ENGLISH HANDOUT: UNIT 6: DISCOVERIES AND CREATIONS

(SEGUNDA EVALUACIÓN)

NAMES: Raúl Salgado, Matias Valdevenito, Joaquín Rebolledo And Carlos Garrido

GRADE: 4-B

SCORE: __/35 points GRADE:

 Walt Disney
Animated movies have changed a lot over the last 100 years. Winsor McCay is considered
the father of animation. In the early 1900s, McCay animated his films by himself. He
drew every picture separately and had them photographed, one at a time. Hundreds of
photographs were needed to make a one-minute film. Sometimes it would take him more
than a year to make a five-minute cartoon.

In 1914, the development of celluloid (a transparent material) made animation easier.

Instead of drawing each picture separately, the animator could make a drawing of the
background, which remained motionless, while only the characters moved.

Walt Disney took animation to a new level. He created Mickey Mouse, added sound and
music to his movies, and produced the first full-length animated film, Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs. Many people think he was a great cartoonist, but he wasn’t. Instead,
he was a great story editor and clever businessman who had other artists do most of the
drawings.

Today most animated films are not drawn by hand. The animation is done by computer
software. Also, special effects for movies, such as Star Wars, are done by computer
animation. To create the illusion of movement, an image is put on the computer and then
quickly replaced by a similar image with a small change. While this technique is similar
to hand-drawn animation, the work can be done much faster by computer. In fact,
anyone with a home computer and special software can create a simple animation.

1901 Walt Disney was born.

1914 Winsor McCay created the first animation on film, Gertie the Dinosaur.

1918 Walt Disney opened a cartoon studio in Kansas City, Missouri.

1923 Disney moved his studio to Hollywood.

1928 The first Mickey Mouse cartoon was introduced. It was the first talking cartoon.

1937 Disney produced Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated
cartoon.

1995 Toy Story became the first full-length film animated entirely on computers.

2009 WALL-E won the Academy Award for best animated film.
I. True (T) and False (F). Read the sentences and, according to the text,
decide whether they are T or F. Justify the False sentences. (10 points)

1. __F___Walt Disney was a great cartoonist. J= Walt Disney he was a great story
editor and a smart businessman

2. ___F__Five hundreds photographs would be needed to create a five-minute cartoon.

J= Sometimes it would take him more than a year to do a five-minute cartoon.

3. __T___With the development of celluloid, the animator could make a drawing of

the background in which the characters remained motionless.

4. ___T__Today most animated films are not drawn but done by computer software.

5. ___T__Hand-drawn and computer-based animations are similar, but the first one is
much slower than the second option.

II. Fill in the blanks with the active or passive form of the verb in parentheses
( ). Use the tense indicated. (7 points)

1. Walt Disney ______BECAME_____________ (past: become) famous when he

______CREATED_____________ (past: create) Mickey Mouse.

2. Walt Disney _____DID NOT DRIVE______________ (past: not/draw) most of his

cartoon characters.

3. Most of his cartoons ______DREW_____________ (past: draw) by studio artists.

4. Walt Disney _______GAVE____________ (past: give) 26 Oscars.

5. Today’s animations _______CREATE____________ (present: create) using

computers.

6. Walt Disney _______MOVED____________ (past: move) his studio to Hollywood.

 III. Create a sentence. Choose one Disney cartoon or film, and write a sentence
of what the main character does or happens to them. Repeat the same
sentence in the different forms asked. (6 points)

Name of the film: Mikey mouse

Spanish: Mikey mouse: “Si puedes soñar, puedes hacerlo. Recuerde siempre que todo esto
lo inició un ratón”

Active: If you can dream, you can do it. Remember that all of this started for a mouse

Passive: If you can dream, you can do it. Always remember that this was started by a
mouse

IV. Meaningful sentences. Create 3 sentences in PASSIVE VOICE using a new

word per sentence that you have learned in class. (6 points)

1. The car was crashed by my brother

2. The drink was drank by my friend

3. The picture was painted by Picass

V. As a group, what invention would you like to be created or create

yourselves? (6 points)

1. What would it be? It Could be a remote control with keypad

2. What would it be used for? It would be used to perform a faster and more efficient
search in applications such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max and YouTube.

3. Who could use it? It could be used by people of all ages.