Конспект уроку "Cinema. Writing a review of a film".

Form : 9

The subject: Cinema. Writing a review of a film.

The objectives:

-            to revise the vocabulary to the, topic "Types of films revise the adjectives for describing films;

-            to practice in speaking about pupils' favourite actors, actresses, films; in listening, giving a talk, asking and giving information about cultural notes, discussing people, process according to the topic;

-            to develop pupils' listening and speaking skills and enrich the vocabulary;

 - to inoculate the love to the world of cinematography.

Equipment:

Procedure of the lesson

l. Greeting. The aims of the lessons.

-           Good morning, pupils. Take your seats, get ready for the lesson.

-           I'm glad to see you today. How are you?

-           That's good.

-           Today we have a little unusual lesson because we have got some guests.

All of us are glad to see them here today.

-           I think today's weather doesn't corresponds yours and my good mood.

-           Let's start our lesson. As you see the topic of our today's lesson is Cinema films —the most beautiful invention of mankind"

Today "we are going to revise to topic "Types of films", learn something new and speak about your favourite actor or actresses, film, and write a review of a film.

ll. Warming up

 Going to the cinema, watching home video, television are the most popular ways of relaxation.

 Read, please, and translate these expressions about cinema and films.

1.             Cinema.... It is a, whirpool of emotions and passions.

2.             Cinema is a magic power that reflects human life and feelings. Like a beautiful thing good cinema is immortal.

3.             GOOd films give comfort and delight, as well as the best remedy.

 Let's have a touch to some moments of cinema, let's feel it's pulse.

Ill. The main part of the lesson.

1. Vocabulary. 'Types of films".

 We are to brush up a certain portion of topical vocabulary we'll need in our further work. Let's do it in such a way. Here I have some cards with types of films. Some pupils will read and explain to us what type of film it is.

1.  a comedy        5. a musical

2.  a horror film   6. a romantic film

3.  a western

- And now let's write some types of the films on the board and explain.

Films

1.              A documentary — film showing some aspects of real human, social activity.

2.              A science fiction film — film showing consequences of human technical, scientific progress.

3.              A serial — story appearing in parts on TV.

4.              A screen version — film shot on the novel, short opera etc.

5.              A cartoon — cinema film, made by photographing series of drawing. 6. A commercial — film made for commercial advertisement in the programmes.

7.              A feature film — imaginary events to show some aspects of human and animal live.

8.              A romance — love story, staged in romantic background.

9.              An adventure — film, which has an elaborate plot full of unpredictable turns and danger.

10.         A thriller — an adventure film of a hard-hit type usually the stress lies on fights and murders.

11.         A horror film — film that is intended to make you feel frightening, for example, one in which people get attacked by strange creatures or in which dead people come to life.

12.         An action film — film that has a lot of exciting events in it, for example, people fighting or chasing each other in cars.

13.         A comedy — film showing life in a humorous or satirical events.

14.         A detective film — film with a detective intrigue.

15.         A western film — film dealing with life of the Frontier in the times of the wars, with the American Indians, cowboys, rustlers etc.

2. "Who is who".

 Very good. You know many kinds of films. But now we'll revise the names of the jobs connecting with the world of films. Read and match each word in the left-hand column with the best meaning in the righthand column.

1. a film-director	a) this person is responsible for the actors' make up
stuntman/stunt woman	b) this person designs clothes for the actors
3. an actor / actress	c) this persons operates the camera for the film
4. a scriptwriter	d) this person directs a film and tells the actors what to do
5. a make up artist	e) this person does something dangerous instead of an actor
6. a costume designer	f) this person writes the story for the film
7. a cameraman	g) this person plays the part of a character.

Key: Id, 2e, 3g, 4 f , 5a, 6b, 7c.

3. Hometask.

-                  At our previous lessons we learn a lot about famous actors and actresses especially about child stars.

-                  Here you have four portraits of famous child stars. Your hometask for today was to prepare some information about them.

Who'd like to tell us something about them?

Mc Culkin

Mara Wilson Daniel Radcliffe Jodie Foster.

-                  That' good. Your marks are

4. Describing films.

-               Can you describe any film?

-               Journalists write articles in which they give their opinions of new films. They are called critics and their articles are called reviews.

Today we'll start learning how to write a review of a film.

