BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)

Pre-watching activities:

1. Read the text about Robert Zemeckis, the director of the trilogy Back to the future, and retell main facts of his life using these dates:

1952

1978

1984

1994

Born on 14th May 1952 in Chicago, Robert Zemeckis first began shooting 8mm movies when still in school, making short films before going first to the Northern Illinois University then switching to the famous University of Southern California (USC). Zemeckis' first feature was 1978's I Wanna Hold

Your Hand, which he wrote and directed. It brought him to Steven Spielberg's attention. Spielberg called the film "highly stylised" and began working with Zemeckis on movie ideas. From that small story about The Beatles going to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, he moved on to direct and co-write Used Cars, from an idea by Spielberg.

His co-writer on Used Cars was Bob Gale and it was the beginning of numerous successful collaborations, with the exception of the script they wrote (with John Milius) for Steven Spielberg's 1979 bomb 1941.

After directing the hit Romancing the Stone in 1984, Zemeckis reunited with Gale for Back to the Future. The film marked the beginning of Zemeckis' now trademark style of working on films with impressive special effects that have some substance along with the style.

In the next five years, he scored massively at the box office with Back To The Future Part II and Part III and the seamless mix of live action and animation that was Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

After the minor blip ofDeath Becomes Her in 1992,his greatest box office of the 90s came with Forrest Gump, a film which won him the Best Director Oscar for 1994.1997's Contact received mixed reviews but his latest film What Lies Beneath broke the $100,000,000 mark in the USalone, while his next film, the desert island drama Cast Away was shot in two parts to allow actor Tom Hanks to lose weight for his role as a lone survivor.

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2000/10/13/robert_zemeckis_article.shtml.)

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7.Doc asked Marty to bring some plutonium to their meeting.

8.Einstein became the first time traveler.

9.Doc inputted the destination time. It was November 5, 1950.

10.The flux capacitor made time travel possible.

Episode 2. In 1955

4. Restore the sequence of events:

1.Marty saved his father but was hit by his grandpa’s car.

2.Marty found Doc in the past.

3.George McFly poked Biff when he came to the car.

4.Doc and Marty brought a time machine to the lab.

5.Marty met his father in the cafeteria.

6.Lorraine followed Marty and found out his address.

7.For the first time George McFly and Lorraine kissed at the dance hall.

8.Marty saw Lorraine at his grandfather’s home.

9.Marty taught Biff and Biff’s car hit a manure truck.

10.Marty was accepted as a space alien by one family.

Episode 3. The returning

5. Answer these questions:

1.How did Doc know about terrorists and save his life?

2.Where did Doc decide to travel on his time machine?

3.How was Marty’s family future changed?

4.What was Marty’s father’s first novel about?

5.What did Doc offer to Marty and Jennifer?

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Post-watching activities

6. Who or what do these words refer to?

Words for information:

Time machine, bolt of lightning, skateboard, life preserver, TV set, plutonium, science fiction stories, a letter, night dance club, Biff, George McFly, Marty.

1.He is a peeping Tom.

2.Do you have a ……? Yes, we have two of them.

3.That’s the place where they kiss for the first time.

4.What’s that thing he is on?

5.You are safe and sound now back in good old 1955.

6.I came here in a ………. that you invented.

7.It says here that a………………. is going to strike the clock tower at 10.04 p.m. next Saturday night.

8.Isn’t he a dreamboat?

9.I guessed you are a sailor. That’s why you wear that……..

10.I am sure that in 1985 ………. is available in every corner drugstore but in 1955 it’s a little hard to come by.

11.What are you writing?

12.You leave her alone.

13.Who is that guy?

14.Your life depends on it.

15.I finally invent smth that works!

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BACK TO THE FUTURE II (1989)

Pre-watching activities:

1. Remember main events of the first film. The following is a summary of the first part. Put the lines of the summary in the correct order.

DeLorean back to 1985. Marty returns to his family Saving from terrorists Marty displaces into 1955 Lorraine from his courting on the night of the father, mother and Doc Brown. Marty has prevented but finds Biff instead. George hits Biff

and finds some happy changes in their life.

On the morning of October 25, 1985 Marty McFly 1 in a time machine. There he meets his young

his parents from meeting and has jeopardized his school’s dance. Unexpectedly Biff appears near their car, pulls Marty from it. George arrives as planned to rescue Lorraine from Marty,

and goes with Lorraine to the dance floor siblings’ and his own existence. In order to make where they kiss for the first time, assuring

his parents fall in love, Marty wants George to rescue Marty's existence. Doc sends Marty and the

meets his friend Doc, who invented a time machine

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2. Match the words and the definitions:

Episode 1. In 2015

3. Is the statement true or false? Correct the wrong statements.

1.Marty and Jennifer went to the future to help their children.

