- •Contents
- •Introduction
- •Part I unit 1. The beginnings of russian cinema (1908-1919) the arrival of the kinemo, 1895-1907
- •Match the words from the text with their corresponding definitions and translate them into Russian. Use these words in your sentences.
- •III. Complete each sentence by choosing the best word for each gap.
- •IV. Complete each sentence by using (typing in the gap) the correct form of the verb given in capitals.
- •V. Complete the passage with the following words from the box Translate the sentences:
- •Unit 2. From war to revolution. Entertainment to agitation (1914-1917)
- •Complete the text with the words from the box in the right form. Translate the sentences:
- •Insert the correct preposition:
- •Put the words in the right order to make questions.
- •Choose the right answer:
- •VI. Complete the word families. Make your own sentences with at least two different words.
- •Unit 3. Yevgeni bauer and the melodrama (1913-1917)
- •I. Match the words from the text with their corresponding definitions and translate them into Russian. Use these words in your sentences.
- •II. Match one noun from each column to form a compound noun. Find these expressions in the text. Translate them. Then use them in sentences of your own.
- •IV. Reorder the words to form questions.
- •V. Substitute the words in italics with their antonyms from the text.
- •Unit 4. The revolution and its aftermath (1917-1919)
- •Match the words from the text with their corresponding definitions and translate them into Russian. Use these words in your sentences.
- •Complete each sentence by choosing the best word for each gap:
- •Match the words to make expressions. Find these expressions in the text. Translate them. Use them in the sentences of your own.
- •Correct the sentences by crossing out one unnecessary word:
- •Reorder the words to form question:
- •Choose the right preposition. Check your choice in the text.
- •Unit 5. The ‘americanitis’ (1921-1924)
- •Match the words their definitions:
- •Match the words to make expressions. Find them in the text. Make your own sentences with these expressions.
- •IV. Complete each sentence by choosing the best word in each pair:
- •V. Correct the sentence by reordering the words in capitals:
- •These expressions are taken from the text. Find one incorrect collocation in every set.
- •Unit 6. Vertov: documentaries and animation
- •Match the words with their definitions:
- •Complete each sentence by choosing the best word for each gap:
- •Match the words on the left with the words on the right to make expressions. Make your own sentences with these expressions.
- •Correct the sentence by reordering the words:
- •Choose the correct word or phrase to complete the sentence:
- •Unit 7. Soviet montage cinema: eisenstein and pudovkin (1925-1928)
- •Complete the sentences using the preposition from the box:
- •II. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple or Past Perfect:
- •III. Match the adjectives with their definitions. Give the examples.
- •IV. Put the words from the box into the correct column in the table and underline the stressed syllable. Use the dictionary if necessary. Then make your own sentences with these expressions.
- •V. Explain the difference and fill the gaps: a) character/hero, b) crew/audience, c) episode/scene, d) screenplay/scenario, e) collision/denouement, f) to adapt/to film, g) documentary/feature.
- •Unit 8. Comedies and entertainment in the 1920s: from feks to kem
- •Match the words with their definitions. Give your own sentences with these words:
- •Match the two halves of each sentence:
- •Complete each sentence by using (typing in the gap) the correct form of the verb (escape, loose, show, contain, make, explain, return):
- •Choose the correct word to complete the sentence:
- •Unit 9. The cultural revolution
- •I. Match the adjectives from the text with the opposites:
- •II. Explain the meaning of these words to your partner in English and then choose the best word to complete the sentences:
- •Use the text to help you match the verbs with their definitions. Then make your own sentences with these expressions:
- •IV. Complete the text using the correct form (Past Simple Active or Passive) of the verbs from exercise II:
- •Part II unit 1. The purges, the second world war and the cold war, or how stalin entertained the people
- •I. Match the words from the text with their corresponding definitions and translate them into Russian. Make sentences with them.
- •II. Complete the following sentences using the words from the box in the right form. Translate the sentences.
- •III. Insert the correct preposition from the box.
- •V. Put the words in the right order to make questions. Find the answers in the text.
- •Unit 2. Sound film (1929-1934)
- •I. Match the words from the text with their corresponding definitions and translate them into Russian.
- •III. Complete the text with the words from the box in the right form. Translate the sentences:
- •Insert the correct preposition (against, at, for, on, since, through, up):
- •V. Put the words in the right order to make questions.
- •Unit 3. Political and historical heroes (1933-1939)
- •II. Complete the sentences with the words above:
- •III. Match the words with their definitions. Give your own sentences with these words:
- •IV. Complete each sentence by using the nouns formed from the verbs given in capitals.
