CONTENTS
UNIT 1 | The seventh art Grammar point: Wh-questions in the past Vocabulary: Film industry Cultural Spot: Lupita Nyong’o
UNIT 2 | On the news Grammar point: Past simple and present perfect simple Vocabulary: News and Media Cultural Spot: Halima Aden
UNIT 3 | The way I live Grammar point: Discourse markers Vocabulary: Lifestyles Cultural Spot: Queen Rania of Jordan
UNIT 4 | The power of relationships Grammar point: Modal verbs of possibility (may and might) Vocabulary: Relationships Cultural Spot: Desmond Tutu
UNIT 5 | What does the future hold? Grammar point: Will and going to for predictions Vocabulary: Future predictions Review
UNIT 1 | THE SEVENTH ART 1) Look at the following posters. Do you think there is any difference behind their productions?
a)
b)
c) Image credits: a. Marvel Movies; b. Imp awards; c. A Rose for Freddy website.
2) Match the images with their corresponding movie industries. (
) 1. Bollywood
(
) 2. Hollywood
(
) 3. Nollywood
(
) The United States
3) From which country is each of the previous movie industries from? (
) Nigeria
(
) India
READING 4) Read the article about Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry.
Inside Nollywood, the booming film industry that makes 1,500 movies a year In 1992, after years of watching only imported American, Indian or Chinese films, Nigeria’s local film industry had its first real hit, “Living in Bondage,” a straight-to-video dramatic thriller. (…) Many mark the film as the unofficial start of Nigeria’s home-grown film industry, dubbed “Nollywood,” which produces an incredible 1,500 or more movies a year — vastly more than Hollywood, and second in number only to India’s film industry, Bollywood. Today, Nollywood films are available globally on cellphones, Netflix and YouTube, and on streets across Africa. In her new book “Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire,” journalist Emily Witt argues that Nollywood is positioned to become a global brand much like the films of Bollywood or kung fu movies. This despite the many obstacles filmmakers might face: electricity cuts, fuel scarcity, political instability and more. Just a decade after “Living in Bondage”, Nollywood films, made in some 300 languages, were being watched in both urban and rural areas, distributed on both the streets and online, and finding their way into international festivals. ELIZABETH FLOCK: Why did you want to write about Nollywood? EMILY WITT: Columbia Global Reports asked me to do it, but I had done a Fulbright in Mozambique, and had written about cinema there. I had encountered Nollywood movies for sale. I watched a few of the movies, and they were unlike anything I had seen before. There were elements of a soap opera but they were much crazier than that, the production values were often very poor, and yet they were very popular.
Nollywood is now the world’s second largest film industry in terms of number of films produced. How did this happen, and in such a short period of time? The industry came out of an extremely difficult time in Nigeria where all the movie theaters closed, state television networks couldn’t pay anybody and the currency had tanked so they couldn’t import movies anymore. Out of that they started shooting movies on VHS and copying and distributing them on the street because the hunger for local entertainment was so strong. There’s also a strong tradition of theater and storytelling in Nigeria — it’s a literary powerhouse. And there’s something unique about Nigeria in the sense that it has a really strong sense of cultural pride. Nigerians just like Nigerian stuff better than from other places.(…)Nigerians also saw an opportunity to create content that has black people in it, instead of [those colonialist narratives]. And Hollywood and Bollywood, the world’s two other biggest film industries — are those films being watched in Nigeria too? Bollywood is popular in the Hausa community [a community in Northern Nigeria, who are mostly Muslim]. (…)Hollywood is everywhere. What I found interesting, but not surprising at all, is what you usually saw for sale, or even on a movie or on TV, is — I’ve never seen so much Danny Glover as sitting in bars in Nigeria. Hollywood has ignored black people for so long, and so the movies that get shown in Nigeria, that people buy, they have black actors. The pirated stuff I saw there was “Empire”, “Scandal”, or a show with Viola Davis. And “Game of Thrones” too, but definitely more movies with African American actors.
Available at <https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/inside-nollywood-the-booming-film-industry-that-makes-1500movies-a-year>. Accessed on August 10, 2018.
5) Answer the questions according to the text from activity 4. a) When was the official start of Nigeriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s film industry? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________
b) According to the journalist Emily Witt, what were the elements that impressed her about Nigerian movies? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ c) How did she compare the three biggest film industries, Hollywood, Bollywood and Nollywood? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 6) In the article you have just read there are some underlined words related to the film industry. In pairs, you need to find them and write a definition for each in the box below. You can use an online monolingual English dictionary to help you, in case you need.
LISTENING 7) After watching the first episode of a Ghanaian webseries called An African City, answer the following questions.
