WANNA CATCH A FLICK?

WANNA CATCH A FLICK?

A. Can you name the movie below? See how much information for each movie do you come up with.(Title, Genre, Director, Stars , Plot)
B. DIFFERENT MOVIE GENRE/MOVIE TYPES
( Can you think of an example for each movie genre?)
amnesia film horror science fiction
black comedy love triangle slapstick comedy
buddy film mistaken identity slasher film
coming of age film prison film tearjerker
dialogue-driven film puppy love unrequited love
historical drama road film
C. Vocabulary Enrichment
Did you know that the movie BOBBY is based on the real life of John F. Kennedy.
I heard that Julia Roberts used a body double for shots of her legs in PRETTY WOMAN.
Gene Hackman is my favorite character actor.
I don’t want to see Thelma and Louise. It’s a chick flick. Let’s go see Star Wars.
A lot of people didn’t like the movie Angels and Demons because the plot was hard to follow.
I don’t have time to listen to all your excuses. Just cut to the chase and tell me where your homework is.
I thought the ensemble cast in the movie OCEAN’S 11 did a wonderful job.
Those scenes in outer space in ARMAGEDDON were kind of far fetched.
I didn’t like all the blood in the movie SAW. It was too gory for me.
Leonardo DiCaprio became a megastar after Titanic.
I find that the sequel is not usually as good as the original.

D. Speaking Activity: Questions for Discussion
1. If someone made a movie of your life, who would you choose to play you?
2. Can a movie be a good source of knowledge? Do they promote a better understanding of the world?
3. If you had the chance to be in a movie, what role would you like to play? Who would you like to star with?
4. Do you think movies are too violent these days? Too commercial?
5. Do you think foreign movies have influenced Korean culture? In what ways?

Vocabulary
pardon = [pahr-dn] forgiveness of a serious offense or offender.
former = [fawr-mer] preceding in order; being the first of two. The former president of South Korea.
convicted = [kon-vikt] to prove or declare guilty of an offense, esp. after a legal trial.
evasion = [i-vey-zhuh n] to escape or avoid something
bid = [bid] to invite
host = [hohst] a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere
granted = [grahnted] to give or accord; bestow
raised = [reyzd] to bring up or ask
yield = [yeeld] to give in, to give up
prominent = [prom-uh-nuh nt] leading, important, or well-known: a prominent citizen.
urging = [urj-ing] to endeavor to induce or persuade, as by entreaties; entreat or exhort earnestly
bidding = [bid-ing] to offer (a certain sum) as the price one will pay or charge: They bid $25,000 and got the contract.
against = [uh-genst] in opposition to; contrary to; adverse or hostile to: twenty votes against ten; against reason.

South Korea pardons Samsung's ex-chief Lee Kun-hee
The South Korean government has decided to pardon the powerful former chairman of Samsung, convicted for tax evasion, the justice ministry has said.
Lee Kun-hee is to be pardoned so he can return to the International Olympics Committee and help South Korea's bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Mr. Lee was pardoned on a separate funding conviction in 1997.
Presidential pardons are often granted to leaders of South Korea's large, family-owned businesses or "chaebols".
"This decision was made so that Lee could take back his place at the International Olympic Committee and form a better situation for the 2018 Olympics to take place in Pyongchang," justice minister Lee Kwi-nam told reporters, following a cabinet meeting that approved the latest pardon.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency said the pardon raised questions about the rule of law in a country where family-run chaebols still yield a lot of power.
Mr. Lee, 67, is widely regarded as the country's most prominent businessman. Trade lobby and sports groups had been urging the president to pardon him, Yonhap reported.
South Korea has tried two times so far to host the Winter Olympics in the mountain resort of Pyongchang, and is bidding again, against Munich in Germany and Annecy in France.

Giftgiving

I. Vocabulary
drawers = [drawr] a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out or pulled in order to gain access to it.
cobble = [kob-uh l] type of coal in lumps larger than a pebble and smaller than a boulder.
winding up = [wahyn-ding] leading to.
present = [prez-uh nt] gift
ornament = [awr-nuh-muh nt] an accessory, article, detail or any thing used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part.
premises = [prem-is es] a building together with its grounds. examples shop, store, school.

If your drawers are packed with the ghosts of Christmases past in the shape of unwanted gifts, a new Slovenian shop may be just the thing for you this year.
On a narrow cobbled street winding up to a mediaeval castle overlooking the Slovenian capital, Darilnica (the Gift Shop) opened this month as a place where Christmas, birthday, anniversary, indeed gifts of any kind, can be exchanged for something you do want.
Four young women - three architects and a public relations expert - decided to open the shop to make people think before giving presents, particularly at Christmas.
"People get and give too many presents nowadays so we believe there is a need for a shop where you can exchange gifts, so that every present gets an owner who will find good use for it," one of the four women, Masa Cvetko, told Reuters.
She was wrapping up an ornament, a crystal cross that one of the customers got at her wedding a few years ago. She never liked it and eventually brought it to the shop, where it was exchanged for a piece of soap someone else brought in.
"We set no price on the presents, one can take anything we have in exchange for any present they bring and there is no money involved," Cvetko said.
"We hope to make people think before giving a gift and make them give presents that mean something, that have a symbolic, personal value," she added.
Each present is put in a box, wrapped up neatly and placed under a large Christmas tree while its photo is put on the wall so people can choose presents from the photos.
In the first week since opening some 200 presents have been exchanged but more are expected to come in after Christmas and New Year, so the shop will stay open until January 8.
The women running the shop are not paid for their work and the premises were made available to them by the local community free of charge.

