Warm up
Can you name the Vietnamese titles of the following films?
Gone with the wind
Lion King
Titanic
Home alone
Harry potter
Mummy returns
(Cuốn theo chiều gió)
(Vua sư tử)
(Ở nhà một mình)
(Xác ướp trở lại)
A
B
C
D
E
F
Unit 13: Films and cinema
Period 1: Reading
I>Before you read.








cinema
Romantic films
Action film.
Detective
Horror film.
Science
Fiction film
Comedy.
Thriller.
Cartoon
Science
Fiction film
Kinds of films
Unit 13: Films and Cinema.
Unit 13 : Films and Cinema
I>Before you read.
New words
sequence [`si:kwəns] (n)
still [stil] (adj)
Decade [`dekeid] (n) :
Film maker (n) :
Motion [`mou∫n] (n)
Character [`kæriktə] (n)
Spread to [spred] (v)
một chuỗi
tĩnh , đứng yên.
thập kỷ

nhà làm phim
Chuyển động , di động

nhân vật
lan truyền/ lan sang
II> While you read
You are going to read about the history of cinema.

Task 1:Find the word in the passage that can match with the definition on the
right column.

Film making industry.

2. Series of related events or actions.

3. A period of ten years.

4. Quickly and in a short time

5. Part of a film.

6. A person in a film.

Cinema

Sequence

Decade

Rapidly

Scene

Character


Unit 13 : Films and cinema.
Task 2 work in pairs. Answer these questions.

When did the history of cinema begin?

2. What did scientists discover at that time.

3. Did films in the early days have sound?

4. When were audiences able to see long films?
5. When was sound introduced?

6. What form of films appeared as the old silent films were being replaced
by spoken ones?

In the early nineteenth century
At that time the scientists discovered that when a sequence of still pictures
was set in motion, they could give the feeling of movement.
No they didn’t

In the early 1910s.
At the end of the 1920s

The musical cinema.

Unit 13: Films and cinema.
Task 3. Read the passage one more time and find the most
suitable tile for it.
A. The story of a Film Maker.
B. A Brief History of Cinema.
C. The History of the Film Industry.

Answer : B ( the passage briefly presents the development of the
cinema from the old silent films to musicals.)

Unit 13 : Films and Cinema
III> After you read.

You are going to work in groups and talks about the history of cinema,
using these Cues below: 19 century, 1905, 1910s, 1915, 1920s.
19 century
1905
1910s
1915
1920s
Films were about 5-10 minutes long
( longer than early films which lasted only
one minute)

The first long films were made.
Films became even longer and better.
Cinema were first built
Sound was introduced and old silent
Films were replaced by the spoken ones