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Research the making of your favourite animated film. Prepare a short presentation (60 - 80 words) on the film. (Nghiên cứu quá trình làm bộ phim hoạt hình yêu thích của bạn. Chuẩn bị một bài thuyết trình ngắn (60 - 80 từ) về phim.)

Include this information:

• Which film-makers and studios worked on the film?

• What animation techniques did they use?

• Was it a blockbuster?

• What do you like about it?

Give your presentation to the class.

Read and listen to the text. Match headings a-d with paragraphs 1-4 (Đọc và nghe văn bản. Ghép các tiêu đề a-d với các đoạn văn 1-4)

a. Stop motion animation

b. Computer animation

c. Early animation

d. Hand-drawn animation

The history of animation

1. In the 1880s, Endweard Muybridge invented the zoopraxiscope. This machine took photographs of moving things. This was the earliest form of animation.

2. In 1895, the Lumiere brothers invented the cinematograph. Early film-makers used it to make stop-motion animation. With this technique, they made King Kong in 1933.

3. In the 1920s, Will Disney began to use hand- drawn animation. Artists drew the pictures onto transparent pieces of plastic, or eels. The Ill makers put the cels on painted backgrounds and photographed them one at a time. In 1928, Disney studios introduced the character of Mickey Mouse in the first cartoon with sound, Steambont Wille.

4. In the 1960s, people started using computer animation. At first, computers could only make simple stick figures move on films, but by the 1990s, studios used realistie computer generated imagery (CGI) for special effects, soon, they were producing completely computer-animated films Toy Story (1925) was the first fully CGI cartoon.

Check the meaning of the words in the box. Then match them with the pictures (Kiểm tra nghĩa của các từ trong hộp. Sau đó ghép chúng với các bức tranh)

Read the text again and answer the questions (Đọc lại văn bản và trả lời các câu hỏi)

1. What did the zoopraxiscope do?

2. When did the Lumiere brothers make the cinematograph?

3. What technique did they use to make King Kong in 1933?

4. Which studio made the first cartoon with sound?

5. When did film-makers start using computers for special effects?

6. What is the name of the first CGI feature film?