UNIT 13: FILMS AND CINEMA
Lesson 1 :Reading


( Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about the history of films..
( Teaching aids: Pictures , posters
( Procedure:


Contents
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities

I. WARM UP: ( 7’ )


* Answer the questions
What is in the picture? (( the cinema)
Have you ever been to the cinema? How often do you go to the cinema?
What do you call people who are watching film in the theatre? ((the audience )
II. PRE-READING: (10`)

* Pre-teach vocabulary
sequence (n) = chuỗi

motion (n) = sự vận động

character (n ) = nhân vật
decade (n) = 10 years thập niên

to spread (v) = lan rộng
a screen (n) = màn hình, màn ảnh

* Checking: Slap the board

* Set the scene:

1. Do you want to see a film at the cinema or on TV ?why?
2. Can you name some of the films you have seen?
3. What kind of films do you like to see?why?
* Prediction: True or False statements
1. The history of cinema today began in the early 18th century.
2. By 1905, films were about five or ten minutes long.
3. Special places where only films were shown were built in 1910.
4. In the early 1920s, audiences were able to enjoy the first long films.
5. The cinema changed completely at the end of 1920s.

III. WHILE-READING: (15’)
Checking prediction
*Expected answers
F (the 19th century)
T
F (since 1915)
F ( in the early 1910s)
T

Task 2 : Answering the questions (page 126)
Expected answers

1. It began in the early 19th century.
2. They discovered that when a sequence of still pictures were set in motion ..............
3. No, they didn`t.
4. Audiences were able to see long films in the early 1910s.
5. the sound was introduced at the end of the 1920s
6. As the old silent films were being replaced by spoken ones, the musical cinema appeared.

Task 3: Choose the best title

A. The History of the Films.
B. The Story of a Film Maker
C. A Brief History of Cinema

* Expected answers B


IV. POST- READING:(10’)

Choose the best answer.
1. The film is ___2 women who drive across American .
A. on B. of C. about D. over.
2. The main ____ is played by Nicole Kidman.
A. actress B. character C. director D. film maker
3. It is said that decade is about____
A.1 years B. 10 years C. 1,00 years D.1,000years
4. They are making a film based on the _____events that happened in 1975.
A. history B. Historian C. historical D. historically
5. Motion picture is not only an art. It is _____.
A. industry B. industrial
C. industrialize D. Industrialized

V. Homework:( 3’)
- Write a summary of the reading text basing on what they have discussed in After you read.
- Giving instructions



- Asking ss to look at the photos and answer the questions



- Giving feedback and correct answers.


- Giving instructions
-Eliciting ( modeling ( checking meaning and pronunciation
- the series of the related actions
-How do you call “ sự vận động” in E?
- the person in the film
- What is the synonym of 10 years ?
- to extend over a place
- picture


- Giving instructions


- Setting up the scene to introduce the lesson by making some questions


- Giving instructions
-Asking ss to predict whether they are true or false
-Running through words
-Asking ss to predict IND
-Asking ss to share with friends
- Asking ss to give their prediction
-Writing the prediction

-Asking ss to read the passage and check your prediction individually
-Asking ss to share with friends
-Asking ss to give their answers

- Giving instructions

-Asking ss to answers the questions and information to prove
Asking ss to practice individually
-Asking ss to share with friends
-Asking ss to give their answers
.Which paragraph? Which line?
* Correcting