Transcript What do you know about cinema?

What do you
know about
cinema?
The XX century can be called “the century
of film making”. Cinema and TV films
have become an important part of our
life.
• Do you know who made the first film?
• What was it about?
Listen to the information and check if you
are right.
These words can be useful
Invent(or)
Motion-picture camera
Arrival
Towards
Ran out
Script to the text:
Although the greatest cinema empire is
Hollywood, the inventors of the cinema were
the French, not Americans. The Lumiere
brothers invented the first film projector and
motion-picture camera in 1895. That year on
the 28th of December they demonstrated the
first three minutes film “Arrival of the Train”.
In that film, a train came towards the camera.
People ran out of the cinema, thinking it was
a real train.
Hollywood
• What do you know about Hollywood?
• What would you like to know about it?
Write a list of questions which you
would like to ask about Hollywood.
• Read the story of Hollywood (Your book
– Ex.2.3, p.178). Which of your
questions does the text help to answer?
These words can be useful
Entertain(ment)
To shoot
Director
Actor
Films: silent
Sound
Black-and-white
Colour
To star
genre
adventure
full-length
short
Why is Hollywood called the
capital of entertainment?
Check yourself!
What are these people
famous for?
Charlie Chaplin is an American actor who starred
in a number of silent films.
Paramount is a large corporation which consists
of several studios