3. Fill in the gaps using another, (the) other, (the) others.
1. Could I have ___________ piece of bread ?
2. I’m staying for ____________ few weeks.
3. Where are the __________ photos ?
4. We need _____________ three chairs.
5. Have you got any ______________ cakes, or are these the only ones?
6. Why don’t you think more about _____________ people ?
7. I think we should paint it ___________ colour.
8. These photos are small. Have you got any ___________ ?
4. Explain the use of another, (the) other, (the) others in the
following sentences.
1. I don’t want this book. Please give me another.
2. I don’t want this book. Please give me the other one.
3. This chemical is poisonous. Others are poisonous too.
4. I don’t want these books. Please give me the others.
5. I don’t want these books. Please give me another one.
6. I don’t want this book. Please give me the other one.
5. Make up short stories or situations leading up to the following concluding sentences:
1. … but I didn’t manage to convince the others.
2. … and he had to take another.
3. …he meant another country (person, story, ets.)
4. … It turned out she had been learning other languages.
5. … Later we learnt that there were other ways of doing it.
Listening 1 Films
1. Listen to these extracts from film soundtracks. What type of film do you think they go with? Choose from the list below.
romantic comedy gangster action thriller horror
science fiction western love story war comedy
2. What kind of films do you like?
3. Look at this shot.
What kind of film
is it? Have you seen
the film? What is it
called? Look at
the cinema
information
brochure. Listen
to the recorded message
and
complete it.
4. Listen to Christine and Malcolm talking about the film Notting Hill. Which of them:
1 loved the film?
2 thought the story was not very good?
3 thought the dialogues were great?
4 liked Julia Roberts in the film?
5 didn’t like Hugh Grant?
5. Listen to the dialogue again and complete the Function File with these words.
amazing loved true brilliant the point so
funny fantastic part scene silly quite
special favourite clever thought
FUNCTION FILE
EXPRESSING OPINIONS ABOUT FILMS
What did you think of the film?
I thought it was absolutely (1) ___________.
It was (2) __________ funny, I suppose, but it was nothing (3) __________.
My (4) __________ character was the flatmate.
The dialogue was very (5) __________.
That’s (6) __________. But the plot was a bit (7) __________.
That’s not (8) __________. The situation was very (9) __________.
For me, Julia Roberts was absolutely (10) __________ in the film.
She’s an (11) __________ actress, isn’t she?
But Hugh Grant always plays the same (12) __________.
Oh come on!
Well, I (13) __________ he was quite good in the interview scene.
So, what (14) __________did you like best?
I really (15) __________ the dinner scene.
It was (16) __________ funny.
What tense is used to express opinions about films?
To express your opinion about something you need verbs like ‘love’, ‘dislike’, ‘enjoy’ etc. and adjectives like ‘good’, funny’, ‘interesting’, ‘brilliant’ etc.
Language Work