The music bands

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THE OSCAR ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL SONG
HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED OF BEING NOMINATED FOR THE OSCARS?
LET’S CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE FAMOUS AWARDS…
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is a 1980 American musical film conceived and produced by David De Silva and directed
by Alan Parker.
The film follows a group of students through their studies at the New York High School of
Performing Arts. The film is split into sections corresponding to auditions, freshman,
sophomore, junior and senior years.
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(1973) is the eighth spy film in the James Bond series to be produced by Eon Productions,
and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond
The song, commissioned specifically for the James Bond movie is credited to Paul and
Linda McCartney, it reunited the former Beatle with the band's producer, George Martin,
who both produced the song and arranged the orchestral break. It has been covered by
several bands, with Guns N' Roses' version being the most popular
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Top Gun is a 1986 American action drama film directed by Tony Scott. The film stars Tom
Cruise, Kelly McGillis and Val Kilmer.
Cruise plays Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a young Naval aviator aboard the
aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.
He and his Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) Nick "Goose" Bradshaw are given the chance to
train at the Navy's Fighter Weapons School at Miramar in San Diego.
Unexpectedly, one daring young pilot (Cruise) learns a few things from a civilian instructor
that are not taught in the classroom.
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The Woman in Red is a 1984 romantic comedy film starring and directed by Gene Wilder,
who wrote the script, adapting it from the Yves Robert film, “Un éléphant ça trompe
énormément”
San Francisco ad man Teddy Pierce is amused by, then obsessed with, a beautiful woman
whose red dress goes whooshing over her head from a gust of wind, showing her red
panties while she crosses a grate.
Teddy is happily married to Didi, but he can't get this woman out of his mind.
The soundtrack was composed by Stevie Wonder.
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Rocky III, the third installment in the Rocky film series, is a 1982 American motion picture
written and directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone as the title character.
Three years and 10 successful titles after beating Apollo Creed, with whom he has become
great friends, a now wealthy Rocky Balboa is considering retirement.
Fame and complacency soon cause Balboa to lose his title to Clubber Lang, who
inadvertently causes the death of Rocky's trainer Mickey.
Rocky sinks into depression, and Apollo decides to train Rocky for a rematch against Lang
so Rocky can try to win the title back.
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is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film, directed and produced by Ivan Reitman.
The film stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as three eccentric parapsychologists in New
York City who start a ghost-catching business.
The business booms after initial skepticism, eventually requiring a fourth partner but, when
an uptown high-rise apartment building becomes the focal point of spirit activity linked to
the ancient god Gozer, it threatens to overwhelm the team and the entire world.
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Flashdance is a 1983 American romantic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne.
Alex Owens is a female dynamo: steel worker by day, exotic dancer by night. Her dream is
to get into a real dance company, and with encouragement from her boss/boyfriend, she
may get her chance.
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The Bodyguard is a 1992 American romantic thriller film directed by Mick Jackson, written
by Lawrence Kasdan, and starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston.
Costner stars as a former Secret Service Agent-turned-bodyguard who is hired to protect
Houston's character, a music star, from an unknown stalker.
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Titanic is a 1997 American epic romantic disaster film directed, written AND co-produced
by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the Titanic, it stars Leonardo
DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard
the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage.
It was the most expensive film made at that time, with an estimated budget of $200 million.
Upon its release on December 19, 1997, Titanic achieved critical and commercial success.
Nominated for fourteen Academy Awards, it won eleven, including the awards for Best
Picture and Best Director. It remained the highest-grossing film of all time until Cameron's
2009 film Avatar surpassed it in 2010.
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8 Mile is a 2002 American rap biopic film written by Scott Silver, directed by Curtis Hanson,
and stars Eminem, Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy, Michael Shannon and Kim Basinger.
The film is an account of a young, Caucasian rapper named Jimmy "B-Rabbit" Smith Jr.
(Eminem) living in inner city Detroit, Michigan.
Set in 1995, it relates his attempt to launch a rap career in a genre dominated by blacks.
The film's title is derived from 8 Mile Road, the highway that runs along the border between
lower class, predominantly black Detroit neighborhoods, and its predominantly white
upper class Oakland County and Macomb County suburbs.
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Frozen is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt
Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 53rd animated
feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's
fairy tale The Snow Queen, the film tells the story of a fearless princess who sets off on an
epic journey alongside a rugged iceman, his loyal pet reindeer, and a naïve snowman to
find her estranged sister, whose icy powers have inadvertently trapped the kingdom in
eternal winter.
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Despicable Me 2 is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated comedy film and the sequel
to the 2010 animated film Despicable Me. Produced by Illumination Entertainment for
Universal Pictures, and animated by Illumination Mac Guff, the film is directed by Pierre
Coffin and Chris Renaud
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(2012) is the twenty-third James Bond film produced by Eon Productions. It features Daniel
Craig in his third performance as James Bond, and Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva, the film's
villain.
