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Wonder
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Nivells: Cicle Superior de Primària, ESO. Àrees:
Coneixement del medi natural, social i cultural / Educació
per al desenvolupament personal i la ciutadania / Llengua
anglesa / Tutoria / Educació per a la ciutadania i els drets
humans / Literatura universal / Món contemporani.
Temes: Educació en valors / Infància. Drets dels infants /
Adolescència. Joventut / Medecina. Salut / Relacions
humanes / Discapacitats físiques i psíquiques / Família.
Relacions familiars / El món Educatiu. Coeducació.
Relacions professorat- alumnat.

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Índex d’activitats
Fitxa tècnica i artística. Sinopsi ……………………………. 1
English Activities
Characters of the film. Use of he/she, his/her, him/her ..... 2
Vocabulary……........…..............................................…….……. 4
The protagonist’s family tree. Family relationships ............ 4
Treacher Collins syndrome. Reading comprehension ......... 5
Trailer. Listening ……..……............................................………. 6
What is bullying? Reading comprehension ......................... 7
Who says what? .................................................................. 8
Fitxa tècnica i artística
Direcció: Stephen Chbosky. Interpretació: Jacob Tremblay, Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Izabela Vidovic, Noah Jupe.
Guió: Steve Conrad, Jack Thorne (basat en la novel·la de R.J. Palacio). Música: Marcelo Zarvos. Fotografia: Don
Burgess. Gènere: Drama. Any: 2017. País: EUA. Durada: 113 minuts.
Sinopsi
Basat en el best-seller Wonder, de R.J. Palacio. Auggie Pullman és un nen que va néixer amb una malformació facial.
Ara, després de deu anys d'hospital en hospital i de llargs períodes a casa, haurà de fer front a un gran repte: assistir
per primera vegada a l'escola. Gràcies al suport dels seus pares, Isabel i Nate, Auggie tractarà d'encaixar entre els
seus nous companys i professors, demostrant que malgrat el seu físic és un nen com qualsevol altre.

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Millie Davis
(Summer)
Bryce Gheisar
(Julian)
Elle McKinnon
(Charlotte)
ACTIVITY ONE - THE CHARACTERS OF THE FILM
Here you have the main young actors and actresses of the film and the
names of the characters they perform.
Read the descriptions of these characters on pages 2 and 3, and answer
these questions.
a. He or she? According to the text, choose the right person in
each paragraph.
b. Match the characters with the descriptions.
He/She and Auggie’s sister, Via, have known each other
since first grade. He/She has known Auggie since he was a baby.
He/She and Auggie used to sing Space Oddity by David Bowie
together because of the astronaut helmet that Auggie liked to
wear. His/Her parents got divorced the summer before high
school started. Now he/she and Via are not as close as they
used to be.
He/She is one of the smartest kids in his/her grade. It
makes a lot of other kids think he/she is a goody-two-shoes.
He/She loves theater and dancing, and he/she has two sisters
and a puppy named Suki that his/her family adopted from an
animal shelter. He/She is friendly and doesn’t choose sides at
school.
He/She is ten years old. He/She loves Xbox, his/her
dog, Daisy, and Star Wars. His/Her favourite holiday is
Halloween. He/She has had twenty-seven surgeries - some big,
some small. His/Her problem comes from a specific gene.
His/Her parents and his/her sister each carry the gene, too, but
only he/she shows it.
It is also hard for him/her to hear, and sometimes it’s hard to
tell when he/she is smiling. Because of his/her surgeries,
he/she studied at home for a long time. He/She started going
to Beecher School in fifth grade. There he/she has made a lot of
new friends, and he/she smiles a lot now.
Jacob Tremblay
(Auggie - August Pullman)
Izabela Vidovic
(Via - Olivia Pullman)
Danielle Rose Russell
(Miranda)
Noah Jupe
(Jack Will)
(Characters illustrated by R.J. Palacio, the author of the book)
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USE OF THE FORMS: HE/SHE, HIM/HER AND HIS/HER
These two sentences express the same idea, but they use
different forms of the persons he and she:
 He has a camera. The camera belongs to him. It is
his camera.
 She has a book. The book belongs to her. It is her
book.
The main difference between a noun (Auggie, Via,
Julian…) and the forms he/she, him/her and his/her is
that nouns do not change their form.
He and She have different forms: he/she, him/her and
his/her.
STUDY THIS RULE:
 We use the form he and she when the person is
the subject of the sentence.
 We use the form him and her when the person is
the object of the sentence.
 The form his and her are possessive and go before
the noun.
He/She is Auggie’s older sister and a new student at Faulkner High
School. He/She sometimes feels he/she is not as important to his/her family,
especially since their grandmother and one of his/her favourite people, died.
Sometimes he/she is frustrated that he/she is defined more as Auggie’s sister,
but he/she is also very protective of his/her brother and is a great sister and
friend to him.
He/She is one of Auggie’s first friends at Beecher School. He/She and
Auggie have six classes together: homeroom, English, history, computer, music,
and science. He/She doesn’t love school, except for some classes, like PE
(Physical Education) and computer class. He/She has August in many classes,
and it is easier because they make each other laugh in class a lot.
He/She is one of Auggie’s biggest obstacles at Beecher School. He/She
is rude to Auggie and makes other kids feel like they have to be, too. He/She is
an only child, and his/her popularity at school is really important to him/her.
After spending the summer with his grandmother in Paris, he/she feels sorry
for how he/she treated Auggie during the school year. He/She apologizes and
decides to enroll in a new school for the sixth grade for a fresh start.
He/She is very popular, but he/she doesn’t always do what the other
popular boys or girls do. He/She sits with Auggie at lunch on his first day of
school. They realized that their names are both summer names. They only
have one class together, English, but they eat lunch together every day and
walk together after school a lot. One of his/her favourite sayings is “cool
beans.” It is also a great way to describe him/her.
Vocabulary - goody-two-shoes: que és massa bo/bona; cool beans: que guai!
Adapted from: https://wonderthebook.com/characters
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ACTIVITY TWO - VOCABULARY
The words below are mentioned repeatedly during the film
and are important to Auggie’s story. With the help of a
dictionary, match them with their definitions on the right.
1. ordinary / 2. stare / 3. extraordinary / 4. precept / 5.
wonder / 6. contagious / 7. defect / 8. syndrome / 9.
genetic / 10. ovation
a. Write down the names of the Pullman family
members.
Daisy / August Pullman / Isabel Pullman /
Olivia Pullman / Nate Pullman
b. Choose the correct words according to the
family tree.
father / mother / daughter / son / family pet
(dog) / wife / husband / sister / brother
Isabel is Nate's ……………………….
August is Isabel's ……………………….
Isabel is Olivia’s ……………………….
Nate is August’s ……………………….
Olivia is August’s ……………………….
Nate is Isabel's ……………………….
August is Olivia's ……………………….
Daisy is Pullman family’s ………………….
a. Look at something/someone with fixed eyes.
b. Something that is not exceptional, and has not special quality or interest.
c. A rule of behaviour, especially moral behaviour.
d. When a disease spread by contact with an infected person or object.
e. Something unusual, exceptional, and remarkable.
f. Characteristics that members of a family usually have by heredity.
g. Something/Someone that is very good or amazing.
h. Long, loud applause or another expression of approval.
i. A fault or imperfection.
j. A group of symptoms that together are signs of a particular disease.
ACTIVITY THREE - THE PROTAGONIST’S FAMILY TREE

