【正文】 . . . . Examiner:How often do you go to the cinema?Jemma: Unfortunately we don’t have a cinema near us so we have to go into the nearest town to catch the latest movie… I usually avoid seeing popular boxoffice hits which I’m not always keen on seeing … I prefer lowbudget films … scifi especially … and there’s a great cinema I go to that has frequent showings of films like these …Examiner:Do you prefer reading books or watching films?Louisa: I’m not really a big reader… I find books quite heavygoing … so I much prefer to see a film … perhaps it’s the special effects or the soundtrack … I don’t know … I just prefer a film …Part 2style taskDescribe a book you have read or a film you have seen. You should say: what this book or film was when you read or saw it why you decided to see the film or read the bookand say if you enjoyed it and why.Pauline I like reading … especially English novels… it’s a great way to improve your vocabulary and there are so many fantastic authors to choose from … one book that came highly remended by my teacher was The Mayor of Casterbridge … I was studying at a school in The UK at the time and she said it would give me a picture of what life was like years ago in the area I was living … well I have to say I absolutely loved it … it was a real pageturner… it’s a historical novel and the setting was a fictional town called Casterbridge … but actually it was based on a town near where I was studying called Dorchester … it had such a great plot … to cut a long story short it tells the story of the downfall of a man called Henchard the central character who lives during a period of great social change around the time of the industrial revolution … the reason I enjoyed it so much … apart from the great story … it gave me a picture of what life had been like in the place I was studying at the time … I really couldn’t put it down … a fantastic story …Part 3style questionsExaminer:Is reading as pleasurable in digital format?Alise: Personally I prefer reading a paperback or hardback… especially if I’m reading a classicwhich I don’t think feels right as an ebook … but I can see it can be good for others … my grandmother has an ereader and she loves the way you can enlarge the text …Examiner:Do you think bookshops will survive the digital revolution?Thomas: I think so… at least I hope so … I love flicking through books in a bookshop … online shopping is useful … finding out on Amazon if a book you want has got a good review … maybe getting one that is difficult to find … but I still love the experience of being in a bookshop …Examiner:Statistics show that visits to the cinema are up despite the availability of DVDs and online downloads. Why do you think this might be?Jamie: I think it’s the whole experience that the cinema offers… going out to see a film when it goes on general release… and seeing iton the big screen is more exciting than watching the film at home on TV … especially if it’s an action movie … and watching it with others makes it even more special …Definitionsan action movie: a film with fast moving scenes, often containing violencto be engrossed in: to be pletely focused on one thing bedtime reading: something to read in bed before you go to sleep to be a big reader: someone who reads a lot to be based on: to use as a modal a box office hit: a financially successful film to be heavygoing: difficult to read a blockbuster: a film that is a big mercial success to catch the latest movie: to see a film that has just e out the central character: the main person in a film or book a classic: of the highest quality to e highly remended: to be praised by another person couldn’t put it down: wasn’t able to stop reading a book an ebook: a digital book an ereader: a device for reading ebooks to flick through: to look quickly through a book to get a good/bad review: to receive positive or negative feedback to go on general release: when a film can be seen by the general public hardback: a book with a rigid cover (see ‘paperback’ below) a historical novel: a story set in the past a low budget film: a film made with a small amount of money on the big screen: at the cinema a page turner: a book that you want to keep reading paperback: a book with a flexible cover (see ‘hardback’ above) plot: the main events in a film or book to read something from cover to cover: to read a book from the first page to the last scifi: science fiction to see a film: to see a film at the cinema (see ‘watch a film’ below) the setting: where the action takes place showings: performances of a film soundtrack: the music that acpanies a film special effects: the visuals or sounds that are added to a film which are difficult to produce naturally to take out (a book from the library): to borrow a book from the library to tell the story of: to outline the details of someone’s life or an event to watch a film: to watch a film on TV (see ‘to see a film’ above)1. Do you like to watch the sky? 2. What is the sky like at night in your hometown? 3. Do you like to watch stars? 4. Have you ever taken a course about stars? 5. Is it important to study stars? 6. What’s your favourite star?Yes, I am really into watching the sky especially at night to count the countless stars when I was a kid. I remember I sometimes laid down in the grass for hours to watch the shining stars when in summer because I was fond of imaging the folk stories about the stars.Well, as my hometown is a tourism city and there is no any industrial pollution, the sky is always clean and clear, and I can see the stunning night sky with countless and glittering stars and sometimes