Miscellaneous Reader. Part I. Учебные задания для обучения базовым умениям чтения. Гергесовa О.В - 30 стр.

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effects technology. The company behind these changes is
Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). And the man behind
the company is Dennis Muren, who has worked with Lucas
since Star Wars.
Muren's interest in special effects began very early: At age 6, he
was photographing toy dinosaurs and spaceships. By 10, he had
an 8-millimeter movie camera and was making these things
move through stop-motion. (Stop-motion is a process in which
objects are shot with a camera, moved slightly, shot again, and
so on; when the shots are put together, the objects appear to
move.)
Talk to Muren and you'll understand what ILM is all about:
taking on new challenges. By 1989, Muren decided he had
pushed the old technology as far as it would go.
He saw computer graphics (CG) technology as the wave of the
future and took a year off to master it.
With CG technology, images can be scanned into a computer for
processing, for example, and many separate shots can be
combined into a single image. CG technology has now reached
the point, Muren says, where special effects can be used to do
just about anything - so that movies can tell stories better than
ever before. The huge success of Jurassic Park and its sequel,
The Lost World -the stars of which were computer-generated
dinosaurs -suggests that this may very well be true.
After-reading
V. Discuss the following
1. What movie's special effects impressed you the most?
Describe the effects.
2. Critics say that movies are emphasizing special effects at the
expense of the story. Others argue that special effects make
the stories better. What do you think?
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Pre-reading task.
1. Scan the text and say what social problem Habitat for
Humanity is helping to solve.
Word Power
II. Match the following words with their definitions:
1. mud (n) a. in place of.
2. huge (adj) b. fundamental
3. fix (v) c. acceptable, good enough
4. charity (n) d. soft wet earth
5. enable (v) e. enormous
6. instead (adj) f. make or become better
7. tackle (v) g. mend, repair
8. basic (adj) h. give smb. the means or authority
9. improve (v) i. giving voluntarily to those in need
10. decent (adj.) j. try to deal with
III. Find five pairs of opposites in this list. Complete the chart.
build improve tiny little
plenty huge conceal deteriorate
reveal gradual destroy sudden
Reading
IV. Read the article. Check (٧) True or False. For the false
statements, give the correct information.
1. There are some countries True False
without housing problems. 
effects technology. The company behind these changes is
Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). And the man behind                           HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
the company is Dennis Muren, who has worked with Lucas
since Star Wars.                                                     Pre-reading task.
Muren's interest in special effects began very early: At age 6, he   1. Scan the text and say what social problem Habitat for
was photographing toy dinosaurs and spaceships. By 10, he had           Humanity is helping to solve.
an 8-millimeter movie camera and was making these things
move through stop-motion. (Stop-motion is a process in which
objects are shot with a camera, moved slightly, shot again, and      Word Power
so on; when the shots are put together, the objects appear to        II. Match the following words with their definitions:
move.)
Talk to Muren and you'll understand what ILM is all about:           1. mud (n)             a. in place of.
taking on new challenges. By 1989, Muren decided he had              2. huge (adj)          b. fundamental
pushed the old technology as far as it would go.                     3. fix (v)             c. acceptable, good enough
He saw computer graphics (CG) technology as the wave of the          4. charity (n)         d. soft wet earth
future and took a year off to master it.                             5. enable (v)          e. enormous
With CG technology, images can be scanned into a computer for        6. instead (adj)       f. make or become better
processing, for example, and many separate shots can be              7. tackle (v)          g. mend, repair
combined into a single image. CG technology has now reached          8. basic (adj)         h. give smb. the means or authority
the point, Muren says, where special effects can be used to do       9. improve (v)         i. giving voluntarily to those in need
just about anything - so that movies can tell stories better than    10. decent (adj.)      j. try to deal with
ever before. The huge success of Jurassic Park and its sequel,
The Lost World -the stars of which were computer-generated           III. Find five pairs of opposites in this list. Complete the chart.
dinosaurs -suggests that this may very well be true.
                                                                     build          improve                 tiny            little
After-reading                                                        plenty         huge                    conceal         deteriorate
V. Discuss the following                                             reveal         gradual                 destroy         sudden

1. What movie's special effects impressed you the most?              Reading
   Describe the effects.                                             IV. Read the article. Check (٧) True or False. For the false
2. Critics say that movies are emphasizing special effects at the        statements, give the correct information.
   expense of the story. Others argue that special effects make
   the stories better. What do you think?                            1. There are some countries                    True        False
                                                                       without housing problems.

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