III. Comprehension

1. What did you think of the story?
2. Do you think people just give gifts without thinking about it?
3. Is opening a shop where people can exchange their gifts a good idea or bad idea? Why?

IV. Discussions

1. What was the best gift you received?
2. Describe to me your ideal gift.
3. Does a gift need to be expensive to be beautiful?

V. Essay

What do you think about this quote:

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. “?

Annabel Lee

by: Edgar Allan Poe



It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love -
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulcher
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me
Yes! that was the reason
(as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we
Of many far wiser than we
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In the sepulcher there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

The Chaos

The Chaos, by Charivarius (Gerard Nolst Trenité)
The Irregularities of English Spelling and Pronunciation

Composed by Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité (1870-1946), a Dutch author and teacher, "The Chaos" illustrates many of the irregularities of English spelling (orthography) and pronunciation.

This is a classic English poem containing about 800 of the worst irregularities in English spelling and pronunciation

The Chaos

Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far; One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation's OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour And enamour rhyme with hammer. River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succour, four. Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion and battalion. Sally with ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary. Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface. Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. Large, but target, gin, give, verging, Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. Ear, but earn and wear and tear Do not rhyme with here but ere. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation -- think of Psyche! Is a paling stout and spikey? Won't it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits? It's a dark abyss or tunnel: Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough- Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is to give it up!!!

Let's Face It. English Is a Stupid Language.

A friend of mine e-mailed this to me and I had a good time reading the post.
It's a funny commentary where the author describes the ambiguities of the English language.
Enjoy!

Let's Face It. English Is a Stupid Language
by: Anonymous

There is no egg in the eggplant,
No ham in the hamburger
And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.
English muffins were not invented in England,
French fries were not invented in France.

We sometimes take English for granted, but if we examine its paradoxes we find that:
Quicksand takes you down slowly,
Boxing rings are square,
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

If writers write, how come fingers don't fing?
If the plural of tooth is teeth,
Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth?
If the teacher taught,
Why hasn't the preacher praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables,
What the heck does a humanitarian eat?
Why do people recite at a play,
Yet play at a recital?
Park on driveways and
Drive on parkways?
How can the weather be as hot as hell on one day
And as cold as hell on another?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language where a house can burn up as it burns down,
And in which you fill in a form
By filling it out
And a bell is only heard once it goes!

English was invented by people, not computers,
And it reflects the creativity of the human race
(Which of course isn't a race at all.)

That is why:
When the stars are out they are visible,
But when the lights are out they are invisible.
And why it is that when I wind up my watch
It starts,
But when I wind up this poem
It ends.

Tongue Twisters

Tongue Twisters - A word or group of words difficult to articulate rapidly, usually because of a succession of similar consonantal sounds, as in Shall she sell seashells?

Saying tongue twisters out loud will help ESL students in their pronunciation and accent.

Fun Facts About Tongue Twisters:

The hardest tongue twister according to the Guiness Book of World Records is the
"The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick."

William Poundstone, American author, columnist and skeptic said that the hardest tongue twister in the English language is the
"The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us."

List of tongue twisters you can read, practice and enjoy.

Bobby Bippy bought a bat.
Bobby Bippy bought a ball.
With his bat Bob banged the ball
Banged it bump against the wall
But so boldly Bobby banged it
That he burst his rubber ball
"Boo!" cried Bobby
Bad luck ball
Bad luck Bobby, bad luck ball.
Now to drown his many troubles
Bobby Bippy's blowing bubbles.

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Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze
Freezy trees made these tree's cheese freeze
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

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Catcher watches the pitcher who pitches the balls
Whether the temperature's up or the temperature's down, the nature watcher, the catcher and the pitcher are always around.
The pitcher pitches, the catcher catches and the watcher watches.
So whether the temperature's rises or whether the temperature falls the nature watcher just watches the catcher who's watching the pitcher who's watching the balls.

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As he gobbled the cakes on his plate,
the greedy ape said as he ate,
the greener green grapes are,
the keener keen apes are
to gobble green grape cakes,
they're great!

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Betty bought a bit of butter
But she said, "This butter's bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter."
So Betty bought a bit of better butter to make her bitter batter better.

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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

But if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Were they pickled when he picked them from the vine?
Or was Peter Piper pickled when he picked the pickled peppers
Peppers picked from the pickled pepper vine?

