Theatre, Cinema, and Books Vocabulary

Vocabulary: Theatre and Cinema

• Masterpiece refers to a very high-quality work of art.
• Blockbuster means a very successful film, show, or book.
• A playwright is someone who writes a play.
• Award-winning describes something that has received several prizes.
• Spotlight is a powerful light used on a stage.
• Screenplay refers to a story that someone writes for a film.
• Soundtrack means music from a film or TV programs.
• Adaptation represents a version of a story made into a film or play.
• Dress rehearsal is the final practice before a show.
• Opening night represents the first official performance.
• Interval is a break in a play.
• Cast refers to the group of actors in a film or play.
• Released means when a film is made available to the public.

Vocabulary: Books

• Autobiography describes a famous person's life story.
• Folk tales are traditional stories.
• Illustrations are pictures in a book.
• Anecdotes are short, real-life stories.

Grammar: Emphatic Structures (do/did) & Negative Inversion

• Emphatic Do/Did emphasizes, contrasts, or clarifies information.
• For example: "I do read quickly – this is just a very long book!"
• Or: "I didn't think the acting was great, but I did like the soundtrack."
• Negative Inversion emphasizes a statement by reversing normal word order.
• For example: "Never before had I read such a moving book."
• Or: "Not until the review did I understand the film."
• Sentence Transformations: "I read the book after I had seen the film" can be transformed into "Only after I had seen the film did I read the book."
• "No one could deny that the film is a classic" can be transformed into "In no way could anyone deny that the film is a classic."

Grammar: Cleft Sentences & Tag Questions

• Cleft Sentences emphasize information.
• What + clause emphasizes an action, for example: "What really impressed me were the costumes."
• It + be + noun emphasizes a subject: "It was Sabine who left her coat in the cinema."
• Tag Questions confirms or checks information.
• If the main sentence is positive, the tag is negative: "He's the director of Inception, isn't he?"
• If the main sentence is negative, the tag is positive: "You didn't read her autobiography, did you?"

Use of English: Collocations & Word Formation

• Common reality represents a common collocation.
• Feature imagination represents a common collocation.
• Convey emotion represents a common collocation.
• Harsh knowledge represents a common collocation.
• High expectations represents a common collocation.
• Leading role represents a common collocation.
• Capture film represents a common collocation.
• Rave review represents a common collocation.
• Animated transforms into animation.
• Critical transforms into criticism.
• Dramatic transforms into drama.
• Leading transforms into leadership.
• Sensational transforms into sensation.
• Supporting transforms into support.
• Tense transforms into tension.
• Theatrical transforms into theatre.

Exam Task (Word Formation)

• "Are you reliable?" transforms into "RELY".
• "You should lower your expectations" transforms into "LOW".
• "Crime doesn't always pay." transforms into "PAY".
• "This film was critically acclaimed." transforms into "CRITIC".