THE GREEN MILE Director: Frank Darabont Actors: Tom Hanks, Micheal Duncan, David Moorse Based on the novel by Stephen King Past form • In 1999 Paul Endgecob begins to cry while watching the movie top hat. He rembers Jonh coffey and begins to tell his wife how he met jonh coffey. He she it = +s • In 1935 Paul works in the green mile,a prison.There prisoners are killed in the electric chair. • One day John Coffey a black giant accused of raping and killing two young white girls, arrives in the death row. Coffey is a real gentle giant, he is shy: he speaks softly, he is afraid of darkness and he often cries. PRESENT SIMPLE: Subj + Verb + (s) + ….. He speak s softly Soon enough John reveals extraordinary powers by healing Paul’s urinary tract infection and resurrecting a mouse that belonged to Jacob, an other inmate. Meanwhile another inmate arrives to the prison, Wild Bill. He is sentenced to death for killing three people. Wild Bill attacks the guards who escorted him. Later John Coffey heals another person who is going to die: Melinda, wife of Werden, head of prison and friend of Paul GOING TO : Future Tense Subj + am/is/are + going to + V • The day before condemnation to death Paul enters Jonh’s cell to talk and finds out that the killer of the two girls was Wild bill. Paul is shocked by this and asks the prisoner if he wants to escape but John wants to stay and he wants to die beacause he is tired to be as “sparrow in the rain” who is lonely. The day of the execution arrives, in the commotion of the guardians for the injustice that is about to happen, Paul holds John’s hand and hardly pronounces the words before the execution.