F i l m and the movies

GRAMMAR: reporting orders and requests; wou/d and used to; reporting what people say; reporting what people said

VOCABULARY: jobs in the movies, adjectives to describe character; statistics; jobs and actions

FUNCTION: giving good and bad news

You f,rstl
How often do you go to the movies?

What's your favorite k i n d of fi l m ?

1. [ctl)�1-1 What d o you t h i n k makes The Return of the King u n i q u e / s p e c i a l ?

2. O 2.25 Listen a n d check your ideas.

3. What i s t h e c o n n e c t i o n between The Return of the King, Ben Hur, a n d Titanic?

4. L i s t e n a g a i n . Match t h e n a m e s a n d figures with the t h r e e movies.

Cate Blanchett Charlton Heston Elijah Wood lan McKellen James Cameron l(ate Winslet Leonardo DiCaprio

Orlando Bloom Peter Jackson 1 7 . 5 m i l l i o n dollars

200 m i l l i o n dollars Viggo Mortensen William Wyler

5. Match words from A a n d B to make c o m p o u n d n o u n s c o n n e c t e d with movies.You can u s e s o rn e w o r d s

m o r e than once.

action block camera character co- fi l m actor artist board buster critic engineer

I leading makeup script sound story

1 extra movie lady operator set star writer

6. N•IIJ:�'1j1J;..-4 What was the last movie you saw? Make a note of these things.Then talk about your movie.

fue +í+le of fue movie the o.doy-s fue diY-ec.foy-

fue type of movie (c.-omedy, dY-o.mo.., hOY-Y-OY- film, o.nimo.ted film, doc.-lAmento.Y- )

the plot / slAbjed of the movie ywy- opinion of fue movie

(4) E X P I _ ( ) IU:: (U� I _ I N E Find out m o r e a b o u t o n e of the m o v i e s on t h i s page.

 Lesson 1 Who does what i n the movie b u s i n e s s ?

You first!
Would you rather be i n front of or

b e h i n d the camera on a fi l m set?

1. They are in charge of the whole movie and decide how the money is spent.

2. They film the scene.

3. They are in charge of the cameras and the lighting. They advise the director

and tell him or her what is possible.

4. They take ali the different parts of the movie and, together with the director,

.. they put them in the right sequence to tell the story.

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5. They look far the right actors far the movie.

6. They supervise a team of artists and construction workers to make the sets

where the movie will be shot.

7. They create the special sounds, like faotsteps, breaking glass, etc., that go into

a movie.

8. They help the director and make sure the script, the actors, the cameras, etc.

are ready and sometimes they may direct small scenes.

9. They set up the lighting and position the cameras.

10. He or she helps the director find good places to film.

* Did you know? Foley artists are narned

after Jack Foley. He and his crew were

the first people to record s p e c i a l s o u n d s

(like footsteps) on a sepa1·ate a u d i o track

for a movie (Showboat in 1929).

VOCABULARY 1 J o b s i n the movies

1. L o o k at the p h o t o of a f i l m set a b o v e . What different jobs can you see?

2. W h o does what to make a m o v i e h a p p e n ? Match the p e o p l e with t h e d e s c r i p t i o n s above. W h i c h jobs

are not d e s c r i b e d ?

assistant director camera operator casting director composer costume designer director
1

director of photography editor foley artist gaffer location scout producer 11

scriptwriter set designer sound designer

3. Which job w o u l d you like ! not like to d o ? Why?

 VOCABULARY 2 Adjectives to d e s c r i b e character

4. Work i n p a i r s . Put t h e s e w or ds in th e cor r e ct category: p o s i t i v e o r negative.

calm clean decisive easy-going friendly grumpy hard-working ignorant indecisive intelligent

knowledgeable lazy messy moody nervous polite rude shy smart stupid unintelligent

S. F i n d p a i r s of words that . . .

a) mean more or less the same t h i n g smairt - intelli0er,t b) have opposite meanings smairt I stvpid

6. i i: 11 � 1 :i W h i c h is the most negative wo rd, in y o u r o p i n i o n , in E x e r c i s e 4 ?

7. Take t u r n s to c h o o s e th ree words from E x e r c i s e 4 to m i m e or draw. T h e n g u e s s t he w o r d .

