Books and films: genres

Curriculum topic

Grade

Grade 8

Subject

Английский язык

Term

3

Lesson

№ 49

Learning objectives

• 8.4.1.1understand the main points in texts on a growing range of unfamiliar general and curricular topics, including some extended texts
• 8.5.1.1planning, writing, revising and checking text-level work on general and academic topics with minor support

Sample questions

1. 1
   What do we call a category of books or films, such as comedy, horror or fantasy?

   a character a genre a plot a title
2. 2
   Which genre describes life in the future, with robots and space travel?

   biography fairy tale historical novel science fiction
3. 3
   In which genre does a detective solve a crime?

   a comedy a detective story a documentary a romance