-               These are some words you may use for describing films. Describing films.

moving: producing strong emotions often of sadness. violent: includes lots of scenes with fighting and death powerful: has a big effect on our emotions gripping: exciting and very interesting good fun: to describe a film that may not be very serious or important but is enjoyable slow: boring

-               Now lets check how much do you remember about describing films - Match the definitions of the adjectives with their meaning.

1. producing strong emotions	a) violent
2. exciting, and very interesting	b) powerful
3. not serious but enjoyable film	c) moving
4. includes lots of scenes with	d) gripping
fighting and death	e) slow

5.  has, a big effect on our emotions f) good fun

6.  boring

Key lc, 2d, 3f, 4a, 5b, 6c.

 Pretend to be a critic. I'll name films made in English over the last twenty years and translated into our native language.

Describe it with one-two words.

Home Alone with Macauley Culkin

Rembo. The first Blood with Sylvester Stalone

Mrs. Doubtfire with Robbie Williams

Harry Potter with Daniel Radcliffe

5. Listening

Pre-listening activity

-  What films have you recently seen?

-  What type of films is it?

-  What film is it?

-  What makes a film of a good quality?

-  Let's see Mind Map

Good actors

    Gripping plot                                                           an excellent director

Films worth seeing

Well-organized    famous producers promotion mega-budget

-  Are serious films worth seeing?

-  Now we are going to watch an extract from the film we have ever seen.

But first of all read a background information about it.

A film director: Luc Besson

A year of producing: 1994

A country: France —the USA

Starring: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Porman, Danny Aiello

Type: thriller, drama

-  And now watch it

Post listening activity

1-          Let's listen it one more time and fill in their dialogue with missed words

2-          Let's check it

3-          And now let's play a game, a card game film reviews group work. A group of students sit at the desks. To play this game we have 4 sets of cards:

1.  Back ground

2.  Main points of the plot

3.  General comments

4.  Recommendations.

- Every group has an envelope with the parts of sentences. Their task is to made all sentences and put them in order to make a comment.  Who will be the quickest wins.

1. "Backgrounds". Cords

1.  This film is based on the story about a hit man Leon by name.

2.  This well-written script is done by Luc Besson.

3.  It is a thriller with drama elements.

4.  We enjoy starring role of Jean Reno as Leon.

5.  This film the director's debut of Luc Besson.

2. "Main points of the plot"

1.              The story tells us about life of a hit man.

2.              It begins with the scene of Leon's work with bad people.

3.              The plot centers on relationship of Leon and his new friend Mathilda

4.              The plot is very gripping but sometimes it is violent.

5.              The plot has an unexpected twist when Leon saved Mathilda's life at the police-office.

3. "General Comments"

1.   The cast is excellent, acting is brilliant, especially Mathilda's acting.

2.   This film is hailed as the greatest thriller film of all time.

3.   This film contains all the right ingredients to make it a hit.

4.   The script is beautifully written.

5.   It is rather unbelievable.

4. "Recommendation"

1.   It's the best film I have ever seen

2.   I can strongly recommend to see it

3.   It is worth seeing

4.   Don't miss it.

- One pupil from the group represent group's work.

OK. Well done I think you'll recommend this film to your friends and relatives.

6. Reading PB. p. 98 ex. 3.

               Open your books on page 98 ex 3.

There you have a story about an animated cartoon.

Traditionally cantoons are drawn by teams of animators. That's very expensive and takes long time. These days more and more animations are done by computers.

"Monster Inc" was a successful Disney computer animation film in 2001. It was nominated for best animated film at the 2001 Acadamy Awards. Although it didn't win the best film award, it won the category for best song.

               Look at the picture. Do you know who these characters are?

               Look at the table, read Anna's composition and complete the table. - What does "setting" mean? (A place where the story happens in a film or a book)

Post-reading activity.

               Let's check the table.

               What type the table.

               Why type of film is it?

               Why Anna likes it?

               Where does a story set?

               Who are Anna's favourite characters?

IV. Summarizing. Hometask.

-             Your hometask for next lesson is to write about a film you like.

To help you you have ex. 6 p. 99. A writing guide.

-             Look through the writing guide.

-             Do you understand what information you need to write in each paraghaph?

-             What were we talking about.

-             What have we done at our today's lesson? Your marks for the lesson are...... The lesson is over. Have a nice day. Good — bye.