# Cinema and Theater

## Common Expressions

* go to the cinema
* the cinema can hold (500) people
* the theater was packed / full
* the cinema was half-full / almost empty
* a seat at the cinema / theater

## Expressions with film

* see a film at the cinema
* (a film) is showing at the cinema

## Expressions with theater

* see a play at the theater
* (the play) ran at the theater for years

## Exercises

### Common Expressions

1. The new James Bond film is now showing at cinemas around the country. - d
2. We saw a play by Shakespeare at the National Theater last week. - a
3. We're going to the cinema to see the film, Hours. Do you want to come? - e
4. There were plenty of seats in the cinema. It was only half full. - b
5. The biggest theater in town can hold about 850 people. - c
6. I managed to get us the best seats in the theater. -g
7. The play the Mousetrap ran for years and years at the Old Vic theater. - f

## Notes

1. Note the expressions:

   What's on at the cinema/ theater tonight?
2. A multiplex[^1] cinema is a place with several small cinemas in one building:

   There's a new multiplex cinema in our town with 20 screens.
3. Note these different kinds of theaters:

   1. All the students were in the lecture theater, but no lecturer arrived.
   2. The patient was taken to the [operating theater](#user-content-fn-2)[^2] for an emergency operation.

[^1]: 多厅影院

[^2]: 手术室