Enjoy the Show
What kind of shows do you like to watch or attend? why? where?
Do you prefer to watch films at home or at the cinema? why?
What is the last film you watched? what is it about?
Do you watch more international films or Spanish ones? why?
who is your favourite actor/actress?
Guess the fill...
Los 101 dálmatas
Piratas del Caribe
Harry Potter
Buscando a Nemo
Alicia en el país de las maravillas
Tarzán
La pantera rosa
Frozen
Hotel Transilvania
Dumbo
La Cenicienta
El diario de la princesa
Pocahontas
E.T. el Extraterrestre
PROJECT. A film review
In groups, choose a film and investigate about its production, characters, actresses and actors.
Talk about why you've chosen this film. What your opinion about it is. Positive and negative aspects about it, anecdotes, history and any other aspects you would like to talk about.
Finally, you need to represent a scene of this video. One minute maximum, in which you play out this scene.
If you want, you could also share the information you've found by doing interviews to the characters, actors, producers, etc...
Rewrite the sentences in the PASSIVE voice, omit the by-agent when possible.
1. Everyone knows this fact very well.
2. They opened the theatre only last month.
3. They think that the driver had both legs broken in the crash.
4. People will soon forget it.
5. You must write the answers in ink.
6. People understood that the delegation was keen to meet the British Prime Minister.
7. Someone has taken two of my books.
8. We have already filled the vacancy.
9. What should (one) do in such cases?
10. They proved that the statements he had made were false.
11. She offered me a solution.
12. Did they say anything interesting?
13. Did no one ever make the situation clear to you?
14. People now think that some redundancies in the Company are inevitable.
15. One should keep milk in a refrigerator.
Rewrite the sentences in the ACTIVE voice
1. All orders will be promptly executed
2. The man was kept in custody
3. Several Japanese manufacturers are reported to be planning to set up plants overseas / It is reported that several Japanese manufacturers are planning to set up plants overseas.
4. Are all the rooms regularly cleaned
5. Much of London was destroyed by fire in the seventeenth century
6. The man who had been bitte by a snake was given a serum
7. The brewers are expected to raise the price of beer in the near future. / It is expected that the brewers will raise the price of beer in the near future.
8. A leader should be a man who can be respected
9. Many slums are being demolished to make way for new buildings
10. The drug was claimed to produce no undesirable side*effects. / It was claimed that the drug produced no undesirable side-effects.
Rewrite the sentences using a causative sentence
1. You should arrange to install central heating before winter comes.
2. He is arranging for an artist to paint his wife's portrait.
3. Drive carefully if you don’t want to have your licence endorsed again
4. The tree was so diseased that we had to have it cut down
5. The authorities are encouraging mothers to arrange for the vaccination of their children.
6. She made an appointment with the optician for an examination of her eyes