Un de mes fi lms préférés

Je suis fan des bandes dessinées «Spider-Man» depuis que je suis petit et j’adore aussi les fi lms de Spider-Man. Samedi dernier, je suis resté à la maison et j’ai regardé Spider-Man 3 à la télé. C’était génial! C’est le troisième fi lm de la série et à mon avis, c’est le meilleur.

Dans ce fi lm, Peter Parker (c’est la vraie identité de Spider-Man) veut se marier avec sa petite copine, Mary Jane (rôle interprété par Kirsten Dunst), mais, bien sûr, ils ont des problèmes! D’abord, Spider-Man est attaqué par une substance noire qui change son caractère et le rend plus aggressif. Ensuite, son ancien copain, Harry, veut le tuer pour se venger de la mort de son père. Puis Spider-Man doit combattre deux ennemis qui menacent New York: Sandman, un homme de sable qui a tué l’oncle de Peter Parker, et Venom, un méchant qui ressemble à Spider-Man et qui possède des pouvoirs dangereux. Finalement Spider-Man réussit à vaincre ses ennemis, avec l’assistance de Harry, mais malheureusement, Harry est tué par Venom. Cependant, tout fi nit bien pour Peter et Mary-Jane, qui sont toujours amoureux.

J’ai beaucoup aimé ce fi lm parce qu’il est passionnant, romantique, drôle et triste en même temps. Il est plein d’action et les effets spéciaux sont superbes. La vedette du fi lm est Tobey Maguire et il est excellent dans le rôle principal. Il est vraiment doué comme acteur. Le premier et le deuxième fi lms de la série sont bien, mais, pour moi, le troisième est plus intéressant et plus émouvant que les autres.

Je vais recommander ce fi lm à tous mes copains et de plus, je voudrais acheter les trois fi lms en DVD, pour les revoir aussitôt que possible!

Guillaume

1 Find the French equivalent of these phrases in the text and copy them out.

1 wants to get married to 2 is attacked by 3 wants to kill him 4 the death of his father 5 possesses dangerous powers 6 manages to defeat his enemies 7 however, everything ends well 8 funny and sad at the same time 9 the special effects10 the star of the fi lm11 in the lead role12 a really talented actor

2 Connectives, which are used to join sentences or ideas, or to introduce sentences, make a text more interesting. Read the text again. List and translate into English the connectives used.

3 Are the following statements True (T), False (F) or Not Mentioned (NM)?

Guillaume has been reading ‘Spider-Man’ 1 comics since he was a little boy. He has only seen one of the three Spider-Man 2 fi lms. He thinks Kirsten Dunst is attractive. 3 He likes the fact that the fi lm is full of action. 4 Usually, Guillaume prefers martial-arts fi lms. 5 He thinks Tobey Maguire is a good actor. 6 He doesn’t think his friends would like the fi lm. 7 He has already bought one of the Spider-Man 8 fi lms on DVD.

le rend plus aggressif – makes him more aggressiveancien – former

un homme de sable – a man made of sandressemble à – looks like

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4 You might be asked to write about a fi lm you have seen or a book you have read as a Controlled Assessment task. Use the Grade Studio to help you prepare.

5 Now write an article about one of your favourite fi lms or books.

Use or adapt phrases from ●

Guillaume’s text and from unit 4.If you have to look up ●

words in a dictionary, make sure you choose the right translation! Look carefully at any examples given. Cross-check by looking the French word up in the French–English part of the dictionary. Structure your text ●

carefully in paragraphs and refer to past, present and future events.

Introduction

What did you see or read, and when?What sort of book or fi lm is it?What was your general impression of it?

Main paragraphsWhat is the story of the book or fi lm?Describe the main characters.What happens at the beginning, in the middle and at the end?

ConclusionWhat do you think of the fi lm and the actors, and why?Would you recommend the fi lm?What are you going to see or read next, and why?

Check what you have written carefully. Check:

spelling and accents, ●

especially words which are similar to the English (e.g. ennemi, attaqué, dangereux, effets, acteur)gender ( ● le/la/l’/les; un/une) and agreement (e.g. adjectives, past participles of être verbs.)verb endings (e.g. ● je veux/il/elle veut)tense formation (e.g. ●

j’aime/j’ai aimé; je suis resté/je vais acheter)

To really impress the examiner and aim for an A* Grade:include the ◆ comparative (plus/moins + adjective + que …). Guillaume uses this to compare Spider-Man 3 with the other two fi lms. use a ◆ relative pronoun such as qui (who/which). Guillaume uses this six times to describe the plot of the fi lm!use a ◆ direct object pronoun, to avoid repeating a noun, e.g. Harry veut le tuer (Harry wants to kill him). use ◆ depuis + the present tense to say how long you have been doing something, as Guillaume does in the fi rst line.

To aim higher than a Grade C, you need to aim for maximum accuracy. Look at the verb endings in Guillaume’s second paragraph. When you are ◆describing the characters and action in a fi lm, you need to use the il/elle/ils/elles parts of the verb correctly, so make sure you know them. Also make sure you use the correct ◆ adjective agreement: masculine or feminine, singular or plural. Look for examples in Guillaume’s text.

To achieve a Grade C, you need to use connectives, adjectives and the three main tenses (present, perfect and future) correctly.

Include at least six of the ◆ connectives from exercise 2 in your text.Look at the number of ◆ adjectives Guillaume uses to give his opinion of the fi lm. He uses the ◆ present tense to describe the plot of the fi lm, the perfect tense to say when he watched it and that he liked it, plus aller + infi nitive to say he is going to recommend the fi lm to his friends.

Épate l’examinateur!Include ◆ le meilleur/la meilleure (plural: les meilleurs/meilleures). See how Guillaume uses this to say which of the Spider-Man fi lms he thinks is the best one.

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