- •Module 2. Movies. Tv.
- •1. Read texts a-l and match each genre with its description. Compare your answers with a partner.
- •2. Listen to people talking about movies. What type of film does each person describe? Listen and circle the correct answer.
- •3. Match the film in the film poster to its genre. Compare your answers with a partner.
- •4. Listen to people calling for information about films. What type of film is it? Listen and write the correct answer.
- •5. Match the words from column a with the words from column b.
- •6. Read the sentences and fill in the gap with a necessary preposition.
- •7. In pairs discuss types of films that you like and dislike. Use the alternative language for liking / disliking from the box. Use the Essential Strategy Language.
- •8. In pairs discuss the following questions. Use the Essential Strategy language.
- •9. Look at the film posters. What do the films have in common? At what age should young people be allowed to see films like these?
- •10. A) Read the sentences below and fill in the gap with a phrase from the box.
- •11. In pairs discuss the following questions. Use the Essential Strategy language.
- •12. How many other jobs do you know related to the film industry? Match the jobs to their definitions.
- •13. A) Read the text and underline all kinds of stunts stuntmen perform in films. Which do you think they least like to do?
- •14. A) Complete these sentences with the correct word from the box.
- •15. A) Listen to the conversation about a film and underline the correct word.
- •16. A) Listen to four people talking about films. Does each person recommend or disapprove of the film? Put down the reason.
- •17. Listen to the interview and match the films with the opinions.
- •18. Listen to people talking in 8 different situations. For questions 1-8, circle the best answer, a, b or c.
- •19. A) Read the text and find three advantages and three disadvantages of being an extra.
- •20. A) Listen to the speaker talking about the famous trilogy Star Wars and fill
- •In the gap. Write no more than four words.
- •22. Read the sentences below. Listen to a tv program about Sofia Coppola and extend the sentences to give the information that has something to do with her.
- •23. Read the text and match paragraphs a-f with the main ideas 1-7.
- •24. Exam link. Work in pairs to speak about your favourite film director.
- •25. Listen to an interview with a Hollywood star. Are these statements about Liza Minnelli, the singer and actor, true (t) or false (f)?
- •26. A) Listen to part 1 of the interview. Correct the false statements in Exercise 25. Answer the questions.
- •27. Read the text. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the gap.
- •28. A) In pairs discuss what you know about Orlando Bloom. Why do you think he has become so successful?
- •30. A) Fill in the gaps with a word or a phrase from the box.
- •31. Exam link. Work in pairs to speak about your favourite actor or actress.
- •32. A) Read the short extract from a film review and then replace the underlined expressions with the given words:
- •33. Listen to a conversation about the film Big Night and complete the notes below.
- •34. A) Read the following film review and fill in the gaps with verbs from the box. What tenses do we normally use when we write a film review?
- •35. Read the table below. Listen to the speaker and tick the correct variant.
- •38. A) Think of a film that you have watched recently. Fill in the relevant information in note form.
- •Introduction
- •39. Exam link. Work in pairs to speak about the film you have watched recently.
- •40. The following text contains ten mistakes. Read the text and underline examples of the following:
- •Writing film review
- •41. Using the plan below, write a review of a film you have really enjoyed. Write 200 words.
- •Introduction
- •Imperfections:
- •Tv habits
- •42. A) Choose types of programs from the box to match the definition below.
- •43. Choose a program from the box of Exercise 42 to match it with the extract from a tv listing below.
- •45. Listen to people talking about tv. What kind of program did each person watch? Listen and circle the correct answer.
- •46. A) Listen to the tape and tick tv programs the woman likes and the expressions she uses to talk about the programs she likes and doesn’t like.
- •47. A) Listen to announcers talking about tonight’s television programs. Listen and write the correct number in the tv program guide. Tonight’s Highlights
- •48. A) You will hear part of a radio program giving information about a festival of wildlife films. Before you listen, study the task and answer the questions.
- •The film festival
- •49. A) In pairs discuss which of the following things from the box pets would like to watch on tv? Why/ Why not?
- •Pets get their own tv show
- •50. A) Listen to the radio program about Pet tv and underline the things from the box that you hear.
- •51. A) In pairs discuss the following questions.
- •52. A) In pairs discuss if it is possible to cheat on tv quiz show. How?
- •Reality tv
- •53. A) Look at the photo and read the text. What is the program Frontier House about? f rontier House
- •55. A) In pairs discuss the questions. Use the Essential Strategy language.
- •56. Exam link. Work in pairs to speak about the tv program you like or dislike.
- •57. A) Read the text and decide which would be an accurate title for the text.
