READING COMPREHENSION
I (Unit 6)
1. For film reviews (1-5) write down the titles of the
films (A-F). Use each letter only once. There is one extra title
A. The Aviator
B. Meet the Fockers
C.
Darkness
D.
The Phantom of the Opera
E. National Treasure
F. The Polar Express
1. _____ Believing in Santa Claus isn’t easy when all of
your friends and family insist that he’s just make-believe. A boy’s faith is
rewarded one Christmas Eve when he’s awakened by a steam train that pulls up in
front of his house and takes him and other children to the North to meet Santa.
It’s all CGI (Computer Generated Images), based upon live-action motion-capture
actors.
2. _____ He is a masked man who roams around the Paris Opera
House, haunts the actors and actresses. He falls for a young soprano named
Christine (Emmy Rossum) and tutors her so well that she passes another soprano
(Minnie Driver) as the city’s best. He is smitten and wants Christine for his
own, but she still has feelings for a childhood love, Raoul (Patrick Wilson).
Feeling betrayed, the Phantom kidnaps Christine with plans to make her his
eternal bride.
3. _____ A teenage girl (Paquin) moves into a remote
countryside house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home
has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family.
4. _____ Having given permission to male nurse Greg
(Stiller) to wed his daughter Pam (Polo), ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes (De Niro) and
his wife (Danner) travel to Detroit to “meet the parents”, who this time around
are Mr and Mrs Focker (Hoffman and Streisand), who are as different from them
as can be.
5. _____ The film is directed by Martin Scorsese and written
by John Logan, tells the story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes (Leonardo
DiCaprio), the eccentric millionaire industrialists and Hollywood film mogul,
famous for romancing some of the world’s most beautiful women. The drama
recounts the years of his life from the late 1920s through the 1940s, an epoch
when Hughes was directing and producing Hollywood movies and test flying
innovative aircrafts he designed
and created.
2. People’s opinions of one
and the same film can be different.
Read the opinions and use the
word in capital letters to form the word that fits each space.
- I can’t say anything. It’s
_____ (ABSOLUTE) fantastic!
- How _____ (FRIGHT) the film is!
- And I think that it is nothing
to talk about. To my mind it is rather _____ (LOUSE).
- The film is so _____ (DRAMA).
- The film is so _____ (MYSTERY).
It keeps you in suspense from the beginning up to the end.
3. CULTURAL AWARENESS
- What was the name of the first
theatre in London?
- What genres of films were the
first ones shot in America?
- What was the first film
demonstrated to the audience about?
- What are the biggest film
corporations in the USA?
- What categories are there in
the MPAA rating system?
READING COMPREHENSION
II (Unit 6)
1. For film reviews (1-5) write down the titles of the
films (A-F). Use each letter only once. There is one extra title.
A. The Aviator
B. Meet the Fockers
C.
Darkness
D.
The Phantom of the Opera
E. National Treasure
F. The Polar Express
1. _____ Believing in Santa Claus isn’t easy when all of your
friends and family insist that he’s just make-believe. A boy’s faith is
rewarded one Christmas Eve when he’s awakened by a steam train that pulls up in
front of his house and takes him and other children to the North to meet Santa.
It’s all CGI (Computer Generated Images), based upon live-action motion-capture
actors.
2. _____ He is a masked man who roams around the Paris Opera
House, haunts the actors and actresses. He falls for a young soprano named
Christine (Emmy Rossum) and tutors her so well that she passes another soprano
(Minnie Driver) as the city’s best. He is smitten and wants Christine for his
own, but she still has feelings for a childhood love, Raoul (Patrick Wilson).
Feeling betrayed, the Phantom kidnaps Christine with plans to make her his
eternal bride.
3. _____ A teenage girl (Paquin) moves into a remote
countryside house with her family, only to discover that their gloomy new home
has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy the family.
4. _____ Having given permission to male nurse Greg
(Stiller) to wed his daughter Pam (Polo), ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes (De Niro) and
his wife (Danner) travel to Detroit to “meet the parents”, who this time around
are Mr and Mrs Focker (Hoffman and Streisand), who are as different from them
as can be.
5. _____ The film is directed by Martin Scorsese and written
by John Logan, tells the story of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes (Leonardo
DiCaprio), the eccentric millionaire industrialists and Hollywood film mogul,
famous for romancing some of the world’s most beautiful women. The drama
recounts the years of his life from the late 1920s through the 1940s, an epoch
when Hughes was directing and producing Hollywood movies and test flying
innovative aircrafts he designed
and created.
2. People’s opinions of one
and the same film can be different.
Read the opinions and use the
word in capital letters to form the word that fits each space
- The film is so _____ (DRAMA).
- The film is so _____ (MYSTERY).
It keeps you in suspense from the beginning up to the end.
- It is a good _____ (HISTORY)
film.
- To my mind the film is _____
(EXCITE). I enjoy watching it.
- It is really _____ (SENSATION).
I’ve never thought it can be so interesting.
3. CULTURAL AWARENESS
- What was the name of the first
theatre in London?
- What genres of films were the
first ones shot in America?
- What was the first film
demonstrated to the audience about?
- What are the biggest film
corporations in the USA?
- What categories are there in
the MPAA rating system?
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