2.The fuel for the time machine is nuclear substances.

3.In the future Marty was to meet with Griff and to accept his offer.

4.In the café 80’s Marty meets his father and Biff Tannen.

5.Having disguised as his son Marty rejected Griff’s offer.

6.Angry Griff and his friends try to overtake Marty and as a result Griff cuts into a lorry with wastes.

7.Old Biff observed two of Marty and a flying car and followed Doc Brown and Marty.

8.Jennifer from the past gets to her future house and watches her future children.

9.Marty McFly accepted the Needle’s offer and his boss promoted him to the top position.

10.In the future Marty bought presents to all of his relatives.

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11.Biff seized the time machine, took a trip to 1985 and gave himself the almanac.

12.Doc and Marty took Jennifer from the house and returned to 1955.

Episode 2. In 1985

4. Complete the phrases:

1.When Marty returned home he found himself in …

2.Marty knew that Biff had made his fortune ….

3.His mother reported Marty about death… and that time she was a wife of…

4.Marty went to the cemetery and there he met…

5.Dr Brown told Marty that in the time machine he found …

6.They guessed that Biff became…. because he might have known all the race results from the sports…

7.Biff told Marty that old man took him that book on November 12th and said to him to beware of…

8.Biff wanted to shoot Marty but he was saved by…

Episode 3. In 1955

5. Find the appropriate answer:

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Post-watching activities:

6.Who or what do these words refer to?

1.Where we're going we don't need roads.

2.Well, you're safe and sound now. Back on the good old 27th floor.

3.Are you, chicken? That's it, isn't it? Nothing but a little chicken.

4.It was given to use with the explicit instructions that it be delivered to a young man with your description....

5.I see. And what have we here? Homework, Tannen?

6.He says he's my distant relative. I didn't see any resemblance.

7.Oh my God, it's your father.

8.Marty! He is in the same place

he's been for the past 12 years. Oak Park Cemetery.

9.It's the top of his cane.

10.- I am young. - I am old.

Words for information: Jennifer, George, Biff, the future, almanac, Marty, the letter.

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BACK TO THE FUTURE III (1990)

Pre-watching activities:

2. Find the synonyms of the words and translate them into Russian:

To recall, to blast, toodle-oo, layout, festivity, vehicle, to chase, yellow, jail, to vanish.

Words for information: good bye, prison, to pursue, to explode, coward, model, to disappear, to remember, machine, celebration.

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While-watching activities:

Episode 1. In 1955

3. Find the appropriate answer:

1. How could Marty know that Doc had lived in 1885?

A)Doc had said him about his future life by the time the scientist disappeared.

B)Doc sent Marty the letter from the past.

C)Doc sent Einstein to prevent Marty that he would be in the past.

D)Doc left his scientific diary with detailed instructions for Marty in his own house.

2.Why couldn’t Doc return from the past and take Marty to home? A) The time machine was destroyed by the bolt of lightning.

B) He married and had a big family in the past.

C) He broke down the car because it disrupted the space-time continuum. D) The time machine was damaged but its repair was impossible because of lack of necessary replacement parts.

3.What was the name of Doc’s dog in 1955?

4. Where did Doc find out himself after a temporal displacement from

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Episode 2. In 1885

4. Restore the sequence of events:

1.Clara understood that Doc didn’t lie to her; she overtook the locomotive and joined Doc.

2.In the cave Marty met a bear that made him run off.

3.Buford Tannen caught Marty and wanted to hang him.

4.Doc and Marty hijacked the locomotive.

5.Doc and Marty took out the time vehicle from the cave.

6.Finding Doc’s shop Marty went to the saloon.

7.Doc confessed Clara that he was from the future but she banished him.

8.The blacksmith saved Marty from hanging.

9.Tannen was arrested.

10.Marty was found unconscious by Seamus McFly.

11.Buford Tannen shooted at Doc on the festival but Marty blocked the bullet by Frisbee plate.

12.Clara went to the Doc’s shop to ask him to repair her telescope.

13.Marty used a firebox door from the stove as a bulletproof vest and won Tannen.

14.Doc saw a riding wagon without control and saved a teacher whose name was Clara Clayton.

Episode 3. In 1985

5. Answer these questions:

1. How was the time machine destroyed?

2. How did Marty avoid an automobile accident?

3. What were the names of Doc’s sons?

4. What present did Doc give to Marty?

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Post-watching activities:

6. Who said this phrase in the film? Describe the situation.

1.See you in the future.

2.You are safe and sound here now at the McFly farm.

3.Hey, Will. So you are my great grandfather… the first McFly born in America.

4.I hate that name. Nobody calls me Mad Dog!

5.Oh, thank you, sir, you saved my…life.

6.Remember that word – discipline.

7.Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one. Both of you.

8.Hey…Frisbee. Far out.

