Save Our Cinemas
Listen to this letter from a national newspaper’s Letters Column and see if you can answer the following:
1 What is the old-fashioned word used here meaning ‘film showing’?
2 What may have to shut?
3 Why?
4 Which two groups are mentioned as having often rescued non-profit-making cinemas?
5 What verb is used to mean these two groups ‘joined together’?
6 What two actions did they take?
7 Where did Angus Johnson find the information he quotes?
8 How many grants were awarded, and what were they for?
9 What are the grounds for his two objections to the many grants given to multiplexes?
10 Why is he critical about the way these grants were given out?
11 How does he suggest applications should be considered in the future?
12 What phrase indicates they are really short of finances?