Elem 12C
Elem 12C
Elem 12C
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b Test your memory. Cover the questions and look at the answers. Remember the questions.
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T
HE FILMS in The Lord of the Rings trilogy have had a big impact on
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New Zealand. The country has become 'Middle Earth' to many of the
people who have seen the films. This comes as no surprise to the
cat film director Peter Jackson, who is in fact a New Zealander. He chose his
home country because he knew that the variety of different landscapes
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4 dark day far made New Zealand the best place to shoot the films.
I car Jackson and his team looked over the whole country for the most beautiful
and most appropriate areas. The rolling hills of Matamata became Hobbiton,
the village where Bilbo Baggins lives, and the volcanic region of Mount
0 5 money model doctor Ruapehu transformed into the fiery Mount Doom, where Sauron first
clock made the Ring. In total, the team used 150 different locations all over
New Zealand and they spent 274 days filming .
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sites so he needed to get special permission to film here. In some cases,
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a special team dug up the protected plants, and took them to special
U nurseries, where they lived until filming finished . Then the team took them
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bull enormous red carpets to protect the plants in the battle scenes because
there were up to 1,100 people on set every day.
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8 who do go The Lord of the Rings films have been so popular that the tourist industry
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in New Zealand has grown dramatically. Today, tour companies offer
a wide range of tours to different locations of the film,
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including Hobbiton, Mount Doom, and Edoras.
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1 Who directed The Lord of the Rings films?
e 2 Where is the director from?
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3 Why did he choose New Zealand?
egg 4 Which area did they use to create Mount Doom?
5 How many different locations did they use in total?
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6 What was the problem with some of the locations?
train 7 How did they solve the problem?
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5 LISTENING
Listen and check. Listen to an advert for a day trip and complete the notes.
Lnderline the stressed syllable.
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_ expensive 8 August D~partur~ tim~: Christchurch I 9 a.m. Lunch: luxury 7_ __
magazine 9 diffijcuIt fZ~turn tim~: Chnstchurch l _ __ Pric~:
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