Introduction: Part of speech, vocabulary builder, major steps in acquiring commands in spoken English, American and British English.
Tenses: Present simple, present continuous, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, present perfect continuous, past perfect, past perfect continuous.
Future tenses: Will, shall, going to, present continuous / present simple with future meaning, future perfect, future perfect continuous, the future seen from the past.
Modals: Should and ought to, will, would, used to may, might, can, could, be able to, must, have (got) to needn’t, don’t have to, mustn’t, permission, offers etc.
Linking verbs: be, appear, seem; become get etc. have and have got; have and take; do and take.
Passive: Forming passive sentences using passives, reporting with passive verbs.
Questions: Forming questions. Asking and answering negative questions.
Verbs: Infinitives, -ing forms. Verbs with and without objects.
Reporting: Reporting people’s words and thoughts. Reporting statements, offers, suggestions, orders, intentions etc.
Determiners and quantifiers: some, any, something, somebody, much, many, a lot, all, the whole, both, each, every, no, none, little etc. Quantifiers with or without ‘of’.
Relative clauses: prepositions in relative clauses, particle clauses with adverbial meaning.
Pronouns, substitution and leaving out words: Reflective pronouns, leaving out verbs with auxiliary verbs, leaving out to-infinitives.
Adjectives: position, gradable and ungradable adjectives, adjectives and adverbs, participle adjectives, prepositions after adjectives, adjectives + that clause or to-infinitive, comparison with adjectives.
Adverbs and conjunctions: Position of adverbs, adverbs of place indefinite frequency and time. Degree of adverbs: comment adverbs, viewpoint adverbs, focus adverbs. Adverbial clauses of time, giving reasons, purposes and results, contrasts: although and though; even though, in spite of. Conditional sentences connecting ideas between and within the sentences.
Prepositions: complex examples with at, in, on, across, along, over, through, above, over, below, under, between, among, by, beside, during, for, in, over, throughout, by until, except (for), besides, apart from, but for, about, with etc. Preposition after verbs, word order.
Phrasal Verbs : Three study units and ten lessons about Phrasal Verbs. Through this program you learn more than thousand phrasal verbs.
Idioms & Phrases: Four lessons on idioms and phrases. Over one thousand idioms and phrases spread across the program.
Vocabulary Builder : Four study units and sixteen lessons dedicated to build vocabulary. Throughout this program, you build about 10,000 words. |
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Descriptions and selected dialogues from over 600 movies: Let’s make a movie: How to begin? Types of filmmaking. Getting noticed. Your idea, my idea! Raising money for the movie.
Writing the script: How to start? Plot. Characters. First scenes. Themes and symbolism. Humor. The flow of the storyline. Writer’s block. How to determine your audience. How to end your script.
Dialogues and scenes: References from American Film Institute’s “The 100 greatest American films.” “100 funniest comedies”, “100 most thrilling films”, “100 greatest love stories”, “100 greatest heroes and villains”, “100 greatest movie quotes”.
The crew and Cast: Hiring the crew. Director. Producer. Director of photography. Sound guy. Camera assistant. Production assistant. Casting. Casting call. Casting couch. Auditions. How to feel at ease with actors? How to get your women naked? Set construction, costume design, Location scouting.
Film equipment: Aspect ratio. Film equipments. Sound equipment. Camera. Lens. Zoom lens. Lighting. Insurance. Negotiations. The art of choosing film stock.
Preparing to shoot: Script breakdown. Coverage. Production value. How to trick people into doing work. Seduction on the set. Special effects. Don’t believe everything they say. Talking with actors. The secret of directing actors. How to shoot sex scenes. Film slang.
Film and the other arts: Relationship with other arts like Literature, Painting, Music, Theatre and Photography.
Film Making and Project Management:
Managing complexity: Techniques for fashioning order out of chaos. Managing risks: Identifying, Analyzing and Planning Responses. Building teams with borrowed resources. Selecting projects that will lead to success.
Cost Estimation: Estimating realistic costs, schedules, and specifications to ensure Project success.
Market for entertainment:
The roadshow, the youth picture, the blockbuster. Uncertainty in the marketplace. The development of the contemporary industry structure. Differentiation of product.
Development of Marketing: Changing distribution patterns, awareness marketing, Maintenance Marketing: selling through Music and Product. Merchandising and ancillary tie ins.
Movie Making after the Market Research: The model of market research within the film industry. Determining box-office revenue. Theorizing the positive influences on the box-office gross.
Use of effective communication to improve productivity: Time for communicating, Communicating with groups.
Team management: The benefits of empowerment. Attributes of a leader. Communication and delegation.
Increasing the productivity of the Team: Sharing and communicating goals. Coaching work teams.
Team commitment: Preparation of effective job description. Training. |