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No. 2

 

 

 

 

Toa Fraser's award-winning film of his stage play, about Nanna Maria and her extended family.

 

She demands that her grandchildren organise a feast for her – today!

 

Plenty to enjoy for both English and ESOL classes.

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Contents of Guide:

 

 

Teacher's Guide

 

Study Programme

 

Introduction

3

Introduction

2

Suggested teaching plan

4

Profile of Toa Fraser

3

Plot Outline

6

Making the Film

4

After the First Viewing

7

After the First Viewing

5

Quiz Answers

8

Analysing the Plot

6

Analysing the Plot

9

Conflict

7

Cause and Effect

10

Narrative Structure

8

Conflict Task Sheet Answers

11

Close Reading Checklist

10

Examining the Screenplay

12

Close Reading Task Sheets

12

Narrative Structure

13

Design and Setting

15

Scene by Scene commentary

15

Characterisation Checklist

17

Close Reading the Text Answer Guide

29

Characterisation Tasks

18

Scene Analysis

35

Writing an Exam Answer

20

Scene Analysis: Opening Sequence

36

Useful Quotations

24

Scene Analysis: The Accident

38

Glossary and Useful Vocabulary

25

Scene Analysis: the Fight

40

The Music

26

Design and Setting

41

Cast, Facts and Awards

27

Character Notes

44

The Complex Makeup of a Movie

28

Themes – an approach

49

Scene List

29

Theme Notes

50

Glossary of Film Terms

31

Worksheet Answers

52

Worksheets

 

Word Search Answers

54

Study Plan

34

Unit Outline

55

Quiz

35

 

 

Plot Outline

36

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Screenplay Analysis

37

 

Screenplay 2

38

 

Analyse the 'Set Up'

39

 

Nanna's Successor

40

 

Match Up Quiz

41

 

Word Search

42

 

Scene Analysis

43

 

Scene-by-Scene Work sheets

49

 

Appendix: Cause and Effect

58

 

 

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