Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be
able to get knowledge about the history of cinema and use the words they learn in speaking and
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America.
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Decide which of the options below is the best title for the passage.
A The Story of a Film Maker
B A Brief History of Cinema
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2 What did scientists discover at that time?
3 Did films in the early days have sound?
4 When were audiences able to see long films?
5 When was sound introduced?
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that when a sequence of still pictures were set in motion, they could give
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• The history of cinema began in the early 19th century
2 What did scientists discover at that time?
• At that time, scientists discovered that when a sequence of still pictures were set in motion, they could give the feeling of movement.
3 Did films in the early days have sound?• No, they didn’t.
4 When were audiences able to see long films?
• In the early 1910s, audiences were able to enjoy the first long film.
5 When was sound introduced?
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Work in pairs Find the word in the passage that can match with the definition on the right column.
1 film-making industry
2 series of related events or actions3 a period of ten years
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These are some cues:
The name of the film / the charactersWhat’s it about?
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