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say that if the Jones are allowed to choose the sex of their baby, it could lead to babies becoming consumer items. A spokesman said: “We are totally opposed to engineering the numbers and genders of people in society. That leads only to disaster."

The Jones' lawyers will be basing their arguments on new human rights legislation. Article six guarantees everyone a “fair hearing” from public authorities and Article eight protects the right of everyone to “respect or family life”.

Read the article again. Mark the following sentences true (T) or false (F):

1.The Jones feel they need a baby girl to make their family complete again.

2.At the moment in Britain it is not possible to choose the sex of your baby.

3.New laws on human rights may allow the Jones to choose the sex of their baby.

Discussion

Work in pairs or small groups. In each of the following situations someone is explaining what genetic selection they want to make and why. Decide whether you think they should be allowed to do what they want.

There is a history of red hair in my family. I have red hair and I was badly teased at school. I would like to make sure my child does not have red hair.

I'm a university professor and my husband is a doctor. We'd like to make sure our baby is intelligent.

The male members of my family often suffer from a rare and unpleasant bone disease. I would therefore like to make sure I have a baby girl.

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I suffer from a genetic disease which I inherited from my mother. My children have a one in five chance of having the same gene. Before I start a family, I want to have treatment to make sure I do not pass on this gene.

I felt here is too much violence and aggression in the world. I would like to make sure my child is a calm and gentle person.

I would like to have a very musical or artistic daughter. She should have blonde hair, blue eyes and be about medium height when she grows up.

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Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

“Nothing can take the sting off the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other golden statues.” Billy Crystal

There's no royalty in America, so people deify actors.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

On the right are some of the ways we classify films. On the left are some film titles. Match each title with the most appropriate kind of film from the column on the right.

Check yourself

Test your knowledge of films and Academy Awards. Discuss your results with your partner and the class. Explain whether you are satisfied with your knowledge or not. Explain the reasons.

1. What is the only Bond tune to win best song?

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2. Who is the only person to receive both an Oscar and the Nobel Prize?

3. What is the most recent film which the lead actor and actress both won Oscars?

4. What is the only best picture winner to also to claim a clean sweep and win in every category it was nominated?

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13. Who was the oldest person to win the Academy for Best Leading

14. Who was the youngest person to win the Academy for Best Ac-

15. Who played the part of the King in the Academy Award winning movie the King's Speech?

Guess the actor

His longtime collaboration with Scorsese later earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film Raging Bull. He also earned nominations for the psychological thrillers Taxi Driver (1976) and Cape Fear (1991), both directed by Scorsese.

With 12 Academy Award nominations (eight for Best Actor and four for Best Supporting Actor), he is the most nominated male actor in Academy Awards history. Only he, Michael Caine, Paul Newman, and Laurence Olivier have been nominated for an acting (lead or supporting) Academy Award in five decades. Greatest Performances: "The Shining", "As Good as It Gets", "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest".

He is one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation and has earned numerous awards, including three Academy Awards for Best Actor for his performances in My Left Foot (1989), There Will Be Blood (2007) and Lincoln (2012), making him the only male actor in history to have three wins in the lead actor category and one of only

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three male actors to win three Oscars...

He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 film The Color of Money, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many honorary awards. Despite being colorblind, he won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing...

He is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received three Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award, and two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical war drama film Glory (1989) and Best Actor for his role as a corrupt cop in the crime thriller Training Day (2001)...

Here are some of the categories for the annual Academy Award Winners. Each winner gets an Oscar. Look back over the past few years

– not just this year – and note down who you would give your awards to for as many as you can of the categories below. If you don't know the name of the person involved, then just give the name of the film. If you are working in a group, compare and discuss your notes with a partner.

Best film

Best Actor

Best Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Director

Best Original Screenplay (script)

Best Screen Adaptation

Best Cinematic Photography

Best Editing

Best Special Effects

Best Original Score (music)

Best Costumes / Wardrobe

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Best Title Sequences / Credits Best Short (film)

Special Award for Services to the Cinema Industry, the motion picture business, the dream factory, the movie world

Write or discuss the answers to these questions.

1.Which clip from a particular film would you never tired of

seeing?

2.What trailers have you seen recently that really made you want to go and see the film?

3.Can you think of any scenes from films you think should have been cut? Or can you think of any entire film you think should have been banned?

4.Which of these features do you, in general, like a film to have:

−a happy ending?

−a complicated plot or a simple storyline?

−lots of action?

−a political or social message?

−totally naturalistic dialogue?

−larger than life or true-to-life characters?

−(in the case of foreign films) subtitles or dubbed dialogue?

−lots of close-up shots of people's faces?

−long sequences of desert, jungle, etc?

−a fair number of stars or a cast of 'unknowns"

5.What can the cinema offer that the theatre can't – and vice versa?

6.Which plays have you seen which you have also seen the film of? How did the two versions compare?

7.Would you let your ten-year-old son go off to Hollywood to be in a film, with or without you there?

8.Write a favourable review for a play you have seen.

9.Write an unfavourable review for a film you didn't like.

10.Write part of a fan letter from a young teenager to an actor or film star.

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5.Guy Wellman. The Heinemnann English Wordbuilder. Electronic Publishing Association.1990. – 162 p.

6.https://www.quora.com/What-do-British-people-think-of-Queen- Elizabeth-II

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