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Charles Muntz Lehrerversion

class:

Film Up

date:

Film Up: Charles Muntz in the 1930-s

If you need help with the vocabulary, you can ...

  • ... use one of the dictionaries on the teacher´s desk
  • ... take one of the vocabulary sheets


Tick () the correct solution(s). More than one answer might be correct.

0) (Example) At the beginning, we are in ...

  • ... a cinema
  • ... a school
  • ... a university
  • ... the opera

1) The film about Charles Muntz that Carl watches at the beginning is ...

  • ... a biopic
  • ... a documentary
  • ... a Hollywood Movie
  • ... a newsreel

2) Charles Muntz is ...

  • ... a film-maker
  • ... a scientist
  • ... an adventurer
  • ... an explorer

3) On his trip he went to ...

  • ... Central America
  • ... South Africa
  • ... South America
  • ... South Asia

4) He is now coming back to ...

  • ... Germany
  • ... Great Britain
  • ... South America
  • ... the USA

5) Charles Muntz ...

  • ... is not interested in a convenient life, so he doesn´t mind the primitive life in the jungle
  • ... loves a luxurious life but wants to find out more about nature
  • ... loves life in the jungle more than life in the civilized world
  • ... loves nature, but he also wants to lead a luxurious life

6) He has dogs because ...

  • ... he loves animals
  • ... he uses their bones to build a fake skeleton
  • ... he wants to study their behaviour
  • ... the dogs can help him in his work

7) The skeleton he has brought back is a ...

  • ... bird
  • ... dinosaur
  • ... Neanderthal Man
  • ... reptile

8) The scientists of the National Explorers Society reproach him because they think ....

  • ... animals with such a skeleton can´t exist
  • ... he had no right to take the bones from where he found them
  • ... Muntz is only interested in becoming famous and not in scientific results
  • ... the skeleton is a hoax

9) Muntz is expelled from the National Explorers Society. He reacts by ...

  • ... admitting that he has built the skeleton himself
  • ... promising to bring the "monster" alive
  • ... promising to find another complete skeleton
  • ... saying he will never come back

10) When young Carl learns that Charles Muntz is expelled from the National Explorers Society he ...

  • ... can´t believe that Muntz has cheated
  • ... hopes that Muntz will come back and clear his name
  • ... is shocked that Muntz has cheated
  • ... thinks the National Explorers Society has made a mistake

11) What is Muntz´s slogan? (Adventure is out there)

 

Vocabulary:

biopic – a film based on the life of a famous person (but with professional actors)

newsreel – a news report in the cinema

explorer – someone who travels to exotic places to study them

convenient – bequem

fake – false

hoax – a trick; a joke that is played on someone

to clear one´s name – seinen Ruf wiederherstellen

 

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