Cinema

them vanish the barriers of nationality. Goethe
Art has an

enemy called ignorance.
Kennedy

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world,
a more human world.
Maurois

the end of the 19th century. The first people who

showed the first movies to a paying public were the Lumiere Btothers of France. They did this on the 20th February 1896 at the Grand Cafe, Boulevard des Capucines, Paris.

The Lumiere Btothers
(Auguste left, Louis right)

1914 in the USA. At that time the world was

crazy about Charlie, that was created by Charlie Spencer Chaplin. His Charlie, small and clumsy yet kind-hearted, generous and brave, has attracted the hearts of simple people in different countries. Sometimes they would stand in long queues to see a film with their favourite actor. The first films in the West were mainly melodramas or comedies.

documentary, cartoon, thriller, melodrama, historical, adventure, screen version of,

detective, feature.

…
What is on at...?
Is it any good?
How about going to

the cinema?
What kind of film is that?
Is it worth seeing?
What actor (actress) plays the leading role?
I am fond off..
He/her acting is quite good.

writers in the world.
He was born in 1564 in

Stratford-on-Avon.
It was a small English town. His father wanted his son to be an 12_____________ (educate) person and William was sent to the local grammar school.
When, as a boy, he studied at school, he had no free time. When he had a break William liked to go to the forest and to the river Avon.
At that time actors and actresses visited Stratford-on-Avon.
William liked to watched them. He was fond of their profession and he decided to become an actor.
He went to London. There he became an actor. He began to write plays too.
Shakespeare was both an actor and a playwright. In his works Shakespeare described the 13___________ (important and dramatic) events in life.
His plays were staged in many theatres, translated into many languages and they made Shakespeare a very popular man.
The 14____________ (famous) plays are "Othello", "King Lear", "Hamlet" and "Romeo and Juliet".
He produced thirty seven plays. He was connected with the 15__________ (good) theatres in England during twenty five years.
William Shakespeare wrote a lot of 16____________ (poem). His poems have been published in many languages.
They are well-known. We don`t know a lot of facts about Shakespeare`s life. We can only guess what kind of man he was, that`s why there are many legends about his life.
William Shakespeare died in 1616. His plays are still popular and millions of people admire them.