1 Listen and say True or False. (7x2=14)
1) Sofa doesn’t like horror movies.
2) Alisher likes movies about love.
3) Alisher doesn’t mind horror movies.
4) Sofa likes comedies.
5) Action and adventure movies make Alisher feel scared.
6) A new mystery movie came out yesterday.
7) Alisher and Sofa both like fantasy.
VOCABULARY (5x2=10)
2 Read and complete the sentences with words and phrases.
female,
the company logo, French, oldest film company, short films The Gaumont Film Company often called just Gaumont, is a French
main film studio founded by the engineer-inventor Leon Gaumont in 1895. It is the first and (1) … in the world. The company began producing (2) … in 1897. Leon Gaumont’s secretary Alice Guy-Blanche became the first (3) … director. From 1905 to 1914, its Cite Elge studios were the largest in the world. Gaumont began producing full-length feature films in 1908. Most of the Gaumont’s films are in (4) … ; however, there
are some films in English, such as Luc Besson’s
The Fifth Element. Leon Gaumont chose the daisy as (5) … because it was his mother’s favourite flower and her name was Marguerite (Daisy). The logo was changed many times since that time but there has always been a daisy.
1895 2011– present
3 Make new word combinations n+n. (each word combination = 1.
e.g. a
film star, a documentary film
approximately = 10) movie, theatre, star, maker, director, actress, role, producer, award,
festival, feature, TV, comedy,
documentary, historical, film
READING
4 Read and say which company/ies … (8x2=16)
1) is/are American.
2) produced a saga about vampires.
3) has changed its logo several times but has always used the same things.
4) used a picture of animals in the logo.
5) had the biggest amount of money in 2015.
6) did not use a logo for many years.
7) uses a picture of a birthplace in its logo.
8) produced the film which was nominated as the Best Picture in 2003.
(1) Paramount Pictures is the second oldest film studios in the USA and the fifth oldest film studio in the world. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor put 22 actors and actresses on the logo and gave each a star. In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first Hollywood studio to use only digital form for all of its films. The company’s original logo was designed by William Hodkinson. He used the image of the mountain, which is similar to Ben Lomond Mountain in Utah (his childhood place). Paramount film logos had several changes, but it has always kept the mountain and stars in their logo design. The studio
produced many films such as Titanic, The Transformers, Indiana Jones, Iron Man and others.
(2) TriStar Pictures
is an American film studio, which is a part of Sony Pictures Entertainment. It was founded in 1928. The logo shows a flying horse Pegasus with the TriStar written just above his head. It is believed that the reason of using
Pegasus in TriStar film studio logos is that the founder, Victor Kaufman and his family have an interest in riding horses. Such films as
Godzilla 2000, Jumanji, Universal Soldier, Terminator and others were shot there.
(3) New Line Cinema was established in 1967 by 27-year-old Robert Shaye in the United States. It is also known as New Line Production studio of Warner Bros since 1996. The company did not use a logo until the 1970s. The logo changed the background several times but it has always had the text written in large letters. New Line produced many classic foreign-language films and one of them became the first New Line film to win an Oscar. When New Line produced
The Lord of the Rings films, they became their most successful films with over $2.9
billion in the
world. The films were nominated for 30 Academy Awards for each film. The final picture
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was called the Best Picture in 2003 as well as the film which brought the second highest amount of money of all time.
(4) Lions Gate is a Canadian-American entertainment company which is known as Lionsgate. It was formed on July 10, 1997. It was one of the most popular film studios in North America with the biggest amount of money in 2015. The first logo had a picture of a lion and then until 2013 there was an image of the opening gate. Now it has a picture of space with the name in large letters. In the company there are some other units such as Lionsgate Television and Lionsgate Interactive. Lionsgate
has a home video library of more than 13,000 films,
such titles as Dirty Dancing, the Twilight Saga, The Hunger Games and the Rambo films.
