9. Read and dramatize the following dialogues:

John: What are you going to do?

Willy: Oh, perhaps I’ll go to the cinema. Would you like to come with me?

John: Certainly. I’m always ready to go to the pictures. Willy: Well, look here. I have two tickets for the new picture. I don’t know what it is like, but here’s what the “Daily News” says about it: “This is the most wonderful picture ever made: more amusing than “Charley’s Aunt”, more exciting than “Cleo­patra”, more expensive than “Waterloo”, more beautiful than “Romeo and Juliet”. I don’t believe it, but if you want to go, here are the tickets. John: Oh, that’s fine. Thank you, Willy.

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Nick: What time does the show begin?

Pete: It begins at 3 p. m.

Nick: So we are just in time for the show.

Pete: What seats shall we buy?

Nick: Let’s take seats seven and eight in the sixteenth row.

Pete: All right. I hope the picture is good.

Nick: Andrew saw it last night. And he says he enjoyed it very much.

Pete: I wonder who is the producer?

Nick: I don’t know. Let’s see the bill.

Pete: There is the second bell. We must hurry up not to be late for the newsreel.

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B: Hello!

A: Hello! Is this the ABC cinema?

B: Yes.

A: Could you tell me, please, if you have got a good film on today.

B: Yes, “Good-bye to Love”, an Italian film.

.<4: Oh, good! Can you keep four seats for me at five thirty?

B: Yes, certainly. Name, please?

A: Johnson.

B: Very good, sir.

10. Act as an interpreter:

• Який фільм ти хочеш подивитися?

• I haven’t been to the cinema for about a month so I don’t know what films are on.

• Давай подивимось у газеті, що демонструється в най­ближчих кінотеатрах.

• Here is a good programme . They show a film which is considered to be the best film of the year.

• Цей фільм ми з дружиною вже дивилися.

• Did you enjoy it?

• Дуже. Фільм варто подивитися.

• I suggest that we go to the best cinema in the neighbour­hood. They show a French film there.

• Я згоден.

• * *

• Тобі сподобався фільм?

• I didn’t like it at all. The plot is silly. The acting is

very poor.

• А мені фільм сподобався. Я люблю комедії.

• Tastes differ.

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• What do you think of the cinema?

• Цей фільм вважають кращим фільмом року.

• I haven’t seen it but now I am going to.

• Ти не жалкуватимеш. Там грають чудові актори. Ба­гато гарних пісень.

• Do you remember the names of the actors?

• Я кепсько запам’ятовую імена, але це дуже відомі актори.

• Shall I reserve seats?

• У цьому кінотеатрі не можна зарезервувати квитки. Там завжди багато людей.

• The cinema starts in a quarter of an hour. I must hurry.

11. Ask questions on the text and retell it: CINEMA IN ENGLAND

In England the cinema is usually called “the pictures”. The American name “the movies”, is sometimes used too. The first performance or “showing”, as it is called, begins at about two o’clock in the afternoon and the perform­ances go on from then until about half past ten. The cinema is not emptied between the “showings”, so once you have paid for your seat you can stay in the cinema as long as you like. There is usually one main film, a shorter one, a newsfilm, some advertisements and a “trailer” telling about the films for the next week. Cinemas used to be more crowded than they are now. Many people used to go to the cinema two or three times a week, but today people like to stay at home to watch television, particularly when it is cold and wet outside. The prices of cinema seats outside London are higher. London cinemas start films as early as 12.00 o’clock in the afternoon and there are often late- night programmes starting between 11 o’clock at night and midnight. Exact times and programmes are advertised in daily newspapers.