Movie Project Questions 1

1. What questions

What are you reviewing? The Milk

What is it about? The story of California`s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk.

What is the plot or storyline? Harvey Milk opens the film as a 40 year-old man living in New York who decides to take his younger partner Scott (James Franco) to San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood to open a camera shop. There he decides to run for city council as an openly gay man. His effort would result in him being the first of “his people” to be elected to a major government position. Standing in his way is not only his political rivals, but also the churches with anti-homosexual views (in this film, portrayed by Irish-Catholics) and a national lobby to ban gay rights called “Proposition 6″ which has some prominent names behind it.

What is the theme? His life changed history. His courage changed lives.

What is the director's purpose? To always remember Harvey Milk
What genre or classification does it fit? Biography & Drama

What is the tone? Very emotional movie
What is the point of view?
What is the mood? happiness and sadness

2. Who questions.
Who wrote, directed, or acted it? Directed by GUS VANT SANT & Acted by SEAN PENN

What else have they done?
Who are the main characters in the story? Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, James Franco

Who is the intended audience?
Who has said what about this?
Why?

3. Where and when questions.
When does the action take place? In 1977
Where does the action take place? USA

Wiki Treasure Hunt

1.What is the Learning Express Library? Language Learning Library (LEL) - self-learning tasks
2.Where is Mr. B's office? C-150
3.What percentage of the course is reading and listening worth? 60%
4.How many students are registered in the class? 39 students
5.What are Mr. B's office hours? Tuesdays- 1:30 – 2:30 / Wednesdays- 1:00 – 5:00
6.What is the 48 hour rule? Always have to motivate an absent in the exam in 48 hours .Otherwise we can not redo the exam.
7.What is the first assignment? LEL
8.What is ELLLO? ELLLO is a free online listening resource of over 1,000 listening activities designed especially for ESL and EFL students and teachers
9.How many threads are found in the discussion forum? 28
10.Do you have to go to the Grande Bibiliotheque to register? NO, We can register Online
11.What is the blog URL of the last student on the class list? http://schoolblog-g.blogspot.com
12.How many pages appear when you type "grammar" in the "Search this site" box? 5 pages
13.How many items are listed in the Student Contract? 10 items
14.What is the name of the class textbook? Learning English for Academic Purposes
15.How many items are there in the "Writing Correction Code"? 25 items

Student Profile

I met Léa today in my English class and I had the opportunity to ask her a few questions using the gains profile.

Léa is an 18 year old girl and she just finished her high school. She studies social science at St-Laurent Cegep in Montreal. Her favorite subject in Cegep is Philosophy and she is very good at it. She wants to pass all her courses with good marks to obtain her DEC. After that she wants to enter university to become a physiotherapist and then find a good job and make good money to travel. She studies hard and tries her best. She is very proud of finishing her high school and getting her diploma. She is an active girl and she is interested in dance, music, sports and traveling. She has lots of friends in Montreal and Quebec. She also has friends in Miami because her boyfriend has relatives there. She is a sociable girl and also likes to communicate with people a lot. She went to Mexico during the holiday and she visited Peru there. She also went to the beach and enjoyed the sunny weather there. She really liked it and she wants to go there another time.
Hopefully she will reach her goals by studing and efforts and will be proud of herself more!!!