Task 8.Complete the following sentences.

1. The film has won the Oscar. No wonder, ….

2. I should have enjoyed the film much better if ….

3. The film is having successful run because ….

4. This young actress is very popular with the public ….

5. I’m looking forward to seeing this film. They say ….

6. Before the feature film we were shown ….

7. If the film had been dubbed ….

8. Let’s buy tickets for ….

9. I like animated cartoons better ….

Task 9. Ask questions so that sentences given below could serve as answers.

1. The film is on at our local cinema-house.

2. Many famous film-stars were in the cast.

3. The feature film ran for an hour and half.

4. I like musicals best of all.

5. The public took this film to heart because the problems it touches upon are interesting to everybody.

6. Our seats are in the tenth row.

7. Animated cartoons are very popular because they are funny and amusing.

8. The newsreel showed the advertisements of the films which will be on in some time.

Task 10. Use the topical vocabulary in answering the following questions.

1. Do you often go to the cinema? Do you prefer cinema to theatre? Are tickets to the cinema cheaper than to the theatre?

2. What does a usual cinema showing consist of? What do they show in a news-reel? How long does it run? What is it followed by? How long does a feature film run?

3. What types of films do you know? What films appeal to you most?

4. What are travelogues about? Are you fond of them?

5. Are popular science films to your taste? Do you find them interesting or dull?

6. Do you care for long films?

7. What is a film star?

8. What does the success of a film depend on?

9. Which is more important – the story, the acting, the directing or the camera-work?

10. What do we mean when we say that a film has a message to convey?

11. Why does a director trying to interpret a great work of literature on the screen take upon himself a most responsible task?

12. How is the cinema used as an aid in teaching?

13. Animated cartoons are very amusing, aren’t they? Who was the father of animated cartoon films? Have you seen any of his films? What were they?

14. What was the last film you saw? Where is it on? Is it very popular with public? Did you enjoy it? Who was in the cast?

15. Who is your favourite actor (actress, film director, camera-man)?

16. What do you know about international film festivals?

17. Do you know any Ukrainian and Soviet films which won International Prizes? Where and when? Whose productions were they?

Task 11. Say a few sentences about some films using the words and expressions given below.

Witty comedy, excellent musical, bitter satire on, to be full of humour, I couldn’t help laughing (crying), a touching story, to be carried away, a striking adventure, dragged out, dull.

Task 12. Fill in the gaps in the text with one of the words given in the box.

cinema videos favourite took addict watches title ambition film feature

John Hughes, thirty years old, is believed to be the world’s biggest film _________. After seeing his first ____________ at the age of six in 1975 his parents __________ him to see “Pinocchio” as a Christmas treat, he has seen over 6,000 _____________ films. He currently goes to the ___________ at least six times a week, and ____________ an average of ten __________ a week – an average of about 800 films a year. He records the ___________ of every film he has seen in his diary (with a star rating), and giving his current rate of viewing, he hopes to achieve his _______________ of seeing 10,000 films before his thirty-fifth birthday. When asked for his _____________ among the films he has already seen, Mr. Hughes – who is unmarried – has no hesitation, “Pinocchio”, he says.

Task 13. In the box below there is a list of adjectives you can use when describing good and bad films. Divide them into those that describe positive and negative impressions of the film.

excellent disappointing awful exciting violent terrible entertaining great superb boring fantastic fabulous scary thrilling dull brilliant enjoyable stupid terrific

Positive impressions	Negative impressions

Task 14. Put down the films each of the categories of viewers like. Compare your answers with those of your fellow-students.

1) non-intellectual teenagers:

2) middle-aged housewives:

3) university students:

4) ten-year-old boys:

5) elderly professors:

6) pensioners:

Task 15. How do you choose a film to see? Think of the last film you saw and tick the reasons for seeing it.

1. I always see the films of this kind.

2. I always try to see the films with these actors in it.

3. Everybody was going to see it.

4. I had nothing better to see, it was all the same to me what to see.

5. A friend recommended it.

6. The ads looked interesting/exciting.

7. There was no better choice.

8. I read the book and wanted to see its screen version.

9. I read its review in the TV guide.

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