8. I n p a i r s , you have two m i n u t e s to c h o o s e two j o b s from E x e r c i s e 2 and two adjectives from Exercise 4 and

write a s e n t e n c e for each j o b . T h e n read y o u r s e n t e n c e s for o t h e r s to g u e s s the j o b s .

9. Read t h e paragraph a b o u t a DP ( d i r e c t o r of photography). What adjectives w o u l d you us e to d e s c r i b e h e r ?

She couldn't decide what to do, but when, finally, she did decide, she kept making stupid mistakes, and she shouted at

people and swore at them when she realized. She didn't really do much work, and she never talked to people ( except

when she was shouting at them! ) . And she never loo ked very happy.

GRAMMAR

10. O 2.26 L is t e n to th re e c o nv e r s a ti o n s with people w o r k i n g on a m o v i e . What are t h e i r j o b s ?

Mari<:___ F e rnand o : Tiffany: _

1 1 . Look at the t a b l e to s e e how t h i s r e q u e s t and arder are r e p o r t e d . T h e n report the s e n t e n c e s on the right .

L isten agai n if you nee d to.

REPORTING ORDERS AND REQUESTS

R eporting r eq uests 1 . C ould you come up with a good tune for

the battle scene ?

"Would you write a The producer as ked me

new version of the to write a new version of 2. l'd li k e you to make dresses for the b a l l room

battle scene ?" the battle scene. scene li k e the ones in the paintings.

R e p o r t in g orders 3. P lease don't use bright co l ors.

"Give me something He to l d me to g ive hi m 4. D on ' t be difficult!

soon - or else !" somethin g soon - or else !

12. Put t h e s e parts of a re p orted s e n t e n c e in t he correct order . C an we us e the verb say in the s a m e way ?

a) D ask / tell e) D (not) e) D subject pronoun ( e.g., /, he)

b) D infinitive (e.g ., give) d) D object p ron oun ( e.g. , him, them) f) D to

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SPEAKING

13 . Complete what

the p e o p l e said.

a) _

marry me ?

14. Choose o n e of t he p e o p l e i n E x e r c i s e 13 . E x p l a i n what the p e r s o n s a i d and say what h a p p e n e d next.

He 0ot down on his knees and he asked me to mairr h i m, and I said no! He vtos: heairtbiroken!
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15. T a lk a b o u t two m o v i e s . S T U D E N T A: L oo k at page 1 3 1 . STUDENT B: L o o k at page 134.

 Lesson l YouTubers
You firstl
Have you ever shared

your own video o n l i n e ?

V l o g m e d i a superstar: H e ' s b r a n c h i n g o u t !

videos because they wanted to. "We ali used to

'' 1 was a teenager at the right t i m e , " says
Chris B i n g h a m , known to thousands of h e l p each other," says C h r i s . "Nobody got paid.

his fans as Bing. Thousands means about In the early We would make our videos just for the fun of it."

47,000 followers on his YouTube channel But things have c h a n g e d ! In recent years,
days, they did it
B i n g R a d i o and 1 5 4 , 0 0 0 on the Slomozovo Chris is o n l y at n u m b e r 7 , 4 1 8 in the list of the

c h a n n e l . Chris is a YouTuber. most p o p u l a r YouTubers! Compare that with

for free.
When Chris started making comedy videos, Zoe S u g g (Zoella), for example, a young British

he was 1 6 and still in h i g h s c h o o l . lt was just w o m a n who g i v e s beauty a d v i c e a n d t a l k s

after YouTube started in 2005. He and his friend about her life. She has 6 . 6 m i l l i o n followers

Tom used to upload his videos onto this new and is sponsored by the beauty industry. She

platform, and suddenly he was famous. He has even written a b e s t - s e l l i n g novel about

had hundreds and then thousands of fans. b e i n g a vlogger. Money is everywhere on the

They were mostly teenagers, y o u n g e r than internet, and that has changed everything.

Chris, but they would watch every video that In the early days, g r o u p s of YouTubers

he u p l o a d e d , and they loved t h e m . and t h e i r fans used to get together and have

One year, Chris started a project called f u n . They d i d it for free because they liked it,

Past and Future Bing. In Year 1 , he made a and the fans used to get really excited when

video every two days (say Monday, Wednesday, they met t h e i r heroes and h e r o i n e s . But now,

Friday). He would just talk to the camera about events like Summer in the City (London, UK)

how he was feeling and about the future. He and Vidcon (California, US) attract thousands

called this vlog (video log) Past Bing. The next But now and thousands of video viewers and creators.

year, he made a vlog every second day (say • But you have to pay to get there.

Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday) where Future Bing everythmg has Bing still makes videos, but he is b r a n c h i n g

talked back to Past Bing. h d out into talent management and c o a c h i n g . And

That's what YouTube v l o g g i n g used to be C ange • he's just released a m u s i c a l b u m . "Let's see

like: young maverick filmmakers who made their where that takes m e , " he says.

READING

1. [i:tl)#l-1-1 L o o k at the photos. Who do you think "Bing" is and what does he do?

2. Read the article and check your ideas.

3. Read the article again and explain the following numbers.

1 . 1 6 2.. 7,418 3. 47,000 4. 154,000 5. 6.6 million

(�: EXPI_() H E O�� I_I NE There was a controversy a b o u t Zoe Sugg's book Girl On/ine.

What can you find out about it? How does it make you feel about her?
 4. F i n d words or phrases i n t h e a r t i c l e that m e a n ...

1 . h e l p i n g someone to do something better - like teaching 4. starting to do something new or different

2. made available for people to buy 5. intended to make people laugh

3. something that gives you an opportunity to express ideas or o p i n i o n s 6. u n u s u a l , with a different way o f t h i n k i n g

1 S. ii:11�1:i What, a c c o r d i n g to the a r t i c l e , has " c h a n g e d everything"? Do you agree?

6. Work i n g r o u p s . C h o o s e o n e of these t a p i e s and t e l l t h e o t h e r s a b o u t it.

a) When Chris started on You Tube and what it was like b) Past and Future Bing

7. <:} Answer the q u e s t i o n s about Bing. T h e n read a n d c h e c k y o u r a n s w e r s .

1. How p o p u l a r is B i n g on the Internet? 2. Is he more popular than Zoella? 3. Is he as popular as he used to be?

VOCABULARY Statistics

8. How do we say t h e s e n u m b e r s ?

0.3 3 3.3 30 300 309 326 3,000 3,500 3,509 3,500,000

9. Match t h e s e w o r d s with t h e n u m b e r s .

a half a quarter a third four-fifths three-quarters two-thirds thirty-three and a quarter per cent

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1 O. C o m p l e t e t h e s e n t e n c e s with the fractions or percentages that you t h i n k are a p p r o p r i a t e . T h e n compare

y o u r i d e a s with a partner. T h e r e is n o o n e c o r r e c t answer.

__ of all lostTV rernotes are found in the fridge. __ of a l i the phone calls in the world are in English.

of ali the food eaten in the world is "fast food". __ of the world's population own a car.

of ali American rnen are six feet or taller. __ of the world's population have a passport.

__ of ali pet owners allow their pets on the bed.

GRAMMAR

1 1 . F i n d and u n d e r l i n e p h r a s e s i n the a r t i c l e o n page 74 with would a n d used to. Do they mean the same t h i n g ?

12. Read the i n f o r m a t i o n i n the table a n d talk a b o u t the difference between would a n d used to.

WOULD A N D USED TO

We can say: We can also say: But we don't usually say:

I u s e d to bike to school. 1 u s e d to be I w o u l d bike to school. I v v o u l d be l , a p p y or I v v o u l d fe e l

happy. 1 used to feel happy. tmppy.

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WRITING

13. What were you l i k e w h e n you were 1 2 years o l d ? Make notes o n t h e s e t a p i e s .

• how many h o u r s of TV (if any) you watched

• how you used to get to school

• the n u m b e r of vacations you used to have a y e a r

• what time you used to go to bed / wake up

• what you felt about school and different subjects (math, E n g l i s h , etc.)

14. Now write a b o u t y o u r life w h e n you were 1 2 .

When I wo..s 1 2. , I used +ake +he bus to se,hool. I didn't use to wo..kh

o..n'j TV o..t o..11 on the weekdo..'js. I would p;o to bed o..Y-ound nine oclock..
 Lesson 3 l ' m going to be a star!

You first!
Have you ever worked

i n a restaurant or i n a

coffee shop? Would you

like to? Why? / Why not?

