Unit that’s entertainment! Lesson 19

UNIT 4. That’s entertainment!

Lesson 19. The silver screen

Vocabulary Types of film; past participles

Grammar Present Perfect for life experiences (1): positive and negative

1. 
   Work in groups. Discuss these questions.
   

1. 
   Who are your favourite film stars?
   
2. 
   How often do you go to the cinema or rent a video/DVD?
   
3. 
   Which is better - watching a film in the cinema or on video/DVD? Why?
   

2. 
   a) Work in pairs. Think of an example of these types of film.
   

VOCABULARY

a love story, a comedy, a cartoon, a war film, a thriller, an action film,

a horror film, a western, a historical drama, a musical, a science-fiction

(sci-fi) film, a romantic comedy.

a love story-'Casablanca', ‘Farhod and Shirin”

b) Work in groups. Compare answers. Then tell the other students what types of film you like and don’t like.

c) match questions 1-4 with a-d

1. What kind of film is it? a) the actors

2. Who is in it? b) the type of film

3. What is it about? c) the person’s opinion of the film

4. What is it like? d) the plot ( the story of the film )

Listen and practise. Copy the linking.

Recording : 4.1

2. 
   Read the article about Todd Philips. Answer these questions.
   

1. 
   When did Todd first see the movie Star Wars?
   
2. 
   Where did he meet his wife?
   
3. 
   What was unusual about his wedding?
   
4. 
   How long did he queue for in order to see Attack of the Clones?
   
5. 
   Why does he like the btar Wars films?
   
6. 
   W'hen did he meet Ewan McGregor?
   

TEXT “ FEEL THE FORCE”

On May 25^th 1977, seven-year-old Todd Philips went to see the movie star Wars for the first time. Now Todd is the president of the California Star Wars Society and is probably the biggest Star Wars fan in the world. He’s written hundreds of newspaper articles about the films and he’s been to Star Wars conferences all over the world. Todd met his wife, Holly, at a Star Wars party in 1994 and at their wedding everybody looked like Star Wars characters' And :n January ?002 Todd started queuing to see Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones - four months before the film opened!

2. 
   Look at these sentences.
   

Then choose the correct verb form in the rules.

• 
  We use the Present Perfect/Past Simple for experiences that happened some time before now. We don’t know or don’t say when they happened.
  
• 
  We use the Present Perfect/Past Simple if we say exactly when something happened.
  

b) Fill in the gaps for the Present Perfect with’ve, haven't, ’s or hasn’t.

POSITIVE

1/you/we/they + (= have) + past participle

he/she/it + (= has) + past participle

NEGATIVE

I/you/we/they +...............+ past participle

he/she/it +................+ past participle

2. 
   Read about the actor, Ewan McGregor. Put the verbs in the correct form of the Present Perfect or Past Simple.
   

Ewan McGregor was (be) born inScotland in 1971. He(decide) to be an actor when he was only nine and he ________(make) his first film in 1992. So far in his career he________(appear) in a lot of different types of film, including comedies, musicals, dramas and the Star Wars movies. His uncle, Denis Lawson,_________(be) in the original Star Wars in 1977 and McGregor_______(star) in his first Star Wars movie 22 years later. In hiscareer Ewan_________(work) with actresses like Cameron Diazand Nicole Kidman, and his films________(win) lots ofawards. He loves acting and when he__________(finish) filmingthe musical, Moulin Rouge,he said, "I______(never be)happier to do anything in my life."