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^:-.WOU$ FILM ąUGTES

¹ : D.e lead-in: You may start by asking students whether re 'ecognise any of the photos, whether they have seen any i • ■ e films shown in them, and whether they remember any - korabie lines spoken by the characters.

-    TDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE FILMS

-    i ■= is a list of the films quoted in the text with their Polish

:~ es. world release dates, the names of the directors and also :~e scriptwriters, sińce they are the ones who wrote the :zssic lines.

.n* Wars (Gwiezdne wojny) - directed by George Lucas, v “en by George Lucas; 1977

_~e of Brian (Żywot Briana) - directed by Terry Jones; written : * Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Erie Idle,

V' - Jones and Michael Palin; 1979

leeablanca - directed by Michael Curtiz; written by Julius J.

Er stein and Philip G. Epstein, based on the play Ewerybody _ ; "es to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison; 1942 I _ck Soup (Kacza zupa) - directed by Leo McCarey, written : Bert Kalmar and Harry Raby; 1933 e Third Man (Trzeci człowiek) - directed by Carol Reed,

" r:en by Graham Greene; 1949

“■ - “erminator (Terminator, earlier Polish title: Elektroniczny " srderca) - directed by James Cameron, written by James Y-eron and Gale Ann Hurd; 1984

Driver (Taksówkarz) - directed by Martin Scorsese, wr “en by Paul Schrader; 1976

me Like It Hot (Półżartem, półserio) - directed by Billy • der, written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond; 1959

³ ::i ale follow-up: You may have a class vote on which of the ^-r- mentioned in the text to watch in class.

³ ssible writing tasks:

lir 7£ a rewie w of a film which you like because of well-written ■ :gue and memorable lines.

Kr a rewiew of one of the films mentioned in the lesson.

--Star Wars B - Some like it hot C-Terminator G> - Taxi Driver

- ■ d, 2 b, 3 h, 4 a, 5 f, 6 e, 7 i, 8 c 3 ' a, 2 b, 3 c, 4 b, 5 a

Tarzan: Jane. Tarzan. Jane. Tarzan.

1 James Cagney: That dirty, double-crossing rat.

; Oliver Hardy: Weil, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!

- Obi Wan Kenobi: The Force will be with you /Use the Force, Lukę.

5 Humphrey Bogart: You played itfor her, you can play itfor me. Ifshe can stand it, I can. Play it!

Famous mames from fsction

When working on Exercise 4, students may find classifying the works according to genre difhcult, and they may well ask about the meaningof the term 'genre' in English; an explanation is provided below.

Aidditional Information: What exactly is genre

sw English?

The problem with the word genre, especially for a Polish speaker, is that the term is used somewhat looseiy in English to refer to several different classifications, which are described by different names in Polish. Firstly, then, genre refers to the three broadest categories of literaturę: prose, poetry and drama, or morę traditionally epic, lyric and dramatic (rodzaj literacki in Polish). Secondly, the same term is used for the narrower classifications based on form, such as nowel, short story or sonnet (gatunek literacki). Finally, the word genre is also applied to the topic-based categories of fiction used, for example, in bookshops to label the different sections: crime, science fiction, fantasy, children's literaturę and so on. So the answer to the question What genre does 'The Adwentures ofSherlock Holmes' belong to? can be threefold: it's prose; it's a collection of short stories; it's crime fiction.

Possible writing tasks:

Write a rewie w of a book which features a character you like. Describe a character from fiction that you especially like.

2 2

3    1 F, 2 T, 3 T, 4 F

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Title	Author	Genre(s)
Prideand Prejudice (1813)	Jane Austen	Romance
Oliver Twist (1837-39) & A Christmas Carol (1843)	Charles Dickens	Humour
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)	Lewis Carroll	Children's Fantasy
The Adventures ofSherlock Holmes (1892)	Arthur Conan Doyle	Crime Mystery
Peter Pan (1911)	J.M. Barrie	Children's
The Spy Who Loved Me (James Bond) (1962)	lan Fleming	Spy Thriller
Bridget Jones's Diary (1996)	Helen Fielding	Humour Romance
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997)	J.K. Rowling	Children's Fantasy Adventure

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