It was directed by Sam Mendes and features an Academy Award-winning theme, sung by
Adele.
The story centers on Bond investigating an attack on MI6; the attack is part of a plot by
former MI6 agent Raoul Silva to humiliate, discredit and kill M as revenge against her for
betraying him.
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B. 6 Amazing Stories Of People Who Woke Up From Comas
Unlike many TV and movie depictions of the condition, being in a coma is a very serious
condition that can have long-lasting effects. Most comas do not last more than a few
weeks, but there are people who are stuck in one for months or years. The longer a
person is in a coma, the less likely they are to wake up. While the time spent in the coma
may differ, the stories of these people waking up are quite remarkable.
1/ Sam Carter
In 2008, 60-year-old retired baker Sam Carter had fallen
into a coma from severe anemia, which occurs when a
person’s red blood cell count gets too low or the blood
lacks hemoglobin. In the hospital in Staffordshire, England,
Carter had been in a coma for three days, and he was
given a 30 percent chance of recovering. The doctor
suggested to his wife that she should play some music for
him. His wife got a set of headphones and put them on
her husband, playing the Rolling Stones classic “(I Can’t
Get No) Satisfaction.” Amazingly, once the song was played, Sam opened his eyes.
Sam says that the song gave him a new energy, and pulled him out of the coma. He
doesn’t remember much from the coma, but he remembered hearing that song. The
song also had special meaning to him, as it was the first single he ever bought when he
was 17 years old. He said it gave him the push he needed to wake up.
2/ Sarah Thomson
In early 2012, 32-year-old Sarah Thomson got a blood clot
on her brain and it ultimately led to her being in a coma
for 10 days. When she awoke, she thought it was the year
1998. She thought that her favorite band, the Spice Girls,
were still together, and she didn’t know Michael Jackson
was dead.
More importantly, she didn’t recognize her children or
husband. In 1998, Thomson was 19 years old, had just
given birth to her first son, and was still with her ex. So,
when her children came in, she was expecting that her
eldest would be a baby. Instead, he was 14 years old. She didn’t even remember the
other two children. As for her husband, she thought he was someone who worked at the
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hospital.
Outside of the hospital, Sarah acted like a teenager. She threw tantrums and was
rebellious. She listened to loud rock music and dyed her hair wild colors. She said it took
a while, but she is readjusting to her life and has re-fallen in love with her husband.
3/ Ben McMahon, Sandra Ralic, And Michael Boatwright
Growing up in Australia, Ben McMahon learned French
and Mandarin, but was never fluent in them. In 2012, he
was in a car accident, which left him comatose for a
week. Doctors said he would be lucky if he survived. He
beat the odds and woke up but oddly, he only spoke
Mandarin and couldn’t speak English. He could also write
in Mandarin.
Eventually, Ben regained the ability to speak English, but
didn’t lose the ability to speak Mandarin. As of September
2014, Ben is living in Shanghai where he attends school, but also gives walking tours of
the city. In fact, his Mandarin is so good it impresses native speakers, and he is the host
of a TV show in Shanghai.
While that almost sounds too wild to believe, it’s actually happened to other people.
Thirteen-year-old Sandra Ralic, from Kinn, Croatia, was studying German and she had
just started reading German books and watching German television shows, but wasn’t
fluent in it. Then, she was in a coma for 24 hours. When she came out of the coma, she
could only speak in German, and couldn’t speak in her native tongue.
Finally, there is the amazing story of American Michael Boatwright. He woke up in a
hospital bed in California speaking Swedish and claiming his name was actually Johan
Ek.
Boatwright had lived in Sweden and had a Swedish girlfriend in the past. While many
urban legends discuss people waking up from a coma speaking a brand new
language, that is not a medically recognized phenomenon. However, people can lose
the ability to speak their primary language while retaining access to a secondary
language that they already know to some degree. It’s speculated that they seem more
fluent in the second language afterward because they no longer default to the first
one.
4/ Fred Hersch
Fred Hersch is a well-known, respected, and prolific
contemporary jazz pianist who moved to New York in
1977 at the age of 21. In the early ’90s, Hersch went
public about being diagnosed with AIDS.
In 2008, the disease wreaked havoc on Hersch, and he
contracted HIV dementia, but recovered from that.
Then, in June, his blood oxygen levels became really
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low, and he went into septic shock. As each of his organs started failing, Hersch fell into
a coma. He was under for two months before he finally woke up. After that, he was on a
feeding tube for eight months.
