Reading,
vocabulary & conversation activity
Read the text below and work on the vocabulary exercise that follows.
Lights, camera…. action!
Thrillers, dramas, horror
movies, comedies, or westerns. If they are well-made, you love them all! Musicals,
animated films, documentaries, detective movies, science fiction, war,
romance, action, history, adventure, family, fantasy and even shorts.
You love raving about the
latest Meryl Streep performance and Leo Dicaprio’s acting skills. You are the
type of person who doesn’t care whether the movie is a blockbuster or a flop,
as long as Robert De Niro is in it. And you are literally counting the days
until Steven Spielberg starts shooting his next film. You love foreign films
and couldn’t care less whether the movie is dubbed or has captions. You are
loyal to the industry.
You devour trailers for the
coming attractions. You go to the ticket sales in person, just in case, the
very day tickets are out. And the day of the premiere, you stay at the theater
and read all the credits until the ushers ask you to please leave. Because
you, my friend, are a movie buff with conviction!
Texto: Verónica de la
Vega
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A.Find the film-related words
and/or phrases in the text above for the following definitions.
1.The place where cinema goers go to buy their tickets.
2.When a film is translated into another language using voice-over the
film is ………………
3.To praise an actor’s performance, director’s skills, etc. is to
……………….. about them.
4.A film with …………………. has a translation using words along the bottom of
the screen.
5.A first public performance or showing of a play, opera, film, etc.
6.The adverts for upcoming movies or coming attractions shown before the
main film.
7.A highly popular film
8.The names of the people involved in the making of the film that appear
at the end.
9. A person
who escorts people
to seats in
a theater.
10.An unpopular film.
11.Someone who knows a lot about films.
12.To make or to ………………. a film.
Discussing Movies
Film genres, setting,
directors, cast, plot, reviews
- What kind of movie is it? What’s its genre? It’s a/ an …
- Who’s the director? / Who directed it? The director is... / It was directed by...
- Who’s in it? / Who’s starring (in it)? ... is in it. / It’s starring ...
- When/ where does it take place? It takes place in... / It’s set in...
- What’s it about? It’s about... / The plot is about...
- What kind of reviews did it get? / What did the critics say? It got ... reviews / The critics...
GAME: Can you name this movie . . .?
“This movie is a sci-fi and it takes place in
space. It stars George Clooney and
Sandra Bullock and it was directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The plot is about a medical engineer and an astronaut who
work together to survive after an accident. The critics loved it.”
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Think about other movies to describe to your classmates
in this way. Give as many clues as you know.
There’s more to talk about...
 Do you often go to the movie theater?
When was the last time you went to the movie theater? What did you
see?
Do you want to see any new movies now?
Who are your favorite actors? Why?
Do you have a favorite movie director? Who is he/she?
Describe your favorite movie? What is it about? Who is in it?
Describe a very bad movie? Why was it bad for you?
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