A. Read the text and give it a title. What do you think the marked words in the text mean? What helped you to understand their meanings: a) the way they look and sound, b) the context, c) both? Yesterday I took my younger ...

A. Read the text and give it a title. What do you think the marked words in the text mean? What helped you to understand their meanings: a) the way they look and sound, b) the context, c) both? Yesterday I took my younger sister to the cinema to see “Matilda”. It is a fairly old children’s film. I can say it is a family film too because I think grown-ups can enjoy it as much as children. The film appeared on the screen in 1996. Its director was Danny DeVito, a famous American actor, who starred [sta:d] in the film. Мага Wilson played the leading role, that of Matilda. David Newman wrote music to the film. “Matilda” is truly enjoyable. It is a grip¬ ping and moving film. You love every minute of it. It is a modern American screen version1 of Roald Dahl’s novel of the same name. Matilda Wormwood (Mara Wilson) is a very clever and talented girl. One of the great things about her is her love of books. Her family do not understand her and are not interested in her or her wishes. Her fa¬ ther, who sells old cars, refuses to buy her books. Matilda feels very lonely. At the age of four she takes matters in her own hands and be¬ gins to visit the library and read lots of books. Though Matilda is too young she asks her parents to send her to school and in the end they agree to do it. At school quite unusual things begin to happen. Matilda finds out that she can move objects. These wonderful telekinetic powers help her to punish the terrible and violent School Head Miss Trunchbull who terrorizes pupils. In the film Matilda believes that when a person is bad, he or she deserves to get a lesson. There are two types of grown-ups in “Matilda”. Mr and Mrs Wormwood, the girl’s parents, and the Trunchbull, as the children call her, are not pleasant people. They are rather cruel and uncaring. Matilda’s teacher, Miss Jennifer Honey, is, by contrast, kind and she quickly discovers Matilda’s intellectual gifts. The girl develops a warm friendship with Miss Honey. I think “Matilda” is one of the best films I have ever seen. The actors’ performance is fantastic, the special effects are great, the music is nice. But the most important thing about the film is that it is thought-pro¬ voking2 and helps to develop our imagination and to understand the world around us better.