Credit: Youtube
a) Why have they returned to their home country? _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ b) How do the girls feel to be back to Ghana? Do they have different points of view? _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________
c) What are the problems of their country mentioned by them? _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________
d) The author of the Ghanaian series was inspired by a famous north-American TV series broadcasted in the 2000â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and filmed in New York City. Can you guess its name? _________________________________________________________________________
8) You are going to make a survey with your classmates about their habits and preferences. Complete the gaps with the appropriate wh-word from the box. One of them can be used twice. You also have to put the verb in the correct tense in order to form the questions. who
what where
Questions
which how
Name:
when how often
Name:
Name:
1. ________________ _ _ _ _ _ _ [is] the types of movies or TV series you watched last month? 2. ________________ _ _ _ _ _ _ [do] you last go to the cinema? 3. ________________ you used to go to the movies with your friends when you _ _ _ _ _ _ [is] a child? 4. ________________ _ _ _ _ _ _ [is] with you when you watched your first movie in life? 5. ________________ _ _ _ _ _ _ [is] your favourite TV series last year? 6. ________________ filmed?
_ _ _ _ _ _ [is] it
7. ________________ _ _ _ _ _ _ [do] you choose the last series you followed? (e.g.: friends, reviews, etc.) 8. ________________ device _ _ _ _ _ _ [do] you use the most to watch? (e.g.: mobile, TV, computer, etc.)
9) Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to stand up, interview the class and fill in the table with the information you find out.
GRAMMAR POINT Wh-questions (past tense) 10) Analyse the table and fill in the gaps with the missing words: Wh-word
_______
How
_______
Verb
Rest of the sentence
Answers
I
arrive
here?
You arrived with your friend. She said you slept in her car.
you
go
yesterday?
I went to my cousinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wedding.
crying
?
Because his girlfriend broke up with him.
did Where
Why _ _ _ / Jamil was What
she / Maria
doing
there?
She was helping her sister.
Which
party
was
better: Holy or the Sunset?
I really enjoyed the Holy party!
we
watch
our favourite series last month?
Oh, I think we watched just three times.
you
supposed to travel
home town?
We were supposed to travel home town two months ago, but I have been really busy lately.
they
talking
to?
They were talking to their friend who lives in Nigeria.
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How did often
When
were Who
11) Did you notice a pattern when forming questions with wh-words? Discuss it with a classmate. Then check with your teacher your perceptions.
12) Create wh-questions for the following sentences considering the bold parts of the answer. a) Samira is not here, she went to her grandmotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house yesterday. _________________________________________________________________________________. b) The flight was delayed because the aircraft had a mechanical failure. _________________________________________________________________________________. c) They missed my birthday because they were travelling on holidays. _________________________________________________________________________________. d) We moved to another city last month. _________________________________________________________________________________. e) My sons were afraid of sleeping alone until they were 10 years old because of the dark. _________________________________________________________________________________.
FINAL TASK You are going to be a journalist interviewing your favourite actor / actress. Take some minutes to think about the questions you want to ask and write them down. When you finish, you will role play with a partner. Then you have to swap places and be the interviewee of a classmate.
CULTURAL SPOT Lupita Nyongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;o
Credit: Miller Mobley
Lupita Nyongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;o is a Mexican-Kenyan actress who won an Academy Award for her performance in 12 years a slave. She is also the star of the superhero movie Black Panther released in 2018.
Make some research about her life in the film industry and write your findings below: _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________
Watch the interview with the actress and answer the questions:
Available at < https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-43090486/black-panther-star-lupita-nyong-o-on-reimaginingafrica >. Accessed on August 10, 2018.
What did she say about what the movie show us?
What type of martial arts influenced her character?
How was the cast of the film according to her opinion?
Can you think of some questions you would ask her?
UNIT 2 | ON THE NEWS 1) Analyse the sentences. Where do you think they were extracted from?
Migrants left for a better life. Now they fight for a better Romania Shahira Yusuf: 'I have always felt beautiful' Source: The Guardian. Available on: <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/22/romania-migrant-diaspora-protestpolice-crackdown-corruption>; <https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2018/sep/02/shahira-yusuf-i-have-always-felt-beautiful->. Accessed on September 4, 2018.
2) What type of resources can we use to get information? With a partner, write some ideas in the box.
3) Now share your opinion with the whole class. Your teacher will write all the ideas on the board. Has anyone brought a different resource? If so, add to your list.
LISTENING 4) We live in a world where information is surrounding our life all the time. How do you choose and filter what you see, read and listen? Watch the video about how to choose our news.
Extracted from: TED-Ed. Available on: <https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-choose-your-news-damon-brown#review>. Accessed on September 5, 2018.
a) What is the recommendation the video says on how to deal with our anxiety in events such as terrorist attacks or natural disasters? ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________
b) Which words were used to differentiate when the person is sharing an opinion instead of a fact? ________________________________________________________________________________
c) How do you choose the information you consume? Discuss with a classmate. 5) In the video you heard lots of words related to the world of news and journalism. Divide them into the appropriate categories. articles
breaking news
broadcast
cable news
censor information
coverage
magazine
mainstream sources
mass media
narratives
news
newscasters
newspapers
radio shows
reporter
speech
Written source
Spoken source
People
Way of sharing information
6) Now write some sentences using the words from the previous activity about your opinion on how you deal with the news.