Action movies

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Lesson aim

Aims: 

- to provide spoken practice

- to identify target language related to action movies which students might already know

Speaking

Discuss the questions below with your classmate.

 - What have been the most popular action movies in your country in recent years?

 - Can you name some famous heroes and villains from action movies.

 - What is your opinion of these types of movies? Explain.

 

Listening

Listen carefully, and then answer the questions below. 

• a. At the start of the trailer, what information does the man give about his family?
  
• b. What does the villain need the woman to do? Why?
  
• c. At the end of the trailer, what theory does the woman express about men?
  
  

At the start of the trailer, what information does the man give about his family?

What does the villain need the woman to do? Why?

At the end of the trailer, what theory does the woman express about men?

Speaking

Discuss the questions below with your classmate.

•  In what way is the story of this trailer typical of the stories represented in action movies?

• Would this trailer convince you to see the movie? Explain.

 

3A& 3B Read the text and decide the correct position (1–5) for the missing sentences. 

Listening

Watch the trailer for the movie Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

a. How does the hero’s little sister feel about the Games?

b. How does the villain threaten the hero?

c. What advice does the hero receive? (there is more than one answer)

What advice does the hero receive? (there is more than one answer)

How does the hero’s little sister feel about the Games?

How does the villain threaten the hero?

Speaking

Discuss the questions below with your classmate.

Look back at the text entitled ‘How to make an action movie’. How many elements from the text were included in this trailer?

• Would this trailer convince you to see the movie? Explain. 

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Do: Ex. 5 

This table contains words to create compound adjectives which describe action movies. Connect the words with a hyphen

to complete the ten sentences