Worksheet A
Fill in the gaps to complete the text.
The film Slumdog Millionaire, which (1)
_ _ _ e out at the beginning of this year, has had big (2) au _ _ ences in cinemas in many
different countries. On 22nd February it (3) w _ _ eight Oscars
including ‘Best Film’, and for its English director Danny Boyle, ‘Best
Director’.
The film (4) te _ _ _ the (5) _ _ _ ry of two brothers growing up in
a very large slum in the biggest city in India, Mumbai. They are very (6) _ _ or and have no one to look (7) _ _ _ er them after their mother is
killed. The film starts quite close to the end of the story, where we see
Jamal, the younger of the two brothers, in a Mumbai police station. He is about
eighteen years old. We learn that the police have (8) _ rr _ st _ _ him because he
is (9) ta _ _ _ g p _ _ t in the popular TV quiz show ‘Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire?’, and some people think he is cheating. He has
already given the right answers to lots of questions and now has the (10) ch _ _ ce to win a
(11) _ uge amount of money. But where has someone from a slum (some of
the characters in the film (12) u _ k _
nd _ y call him a ‘slumdog’), who has not had much of an (13) e _ u _ _ _ ion got such knowledge
from? The film then goes back in time and shows that Jamal knows the answers
because of things that happened to him, his brother Salim and a girl called Latika
in the past.
Bad things happen in the story and
there is quite a lot of (14) _ _ _ lence,
but there is also (15) hum _ _ r and
most people would probably say it is a feel-good film. The (16) e _ d _ n _ is very exciting, but this
isn’t the place to say what happens – you’ll have to go and see the film
yourself!
One of the things that helps Slumdog Millionaire seem (17) r _ _ _ ist _ c is the fact that a few
of the young actors are themselves from Mumbai slums. Television
(18) n _ w _ programmes (19) sh
_ _ ed how happy the young actors were to be at the Oscars in Los Angeles,
and how excited some people in Mumbai were when they arrived back (20) h _ _ e after the film did so well.
Worksheet b
THE BACK STORY:
Complete the article with these words
before despite education
offensive part
director including
based view claim
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 film
by British ………….., Danny Boyle. Simon Beaufoy’s screenplay was ..…………. on the
novel Q&A, written by Indian writer and diplomat, Vikas Swarup. Boyle
auditioned many young Indian actors for the ..………… of Jamal as a young man, but
he finally chose Dev Patel, a young British Asian actor. Freida Pinto, who
plays Latika when she is a young woman, was an Indian model who had never
appeared in a film ..……………. . Set and filmed in India, the film won eight Academy
Awards (Oscars) ………………. Best Picture and Best Director. ……………………….. this
success, the film received some criticism. In India, some people felt that the
film perpetuated a stereotypical ………………… of life in Indian cities. Some critics
felt that the word ‘slumdog’ was …………………….. . Some British newspapers reported
that the child actors, were poorly paid for their work on the film. In response
to this ………………., the filmmakers explained that they had set up trust funds for
the child actors and made provisions for their …………………….. .
SYNOPSIS: Complete the
synopsis of the film with these words:
dying for mother
kills
reunited story begging home interrogated correctly
hope called well threatens escape
A young Indian man, Jamal, is being ………………………
in a police cell by an inspector who wants to learn how a ‘slumdog’ from the
streets of Mumbai did so …………… on a TV quiz. In a flashback, we see Jamal going
onto Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?. Each question reminds Jamal of his life …………,
and this helps him to answer the question ……………….. In this way, we see Jamal’s
life story in a series of flashbacks prompted by the questions. After their …………
is killed in antiMuslim rioting, Jamal and Salim befriend a young orphaned
girl, Latika. The three live by foraging in the city’s dumps, until a man ..………..
Maman takes them to his orphanage. Maman’s real intention is to make the children
earn him money by .……………... .Salim and Jamal escape, but Latika is unable to
follow. After years away from Mumbai, Jamal persuades Salim to return to look ………..
Latika. As they free her, Salim shoots and .…………. Maman. However, Jamal is not
reunited with Latika for long; Salim is enlisted by a local crime boss, Javed,
and Salim ………………….. Jamal with a gun, sending him away. When Jamal finds Salim
years later, he finds that Salim is still working for Javed. Latika has become
the crime boss’s ‘girlfriend’ – a prisoner in his luxurious .……….. We learn
that Jamal has come onto to the quiz in the .…………. that Latika will be watching
TV, and will see him. After he is cleared of the charge of cheating, he faces
the final question. Latika does see him on the show, and Salim helps her .……………
from Javed and his men, killing Javed and ……………. himself. Jamal answers the
final question correctly and he and Latika are ………………..
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