- •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.
24. Exam link. Work in pairs to speak about your favourite film director.
You should say:
Who is it? What films is he / she famous for most of all? What are his / her films about? What is peculiar about him / her? What made him/ her successful?
25. Listen to an interview with a Hollywood star. Are these statements about Liza Minnelli, the singer and actor, true (t) or false (f)?
1) She has been married five times.
2) Her recent wedding had no guests.
3) Her mother was Judy Garland.
4) She has had similar health problems to her mother.
5) She was born in England.
What else do you know about her? Tell the group.
26. A) Listen to part 1 of the interview. Correct the false statements in Exercise 25. Answer the questions.
1) The song she sings is in three languages. Do you recognize them? What is a cabaret?
Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome
Friend, etranger, stranger,
Glucklich zu sehen, je suis enchantee, happy to see you,
Bleiben, rester, stay...
2) Why does she love London and London audiences?
3) What does she mean when she says “it’s like a tennis match to sing to people in London”?
4) How does her voice change when she describes the school she went to?
5) How does she describe her current state of happiness?
6) In the second song, what is the thing that can change the world?
How the world can change
It can change like that
To the one little word.
See a palace rise,
From a two-room flat,
To the one little word…
b) Listen to part 2. Complete the interviewer’s questions.
1) Did it ___________ to you?
2) I think yours ______________, though, wasn't it?
3) How ______________ all of that?
4) So you haven’t ________________ over it?
What are Liza Minnelli’s answers to the questions?
How does she explain the fact that all the guests at the wedding were famous?
c) Listen to part 3. How does Liza feel when she talks about
1) earning her own living in New York?
2) her mother and father?
3) the interviewer getting into trouble at school?
4) the film Cabaret?
5) Marisa Berenson?
I used to have this girlfriend known as Elsie
With whom I shared four sordid rooms in Chelsea
She wasn’t what you’d call a blushing flower
As a matter of fact she rented by the hour...
Start by admitting from cradle to tomb
It isn’t that long a stay
Life is a cabaret, old chum
It’s only a cabaret, old chum
27. Read the text. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits in the gap.
A SERIOUS ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz’s career in movies has been (0) extraordinarily EXTRAORDINARY successful, although she feels she has always had to struggle for
(1)_____ RECOGNIZE as a serious actress because of her looks. As she says, ‘No one will take you (2) ___ SERIOUS once you are known as the ‘pretty woman’.’ Nevertheless, in her best films, which she has made in her native Spain, she has managed to play some well-rounded, (3) ____ BELIEVE characters. In 2000, Cruz was
(4) ____ ABLE to resist the call of Hollywood and early on appeared in one or two (5)____ DISAPPOINT films such as All the Pretty Horses. Now she is an (6) ____ IMPRESS international performer who appears in both Spanish and English language films and many regard her recent (7) _____ PERFORM in Almodovar’s film Volver as one of her best films. In it she plays a woman who not only has (8) _____ CREDIBLE looks but also great (9) ____ STRONG of character. Not just a talented actress, Cruz gives generously to charitable (10)_____ ORGANISE, such as Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, and has spent month as a volunteer in Uganda.