Pitch meeting – vocabulary and listening

Ex. 1 Watch the video. What are some things that surprise the film producer?
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Ex. 2 Watch the video again and complete the tasks.

1. When and where does the movie take place?
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2. When the writer and producer talk about introducing Percival Graves, why would the story feel a little
disjointed? _________________________________________________________________

3. When trying to pronounce ‘a former auror’ what does the producer compare the writer to sounding like?
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4. Why do they not add more details about Newt or Grindelwald in this movie?
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Ex. 3 Match the halves to make expressions from the listening

squeeze real thin

gimmicky down
stretch something it out
barely an inconvenience
that’s what inconsistencies
track someone textbook
feel a little off
logical we’re going with
How disjointed
stretch out of
spin- come?

Ex. 4 Complete the sentences with the phrases above.

1. Isn’t that going to make the movie _______________________________?

2. There might be more money to be _______________________ the Harry Potter franchise.
3. It’s immediately going to stop doing the thing we said it does.
_________? Magic, I guess. I don’t know!
4. So, they are going to have to __________ them all ________ and catch them.
5. So, there was a _________________________________ back in 2001 called Fantastic Beasts and Where
to Find Them.
6. We’re gonna make a movie about a fake textbook from the Harry Potter universe?
Exactly! _____________ it __________________!
7. It’s gonna be hard for him to get through customs with that thing.
No! It’s gonna be super easy, _______________________________ !
8. An aspiring baker from New York has the exact same briefcase as British wizard?
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9. Using magic to explain ___________________________________ is tight!
10. You wanna ____________ this ___________ into more than one movie?!
11. So, you have a Harry Potter ________________ for me?

Ex. 5 Look at the comments for the video and try to guess the missing words.
(burst; insanely; cracked; bloody; pissed; plot; up; catch; had; binge; on; choked; stiches; dying)
Ex. 6 Find all expressions with a meaning similar to “funny” and “laugh” and copy them.
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Ex. 7 Choose 3 expressions from ex. 6 and write sentences about you.
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