Vocabulary

an advertisement for a film or a television or radio programme, consisting of short parts taken from it

• short story

• thriller

• trailer

a group of the most successful or famous people, companies, or organizations

• A - list

• A - line

• heroes

box office is

• the place in a theatre or cinema where you buy tickets

• money from ticket sales, used as a way of measuring the success of a performer, film, or public event

• a number you can give for people to communicate with you instead of your address, especially in advertisements

to defend or support a particular idea or a person who is being criticized or attacked:

• Stand down for something/someone

• stand up in something/someone

• stand up for something/someone

to give completely your energy, time, etc. to something

• give up

• dedicate to

• dedicate for

a piece of writing in which the words are arranged in separate lines, often ending in rhyme, and are chosen for their sound and for the images and ideas they suggest

• poem

• short story

• novel

a book in which very frightening or unnatural things happen, for example dead people coming to life and people being murdered

• horror book

• horror fiction

• horror film

a traditional story written for children that usually involves imaginary creatures and magic

• fairy story

• fairy lady

• fairy tale

a book, play, or film that has an exciting story, often about solving a crime

• thriller

• trailer

• classical novel

the life story of a person written by someone else

• story

• autobiography

• biography