The Role of Cinema in People’s Life.

1. The Role of Cinema in People’s Life. The 20th century may be called the century of film making. Cinema and TV films have become an important part of our lives. Aims:to sum up the pupils knowledge about history of film making industry; to give additional information and to active pupils’ speaking skills on the topic “Cinema”

2. II. Active Vocabulary. ( t ) actor, western, silent, shoot-shot, rate, historical, fight-fighting, mysterious, cartoons, character, cast, subtitles, starred ( d ) director, producer, comedy, melodrama, sound, colored, adventure, documentary, dancing, audience, episode ( r ) great, impressive, extraordinary, boring, reasonable, rotten, frightful, horrible ( l ) Hollywood, life, film, Los Angeles, talent, talented, original, excellent, sensational, splendid, special ( w ) world, well-known in the world, western, wealth, wonderful, really wonderful, what, war film

3. III. Warming up. Underline the correct word/phrase. The leading role/characteris played by Tom Hanks. The audience/viewers were on the edge of their seats. The characters/cast includes some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Sometimes it's hard to follow the action and read the subtitles/headingsaswell. The first episode/track of that new crime drama was really entertaining. The film Armageddon was starred/directed by Jerry Bruckheimer. The theme/song tune was really catchy. Lord of the Rings has amazing special effects/settings. I couldn't believe my eyes! The film is based on/set in the book of the same name. The storyline/script was so predictable you knew what was going to happen next.

4. III. Warming up. Underline the correct word/phrase. The leading role/characteris played by Tom Hanks. The audience/viewers were on the edge of their seats. The characters/cast includes some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Sometimes it's hard to follow the action and read the subtitles/headingsaswell. The first episode/track of that new crime drama was really entertaining. The film Armageddon was starred/directed by Jerry Bruckheimer. The theme/song tune was really catchy. Lord of the Rings has amazing special effects/settings. I couldn't believe my eyes! The film is based on/set in the book of the same name. The storyline/script was so predictable you knew what was going to happen next.

5. III. Warming up. Underline the correct word/phrase. The leading role/characteris played by Tom Hanks. The audience/viewers were on the edge of their seats. The characters/cast includes some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Sometimes it's hard to follow the action and read the subtitles/headingsaswell. The first episode/track of that new crime drama was really entertaining. The film Armageddon was starred/directed by Jerry Bruckheimer. The theme/song tune was really catchy. Lord of the Rings has amazing special effects/settings. I couldn't believe my eyes! The film is based on/set in the book of the same name. The storyline/script was so predictable you knew what was going to happen next.

6. III. Warming up. Underline the correct word/phrase. The leading role/characteris played by Tom Hanks. The audience/viewers were on the edge of their seats. The characters/cast includes some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Sometimes it's hard to follow the action and read the subtitles/headingsaswell. The first episode/track of that new crime drama was really entertaining. The film Armageddon was starred/directed by Jerry Bruckheimer. The theme/song tune was really catchy. Lord of the Rings has amazing special effects/settings. I couldn't believe my eyes! The film is based on/set in the book of the same name. The storyline/script was so predictable you knew what was going to happen next.

7. III. Warming up. Underline the correct word/phrase. The leading role/characteris played by Tom Hanks. The audience/viewers were on the edge of their seats. The characters/cast includes some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Sometimes it's hard to follow the action and read the subtitles/headingsaswell. The first episode/track of that new crime drama was really entertaining. The film Armageddon was starred/directed by Jerry Bruckheimer. The theme/song tune was really catchy. Lord of the Rings has amazing special effects/settings. I couldn't believe my eyes! The film is based on/set in the book of the same name. The storyline/script was so predictable you knew what was going to happen next.

8. III. Warming up. Underline the correct word/phrase. The leading role/characteris played by Tom Hanks. The audience/viewers were on the edge of their seats. The characters/cast includes some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Sometimes it's hard to follow the action and read the subtitles/headingsaswell. The first episode/track of that new crime drama was really entertaining. The film Armageddon was starred/directed by Jerry Bruckheimer. The theme/song tune was really catchy. Lord of the Rings has amazing special effects/settings. I couldn't believe my eyes! The film is based on/set in the book of the same name. The storyline/script was so predictable you knew what was going to happen next.

9. III. Warming up. Underline the correct word/phrase. The leading role/characteris played by Tom Hanks. The audience/viewers were on the edge of their seats. The characters/cast includes some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Sometimes it's hard to follow the action and read the subtitles/headingsaswell. The first episode/track of that new crime drama was really entertaining. The film Armageddon was starred/directed by Jerry Bruckheimer. The theme/song tune was really catchy. Lord of the Rings has amazing special effects/settings. I couldn't believe my eyes! The film is based on/set in the book of the same name. The storyline/script was so predictable you knew what was going to happen next.

10. III. Warming up. Underline the correct word/phrase. The leading role/characteris played by Tom Hanks. The audience/viewers were on the edge of their seats. The characters/cast includes some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Sometimes it's hard to follow the action and read the subtitles/headingsaswell. The first episode/track of that new crime drama was really entertaining. The film Armageddon was starred/directed by Jerry Bruckheimer. The theme/song tune was really catchy. Lord of the Rings has amazing special effects/settings. I couldn't believe my eyes! The film is based on/set in the book of the same name. The storyline/script was so predictable you knew what was going to happen next.

