ACTIVITY 1: THE PLOT.
Kate and Charlie wanted to get married and buy a
house. They were about to fly to Paris but Kate was afraid of flying. When he
arrives, he fell in love with another woman, Juliette, and Kate decided to go
there. On the plane she met Luc, a French man and they talked all the flight.
When they landed, Kate was still sleeping when Luc, put a plant with a stolen
necklace in her bag. They separate each other and Kate went to his
ex-boyfriend's hotel. She couldn't get the room of him so she decided to sIt
down in a sofa. After a few minutes, a strange man sat with her. They started
to talk and suddenly Kate saw Charlie with Juliette going down on the lift,
immediately she fainted. When she woke up her bags weren't there, just Luc was
there. She described that strange man to Luc and he recognized him, so they
went to his house (It was important for Luc because his necklace was still
there).When they were there the strange (Bob) said that he had given Kate's
clothes to his girlfriend but Luc found the plant. Luc and Kate separated again
but when Luc opened the plant his necklace wasn't there. He thought that it was
still in Kate's bag. Then Kate took a train and Luc too, they were going to
Nice(where Charlie and Juliet were). He was trying to look into her bag all the
time. In a Kate’s dream, accidentally they kissed. The next morning they sat
together to have breakfast and Kate reminded that she is lactose intolerant so
they had to stop because she felt ill. She threw up all the food and it was
still two hours for the next train. Meanwhile they were waiting for the train,
they went around Luc's town. There, she discovered that he is in trouble with
his brother (he stole his wallet and run away) and he wants to buy a wine yard,
but first had to sell a thing, which he had lost, the necklace. They had lunch
in there too. Then, they returned to the train and Kate showed him that she had
it. They arrived to Nice and when they were going to have lunch Kate saw
Charlie with Juliette and her family, planning their wedding. She met them at
the beach and sit to talk with them too, including Charlie. Suddenly, when Kate
sat on a bank a police told her that the necklace was stolen, so she had to
give to them. That same night, she met Charlie for dinner and Luc met Juliette,
every couple went to a room and kissed, but Kate said no and Luc too. Then Kate
went to Cartier to take her money and there she gave the necklace to the
police. After, Kate gives the money to Luc and says that that money was the
price of the necklace.
Kate decided to return to Canada, but Luc goes to the plane to met her
and say that he wants her with him, in France. Then, with the money they bought
a house in front of the wine yard that Luc wanted to buy. They lived their
lives together.
ACTIVITIE 2: THE CHARACTERS.
1.-Write a description of every character:
Charlie(Timothy Hutton)
Kate(Meg Ryan)
Luc Teyssier (Kevin Kine)
Juliette (Susan
Anbeh)
Others:
Bob(François Cluzet)
Inspector Cardon (Jean Reno)
CHARLIE:
Charlie sometimes was an idiot, because he abandoned her. He was
apparently a gentleman but in fact he was a rude man. He was a brown-haired
man.
KATE:
Kate is sensitive too. Sometimes she was a little surly with Luc because
she didn’t know him. She had blond short hair and she was a blued-eyes woman.
We could see that she was stubborn because she fight for her love.
LUC:
Luc was strange French man and had a moustache. Although that, he was a
friendly and sensitive man because he helped Kate to get a solution about the
problem with her and his boyfriend.
JULIETTE:
Juliet was the new girlfriend of Charlie. She was very pretty and young,
but sometimes hysterical because of Charlie. She was a brown-haired woman.
2.- Compare Charlie-Luc and Juliette-Kate:
CHARLIE-LUC:
Charlie was Canadian and Luc was French. Charlie didn't have a moustache
and Luc had it. They both abandoned Kate in some moment, but finally Luc could
be with her. Both were gentlemen. Charlie was going to marry and buy a house
with Kate(they didn’t do it) , and Luc did it. Charlie had short brown hair and
Luc had a bit longer than Charlie.
JULIETTE-KATE:
Kate was a blond-haired and blue-eyed woman and Juliette was a
brown-haired and brown-eyed woman. Kate was quite short and Juliette was longer
than her. Both were a bit hysterical and get out with Charlie at different
times. For us, Juliette was prettier than Kate. Both were planning to marry
Charlie. Both kissed Charlie and Luc.
Vocabulary:
Rot-podrit
Fester- infectat
Hillside- vessant
Swear- jurar
Fiancé-nuvi
Charming- encantador
Citizenship- ciutadania
Spotted- tacat
Fainted- desmaiar-se
Gamble- jugat
ACTIVITIE 3: imagine you are one of the characters.
Hello! I'm Kate and I'm a
Canadian woman, this is my story:
I was planning to marry and
buy a house with my ex-boyfriend, Charlie, when he went to France without me
because I was afraid of flying. There, she met another girl, Juliette, and they
fell in love with each other, so, me and Charlie broke up. I decided to go
there to find them but in the plane I met Luc, a French man and immediately I
thought that it met was love at the first-sight. Then, when we arrived at
France, we met each other and he helped me to find Charlie and Juliet. I
discovered a lot of thing of him, his family, his place, his dream... When I
found them sometimes, I decided to let Charlie alone and do my life in Canada,
but when I was at the plane trying to go, Charlie came and pleased me to stay
with him in France. We were in love and we carried out his dream, buy a vineyard
and live together.
THE ROLEPLAY
L: OK. So I try to understand.
L: He tells you he has met this woman.
L: No, this... goddess.
L: He breaks your heart. He Hu...
K: Hurts me. Humbles me.
L: Humiliates you.
K: Humiliates me.
L: OK, and then you come here to Paris so that he can do it again but this
time right in your face.
K: No, No. I come to Paris to 67get back the man that I love. Is that so
hard to understand, even for a person like you?
L: OK, and meanwhile his lover...
K: Don’t ever use that word again.
L: This bastard woman,
L: she’s feeling something else, maybe?
K: Once he saw me,
myself, moi, everything, would change, the spell would be broken.
film podcast
Our podcast.
