CLIL - Art: The history of animation

1.  c. Early animation   

In the 1880s, Eadweard Muybridge invented the zoopraxiscope. This machine took photographs of moving things. This was the earliest form of animation.

2.  a. Stop-motion animation   

In 1895, the Lumière brothers invented the 2 cinematograph. Early film-makers used it to make stop-motion animation. With this technique, they made King Kong in 1933.

3.  d. Hand-drawn animation  

In the 1920s, Walt Disney began to use 'hand drawn animation'. Artists drew the pictures onto transparent pieces of plastic, or cels. The film-makers put the cels on painted backgrounds and photographed them one at a time. In 1928, Disney studios introduced the character of Mickey Mouse in the first cartoon with sound, Steamboat Willie.

4.  b. Computer animation  

In the 1960s, people started using computer animation. At first, computers could only make simple stick figures move on films, but by the 1990s, studios used realistic computer generated imagery (CGI) for special effects. Soon, they were producing completely computer-animated films; Toy Story (1995) was the first fully CGI cartoon.

1.  c. Early animation  

In the 1880s, Eadweard Muybridge invented the zoopraxiscope. This machine took photographs of moving things. This was the earliest form of animation.

2.  a. Stop-motion animation 

In 1895, the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph. Early film-makers used it to make stop-motion animation. With this technique, they made King Kong in 1933.

3. d. Hand-drawn animation

In the 1920s, Walt Disney began to use 'hand drawn animation'. Artists drew the pictures onto transparent pieces of plastic, or cels. The film-makers put the cels on painted backgrounds and photographed them one at a time. In 1928, Disney studios introduced the character of Mickey Mouse in the first cartoon with sound, Steamboat Willie.

4.  b. Computer animation

In the 1960s, people started using computer animation. At first, computers could only make simple stick figures move on films, but by the 1990s, studios used realistic computer generated imagery (CGI) for special effects. Soon, they were producing completely computer-animated films; Toy Story (1995) was the first fully CGI cartoon.

The history of animation

1.  c. Early animation  

In the 1880s, Eadweard Muybridge invented the zoopraxiscope. This machine took photographs of moving things. This was the earliest form of animation.

2.  a. Stop-motion animation 

In 1895, the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph. Early film-makers used it to make stop-motion animation. With this technique, they made King Kong in 1933.

3.  d. Hand-drawn animation 

In the 1920s, Walt Disney began to use 'hand drawn animation'. Artists drew the pictures onto transparent pieces of plastic, or cels. The film-makers put the cels on painted backgrounds and photographed them one at a time. In 1928, Disney studios introduced the character of Mickey Mouse in the first cartoon with sound, Steamboat Willie.

4.  b. Computer animation 

In the 1960s, people started using computer animation. At first, computers could only make simple stick figures move on films, but by the 1990s, studios used realistic computer generated imagery (CGI) for special effects. Soon, they were producing completely computer-animated films; Toy Story (1995) was the first fully CGI cartoon.

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Thanks for your letter. It's very interesting to know about schools in the USA. I think schools in Viet Nam are a little different. Vietnamese students usually wear uniform. Classes start at 7.00 each morning and end at 11.15 in the afternoon. Students have a 30-minute break after three periods. At break time, many students play games. Some go to the canteen and buy something to eat or drink. Others talk together. Our school year lasts for 9 months, from September to May. Then we have a 3-month summer vacation. We feel too much long to come back to school to meet friends. I hope to know more about schools in your country.

Your friend,

Hoa

Hoa thinks schools in Viet Nam are different from schools in the USA.

1. True
2. False

Read the letter and decide which statements are true (T) or false (F).

Thanks for your letter. It's very interesting to know about schools in the USA. I think schools in Viet Nam are a little different. Vietnamese students usually wear uniform. Classes start at 7.00 each morning and end at 11.15 in the afternoon. Students have a 30-minute break after three periods. At break time, many students play games. Some go to the canteen and buy something to eat or drink. Others talk together. Our school year lasts for 9 months, from September to May. Then we have a 3-month summer vacation. We feel too much long to come back to school to meet friends. I hope to know more about schools in your country.

