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miércoles, 11 de mayo de 2016

movie: room

Movie worksheet: Room
1) Look up these words in a dictionary:

SHED:  ……………………………… OVERWHELMED: …………………
THREATEN: ……………………….. SUPPLY:  …………………………….
WRAP: ………………………………. STRUGGLE:  ………………………….
GUILT: ……………………………… STRENGTH :………………………….

2) Read the Plot and complete with the missing words.

captives      squalid    afford     reunited     skylight     leaves  bonds    hospital   exists  shut  attempts   carpet although
In AkronOhio, 24-year-old Joy and her five-year-old son Jack live in a …………………..shed they call Room. They share a bed, toilet, bathtub, television, and rudimentary kitchen; the only window is a ……………….., all of which Jack calls by name, as if they were living. They are ……………………… of a man they call Old Nick, Jack's biological father, who abducted Joy seven years prior, and routinely rapes her while Jack sleeps in the closet. She tries to stay optimistic for her son, but is suffering malnutrition and is sometimes overcome with depression. She allows Jack to believe that only Room and its contents are "real," and that the rest of the world …………………….. only on television.
Old Nick tells Joy that he lost his job and threatens he may not be able to ……………….. their supplies in the future. When Joy reacts badly, he cuts their heat and power. Joy decides to tell Jack about the outside world; he reacts with disbelief and incomprehension, but also curiosity. She has Jack fake a fever, hoping that Old Nick will take him to a ……………………… where he can escape, but Old Nick says he will return the following day with antibiotics.
Joy wraps Jack in …………………. and has him play dead in the hope that Old Nick will remove him from Room. Falling for the ruse, Old Nick places Jack in the back of his pickup truck and drives through a residential neighbourhood. …………………. stunned by his first exposure to the outside world, Jack jumps from the truck and attracts the attention of a passer-by. The police arrive and rescue him. Joy is rescued, Old Nick is arrested, and Joy and Jack are taken to a hospital.
……………………. with her family, Joy learns her parents have divorced and that her mother has a new partner, Leo. She returns with Jack to her childhood home where her mother and Leo reside. Her father cannot accept Jack and …………………..  . Jack struggles to adjust to life in the larger world, speaking only to his mother and expressing a desire to return to Room. Joy struggles with anger and depression, lashing out at her mother and ignoring doctor's appointments. She agrees to a television interview, but becomes angry when the interviewer questions her decision to keep Jack after his birth. Overwhelmed with guilt, she ……………… suicide; Jack finds her unconscious in the bathroom, and she is admitted to a hospital.
Jack begins to settle into his new life. He ………………… with his new family and Leo's dog Seamus, and makes friends with a boy his age. Believing his long hair will give Joy the strength she needs to recover, Jack has his grandmother cut it for him so he can send it to her. Joy returns home and apologizes, thanking Jack for saving her life again.
At Jack's request, they visit Room one last time, escorted by police. Jack is confused; their possessions have been removed for evidence, and he feels it has shrunk, and that it is a different place with the door open. Joy asks Jack if he wants her to ………………. the door, but he says no. He and Joy say their goodbyes to Room and leave.
3) Write words that use suffixes and prefixes. 
words with prefixes: 1……………… 2…………………….  3…………………..  4……………….  5……………….  6……………………. 7……………………. 
words with suffixes 1 ………………….2 …………………. 3 ……………………. 4 …………………5…………..…..

4) Write the meaning of these phrases

Joy learns her parents have divorced …………………………………………………………………………………….
She tries to stay optimistic for her son…………………………………………………………………………………….
Overwhelmed with guilt…………………………………………………………………………………………………...
Joy returns home and apologizes…………………………………………………………………………………….
At Jack's request, ………………………………………………………………………………………………….…….
and he feels it has shrunk……………………………………………………………………………………………….