FOR ELEMENTARY AND PRE INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS
Please print and do the following activity.
We will correct it next class
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Meet Joe Black (Elementary and Pre-Intermediate)
1. Watch the chunk
2. Answer these questions
· What are the names of the two famous actors performing this chunk?
· Can you remember any films in which they have performed in?
· What is Parrish wearing? (please be specific with colours)
· What is Joe Black wearing?
· What are the people in the meeting eating and drinking?
· Does Joe speak during the chunk?
· Is there a woman in the meeting?
3. Watch it again
4. Fill in the gaps with the following business words
Meeting- Earned-Chairman-Business-Buying -Profit-Absorb-Pay-Responsibility-Selling-Standards-Exploitable- Company-Sale
Drew: To review -- we're really crossing the 't's and dotting the 'i's here. Bill had a great and conclusive ______________yesterday with John Bontecou. And all that remains for us is to put it to a vote.
Parrish: Thank you, Drew. Yeah. I did enjoy -- or rather I was interested in meeting John Bontecou, yesterday. And -- impressive, I suppose. But... But, it did get me to thinking. See, I started in this _________because this is what I wanted to do. I knew I wasn't going to write the great American novel, but I also knew there was more to life than_________ something for a dollar and _______it for two. I'd hoped to create something, something which could be held to the highest__________. And what I realized was I wanted to give the news to the world, and I wanted to give it unvarnished. The more we all know about each other, the greater the chance we will survive.
Sure, I want to make a_________. You can't exist without one. But John Bontecou is all profit. Now if we give him license to _________Parrish Communications, and he has his eye on a few others after us, in order to reach the world you will have to go through John Bontecou. And not only will you have to ________him to do this, far more important, you'll have to agree with him.
Reporting the news is a privilege and a________, and it is not__________. Parrish Communications has______ this privilege. John Bontecou wants to buy it. As your__________, I urge you to agree this ______is not for________.
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