ESPOCH

GROUP 4

Andres Lara

Angelica Leon

Diego Guaylla

Jefferson Jaya

Level: VIA

1 SPEAKING

a. I don’t like drama films because these kinds of films are so boring and I never enjoy
watching specially at night because I always sleep.
b. Being scared: When you are afraid of something.
Suspense: When you have the uncertainty that something is going to happen.
Thrilling: Something that causes great excitement.
Fictional violence: When in a film there are many fights or murders but they are fake.
Lose yourself: To be paying so much attention to something that you do
not notice anything else.

I think they are watching a thriller film because this kind of films have suspense, fictional
violence, and normally these films causes thrilling to the people who is watching them.
Generally, you can lose yourself because you treat to understand the film.
Sometimes you can be scared because there are many scenes with fictional violence.
c.
1. I like thriller films because I love the suspense of these films and I think they are really
thrilling.
2. I think people enjoy these films because you always need to understand each detail of
the scenes on them.

2. VOCABULARY

a)

1. the Word intellectual in this sentence is used as an adjetive so it discribes the kind of story
he/she likes.

2. the word aggressive is used as adjetive so describes the emotions of the person.

3. the word psychological in this sentence is used as noun because is talking about problem
specific of her childhood.

b)
 Adjetive noun Noun (the person)
Intellectual intellect intellectual
Psychological Psychology psychologist
aggressive aggression -

c)

1. psychology

2. intellectual

3. intellect

4. agression

5. aggressive

3. Listening

A) She said that the violence in some cases was real and it represented a psychological distance.

B)

1 all of this

2 frightened

3 gets killed

4 don´t like the real violence

5 the blood and the violence

6 like horror films because they love the suspense

7 very strong feelings or emotions

8 negative feelings of aggression

C) Think of other movie genres.

Thriller.

Drama.

Horror.

Romance.

Animated

Normally, the story argument is the most important in those genres because, the arguments put
the events and characters in a lineal and stable situation and you can follow the story more easily
and with a good argument you can achieve discover the final result of the films.

4. PRONUNCIATION Connected speech

a) Listen to four short phrases from the end of Silvia’s speech. Write down what you hear.
Put one word in each gap.
1. that’s the idea
2. can be seen
3. to get
4. a bit
b) Listenin
c) Listen again to the phrases in isolation. Answer the questions. 1 Where are the sounds
/j/ and /r/ added? 2 Where does the sound /n/ become /m/? 3 Between ‘seen’ and ‘as’
 in phrase 2, there is linking between the two words. What other examples of linking can
you hear?

1. Horror
2. Emotions
3. As, Like
d)

Off letting go

5 Language Focus
a.

1 Well, while this is no doubt true, to my mind it’s a bit more complicated than that.

2 But I don’t think that’s really the case because in a lot of horror films the victim escapes,

3 One piece of research I read that was really interesting said that people who like horror films
don’t actually like real horror. I mean that’s certainly true.

4 The fact the violence is real means that we – the viewers – have a kind of psychological distance
from it. I would agree with that.

5 But then other people actually just like horror films because they’re thrilling – they love the
suspense, in my experience that’s true.

b.
1. They show a change of the sense of the sentences.
2. Yes because the sentences have more sense.
3. In a formal essay I think is correct.
4. She refers to an idea she has just said.
5. It’s true.

STUDY SKILLS
1. To my mind, that’s the really case.
2.To my mind, I would degree with that.
3. The fact of violence is real means, I would degree with that, in my experience that’s
true, but then other people actually.

a.
 1. People say that science fiction films show us what the future will be like. To my mind ti
is a bit more complicated than that because you need first to understand the
psychology of the movie.(mind)
2. Film critics say they are often a way to look at our lives in the present. I would agree
with that because films reflect some situations of the real life. (agree)
3. Friends of mine say they love science fiction because it’s such good entertainment. In
my experience that’s true because science fiction films are really interesting to
understand them.(true)
4. Psychologists say that people who like science fiction want to escape reality. In my
experience that’s true because these people think that the life can be marvelous and
little realistic. (experience)
5. Others say it’s all about man’s need to have dreams. I don’t think that’s really the case
because all men need to have aims real aims to overcome the problems in their lifes.

6 SPEAKING

a) Thriller films

Hi Jefferson, I would like to talk about with about thriller film, what do you think about that?

They are really interesting, because you need to think a lot, and the scenes are really exciting.

And you Diego, what do you think?

I don’t like because I hate fictional violence scenes because I hate the blood and the violence.

b) Diego says that the thriller films are really stressful to watch because there is a lot of
suspense.
Angelica enjoys a lot the films which have complex arguments.
Jefferson thinks that these films have some scenes which are difficult to understand.
I think these films are really exciting because you can think at the same time you watch
the movie.

c) I think thriller films are really exciting because there are a lot of marvelous scenes with
many implicit arguments.
Diego says that it is true because you need to understand a lot of the thriller films to enjoy
it.
Jefferson thinks that those films are really awful but he agrees with me about the complex
arguments that they have.
She agrees with my point of view about those films because you can enjoy them when
they have a complex argument.