- •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
I. Match the words from the text with their corresponding definitions and translate them into Russian.
1. to install a) (n.) necessary changes made to a system
2. overhaul b) (v.) to officially make a statement
3. to encounter c) (n.) cinema film showing a particular event
4. footage d) (n.) someone who has no experience; beginner
5. reluctant e) to teach someone a way of thinking or behaving over a long period of time
6. novice f) (n.) the state of being privately away from other people
7. to purge g) (v.) to force people who disagree with you to leave an organization, often by using violence
8. seclusion h) (adj.) slow and unwilling
9. to issue i) (v.) to experience problems or difficulties when you are trying to do something
10. to instill j) (v.) to put a piece of equipment somewhere and connect it so that it is ready to be used
II. Match the words on the left with words on the right. You’re your own sentences with these expressions.
exploited sequences
unenlightened contrast
cultural system
animated mass
sound message
visual workforce
ideological montage
III. Complete the text with the words from the box in the right form. Translate the sentences:
undermine sound staple prominent purge all-union counterpoint |
The _______ Film Festival was one of the most important film festivals of the Soviet Union.
Joining Eisenstein, Pudovkin came to understand sound not a complemenary, but as a ______.
The film combined ______ montage with edited documentary footage.
The most _______ sound effects were those of new machines.
Iyvan Kyrla _______ in 1937.
The gang of Zhigan _______ Sergeev's efforts.
Cinderella stories of peasants rejoicing in the working of the fields and happily riding on tractors, all beautifully and neatly dressed were the _______ diet of the 1930s.
Insert the correct preposition (against, at, for, on, since, through, up):
Additional problems were encountered ______ the level of distribution.
The different aesthetic principles for silent and sound film had worried filmmakers _______ the late 1920s.
The film relies _______ the plot to show the linear development of the local people from an unenlightened mass to a conscious collective.
Kuzmina struggles ______ the village elders in their reluctance to accept progress.
The orphans were portrayed ______ their use of language.
The film points ______ the backwardness of folk beliefs and their danger to Revolutionary energy.
The blame ______ the lack of social progress is laid at the feet of bourgeois traditions that have no room in Stalin's Russia.
V. Put the words in the right order to make questions.
on / working / at / sound / Mezhrabpom / Who / was / systems?
sound / with / did / Alexander / equip / Shorin / Leningrad’s / Sovkino / When?
and / did / issue / Pudovkin, / Eisenstein / assistant / Grigori / Alexandrov / issue / in / What / his / 1928?
easily / to / adopted / films / adopted / and / successfully / What / sound?
films / were / the / Whose / films / earliest / fiction?
filmmakers / to / want / to / What / did / want / appeal / Boris / Shumiatsky?
dream / the / was / plot / of / Socialist / What / Realist / musicals / typical?