I. Từ vựng

Exercise 1: Match the word on the left with its definition on the right.

1. director

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a. so interesting or exciting that it holds your attention completely

2. screenplay

________

b. causing strong feelings of sadness or sympathy

3. dialogue

________

c. to represent or describe something very accurately using words or images

4. critic

________

d. a person who is in charge of a film or play and tells the actors how to play their parts

5. moving

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e. a piece of written music showing the parts for all the different instruments and voices, or the music written for a movie or other entertainment

6. score

________

f. someone whose job is to give their opinion about something, especially films, books, music, etc.

7. gripping

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g. conversation that is written for a book, play, or film

8. capture

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h. the text for a film, including the words to be spoken by the actors and instructions for the cameras

Exercise 2: Fill in the blank with given words or phrases.

features

starring

violent

gripping

plot

entertaining

disappointing

captures

1. The movie is well developed in terms of ____________; however, the acting is terrible.

2. The film is a ____________ account of the early days of the revolution.

3. No one has yet been chosen for the ____________ role.

4. The soundtrack was boring, which was very ____________ for all the fans watching the film.

5. The film was ____________ enough to free my mind from the stress from work.

6. Children are not allowed to watch action films of the extremely ____________ scenes.

7. This picture perfectly ____________ the hardship of agricultural life in this region.

8. This film ____________ Daniel Jacob Radcliffe as Harry Potter, a young wizard.

Exercise 3: Fill in the blank with the correct form of the word given at the end of the sentence.

1. I didn’t find his joke funny. It was not ____________. AMUSE

2. I was ____________ with the play. I had expected it to be better. DISAPPOINT

3. It can be ____________ when you have to ask people for money. EMBARRASS

4. It soon became ____________ to everyone that he couldn't sing. APPEAR

5. Peter didn’t eat that because he thought it was too ____________. SALT

6. The members of the group are ____________ at their lack of power. ANGER

7. Joana cried as she found the story intensely ____________. MOVE

8. She didn’t appear at all ____________ at the news. SURPRISE

9. The performances and recordings are uniformly ____________. EXCEL

10. It was fairly ____________ from her tone of voice that she disapproved. EVIDENCE