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    Writing skills practice: Skyfall film review – exercises

    Look at the review of Skyfall and do the exercises to improve your writing skills.

    Preparation
    Circle True or False for these sentences.

    If you are writing a film review, you should write about a film that you have
    1. True False
    watched and can remember well.

    2. You should give your opinion of the film. True False

    You should mention basic information about the film such as the title, genre
    3. True False
    and actors' names.

    4. You should say what happens in the film's ending. True False

    You should talk about the acting, the music and the special effects and other
    5. True False
    individual aspects of the film.

    6. You should tell readers whether you think the film is worth seeing. True False
    Writing skills practice: Skyfall film review – exercises

    1. Check your understanding: multiple choice


    Circle the best phrase to complete these sentences.

    1. Skyfall is a musical / an action film / a comedy .

    2. The film was produced / came out on DVD / came out in cinemas in 2012.

    3. The main character is Daniel Craig / James Bond / Raoul Silva .

    4. James Bond / Javier Bardem / Raoul Silva is an ex-spy who wants revenge.

    There are scenes in / characters from / songs from Istanbul, Shanghai, Macau, London and
    5.
    Scotland.

    6. The writer especially liked / didn’t really like / had no opinion about Javier Bardem’s performance.

    The writer recommends Skyfall only to / especially to / to everybody except people who like
    7.
    action films.

    8. The writer thinks the film is interesting / funny / exciting until the very end.

    2. Check your writing: gap fill – film review vocabulary


    Complete the gaps with a word from the box.

    soundtrack role plot set

    characters stars performance scene

    1. The film Iron Man 3 star Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.

    Voldemort in the Harry Potter films is played by English actor Ralph Fiennes. It was not an easy
    2.
    Characters to play because he had to wear lots of make-up.

    Jennifer Lawrence became a huge star after her excellent performance in The Hunger
    3.
    Games.

    The Hunger Games soundtrack contains some wonderful music and was produced by rock legend
    4.
    T-Bone Burnett.

    5. Life is Beautiful is set in Italy in 1939.

    Looper has a very complicated plot involving time travel, and it is quite difficult tofollow the story
    6.
    at some points.

    7. Scriptwriters sometimes create role who are based on people they have met.

    8. In the opening sceneof Skyfall, Bond accidentally gets shot by his partner.
    Writing skills practice: Skyfall film review – exercises

    3. Check your writing: gap fill – how to write a film review


    Complete the gaps with a word from the box.

    aspects plot paragraphs

    recommendations opinion structure

    A film review should be well organised with a clear structures. One way ofdoing this
    is to divide your review into four paragraphs.

    The first paragraph can be quite short and contain your brief overall aspects
    of the film. You will explain this opinion in later paragraphs. Also give some basic facts
    like the names of the actors and the year of release.

    The second paragraph can be a summary of the 4plot , but make sure youdon’t give
    away the ending.

    The third paragraph can be your opinion of various 5recommendations of the film such
    as the acting, the music, the special effects and the script. You can praise or criticise
    them.

    The final paragraph should include your 6opinion . Should people watch thisfilm? Give
    reasons why or why not. You can also suggest who the film would most
    appeal to, for example teenagers, people who like action films or fans of spy films.

    Discussion

    What films have you seen lately? What did you think of them?

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