WELCOME TO
NGUYEN TRAI
UPPER-SECONDARY SCHOOL

Talk about the film
you like or you have ever seen.
UNIT 13:
FILMS AND CINEMA
Period 82: LANGUAGE FOCUS
What can you see in the picture?
flowers
leaves
vase
leaf
First practice /f/ and then use your voice to make /v/.
- Touch your top teeth with your bottom lip
- Blow out air between your lip and your teeth.
A. Pronunciation
/f/: voiceless sound /v/: voiced sound
1. Listen and repeat
/f/ /v/
fan fiction van vote
first photograph vine Stephen
form enough view leave
2. Practice reading the sentences.
1. He feels happy enough.
2. I want a photograph for my self and my wife.
3. Would you prefer a full photograph or a profile?
4. Stephen is driving a van full of vines.
5. We used to live in a village in the valley.
6. They arrived in the village on a van.
B. Grammar and Vocabulary
Ex: - Are you interested in the film “Titanic” ?
- No, it’s not interesting. It’s boring.
present participle
past participle
1. Adjectives of attitude
present participle: V-ing (having the active meaning)
past participle: V-ed (having the passive meaning)

1.1. Write the adjectival forms of the verbs below.
Ex: interest interesting

fascinate 6. bore
2. excite 7. surprise
3. terrify 8. amuse
4. irritate 9. embarrass
5. horrify 10. frustrate
exciting
terrifying
irritating
horrifying
boring
surprising
fascinating
amusing
frustrating
embarrassing
1.2. Use an adjective ending –ing or –ed form of the verb in brackets to complete each sentence.
(Exercise 2 on page 140)
Key:
a. The weather is depressing.
b. This weather makes me depressed.
2. a. Tan is interested in astronomy.
b. He finds astronomy very interesting.
3. a. The program was boring.
b. I was bored with the program.
4. a. Lan is really excited about going to Singapore.
b. It will be an exciting experience for her.
5. a. Huong often finds her job exhausting.
b. At the end of the day’s work she is often exhausted.
1.3. Choose the best answer:
She doesn’t like her job. It is so (boring/ bored).
2. I seldom visit art galleries. I’m not very (interesting/ interested) in art.
3. He’s starting a new job next week. He’s quite (excited/ exciting) about it.
4. We went for a very long walk. It was very (tiring/ tired).
5. Everyone was (surprised/ surprising) that he passed the exam.
2. It is/ was not until…that…


= It was not until 1980 that Nguyen Trai Upper-secondary School was built.
Ex: Nguyen Trai Upper-secondary School was not built until 1980.
* Rewrite the following sentences, using 
‘It was not until... that...’.
1. She didn’t become a teacher until 1990.
2. He didn’t know how to swim until he was 30.
3. They didn’t begin to learn English until 1980.
4. The boy didn’t do his homework until his father came home.
5. The football match didn’t start until the lights were on.
Key:
1. It was not until 1990 that she became a teacher.
2. It was not until he was 30 that he knew how to swim.
3. It was not until 1980 that they began to learn English.
It was not until his father came home that the boy did his homework.
It was not until the lights were on that the football match started.
3. Articles:
3.1. Attention should be paid into the three kinds:

A. Indefinite articles: A - AN
B. Definite article: THE
C. No articles.

*Match the kind A or B or C above with its rules mentioned below.
Key:

A: 1 – 6 -10 – 11
B: 2 - 5 - 7 - 9
C: 3 – 4 - 8 - 12

Key:
a
The
the
A
an
a
the
The
the
HOMEWORK