ГДЗ Английский язык за 8 класс Афанасьева, Михеева, Баранова - Rainbow English - Учебник. Часть 2Unit 3 – Step 6 – 5a

🔊 Why We Go to the Cinema

🔊 Nowadays cinema audiences are much smaller and usually younger than the audiences of the Golden Age. Many of the "picture palaces" are now multiscreen cinemas with four or five small cinemas inside one building. Today’s films appear on video, and then on TV after cinema audiences have seen them. But some films don’t look so good on TV, they need a large screen and only then you can really enjoy them. Television can’t do it. You may agree or disagree with it, but for many people the cinema is still the only place to watch a film. Besides, the cinema is the only place where you can watch a brand-new film before your friends do it and decide if you like it.

🔊 How Cinema Began

🔊 Where We Watch Films

🔊 Today it is possible to buy a video and watch a film at home, but millions of people all over the world still prefer to go to their town or city cinema for a "night out". And before television arrived in people’s homes, a visit to the cinema was something really special and truly wonderful.

🔊 Cinema Was the Great World of Fantasy

🔊 The Golden Age of film-making and going to the cinema was between 1930 and 1950. Film stars seemed like kings and queens. Cinemas were "picture palaces" where, for the price of a ticket, you could find yourself in a magical world. In that world anything and everything was possible.

🔊 Tastes Differ

🔊 Of course, everyone has their own favourite kinds of films - action films or thrillers, comedies, psychological dramas, science fiction, adventure and crime films, horror films or musicals. But cinema is always in the focus of our attention; it thrills, entertains and educates us.