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released In 2000 . earned more than(1) S___ million at the box office.Ben Hur . (2) _ __ . was (3) ___ by Will iam Wyler.Spartacus was re leased in (4) _ __ .EI Cid. (5) _ _ . tells the story of (6) __heroRodrigo DIaZ.Lawrence of Arabia. 1962. featured a young Irish(7) ___ . Peter' OToole .Cleopatra was a big hit in (8) ___ (9) _ __Elizabeth Tayl or.Troy was re leased in (10) _ __ .bListen again. Which film (s) is the speake rt alking about ?perhaps the greatest epic of them all2Ridle y Scot t's inspiration for Gladiato r3the most expensi ve film ever made at the time4disappointing box office _ _ _ __5almost bankrupted its makers _ _ _ __6went on to w in five Oscars _ __ _ __CNow read the audioscript.
Match words andphrases w ith the definitions (1- 8).being ignored / sleeping _ _ _ __2type ____ __3period of greatness _ _ __ __4buildings created for a film ______5excellent ___ _ _ _6together wit h ___ _ _ _7huge amount of money _ _ _ __8ac tors in a film w ho don't speak ____ __(a) One of the most remarkable developments in therecent history of film -making was the revival of thehistorical epic at the start of the 21st century. After ly ingdormant for alm ost 40 years, this spectacular and lavi shgenre of film·making made an unexpected reappearancewith Rid ley Scott's Gladiator in 2000 . After the fi lm(1)five Oscars and its mak ers(2)over $458 mill io n at the box office.Hollywood was forced to re·examine this area of filmmaking.(b) So, what exactly is a historical epic? To explain tha t.we have to go back to the late 1950S and the film thatmarked the start of the brief golden age of the ep ic,Ben Hur.
This film had all the classic ingredients of thehis to rical epic. (c) It was lon g, it was set in a lon g distantperiod of history, it fea tured lots of battles , and it hadbig stars and even bigger sets. The film wa s re leas ed in1959 but its director, William Wyler. (3) _ __ _ __on it for more than six years and (4) _ __ _ _ _SIS million - makin g it the most expensive film evermade at the time . But it went on to gain 11 Oscars andhuge profits for MGM .(d) The re followed a series of superb epic films . In 1960there was legendary di recto r Stanley Kubrick 's powerfulSportacus, star ring Kirk Douglas and Laurenc e Olivier- the fi lm that was in fact Ridley Scott's inspi ration forGladiator.
The next year, Char lton Heston . th e star ofBen Hur, appeared alongside Sophia Lore n in EI Cid, themoving story of Spa nish hero Rodrigo Diaz's attemp tsto drive the Moors out of Spai n. 1962 saw the releaseof perhaps the greatest epic of them all. (e) and mype rso na l favou rite . Dav id Lean's Lawrence of Arabia .featuring a young Irish actor who (5)onscreen before - Peter O·Toole .The end of this short golde n age came in 1963 with there lease of Cleopatra . Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewiczand starring Elizabeth Tay lor.
the film had cost a fo rtuneto make and was never able to make a profit at the boxoffice, causing financial difficulties for its makers . By theearly 1960s, television (6)to eclipse films,cinema att endances were fa ll ing and the amounts ofmoney film·makers were earning were simply too small tocover the enormous productio n costs of historical epics .Th is cha nged with the adven t of com puter·generatedima gi ng. or CGI as it is known. For years . direc tors(7)to use computers to generate filmima ges. but th e computers available (8) _ _ _ _ __powerful enough . This all changed in the late 1990s .(f) Sudd en ly it was possible to have as many so ldiersand horses, Roman arenas and Trojan cit y wall s as youwanted, without hav ing to pay extras or bui ld hugesets. But with the disappoi nting box office for Wo lfga ngPetersen 's Troy of 2004 and Oli ver Sto ne's Alexande rals o of 2004, this second go lden age of t he historicalepic prove d to be fairly sh or t-lived .611 Complete the sentences (1-8) using PastHow to: ..
