📘 Giải thích tiếng Việt
Chủ đề: Entertainment (giải trí)
Từ vựng về sân khấu, điện ảnh, âm nhạc, hài kịch. Chú ý từ dễ nhầm: play/act/star (đóng vai/diễn/đóng vai chính); scene (cảnh phim) vs scenery (phong cảnh) vs stage (sân khấu); audition (thử vai) vs rehearsal (buổi tập); watch/see/look và listen/hear khác nhau về sắc thái.
Phrasal verbs
take after = giống (người thân lớn tuổi); take off = thành công/nổi tiếng nhanh; put on = trình diễn (một vở kịch); grow on = dần dần thích; let down = làm thất vọng; show off = khoe khoang; count on = trông cậy vào.
Collocation & word patterns
Nhớ theo cụm: make fun of sb (chế giễu), make an impression on sb (gây ấn tượng), take part in sth (tham gia), steal the show (nổi bật nhất), play a part/role in sth. Cấu trúc: apologise (to sb) for sth, avoid doing, bound/supposed to do, talented at doing.
Word formation
Luyện họ từ: act → active, actor, action, activity; entertain → entertaining, entertainment, entertainer; excite → exciting, excited, excitement; vary → variable, various, variety.
Theory
Topic vocabulary in contrast
| enjoy / entertain | scene / scenery / stage | novel / fiction |
| play / act / star | band / orchestra / group | comic / cartoon / comedian |
| audition / rehearsal | review / criticism | watch / see / look |
| rehearse / practise | ticket / fee | listen / hear |
Phrasal verbs
| come (a)round | happen again (for regular events) |
| count on | rely on; trust |
| drop off | fall asleep |
| drown out | prevent a sound from being heard by making a louder noise |
| fall for | believe that a trick or joke is true |
| get along (with) | have a good relationship (with) |
| go down (as) | be remembered for having done something |
| grow on | if sth grows on you, you start to like it more |
| let down | disappoint |
| name after | give sb or sth the same name as sb or sth else |
| put on | hold; perform (a show, play, etc) |
| show off | try to attract people's attention and make them admire you (usually used negatively) |
| take after | look or behave like an older relative |
| take off | become successful or popular very fast |
Phrases and collocations
| fun | have/be fun; make fun of sb |
| funny | find sth funny |
| home | make yourself at home; be/stay at home; go/get/leave home; make your way home |
| impression | give sb the impression; do an impression of sb; have the impression; make an impression (on sb) |
| joke | joke about sth/doing; joke with sb; tell/make/hear/get/understand a joke |
| laugh | laugh at/about sth/sb; laugh out loud; roar with laughter; have a laugh |
| part | take part in sth/doing; be a part of sth; part with sth; have a part (in a play, etc) |
| party | have/throw a party (for sb); give sb a party; go to a party; dinner/birthday/etc party |
| play | play a part/role (in sth); play with sth/sb; play sth; have a part/role to play (in sth); be/act/star in a play; watch/see a play |
| queue | join a queue; in a queue; queue up; stand/wait in a queue |
| show | put on a show; show appreciation (for sth/sb); show sth to sb; show sb sth; on show; steal the show; TV/radio/quiz/game show; show business |
| silence | in silence |
| voice | in a low/deep/high/etc voice; have a good/bad voice; voice an opinion (about sth) |
Word patterns
| apologise (to sb) for sth/doing | like sth/doing; like to do; be like sth/doing; be like sb (to do) |
| avoid sth/sb/doing | promise to do; promise sb (sth); promise that |
| bound to do | prove to do; prove sth (to sb) |
| deserve sth/to do | say sth (to sb); say that |
| enjoy yourself; enjoy sth/doing | supposed to do |
| happy to do sth; happy for sb (to do sth); happy about sth/doing | talented at sth/doing |
| instead of sth/doing |
Word formation
| act (in)active(ly), acting, actor, actress, action, (in)activity | entertain entertaining, entertainment, entertainer | popular unpopular, popularly, popularity |
| amuse (un)amusing(ly), amusement | excite (un)exciting, excited(ly), excitement | say saying |
| bore boring(ly), bored, boredom | fame (in)famous(ly) | suggest suggested, suggestive(ly), suggestion |
| converse conversation | involve (un)involved, involvement | vary (in)variable, (in)variably, varying, varied, various(ly), variation, variety |
| current currently | perform performing, performance, performer |
Exercise A
Choose the correct answer.
Exercise B
Write one word in each gap.
A future pop star?
My little brother, Carl, takes (1) our dad in that they both like to sing. The difference is that Dad's got quite a good voice. Carl can't sing at all! This doesn't stop him, though. He's always singing. He starts as soon as he wakes up, and doesn't stop until he drops (2) at night. I usually get along very well (3) Carl, but he can be a bit annoying when he starts showing (4) . You can count (5) him to do this whenever we have guests. My mum and dad will be talking to some friends, and then suddenly the conversation will be completely drowned (6) by Carl singing at the top of his lungs. The other day, I told him he should be on the radio. For a second he fell (7) it, until I told him that that if he was on the radio, we could turn it off!
Exercise C
Complete using the correct form of the phrasal verbs in the box.
Exercise D
Circle the correct word.
Exercise E
Circle the extra word in each sentence.
Exercise F
Complete each second sentence using the word given, so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence. Write between two and five words in each gap.
Did the concert?
Kelly well in the talent contest.
Concentrate on learning your lines about your costume!
We managed to there early.
Jason us to his party.
I give me the money for the tickets later.
It be late.
Sean the guitar.
You backstage without a pass.
Dan outside the theatre at eight.
I don't think the award for best video.
In the end, it a thoroughly enjoyable evening.
Who the winner?
Exercise G
Complete the text by changing the form of the word in capitals.
Reality shows
Despite the (1) (SUGGEST) by many critics that reality TV would be a very short-lived phenomenon, it is still increasing in (2) (POPULAR). Several reality shows are (3) (CURRENT) watched by millions of viewers each night, and it's clearly a form of (4) (ENTERTAIN) that's here to stay. Indeed, a number of people have become (5) (FAME) because of their (6) (INVOLVE) in reality TV shows, and have gone on to have successful careers as singers, (7) (ACT) or TV presenters. We can watch with (8) (EXCITE) each night the 'goings-on' in the house (or jungle, or bar, or school of arts). The (9) (CONVERSE) between the contestants are interesting so we don't get (10) , (BORE) and there are frequently (11) (VARY) conflicts, which provide further (12) (AMUSE). If the contestants have to give some kind of (13) (PERFORM) at the end of the week, that's even more appealing. But there's a (14) (SAY) in the TV industry: 'it's all in the editing' and this is especially true of reality shows.
