Complete the following review with the phrases form the box

A. fought against time E. which was illegal in Britain at the time

B. worked as a codebreaker and a F. Second World War
statistician G. unpleasant events follows
C. builds a machine H. helping to anticipate attacks
D. complex portrait of the scientist I. chronological order of events

Alan Turing was a British mathematician and cryptologist. During the 1. Second World War He
led a team made of scientists, linguists, and chess champions who 2. worked as a codebreaker
and a statistician to decode secret messages by the German army. Endorsed by Winston
Churchill, Turing 3. builds a machine called Christopher. Thanks to Turing’s machine, the allied
forces succeed to decode the messages that are encrypted by the Nazi’s Enigma machine. This
achievement helps to shorten the war by 4. helping to anticipate attacks and save millions of
lives.

The film does not follow a 5. chronological order of events. By jumping in time in different
moments of Truing’s life, the director Morten Tyldum manages to show a 6. complex portrait of
the scientist. Turing is shown in 1927 when he was at a boarding school; form 1939 to the end
of the was when he 7. fought against time; and then in 1952 when he was arrested for gross
indecency. He was charged of inappropriate sexual behaviour because of his homosexuality 8.
which was illegal in Britain at the time. A sequence of 9. unpleasant events follows. He is finally
forced to undergo chemical castration which leads to his suicide on 7 June 1954.

Complete the following lines from the movie

Sometimes it’s the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one
can imagine.

When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. They say something else and
you’re expected to just know what they mean.

You’re not God, Alan. You don’t get to decide who lives and who dies.

Now, if you wish you could have been normal, I can promise you, I do not. The world is an
infinitely better place precisely because you weren’t.

Choose the correct word.

Joan Clarke completes the crossword in more/less time than Alan.

Joan appears confident/nervous in a man’s world.
Joan’s parents are worried/excited about her working at Bletchley Park.
Hugh tries to break/fix Alan’s machine.
Match the sentence halves

1. Denniston believes code to tell Alan his real feelings (3)

2. Joan advises why his machine isn’t working (4)
3. Christopher uses the team one more month (6)
4. Alan doesn’t understand that Alan is a spy (1)
5. Hugh rescues Alan to get his team to like him (2)
6. Denniston gives Alan from Denniston (5)

Complete the following sentences with the gerund (-ing) form of the verbs in the box

Bomb get hit learn pass phone tell

Alan stops Hugh from phoning Denniston to tell him about the U-boats attack.

Joan stops Hugh from hitting Alan a second time.

The team can’t stop the U-boats from bombing the Carlisle.

Menzies will stop the Germans from learning that the British have broken the Enigma code.

John tries to stop Alan from telling anyone that he is a spy.

Menzies doesn’t want to stop Cairncross from passing information to the Russians

Alan wants to stop Joan from getting hurt.

Read the following newspaper article. What does it say about the differences between the
film and the real events?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/20/the-imitation-game-invents-new-slander-to-
insult-alan-turing-reel-history

One of the great differences between the film and the real events is that in the film they accuse
Alan Turing of being a traitor when this isn’t true and it’s unfair that one of the greatest heroes
of Great Britain is defamed and their reputation is damaged by calling him of coward and
traitor.

In the article they are a bit upset that many of the events shown in the film are not exactly as
they were in reality, such as Alan's school days, his work as a cryptographer and his arrest for
being gay, although the film in some parts do show real scenes like the great impact that the
death of Morcom (his childhood friend) had on Turing's life.
Another difference is that the film tends to simplify the facts a lot or to change them, and this is
reflected for example in the name of the machine that was created by Alan. In real life this
machine was called "Bombe", but in the movie they named it "Christopher", trying to give it an
emotional meaning.

In the film it is also evidenced that Alan Turing and John Cairncross knew each other, when it
was really impossible for both to know each other, because the two worked in different units,
and Cairncross himself in his autobiography said that it was almost impossible to have contact
with members of other units because the separation was strict. And from this false event that
they knew each other, they created a wrong plot in the movie about blackmail, which was that
Cairncross was not going to expose Turing's homosexuality, if he didn’t say that Cairncross was a
spy, which is absurd because hiding a spy would be a very serious matter.

Finally, the film has changed many of the key events of the true story, and this is why critics
have spoken out against the misrepresentation of the true information.

In your opinion:

Was it right that Turing was arrested for his homosexuality? Why? Why not?

In my opinion it wasn’t correct for Alan to be arrested for being homosexual, because each
person is free to love and decide their sexual orientation and although at that time it was a
crime by law, it seems to me that what they did with him was very wrong. He was a man who
contributed greatly in the Second World War and regardless of his personal tastes of him didn’t
influence anything in his contributions in the war. People should have highlighted more all his
intelligence and interest of him in saving lives, for all the good he did in his life of him, but not
putting such a personal decision on top. Perhaps some person who wasn’t homosexual couldn’t
have done the same thing that he did. Sexual orientation doesn’t define what a person is, or his
intelligence, courage, effort or capabilities. I think that the historical context in which Alan lived
unfortunately hurt him, but if this had happened today it would surely have gone unnoticed.

You can re-watch the movie here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_xE807vc6g