Brave Heart

1: What do you know about Scotland?
brainstorming.

Scotland is in the Great Britain, UK. It's on the north.  It is a country.

I know something more about the traditions. I know that skirts who men wear!

HISTORY OF SCOTLAND:

Scotland is trying to be idependent, like Catalonia, and it's probably going to be independent in 2014.  

In January of 2012 they did a referendum to know if people of Scotland wanted the independence, but british govern wasn't agree, although the age for voting in Scotland is of 16 years old. 

At 13th century Scotland fought against british people to get their independence, and they won. It's called the first independence faith. Later, there was another independence faight, at 14th century, but the british won. 

Its divided by the lowlands and the highlands. First, it was conquered by the romans. The capital is Edinburgh. 

Famous people from Scotland: Sean Connery, Evan McGregor, Robert Watson (Wat), Alexander Fleming, 

Scottish celebrations: St. Andrew's Day, Hogmanay, Burns night. The official animal of Scotland is the unicorn. The emblem is the thistle. 

In Scotland there are three            official languages, English, Scots and Scottish Gaelic. Scotland has a population of 5.2 people. It's longer river is Tay. 

FILM: CRASH

CRASH:

• Characters:
• Graham- Ria
• Farhad- Dorri
• Rick Cabot- Jean
• Anthony - Peter
• Dani R- his daughter
• John Ryan- Tom Hanson
• Cameron - Christine
• Chinese - Wife

THE TRAILER:



STEP 1: The introductory monologue pretty much summarizes most of what happens in this movie.  People in L:A: move back and forth in their cars, without any kind of human contact.  They need to collide in order to make that necessary human contact everybody needs.

• Why do you think Crash is the tittle of this film?

-I think Crash is the tittle of this film because it's about 8 different stories which finally become only one. It all happens differently but finally som of the stories finish in a crash, and the others in another. All goes around chrashes in LA. It makes us realize that LA is a distant city, all people are a bit mean. Crash means a shock between something and something else or someone or someone else. 

STEP 2: THE OPENING MONOLOGUE

1. (2.51 – 5.54) Read the opening monologue.

Graham has just crashed.   

The car is now stopped.   

This is what he says:

“It's the sense of touch. Any real city, you walk, you know?, you brush past people. 

People bump into you.

In L.A., nobody touches you.  We're always behind this metal and glass.

I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so that we can feel 

something.”

1.1.*Discuss the meaning of these words.  

 -I think this words mean that LA is a cold city. The people are very rude with everyone aand everyone don't trust with others. All people goes with an idea on their mind and no one wants to share with anyone. This is what I think.

1.2.*How do you think the woman sitting right next to him (the driver) is going to respond to this?

 -I think that maybe she is going to agree and reflect with herself.  Graham has exploded and this is why he is saying this. Anyway, she doesn't response.

1.3.The woman sitting next to Graham leaves the car and goes to where the police ofoficer and the other driver are.  What kind of problem do you perceive in the conversaction you hear?  

Choose one and explain.

-       an age gap problem

-       a racial issue

-       tension due to unsolved problems these two women had before

1.4.Graham goes to where his colleagues are working. 

 What have they found?  

 A shoe and a dead boddie

How does Graham react to that?

He doesn't react but in the end he realises that he was his brother. 

2. (35:01- 36:48) Check the problems these two men are having:

The locksmith doesn’t know how to do his job. False

The locksmith wants to overcharge for his job. False

The locksmith didn’t replace the lock for a new one. True

The store owner doesn’t understand English well enough. True

The locksmith cannot find a way to communicate effectively with the store owner. True

The locksmith has a friend who fixes doors; so, he wants to persuade the store owner to have his door fixed by this friend. False

The store owner has a door lock in his store that needs to be replaced. False

The store owner has a door in his store that needs to be replaced. True

The locksmith doesn’t want to be insulted any more. True

The locksmith leaves without getting any pay. True

The store owner believes he’s been cheated. True

STEP 3: WRITING A SUMMARY

Write down the characters' names
and the different stories in the film.

