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At the Cinema

A night at the cinema in English: real photos of what you see and eat there, then tickets, kinds of film, and the words you hear before and after the film. For A2 learners.

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The questions

  1. 1

    What are these?

    Answer: Seats (chairs)

  2. 2

    For some films, you wear these so the pictures jump out of the screen. What are they?

    Answer: 3D glasses

  3. 3

    What is this snack?

    Answer: Popcorn

  4. 4

    What is this old machine?

    Answer: A film projector

  5. 5

    Where do you buy tickets at the cinema?

    • At the box office
    • In the car park
    • In the toilets
    • On the stairs

    Answer: At the box office

  6. 6

    Your ticket says Row H, Number 12. What does the H tell you?

    • Which door you go in
    • Which floor you go to
    • Which line you sit in
    • Which screen your film is on

    Answer: Which line you sit in

  7. 7

    Where do you sit to be closest to the screen?

    • In the back row
    • In the front row

    Answer: In the front row

  8. 8

    A film that makes you laugh is a ___.

    • Action film
    • Comedy
    • Documentary
    • Horror film

    Answer: Comedy

  9. 9

    A film about real animals or real people, with true facts, is a ___.

    • Documentary
    • Musical
    • Romance
    • Western

    Answer: Documentary

  10. 10

    What kind of film has spaceships, robots, and the future?

    • Musical
    • Nature documentary
    • Romantic comedy
    • Science fiction

    Answer: Science fiction

  11. 11

    In which kind of film are the characters drawings or computer pictures?

    • Action
    • Animation
    • Musical
    • Romance

    Answer: Animation

  12. 12

    Before the film starts, you see short clips of films that are coming soon. What are they?

    • Credits
    • Posters
    • Subtitles
    • Trailers

    Answer: Trailers

  13. 13

    The list of names at the end of a film is the ___.

    • Credits
    • Programme
    • Subtitles
    • Trailers

    Answer: Credits

  14. 14

    Words at the bottom of the screen that translate what people say are ___.

    • Credits
    • Headlines
    • Subtitles
    • Trailers

    Answer: Subtitles

  15. 15

    What should you do with your phone when the film starts?

    • Call a friend
    • Switch it off
    • Take photos of the screen
    • Turn the sound up

    Answer: Switch it off

  16. 16

    The first films had no sound. What were they called?

    • Empty films
    • Quiet films
    • Silent films
    • Still films

    Answer: Silent films

  17. 17

    What do Americans usually call a film?

    • A game
    • A movie
    • A play
    • A song

    Answer: A movie