Set 1 Review

More Than Words

Exercise 2

Write the correct genre under each picture.

1.

  • slow motion
  • sound effects
  • special effects
  • setting

2.

  • host
  • package
  • producer
  • anchor

3.

  • trilogy
  • drama
  • sitcom
  • thriller

4.

  • browse
  • surf
  • platform
  • broadcast

5.

  • device
  • soap opera
  • remote control
  • satellite
  • That’s
  • true!
  • not
  • You
  • must
  • joking!
  • be
  • I’d
  • say
  • exact
  • opposite.
  • the
  • No
  • it.
  • about
  • doubt
  • feel
  • the
  • same
  • way.
  • I
  • with
  • couldn’t
  • I
  • agree
  • more.
  • you

Pairwork 1

Say which film or theatre genre you find interesting and which you find boring or simply dislike. Your partner then uses an expression from Exercise 4 to agree or disagree with you. Switch roles. 

I think thrillers are absolutely amazing!

That’s not true – there’s always so much violence in them!

  1. Awesome, the new  of my favourite series has just been released!
  2.  the volume, I want to hear everything!
  3. Quickly! Where is the 
  4. I can’t wait to see what happens in this 
  5. I just love . I’m excited to see what they do next!
  6. I’m going to  every episode of this season.

Exercise 7

Fill in the missing letters.
  1. gesur
  2. suntrak
  3. adiene
  4. imprvsaion
  5. sripwritr
  6. dubed   flm
  7. s  dsiner
  8. suportin   atres
  1. sbsripion
  2. avetse
  3. apliaion
  4. doumetar
  5. tlk   sow
  6. realt   TV
  7. cange   cannls
  8. trn   up   t  volme

Exercise 8

Listen and choose the correct answer.

Making a film requires[annotation: require [rɪˈkwaɪə(r)] – nõudma]

  • five important steps.
  • a brilliant idea.
  • the best cast you can find.

The filming of Boyhood

  • was interrupted from time to time.
  • required different actors to portray the boy.
  • took an incredibly long time.

The development stage involves

  • working on the script.
  • starting filming.
  • looking for a leading actor.

During the pre-production stage,

  • digitally made special effects are added.
  • the film is shot on location.
  • the actors and film crew are hired.

When it comes to the production stage,

  • it takes little effort to shoot a film.
  • timing is essential.
  • you don’t depend on the weather conditions.

During the post-production stage,

  • the film components are organised in the desired way.
  • a lot of the film scenes are reshot.
  • the producers make the final decisions about editing.

The role of Foley artists in film production is to

  • edit colour schemes.
  • create visual effects.
  • recreate all kinds of sounds.

The aim of the distribution stage is to

  • record interviews with the cast for YouTube.
  • promote the film and get it into movie theaters.
  • reveal some exclusive details about the plot.

Go Ahead: Cinema, Theatre and Television

Take the quiz. Use the Internet to help you.
  • How a Mosquito Operates
  • Steamboat Willie
  • Fantasmagorie
  • Alice’s Wonderland
  • 2016
  • 2012
  • 2002
  • 2009
  • 13
  • 20
  • 5
  • 10
  • Aaron Spelling
  • William Shakespeare
  • J. K. Rowling
  • the ancient Greeks
  • Alika Milova
  • Karl-Erik Taukar
  • Liis Lemsalu
  • Ott Lepland
  • West Side Story
  • The Black Crook
  • Show Boat
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  • As You Like It by William Shakespeare
  • Oklahoma! by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
  • Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi
  • The Count of Luxembourg by Franz Lehár
  • Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Get This!

  1. make → 
  2. go → 
  3. buy → 
  4. swim → 
  5. plan → 
  6. lie → 
  7. try → 
  8. cut → 
  9. run → 
  10. leave → 

Exercise 11

Match the beginnings and endings of the questions.
  • What do you
  • Which book are you
  • What was the
  • What were you doing
  • usually do after school?
  • reading this month?
  • weather like last week?
  • yesterday at 6 p.m.?
  • What were you doing
  • What were your classmates
  • What are you doing
  • What do you think
  • when there last was a power cut?
  • doing when the teacher walked in?
  • at the present moment?
  • everyone was feeling during the last fire drill?

Pairwork 2

In turns, ask and answer the questions from Exercise 11.

What are you doing at the present moment?

I’m looking out the window.

  • are rehearsing
  • are you doing
  • bowed
  • dropped
  • ’m working
  • rang
  • reached for
  • smiled
  • walked
  • was
  • was taking
  • was watching
  • were sitting
  1. At 8 o’clock on Wednesday, we  in the theatre.
  2. This week, I  a lot to prepare for a test.
  3. Last night, my family  TV when there  a power cut.
  4. The actors  onto the stage,  and  to the audience.
  5. A: What  today? 
    B: We  for a music show at school.
  6. When the phone , Jennifer  a bath. She  her phone and accidentally  it into the water.

Pairwork 3

Tell your partner what you do, what you are doing, or what you were doing.

I was talking to my friend when a cute puppy walked by.

Yesterday morning, everyone was running to school because it was raining.

This weekend, I  my sister in Helsinki. She  there with her family. We  the best time now! Yesterday, we  to Suomenlinna and  there the whole day. Actually, this time yesterday, we  together and  a coffee break. 

My sister usually  late in the mornings. She  until 11 o’clock, but I  sleep later than 8 or 9. It  that I  the dogs and just  TV until she  to wake up.

By the way, something memorable happened when we  in Suomenlinna. We  to get an ice cream, so we  for a stand in the park. Once we  our cones, we  a nice break on a park bench. Suddenly, a seagull  in between us,  a bite of my sister’s ice cream and  with it. Everyone  extremely shocked. The rest of the day  really fun, so we  about the seagull incident now.

Home Away From Home

True or False?

Mark the statements as true or false. Correct the false ones orally. Use the Internet to help you.

Patrik Laine is Finnish. 

  • True
  • False

Natalie Portman has won 48 awards.

  • True
  • False

Mila Kunis was born in Ukraine and emigrated to the US later.

  • True
  • False

Mika was born in an English-speaking country.

  • True
  • False

Go Online

Match the facts to the people. Use the Internet to help you.
  • Mika
  • Camila Cabello
  • Oscar Nuñez
  • Mila Kunis
  • became popular thanks to the song “Grace Kelly”.
  • has released a song with Shawn Mendes.
  • has starred in The Office.
  • voices Meg Griffin in Family Guy.
  • Natalie Portman
  • Patrik Laine
  • Keanu Reeves
  • Rita Ora
  • signed a production contract with AppleTV+ in 2021.
  • became NHL’s Rookie of the Month in February 2017.
  • won the MTV Movie Award for Best Fight in 2000.
  • was nominated for the UK Music Video Awards in 2012.