The 10 months in bed completely ravaged his body and his motor functions. Over the
next year, Hersch worked hard at his physical therapy, and he kept practicing the
piano. Interestingly enough, the piano helped him get better; he said it gave him
something to strive and work for. By 2010, he was performing again. To researchers, it
was interesting because Hersch remembered eight dreams from his coma and wrote
the 90-minute concert “My Coma Dreams” based on what he remembered. While
people do remember dreams from comas, Columbia University’s Dr. Rita Charon said
that words don’t exactly explain what a coma dream is like. Music may offer even
further insight into the secrets of coma and thinking while unconscious.
5/ Terry Wallis
In July 1984, 19-year-old Terry Wallis and his friend were in
a horrible car crash when their car plunged into a creek.
His friend was killed and Terry, who was found the next
day, was left in a coma. His family, including his wife and
six-week-old daughter, took care of him as the world
continued on for 19 years.
That was until June 11, 2003, when Terry first started talking.
The first thing he said was “Mom” when he saw his mother.
It was followed by “Pepsi” and then “milk” and eventually
it got to the point where he was speaking in full sentences. His memories were good, but
he was completely unaware of how much time had passed, and he had a hard time
grasping that it was 2003. In the past 19 years, so much had changed. To him, Ronald
Reagan was president, but when he woke up a second Bush had been elected. He
missed the whole Clinton administration. He missed the September 11 attacks and the
ensuing war in Iraq, just to name a few.
Wallis was left paralyzed from the crash, but talks fairly coherently and in full sentences.
Doctors are unsure why he woke up, but he has been studied quite a bit because of his
unique story. Doctors believed that over the 19 years, Terry’s brain essentially rewired
itself. Once there were enough connections, it made his brain “wake up.”
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6/ Haleigh Poutre
At the age of four, Haleigh Poutre was taken out of her
mother’s care and given to her aunt Holli. Haleigh lived
with her aunt, her aunt’s boyfriend-then-husband Jason
Strickland, and three other children for years until Holli
officially adopted her niece. This was allowed even
though between September 2001 and September 2002,
Massachusetts social services received over a dozen calls
regarding Haleigh’s well-being. The eight-year-old was
often covered in bruises and looked unkempt. When they investigated, Holli said that
Haleigh just bruised herself.
On September 11, 2005, when Haleigh was 11, she was brought into the hospital
because she had lost consciousness. When the doctors examined her, they found that
her brain was so badly damaged that it looked like she had been in a high-speed crash.
The results of the injury put her into a coma, and the doctors were sure she would stay in
a permanent vegetative state. On September 20, Holli and Jason Strickland were
arrested for assault. Just after being bailed out of jail, Holli went to her grandmother’s
house and there they made a suicide pact; her grandmother shot Holli, then herself.
Strickland was now the only person facing assault charges, and the state was looking to
remove Haleigh from life support. However, since Strickland was her stepfather, he
made a motion to become her “de facto” parent. In doing so, he was going to try to
keep her on life support. One of the reasons he wanted to keep Haleigh alive was that,
if she died, he’d be charged with murder.
The state won, and Haleigh was taken off life support on January 18, 2008. Miraculously,
Haleigh started to breathe on her own and was able to follow commands. Eventually,
she got to the point where she started smiling, waving, and saying a few words, but was
confined to a wheelchair. She mostly communicates through a letter board on a tray
attached to her wheelchair. Amazingly, after two years, she was able to testify at
Strickland’s trial. Holli was believed to be the mastermind, but Strickland was sentenced
to 12–15 years in prison in November 2008.
Haleigh’s case brought massive changes in how social services in Massachusetts look at
allegations of abuse. In September 2010, at the age of 16, Haleigh was adopted by her
foster parents, Keith and Becky Arnett, after being in their care for two years.
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C. Board game
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QUESTION
NEGATIVE
Docteur Grey
NURSE MARY
B
DOCTOR CHARLES
QUESTION
I wish I (past)
I wish I (past perfect)
Doctor Avery
(Grey’s Anatomy)
Sees
Mc Dreamy
If
Unless
Might
If only
NEGATIVE
QUESTION
As if
Phoned
Doug Ross
(ER)
Supposing
CASTING DIRECTOR
ERIC
Suppose
May
Provided
Doctor Stevens
Providing
Docteur House
Believes
Could
Would
Will
NEGATIVE
The Journalist
Had known
Won’t
The Boss
Had
Had been
Be
Would have
The Impresario
D
Emma
Would have been
QUESTION
NEGATIVE
CARL
MC STEAMY
Jenna
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D. Vocabulary Game
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F. I wish…
I wish I were a super star!
I wish I had been wiser…
And you? What do you wish for?
Let’s watch a very famous video on you tube….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDl3T339718
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In the class we are going to try to invent a song about your wishes and to rap it
as this crazy teacher does for its students.
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First step, choose an instrumental tune on YouTube that inspires you.
