Read the text. Choose the best answer to each question

34. Read the text. Choose the best answer to each question.

 

Fred Savage

 

An interview with 16-year-old American film and TV actor Fred Savage, who starred in the TV series “The Wonder Years.”

 

How did you start acting?

When I was six years old I did a Pac Man vitamins commercial. I love doing commercials because it’s such a lot of fun. A lot of my friends still do commercials on TV, and it’s just great because some day that money will pay their college course.

Why did you want to become an actor?

I’ve never done this to be popular or to have fans or anything. I’m doing this because I enjoy it. I don’t do it for the job or because I need the money.

Do you still go to school?

I have a teacher when I’m filming; he helps me with my schoolwork. I should spend three hours a day on it, but a lot of the time I do only one or two hours. I like science, but I hate English, because it is boring.

You don’t have a normal childhood do you?

It’s true I don’t go to school with my friends or spend a much time with them as I’d like to, but I’m getting knowledge that they may never get.

Didn’t you have your first film kiss on “The Wonder Years?”

Yes, I had to kiss this girl and it was also her first film kiss. It was bad enough doing it, but when I finished our parents stood up and clapped their hands- we felt really uncomfortable.

What do you think of your fans?

My fans are great. I really love them. People are able to find me in the strangest places, though. I can be riding my bicycle in the woods somewhere, and someone will find me and ask for my autograph. I guess it’s still new to me, so I’m really pleased by it.

 

1. How does acting in commercials help young people?

 

A. They can later pay their studies with the wages they earn.

B. They get a lot of friends who work in the the film or TV business.

C. They learn things that will help them to become good actors.

 

2. Why does Fred want to be an actor?

A. Because he likes the work of an actor.

B. Because he loves it if many people know him.

C. Because he wants to become rich fast.

 

3. Which of these statements about Fred’s schoolwork is true?

 

A. He does not really work hard enough for it.

B. He is better at language then at science.

C. He likes private lessons better than going to school.

 

4. What especially does Fred like about his way of life?

A. He has more freedom than most other young people have.

B. He has more money for nice things than his friends.

C. He learns things that most other young people do not learn.

 

5. What does Fred tell about his first film kiss?

 

A. He did not feel OK, especially because of his parents’ reaction.

B. He felt shy because he did not know the girl very well.

C. He was rather proud of the way he did it.

 

6. What does Fred say about fans?

A. He is sorry that he cannot speak with all his fans.

B. He thinks that fans cause a bit too much trouble sometimes.

C. He very much likes the interest fans have in him.

 

Answer Keys

 

1. A. 1c, 2e, 3g, 4d, 5a, 6h, 7f, 8b

B. 1d, 2e, 3g, 4a, 5b, 6c, 7h, 8f

2. penny, enter, loosely, see, writer, spaceship, disco,

4. can, apartment, subway, grade, fall, truck, candy, french fries, bathtub, druggist, gasoline, line, soccer

5. taught, do, learn, do, admitted, receive, left, find out, receipt, remind

6. smaller, larger, fastest, smallest, biggest, warmest, quicker, softer

7. must, deck, rang, sick, rob, pick, leg, luck

8. to, at, of, for, of, in, for, of, by, with, of, on, to, in, in, on, to, over

9. c, c, b, b, a, b, c, b, c

10. was born, delicate, minister, nurse, heroine, plays, opera

11. b, d, c, d, c, c, a, d, c, c, b, c, b, d, a, b, b, b, d, c, c, b

12. c, a, d, c, d, b, d, c, b, c, d, b, a, c, c, d, a

13. c, b, d, c, d, b, d, c, c, b, b, c, d, d, c, a, c, b, d, b

14. d, b, c, d, b, a, c, b, d, b, a, b, d, b, c, d, b, c, b, d

16. are testing, attract, start, gives, is doing, gets, prints, is studying, prefer, hate

17. appeared, started, spoke, have been, was, decided, wrote, is, came, began, had, sold, has not had, started, have met, have never been

18. ran, had gone, started, had started, left, looked, had seen, had been, had injured

 

19. The, the, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, a, a, a, a, the, the, the, zero, the, the, zero, zero, the, zero, a

20. b, c, a, d, d, c, c, b, b, d

21. b, a, c, b, c, b, a, b, c, c, b, c, c, a, b, c, a, b, a, a, c, a, c, b

22. recieve, have been, shall/will take, am sitting, have been, have done

30. 2, 2, 1, 1, 4, 2

33. b, b, c, c, b

34. a, a, a, c, a, c

 

Приложение II

 

Walt Disney’s World

 

Walt Disney was an American original, a man who developed the animated film into an art form. A brillant businessman, he also created Disneyland which proved to be as much an innovation in the world of outdoor entertainment as Disney films were in the world of motion pictures. From the very beginning of his remarkable career, Walt Disney lived on the edge of tomorrow. Dreaming impossible dreams. And daring to make them come true.

