ACTIVITY ONE - ALAN TURING’S BIOGRAPHY

Read Alan Turing’s biography carefully and then write the statements below in the correct
chronological order. Pay attention to the context.

10 He drank cyanide
7 He stopped working for the British secret services
3 He published an important paper before the war.
1 He was born in London
9 The government gave him hormone treatment as a punishment.
2 He graduated in Cambridge
6 He was convicted of public indecency
8 Two important papers were published.
5 He started to work at the National Physical Laboratory.
4 He worked at Bletchley Park breaking the Enigma Machine

ACTIVITY TWO - THE PLOT OF THE FILM

Read the plot of the film and say WHO or WHERE is described in the following sentences.

1. Someone has broken into his house. Alan Turing

2. Alan Turing lives here in 1951 Manchester
3. This important man in the Army hires Turing’s services. Commander Denniston
4. They built a machine called Enigma to send messages in code. The Germans
5. The headquarters of the British Intelligence are here. Bletchley Park
6. She starts to work in Turing’s team, which was not very usual in that time. Joan Clarke
7. He studied with Alan Turing. Cristopher Morcom
8. He is a cryptographer in Turing’s team. Alexander Hugh.
9. This person hides a secret. Alan Turing
10. This person is the supervisor of the MI6, the British Intelligence Service. Colonel
Menzies
11. Alan Turing teaches here after the war finishes. Cambridge
12. This person investigates a burglary in an important city. Detective Nock

ACTIVITY THREE - THE PROTAGONISTS OF THE FILM

The protagonist has to discover the secret codes of the Enigma Machine. So, he builds
Christopher, a complex machine that tries thousands of combinations every day. Here you
have circles that hide the names and surnames of the main characters in the film. Break the
code to get their names. The images and the text in activity one can help you.
 1. Joan
2. Clarke
3. Colonel
4. Menzies
5. Cristopher
6. Morcom
7. Alan
8. Turing
9. Commander
10. Denniston
11. Alexander
12. Hugh

ACTIVITY FOUR - WHICH CHARACTER IS DESCRIBED IN EACH SENTENCE?

1. 30s, he loves women and chess in equal measure. Alexander Hugh

2. Head of MI-6. Charming and inscrutable, he didn’t become the head of British Secret
Intelligence Services by accident. Colonel Menzies
3. 38. He’s the smartest man in the room, and he knows it. But he doesn’t really care if you
do. Alan Turing
4. He won Britain’s national chess championship twice. Alexander Hugh
5. 16, tall, pretty, and charming in ways that Alan will never, ever be. Cristopher Morcom
6. He runs for miles. He thinks when he runs. It focuses him. Alan Turing
7. 20s, a graduate student at Cambridge who’s trying to get as far away from her preacher
father as possible. Joan Clarke

ACTIVITY FIVE – WORD-BUILDING

In English, we use prefixes and suffixes to create new words, and it is called WORD-
BUILDING. On the right, you have a machine that can create new words adding a verb from
the middle column, a prefix in front of it and a suffix after the verb. Create ADJECTIVES with
the help of the Machine and then try to match them to the correct definitions.

1. used for emphasizing how bad something or someone is Unspeakable

2. unable to be trusted or depended on Unreliable
3. not able to be broken Unbreakable
4. not having the right qualities for a particular person, purpose or
situation Unsuitable
5. too unpleasant, painful, or annoying to deal with Unbearable
6. unable to be stopped Unstoppable

ACTIVITY SIX - AT THE REFUGE: PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

Some women / knit : Some women were knitting

A man / play / the accordion: was playing
A little girl / hold / a teddy bear: was holding a teddy
A man / do / crosswords: was doing
A woman / read:was reading
Everybody / wait for / the attack to finish: was waiting

ACTIVITY SEVEN – THE PASSIVE FORM

These sentences come from the script of The Imitation Game. They are active sentences,
but the characters used PASSIVE STRUCTURES to say this. What were the actual words?
Write the passive form of the sentences.

1. Sergeant Staehl, is it just me, or do you get the sense that somebody is insulting us?
- That we are being insulted?

2. “She didn’t tell you what a joke is then either, I gather.” “Did anybody suppose she
would?”
- Was she supposed to?

3. How the bloody hell do they suppose you are going to decrypt German communications if
you don’t, oh, I don’t know, speak German?
- How the bloody hell are you supposed to descrypt

4. Yes. But sadly they didn’t grant me the opportunity to become a Fellow.
- I wasn’t granted
5. They instruct Germans to choose five letters at random to start every message.
- The Germans are instructed

6. The hardest time to lie is when the other person is expecting somebody to lie to them.
- Somebody is expected to be lied to.
7. Somebody has told me he’s your only friend.
- I have been told

ACTIVITY EIGHT – CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

Again, all these sentences come from the film. They are FIRST CONDITIONAL and
SECOND CONDITIONAL sentences. Write the verbs in brackets in the correct form.

1. If you ...don’t listen..... (NOT LISTEN) carefully, you will miss things.
2. If you ask me a question, I ...will ignore..... (IGNORE) it.
3. I would step back if I ...were...... (BE) you.
4. Unless one of you has an apron in your car, I ...suggest.... (SUGGEST) that
you file your reports and leave me alone.
5. If the Allies .....broke........ (BREAK) Enigma – well, this would turn into a very
short war indeed.
6. If you ...can’t play....... (CAN NOT / PLAY) together, then I’m afraid we can’t let
you play at all.
7. Messages that anyone can see, but no one knows what they mean unless you
...have.... (HAVE) the key.
8. If you want to beat it – if you really want to solve your puzzle – you ...will need...(NEED) all
the help you can get. And they are not going to help you if they
.don’t like..... (NOT LIKE) you.
9. If you fire Alan, you ......will have....... (HAVE) to fire me too.
10. If we knew what the messages were going to say, we ....wouldn’t have.... (NOT
HAVE) to decrypt them at all.

ACTIVITY NINE - PHRASAL VERBS

Look at the sentences below and replace the verb in bold type with one of these phrasal
verbs. Write them in the correct form.
GO ON ABOUT / WORK OUT/ PUT OFF/ FIGURE OUT/ TURN INTO / TURN UP/ PULL
OFF/ TAKE ... UP/ LOOK INTO/ TURN ... DOWN

1. The police are investigating last night’s robbery: Are looking into
2. It’s strange that Turing’s war records have not appeared: Turned up
3. If we’re going to do this project successfully, we’ll need a lot of teamwork and a lot of luck:
Pull off
4. The offer was an excellent one, but he rejected it. Turned it down
5. Let’s try to calculate how long it would take us to check all Enigma’s settings: Work out.
6. It’s difficult to discover the identity of the person who broke into my house last week:
Figure out
7. If the Allies broke Enigma, this would become a very short war: Turn into
8. We must make sure we are not discouraged by the difficulty of the task: Put off
9. This is the war that Commander Denniston has been talking about insistently: Going on
about
10. If you don’t respond to the complaint, I’ll have to discuss the matter with the Home
Office: Take it up