Handout no.___ Comunicar em Língua Inglesa- UFCD 2.

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Worksheet on the movie Miss Congeniality by Donald Petrie (2000)

Pre-listening:

Before watching the movie, in pairs, answer the following questions:

1) Have you watched this movie before? What is it about?

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2) Do you usually watch beauty contests?
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3) Do you like it? Discuss it with your partner.
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While-listening:

While you watch this movie, do the following exercises.

1) Say if the statements are true or false:

1.1) The main character is an FBI agent.

1.2) Grace Hart wants to participate in the beauty contest: Miss USA Pegeant.
1.3) There is a threat of someone called ‘the Citizen’.
1.4) The contest lasts 4 days.
1.5) Grace Hart will be Miss New York.
1.6) Victor Melling is a FBI dectective.
1.7) During the lunch, she is very elegant and polite, with good manners.

2) Choose the correct answer:

2.1) She is taken to a warehouse to:

a) spend some holidays
b) change her look
c) have a romantic dinner

2.2) She is all waxed to become:

a) pretty
b) ugly
c) intelligent

2.3) Grace wants to eat and the only food she can have is:
a) sandwiches
b) vegetables
c) chocolates

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 2.4) She changes her identity and her new name is:
a) Gracie Lou Hart
b) Grace Hart
c) Gracie Lou Freebush

2.5) During the breakfast with all the contestants, her microphone stops working and
she:
a) starts screaming
b) pretends she is praying
c) starts singing

2.6) When she was practising the walking with her blue dress, she stole:
a) a dog to play
b) donuts to eat
c) a gun

3) On the preliminary of the pageant, the participants show their talents. Complete the
following sentences, choosing the right words/expressions from the box below:
a) Miss Texas________________________________________________________________________.
b) Miss New York ___________________________________________________________________.
c) Miss New Jersey _________________________________________________________________.
d) Gracie__________________________________________into the public to catch the killer.

jumps plays the flute sings plays with glasses of water

4) Order the presentation of the contestants according to the contest:

______ California
______ Rhode Island
______ Texas
______ New Jersey
______ New York

5) The FBI agents think Miss Rhode Island is a criminal. To find that out, they decide to act.
Match the following columns according to the movie:

a) Gracie Lou buys  to have fun

b) They all go to a bar  pizza and beer to the girls

c) Gracie asks Miss Rhode Island  vomits and falls down.

d) Miss Rhode Island gets sick  if she has ever committed a crime in her
life

6) Although there is no evidence of who is the citizen is and thinking that he could have
been already caught, the FBI decides to leave. But Gracie wants to stay and to find out
who the killer is.
In the pageant, choose who are the final 5 contestants:
a) Hawaii e) Texas i) Alabama
b) California f) New York j) Ohio
c) New Jersey g) Rhode Island
d) Alaska h) Nebraska
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 7) Where is the bomb?
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8) Who is the killer?

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9) What happened to the killer?

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Post- listening:

In a short paragraph, try to summarize this movie. Use the following guidelines to help you::
- Title of the movie
- Main character (her name. job)
- Where it takes place
- What is it about?
- How does it end?

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