- •58. Read the text and answer the questions below.
- •59. A) Write a list of advantages and disadvantages of television. Compare it with other students.
- •60. Write for and against essay “The impact of tv”. Write 200 words.
- •61. In pairs discuss the questions. Use the Essential Strategy language.
- •62. Write an essay suggesting solutions to the problem of the adverse influence of tv on children. Write about 200 words.
49. A) In pairs discuss which of the following things from the box pets would like to watch on tv? Why/ Why not?
snooker balls cartoon characters popular TV programs wolves howling cats mewing balls of string |
b) Read a short text about a new TV program. Answer the following questions below.
Pets get their own tv show
The BBC provides programs for all tastes although they haven’t made programs for animals until now. From next week, pets (and their owners) will be able to watch Pet TV. It is a program full of sounds and images that might appeal to animals. The aim is to find out what animals respond to and what your pet likes.
1) What is the new TV program from the BBC?
2) When does the program start?
3) What different animals is the program for?
4) What is the aim of the program?
5) Where can pets take an intelligence test?
6) What did the advertisement show?
50. A) Listen to the radio program about Pet tv and underline the things from the box that you hear.
b) Listen again and answer the rest of the questions from Exercise 49b.
c) What do you think of the idea of Pet TV?
51. A) In pairs discuss the following questions.
1) People who work in TV say “Never work with children or animals”. Why do you think they say this?
2) What can go wrong on a live TV show?
b) Listen to four people talking about what can go wrong on a live TV show. Write the number of the speaker next to the problems he talks about.
1) Technical problems: Speaker 1.
2) Reading bad news:
3) Forgetting to take off the microphone:
4) Problems with furniture:
5) People laughing:
6) People getting nervous:
7) Problems with names of places:
8) People forgetting their words:
c) Listen again to check. What do they say about each thing? Make notes and compare with a partner.
52. A) In pairs discuss if it is possible to cheat on tv quiz show. How?
Student A: read the text Who wants to be a millionaire?
Student B: read the text The man who never lost.
b) In pairs answer the questions.
1) What was the TV program?
2) What did the contestants win?
3) Why was there a scandal?
4) Who was involved in the scandal?
5) What happened in the end?
WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?
Since making its debut in September 1998, Who wants to be a millionaire? has become a worldwide hit. Four people have become millionaires (legally), seven have walked away with £500.000 and seven have walked away with nothing.
On 10th September, 2001 Charles Ingram became one of those lucky (and intelligent) people who won the big prize – a million pounds. So why, when he returned to the dressing room, did he have an argument with his wife? Why did he not celebrate? It was because they cheated, and they were nervous about being caught.
When the truth was revealed, nineteen months later, they were caught. During the show which Ingram won, viewers heard someone coughing regularly. It was a college lecture friend of theirs, Tecwen Whittock. He was in the studio, and every time he heard the correct answer, he coughed. Ingram never admitted cheating, but viewers who saw the show said that the cheating was obvious. On some occasions Ingram actually changed his answer after cough from Whittock told him he was wrong. A doctor later said that Whittock suffered from an allergy that was making him cough. But millions of people, who watched a replay of the show on a later documentary, had other ideas.
Charles, his wife, and his friend were all found guilty of cheating and ordered to pay fines totaling £40.000. Luckily for them, when they were sentenced, they were not sent to prison because of their young families and good jobs.
THE MAN WHO NEVER LOST
The USA, 1958. The quiz show contestant was sweating. He nervously looked around the studio where he was being filmed. The television cameras focused on his face. He thought hard. Finally he gave the answer to the question, and the crowd cheered. Millions of Americans, watching in their homes, were happy that their hero, Charles Van Doren, was again the winner of Twenty One. It was only later that the truth came out. The man whose fame meant that he received 500 letters a day, who appeared on the cover of Time magazine and who had won more than $100.000 on the show, was also a cheat. TV quiz shows were very popular in the USA in the 1950s and the idea that one person could keep on winning was especially popular. Audiences began to support this winner and wanted to see him win every week. The producer of Twenty One, Dan Enright, decided that to keep his show popular, it was necessary to give Van Doren the answers before the show.
Herbie Stempel, the previous champion before Van Doren, was the person who revealed the truth. He told the public that contestants on the program were given the answers and also taught what to do in front of the cameras: how to look nervous, how to pause and how to pretend not to know the answers. After an investigation which examined every moment of each Twenty One show, Van Doren eventually admitted cheating. American TV lost its innocence.
b) Tell your partner about your story. Use your notes to help you.
c) In pairs discuss what degree you agree with the idea that people who cheat on quiz shows should be punished? How?