Worksheet 9 2023-24

Name: Grade: 8 IGCSE

Date of Submission: 06.11.2023 Subject: English

Learning Objective: To develop listening abilities.

Listen to the audio clip and answer the following questions:

1. What is the topic of discussion in the audio clip?

The topic of discussion in the audio is horror films.
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2. Name two horror films the speaker watched when she was young.
She watched 'Friday the 13th' and 'Nightmare on Elm Street'.
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3. Narrate the incident that her mother told her.

When she was six, her mother came down in the middle of the night because of the noise.
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But it was her, watching 'The Omen' on TV in the dark alone.

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4. What does she mean by ‘slasher films’? Give examples.

Slasher films means flims like very gory, bloody and violent, for example, 'The Final
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Destination'.
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5. What is her opinion about the scariest sort of films?

She thinks the scariest sort of film are very tense.
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6. According to her, which film is the scariest for her, and why?

'The Birds' is the scariest film for her, because it is very sinister the way brids sit
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and look at the people, which feels like something bad would happen very soon.
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 7. What is her favourite sort of horror films?

Her favourite sort of horror flims are zombie films.

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8. What does the speaker say about Dawn of the Dead?

'Dawn of the Dead' is her favourite zombie film. It is about people just wake up on
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morning and there are zombies everywhere, and they should be careful to not bite
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by them. It ends in shopping mall, surrounded by zombies. It has sad ending.
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9. Name the British comedy horror film she mentioned.

'Shaun of the Dead'
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10. Name the New Zealand film she watched recently. What does she say about it?
'Black Sheep', is about zombie sheep.
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11. What does she say about the most recent one that she watched?
The most recent one she watched is 'The Mist' which is about people who live in small
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town in America and there was a hurricane. After the hurricane they wanted go to into
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town to get some supplies to fix up the house and it started to get misty which did not look
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normal. These people were trapped in the town because there were monster in the mist that
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were killing people. There were kind of blood and guts and people died in horrible way.
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12. Why do you think the speaker likes horror films?

She likes horror films because she finds few films funny and she likes their
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tense atmosphere and special effect. She enjoys watching lots of violent and horrible deaths.
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