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Read the text about the syndrome Auggie
suffers, and decide whether these statements
are True (T) or False (F)
1. Treacher Collins Syndrome is a contagious
disorder.
2. TCS is a condition you can develop after
your birth.
3. TCS affects mainly to the head.
4. The ear can be missing in people with
TCS.
5. Auggie’s condition is quite ordinary.
In Wonder, Auggie refers to his condition as Mandibulofacial Dysostosis that is also known as
Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS).
This disease is an inherited disorder, and there are very few people affected (about 1 in
70,000 of births in the USA). When a person is affected by TCS, his/her cheekbones and
jawbones do not develop well. Children with this condition have very small or partially absent
cheekbones and weird eyelids. Frequently the ears are not normal, and parts of them are
usually absent. There is a hearing loss associated with this syndrome too.
In Wonder, Auggie's condition is also more complicated by another syndrome that makes his
particular set of craniofacial differences unique.
There are many children born every year with different types of craniofacial differences.
When people get older, other things that happen can cause facial differences too. They
include accidents, fires, or diseases.
Adapted from https://wonderthebook.com/for-teachers
ACTIVITY FOUR – “TREACHER-COLLINS SYNDROME”
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How do you treat people
who are different from you?
That is the question at the
heart of the film Wonder.
Although Auggie's face and
everyday experiences are
imaginary, the lives of people
with a craniofacial condition
caused by Treacher Collins
syndrome are very real.
Mr. Browne, the English teacher introduces this Dr.
Wayne W. Dyer’s quote on the first day of school.

