Odeon cinema

Screen One Screen Two

ROCKY XV1 Last Shows of Spring

Performances at A dying girl finds eternal love

7.10, 9.15, £6 Performances at 6.45, 8.50 £6

2. Work in pairs and make short dialogues. Do the following tasks in turns:

a) Ask your friend to book a table at Racheros Tex-Mex Eatery for tonight. Explain why you can’t do it yourself.

b) Ask your younger sister to call the Odeon Cinema to find out how long the films are and what seats are available.

c) Ask the Skate Hire Assistant at Kingsway Roller Rink to find another pair of skates for you, you need a pair one size bigger.

d) Ask the waiter at the White Rhinoceros if it’s possible for you to smoke there. Ask her for an ash-tray.

e) Ask a gentleman at the next table not to smoke as that is a non-smoking area at the Video Cafe.

f) Ask a strange young couple if you can join them at their table at the White Rhiniceros as all the other tables are occupied.

Listening 2 CINEMA ATTENDANCE

1. Do you think the figures of cinema attendance have ever changed in your country? If so, explain what the reasons may be.

2. Listen to this classroom talk about cinema attendance in three countries. Then fill in boxes 1-4 on the graph with the correct word, boxes 5-6 with the correct year and boxes 7-9 with the correct numbers.

3. What is the present situation regarding cinema-going in your country?

4. What does the cartoon illustrate?

«Excuse me, but that's my seat…»

UNIT 4

Presentation Talking about ability

1. The four extracts below all talk about different abilities. Match Extracts 1-4 with topics a)-d).

a) learning a new dance

b) acquiring new artistic skills

c) being a gifted musician

d) developing various talents despite challenges

1. Ms. Walsh has a talent for music. She has perfect pitch, can hear a melody once and pick it out on the piano and can sing pieces of classical music, such as Brahms's Requiem, by heart.

She can sing 2,000 songs in 25 different languages and once brought a Bosnian porter at the airport to tears by singing him a song in his native tongue.

http://www.wsf.org/family/news/singing.htm

2. Elbé van Rooyen exhibited her work for the first time at the age of fourteen; even at this early stage her unique talent had already become evident. After completing her studies at two universities, she built a career as an executive in the corporate world. This demanding life, however, could not separate her from her passion for painting. She was so talented, so creative. She could paint, she could act, she could write. As her reputation as an artist grew, she decided in 1999 to devote all time and effort to her art.

http://www.saartistsonline.co.za/

3. Art departments can teach students how to become better artists, become experts in art history, or teach them how to teach art education in the classroom. Students will be able to take classes in each of these disciplines, but must choose one of these programs in order to earn their degree. Art students will be able to master their skills as painters, sculptors, ceramic artists, or photographers.

http://www.jobprofiles.org/programs/arts-humanities/art.htm

4. Four or five of them made it look s easy. And I followed this young man, and he’d got the jeans and the shirt on and the right kind of boots, and he could do it perfectly. And he said to me, “When the music’s really quick like this”, he said, “do the steps a bit smaller.” When I came out of there, I managed to get a lift home from somebody who did not live far from me, and they brought me all the way home.