- •V. These expressions are taken from the text. Find one incorrect collocation in every set.
- •Unit 4. Peasant and worker heroes (1934-1938)
- •Match the following nouns with prepositions. Translate them, make your own sentences with these expressions.
- •II. Complete the text either with an adverb or with an adjective. Put them in the right form.
- •III. Insert the necessary words from the list. Translate them:
- •Choose the right form of the words (Participle I or II). Translate the sentences.
- •Unit 5. Soviet musicals (1934-1941)
- •I. These words are taken from the text. Match the words to make expressions. Make your own centences with them:
- •II. Complete the sentences by choosing the right word for each gap.
- •III. In each sentence add missing prepositions (between, by, for, from, of, through X 2, to X 2 ):
- •IV. Complete each sentence with the right verb form in capitals.
- •Unit 6. The purges in the cinema (1937-1939)
- •Match the words to make a word combination. Find them in the text. Translate them, make your own sentences with them.
- •Insert the necessary preposition (because of, during, for, from, in X 4, of X 2, on, to, under, until, with).
- •Put the words in the right order to make questions. Then answer them.
- •Unit 7. Soviet war films (part 1)
- •Match the words with their definitions. Make your own sentences with these words:
- •III. Complete the sentences using a suitable preposition (with X 2, up, by, for, in, of):
- •IV. Fill in the gaps with a suitable form of the verb (active or passive).
- •V. Fill in the following abstract with the missing words.
- •Unit 8. Soviet war films (part II)
- •Conclusion
- •Keys to exercises part I unit 1.
- •Unit 2.
- •Unit 3.
- •Unit 4.
- •Unit 5.
- •Unit 6.
- •Unit 7.
- •Unit 2.
- •Unit 3.
- •Unit 4.
- •Unit 5.
- •Unit 6.
- •Unit 7.
- •Unit 8.
- •Bibliography
Match the words their definitions:
1. аscertain a) (n.) a person who writes plays
2. devour b) (attr.) equal in importance or quality to
3. on a par with c) (v.) to use up or destroy as if by eating
4. playwright d) (v.) to learn or find out smth. (information or the truth)
5. plot e) (n.) something interesting that is done to get publicity
6. siblings f) (v.) to organize and send out (people) to be used for smth.
7. deploy g) (n.) two or more individuals having one common parent
8. stunts h) (n.) a series of related events that make up the film story
II. Choose the word or phrase from the box to complete the sentence by using its correct form:
single out shoot profit rely on gradually restore animate hardly repeat |
Kuleshov _________ the fast movement within the frame and the condensation of shots in the editing process.
Soviet films required a longer time for _________ and editing.
Sovkino reviewed the __________ of Russian studios and ordered unprofitable studios to close.
The box office _________ popular entertainment.
The economy was __________ and people had money to spend on tickets.
The fictional world of the rebel-heroes _________ in imaginary sequences that illustrate the story.
His undoubted success with Mr West _________ in his later films.
Match the words to make expressions. Find them in the text. Make your own sentences with these expressions.
experimental ending
happy staff
creative rate
mass films
the box office appeal
cinema receipts
export matters
IV. Complete each sentence by choosing the best word in each pair:
In the first half of the 1920s, Soviet cinema [had recovered / recovered] slowly.
Many of the avant-garde directors who [had supported / supported] the Revolution had made/ made experimental films.
They [had led / lead] a happy and peaceful life, spending their lime reading adventure novels.
Soviet film production [had picked up / picked up] in the period from 1923 until 1926.
This is not surprising considering that from 1916 to 1922 there [had been / was] a ban on American imports.
The term ‘Americanitis’ [employed / was employed] by Kuleshov in 1922.
The role of Jeddy [was played / played] by the boxer- and filmmaker Barnet.
V. Correct the sentence by reordering the words in capitals:
The US MONEY MORE ON INDUSTRY SCRIPT AND SPENT design.
Many THE OF DIRECTORS HAD AVANT-GARDE THE SUPPORTED Revolution.
Experimental HAD BECAUSE LITTLE THEIR MASS FILMS APPEAL OF complexity.
Revolutionary FIRST IN PROMINENT THE THEMES YEARS OF SOVIET FILM WERE production.
Soon BECOME FICTIONAL THE HEROES ADVENTURES OF THEIR ARE TO reality.
By 1927 ALMOST THE OF BOX RECEIPTS FILMS WERE OFFICE FOREIGN ON A PAR WITH SOVIET films.
Kuleshov OF INTEREST IN CONTINUED STYLE THE AMERICAN HIS cinema.