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdNHpgqBfiw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DtgXdOYbq8
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Second step, write on the blackboard, the wishes of the students.
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When written, change them, combine them and make them rhyme to match
your beat!
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You may film it and why not make a small contest on Facebook with the other
classes of your school and see who gets the highest number of
You just might get it…
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I.
Key to exercises:
In front of each title, you will come across a small cartoon, which refers to the various
skills used in the exercises.
Listening comprehension
Reading comprehension
Oral skill
Written skill
Vocabulary
Tools
Cultural notes
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A. BLIND TEST
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Use YouTube to show the videos to the students.
As it is a “Blind Test” you should change the order in which you play the songs.
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When the original song carries the same name as the film, the name doesn’t
appear in the reading comphrehension (e.g; live and let die).
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The students have to discover the name of the original song and match them
to the correct text.
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All the songs listed have either won the Oward for Best Original Song or have
been nominated in this category.
1.
Fame
Fame, Irene Cara
2.
Live and let die
Live and let die, Paul Mc Cartney
3.
Take my breath away
Top Gun, Berlin
4.
I just call to say I love you
The woman in red, Stevie Wonder
5.
The eye of the tiger
Rocky III, Survivors
6.
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters, Ray Parker Jr.
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7.
What a feeling
Flashdance, Irene Cara
8.
I have nothing
The bodyguard, Whitney Houston
9.
My heart will go on
Titanic, Céline Dion
10.
Loose yourself
8 Miles, Eminem
11.
Let it go
Frozen, Idina Menzel
12.
Happy
Despicable Me II, Pharell Williams
13.
Skyfall
Skyfall, Adele
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B. 6 AMAZING STORIES OF PEOPLE WHO WOKE UP FROM COMAS
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Divide the class into six groups.
Give each group one of the six texts.
Make them re-order the texts (to make it easier, they should cut and past the
different paragraphs), write a summary and a new story.
Check the spelling and grammar of the summaries.
Then, ask each group to come in front of the class and explain their stories to
the others.
The rest of the class has to guess which story is the real one.
C. THE BOARD GAME
You need to pre-teach the grammar of the conditionnals before doing the exercise
(zero, first, second, third, mixed)
How to play the game:
Divide your students in groups of four
Each group receives a board game
Use a dime or a coin to play the game (with a coin, Head means *1 and Tail
*2)
 Each student chooses a small object as a piece (e.g. a chalk, a rubber)
 Within the group, one student should write the sentences created by the
students from his/her group.
 The teacher circulates between the groups to check the sentences, if the
sentence is grammatically correct; the group receives one mark (V). The
students must understand that they play together in the group and against
the other groups.
 At the end of the allocated time, everybody must stop writing and the
teacher counts the marks received by each group.
 In the board game: students choose one key word from the middle of the
board (the key words can only be used once) and create a sentence with
the key word and the character from the square they have stopped on.
Production exemples:
- I wish I had met Mc Dreamy
- If you see Emma you won’t see Jenna
- I would have been happy if I had met Doug Ross
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D. VOCABULARY GAME
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Divide the students into two groups.
Decide of one team leader in each group.
The team leader job consists in three responsabilities:
One study the vocabulary list given by the teacher (translation and
spelling)
o Make sure that each student in his group knows the vocabulary
(translation and spelling)
o Call the teacher when he decides to take the lead and start the game
When the first team has taken the lead, everbody must stop studying and put
the vocabulary list away.
One student (from the leading team) goes to the board and is given a word
to translate and write correctly (we usually start with the team leader).
If the word is written corretly, the student goes back to his seat and another
one from the same team goes to the board. We continue this until one
student fails.
In that case, a student from the opossite team goes to the board to write a
word.
The winning team is the one which write the last word of the list correctly, the
team is then granted one mark.
You can make them play the three lists in a row or choose to play the game
during three different sessions
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Note that the vocabulary used in this exercise is not especially the vocabulary of the
play. We focus on themes.
E. THE AUDITION
It’s recommended to do this exercice when the students have seen the play.
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Make them work in groups (and give a role to each student, e.g; the writer of
the text, the director of the video clip, the actor...) as not every student likes to
see himself in a video.
Ask EITC for the scripts of the scenes chosen by your students.
Show the videos to the rest of the class when ready.
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F. I WISH
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Show some videos through the links provided.
Pre-teach “I wish + could/would/past” and “I wish + past perfect”
Encourage your students to express what they wish for and write the
sentences on the board.
Ask your students to choose the ryhme, to reorder the sentences in order to
create a rap song.
The idea is to create a video clip, whereas one or seversal students rap and
the others play as walk-on actors.
!!! Contest!!!
Encourage your students to submit their videos to the EITC, through their Facebook
page.
Each month, one video will be selected to appear on the EITC Facebook profile.
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