• Characters:
• Graham- Ria
• Farhad- Dorri
• Rick Cabot- Jean
• Anthony - Peter
• Dani R- his daughter
• John Ryan- Tom Hanson
• Cameron - Christine
• Chinese - Wife

Vocabulari:
epraved-depravat
Corrupt-corrupte
Criminal-Criminal
Degraded-Degradat
Rage-ràbia
Mean-significar
Compassionate-compassiu
Fear-por
Brave- Valent
Insane- dement
Coward- covard
Harm- dany
Despair- desesperació
Guilty-culpable
Enemy- Enemic
Fear- por

Summaries:

• Graham and his partner Ria

-They are Graham, a detective who is black and Ria, his partner, who's white.

Graham had some problems like racism problems with the people of his work. His mother is ill because of the droughts and his brother is a carjacker. Finally, his brother dies. 

• Farhad and his daughter Dori

Farhad is a gun's shop owner who has a daugher, Dori. Dori is working at his gun's shop too. They have a problem with a locksmith and someday someone destroys his shop. He thinks that it has been the locksmith and  he goes to kill him. Finally, he doesn't kill him.

• Daniel Ruiz and his daughter

Daniel Ruiz is an hispanian locksmith who's the one who tried to repair Farhad's door. He had a problem with Farhad and one day Farhad tried to kill him. He almost kill his daughter of 5 years old. Finally everything was allright.

• John Ryan and his partner Tom Hanson

John and Tom are polices. One day, John violates a black girl, Christine, touching her and Tom didn't want to do it. They separate and when the husband of this woman, Cameron, had a problem Tom helped her and when the woman had a problem John rescued her. 

• Cameron and Christine

They are a happy marriage and one day they have a problem with John and Tom, the polices. Then their marriage is not as happier as before the problem but they finally still love each other. They are 'brown' people.

• Carjackers Anthony and Peter

They are both black. They rob a lot of cars including Rick  Cabot and Jean's car. One day they casualy rob Cameron's car, who's like them. They find the police and one of them is Tom. Tom helps Cameron to scape and finally all goes good. They also kill a chinese boy.

• Rick Cabot and Jean

-Rick is the district attormy and Jean his wife. They've been carjacked by Anthony and Peter. They also have a racism problem and this makes Rick reputation goes down, so hi decides to do somthing about it.

• Chinese man and wife

-He'd been hitted by the carjacker's Anthony and Peter and they only drived him at the door of the hospital. The hospital helped him and Anthony robbed his truck. It was full of chinese people.

STEP 4: WRITE THE STORY

• GRAHAM AND RIA

-Graham is a detective from L.A. and Ria is his partner. His story begins with an investigation about a racist crime.  This crime was between a white man, and a black one. The white killed the black but Graham thinks that the black is  guilty. As Rick had a problem with the black carjacker's Anthony and Peter, he decides to make the white man feel guilty to make people see that he is with the black people also. They made blackmail to Graham to say that the black man is innocent including things of the crime historial of his brother. He accepts the conditions and makes what they say. After that, he wents to his mother house and thanks  this we know that she is between droughts. The only thing she asks for is about Graham brother, saying that if he sees him, just tell him to go home. Later, he descovers another crim and he realizes that his brother died. 

BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM

trailer:

worksheet 1: 

BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM

PICTURE 1

This picture shows a girl’s football team celebrating their victory in a football match. They are in a football stadium. I think they are Indian, English, Chinese and African. There are about ten people in the group and all of them are wearing the football uniform except one, who’s wearing a yellow t-shirt. I think they are all between the same ages, between fifteen and seventeen. Their uniforms are red and white. It seems they are all happy and they’re smiling and shouting. I like this picture because is not a sad photo, it’s really beautiful because they are all laughing and celebrating something good, their victory.

PICTURE 2

This picture shows a group of friends playing football in a park. They are all boys and there’s just one girl. They are all Indian people. At the background I can see flats and a wall. There are about seven people and all the boys except two are shirtless. The girl is wearing the uniform of her football team. The girl has the ball and the others are watching her and laughing. I think they are all between the same ages, between fifteen and seventeen, maybe eighteen too. It seems they are really concentrated. I love this picture because it’s gorgeous to see how the girl manages the ball and the boys can’t keep out of her. 

