Working Girl

film guide

Учебное пособие к фильму

Деловая девушка

Составитель

О.Р. Оксентюк

Методическая записка

Teaching and learning English with films

It seems that everyone is eager to teach and learn with films these days because films have so much to offer both students and teachers. They

• bring native speakers into the classroom, relieving the teacher of the necessity of providing the only model for pronunciation, intonation, and register;

• motivate students to learn by utilizing interesting story lines and character interaction which makes them eager to understand what people are saying;

• increase oral comprehension: students can understand much more from watching a video sequence (in which body language accompanies speech) than from merely listening to an audio tape;

• stimulate student interaction and communication with other classmates by having them discuss the film itself or ways in which it relates to their lives and experiences;

• promote cross-cultural awareness by enabling students to observe similarities and differences between the lives of the characters in a film and those of their own families and friends;

…and, most importantly,

• are adaptable for use with students at any English-language proficiency level, from elementary through advanced: students can understand and work with material that seems above their level if the accompanying activities are at their level.

The major thing for the teacher to remember is that a film in the classroom has a purpose beyond entertainment: it is a tool to help students learn English. Therefore, they must be actively engaged in their own learning process, not passively sitting back. There must be a specific purposein watching a sequence, usually in the form of an activity or viewing task that helps students focus on the content of the sequence they are watching

From “Teaching with Video, Techniques and Activities with Family Album, U.S.A.” by Alison M. Rice Macmillan, Inc. New York, 1993, p.1

Twentieth Century Fox Presents

A Mike Nichols film

Working Girl

Her time has come

A witty romantic tale of life in the corporate jungle.

Directed byMike Nichols

Music by Carly Simon (Academy Award Winner “Best Song” “Let the River Run”)

Scored by Rob Mousey

Starring:

Melanie Griffith (Tess McGill)

The secretary.

She’s just been taken for granted – until now.

Harrison Ford (Jack Trainer)

A very capable and very attractive Wall Street investment banker. The Middle Man. He’s been taking too much in good faith.

Sigourney Weaver (Katherine Parker)

The career Bitch. She’s been taking too much of everything.

Co-starring:

Joan Cusack (Cyn)

Tess’s friend.

Alec Baldwin (Mick)

Tess’s unfaithful boyfriend.

Other characters:

Turkel \

Tess’s bosses

David Lutz /

Bob (in Arbitrage)

Ginnie - an employee at Petty Marsh

Doreen- Mick’s mistress

John Romano \

employees at Dewey Stone,

Jack Trainer’s co-workers

Bernie Petaka /

Oren Trask - the owner of Trask Industries

Barbara Trask - his wife

Phyllis Trask - his daughter

Armbrister - the owner of Metro Radio Network

Tim Draper - a senior employee at Trask Industries

Alice Baxter - a secretary at Trask Industries