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Based on R.J. Palacios’ bestseller, Wonder tells the
inspiring story of August Pullman. Auggie, as everyone
knows him, was born with facial differences that, up
until now, have prevented him from going to an
ordinary school. Auggie becomes the most unlikely of
heroes when he enters the local fifth grade.
Watch the trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngiK1gQKgK8
a. Complete what Auggie and other people say with
these words.
ordinary – superpower - walk up - helmets - petrified -
aspire - plastic - pretend – invisible - surgeries - eraser
(x 2) - nice - stand out - ugly (x 2) - face
b. Match the dialogues in the trailer with the
characters who say each sentence:
Auggie Pullman - mom - dad - Via - Jack Will - Julian -
Summer - Mr. Brown - Boys in the forest – Charlotte
Vocabulary - Bunsen burners: cremadors Bunsen (una peça
dels equips de laboratori); sec: segon (abreviat); Dude: tio
(col·loquial)
- My name is Auggie Pullman. Next week, I start
fifth grade and since I've never been to a real
school before, I'm pretty much totally
__________________ .
SCENE 1 : OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL. AUGGIE,
HIS MOM AND DAD
- I'll see you later.
- Okay
- Don't want to __________ with your parents
because it's not cool.
- But you're cool.
- I know I am, but technically most dads aren't,
neither these _________ .
- Dear god, please, make them be nice to him.
- I know I'm not an ordinary ten year old kid.
I've had 27 __________ . They helped me to
breathe, to see, to hear without hearing aids,
but none of them have made me look
____________ .
SCENE 2 : SOME SCHOOL MATES SHOW AUGGIE
THE LABORATORY
- Incubator, Bunsen burners … Oh! And this is
an __________ . You know what an ________
is, right?
SCENES 3 /4: SCHOOL MATES TALK ABOUT
AUGGIE’S FACE
- Look at his face.
- I’ve never seen anything that ________ in my
life.
- If I look like him I swear I put a hood over my
________ .
SCENE 5: AUGGIE’S DAD AND MOM TALK TO HIM
- I know you don't always like it but I love it. It's
my son's face.
- You are not ______ , Auggie.
- You just have to say that because you’re my
mom.
- Because I'm your mom it counts the most,
because I know you the most.
SCENE 6: SCHOOL DINING HALL
- Hi!
- You don't have to do this.
- I don't know what you're talking about,
Auggie.
- You don't have to ____________ , it’s all
I’m saying.
- Auggie.
- Okay I'm really sorry.
- Why are you sitting here then?
- ‘Cause I want some _________ friends
for a change.
- Me too.
SCENE 7: CLASSROOM
- Who is it that I ___________ to be? That is
the question that we should be asking
ourselves all the time.
SCENE 8: SCHOOL DINING HALL
- Hey Jack! Come sit here.
- In a sec
…
- I'd like to be able to control the weather.
- That would be your __________________?
That sounds pretty lame.
- Oh, what would you do?
- I'd be ________ .
- You're the toughest kid in that school, show
them. You can't blend in when you were
born to _________________ .
SCENE 9: SCHOOL DINING HALL
- You really thought about having plastic
surgery?
- Dude, this is after ________ surgery it takes
a lot of work to look this good.
ACTIVITY FIVE – TRAILER

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Every minute of every day, we make choices in how we treat the
people we meet. We can choose to be kind or we can choose to be
cruel.
Sometimes, our words or actions are unintentionally hurtful toward
others, but not all hurtful behaviour is bullying.
We can say the behaviour is bullying when it is aggressive, unwanted,
and involves a power imbalance. In these cases, both persons who
are bullied and who bully others may have serious problems.
To be considered bullying the behaviour must be aggressive, and
include:
- An Imbalance of Power: Kids who bully use their power - such
as physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or
popularity - to control or harm others.
- Repetition: Bullying behaviours happen more than once or
can happen more than once.
- Actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking
someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from
a group on purpose.
Adapted from: https://www.stopbullying.gov/what-is-bullying/index.html
a. Read the text below and complete the definitions of these three
kinds of bullying:
- Verbal bullying is: ........................................................................
- Social bullying or relational bullying involves: ..............................
- Physical bullying involves: .............................................................
1. To hurt a person’s body or possessions.
2. To say or write mean things about a person.
3. To hurt someone’s reputation or relationships.
ACTIVITY SIX - WHAT IS BULLYING?
b. With the help of a dictionary, divide these types of bullying into three
different groups:
VERBAL BULLYING / SOCIAL BULLYING / PHYSICAL BULLYING
making mean or rude hand gestures - tripping/pushing - taunting
threatening to cause harm - leaving someone out on purpose - name-
calling - teasing - embarrassing someone in públic - taking someone’s
things - hitting/kicking/pinching - spreading rumors about someone -
spitting - telling other children not to be friends with someone -
inappropriate sexual comments - breaking someone’s things
Vocabulary - mean: mesquines, unwanted: no desitjat, power imbalance:
desequilibri de poder, embarrassing: molesta

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ACTIVITY SEVEN - WHO SAYS WHAT?
Although you will not probably remember every detail of the
story, these sentences are parts of the conversations that some
of the characters have during the film.
Do you remember them? If so, match the people to the
sentences they say.
1. Auggie
2. Mr. Browne (English teacher)
3. Mr. Pullman (Auggie’s father)
4. Mrs. Pullman (Auggie’s mother)
5. Summer (girl who sits with Auggie at the dining hall)
6. Mr. Tushman (School headmaster)
7. Jack Will (best Auggie’s friend)
8. Via (Auggie’s sister)
a. School sucks and people change and those are the rules.
b. Your deeds are your monuments.
c. Because I want some nice friends for a change.
d. Good friends are worth defending.
e. You are a wonder, Auggie. You are a wonder.
f. We all need a standing ovation at least once in our life.
g. I know I’m cool but technically most dads aren’t.
h. If all the guys in the fifth grade were lined up against a wall, I would
choose Auggie.
Vocabulary
sucks: és una merda (expressió vulgar), deeds: accions, standing: mantingut/da, I’m cool:
tinc bon rotllo (col·loquial), lined up: posats en fila

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Direcció i concepció gràfica
Cinema per a estudiants
Activitats i adaptació de textos
Anabel Ponce Mata i José Pica
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