Zahiriddin muhammad bobur nomidagi andijon davlat universiteti ingliz tili grammatikasi kafedrasi

Read the statements and decide whether they are True or False. Correct any that are False.

		True	False
1	Tom Hanks attended President Obama's inauguration.
2	Hanks doesn't know why he wasn't invited to join President Obama at Buckingham Palace.
3	Hanks has recently become a father.
4	Hanks is enthusiastic, but inattentive.
5	Hanks is the co-writer, director and lead actor of his latest film.
6	Hanks is the only actor who has ever won Oscars back to back.
7	It was Hanks's roles in Sleepless in Seattle and Apollo 13 that made him a spokesman of war veterans and NASA.
8	Hanks does not appear on screen as often as he used to.
9	Hanks has produced a number of successful television series.
10	Last year, Hanks worked on a 9/11 drama with Sandra Bullock.

Practising your reading skills
Activity 2. Choose the best heading (A-F) for each paragraph of the article (1-6).
A Hanks's new film
В Hanks's personal life, appearance and character
С Hanks's place on the international stage
D Hanks's achievements in film
E Hanks's future work
F Hanks's television work
Activity 2. The writer mentions nine films that Tom Hanks has appeared in - find them and
underline them.
Activity 3. Answer these questions about the films from question 2.
1 Which film made the most money at the box office?
2 For which two films did Hanks win Oscars?
3 In which film did Hanks play a boy trapped in a man's body?
4 In which two films did Hanks play a romantic hero?
5 In which two films did Hanks play an all-American hero?
6 Which of the above films is Hanks's most recent?
Activity 4. Tick the descriptions that make you think that the writer likes Tom Hanks as a person and as an actor. Circle the one phrase that makes you think he is not sure whether Hanks is as nice as he makes out.
1 'The skinny guy' (line 9)
2 'genial gent'(line 10)
3 'His waist is thicker than it used to be' (line 16)
4 'puppy-dog enthusiasm'(line 18)
5 'that rare gift of being able to grant you his sincere and undivided attention' (lines 20-22)
6 'or, at least, of creating the impression he's doing so ...' (lines 22-23)
7 'As an actor. Hanks is in a league of his own' (line 32)
8 'it is here that Hanks has focused his attention' (line 51)
Language focus
Activity 1. Read the article again and highlight any vocabulary related to films and the cinema. Look up any words that you don't know and write them in your vocabulary book.