Movie Worksheet New Years Resolutions

Whose resolutions are these? Can you guess?

I WILL NOT

Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.

Smoke.
Waste money on: pasta-makers, ice-cream machines or other culinary devices
which will never use; books by unreadable literary authors to put impressively on
shelves; exotic underwear, since pointless as have no boyfriend.
Behave sluttishly around the house, but instead imagine others are watching.
Spend more than earn.
Allow in-tray to rage out of control.
Fall for any of following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with
girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomaniacs, chauvinists, emotional fuckwits
or freeloaders, perverts.
Get annoyed with Mum, Una Alconbury or Perpetua.
Get upset over men, but instead be poised and cool ice-queen.
Have crushes on men, but instead form relationships based on mature assessment
of character.
Bitch about anyone behind their backs, but be positive about everyone.
Obsess about Daniel Cleaver as pathetic to have a crush on boss in manner of Miss
Moneypenny or similar.
Sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of
self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain
boyfriend.
I WILL

Stop smoking.
Drink no more than fourteen alcohol units a week.
Reduce circumference of thighs by 3 inches (i.e. 1 inches each), using anticellulite diet.
Purge flat of all extraneous matter
Give all clothes which have not worn for two years or more to homeless.
Improve career and find new job with potential.
Save up money in form of savings. Poss start pension-also.
Be more confident.
Be more assertive.
Make better use of time.
Not go out every night but stay in and read books and listen to classical music.
Give proportion of earnings to charity.
Be kinder and help others more.
Eat more pulses.
Get up straight away when wake up m mornings.
Go to gym three times a week not merely to buy sandwich. Put photographs in
photograph albums.
Make up compilation 'mood' tapes so can have tapes ready with all favourite
romantic/dancing/rousing/feminist etc, tracks assembled instead of turning into
drink-sodden DJ-style person with tapes scattered all over floor.
Form functional relationship with responsible adult.
Learn to programme video.

Check true or false after watching the movie segment:

True

False

Bridget's mother wants Bridget to have a boyfriend

Bridget's mother has a poor taste to choose Bridget's partners
Bridget's mother likes the way Bridget dresses
Bridget thinks her mother's buffet is very chic
Bridget had met Mark before
Mark Darcy is rich
Bridget loves the clothes her mother chooses for her
Bridget gets on quite well with her father
Bridget is trying to impress Darcy
Darcy is looking for a new girlfriend
Darcy likes people who drink and smoke
http://www.cristinacabal.com/advanced/bridgetlessonplan.htm
Match the underlined words with the correct definition.
1. ........................................................: shocked
2. ........................................................: a Nazi concentration camp
3. .........................................................: (GB) lawyer who presents cases in superior courts
4. .........................................................: vociferously, making your feelings known loudly and noisily
5. .........................................................: dedication to a long-term relationship
6. .........................................................: feared
7. .........................................................: makes sexual advances by touching another person
8. .........................................................: engaged in sexual activity
9. .........................................................: panties, womens underwear
10. .......................................................: people who have delusions of wealth, power, etc.
11. .......................................................: people who get (esp. sexual) pleasure from watching others
12. .......................................................: sexually perverted
13. ......................................................: unmarried people
14. ......................................................: middle-aged or older woman who has never married
15. ......................................................: walked without fixed destination
Quotations:
1. ... you used to play in his paddling pool. Hes a barrister. Very well-off. Hes divorced, apparently. His
wife was Japanese. Very cruel race.
2. ... youll never get a boyfriend if you look like youve wandered out of Auschwitz. Now, run upstairs.
Ive laid out something lovely on your bed.
3. Actually not my uncle. Someone who insists I call him uncle while he gropes my ass and asks me the
question dreaded by all singletons: Hows your love life?
4. I do not need a blind date. Particularly not with some verbally incontinent spinster who smokes like a
chimney, drinks like a fish and dresses like her mother.
5. ... and not to continue to form romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics,
commitment- phobics, Peeping Toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuck-wits or perverts.
6. Am appalled by message. Skirt is demonstrably neither sick nor absent. Appalled by managements
blatantly size-ist attitude to skirt. Suggest managements sick, not skirt!
7. If I actually do, by some terrible chance, end up in flagrante, surely these would be most attractive at
crucial moment. However, chances of reaching crucial moment greatly increase by wearing these. Scarystomach- holding-in panties. Very popular with grannies the world over.
8. Darling, if I came in with my knickers on my head, he wouldnt notice. I spent thirty-five years
cleaning his house, washing his clothes, bringing up his children. To be honest, darling, having children
isnt all its cracked up to be. Given the chance, Im not sure Id have any.