Walt Disney was born in Chicago in 1901. His father was Irish-Canadian and his mother was of German-American origin. He remembered nothing of his early years in Chicago, but the memories of Marceline, Missouri, stayed with him throughout his life. He revealed a talent for drawing and an interest in photography very early.

In 1911, when Walt was ten years old, the family moved to Kansas City. Mr. Disney bought a newspaper delivery business, and the father expected Walt to help with the newspaper business and deliver newspapers. After school Walt and his brother worked for their father. On Saturday mornings Walt took classes in painting and drawing at the Kansas City Art Institute.

Then one day Walt saw a silent film version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” This film and the way it was projected onto the screen fascinated Walt.

In 1917 Walt Disney moved to Chicago and took a job at the post office. He worked long hours delivering mail, going to school and taking classes at Chicago’s Academy of Fine Arts.

Some of his pictures were cartoons in the Chicago newspapers. He drew comic pictures and sketches of politicians and people in the news. The short comments under them poked fun at them.

Elias Disney, Walt’s father, could not understand his son’s fascination with the entertainment world, nor did his sympathize with Walt’s ambition to be a cartoonist.

During the First World War, Walt Disney joined the American Red Cross as an ambulance driver, but when in 1919 the American Ambulance Corps was disbanded, he boarded the ship for the voyage back to America and the start of his career.

He went back to Kansas City where he got a job with an advertising company. It lasted only six weeks, but it taught him many things about working in the art field.

His next job was drawing cartoons for screen advertisement in movie theatres, just like TV commercials today. By 1923, Hollywood had become a company town, and movie makers started arriving in California.

Walt Disney asked for work as a director and was turned away. There were no cartoonists in Hollywood; the animation business was centered in New York. He found a man in New York to buy his films and hired some art students. Together they made seven animated cartoons but the man in New York ran off with the money made from the cartoons. Walt was forced to close his company, but wasn’t discouraged. He loved cartoons and was full of ideas. He decided to start all over again in California where movies were being made.

In Hollywood Walt rented an old camera and a garage which he turned into a small studio. He made a series of “Alice in Cartoonland” cartoons. Cinema owners bought them as quickly as he could make them. In 1927, he had some success with the series called “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit,” but it was not until 1928, when “Steamboat Willie” appeared, the first “Mickey Mouse” with sound, that he achieved lasting success. Mickey Mouse became a household word, together with such companions as Minnie, Pluto, and perhaps the favourite of them all- Donald Duck.

By 1930, Walt Disney had created 12 Mickey Mouse cartoons. They all were very popular with children and adults all over the world.

Then another great invention was made- colour in movies. Walt started making long colour cartoons. These included “Pinocchio”, “Bambi”, “Cinderella”, “Alice in Wonderland” and many others.

After World War II Walt made not only animated films, but movies about real animals. The film, “Seal Island” was made. Later Walt made many nature films, among them “Beaver Valley”and “Living Desert.”

In 1955, he branched out into a different enterprise- “Disneyland”, a huge amusement park in southern California. Of all the show places, none was as famous as Disneyland. This superb kingdom of fantasy linked to technology was created by Walt Disney.

Honours were given to Walt Disney. The highest came on September 14, 1964, when President Johnson presented him with the Medal of Freedom at the White House.

Walt Disney died in 1966 at the age of 65. the New York Times wrote, “He had a genius for innovation; his production was enormous; his hand was ever on the public pulse. He was a legend in his own lifetime- and so honored many times over.”

Walt Disney is gone but each year lots of new movies and cartoons are made in his studios.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Jungle Book

 

 

Introduction:

 

This film is made from Rudyard Kipling “Mowgli” stories. The best and most beloved of Kipling’s prose works was written in 1894-1895 and was intended for children. In this beautifully written book, Kipling depicts the life of wild animals, and he shows their character and behavour.

The cartoon shows the life of a man-cub in the jungles and his adventures on the way to the man-village.

 

Characters:

 

Mowgli - a man-cub

 

Bagheera - the black panther

 

Rama - father wolf

 

Akela - the leader of the pack

 

Baloo - the bear

 

Kaa- the rock python

 

Shere-Khan - the tiger

 

Hathi- the elephant

 

Winifred- Hathi’s wife

 

Little Elephant (Hathi’s son)

 

Louie - the gray monkey

 

Vultures

 

 

Episode 1

Mowgli and Bagheera

 

1. Words and expressions.

 

to swear (swore, sworn) to look out for oneself

to grow up to go to sleep

to make a mistake

Things will look better in the morning.

Leave me alone.

You have just sealed your doom.

This is going to slow down my slithering.