Работа с песней skyfall
учебно-методический материал по английскому языку на тему

Skyfall is the official theme song

to the James Bond film of the same name.

Written by ADELE and Paul Epworth.

Listening

                                         Task 1. Follow the clues and complete the gaps

This is the  (opposite to “beginning”)___________________
Hold your  (to take air into your lungs) ______________and count to ten 
Feel the (the planet that we live on)_______________ move and then 
Hear my (body organ)_________________ burst again 
For this is the end 
I've drowned and  (Past Simple of “dream”) _______________this moment 
So overdue, I owe them 
(Past Simple of “sweep”)_____________ away,

I'm (the third form of “steal”)__________________ 

Task 2. Unscramble the words.

Let the sky fall, when it  ______________ (mlucserb)
We will _______________(asdtn) tall 
And ______________(afec)  it all _______________ (gteohttre)

At sky fall 
At sky fall 

Task 3. Put the lines in the correct order.

_______Where worlds collide and days are dark 

_______But you'll never have my heart

_______Skyfall is where we start 

_______You may have my number, You can take my name 

_______A thousand miles and poles apart 

Task 3.  Put the words in each line in the correct order.

Grammar and Vocabulary

Adele to perform Bond theme “Skyfall” live at Oscars

Put the words in brackets in the correct form. 

British singer Adele 1. (RETURN)      _______________________ to the stage next month after a year 2.(ABSENT) ___________________to perform  her Oscar – nominated song “Skyfall” at the 85th Academy Awards.

The theme tune to the latest James Bond movie 3.(WRITE)    ______________________   by Adele and Paul Epworth. It is the first Bond theme  4.(NOMINATE)__________________________ for the original song award at Oscars since “For Your Eyes Only” in 1981.

The February 24 show  5.(BE)___________________ Adele’s first live 6.(PERFORM)______________________ since the Grammy Awards last April and the first time she will perform “Skyfall” live, as she 7.(KEEP)____________________ a low profile since giving birth to a son last October.

“It’s an honour to be nominated and terrifyingly  8.(WONDER)_________________ to be singing in front of people who have captured my imagination over and over again,” Adele said in a statement. “It’s something I’ve never experienced and probably only ever will once!”

She was in Hollywood last month to pick up the Golden Globe for the 9.(GOOD)_________________ original song prize for “Skyfall”.

Adele’s album “21” scored the rare feat in December of topping all US album  sales for the 10.(TWO)__________________  straight year.               (from  wzid.com )

Skyfall –review     ( from The Guardian )

Complete the sentences with missing parts (A- J)

Fifty years ago this month, the first James Bond movie, Dr No, opened at United Artist’s West End showcase, (1). United  Artists no longer exists as a major production company and the cinema became a shopping arcade a quarter of a century ago, but the franchise goes on. (2), the final credits confidently tell us there will be a new Bond film soon.

(3), the Bond  series is now a British institution with a global reach greater than our former empire, and the latest addition  Skyfall, was given its world premiere not in a movie house but at the Royal Albert Hall.  In certain senses, (4), not only in its predominant use of UK locations but in its relationship to national traditions. The patriotic opening ceremony of this summer’s Olympics sealed the pact between Buckingham Palace and showbusiness when the current Bond, Daniel Craig, (5), concluding with a parachute jump into the Olympic Stadium. It is now virtually impossible to look at Bond’s superior, M, as other than a stand-in for the Queen, especially as the regal Judi Dench came to the Bond series after impersonating Elizabeth I and Victoria. M seems now  a code letter for majesty.

(6), challenged only by the 2006 Craig version of Casino Royal, which was at last able to draw on the text of Ian Fleming’s first and best novel. It has two of the same writers who worked on Casino Royal  and the last Bond picture, the disappointingly  frenetic  Quantum of  Solace, and also they’ve invented their scenario, it is true to Fleming  and the series while making  interesting additions. Returning to Britain to work  on it are director  Sam Mendes, (7), and the outstanding British cinematographer Roger Deakins, (8),  principally  for the Coen  brothers, but also for Ron Howard and Mendes.

(9), motorcycle and train in Turkey which ends with the serious, tight –lipped Bond failing to retrieve a list of MI6 ‘s special agents around the world and plunging down  a gorge  as precipitous as the Reichenbach Falls. A somewhat premature verdict of missing presumed dead is announced, but, (10),  somewhat  depleted, only to be dispatched to find the ludic villain who has penetrated MI6’s computers and planted a bomb that wrecks a whole floor of the department’s Millbank HQ.                                

1. ______Though produced by children of the American who launched Dr No
2. ______The movie begins with a protracted chase by car
3. ______was  accompanied on a mission by the Queen
4. ______like Holms, he returns
5. ______all of whose pictures have been made in America
6. ______The 23rd canonical Bond picture is possibly the best
7. ______it is more British than ever
8. ______who’s been working for years in the States
9. ______the London Pavilion in Piccadilly Circus, a former  Victorian music hall
10. ______For the first time in more than a decade

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