The document provides information about the movie Notting Hill, including ordering events from the story, identifying true/false statements about plot details, matching characters to details, and choosing the correct answers to multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions. It tests comprehension of the romantic comedy film about a chance meeting and unlikely romance between a small bookshop owner named William and international movie star Anna Scott.
1. MOVIE WORKSHEET
NOTTING HILL
A –Order the sentences below according to the sequence of the events in the story.
a) Will takes Anna to his sister‟s birthday party.3
b) Hundreds of paparazzi are waiting outside.5
c) William‟s house.2
d) Anna and William meet for the first time in a bookshop.1
e) Anna and William sleep together.4
f) William decides to end his relation with Anna because they live in different
worlds.6
g) Will decides to go after Anna and asks the receptionist of the hotel where
Anna is.7
h) Anna and William get married.8
B – The following sentences test your comprehension of a passage from the film
Notting Hill, some days after Anna and William‟s first meeting. Say whether the
sentences are Trueor False according to what you have seen. Correct the false
statements.
1. William works in a hotel.F
2. Anna loves William.T
2. 3. William has two sisters and one is paraplegic.T
4. William‟s apartment is very tidy.F
5. William goes to the hotel where Anna is and says he is a member of her
family.F
C – Complete the sentences below with one word, according to what you are told in
the story.
1. Max, William‟s brother-in-law, has problems with the ____________________.
2. William‟s youngest sister‟s name is _Honey___________________.
3. Anna is a _Vegetarian___________________ (eating habits).
4. Bella and Max can‟t have a _Baby___________________.
5. Will‟s youngest sister is in love with _Spike___________________.
6. When Will goes to Anna‟s hotel room, he feels disappointed because he
meets Anna‟s __Boyfriend__________________.
D – The following text is an extract from the dialogue between William and Anna.
Read it.
W – Oh Jesus. Here, let me help.
He grabs some paper napkins and starts to clean it off – getting far too near her
breasts in the panic of it…
A – What are you doing?!
He jumps back.
W – Nothing, nothing… Look, I live just over the street. You could get cleaned
up.
A – No thank you. I need to get my car back.
W – I also have a phone. I‟m confident that in five minutes we can have you spick
and span and back on the street again… in the non-prostitute sense obviously.
A – Okay. So what does „just over the Street‟ mean give it to me in yards.
W – Eighteen yards. That‟s my house there.
Anna accepts his offer. They enter. She carries a few stylish bags.
3. W – Come on in. I‟ll just… it‟s a mess. He kicks some old shoes under the stairs,
bins an unfinished pizza and hides a place of breakfast in a cupboard.
She enters the kitchen.
W –It‟s not that tidy, I fear. The bathroom is right at the top of the stairs and
there‟s a phone on the desk up there.
Answer the questions.
1. Where are William and Anna when they meet for the second time?Walking
around the bookstore.
2. What does William spill over Anna?orange juice
3. Is William‟s house tidy or a mess?a mess
4. What does he offer Anna to drink before she leaves? Does she accept it?He
offers different kind of drinks but she doens´t accept any.
E – Choose the correct option.
1. Anna / Bella / Max cannot have a baby because of a paraplegia.
2. William / Bella / Spike works in a bookshop.
3. William / Honey / Anna is an actress.
4. Anna gives William a present: a travel book / a painting.
5. Spike was surprised to find Anna, the Hollywood star, in his bathroom /
bedroom.
F – Match and form sentences about the film.
1 - “Some people…
a. 5… for some ice cold still water.
2 – William cannot find…
b. 6… on a bus.
3 – William goes to the…
together.”
c. …1 spend their whole lives
4 – Jeff, Anna‟s boyfriend, asks William…
d. 7… a big picture of Anna at the
back of the bus.
4. 5 – William sits alone …
e. 3…cinema with his scuba-diving
goggles.
6 – We can see...
f. 2… his glasses.
G – Complete the sentences using the right word from the box below.
Hugh Grant plays William Thacker, the I _awner___________of a small
bookstore in London‟s Notting Hill (described as “a small village in the middle of a
city”). He‟s an average Joe – when he‟s not working, he spends time with his
friends and his wacky Welsh 2 ____________, but has no romantic life to speak
of. One day, however, the bedrock of his existence shifts when Anna Scott (Julia
Roberts), the most famous 3 __actress__________ in the world, walks through
the door to his little 4 _shop___________. Anna is in London to publicize a new
film. Later, William literally runs into her in the street, 5 _spilling___________
orange juice all over her. 6 _embartassed___________, he invites her to his
place to clean up. Much to his surprise, she accepts his 7
_offer___________,and, after changing outfits, she gives him a lingering 8
_kiss___________ on the lips. William is immediately smitten and so,
apparently, is Anna. Thus begins a 9 ____________ relationship that asks
whether a star can live happily ever after with someone who has never had his
face in the 10 _papers___________.
Kiss
actress
flatmate
papers
tempestuous
shop
ofter owner
embarrassed
spilling
H – Choose one of the options below and write a text of about 100 words.
1. Sum up the story of the film.
2. Choose one character and write about him/her (you can choose more than
one).
Anna Scott - A atriz do momento, vivendo o auge de sua carreira. Seu
filme Helix, de ficção científica, é o grande sucesso do cinema. Com
isso, a aclamada e bela artista é chamada para participar de um filme de
época que será rodado em Londres. Enquanto está passeando pela
cidade, ela passa pelo bairro de Notting Hill acaba por adentrar a livraria
de Will, conhecendo-o então, uma vez em que ele tem a boa intenção de
ajuda-la, também por estar maravilhado por ela. Não demora muito até
5. que os dois conhecem a se envolver, uma vez em que ela, apesar de
usufruir de sua boa fama, se sente presa a isso e está querendo
experimentar viver uma vida normal pelo menos uma vez na vida, vendo
em Will essa chance.