1. THE CURIOUS CASE OF
BENJAMIN BUTTON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZj1Yeb-tVg&feature=emb_logo
1- Pre-watching: Answer these questions
a- Did you see the film?
b- What is the film about?
c- Who are the characters? What do they do?
2- While- watching: Put the events in the correct order.
a- Daisy was taking a shower.
b- The taxi was stopped waiting for a traffic light.
c- The taxi was blocked by a delivery truck.
d- Daisy was getting dressed.
e- A woman who was going shopping had forgotten her coat.
f- The taxi was waiting outside a boutique for the woman to pick up a package.
g- A friend who had broken a shoe lace.
h- Daisy and her friend came out of the back of the theatre.
i- Daisy was rehearsing for a performance at the theatre.
j- The shop assistant had broken up with her boyfriend the night before.
k- The taxi was waiting for a traffic light
l- The taxi driver stopped to get a cup of coffee.
m- A man crossing the street had forgotten to set his alarm.
3- While-watching: Complete the sentences with past perfect of the verbs in
brackets.
If that shoe lace________________________ ( not break),
If the delivery truck ___________________ (move) moments earlier,
If the package was wrapped and ready because the girl ___________________( not break up) with her boyfriend,
If the man ___________________ (set) the alarm and got up 5 minutes earlier,
If that taxi driver ___________________ (not stop)for that cup of coffee,
If that woman _____________________ (remember)the coat and got the earlier cab,
Answer: What wouldn’t have happened to Daisy?________________________________________
2. 4- Write the chain of events using the third conditional ( past things that cannot be changed)
1- It was raining that day. 1- If it hadn’t been raining that day, I would have got a taxi.
2- I couldn’t get a taxi. 2- If I had got a taxi, I would have arrived early at my job.
3- I didn’t arrive early at my job. 3- _______________________________________________
4- I didn’t finish all the work. 4- _______________________________________________
5- My boss wasn’t happy. 5- _______________________________________________
6- I got fired. 6- _______________________________________________
7- I applied for another job. 7- _______________________________________________
8- I met my girlfriend. 8 8- _______________________________________________
9- We got married. 9- _______________________________________________
10- I am so happy. 10- ______________________________________________
And all had happened because it ____________________________ that day