People have a lot of occasions to entertainment. One of them is going to the cinema. A lot of people prefer the cinema to the theatre, but the number of the visitors of cinema is still lower and lower. I like going to the cinema, but I like going to the theatre too. Both of them are for me very interesting and exiting.
Our expression “kino” denotes in English two things – firstly is it the building in which films are shown and secondly cinema denotes films as an art form or entertainment.
Besides the word cinema are used pictures, movies and flicks. Pictures is British English, movies is American English and flicks is a slang word for cinema.
Cinemas show special films for adults, children and also for pensioners. Very often one cinema has now two or more screen halls. The average of a price one ticket is 100 Crowns. When the film is newer one, you should buy the ticket some hours before because than there is a big queue. But normally is come before half hour and buy the ticket in a box office. Some people like to sit at the back but I usually buy ticket to the middle of the tenth row from where I can see better than from a seat next to the gangway.
We have several types of films. There are feature films, documentaries, cartoons, musicals, thrillers, westerns or comedy, historical, horror, war and action films. Before I decide to go to the cinema, I choose the films very carefully. I don’t like catastrophic films, but some violence and blood don’t embarrass me. I prefer comedies and horrors.
Further films may be silent or sound. Later were films colour or black-and-white.
A foreign film, which arrives in our country, is either dubbed or is given subtitles. I prefer subtitles, because I want to listen actors and learn a foreign language during the film.
An actor or an actress who plays the leading part in a film is called a star. My favourite actor is Eddie Murphy who played in “Dr. Doolitle” or “Policeman from Beverly Hills” and my favourite actress is Whoopi Goldberg who played in “Sister in action” or “Made in America”.
Today going to the cinema is replaced by watching TV. Television was started to be popular in about 1940. In Czechoslovakia was television first presented in 1953. About 1990 people recognized cable TV with many channels.
In the Czech Republic there are two types of financing TV. There are public TVs (ČT1 and ČT2) that are financed by licence paying public and there are commercial TVs (NOVA and PRIMA) that are financed by advertisements.
In Britain there are two important and famous TV-services. There are the BBC (=the British broadcasting corporation) and the IBA (= the Independent broadcasting authority).
Very important in TV are information and they are extended by different news. News are about for example: home and foreign affairs, military or wars conflicts, demonstrations and changes in government, nature, drought, epidemics, culture, earthquakes, tornadoes, violence or strikes. People can watch a lot of TV programmes. In talk shows people talk about personal and private things in their lives. Children can watch cartoons. Men mostly watch sport programmes and women romantic films. I watch TV I think five hours a week. I like documentaries or nature films.
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