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  1. Answer the questions:

    1. What kinds of mass media do you know?

    2. What programs can we watch on TV?

    3. What kinds of films can we watch?

    4. What is your favourite TV program/film?

    5. What is advertized on TV?

    6. What is your attitude to commercial breaks?

    7. What are the advantages of watching TV?

    8. Are there any disadvantages of TV?

    9. What can a person do instead of watching TV?

    10. What is your attitude to soap operas/horror films/cartoons?

    11. What is the role of TV in your life?

II. What kind of film is it?

  • a film or a programme about an event, person, etc., presenting the facts with little or no fiction.

  • a film in which risky, exciting and unexpected events take place.

  • a film in which there is much humour and many comic situations. This kind of film amuses and provokes laughter.

  • a film with a story that frightens people. It often has a terrifying and shocking finale.

  • this kind of film includes high energy, big-budget physical stunts and chases, possibly with rescues, battles, fights, escapes etc.

  • a film full of heroes, aliens, distant planets, impossible quests, fantastic places, great dark and shadowy villains, ultramodern technology, unknown and forces, and extraordinary monsters.

  • a film in which an investigator, either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder.

III. Name the genre of the following films:

Madagascar, Independence Day, The Matrix, Home Alone, Sherlock Holmes, Death on the Nile, Titanic, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, The Lord of the Rings, The Simpsons, The Terminator, Dumb and Dumber, A Nightmare On Elm Street, Spider-Man, The Mystery of the Blue Train, Batman Begins, Shrek.

Topic 69. My Favourite TV Program/Film/Cartoon

I. Read the email. Find answers to all the questions after it.

Hi,

I saw Shrek 2 for the first time yesterday. I loved it. It's about an ugly but lovable green ogre – Shrek – who's married to an ugly but lovable green Princess Fiona. They live in a swamp, but they go to see Fiona's parents in the Kingdom of Far, which is really like a cross between Los Angeles, Hollywood and Disneyland. The king cannot accept Shrek as a son-in-law, and Shrek decides to drink a magic potion to make him handsome and Fiona beautiful. There's also a nasty Fairy Godmother and a horrible self-centred but fantastically handsome Prince Charming, her son, who wants to take Shrek's place and become Fiona's husband. In the end, of course, Shrek and Fiona stay together.

I think the point of the film is that if you love someone, it doesn't matter about the colour of his / her skin or look. The most important is the character of the person. You know, in most Hollywood films, everyone is so good-looking, and it is really nice to have main characters who are ugly. And although we live in a culture where everyone wants to be beautiful, when watching the film you don't want Fiona and Shrek to change – you want them to stay the ugly people they are.

This film is very funny. It is full of humour. The funniest character is the Donkey (Eddie Murphy's voice). And visually it's brilliant. The animation is unbelievable. It was directed by Andrew Adamson. Although it's a cartoon, the facial expressions of the cartoon characters are very realistic and believable. So there were many moments where I laughed a lot, and the film leaves you with a smile on your face. I'm sure you'll really like it. Shall I lend you the DVD?

See you,

Amanda