A PROJECT ON A FILM
Enriched
(CAST AWAY by Tom Hanks)
by Christina Siora, (www.esl-galaxy.com)
2nd High School of Peristeri (210 5734012)
YEAR:2013-2014
CLASS C UNIT 5
Project objectives: speaking, grammar (simple past, 2nd conditionals)
writing
Time needed: 2 teaching hours
Follow the steps:
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Give the students the plot and some vocabulary.
Watch the movie (00:23-00:53).
1st activity: Put the events in the correct sequence.
2nd activity: Answer the comprehension questions.
3rd activity: Let the children think ,discuss or write down what they
would do if…
CASTAWAY (PLOT)
After FedEx systems engineer Chuck Noland is ripped out of his hasty life by the clock in a
plane crash, he finds himself alone on the shores of a tropical island. First, frustration gets
to him and then he realizes how little his chances are to ever get back to civilization. Four
years later, Chuck has learned very well how to survive on his own: mending his dental
health, catching fish with a spear, predicting the weather with a self-made calendar. A
photograph of his girlfriend Kelly has kept his hopes alive all these years. Finally, Chuck
takes the opportunity to take off for home: he sets off on a wooden raft with a sail that
has washed ashore.
VOCABULARY
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turbulence (on the plane)
plane crash
raft
crew
float
Pacific ocean
Island
FEDEX (express delivery)
Coconut
Cave
Hill
Bury
Epitaph
Flash light
Inhabited
MOVIE STORY SEQUENCE
Put the following events in the correct order by writing numbers next to them
____He took off the dead man’s shoes and flash light
____The plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean
____He landed on a lonely island
____The flight crew were experiencing turbulence
____He split open the coconut with a stone and drank the juice
____He found a dead body floating near the beach
____He buried the dead man and wrote him an epitaph
____Tom Hanks used a raft to stay afloat
____He walked round the island and climbed a hill
____He called out for help
Answer: 9,2,4,1,6,8,10,3,7,5
Comprehension questions:
(From when the plane experiences turbulence)
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Why was the plane having much turbulence?_____________________________
What finally happened to the plane?____________________________________
Where did the plane crash?___________________________________________
What helped Tom Hanks to float on the high seas?________________________
Where did he finally land?____________________________________________
What happened to the other crew members?____________________________
The answers to the questions are :
1. Because the weather was bad
2. It was crashed and blown up.
3. Into the sea (the Pacific Ocean).
4. A lifeboat or a raft
5. He finally landed on an island.
6. They died in the crash.
(From when he gets on the island)
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What were some of the first things he did when he landed on the island?
2.Was the island inhabited?_________________________________________________
3.What sounds frightened him at night?________________________________________
4.What happened to the word <<HELP>> which he carved on the sand?______________
5.How did he get his first drink?______________________________________________
6.If you found yourself in the same situation would you drink sea water? Why or why
not?____________________________________________________________________
7.What did he find on the other side of the island?_______________________________
8.Why did he come running down from the hill? What did he find in the water?
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9.How did the dead man help him?___________________________________________
10.What did he finally do to the dead man?____________________________________
11.What did the dead’s man epitaph read?____________________________________
12.What do you think happens next?_________________________________________
Answers:
1.He was checking his cell phone and his watch, collecting the parcels, calling for anybody,
checking the surroundings ,protecting the life boat and carving the word <<HELP>> on the
sand.
2. No , it wasn’t.
3. The rustle of the leaves.
4. The sea extinguished the word.
5. From a coconut
6. Free answer
7. Nothing
8. He saw something from the top. A dead body.
9. He took off his shoes and he also took his torch.
10. He buried him.
11. Albert Miller (1950-1995).
12. Let them guess
Conversation questions or writing activity:
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If you were cast away like Tom Hanks on a lonely island, what would you do?
What would you do if you were forced to live on a lonely island for 25 years?
What would you do if you were the only survivor in a shipwreck or plane crash?
How would you cut your hair if you were lost on a lonely island without any razor?
How would you get your food? How would you brush your teeth?
5. How would you change if you came back from a lonely island after 20 years? Would
you look same?
6. What would happen if you couldn’t talk to people for 25 years? What would happen
to your language skills?