Упр.2 Юнит 6 Урок 1 ГДЗ English Кузовлев 10-11 класс
- What do you know about Hollywood?
- What would you like to know about it? Write a list of questions which you would like to ask about Hollywood.
- Here is a story of Hollywood. Which of your questions does the text help to answer? (reading for specific information)
The world capital of filmed entertainment Los Angeles has been a lot of things over the past 100 years. First, it was a little city with orange forest and great weather. But, one day in 1908 a group of people from Chicago came to Los Angeles to shoot (make) a film. Since that day a lot of directors, producers, actors and thousands of other workers have been coming to Los Angeles. In 1911 the first studio appeared in Hollywood (a part of Los Angeles). In the 1920s Hollywood made 80% of the world’s films. Silent and black-and-white films of those early years starring Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin were forced out by sound films in the middle of the 1920s. Full-length films came up to take place of short films. And the first colour film, Gone With the Wind, was shot in 1939. This film brought a great success to Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable who starred in the film. The number of the studios grew very quickly. They combined in large corporations and now the biggest film companies are MGM, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros, and Universal. The first genres of American films were melodrama, western and comedy, later appeared adventure and historical films. But now the range of genres is much richer. Hollywood got the name of the factory of dreams. It is associated with wealth and paradise of sun and palm trees. But it is only a facade for a darker truth.
- What new information have you learnt about Hollywood and film making?
- Why is Hollywood called the capital of filmed entertainment? (reading for detail/classifying)
1) Hollywood is a famous part of Los Angeles, connected with the American film industry. It is often called the “factory of dreams”.
2) I would like to know:
- When did Hollywood become famous?
- Who were the first famous actors and directors?
- Why was Hollywood chosen as a film centre?
- How many films are made there now?
- What are the biggest film companies in Hollywood?
3) The text helps to answer these questions:
- What is Hollywood?
- When did film making begin there?
- When did the first studio appear in Hollywood?
- What kinds of films were made in the early years?
- When did sound films and colour films appear?
- Why is Hollywood called the factory of dreams?
4) I have learnt that Hollywood became the centre of world cinema very quickly. I also learnt that the first films were silent and black-and-white, then sound films and colour films appeared. Another interesting fact is that the biggest film companies were formed from many studios.
5) Hollywood is called the capital of filmed entertainment because many directors, producers, actors and other workers came there to make films, and for a long time it produced most of the world’s films.
