Making a film takes a long time and is very hard work. Writing the story for the film may take many weeks. Filming the story being acted - or shooting the film, as it is called - often takes at least six months. Actors and cameramen work from very early in the morning until late at night. Each scene has to be acted and reacted, filmed and refilmed, until it is just right. Sometimes the same scene may have to be acted twenty or thirty times. The film studio is like a large factory, and the indoor stages are very big indeed. Scenery of all kinds is made in the studio. Churches, houses, castles and forests are all built of wood and cardboard. Several hundred people work together to make one film. Some of these people are the actors and actresses. The director of the film, however, is the most important person in a film studio. He decided how the scenesshould be filmed and how the actors should act. Most people go to see a film because they know the film stars in it. Sometimes the film may be very poor. It is best to choose a film made by a good director. Some famous directors make their films very real. People feel that they themselves are among the people in the film.

1. Scenes have to be filmed many times because........
A. it takes a long time to make a film

B. it is often difficult to make them just right

C. many people work together

D. the film is poor

2. Which of the following is compared to a factory?

A. The film studio

B. The indoor stage

C. The scenery

D. A poor film

3. The director of a film.................

A. Is always an actor. B. The indoor stage

C.is a film star. D. Says how scene should be filmed.

I . Complete the sentences with the type of films in the box:
( horror, animation, thriller, science- fiction, adventure, action, romantic, comedy, documantary,
romantic comedy)
1. A __________ is an exciting film, especially about murder or serious crimes
2. ___________ film features lots of monsters such as Frankenstein, or Dracula that make you scream
and be afraid, very afraid!
3. ______________ are sweet films that include romance, but also lots of funny moments as well
4. In general, _______________ make you laugh – a lot!
5. ________________ films are about imaginary events in the future or in outer space
6. A _______________ is a film that investigate some real – life story
7. In _______________ film the heroes have lots of battles, do incredible stunts and drive fast
8. ______________ films use computer graphics to make elaborate stories
9. ______________ films have a main character who’s usually either on a conquest or exploration
10. ______________ films are stories of people finding each other and falling in love.
II. Complete the sentences with although, despite/ in spite of, however/ nevertheless.
1. Leonardo Dicaprio is a talented actor; ______________________ , he only won an Oscar after six
nominations.
2.____ ____________ the negative reviews, Jurassic World reached $1 billion in ticket sales.
3.Linh wanted to see Wall-E. ____________________ ,theshowingweekfellonher
semesterexamination.
4.______________ it has found its fans over time, Empire Records only made $300,000 atthe box
office.
5. Finding Nemo was a successful animation film ------------------------------ its low budget.
6. Out of Africa didn’t win any acting Oscars ----------------------------------starring Meryl Streepand
Robert Redford.
7. The film barely made back its budget. ---------------------------------------- critics and fans had a lot of
positive things to say about it.
8. ______________animation is not my favorite genre, I really like Zootopia.
9. Titanic is a really good movie; ______________, it is not for anyone under the age of sixteen.
10. ______________ it is loved by fans today, Clue had a rough start when it opened in 1985.
III. Use the verbs in the blankets in their correct forms to complete the sentences:
1. What is the best horror movie you _____________________ (see) so far?
2. Tom Hanks _______________(win) an Oscar for playing Forrest Gump in 1994.
3. I ________________ (watch) a very interesting Korean drama at present.
4. Kong – Skull Island _____________________ (direct) by Jordan Vogt – Roberts.
5. The film was a commercial success although it __________________ (not receive) good reviews
from critics.
6. __________________ (your brother/ usually/ watch) movies at home or the cinema?
7. What __________________ (you/ do) tomorrow night?
8. Joanna ________________________ (not be) to the cinema since November.
9.The last film I ______________________ (see) at the cinema was an action film called Fast and
Furious.
9. Clint Eastwood became one of the most respected directors, in spite of ___________ (be)
known for his western.