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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much wood as he could,
and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

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Suzie, Suzie, working in a shoeshine shop.
All day long she sits and shines,
all day long she shines and sits,
and sits and shines, and shines and sits,
and sits and shines, and shines and sits.
Suzie, Suzie, working in a shoeshine shop.

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She sells seashells by the seashore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells by the seashore.
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

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If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker,
It's slick to stick a lock upon your stock,
Or some stickler who is slicker
Will stick you of your liquor
If you fail to lock your liquor with a lock!

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Once upon a barren moor
There dwelt a bear, also a boar.
The bear could not bear the boar.
The boar thought the bear a bore.
At last the bear could bear no more of that boar
that bored him on the moor, and so one morn he bored the bore - -
That boar will bore the bear no more.

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A bitter biting bittern bit a better brother
bittern, and the bitter better bittern bit the bitter biter back.
And the bitter bittern, bitten,
By the better bitten bittern,
Said: "I'm a bitter biter bit, alack!"

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You've no need to light a night-light
On a light night like tonight,
For a night-light's a slight light
And tonight's a night that's light.
When a night's light, like tonight's light,
It is really not quite right
To light night-lights with their slight lights
On a light night like tonight.

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I need your needles, they're needless to me;
For kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see;
But did my neat knickers need to kneed, I then should have need of your needles indeed.

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Untwirling the twine that untwisteth between,
He twirls, with his twister, the tow in a twine;
Then twice having twisted the twines of the twine,
He twitcheth the twice he had twined in the twain.

The twain that in twining before in the twine,
As twines were untwisted he now doth untwines;
Twist the twain inter-twisting a twine
He, twirling his twister,
Makes a twist of the twine.

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If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors?
Or does he doctor the doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?

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Tommy, Tommy, toiling in a tailor's shop.
All day long he fits and tucks,
all day long he tucks and fits,
and fits and tucks, and tucks and fits,
and fits and tucks, and tucks and fits.
Tommy, Tommy, toiling in a tailor's shop.

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There once was a man who had a sister, his name was Mr. Fister.
Mr. Fister's sister sold sea shells by the sea shore.
Mr. Fister didn't sell sea shells, he sold silk sheets.
Mr. Fister told his sister that he sold silk sheets to six shieks.
The sister of Mr. Fister said I sold six shells to six shieks toos!

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Amidst the mist and coldest frosts,
with stoutest wrist and loudest boasts,
he thrusts his fist against the posts
and still insists he sees the ghosts.

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Sister Suzie sewing shirsts for soldiers
Such skill as sewing shirts
Our shy young sister Suzie shows
Some soldiers send epistles
Say they'd rather sleep in thistles
Than the saucy, soft short shirts for soldiers Sister Suzie sews.

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I cannot bear to see a bear
Bear down upon a hare.
When bare of hair he strips the hare,
Right there I cry, "Forbear!"

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What to do to die today at a minute or two to two.
A terribly difficult thing to say and a harder thing to do.
A dragon will come and beat his drum Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-too
at a minute or two to two today.
At a minute or two to two.

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A Tudor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?"

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King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb.
A thousand thistles King Thistle stuck in the thistle of his thumb.
If King Thistle stuck a thousand thistles in the thistle of his thumb,
How many thistles did King Thistle stick in the thistle of this thumb?

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Ed Nott was shot and Sam Shott was not.
So it is better to be Shott than Nott.
Some day Nott was not shot. But Shott says he shot Nott.
Either the shot Shott shot at Nott was not shot, or Nott was shot.
If the shot Shott shot shot Nott, Nott was shot.
But if the shot Shott shot shot Shott, the shot was Shott, not Nott.
Howerever, the shot Shott shot shot not Shott - but Nott.
So, Ed Nott was shot and that's hot! Is it not?

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Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown, the successful thistle-sifter,
while sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb.
Now, if Theophilus Thadeus Thistledown, the successful thistle-sifter, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb, see that thou, while sifting a sieve-full of unsifted thistles, thrust not three thousand thistles through the thick of my thumb.

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A fly and flea flew into a flue,
said the fly to the flea 'what shall we do?'
'let us fly' said the flea
said the fly 'shall we flee'
so they flew through a flaw in the flue.

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Fresh fried fish,
Fish fresh fried,
Fried fish fresh,
Fish fried fresh.

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I'm a sheet slitter.
I slit sheets.
I'm the sleekest sheet slitter
that ever slit sheets.

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Suzie, Suzie, working in a shoeshine shop.
All day long she sits and shines,
all day long she shines and sits,
and sits and shines, and shines and sits,
and sits and shines, and shines and sits.
Suzie, Suzie, working in a shoeshine shop.

Tommy, Tommy, toiling in a tailor's shop.
All day long he fits and tucks,
all day long he tucks and fits,
and fits and tucks, and tucks and fits,
and fits and tucks, and tucks and fits.
Tommy, Tommy, toiling in a tailor's shop.