MOVIE: THE HOLIDAY

1- ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:

a- What does Iris do? Where does she work? She works or a news paper shes a writer
b- Who is she in love with? Shes in love with jasper
c- What happens at the party? She b 3
d- Where does she live?
e- Why is Amanda angry with her husband?
f- What is her job?
g- What do Iris and Amanda decide to do?

2- COMPARE IRIS AND AMANDA`S HOUSES. USE : (NOT) AS.. AS / (NOT) THE SAME AS. /
MORE .. THAN

3- REWRITE THE SENTENCES:

a- Iris hates Jasper now.
Iris Jasper now.
b- Amanda is not able to cry.
Amanda .. cry.
c- Iris makes a big effort at work. Her stories are about important news.
Iris hard the newspaper.
She . . important things.
d- Amanda has problems to express what she feels.
Amanda is communicating.

4- Write TRUE or False; write the question tag for each sentence, for example:
Amanda is short : F : isn`t she?
a- Iris hates L.A and Amanda`s house.
b- Amanda likes Iris`s house.
c- It isn`t warm in L.A
d- It is winter in Surrey.
e- There wasn`t a pool in Amanda`s house.
f- Iris doesn`t have a dog.
g- Amanda knew how to drive a car.
h- She goes to the chemist`s.
i- Amanda has been quite bored since she arrived.
j- Iris didn`t know what to do at first.

5- WRITE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES IN THE PASSIVE:

a- Iris enjoyed the house.
b- Amanda hit her husband.
c- Iris took a plane to travel to L.A
d- A man drove Amanda to Iris`s house.
e- Iris`s brother visited Amanda in the middle of the night.

6- WRITE A SUMMARY OF THE MOVIE USING THE PAST SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS.
7- Amanda Woods (Cameron Diaz) , the owner of a thriving advertising agency dedicated to creating
movie trailers, lives in Southern California . Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet ) , in charge of drafting the
popular wedding column for London 's Daily Telegraph , lives in a lovely house in the English
countryside.
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9- Though Iris and Amanda live ten thousand kilometers away, the two have reached the same point.
Shortly before Christmas, they decide they need to get away as possible from their respective
boyfriends (played by Edward Burns and Rufus Sewell ) , and none are in the mood to sing carols.