9.It’s a science experiment! Stop the train before you hit the switch track up ahead.

10.Well, it’s destroyed. Just like you wanted.

11.Prepare to meet your maker, blacksmith.

12.Excuse me, Mr. Eastwood, I just need to take your measurement.

13.I had a brother. Martin used to let men provoke him into fighting. He was concerned that people would think him a coward if he refused.

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BAMBI (1942)

Pre-watching activities:

1. Do you know who Bambi is? Originally, he is the main character of a well-known novel. Read the following information from Wikipedia.

Bambi, A Life in the Woods

First edition cover of the original Austrian release

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Bambi, a Life in the Woods, originally published in Austria as Bambi. Eine Lebensgeschichte aus dem Walde, is a 1923 Austrian novel written by Felix Salten and published by Paul Zsolnay Verlag. The novel traces the life of Bambi, a male roe deer, from his birth through childhood, the loss of his mother, the finding of a mate, the lessons he learns from his father and experience about the dangers posed by human hunters in the forest. Considered to be one of the first environmental novels published, an English translation by Whittaker Chambers was published in North America by Simon & Schuster in 1928. The novel has since been translated and published in over 20 languages around the world. Salten released a sequel,

Bambis Kinder, eine Familie im Walde (Bambi's Children), in 1939.

The novel was well received by critics and is considered a classic. It was adapted into a theatrical animated film, Bambi, by Walt Disney Studios in 1942, two Russian live-action adaptations in 1985 and 1986, and a stage production in 1998. A ballet adaptation was written by an Oregon troupe, but never released. Janet Schulman released a children's picture book adaptation in 2000 that featured realistic oil-paintings and many of Salten's original words.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambi,_A_Life_in_the_Woods.)

Tell about main facts of this novel’s history using the dates:

1923

1928

1939

1942

1998

2. Translate these words into Russian:

To wake up, cute, a quail, to hop over, a clover, bashful, stiff, a fella, hush.

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While-watching activities:

Episode 1. The birth

3. Answer these questions:

1. What happened in the forest?

2. Why was the hare called Thumper?

3. What was the name of a newborn deer?

4. What was the first Bambi’s word?

5.Who was called a pretty flower?

6.Why did they go home earlier?

Episode 2. Walk to the meadow

4. Complete these sentences:

B: Mother, what we are going to do …? M: I am going to take you to the ….. B: Meadow? What’s the meadow?

M: It’s a very …… place.

B: Then why haven’t we been before? M: You weren’t ….. enough.

B: Mother, you know what? M: What?

B: We are not the only …… in the forest. M: Where did you …. that?

B: ……. told me.

M: Well, he is all right. There are many deer in the forest …….. us. B: Then why I don’t ever …… them?

M: You will sometime. B: On the meadow?

M: Perhaps. …… now. We are almost there. B: The meadow!

M: Wait, Bambi, wait. You must never …. out on the meadow.

There might be …….. . Out there we are unprotected. The meadow is wide and …. , there are no trees or bushes to hide us, so we have to be very careful. Wait here. I’ll go out first. If the meadow is safe, I’ll …. you.

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Episode 3. The meadow

5. Find the appropriate answer:

1. What did hares eat on the meadow?

Episode 4. Winter

6. Underline the correct word:

1.In winter the water is stiff / cold that’s why you may skate on it.

2.Thumper and Bambi saw a hibernating mole / skunk.

3.Bambi complained to his mother of the hunger / cold in winter.

4.Friend Owl / Great Prince of the forest found Bambi after his mother’s death.

Episode 5. Spring

7. Is the statement true or false? Correct the wrong statements.

1.Bambi prevented Owl from sleeping.

2.Bambi met his old friends Thumper and Flower.

3.Thumper went with his friends and left his doe.

4.Bambi lost the fight with other deer.

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There is no translation for the verb to be twitter-patted in dictionaries. After watching this episode try to translate the verb.

Episode 6. Fire in the forest

8. Restore the sequence of events:

1. Bambi saved Faline from dogs.

2. Many people came to the forest.

3. Bambi was injured.

4. Bambi and Faline met after fire in the forest.

5. Fire started in the forest.

6.Faline waited for Bambi on the island in the middle of the river.

7.The great Prince helped Bambi to run out of the forest.

Episode 7. Happy family

9. Fill in the missing words:

1.All hares woke … up.

2.Flower called his son ….. .

3.In … Faline gave birth to … .

Post-watching activities:

10. Who or what do these words refer to?

1.Pretty, pretty flower!

2.Why was everyone still when he came on the meadow?

3.Mother, look! What’s all that white stuff?

4.Hello, Bambi! Don’t you remember me?

5.Listen! He’s coming!

6.Look! Two of them!

11. Retell all Bambi’s biography from the third person.

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