11. III. Warming up. Underline the correct word/phrase. The leading role/characteris played by Tom Hanks. The audience/viewers were on the edge of their seats. The characters/cast includes some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Sometimes it's hard to follow the action and read the subtitles/headingsaswell. The first episode/track of that new crime drama was really entertaining. The film Armageddon was starred/directed by Jerry Bruckheimer. The theme/song tune was really catchy. Lord of the Rings has amazing special effects/settings. I couldn't believe my eyes! The film is based on/set in the book of the same name. The storyline/script was so predictable you knew what was going to happen next.

12. III. Warming up. Underline the correct word/phrase. The leading role/characteris played by Tom Hanks. The audience/viewers were on the edge of their seats. The characters/cast includes some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Sometimes it's hard to follow the action and read the subtitles/headingsaswell. The first episode/track of that new crime drama was really entertaining. The film Armageddon was starred/directed by Jerry Bruckheimer. The theme/song tune was really catchy. Lord of the Rings has amazing special effects/settings. I couldn't believe my eyes! The film is based on/set in the book of the same name. The storyline/script was so predictable you knew what was going to happen next.

13. III. Warming up. Underline the correct word/phrase. The leading role/characteris played by Tom Hanks. The audience/viewers were on the edge of their seats. The characters/cast includes some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Sometimes it's hard to follow the action and read the subtitles/headingsaswell. The first episode/track of that new crime drama was really entertaining. The film Armageddon was starred/directed by Jerry Bruckheimer. The theme/song tune was really catchy. Lord of the Rings has amazing special effects/settings. I couldn't believe my eyes! The film is based on/set in the book of the same name. The storyline/script was so predictable you knew what was going to happen next.

14. Hollywood

15. The History of Hollywood The world capital of filmed entertainment Los Angeles has been a lot of things over the past 100 years. First, it was a little city with orange forest and great weather. But, one day in 1908 a group of people from Chicago came to Los Angeles to shoot (make) a film. Since that day a lot of directors, producers, actors and thousands of other workers have been coming to Los Angeles.

16. In 1911 the first studio appeared in Hollywood (a part of Los Angeles)

17. The first sound film was shot in 1929 in Hollywood The Indian Woman’s Husband The Birth of the Nation Intolerance The Broken Shoots The Black Pirate Rebbeka from the Farm Santibruck In the Old California

18. The first colour film was made in 1939 in Hollywood

19. Hollywood walk of fame There is a famous walk of fame well-known all over the world, where you can see more than 2500 five – pointed stars with the names of Hollywood film stars.

20. Famous Hollywood film stars

21. Famous Hollywood films

22. Universal Columbia Pictures Warner Bros 20th Century Fox MGM Paramount Large corporations

23. Why did Hollywood become The world capital of filmed entertainment?

24. IV. Practice. Cinema serves as a form of entertainment, which is important to us. But is entertainment the only purpose of films? Use the verb phrases in your answers: give much information about…; tell us about…; teach us…; make us…; influence our behavior… ets.

25. 2. Going to the cinema is very popular in Britain. British men and women have different tastes in films. a) Look at the diagram and say what genres men and women like.

26. b) What genre of film do you like? Make up dialogues.

27. 3. Working with the text. Read the text… The Devil wears Prada' is a good comedy drama based on a novel by Lauren Weisberger. The movie is set in the busy offices of a New York Publishing House and focuses on a college graduatewho takes a job as an assistant at a top fashion magazine. She believes it is the first step towards becoming a serious journalist, but things don't turn out to be quite so simple. Her newboss is ruthless, bad and determined to make her life a living hell. The acting in the film is nice. Anne Hathaway is convincing as the naive young assistant, but it's Meryl Streep that steals the show with a good performance asthe bad boss. The plot can be a little boring at times but thereare plenty of laughs to make up for that. All in all, The Devil wears Pradais a good film and really funny. If you only see one film this year, thisshould be it!

28. …and then choose the correct answer (A, B, C for sentences 1-5). “The Devil wears Prada” is a good A) perfomance B) megazine C) film 2.“The Devil wears Prada” is about a young girl and her boss who is … A)very kind B)very cruel C)very silly The girl dreams to become a … A) college student B) assistant at a top fashion magazine C) journalist 4. “The Devil wears Prada” has not only funny but … situations. A) frightful B) dramatic C) unreal But all in all “The Devil wears Prada ” is worth… A) seeing B) looking at C) visiting

30. V. The new technologies of film making industry.

31. The 20th century may be called the century of film making. Today cinema is very popular and available kind of art.

32. The development of science and film making industry let people watch films not only at the cinema. Watching films has become an important part of our lives.

33. If you are not a cinema goer, you can stay at home and watch a film on TV or a videofilm, or DVD film. But if you are a computer fan you can watch different films on the internet.

34. 11 British cinemas have been testing the technology that let people with defects of eyesight and hearing enjoy watching films in cinemas.

35. In our country “Titanik Cinema” in Ekaterinburg has been testing the new technology that let people sense themselves as if they are in the film, see volumetric picture and feel it. This technology is the third turning moment in the history of cinematography after the first sound film in 1929 and the first color film in 1939.

36. VI. Summing up.