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1. Answer the questions about the video.

A. What are the characters of the video? Are they similar or different?
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B. What kind of life do they live?
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C. What happens with the colours in the video?
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D. How does the video end?
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2. Now, tell the story of the video orally. Look at the useful vocabulary below.

BACKPACK – ROUTINE – BRIEFCASE – VIVID / PALE COLOURS – VIOLINIST – TAKE / LEAVE

(SOMEONE) (SOMEWHERE) – TYPEWRITER – GIVE (SOMEONE) A HUG – GET BORED /
FRUSTRATED / SAD / HAPPY / WORRIED – WALK HAND IN HAND = HOLD HANDS.

3. Speaking

A. Can you relate to the characters? In what way?

B. Do you live a routine life? Do you like routines?
C. What do you do to avoid the routine?
D. Do you think that places like work or school kill creativity or spontaneity?

4. Put the verbs in these sentences in the proper form: infinitive; gerund; present simple,
perfect and continuous; past simple and perfect; and will future.

A. First, we see a blue man. He ___________ (drink) at the beginning while ___________ (put)
some books into a bag. Then, an orange boy ___________ (appear).
B. The boy ___________ (run) around while the man _____________ (keep/put) books in the
bag. The boy ___________ (look) happy and energetic, and the man ___________ (seem)
tired. He ___________ (drink) some coffee from a mug.
C. The bag ___________ (be) really heavy, and when the boy ___________ (start/walk) he
___________ (can’t help/lean) to one side.
D. Then, we ___________ (see) the city. It ___________ (be) pale, square and crowded, and
everything ___________ (look) alike.
E. There’s a nice colourful tree on the street. A violinist ___________ (play) next to it.
F. After the man ___________ (just/leave) the boy at school, he ___________ (go) to work.
G. It ___________ (seem) that they ___________ (followed) that routine a lot of times.
Probably, they ___________ (walk) the same streets hundreds of times.
H. Maybe, the man ___________ (work) there for a long time.
I. The man ___________ (be) probably more energetic when he ___________ (be) a child, but
now he ___________ (look) bored and tired.
J. Maybe, the man ___________ (run) happily all around the house when he ___________ (not
be) an adult yet, and he probably ___________ (not like/go) to school either, but now he
___________ (not be) young anymore, and he ___________ (have to/go) to work.
K. He surely ___________ (not think) about the future when he ___________ (be) a kid. Also,
when he ___________ (go) to school he ___________ (not be) tired, because he
___________ (not do) a lot of things the day before. But now he ___________ (think) about
his life. “___________ this ever ___________ (change)?” he ___________ (wonder).
L. He’s at work now. Some hours ago, when he ___________ (wake up), he ___________ (be)
already tired, because he ___________ (do) a lot of work the day before: he ___________
(take) the boy to school, and ___________ (complete) tons of paperwork.
M. The boy ___________ (like/paint) colourful letters and drawings, but the teacher
___________ (ask) him ___________ (do) only the task, and nothing else. He ___________
(not like/write) boring black letters. He ___________ (want/be) a painter when he
___________ (grow up). If he ___________ (go on/practice), he ___________ (be) a great
painter. But he ___________ (will/not/be) any good if everybody ___________ (make) him
___________ (do) boring standard exercises.