Invalsi Training 3 CERT Rileggi il testo e rispondi alle
Task type: Reading – Short open answers
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Read the text and answer the questions 1-6. The first one (0) is an example.
1 What is a ‘smart house’? 2 Who is Alexa? 3 What can it do? 4 What is one of the most common uses for Alexa? 5 Which apps can it sync to? 6 What does a ‘smart home hub’ do?
Animated Films
Listening 34 Ascolta L’intervista a un’esperta 4
di realtà virtuale e decidi se le frasi sono True (T) o False (F).
1 Virtual reality is a two-dimensional environment. 2 You can experience virtual reality through sight and sound. 3 The simplest form of virtual reality is a 3D image. 4 A virtual reality headset has two small lenses. 5 3D audio can also enhance the experience of virtual reality. 6 Virtual reality is just for video gaming.
Writing 5 CERT Chiedi ai tuoi genitori quale
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invenzione tecnologica ha cambiato o influenzato la loro vita quando erano ragazzi. Descrivila in un testo di circa 100 parole, includendo:
● what it was ● what it was for ● how it worked ● why they liked it ● if it is still used or how it evolved
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What was the first film you ever saw at the cinema? It was probably an animated film, because they are traditionally made for children, but nowadays people of all ages and tastes enjoy them. Animation is in fact more a film technique than a film genre. But what is animation? Animation works by photographing drawings, illustrations, objects or computer-generated images, frame by frame, to create an illusion of movement when you see them in a sequence. After the first Lumière brothers’ moving picture film at the end of the 19th century, it was soon possible to record sound, and animated films developed quickly throughout the 20th century. Disney was one of the first and most successful animators, creating popular characters such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, but Warner Bros soon followed with Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. Many children’s fairytales have become animated films, like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney’s first full-length animated film released shortly after they developed 3-strip technicolor animation, which films images three times through red, blue and green filters. By the early 1970s, computer-generated films with scripted language were developed, and Pixar’s Toy Story in 1995 was the first full-length 3D computergenerated animation film, with Woody, the toy cowboy, brought to life. Traditional animation uses hand-drawn images transferred onto acetate film, as in Snow White or Pinocchio. Model animation is similar, but uses puppets or clay figures. Each movement is captured on film through stop-motion animation, where the camera is stopped and started to give the impression of movement. A good example of this are the Wallace and Gromit films. 3D animation works a bit like traditional animation, but uses computers to create the effects. Block-buster 3D computer animated films include Avatar, Shrek, Cars, Frozen, Hotel Transylvania and Coco.
0 What does animation try to do? It aims to create an illusion of movement ________________________________________________________ 1 When was the first moving picture film made? 2 Which famous characters were created by Disney and which by Warner Bros? 3 How did 3-strip technicolor work? 4 Why was Toy Story special? 5 Which animation technique is used in Wallace and Gromit films? 6 What kind of animation film is Coco? 373