The Best Film

李晨

Pre-reading activity

1. How often do you go to the cinema？

2. Do you usually see films made in your country？

3. What is the name of the best film you have ever seen？

One of the most famous film prizes in the world is the Oscar. Every year in the United States， the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gives Oscars to people who have done well in films. There is an Oscar for the best film of the year， another for the best actor， and Oscars for doing many other things well in films. Oscars are very important because people want to see films that have won them. They also want to see actors who have won Oscars. This means that films that have won Oscars make a lot of money. The Academy first gave prizes to films in 1927， but they were not called Oscars then. That happened four years later. Most people think that Oscar was someone famous in films， but he wasnt. He was no one important. He was someone that a woman called Margaret Herrick knew. She worked for the Academy and one day she saw the prize on a table. She said， “He looks like my friend， Oscar.” From that time on the prizes were called the Oscars.

Exercises：

I. Vocabulary

Circle the correct answer.

1. Have you ever won a ____？

a. film              b. prize

2. Some ____ in films are very famous.

a. Oscars               b. actors

3. I went to the cinema ____ than my

friend because I had to study first.

a. then             b. later

II. Main idea

Circle the correct answer.

The passage is about ____.

a. Margaret Herrick

b. the Academy

c. the Oscars          d. money

III. Looking for detail.

Circle the correct answer.

1. The Academy gives prizes to people who

____.

a. pay the Academy money

b. like films

c. are friends of Margaret Herrick

d. have done well in films

2. An Oscar is ____.

a. a film                 b. an actor

c. a prize               d. someone famous

3. The Oscars got their name in ____.

a. 1927 b. 1931 c. 1923 d. 1928

4. Oscar was the name of ____.

a. the actor who won the first Oscar

b. the first film to win an Oscar

c. Margaret Herricks friend

d. the president of the Academy

IV. Summary

Complete the passage by putting in the  correct forms of the following words.