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Talking about a film

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 Here are some facts about famous Hollywood movies. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct passive form:

 

  1. 26,000 costumes __________ in the film Cleopatra, in 1963.   (use)
  2. Before 1927, films used to __________ without sound.   (make)
  3. Classic films, like Hitchcock's Rear Window, __________ by millions of people since they first came out.   (see)
  4. Marilyn Monroe died while her last film, The Misfits, __________ .   (shoot)
  5. After her death, some people thought that she __________ by the CIA.   (murder)
  6. Nowadays many special effects __________ by computers.   (create)
  7. At this moment, all over the world hundreds of films __________ . (made)
  8. In the mid-21st century many more films __________ on home videos and computers than in the cinema.   (see)

 

ANSWERS:

1. were used

2. be made

3. have been seen

4. was being shot

5. had been murdered

6. are created

7. are being made

8. will be seen

 

 

  • Have you seen the movie The Piano? What do you know about it? Read the summary below and choose the correct form of the verbs.
     

The Piano (won/was won) the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival in 1993. It (directed/was directed) by Jane Campion, and it (stars/is starred) Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel. It (set/is set) in New Zealand in the 19th century, and is about a Scottish woman, Ada, who (send/is sent) there by her parents to marry a local man. She only (brings/is brought) two things with her: her daughter, and her piano. Ada never (speaks/is spoken) and (has/is had) a very unhappy time until she (falls/is fallen) in love with a neighbour. Finally, she (rescues/is rescued) by him from her violent husband and, in her new life, she (learns/is learned) to speak again. The soundtrack (wrote/was written) by Michael Nyman, and millions of copies of the CD (have sold/have been sold) all over the world.

 

ANSWERS:

won - was directed - stars - is set - is sent - brings - speaks - has - falls - is rescued - learns - was written - have been sold

  

from English File Upper-Intermediate - OUP  

 

 

 

 

 

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