The progress check book

Date___________________
Progress Check 4


L ISTENING
1. Listen and say True or False.

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. ____




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.