Your friend,

Hoa

Vietnamese students do not usually wear school uniform

1. True
2. False

Read the letter and decide which statements are true (T) or false (F).

Thanks for your letter. It's very interesting to know about schools in the USA. I think schools in Viet Nam are a little different. Vietnamese students usually wear uniform. Classes start at 7.00 each morning and end at 11.15 in the afternoon. Students have a 30-minute break after three periods. At break time, many students play games. Some go to the canteen and buy something to eat or drink. Others talk together. Our school year lasts for 9 months, from September to May. Then we have a 3-month summer vacation. We feel too much long to come back to school to meet friends. I hope to know more about schools in your country.

Your friend,

Hoa

Classes start from seven to a quarter past eleven.

1. True
2. False

Read the letter and decide which statements are true (T) or false (F).

Thanks for your letter. It's very interesting to know about schools in the USA. I think schools in Viet Nam are a little different. Vietnamese students usually wear uniform. Classes start at 7.00 each morning and end at 11.15 in the afternoon. Students have a 30-minute break after three periods. At break time, many students play games. Some go to the canteen and buy something to eat or drink. Others talk together. Our school year lasts for 9 months, from September to May. Then we have a 3-month summer vacation. We feel too much long to come back to school to meet friends. I hope to know more about schools in your country.

Your friend,

Hoa

Classes start from seven to a quarter past eleven.

1. True
2. False

Read the letter and decide which statements are true (T) or false (F).

Thanks for your letter. It's very interesting to know about schools in the USA. I think schools in Viet Nam are a little different. Vietnamese students usually wear uniform. Classes start at 7.00 each morning and end at 11.15 in the afternoon. Students have a 30-minute break after three periods. At break time, many students play games. Some go to the canteen and buy something to eat or drink. Others talk together. Our school year lasts for 9 months, from September to May. Then we have a 3-month summer vacation. We feel too much long to come back to school to meet friends. I hope to know more about schools in your country.

Your friend,

Hoa

Students have a 30-minute break after two periods.

1. True
2. False

Read the letter and decide which statements are true (T) or false (F).

Thanks for your letter. It's very interesting to know about schools in the USA. I think schools in Viet Nam are a little different. Vietnamese students usually wear uniform. Classes start at 7.00 each morning and end at 11.15 in the afternoon. Students have a 30-minute break after three periods. At break time, many students play games. Some go to the canteen and buy something to eat or drink. Others talk together. Our school year lasts for 9 months, from September to May. Then we have a 3-month summer vacation. We feel too much long to come back to school to meet friends. I hope to know more about schools in your country.

Your friend,

Hoa

Most students go to the canteen at break time.

1. True
2. False

Read the letter and decide which statements are true (T) or false (F).

Thanks for your letter. It's very interesting to know about schools in the USA. I think schools in Viet Nam are a little different. Vietnamese students usually wear uniform. Classes start at 7.00 each morning and end at 11.15 in the afternoon. Students have a 30-minute break after three periods. At break time, many students play games. Some go to the canteen and buy something to eat or drink. Others talk together. Our school year lasts for 9 months, from September to May. Then we have a 3-month summer vacation. We feel too much long to come back to school to meet friends. I hope to know more about schools in your country.

Your friend,

Hoa

The school year begins in September.

1. True
2. False

Read the letter and decide which statements are true (T) or false (F).

Thanks for your letter. It's very interesting to know about schools in the USA. I think schools in Viet Nam are a little different. Vietnamese students usually wear uniform. Classes start at 7.00 each morning and end at 11.15 in the afternoon. Students have a 30-minute break after three periods. At break time, many students play games. Some go to the canteen and buy something to eat or drink. Others talk together. Our school year lasts for 9 months, from September to May. Then we have a 3-month summer vacation. We feel too much long to come back to school to meet friends. I hope to know more about schools in your country.

Your friend,

Hoa

The summer vacation lasts for two months.

1. True
2. False

Read the letter and decide which statements are true (T) or false (F).