 

Worksheet 2:characters in the film

Jasminder wants to be a professional footballer. Unfortunately, her parents have more traditional ideas about her future.

Juliette(Jules) also wants to be a professional footballer. She plays for women's football team, the Hunslow Harriers.

Jess' parents, Mr and Mrs Bhamra, immigrated to Britain before their children were born. They want their daughters to be proper Indian girls. 

Jules' father Alan supports his daughter's football career. He practices with her and goes to watch her matches. Her mother, Paula, doesn't like it. She wants her daughter to be more feminine.

pinky is Jess' older sister. She is busy planning her wedding to her boyfriend, Teetu.

Joe is the coach of the Hounslow Harriers. He used to play football but a knee injury forced him to stop playing.

Tony is Jess' best friend. He plays football with her in the park. Tony has a secret.

David Beckham is an international football star.

 JESS:

Jess wanted to be like Beckham but her parents didn’t let her play. She finally got her dream. She played to the final and an American scout saw her playing They gave her a scholarship to play on an American Team with Juls, her best friend. Her parents finally accepted it.

JULS:

Juls also wanted to be a professional footballer, and her parents agreed that. They allowed her to do what she liked, but her mother didn't really want it. She played at the final like Jess. The American scout saw her and they gave a scholarship to her too. she went to play to USA with Jess.

worksheet 3: While you Watch

2.1: THE HUNSLOW HARRIERS

Exercise A: Put these events in in the correct order. 

1.Jess and Jules go shopping for football shoes.

2.Jules sees Jess playing football in the park, and asks her to join the Hunslow Harriers.

3.Pinky's boyfriend's relatives see Jess and Jules laughing and hugging, and think she is kissing a man.

4.Pinky has her engagement party.

5.Jess lies to her parents that she has a part-time job, so she can go out and play football.

6.Jess' mother sees her wearing shorts and playing football with Tony's friends, and tells her she's not allowed to play football. 

1.- 5

2.- 2

3.- 6 

4.- 1

5.- 4

6.- 3

Exercice B: Who said what? Match the statement with the person who said it.

1.-'I was married at your age.' Jess mother

2.-'If she's more interested in playing football than chasing boys, well quite frankly I'm over the moon about that.' Jule's father

3.-'Your mother's right. It's not nice. You must start behaving like a proper woman.' Jess' father.

4.- 'No boy's going to want to go out with a girl who's got bigger muscles than him.' Jule's mother

Exercice C: Think about the expectations that Jess' and Jules' families have of them. Make lists of the things that their families and society expects girls to do. Make one list for both girls, and another list for Jess.

Both Jess and Jules, they are expected to:

-To be feminin get married

-Be weaker than a boy

-Football is not for girls

-Do only girl's things

-Don't have bigger muscles than boys.

-Do not play sports. 

-Enjoy shopping

-Find a boyfriend

Jess, she is expected to:

-To be a housewife

-To have a husband

-To marry young

-To create a family

-To wear long clothes without showing her legs

-Get married and a good indian man 

-Cook well

Juls:

-To find a boyfriend

-To wear make-up

-To be more feminin. 

WORKSHEET 3: 2.2 WILL PINKY GET MARRIED?

Exercice A: This section starts with Pinky's wedding being cancelled, because her future in - laws think that Jess was kissing a white man at the bus-stop. Her parents then forbid her from playing football. Put the following events in order.

1.-Jess gets into a fight with another football player.

2.-Jess' father sees Joe and Jess hugging. 

3.-Joe and Jess almost kiss. Jules sees this and becomes jealous.

4.-The Hounslow Harriers go to Germany.

5.-The Bhamras find out Jess went to Germany, and try to make her quit the team.

6.-The wedding is back on again.

7.-Tony tells Jess that he is gay.

8.-Joe goes to the Bhamra's house to try to persuade them to allow Jess to play football.

1-4

2-8

3-3

4-5

1-6

2-7

8-6

Exercice B:Rewrite these paragraphs so they are true. There are three mistakes in each paragraph. 

