Speaking

Exercise 44. Speak about yourself as a student.

Exercise 45. What is important to you in a film?

1. Put the items in order of importance.

   1. crucial a. acting

   2. extremely important b. direction

   3. very important c. set decoration

   4. important d. camerawork

   5. not very important e. costumes

   6. not important f. stunts

2. In pairs. Compare your lists. Use these expressions to state your opinion:

In my opinion …

From my point of view …

Personally, I think …

If you ask me …

e.g. Personally, I think direction is crucial. – I agree with you on this one.

In my opinion, stunts are very important. – I’m not so sure about this one.

If you ask me, stunts aren’t important.

LANGUAGE USE

Exercise 46. Complete the text with the correct forms.

IMAX theatres

Today, cinema audience (1)________(to be) much smaller and usually younger than the audience of the “golden age”. Many of the “picture palaces” (2) __________ (to be) now multi-screen cinemas with four or five small cinemas inside one building.

Today a film (3)__________ (to appear) on video, and then on TV. But some old films (4)______________(not, look) so good on TV. Cowboy films (5) ________ (to be) an example of this. The wonderful scenery in films like“How the West Was Won” (6)_________(to need) a large screen to show it. Television can’t do it. For many people, the cinema (7)_________ (to be) still the only place to watch a film.

One of the cinema’s newest ideas (8)___________ (to be) IMAX projection. A screen 19metres high and 15 metres wide, and excellent sound (9)__________ (to make) spectators feel that they (10)_______(to be) “really there”.

IMAX DOME theatres (11)____________(to have) a big, 30 metre screen which (12)_________(to put) the film-goer right in the centre of everything that is happening in the film. And with IMAX 3D, people (13) _____________ (to be happy) to try and touch what they see. It (14)_______(to look) so real! The difference between the IMAX experience and watching a film at a conventional cinema is the feeling that you (15)________(not, watch) a film, you (16)________ (to feel) as if you (17)_________(to be) actually there inside the action. A spectator (18)______________(to enjoy) every minute of the film, (19)______________(to be sorry for) the character, (20)______________(to be afraid of) his enemies, (21)______________ (to be ready) to help him. So he (22) ________________ (to be more interested in) the action.

There are nearly 150 IMAX theatres in different countries all over the world, and their number (23)____________(to grow) every year.

So this is cinema today.

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