Answer Key:
Vocabulary Work: Match the underlined words with the correct definition.
1. (appalled): shocked
2. (Auschwitz): a Nazi concentration camp
3. (barrister): (GB) lawyer who presents cases in superior courts
4. (blatantly): vociferously, making your feelings known loudly and noisily
5. (commitment): dedication to a long-term relationship
6. (dreaded): feared
7. (gropes): makes sexual advances by touching another person
8. (in flagrante): engaged in sexual activity
9. (knickers): panties, womens underwear
10. (megalomaniacs): people who have delusions of wealth, power, etc.
11. (Peeping Toms): people who get (esp. sexual) pleasure from watching others
12. (sick): sexually perverted
13. (singletons): unmarried people
14. (spinster): middle-aged or older woman who has never married
15. (wandered): walked without fixed destination
1. ... you used to play in his paddling pool. Hes a barrister. Very well-off. Hes divorced, apparently. His
wife was Japanese. Very cruel
race.
Bridgets mum is reminding her of Mark Darcy in the hope she finds a good match in him.
2. ... youll never get a boyfriend if you look like youve wandered out of Auschwitz. Now, run upstairs.
Ive laid out something lovely
on your bed.
Mrs Jones is trying to get Bridget to look great and has chosen a garment for her to wear at the party.
Bridget complies to her mums
request but eventually thinks shes wearing a carpet.
3. Actually not my uncle. Someone who insists I call him uncle while he gropes my ass and asks me the
question dreaded by all
singletons: Hows your love life?
Bridget is introducing Uncle Geoffrey, who is constantly making passes at her and teasing her about her
unmarried status.
4. I do not need a blind date. Particularly not with some verbally incontinent spinster who smokes like a
chimney, drinks like a fish
and dresses like her mother.
Having just chatted with Bridget, Mark tries to stop his mum finding him a match. Unfortunately, Bridget
overhears his nasty description of
her.
5. ... and not to continue to form romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics,
commitment- phobics,
Peeping Toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuck-wits or perverts.
Bridget has just decided to start a diary and to keep away from those male types that have stopped her
finding her ideal match to settle
down with. She goes on to explain that Daniel Cleaver embodies all these types.
6. Am appalled by message. Skirt is demonstrably neither sick nor absent. Appalled by managements
blatantly size-ist attitude to skirt.
Suggest managements sick, not skirt!
Reply to Daniels email message: You appear to have forgotten your skirt. Is skirt off sick?
7. If I actually do, by some terrible chance, end up in flagrante, surely these would be most attractive at
crucial moment. However,
chances of reaching crucial moment greatly increase by wearing these. Scary-stomach-holding-in
panties. Very popular with
grannies the world over.
Bridget is preparing for the Kafkas Motorbike launch, where she hopes to stand out for Daniel to fall for
her. She has come across a major
dilemma: which panties to wear. The tiny sexy-looking ones would be most appropriate for love-making,
but she feels she wont reach that
stage unless she wears some which will hold in her tummy. Eventually, she decides to wear the huge ones
on top of the others.
8. Darling, if I came in with my knickers on my head, he wouldnt notice. I spent thirty-five years cleaning
his house, washing his
clothes, bringing up his children. To be honest, darling, having children isnt all its cracked up to be (as
praiseworthy as its thought
to be). Given the chance, Im not sure Id have any.
Mrs Jones is talking to Bridget. Shes obviously undergoing a crisis: shes feeling so miserable about her
married life that she even regrets

having had children.