LISTENING 1

1 . (cfl)::J..�1 Matt a n d T h e r e s e work in a trendy coffee shop in Los A n g e l e s , C a l i f o r n i a . Matt is a b o u t to

get a c a l l from a woman in the movie b u s i n e s s . What do you think happens?

2. 6) 2.27 Listen and c h e c k your ideas.

3. C h o o s e five of t h e s e statements and write true, (T) fa/se (F) or don't know ( ? ) . C o r r e c t t h e false s t a t e m e n t s .

1. Matt likes working in the coffee s h o p . 6. Melanie Ford is an actor.

2. Therese likes working in the coffee s h o p . 7. Matt listens carefully to what M e l a n i e says.

3. Matt wants to be an actor. 8. Matt is really happy about the p h o n e conversation.

4. Therese wants to be an actor. 9. Matt w i l l regret h i s d e c i s i o n .

5 . The manager wants to be an actor.

4. At t h e end of the c o n v e r s a t i o n , Matt says, " I quit!" What d o e s he mean? Is he doing the right t h i n g ?

GRAMMAR 1
TAK
S. Look at Matt's words and a n s w e r the questions.

R E P O R T I N G WHAT P E O P L E SAY

She says they want me for the part!

1 . What are M e l a n i e Ford's actual words?

2. How do the words in bold change?

3. Why does Matt use the present tense (she soys)

when he is reporting her words?

6. 6) 2.28 Listen to four t h i n g s Matt said and write

Imagine a huge keyboard in front of you and play the keys

with your fingers. Now do the same with your toes! Did you

what Melanie actually said.

know that people who exercise their extremities live longer?

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 LISTENING 2

7. '6 2.29 Matt a n d T h e r e s e meet again a few weeks la ter. Listen and fi n d out if Matt got the part. Why? / Why not?

8. Í Match t h e w o r d s i n A with t h e words in B to make p h r a s e s from t h e c o n v e r s a t i o n in E x e r c i s e 7.

1. lsn't there anything 2. What's going on a) for a long time! b) with you?

3 . You c o u l d look h a p p i e r c) you wanted to see m e .

1 4. We haven't seen each other 5 . You said

1 d) you can do? e) to see me.

GRAMMAR 2

9. Look at Matt's words a n d answer the q u e s t i o n s .

R E P O R T I N G WHAT P E O P L E S A I D

S h e said they wanted me for the part.

1. Is Matt reporting the original conversation with Melanie (the one he told Therese about in the restaurant)?

2. What happens to the main verb (wont) this time?

3. Why does Matt use the past tense (she soid) when he is reporting Melanie's words?

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1 O. Rewrite each s e n t e n c e i n reported s p e e c h . Start with the words g i v e n .

1. ' 'l' m working on the script for a new show." He sa id that _

2. " Will y ou help me fi n d a job a s a n a ctor? " She asked if _

3 . " We r ' e going to c a ll him abou t t he job n ext week ." The y said that _

4 . "Are you sure you can go to the a u dit on tomorrow "

i ? He asked i
f _

5. " D o y o u thin k l ' m d o i n g the right thing " ? S h e asked if _

6 . " I usuall y wor k a s a waitress when l ' rn not acting. "

She told me that _

VOCABULARY Jobs a n d actions

1 1 . C o m p l e t e the j o b s with t h e s e w o r d s . co lector

l courier guard operator wor k er

1. call center
- 2 . bi k e 3 . garbage __ 4. security 5. grocery store

1 2 . L oo k a t the p hotos a g a i n . W ho ...

1 . co le l ct s people's garba e g ? 3. wor ks in a s u ermar e ?

p k t 5. watches monit o rs and patrols buildings ?

2 . delivers letters and p ac ages?

k 4. an wers s q ue st ion s om cu tomers
fr s ?

SPEAKING

1 3 . W or k in pairs. C h o o s e o n e of the o c c u p a tions in Ex erc se i 1 1 ( or a n o t h e r s i m i l a r j o b ) and follow

th e instructions.

1 . L st the things that peo

i p le have to do i n the j ob. 3. Act out the interview.

2 . S cript an interview for a T

( V show abo t u j obs ) with a perso n wh o d oes t at h j ob.

1 4 . R eport back a b out y our c o n v e r s a t i o n to a n o t h e r pair. U s e r ep o r t e d s pe e ch .

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