Unit 7 – Lesson 4

Student: Carlos Alberto Flores Durán

Exercise 1
Seven sentences have been removed from the article. Match the sentences below (A – H)
with the gaps in the article (1 – 7). There is one extra sentence you don’t need to use.

Sentence Gap
A. Otherwise, his wife will die too. 7
B. As things get really crazy towards the end, we see that this guy could believably 5
be a psychopathic murderer.
C. Film-goers of today seem to be increasingly intrigued by the motives of the 1
villain.
D. But as he does so, we realise that he also has a strange and unique set of rules. 6
E. It doesn’t matter how compelling a villain is on paper, they will only come to 2
life through a really fine performance.
F. This cruel act makes him one of the nastiest, most sadistic villains of the 21st
century.
G. This shows that heroes are nothing without their villains. 4
H. The destinies of these two men become intertwined as their conflict leads to a 3
tense confrontation, from which only one of them can come out on top.

Exercise 2
Listen to someone giving a talk about the James Bond film SPECTRE and complete the
sentences with words you hear.

Unit 7 - Lesson 4
Homework Recording.mp3

1. SPECTRE was first shown in the US on November sixth, 2015_.

2. The film cost approximately $ _245 million dollars____ to make.
3. The plot shows how ___gadgets__ could be used for evil purposes.
4. When he goes to _Mexico City_, Bond sees the wife of a well-known criminal who
has died.
5. Bond looks for a woman whose father was _villain enemy____ to help him
investigate the organisation.
6. M argues with Max Denbigh, who claims that ___bond__ has no place in the
modern world.
7. The official title of the villain, Blofeld, is _ Ernst Stavro Blofeld _.
8. Ian Fleming’s original Blofeld was huge and powerfully built man.