V. Give the correct form of the words given to complete the sentence.

1. Horror films ......my younger sister. TERIBLE

2. I don’t think it is good for young kids to see .....on TV. VIOLENT

3. We are going to the cinema to see an..... film. AMAZED

4. Although Titanic is a..... film, it has a sad ending. ROMANCE

5. He falls in love with a pretty girl. It’s a beautiful .. .. ROMANTIC

6. His recent film received a lot of .....from the public. CRITIC

7. My favourite...... -fiction films have being from Mars. SCIENTIST

8. I don’t like horror films because they are too .....for me. FRIGHT

9. Dracula is the best....... film I’ve ever seen. IMPRESS

10.Do you know Daniel Day-Lewis? He has won three Oscars for ACT

Best ................

IX. Read the film review, and decide whether the statements are true (T), or false (F), and tick the correct box.

Have you ever read Alice In Wonderland, by Lewis Carol? I did and I really like it. It’s an adventure story full of magic and danger. Yesterday I saw Tim Burton’s version of the film at the cinema.

This story is about Alice, who is now a teenager. A man wants to marry her, but she runs away and falls downa rabbit hole. She travels to Wonderland, which she has visited before as a child, and meets a lot of amazing characters on her adventures.

There are a lot of good special effects in the film. The Red Queen, played by Helena Bonham Carter, is very scary, and Johnny Depp is brilliant as the Mad Hatter. He has acted in a lot of films before but this is my favourite one. Mia Waslkowska is good as Alice; this is her first big film and I think she’s going to become a big star!

Overall, I think this is a good film for teenagers, but it’s a bit long. You should see it if you like fantasy and adventure, but don’t go if you like romances: it’s not a love story.

Charlie, Manchester, UK

True False

61. Wonderland was directed by Lewis Carol.

62. The film is both an adventure story and a love story.

63. Alice is still in her childhood.

64. Alice has never been to Wonderland before.

65. She meets a lot of amazing people in Wonderland.

66. The special effects in the films are good.

67. The Red Queen is very friendly.

68. The Mad Hatter is played by Johnny Depp

69. Johnny Depp played his first role in this film.

70. The writer of the report thinks that the film is a good film for teenagers.

Read the passage, and then answer the questions. My favourite actors I like a lot of different actors, but my real favourites are Daniel Craig and Halle Berry. Daniel Craig is British and he’s a really talented actor. He’s been in a lot of different kinds of films including action adventure, science fiction, and romantic drama, but he always gives an excellent performance. He was brilliant in Tomb Raider as Alex West, but my favourite film is Casino Royale. I think Daniel Craig is a fantastic James Bond. Halle Berry is American. She was a model, but then decided to become an actress. I like her because she’s beautiful. She’s a good actress and I think she has a great sense of humour. I’m not keen on some of her films, such as Catwoman, but her other films are excellent. My favourite is X-Men which is a science fiction film. She plays the main character Storm, who has the ability to change the weather. Daniel Craig and Halle Berry are both entertaining and talented actors. I love watching their films. Nick, London, UK

What is his role in Tomb Raider?

__________________________ Where does Halle Berry come from? __________________________

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or B on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 30 to 37.

  Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent”, the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were accompanied by piano improvisations on popular tunes. At first, the music played bore no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was sufficient. Within a very short time, however, the incongruity of playing lively music to a solemn film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in matching their pieces to the mood of the film.

  As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain cases, and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed. For a number of years the selection of music for each film program rested entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal qualification for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before the y were to be shown (if, indeed, the conductor was lucky enough to see them then), the musical arrangement was normally improvised in the greatest hurry.

  To help meet this difficulty, film distributing companies started the practice of publishing suggestions for musical accompaniments. In 1909, for example, the Edison Company began issuing with their films such indications of mood as “pleasant’, “sad”, “lively”. The suggestions became more explicit, and so emerged the musical cue sheet containing indications of mood, the titles of suitable pieces of music, and precise directions to show where one piece led into the next.

  Certain films had music especially composed for them. The most famous of these early specialscores was that composed and arranged for D. w. Griffith’s film Birth of a Nation, which was released in 1915.

It can be inferred that orchestra conductors who worked in movie theaters needed to _________.

A. be able to compose original music

B. have pleasant voices 

C. be able to play many instruments

D. be familiar with a wide variety of music

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions from 1 to 8.

Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent”, the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were accompanied by piano improvisations on popular tunes. At first, the music played bore no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was sufficient. Within a very short time, however, the incongruity of playing lively music to a solemn film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in matching their pieces to the mood of the film.

As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain cases, and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed. For a number of years the selection of music for each film program rested entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal qualification for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before the y were to be shown (if, indeed, the conductor was lucky enough to see them then), the musical arrangement was normally improvised in the greatest hurry.

To help meet this difficulty, film distributing companies started the practice of publishing suggestions for musical accompaniments. In 1909, for example, the Edison Company began issuing with their films such indications

of mood as “pleasant’, “sad”, “lively”. The suggestions became more explicit, and so emerged the musical cue sheet containing indications of mood, the titles of suitable pieces of music, and precise directions to show where one piece led into the next.

Certain films had music especially composed for them. The most famous of these early special scores was that composed and arranged for D. w. Griffith’s film Birth of a Nation, which was released in 1915.

It can be inferred that orchestra conductors who worked in movie theaters needed to _______ .

A. be able to compose original music

B. have pleasant voices

C. be able to play many instruments

D. be familiar with a wide variety of music

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions from 1 to 8.

Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent”, the film has never been, in the full sense of the word, silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were accompanied by piano improvisations on popular tunes. At first, the music played bore no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was sufficient. Within a very short time, however, the incongruity of playing lively music to a solemn film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in matching their pieces to the mood of the film.

As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain cases, and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed. For a number of years the selection of music for each film program rested entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal qualification for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before the y were to be shown (if, indeed, the conductor was lucky enough to see them then), the musical arrangement was normally improvised in the greatest hurry.

To help meet this difficulty, film distributing companies started the practice of publishing suggestions for musical accompaniments. In 1909, for example, the Edison Company began issuing with their films such indications of mood as “pleasant’, “sad”, “lively”. The suggestions became more explicit, and so emerged the musical cue sheet containing indications of mood, the titles of suitable pieces of music, and precise directions to show where one piece led into the next.

Certain films had music especially composed for them. The most famous of these early special scores was that composed and arranged for D. w. Griffith’s film Birth of a Nation, which was released in 1915.

It can be inferred that orchestra conductors who worked in movie theaters needed to _______ .

A. be able to compose original music

B. have pleasant voices

C. be able to play many instruments

D. be familiar with a wide variety of music

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent”, the film has never been, in the full sense of the word,silent. From the very beginning, music was regarded as an indispensable accompaniment; when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public film exhibition in the United States in February 1896, they were accompanied by piano improvisations on popular tunes. At first, the music played bore no special relationship to the films; an accompaniment of any kind was sufficient. Within a very short time, however, the incongruity of playing lively music to a solemn film became apparent, and film pianists began to take some care in matching their pieces to the mood of the film.

As movie theaters grew in number and importance, a violinist, and perhaps a cellist, would be added to the pianist in certain cases, and in the larger movie theaters small orchestras were formed. For a number of years the selection of music for each film program rested entirely in the hands of the conductor or leader of the orchestra, and very often the principal qualification for holding such a position was not skill or taste so much as the ownership of a large personal library of musical pieces. Since the conductor seldom saw the films until the night before they were to be shown (if, indeed, the conductor was lucky enough to see them then), the musical arrangement was normally improvised in the greatest hurry.

To help meet this difficulty, film distributing companies started the practice of publishing suggestions for musical accompaniments. In 1909, for example, the Edison Company began issuing with their films such indications of mood as “pleasant”, “sad”, “lively”. The suggestions became more explicit, and so emerged the musical cue sheet containing indications of mood, the titles of suitable pieces of music, and precise directions to show where one piece led into the next.

Certain films had music especially composed for them. The most famous of these early special scores was that composed and arranged for D.W. Griffith’s film Birth of a Nation, which was released in 1915.

It can be inferred that orchestras conductors who worked in movie theaters needed to ________.

A. be able to play many instruments

B. have pleasant voices

C. be familiar with a wide variety of music

D. be able to compose original music