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Reading and Use of English | 1BSU

1 Work in pairs. Exam advice

What is your favourite type of film?
t First read the title and the whole text quickly to get a
What is the best film you’ve seen in the last
general idea of what it is about.
twelve months?
t Study the gapped sentences one by one, reading carefully
How is going to the cinema different from
before and after the gap.
watching a film on your television or computer
t The four words you have to choose from will be similar
at home?
in meaning but only one will fit correctly into the gap.
What do you know about Bollywood films? How
You should consider dependent prepositions and other
are they different from Hollywood films?
grammatical structures.
2 Quickly read the article about Bollywood t If you are not sure which option is correct, discard the
films. Does it confirm or contradict any of the options you think are wrong and choose from the others.
ideas you have just discussed?
4 Discuss these questions.
3 For questions 1–8, read the article again
and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best How would you explain the enduring popularity of musicals?
fits each gap. There is an example at the How do you feel about romantic films and fiction in general?
beginning (0). How important are traditional themes in films in your country?

Bollywood is the name (0) C to popular Mumbai-based Indian films.
Bollywood films are generally musicals and contain catchy song-and-dance
numbers, and a film’s success often depends on the quality of such musical
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numbers. Indeed, a film’s music is often (1) before the movie itself,
as a way of generating advance publicity. Indian audiences expect value for
money from their films, which must include a famous actor in the (2) .
The (3) of Bollywood films have tended to be melodramatic,
employing formulaic ingredients such as star-crossed lovers, angry parents,
family (4) , corrupt politicians, and siblings (5) by fate. There
have always been Indian films with more sophisticated stories, inside and
outside the Bollywood tradition, but these often lose out at the box office to
movies with more mass (6) . Bollywood conventions are changing,
however. Large Indian (7) in English-speaking countries and increased
Western influence at home have made Bollywood films more like Hollywood
films. Plots often feature westernised urbanites dating and dancing in
discos, rather than the traditional (8) marriages.

" handed B donated C given D conferred
A emitted B issued C released D announced
A crew B characters C team D cast
A accounts B plots C scenes D plays
A feuds B wars C hostilities D complaints
A segregated B separated C lost D detached
A popularity B appeal C attraction D lure
A people B residents C populations D inhabitants
A arranged B coordinated C orchestrated D set up

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