MFL DVD Resource

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MFL DVD Resource
TOPIC LEISURE
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Amelie

• Jean-Pierre Jeunets fantasy-realist film
  follows
• a woman, who discovers her true vocation in life.
• Excerpt from the film 1111 gt 1138
• Amelie is in the cinema.

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Amelie

• Discuss what the advantages are of watching
  films at the cinema, as opposed to at home.
• Why do you think Amelie enjoys watching the
  people
• at the cinema? Why do you think she is
  fascinated by peoples reactions?
• Who is telling this story? Who is watching
  whom?
• Write a review of the last film you watched in
  three registers.
• Firstly as an email to a friend. Then as an
  in-school newsletter
• and finally as an article for a newspaper.

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Amelie

• What technical device does the director use in
  this clip?
• How does this affect the viewer? Have you
  seen this
• technique used anywhere else in film or on
  TV?
• In which ways do directors try to manipulate
  audiences?
• What is the irony of this sequence, and what
  does it make
• you think about the idea of film in a wider
  context?
• It has been said that the emotions that film
  produces are
• sometimes too manufactured or that small
  details are lost,
• as Amelie suggests. To what extent do you
  agree?

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Au Revoir Les Enfants

• Au Revoir Les Enfants is Louis Malles film about
  life
• in a French boarding school during WWII.
• Excerpt from the film 011052 gt 011310
• The boys take a break from classes to watch a
  Charlie Chaplin film.

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Au Revoir Les Enfants

• Describe the scene that you have just watched
  in terms
• of the leisure activities in wartime France.
• Write a short comparison with your own leisure
  activities.
• This film is set over fifty years ago in
  wartime France
• discuss the contrast between a modern idea of
  leisure
• and the scene that Malle presents.

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Bienvenue chez les Chtis

• A French comedy in which a postmaster in Southern
  France
• tries to get transferred to a remote region in
  Northern France.
• Excerpt from the film 0040 gt 0219
• Philippe and his family are driving through the
  south of France after
• a visit on the Côte dAzur in a town where they
  might move to.

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Bienvenue chez les Chtis

• Make a weather forecast relating to France.
• This can be done in any tense (past, present,
  future).
• Whilst viewing the clip
• Pick out 3 towns on the map.
• What do you notice about the geography of France?
• Do you recognise places where you have been?

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Bienvenue chez les Chtis

• After viewing the clip go on various websites
  to find out
• how to get from the south to the north of
  France.
• Prepare a breakdown of means of transport,
  costs, times.
• (Try http//maps.google.fr/maps/ms?hlfrieUT
  F8msa2)
• Write two short paragraphs saying how you
  travelled there
• and where you went on holiday last summer and
  where you
• will go next summer (in the south or the
  north of France).
• OR write two paragraphs comparing a holiday in
  the North
• of France with one in the South of France
  describing
• the differences in climate, weather, people,
  (try using
• comparative and superlative)

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Joyeux Noël

• Joyeux Noël is a film about the unofficial World
  War I Christmas
• truce of December 1914, depicted through the eyes
  of French,
• British and German soldiers.
• Excerpt from the film 011547 gt 011757
• The soldiers relax.

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Joyeux Noël

• What are the recreational activities of the
  soldiers?
• How do they amuse themselves?
• What are the comforts and pleasures that they
  have
• in common? What will they do tomorrow?
• In groups of three, one British, one French
  and one German,
• you are playing cards. You still have an hour
  before the end
• of the cease-fire. Imagine the conversation
  in which everyone
• expresses his impressions of this special
  day.
• Will you also speak of your future plans?

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Joyeux Noël

• On google.fr, search for cease-fire Christmas
  1914.
• After watching some videos, discuss in class this
  time in history.
• Imagine you are one of the youngest French
  soldiers.
• Before you go to bed in the dugout at the end of
• this Christmas day, you write a letter to your
  parents.
• What do you tell them? You must include at least
• a) what you did last night
• b) what happened today
• c) what you will do tomorrow
• d) what your feelings are at this time

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La Haine

• La Haine is a French black-and-white film
  written, co-edited,
• and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. It is about
  three teenage
• friends and their struggle to live in the
  banlieues of Paris.
• Excerpt from the film 0904 gt 1220
• The boys go to the gym.

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La Haine

• In this scene we meet the three main
  protagonists together.
• It appears that the community has burnt down
  their
• main source of leisure activity in the riots.
• What does this say about how they must have
  felt?
• Why do you think they did it?
• What do you think will happen now?

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La Haine

• Write down at least two adjectives to describe
  each
• of the three characters as they appear in
  this scene.
• What are the main features of the area in
  which they live?
• Describe the daily routine of the three
  characters presented
• here OR compare and contrast your local area
  with the area
• Portrayed in this clip OR imagine that you
  have just been
• Elected Mayor of this borough describe the
  changes
• you plan to make and why.