Unit9 Read the following sentences aloud, paying special attention to the liaison. The constant sunshine and mild climate of southern California made it an ideal site for shooting motion pictures. Hollywood’s fame and fortune reached its peak in the 1930s and 1940s, the golden days of black and white movies. 1. 2. Reading aloud Pre-reading Activities -Reading aloud1 Reading aloud Audiovisual supplement Cultural information He started as a stunt rider, and from there rose to be one of the great stars of the early Westerns. A star who was a hit as a cowboy or a bad guy got the same kind of role again and again. Yet Hollywood has not lost all its glamour. 3. 4. 5. Pre-reading Activities -Reading aloud2 Reading aloud Audiovisual supplement Cultural information 1. Quote Fred Allen: You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood,place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart. Cultural information Cultural information 1 Reading aloud Audiovisual supplement Cultural information Cultural information 2 2. Hollywood Hollywood is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California—situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonymy of American cinema, and is often interchangeably used to refer to the greater Los Angeles area in general. The nicknames “StarStruck Town” and “Tinseltown” refer to Hollywood and its movie industry. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as the Westside neighborhood, but significant auxiliary industries, such as editing, effects, props, post-production and panies remain in Hollywood, as the backlot of Paramount Pictures does. Reading aloud Audiovisual supplement Cultural information Cultural information 2 Reading aloud Audiovisual supplement Cultural information Many historic Hollywood thea
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