Form 11

22.03.2021

Hello, boys and girls!

The theme of our lesson is cinema and films, which are popular nowadays.  

 “Cinematography is writing with images in movement and with sounds.”

 ― Robert Bresson

I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

― Rob Zombie

Answer the questions:

  1.What film have you just watched?

 2.Who made this film?

 3.When was it made?

 4. What genre was it?

Read and translate the text

 “Cinema”

            The first film show took place in Paris in Capuchin Boulevard, on December 8, 1896. So, cinema is 122 years old already.

            The first one hundred spectators came to a little hall “cinematograph”, to watch a film about a train, coming to the railway station. Seeing that train on the screen the people rose and ran away.

            The first film was made by brothers Lumier. They are considered to be the “fathers” – founders of the new kind of art. Some time passed before stories about people’s life appeared on the screen. They were of great popularity among audience.

 And one of the first actors was a little mustachioed man in a black funny jacket and baggy trousers, in large long shoes and bowler. It was Charlie Chaplin – the great dumb – as people called him later. His brilliant acting make millions of people laugh though he never said a word.

Vocabulary:

Paris – Париж

Capuchin Boulevard – бульвар Капуцинів (вулиця в Парижі)

Brothers Lumier – брати Люм’єр

Mustachioed – вусатий

Audience – аудиторія, глядачі

Baggy – мішкуватий

Bowler – чоловічий капелюх у формі казанка

Dumb - німий

Match the following columns:

1. The first film show took place	a) on December 8, 1896.
2. It was	b) brothers Lumier.
3. Cinema is	c) people rose and ran away.
4. The first one hundred spectators	d) in Paris in Capuchin Boulevard.
5. When they saw a train on the screen	e) Charlie Chaplin
6. The fathers of a new kind of art were	f) 122 years old already.
7. One of the first actors was	g) he never said a word, though his brilliant acting make millions of people laugh
8. People called him a great dumb because	h) came to a little hall “cinematograph” to watch a film about a train, coming to the railway station.

 

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Read another text and try to mark words characterizing each genre.

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            Hollywood in Southern California is the movie capital of the world. Many films have been made there, and the genres, or kinds, have changed often.

            From the early-to-mid 1930’s, movie-goers got a look at the people involved in crime and their violent activities by watching gangster movies. After all this violence, people needed to laugh, so from the mid –to-late 1930’s, comedies became very popular.

In the 1940’s, many detective movies about policemen who solved crimes were made. Then came musicals, in which the story was told in songs and dance.

Musicals were especially popular in the late ‘40’s and early ‘50’s, but the mid-fiftieth, this light-hearted genre was competing with films about more serious subjects. There was one kind that could be found throughout all of these eras, and that was the western, films about America’s cowboys, Indians and early settlers.

Since the early ‘60’s, movie-goers have had a variety of movies to choose from. There are, for example, horror movies about people who encounter frightening, unnatural situations. There are also serious films such as documentaries about events that have actually happened, and science fiction movies about possible future events and future worlds. Some people have also enjoyed watching psycho-dramas about the everyday problems that people have.

Of course, no list of films would be complete without animated movies, which tell stories through a series of colourful drawings. These are especially popular among children.

Home task: make up a short story about your favourite film.

Good luck!

Good bye!