U5 W4 The Birth of the Movies

Thomas Edison invented film that moved past light. What happened as a result?

• Sound was matched to film.

• Films became a social event.

• Filmed objects became visible.

• Things appeared to be moving.

Which sentence from the text describes this result?

• A few years later, in 1889, Thomas Edison developed a machine called the Kinetoscope.

• When people watched, it seemed as if filmed objects and humans were moving.

• Only one person at a time could watch the film, but viewers were amazed, and the Kinetoscope soon became very popular.

• In France in 1895, the Lumiere brothers created a machine that could take movies and show them, too.

Why did going to the movies become a social activity?

• People could view films in groups.

• Movie theaters became very large.

• People liked going to films with sound.

• People enjoyed looking through the zoetrope.

Draw a line to match each word from the text with the meaning of its Greek root.

What happened when film studios began to promote actors and actresses?

• Producers made better movies.

• Actors and actresses became movie stars.

• Movies started to be shown on television sets.

• Actors and actresses started to work on stage.

Read the sentence from the text: 'Since the very first days of the moving picture, audiences have been entranced by the ability to watch dramatic stories on the screen. The word dramatic comes from the Greek word dramatikos, which means 'having to do with plays.' What does this show about the stories in this sentence?

• They are on a stage.

• They give an opinion.

• They tell about history.

• They include a performance.

Complete the chart below to show causes and effects. Choose the correct causes and effects from the list below and write them in the chart.

Read the sentence from the text: "The mechanism that heated the air and inflated the balloon was a fire of burning straw." The Greek root of mechanism is mech, which means "machine." What does a mechanism relate to?

• A) how the balloon works

• B) what the balloon looks like

• C) how it feels to be in a balloon

• D) the people who invented the balloon

For what has the hot-air balloon been used?

• daily traveling

• exploring space

• weather experiments

• learning about geology

Part A: Read the sentence from the text. Soon there was nearly an epidemic of hot-air balloonists trying to see how far up they could soar. The word epidemic includes the Greek root dem, which means "people." What does this say about an epidemic?

• People cannot fix it.

• It affects many people.

• It is hard for people to find.

• People have it inside of them.