Coraline

Episode 1

Task 1. Discuss in pairs:

1. Do you like your parents?
2. What do you want to change in them? Why?

Task 2. Choose correct answers:

1. What was Coraline looking for?
a) a well b) a cat c) water
2. Who owns the black cat?
a) Coraline b) Wybie c) nobody
3. Who owns the Pink Palace?
a) Wybie’s grandma b) Coraline’s parents c) nobody
4. What does the name “Wybie” mean?
a) Why were you bored? b) Why were you born? c) Why were you boring?
5. Where did Wybie find the doll?
a) in the forest b) in his room c) in his grandma’s trunk
6. What did Coraline’s father tell her to do?
a) explore the house b) do some gardening c) go playing in the rain
7. What did Coraline find in the living room?
a) boxes b) snow globes c) a little door

Task 3. Match the words to make collocations:

1. dowsing a) the house
2. grandma’s b) globes
3. explore c) well
4. stop d) rod
5. snow e) pestering me
6. deep f) trunk
 Coraline
Episode 2
Task 1. Answer the questions:
1. Who did Coraline find behind the little door?
2. What were they doing?
3. What was the song about?
4. Where does Bobinsky work?
5. What was in parcels for Bobinsky?
6. Who warned Coraline not to go through the little door?
7. Who else did Coraline visit?
8. What did they see in Coraline’s cup?

Task 2. Who said the following:

1. “Buttons? Do you like them?”
2. “Who’s starving? Raise your hand.”
3. “But you were not you. You were my other mother.”
4. “Sometimes the mice are little mixed-up.”
5. “Caroline….you’re in terrible danger.”

Task 3. Write the words for the definitions:

1. the meal that you have in the early evening
2. a small round object on your shirt, coat with a hole
3. a room in a house that is used for work or study
4. to suffer or die because you do not have enough to eat
5. a sauce made from the juice that comes from meat as
it cooks, mixed with flour and water
6. soft, wet, sticky ground

Task 4. Discuss in pairs:

1. Why did Coraline like the other world?
2. Was it a dream or it was real?

Coraline
Episode 3
Task 1. Watch and write true or false:
1. Wybie had been in the Pink Palace many times before.
2. Wybie thought that the Pink Palace was dangerous.
3. Wybie’s grandma disappeared in the Pink Palace.
4. Coraline’s other farther was in his study.
5. The garden looked like Coraline.
6. Another Wybie couldn’t talk.
7. Coraline thought that another Wybie was cheerful.
8. Coraline’s real mother bought her new gloves.
9. Coraline’s real mother went shopping.
10. Coraline went through the little door in her dream.

Task 2. Who said the following:

1. “You’re just like them. I meant my parents”.
2. “I’ve never been inside the Pink Palace”.
3. “My dreams aren’t dangerous”.
4. “I thought you’d like him if he spoke a little less.”

Task 3. Describe:
1. The other Wybie.
2. The other Bobinsky.

Task 4. Complete the sentences with the words:

stalking fix cheerful lock move

1. We ……………………………………… here three years ago.

2. Our TV doesn’t work. We have to …………………….it.
3. I’m always …………………………….with my friends.
4. ………………………..the door, please.
5. Stop …………………………………me! You’re scaring me.

Coraline
Episode 4
Task 1. Choose the correct answers:
1. Who did Coraline meet?
a) the real cat b) the other cat
2. Where did she go after dinner?
a) to Bobinsky’s circus
b) to the actresses’ performance
c) to the garden
3. What happened to the actresses?
a) they became younger
b) they became older
c) they became fatter
4. What tiny thing did Coraline have to do to stay in the other world?
a) close the little door
b) choose the colour of the buttons
c) have buttons instead of her eyes
5. How did Coraline feel?
a) happy b) scared c) upset
6. Why did the cat kill the mouse?
a) the cat was hungry b) it was a rat c) the cat didn’t like circus mice
7. Why was the other mother angry?
a) Coraline wanted home
b) Coraline didn’t want chocolate
c) Coraline didn’t like the dinner
8. Where did the other mother throw Coraline through?
a) the wall b) the mirror c) the door

Task 2. Who said the following:

1. “I’m not the other anything. I’m me.”
2. “But we need a YES if you want to stay here.”
3. “Mustn’t talk when mother’s not here.”
4. “What a piece of work is a man.”

Coraline
Episode 5
Task 1. Answer the questions:
1. Who did Coraline see in the dark room?
2. Why had the beldam taken their eyes?
3. What did they ask Coraline to do for them?
4. Why did Whybie come to Coraline?
5. Why did he run away screaming?
6. Where were Coraline’s parents?
7. What was Coraline supposed to find in the game?
8. What was the first wonder?

Task 2. Complete the phrases:

1. The ghost children: “So we let her sew the …………………………………….”
2. Coraline: “Grandma’s missing……………………… I think I’ve just met her.”
3. Coraline: “You aren’t listening to me!” – Wybie: “That’s because you’re ………………………”
4. Coraline: “Why don’t we play a …………………………….”

Task 3. Match the words to the definitions:

1 a clever trick that is used to catch someone beldam
2 information that helps you understand something escape
3 to use a needle and thread to make or repair clothes trap
4 An old woman, sometimes ugly, mostly evil, who enjoys vanish
hurting children
5 to disappear suddenly clue
6 to get away from a place or dangerous situation when wonder
someone is trying to catch you or stop you
7 something that makes you feel surprise sew

Coraline
Episode 6
Task 1. True or False:
1. Coraline went to the theatre.
2. The dogs were birds.
 3. There was Mr.B’s costume above the circus.
4. The cat got the ghost eye for Coraline.
5. Coraline thought her parents were behind the little door.
6. Coraline’s parents were in the snow globe.
7. Coraline’s parents didn’t remember anything.
8. Coraline and Wybie threw the key and the hand into the well.
9. Wybie still didn’t believe Coraline.
10. They all had a party in the garden.

Task 2. Who said the following:

1. “Evil witch! I’m not scared!”
2. “You’ll just go home and be bored and neglected same as always.”
3. “And you brought a vermin with you.”

Task 3. Complete the sentences with the words in the correct form:

neglect head vermin eccentric

1. He’s not crazy. He’s just …………………………………….

2. I’m ………………………………………….home right now.
3. You’ve ………………………………….you studies and now you have problems with it.
4. This house is full of ………………………………………It’s nearly destroyed.

Task 4. Discuss in pairs.

1. What kind of symbol are eyes and buttons?
2. Why does the beldam steal children?
3. What is the perfect world for you?
4. Is it good or bad to be perfect? Why?
5. Would you like to live in the perfect world with perfect people? Why?