1.-Pinky blames her parents because her wedding is cancelled. She tells her parents that Jess has stopped playing football . They are very angry and tell her she can't continue to play.

-Pinky blames Jess because her wedding is cancelled. She tells her parents that Jess hasn't stopped playing football. They are very angry and tell her she can't continue to play.

2.-Jules doesn't like Joe. In Germany, Joe and Jess fight. Jules sees this and is upset and jealous. Jules visits Jess' house and they have an argument. 

-Jules likes Joe. In Germany, Joe and Jess nearly kissed. Jules sees this and is upset and jealous. Jess' visits Jules house and they have an argument. 

3.-Pinky is very happy that her wedding is cancelled. She persuades Teetu, her boyfriend, to talk to his friends. Teetu's parents and the Bhamras arrange for the wedding to continue. Unfortunately, the wedding date is the same day as Jess' university exams.

-Pinky is upset that her wedding is cancelled. She persuades Teetu, her boyfriend, to talk his parents. Teetu's parents and the Bhamras arrange for the wedding to continue. Unfortunately, the wedding date is the same day as Jess' final match.

Exercice C: Joe tries to encourage Jess not to give up. When Jess says that her parents want to protect her by not letting her play football, Joe asks her "Whose life are you living?" What does he mean?

-That she is doing what society and her family wants her to do. 

WORKSHEET 3: 2.3 THE FINAL MATCH

Exercice A: Answer the questions.

1.- Why does jess' mother pray to the picture of Babaji? 

-Because she don't want Jess to play football.

2.-How does Jess feel at the start of her sister's wedding? 

-Really sad

3.-Why does Joe go to Jess' house during the wedding?

-Because to play that match he thinks' that is the opportunity of her life.

4.-Why does Mr Bhamra allow Jess to go to the football match?

-Because she's really sad and he know's that is her opportunity to be something.

5.-What does the American offer Jules and Jess?

-A schoolarship.

Exercice B: What happens to these people at the end of the movie?

1.-Jess and Jules

-They went to Sta Clara to play football.

2.-Jules' mother

-She accepts her daughter to play football

3.-Jess and Joe

-They start a relationship

4.-Pinky an her mother-in-law

-They get well

5.-Joe and Mr Bhambra

-Become friends while Jess in EUA.

Exercice C: At the end of the wedding celebration, Jess is sitting in the car with her sister when her sister says "Don't you want all of this?" (a wedding, a husband, etc.). What does Jess mean when she says "I want more than this?"

-The thing that she really wants is to become a football player.

DESCRIPTIONS:

JESS:

Jess is an Indian Girl who always wanted to be a professional footballer like her hero, David Beckham. She is a dark-haired and brown-eyed girl. She’s tolerant and friendly because when she entered to the girls’ team, she immediately went well with the other girls. We also know that she is very sensitive because when she had the problem with her best friend, Jules, she wanted to get a solution. She’s not serious and shy, she’s cheerful and curious. Her hobby is to play football although her family forbids her to do it. She is in love with Joe, her coach. She’s quite short and slim. She has a sister called Pinky.

JULES:

Jules is a British girl, she has no brothers or sisters and she has the same age as Jess. She is playing in a girl’s football team and her passion is to play football. She is in love with Joe like Jess, but Joe isn’t in love with Jules. She is taller than Jess but she’s slim as her. She is a blond-haired and brown-eyed girl. She also wants to become a professional footballer. She is very friendly and generous because she was who tried to introduce Jess at her team with the other girls. She is always active because she always tries to play football with his father. She is a little intolerant and mean because at the beginning, she doesn’t accept that Joe isn’t in love with her, but finally she accepts it. 

JOE:

Joe is a coach of a girl’s football team. He is British. He coaches Jess and Joe; both are in Joe’s football team. He is shorter than Jules and taller than Jess. He can’t play football because of a knee injury. He is generous, friendly and sensitive. He is not really confident with himself. He is usually tolerant, but sometimes he could be intolerant with the girls while they’re training. He’s not very serious, she’s usually cheerful. He is a brown-haired and blue-eyed man. He is in love with Jess. 

 

 

FRENCH KISS

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.

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