I engage your listenerguse rhetorical questions1D2include your personal responseintroduce what you're going to say4include detailsD, DD, DPast Perfect Simple and ContinuousLook at the audioscript again. Complete the gaps (1-8)with Past Perfect Simple or Continuous form of verbsfrom the box. Then listen again and check your answers.beginearnwinworkmnot do not drivetalk wait workD3Grammar IaPerfect Simple or Continuous forms of theverbs from the box. Use the continuouswhenever possible.The speaker uses a range of tenses and timeexpressions. Match the ways to make what you'resaying sound interesting (1-4) with the underlinedparts of the audioscript (a-f).spendnever appearnot betryUse the information in the pictures to complete ther:I~_r~ ~~ ~/1G,:! 1--: -1~}:;-;~- ~~l.l!~< - 0/yj-~/ //' .~,~1I'-..\~Qlienot see1By lunchtime, Lauren was exhaustedbecause shehard all morning.2I _ _ _ _ _ a 3D movie before so I wasvery excited about going to see Avatar.3When she came into the house, Carla's skinwas very red - she _ _ _ _ _ in the sunall day_4I got a really low mark in the exam because I_ _ __ _ enough revision_5Steve had to pay for the meal in cash becausehehis credit card at home.6By the time we got to the front of the queue,wefor more than two hours.7I knew Sally was going to marry Robertobecause sheabout him formonths and months!8When I arrived in Australia I found the drivingdifficult - Ion the left handside of the road before.sentences (1-4).
Use the Past Perfect Simple or Continuous.rl~ ~leaver~Alex was late for work because _ __ _ __ __Vocabulary Iatime expressionsComplete the sentences (1-8) using words orphrases from the box. One is not needed.after that at that time during untilfor the previous from that point onsince then throughout while231century, the two countrieshad been at war.2I stopped smoking three years ago and Ihaven't had a single cigarette _ _ _ __3I was surprised to get a phone call_ _ __ _ breakfast.4Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of theUKthe 1980s.5In the late 1950Sthere werealmost no supermarkets in England .6We missed our connecting flight and_ _ _ _ _ things just got worse.7Giovanni used to look after the children_ _ _ _ _ Clara was at work.8The mechanic arrived and repaired our car._ _ __ _ , we were able to continue onDave was covered in oil because _ _ _ _ _ __Karl _ _ __ _ ___ all night, so he wasour journey.4Susy didn't want to rent the DVD of Avatar because•Readingb Replace the underlined words and phrases inRead the article and answer the questions.the sentences (1-8) with words and phrases fromthe article.1What are convenience stores?1Harrods is a famous department store in London .2What is sometimes surprising about theseplaces?2They've just bought a large house.
_ _ __3People who live in the country are sometimesmore relaxed than people who live in a city.4We hardly ever take holidays. _ __ _.. a3Who usually works in these stores in London?4How do these stores find employees?5How are family members paid for their work?5 The government is considering changing the lawon people moving to this country from anotherone. _ _ __6My parents own and manage a dry cleaningbusiness. _ _ __7I have never understood the financial basis ofinternational trade. _ _ __8The origin of the River Nile is in Uganda.give no clue to the origin of the people workinginside the store. In fact, they often seem to bestaffed by (4)people from various partsof Asia.
Their nationalities often reflect the historyof immigration to the country concerned, and theyfrequently come from nations with a reputationfor successful trade and shop-keeping. In New Yorkand Los Angeles it is often Koreans and Chinesewho run these stores and in London it is peoplefrom the Indian sub-continent.Visitors to London, New York and Los Angelesoften remark on how easy it is to buy(1)things at any time of the day.It isn't the well-known department stores, largesupermarkets or huge shopping malls that theyare talking about but those tiny shops (2) _ _ __Americans call 'convenience stores' and the Britishcall 'corner shops'.
They may not always be situatedon corners, but they are certainly convenient fortourists and for those city-dwellers who work longhours and don't have time to shop during the day.As people in large cities work longer and longerhours the availability of late-night shopping hasbecome a necessity rather than a luxury.(3)other thing that sometimes causessurprise is that these shops are rarely owned orstaffed by local people. The English-sounding namesof 'Super Saver', 'Bargain Supplies' or 'Mini-market'But what are the economics of such places? Howcan tiny shops make any profit when employeeshave to be paid to work (5)such longhours? (6)answer lies partly in theAsian culture of hard work, but is mainly due tothe tradition of the extended family. This is verydifferent from the typical Western family in whichthe individual members have separate lives andcareers.
When (7)Asian family owns ashop everyone gets involved - brothers, sisters,uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents and children everybody is expected to work behind the counter.Thus there is (8)guaranteed source ofstaff available to work from early morning untillate at (9)night. And rather than beingpaid salaries, the members of the family simplyshare in (10)profits at the end of theyear. It is a recipe that has brought wealth to manyimmigrant families and made life a lot easier forthose of us who run out of milk at 11 o'clock on aSunday evening!Grammar I articlesgmComplete the gaps in the article (1-10) in exercisela with a, an, the or the zero article (-) .Vocabulary I materials_1Would you prefer milk or cream in your coffee?2Janine and Mike have got beautiful garden .3She'd been living in the Los Angeles since theHeathrow is the busiest airport in the UK.5When I was young I wanted to be astronaut.6Let's have another look at a first one they.------I--41 1 1I--51 119rf--71980s.4312Ten of the sentences (1-15) contain mistakes.
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