Thanks for your letter. It's very interesting to know about schools in the USA. I think schools in Viet Nam are a little different. Vietnamese students usually wear uniform. Classes start at 7.00 each morning and end at 11.15 in the afternoon. Students have a 30-minute break after three periods. At break time, many students play games. Some go to the canteen and buy something to eat or drink. Others talk together. Our school year lasts for 9 months, from September to May. Then we have a 3-month summer vacation. We feel too much long to come back to school to meet friends. I hope to know more about schools in your country.

Your friend,

Hoa

Vietnamese students like long holiday vacation.

1. True
2. False

Read the following text and then do the following quiz.

Ann lives in London. She is twenty-nine and works for the BBC. She interviews people on an early morning news program called The World Today. Every weekday she gets up at 3:00 in the morning because the program starts at 6.30. She loves her work because it is exciting and she meets a lot of very interesting people, but she loves her weekend, too.

On Fridays she comes home from the BBC at about 2.00 in the afternoons and she just relaxes. On Friday evenings she doesn’t go out, but sometimes a friend comes for dinner. He or she brings wine and they cook. Ann loves cooking. They listen to music or just chat.

On Saturday mornings she gets up at 9.00 and she goes shopping. Then in the evenings she sometimes goes to the theater or opera with a friend – she loves opera. Then they eat in her favorite Chinese restaurant. On Sunday mornings she stays in bed late. She doesn’t get up until 11.00. Sometimes in the afternoons she visits her sister. She lives in the country and has two children. She likes playing with her niece and nephew, but she leaves early because she goes to bed at 8.00 on Sunday evenings.

True or False?

Ann loves cooking.

1. True
2. False

Read the following text and then do the following quiz.

Ann lives in London. She is twenty-nine and works for the BBC. She interviews people on an early morning news program called The World Today. Every weekday she gets up at 3:00 in the morning because the program starts at 6.30. She loves her work because it is exciting and she meets a lot of very interesting people, but she loves her weekend, too.

On Fridays she comes home from the BBC at about 2.00 in the afternoons and she just relaxes. On Friday evenings she doesn’t go out, but sometimes a friend comes for dinner. He or she brings wine and they cook. Ann loves cooking. They listen to music or just chat.

On Saturday mornings she gets up at 9.00 and she goes shopping. Then in the evenings she sometimes goes to the theater or opera with a friend – she loves opera. Then they eat in her favorite Chinese restaurant. On Sunday mornings she stays in bed late. She doesn’t get up until 11.00. Sometimes in the afternoons she visits her sister. She lives in the country and has two children. She likes playing with her niece and nephew, but she leaves early because she goes to bed at 8.00 on Sunday evenings.

True or False?

Ann doesn't like opera.

1. True
2. False

Read the following text and then do the following quiz.

Ann lives in London. She is twenty-nine and works for the BBC. She interviews people on an early morning news program called The World Today. Every weekday she gets up at 3:00 in the morning because the program starts at 6.30. She loves her work because it is exciting and she meets a lot of very interesting people, but she loves her weekend, too.

On Fridays she comes home from the BBC at about 2.00 in the afternoons and she just relaxes. On Friday evenings she doesn’t go out, but sometimes a friend comes for dinner. He or she brings wine and they cook. Ann loves cooking. They listen to music or just chat.

On Saturday mornings she gets up at 9.00 and she goes shopping. Then in the evenings she sometimes goes to the theater or opera with a friend – she loves opera. Then they eat in her favorite Chinese restaurant. On Sunday mornings she stays in bed late. She doesn’t get up until 11.00. Sometimes in the afternoons she visits her sister. She lives in the country and has two children. She likes playing with her niece and nephew, but she leaves early because she goes to bed at 8.00 on Sunday evenings.

True or False?

Ann lives in London.

1. True
2. False

Read the following text and then do the following quiz.

Ann lives in London. She is twenty-nine and works for the BBC. She interviews people on an early morning news program called The World Today. Every weekday she gets up at 3:00 in the morning because the program starts at 6.30. She loves her work because it is exciting and she meets a lot of very interesting people, but she loves her weekend, too.

On Fridays she comes home from the BBC at about 2.00 in the afternoons and she just relaxes. On Friday evenings she doesn’t go out, but sometimes a friend comes for dinner. He or she brings wine and they cook. Ann loves cooking. They listen to music or just chat.

