ESSAY OUTLINE ( FOR IELTS ) Topic 11. Media- television -communication -Reading – watching movies SECTION 1: MOVIES –FILMS 1. It has recently been announced that a new movie theater may be built in your neighborhood. Do you support or oppose this plan? Why? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer. 27 How useful is a new movie theatre? - more opportunities for recreation. - Reduce juvenile deliquency: teens need activities to keep them busy and out of trouble. - Lead to several improvements in the town. - Help other busninesses: more visitor ->shopping, better road. 2. Films can tell us a lot about the country where they were made. What have you learned about a country from watching its movies? Use specific examples and details to support your response.153 What have you learned about a country from watching its movies? People all around the world are alike in their goals and emotions. Goals: knowledge, earning a living. Emotions: want to be entertained, spend time with family and friends, enjoy some form of sports, music and dancing. 3. Movies are popular all over the world. Explain why movies are so popular. Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.150 - people want to watch other people’s lives ->find excitement: adventurous and glamorous. - Like to live vicariously: cry (sad movies) and laugh(comedies). - Escape out own lives, share other emotions, and imagine ourselves as someone else (prepare in advance). 4. Some movies are serious, designed to make the audience think. Other movies are designed primarily to amuse and entertain. Which type of movie do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.65 Prefer movies that amuse and entertain. - make me relax, laugh - keep me in good spirit. 6. In your opinion what factors contribute to a good movie? SECTION 2: READING -WATCHING 5. Pop music: Opinions • Pop is an international industry – it’s a as simple as that. Record companies are in business to make a profit. • Pop music gives pleasure to billions of people. It saves lives, too. Think of all the money that Band Aid sent to Africa, for example. Things like that are important. Pop in the ‘80s: - The most important musical event of the ‘80s was “Band aid”. the program was for the purpose of raising money for the starving people of Ethiopia in 1984. That concert, on 13 July 1984 raised over $ 100 million, with the contribution of famous music performers. It showed that top musicians and their fans could change the world. - Something else changed in the 80s, too: musical technology. In less than ten years, video compact discs and computers all became important in the po industry. - Thanks to video, every single suddenly had its own three minute film. - Thanks to compact discs, the quality of recorded sound was better than ever. - Thanks to computers it was possible to play and record thousands of new sounds. - Pop has come a long way since the days of Elvis Presley. - In the 50s it was fun - In the 60s it was escape - In the 70s it was big business - In the 80s it became part of an international youth culture. 6. A singer that you like. Michael Jackson. Data: born 29 August 1958. First in the Jackson Five, then a solo artist, MJ has been a superstar from the age of eleven. Today, he really is a living legend. What’s more, media reports of plastic surgery, exotic pets and strange beliefs only seem to increase his fame. Behind it, though, stands one of the greatest: - singers – dancers – video – makers – performers, pop has ever seen. Greatest hits include: Ben, Off the wall, Thriller, Billie Jean, Beat it, Bad, Smooth Criminal, Dirty, Diana, I can’t stop loving you. 7. How do you think about the books on the screen? Pros: - On the screen -> it reaches a huge new audience. So if more people can enjoy a story by seeing it in a visual form, what’s wrong with that? - A successful screen adaptation helps to promote the original book and increase its sales. - Pictures make stories more vivid and life like easier to understand of complex and old – fashioned languages. - Publishing industry develop. - People lead busy lives these days. They don’t want to spend a week reading a novel when they can watch the film version in two hours. It’s a question of convenience. - Make more choices for people: read or watch or both, in which order? Cons: - reading is active… your mind has to work and create images. Watching is passive. You just sit there and all the work is done for you. It’s less satisfying. - Reading -> free to stop and start other jobs. Watching you don’t have the freedom to stop and think for 5 minutes before you carry on. - Screen adaptatons are never as subtle and complex as the book or plays they’re based on. Characters are cut out, scenes removed -> fit in 2 hours. - Books can tell you what characters are thinking. - Vital differences between a novel and a seri. - Unfair influence on the book industry. Books not filmed -> not good selling. - Bad screen version of your favourite book can ruin the original novel for you. 8. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Reading fiction (such as novels and short stories) is more enjoyable than watching movies. Use specific reasons and examples to explain your position.100 Agree. Reasons: - The more you read, the stronger your imagination becomes. Reading exercises your imaginative powers - Develop your storytelling skill. The more reading you do the better you become at creating plots and characters. Movies advantages: - the images in movie are much more vivid: in a large screen in a dark room. - Sitting in a large screen with other people is fun. 9. Is the ability to read and write more important today than in the past? Why or why not? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.134 Agree. Reason: - communicate through email using the Internet. - Getting information through Internet. - E – commerce: advertising on net. 10. People learn in different ways. Some people learn by doing things; other people learn by reading about things; others learn by listening to people talk about things. Which of these methods of learning is best for you? Use specific examples to support your choice. 89 • Best: learning by doing is the method work best. • give a learner- first-hand experience. • Disadvantages of other forms: 11. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People should read only those books that are about real events, real people, and established facts. Use specific reasons and details to support your opinion.96 - Why should reading other kinds of events? - Half of all the great books that have ever been written, not to mention the plays, short stories and poetry are imaginary. - Reading stories as a child help develop our creativity. - Storytelling is an emotional need for human beings. -> fictions is too important to our culture, our minds and our emotions. 12. A folk story in your culture that has significance. Banh Chung, Banh Day –printed. 13. The plot of a good book you have read recently. - The fiction called “Gone with the wind” - The author: Magarret Michel. - The background: the American civil war. - The plot: - The story covers 12 years in the life of a very beautiful and haughty girl, named Scarlett O’Hara, also the main character, who were having the most beautiful days of her life in a noble family at the time the war happened. - Surrounding her were numerous young, handsome guys who loved her with all their hearts. - Due to the war the O’Haras lost all their properties to their enemies. - Being an innocent snobbish girl, Scarlet was suddenly put under heavy burden of rearing all her younger sisters and caring for her mental father. She served as the breadwinner for a large family in an extremely difficult period. - In her way, Scarlet had to cope with a lot of obstacle. However, with the essense of a resilent, resourceful girl, Scarlet managed to get her family overcome the most hard interval in their lives. - Indeed, Scarlet had left me a very intensive impression for her characteristic and her energy for solving her lifetime problem. One useful tip she used whenever facing with headache situation was: “Thinking of tomorrow. It is a different day with brighter view!”. It is also useful for all of us. - In fact, Gone with the wind is not only a historical and drama novel but also one novel of romance. The love affair between Scarlet and Rhett Burtler would be going on all the time. Although the novel ended with the fact that Rhett left Scarlet alone, I do hope that he would late on turn back with Scarlet because they did really love each other and both deserved. 14. Film: - What type of films do you generally like? romance. - Tell me about a film that you really enjoyed. - Gone with the wind –230 minutes –1939 -color (above). - The film get 10 oscars, which includes the best film, the best actress, the best director (Victor Flemming), and some others. 15 What do you think about all the advertisements shown before the film? - If it last not too long, for about less than 5 minutes, I would be easy – going. - But in fact, sometimes the time for advertisement reaches nearly ten minutes. Consequently, any audiences would be outraged. I am not an exception. - I understand that the profits come to the media producer mainly from the advertisement fee. However, the editor should limit the time in an acceptable limit. . ESSAY OUTLINE ( FOR IELTS ) Topic 11. Media- television -communication -Reading – watching. vicariously: cry (sad movies) and laugh(comedies). - Escape out own lives, share other emotions, and imagine ourselves as someone else (prepare in advance). 4.