The Imitation Game

Complete the following review

Alan Turing was a British mathematician and cryptologist. During the

1. Second World War, He lead 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 machines, 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 Turing’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 es
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 no one imagines anything of who do

the things that no one can imagine.

Why 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
don’t. 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 it took

Alan.

Joan appears confident/nervous in a man’s world.

Joan’s parents are excited/worried about Joan working at the

Bletchley Radio Company.

Hugh tries to break/fix Alan’s machine with a piece of metal.

Match the sentence halves

- Denniston believes that Alan is a spy.

- Joan advises Alan to get his team to like him.

- Christopher uses code to tell Alan his real feelings.

- Alan doesn’t understand why his machine isn’t working.

- Hugh rescues Alan from Denniston.

- Denniston gives the team one more month.

Complete the following sentences with the gerund form

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

Luis A. Yepes