IV Creative understanding and application

Task 1. Imagine that you’ve heard one film studio is going to shoot a film. You want to be cast. Write a letter to an assistant of the director, write about yourself as a skilful actor / actress and get as much information about the film as you can.

Task 2. Imagine that you are a film director who is going to shoot a film. One actor / actress sends you a letter writing that he / she wants to be cast. Respond him / her, give as much information about the film as you can (cast, setting, etc.).

Task 3. Jean-Luc Godard once said the following: “Movies should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, иut not necessarily in that order” Do you have the same opinion? Write an essay.

_{Task 4.} An employment agency is advertising various jobs in film­making. Create adverts describing the following jobs: a cameraman; a make-up girl; a costume designer; a sound engi­neer; a stuntman / woman.

Task 5. In old movies gagmen were employed. Their job was to write jokes and funny lines for the script. Would you make a good gagman? Here is your chance to try! The story so far...

Three gangsters are chasing a boy. They want to catch him because he saw them rob an old millionaire in his house. The boy is running down a narrow lake when he notices that one of the thugs is waiting for him at the end of the lake ...

Write the script of the next take. Save the boy's life and make the gangsters look plain stupid.

Task 6. Is it difficult to make a film? Who are involved in producing a film? Describe us the events of a filming day from the point of view of different cast and crew members (look at Task 1, Level 3):

• film director;

• hair and make-up designer;

• prop master;

• leading actor / actress;

• producer;

• correspondent.

You may use this lexical-semantic scheme.

CONTEMPORARY CINEMA

UNIT 7

Students should know:

• topical vocabulary of this unit;

• information about scripts written by women; films directed by women; films made for a female audience;

• information about British / American / Belarusian contemporary situation in film industry.

Students should be able to;

• match words to make word combinations;

• match definitions with words from the topical vocabulary;

• do a crossword;

• express their own opinion towards the content of an audio (read) text;

• make up a discussion on the base of the read text;

• make up and present a report on a given topic;

• write a review of a watched film;

• discuss a given problem in a form of a debate.