On Saturday mornings she gets up at 9.00 and she goes shopping. Then in the evenings she sometimes goes to the theater or opera with a friend – she loves opera. Then they eat in her favorite Chinese restaurant. On Sunday mornings she stays in bed late. She doesn’t get up until 11.00. Sometimes in the afternoons she visits her sister. She lives in the country and has two children. She likes playing with her niece and nephew, but she leaves early because she goes to bed at 8.00 on Sunday evenings.

True or False?

She works for the World Tomorrow.

1. True
2. False

Read the following text and then do the following quiz.

Ann lives in London. She is twenty-nine and works for the BBC. She interviews people on an early morning news program called The World Today. Every weekday she gets up at 3:00 in the morning because the program starts at 6.30. She loves her work because it is exciting and she meets a lot of very interesting people, but she loves her weekend, too.

On Fridays she comes home from the BBC at about 2.00 in the afternoons and she just relaxes. On Friday evenings she doesn’t go out, but sometimes a friend comes for dinner. He or she brings wine and they cook. Ann loves cooking. They listen to music or just chat.

On Saturday mornings she gets up at 9.00 and she goes shopping. Then in the evenings she sometimes goes to the theater or opera with a friend – she loves opera. Then they eat in her favorite Chinese restaurant. On Sunday mornings she stays in bed late. She doesn’t get up until 11.00. Sometimes in the afternoons she visits her sister. She lives in the country and has two children. She likes playing with her niece and nephew, but she leaves early because she goes to bed at 8.00 on Sunday evenings.

True or False?

Why does she love her work?

1. Because she can meet interesting people.
2. Because it’s funny.
3. Because it’s very easy to do.
4. Because she can earn a lot of money.

Read the following text and then do the following quiz.

Ann lives in London. She is twenty-nine and works for the BBC. She interviews people on an early morning news program called The World Today. Every weekday she gets up at 3:00 in the morning because the program starts at 6.30. She loves her work because it is exciting and she meets a lot of very interesting people, but she loves her weekend, too.

On Fridays she comes home from the BBC at about 2.00 in the afternoons and she just relaxes. On Friday evenings she doesn’t go out, but sometimes a friend comes for dinner. He or she brings wine and they cook. Ann loves cooking. They listen to music or just chat.

On Saturday mornings she gets up at 9.00 and she goes shopping. Then in the evenings she sometimes goes to the theater or opera with a friend – she loves opera. Then they eat in her favorite Chinese restaurant. On Sunday mornings she stays in bed late. She doesn’t get up until 11.00. Sometimes in the afternoons she visits her sister. She lives in the country and has two children. She likes playing with her niece and nephew, but she leaves early because she goes to bed at 8.00 on Sunday evenings.

True or False?

What does she do on Friday afternoons?

1. She plays computer games.
2. She relaxes.
3. She goes out with her friends.
4. She goes shopping.

Read the following text and then do the following quiz.

Ann lives in London. She is twenty-nine and works for the BBC. She interviews people on an early morning news program called The World Today. Every weekday she gets up at 3:00 in the morning because the program starts at 6.30. She loves her work because it is exciting and she meets a lot of very interesting people, but she loves her weekend, too.

On Fridays she comes home from the BBC at about 2.00 in the afternoons and she just relaxes. On Friday evenings she doesn’t go out, but sometimes a friend comes for dinner. He or she brings wine and they cook. Ann loves cooking. They listen to music or just chat.

On Saturday mornings she gets up at 9.00 and she goes shopping. Then in the evenings she sometimes goes to the theater or opera with a friend – she loves opera. Then they eat in her favorite Chinese restaurant. On Sunday mornings she stays in bed late. She doesn’t get up until 11.00. Sometimes in the afternoons she visits her sister. She lives in the country and has two children. She likes playing with her niece and nephew, but she leaves early because she goes to bed at 8.00 on Sunday evenings.

True or False?

Where does Ann’s sister live?

1. She lives in a city.
2. She lives in the country.
3. She lives in a town.
4. She lives in a province.