Biletul nr. 11 Bacalaureat Limba Engleza

Limba Engleza 1-2 ore/saptamana

SUBIECTUL I

Read the text below and answer the following questions:

1. What do you think about the future of filmmaking?
2. How will the digital revolution work for the benefit of the viewers?

When the Lumiere brothers invented the moving pictures, nobody, not even the inventors themselves, suspected the sophisticated way in which the invention was going to evolve and its huge impact on humanity. Not long before them, Edison himself was thinking that the phonograph he had invented and the moving pictures, an idea he was playing with at the time, were going to turn only into high-class home entertainment for the wealthy. The same happened even later, when John Logie Baird assembled what he called a perfectly useless invention - television. And there is more to come...
The digital revolution is on its way, with its digital pocket-size camcorders and with the new generation of digital VCR's, able to record several channels simultaneously and to render much more accurate images.
Perhaps the most dramatic new digital success is DVD. A huge hit from the very start , DVD delivers movies on a single 5-inch disk with the best video image yet seen in the field and theatre-quality sound.
Could that be true about videogames, too? There are already voices that predict that video and computer games are going to be even more entertaining than movies because they boast interactivity. Although it's hard to imagine how people's emotions could be stirred by unrealistic graphics. But the high profit will drive producers of video games to enter endless competitions.

SUBIECTUL II

What could and what should all of us do to make our town and our country a better place to live in? Give examples to illustrate your ideas.