Unit 12. Slumdog millionaire

Ex.1.  Answer the questions.

1.  Where was Ram at the start of the film?

2.  Why was inspector beating him?

3.  Why did Ram agree to watch the DVD of the quiz show?

4.  What did Ram learn when he was living with Father Timothy?

5.  How did Ram know the answer to the first question?

6.  How were Ram and his friend, Salim, like each other?

7.  Who was Sethji and why did he visit the Children’s Home?

8.  What did Ram and Salim do when they learnt the truth?

9.  Why did Ram decide to go to Mumbai?

10. Where did Ram meet his friend Salim?

11. How did Salim’s story help Ram with the question?

12. Where was Ram living at the end of the story and who was he living with?

Ex.2.  People in the Story. Who are the sentences about. Write a name next to the information. There are two extra names in the box.

Nita Balwant Singh Salim Smita Father Timothy Maman Neelima Kumari Shankar Colonel Taylor Prem Kumar Gudiya

1.	Smita	She was Ram’s lawyer.
2.		He took Ram to live with him when he was a young child.
3.		He was the TV presenter.
4.		He left the children’s home
5.		He owned the school for disabled children.
6.		She was a famous actress who Ram worked for.
8.		She was a young friend of Ram’s. He helped her.
9.		He worked in India for the Australian government.
10.		She was the girl Ram loved.

Ex.3.  Places and Events in the Story. What happened in these places? Match 1-8 with a-h and complete the sentences.

1.  The Church of St Mary, Delhi 2.  The school for disabled children, Mumbai 3.  Juhu, Mumbai 4.  The chawl, Mumbai 5.  Delhi 6.  On the train to Mumbai 7.  Agra 8.  Prem Studios, Mumbai

a) Ram met Gudiya. b) Ram worked for the Taylor family. c) Ram met Nita at the Taj Mahal. d) Ram and Salim had singing lessons. e) Ram took part in the quiz show. f) Baby Ram was found on Christmas Day. g) Ram worked for Neelima Kumari. h) Ram killed a robber.

Ex.4.  Can you remember if the sentence is true or false or doesn’t say (T, F or Ds)?

1.  Ram guessed the answers at the quiz show.

2   Ram didn’t agree to watch the DVD of the quiz show with Smita.

3  Ram lived the first two years of his life with his mother.

4  Father Timothy gave the orphan boy the names that would help him.

5  Ram could sing well. Soon he became the leader at Delhi Children’s Home for Boys.

6  Neelima Kumari had been a very famous actress.

7  Ram worried after Neelima Kumari’s death. He didn’t have a job.

8  Ram was afraid to go to Mambai.

9  Ram and Nita were not old enough. They couldn’t get married.

10 Salim discovered that Ahmed Khan was a friend of Maman’s.

11 Ram wanted to be on the quiz show because he wanted to become famous.

12 Ram told Kumar that he wanted revenge, not money.

Ex.5.  Complete the gaps. Use each word from the box once.

immigrant monsoon blind accused slums diplomat arrest commercial punished orphan presenter charity head and tails safe

1.  Ram didn’t know his parents. He was an ....

2.  Many people do not have good living conditions in Mumbai. They live in .... .

3.  Mumbai has a big problem with water, especially in the ... season.

4.  The two sides of a coin are called ... .

5  Colonel Taylor represented the Australian government in India. He was a ... .

6.  Swapna Devi put some money and a photograph in a special place called a ... .

7.  Maman ... the children who did not earn enough money.

8.  Some organizations help street children. This type of organization is called a ... .

9.  Surdas was a very famous singer who could not see. He was ... .

10. Prem Kumar asked the questions on the quiz show. He was the ... .

11. Before the billion-rupee question, there were two ... breaks.

12. Julie was born in Haiti but lived in the USA. She was an ... .

13. The television company ... Ram of cheating.

14. Ram wanted the police to ... Neelima’s boyfriend for hitting her.

Ex.6.  Write the letters in the correct order to make words from the story.

1.	EREUP	rupee	Indian money
2.	RASI		a traditional Indian dress foe women
3.	STIPER		someone who works in some Christian churches
4.	DEYMOC		a funny film, play or television programme
5.	GEGARB		someone who asks for money on the street to live
6.	DRATEGY		a film, play or television programme in which people suffer
7.	VELERVOR		a small gun
8.	NRLEGWODK		the information, skills, understanding that you have gained through learning or experience
9.	TCAEH		to behave in a dishonest way in order to win or get an advantage, especially in a competition, game, or examination
10.	ZIQU		a competition or game in which people have to answer questions
11.	IRCIALEST		judging and dealing with situations in a particular way according to what is actually possible rather than what you would like to happen
12.	USLM		a house or an area of a city that is in a very bad condition where very poor people live

Ex.7.  Put the lines of the film review in the correct order.

We learn that the police have rested him because he is taking part in the popular TV quiz show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
The ending is very exciting!
The film starts quite close to the end of the story, where we see Jamal, the younger of the two brothers, in a Mumbai police station.
The film Slumdog Millionaire, which came out at the beginning of this year, has had big au diences in cinemas in many different countries.	1
Bad things happen in the story and there is quite a lot of violence, but there is also hum our.
He has already given the right answers to lots of questions and now has the choice to win a huge amount of money.
One of the things that helps Slumdog Millionaire seem realistic is the fact that a few of the young actors are themselves from Mumbai slums.	8
The film tells the story of two brothers growing up in a very large slum in the biggest city in India, Mumbai.
The film then goes back in time and shows that Jamal knows the answers because of things that happened to him, his brother Salim in the past.

Ex.8.  Prepositions. Write the correct preposition in the gap: about, for or at.

1.  A man went around town to collect money ... a soldiers’ charity.

2.  Neelima prepared ... the greatest role of her life.

3.  Prem Kumar lied ... the answer to the final question.

4.  Shantaram screamed ... his wife and daughter.

5.  At first, Ram was vary excited ... going to the new school in Mumbai.

6.  Ram worked ... Colonel Taylor.

7.  Maman punished the boys ... not making enough money.

8.  Prem Kumar didn’t smile ... Ram at the end of the show.

9.  The fortune-teller looked ... Ram’s hand.

10. Colonel Taylor knew ... things that happened behind closed doors.

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