VOCABULARY pg 140, 142

A

1 j; 2 g; 3 d; 4 f; 5 b; 6 a; 7 h; 8 e; 9 c

B

Attend, put on, compose, adapt, publish, electrify, appeal to

C

Vital, inspires, efficient, reflects, lifts, soothes, relieve

D

Folk, costumes, beat, hand, atmosphere, audience, effects

E

Stimulating, from, cultivates, enables, teaches, prefer, press, concentration

F

BOX 1

Positive: comedy, fantasy, western, wildlife documentary, soap opera, musical, historical, novel romance;

Negative opinion: drama, thriller, horror, sequel, serial;

Both: detective, adventure, series.

BOX 2

Positive: visually stunning/amazing, picturesque, fantastic, romantic, realistic, magnificent.

Negative: static, unrealistic, too dark.

BOX 3

Positive: moving/touching/funny, gripping, deeply affecting, reaches a dramatic climax, full of suspense/feel totally involved, allows us to feel and think, slow in development, has a satisfactory ending, teaches a lesson about life;

Negative: unpredictable, boring/dull, lacks coherence, too complex/confusing, arouses conflicting emotions, thin/poor/indifferent.

Both: keeps people on the edge of their seat

BOX 4

Positive: first class acting, a high standard performance, superb/great performance from the entire cast, young talented actors, well-developed characters.

Negative: poor/bad/disappointing acting, second-rate actors/acting.

BOX 5

Positive: well-written script, high quality production, spectacular production, beautifully directed, breathtaking scenes.

Negative: poor script, poorly/ badly directed.

BOX 6

Positive: stunning/amazing special effects, exciting computer graphics, music brilliantly evoked/ created an atmosphere fitting to the scene, music arouses strong/tender/feelings/ emotion.

Negative: excessive special effects, hair rising/nail-biting stunts, music unsuitable to the scene.

BOX 7

Positive: essential viewing whatever your age, the smash hit of the year/top-ending, a first class piece of family entertainment, it is highly recommend – a page turner, a masterpiece/ a best seller, a (Hollywood) blockbuster/ a box office hit;_

Negative: a melodrama not worth seeing/ reading, an absolute let-down from start to finish, not only to commercialized, but very disappointing.., a second-rate/grade film, a waste of time and money;

Both: not only classy, but very funny