cinema appeared.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?