- What is your all-time favorite movie?
- What is your favorite movie?
- Are there any kinds of movies you dislike?
- If so, what kinds?
- Why do you dislike them?
- Do you like to watch horror movies?
- Do you prefer fiction or nonfiction movies?
- Do you usually watch movies at home or at a movie theater?
- Have you ever seen the same movie more than once?
- If yes, name it (or them).
- Have you ever seen ___? (Insert the name of a movie.)
- How often do you go to movies?
- How often do you rent videos?
- If a book has been made into a movie, which do you prefer to do first, see the movie or read the book? Why?
- What is the best movie you have ever seen?
- Who was in it?
- Why did you like it?
- Who was the director?
- What is the scariest movies you have ever seen?
- What's the funniest?
- What's the most romantic?
- What is the worst movie you've ever seen?
- What was the last movie you saw?
- Was it good?
- Who did you see it with?
- Which do you like better, action movies or comedy movies?
- What movie star would you most like to meet?
- Who is your favorite actor or actress?
- What do you think of reality shows?
- Do you think that films can be educational?
- Is there a movie you could watch over and over again?
- Who's your favorite director?
- How much does it cost to see a movie in Taiwan?
- What's one of your favorite movies?
- What kind of movie is it?
- Who's in it?
- Who directed it?
- Why do you like it?
- When did it come out?
- Where was it filmed?
- How many times have you seen it?
- Would you recommend it? Why?
- Do you think movies have been developing technology or technology has been developing movies?
- Are addicted to watching movies?
- Do you think action movies are bad for children?
- Which do you prefer, to watch movies or to read books?
- How much money do you spend when you go to movies?
- What do you prefer, animated movies or real movies?
- What is your favorite movie soundtrack?
- Do you think historical movies are educational?
- Do you like documentaries?
- Who is your favorite movie hero?
- What do you think about comic book movies?
- Can you remember the name of the first movie you saw that made you cry?
- What is your favorite classic movie?
- Do you ever download movies?
- Do you like foreign films that are dubbed in your mother tongue or do you like watching the film in its original form?
- Do you think there should be more movies made in your country?
- What is something that you have never seen happen in a movie?
- What things happen too often in movies?
- What is the name of a boring movie you have seen. Is there a way to make it better?
- Which two movie stars would you like to have for your parents?
- If a movie star wanted to marry you, would you divorce your spouse?
- If you could be a movie bad guy, which one would you be?
- Which famous person would you like to have for a best friend?
- How often would you go to the movie theater if you always had free tickets?
- Which actor or actress would be you in a movie about your life?
- Do you want your children to be actors or actresses?
- Do you think there is too much nudity in movies, or not enough?
- Do you think there is too much violence in movies? Does it affect children?
- Would you rather be in a movie, or be given $500.000?
- Would you like to be in a television drama?
- What kind of character would you like to play in a television drama?
- Would you be willing to be on a TV show in only your underwear
- If someone were to make a movie about your life, what would you
- want included? Include AT LEAST three points !
- Have you ever fallen asleep in the middle of a film? Why?
- Do you remember which one it was?
- Do you choose a film for the plot/story or the actors?
- Do you usually choose which films to watch?
2. speeches
wed week7
10-12: B0744104 (late), 106, 237, 107, 127 (over), 143 (over), 138 (over)
3-5: 049, 57, 20, 30
Friday
8-10: 45, 35, 19, 20, 05 (late x2)
10-12: 112, 116, 221, 138
1. Groundhog Day is a hero movie. Identify
a) the hero
b) the teacher/mentor
c) the cave of death and rebirth
d) the threshold between the two worlds
2. Groundhog Day is a movie with many Buddhist ideas. Give three examples of Buddhist ideas in the movie.
3. The groundhog is an important character in the movie. Phil and the Groundhog even have the same name.
a) look up the name Phil. What does it mean?
b) what do you think the groundhog means in the movie? Give evidence from the movie for your argument.
4. Today's story
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Who is talking in the story?
Who are they talking about?
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Who is talking in the story?
Who are they talking about?
What decision do they make at the end? Why?
THEY ARE MADE OUT OF MEAT
"They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"Meat. They're made out of meat."
"Meat?"
"There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."
"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?"
"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."
"So who made the machines? That's who we want to contact."
"They made the machines. That's what I'm trying to tell you. Meat made the machines."
"That's ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You're asking me to believe in sentient meat."
"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that sector and they're made out of meat."
"Maybe they're like the orfolei. You know, a carbon-based intelligence that goes through a meat stage."
"Nope. They're born meat and they die meat. We studied them for several of their life spans, which didn't take long. Do you have any idea what's the life span of meat?"
"Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like the weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside."
"Nope. We thought of that, since they do have meat heads, like the weddilei. But I told you, we probed them. They're meat all the way through."
"No brain?"
"Oh, there's a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat! That's what I've been trying to tell you."
"You're not understanding, are you? You're refusing to deal with what I'm telling you. The brain does the thinking. The meat."
"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you beginning to get the picture or do I have to start all over?"
"Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat."
"Thank you. Finally. Yes. They are indeed made out of meat. And they've been trying to get in touch with us for almost a hundred of their years."
"Omigod. So what does this meat have in mind?"
"First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the Universe, contact other sentiences, swap ideas and information. The usual."
"We're supposed to talk to meat."
"That's the idea. That's the message they're sending out by radio. 'Hello. Anyone out there. Anybody home.' That sort of thing."
"They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?"
"Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat."
"I thought you just told me they used radio."
"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."
"Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?"
"Officially or unofficially?"
"Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing."
"I was hoping you would say that."
"It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?"
"I agree one hundred percent. What's there to say? 'Hello, meat. How's it going?' But will this work? How many planets are we dealing with here?"
"Just one. They can travel to other planets in special meat containers, but they can't live on them. And being meat, they can only travel through C space. Which limits them to the speed of light and makes the possibility of their ever making contact pretty slim. Infinitesimal, in fact."
"So we just pretend there's no one home in the Universe."
"That's it."
"Cruel. But you said it yourself, who wants to meet meat? And the ones who have been aboard our vessels, the ones you probed? You're sure they won't remember?"
"They'll be considered crackpots if they do. We went into their heads and smoothed out their meat so that we're just a dream to them."
"A dream to meat! How strangely appropriate, that we should be meat's dream."
"And we marked the entire sector unoccupied."
"Good. Agreed, officially and unofficially. Case closed. Any others? Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy?"
"Yes, a rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence in a class nine star in G445 zone. Was in contact two galactic rotations ago, wants to be friendly again."
"And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone ..."
vessel
sector
cruel
spare me
flapping
probe
unbearable
ridiculous
5. Homework pp 49-59. Reading on Tablet computers
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WEDNESDAY ONLY WEEK 7
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1. Summarize the main idea of this article in one sentence.2. What was the purpose of Mars' spending so much money on research about chocolate?
3. What organization did Mars establish to promote its scientific research?
4. The Cochrane Review of chocolate research concluded that researchers funded by companies tended to do what?
5. Name three bad effects of industry-sponsored research
6. How does the media treat research on the health effect of chocolate?
7. Is chocolate good for your health? What products does chocolate contain that are bad for you?
8. Are there really super-foods? What is the key to a healthy diet, according to the writer?
READING:
Vocabulary
health food
ethical
yield
shift
transform
cynical
epidemic
mainstream
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