Step 1 Lead in

What should you do when you take a quiz?

What steps do you usually take to make sure that you answer the questions correctly?

Film quiz

Listen to this radio programe and try to find as much information as you can.

1. What are the Lumière brothers often considered?

2. What did Auguste Lumière say about cinema?

3. When we watch a film, what are we actually seeing?

4. Which city was the first film made in?

5. What are the differences between old and modern films.

6. What is the largest amount of money ever made by a silent film?

7. What is a studio?

8. Where did the music come from during silent films?

9. What was the title of the first full-length "talking film"?

10. What was the title of the first color film?

Step 2 Listening

Now let's listen to another radio programe in Part B

and try to use the information you hear to answer

questions on the quiz.

Listening for emphasis

In the grammar and usage section, we learnt how to emphasize some parts of sentences by adding some words or using certain sentence structures. Are there any other ways that we can emphasize some words or information, especially when we are speaking?

Step 3 Group work

Work in pairs to conduct an interview about Chinese

films. You can refer to the questions in the textbook and

switch roles when you are finished.

Student: I have entered a speech competition about the film industry. I'm doing research on the Chinese film industry and want to talk about it in my speech. May I ask you some questions about Chinese films?

Director: Certainly. I'm glad that I can help you. What do you want to know?

Student: When was film introduced in China?

Director: It was introduced in 1896.

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Student: I really have learnt a lot from you. Thank you very much.

Director: If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask me.

What will you do before you attend a speech or an essay competition?

learn what the subject of the competition is

find out different aspects of the subject and write

the draft

do research on the aspects that you do not know