Cover of the textbook Performer B1, Vol. 1

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Workbook 11 - Films and music for the textbook Performer B1, Vol. 1 with authors Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella e Margaret Layton from Zanichelli

Question

Read the sentences about different films and match them to the genres.

Answer

  1. It’s winter and a family arrives at an isolated hotel, where the father mysteriously becomes violent and dangerous. (a thriller)
  2. The owner of a bookshop casually meets a film star and they fall in love. (a romantic comedy)
  3. A small Hobbit, called Frodo, receives an ancient Ring – the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron – and starts an epic journey to the fantastic Cracks of Doom to destroy it. (a fantasy film)
  4. A team of archaeologists is investigating a mysterious heat increase under the ice of an island near the Antarctic when two extraterrestrial species, the Predators and the Aliens, start to fight. (a science-fiction (sci-fi) film)
  5. After the death of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his son Commodus orders the imprisonment of Marcus’s trusted general Maximus and condemns him to the gladiator games. (a historical/costume drama)
  6. Johnny and Barbara drive to a rural Pennsylvania cemetery to place flowers on their father’s grave. They soon discover that pale people in a murderous, trance-like state are surrounding the place. (a horror film)
  7. The king of all lions, Mufasa, has a baby called Simba. Mufasa’s brother, Scar, gets angry because he is no longer next in line to the throne. (an animated film / a cartoon)
  8. Bond’s loyalty to M is tested when past events come back into her life. While MI6 comes under attack, 007 must find and destroy the enemy, even if the personal cost is high. (an action/adventure film)
  9. On a colourful Greek island, with ABBA songs as a background, a young woman finds out that Sam, Bill or Harry might be her father. She invites all three to her wedding. (a musical)
  10. Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1887: William Drayton, once an expert gunman in the Civil War, has lost his wife and home. He moves to the high country because he wants to be left alone. (a western)

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