Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
This year, a time capsule will be sent into space, filled with messages for people living in the future. The capsule won’t be opened until it returns to Earth in the year 52,000! It’s hard to imagine what people’s lives will be like then, or if the planet will even still exist 50,000 years from now.
In the new action-thriller Knowing, Nicolas Cage plays a school teacher who finds a time capsule from 50 years ago. But there’s some bad news buried in this capsule. Learn more about the movie from Devan and Beren.
Dialog
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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Beren: So, there’s another Nick Cage movie out. He seems to have a lot of them.
Devan: Oh, are you talking about that movie Knowing?
Beren: Mm-hmm. Have you seen the preview or trailer for it?
Devan: I did. I saw the preview. It’s like he finds a time capsule that has all the predictions for the future.
Beren: What?
Devan: And he’s able to tell when all these huge events are gonna happen, including the end of the world or something.
Beren: I don’t understand. Does that mean he’s like a psychic? Or like he just…these are written down on a piece of paper?
Devan: I think it’s written in numbers or something. And he’s a teacher, and he figures out that they’re predictions foretelling the end of the world. It looks kind of cool, you know, it’s like his typical action-thriller.
Beren: Didn’t he just have a movie come out where he was predicting the future though? Or maybe I’m thinking of something else, something more about time travel? I don’t know…
Devan: Yeah, he did, you’re right. He did just have that. But this might be pretty cool.
Beren: Cool.
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Discussion
Devan tells Beren about the preview she saw of the new movie Knowing. In the movie, Nicolas Cage plays a school teacher who discovers a time capsule that contains some frightening predictions for the future. Beren thinks this movie sounds too similar to other Nick Cage movies (like Next), but Devan thinks that this one could be good.
Have you ever made a time capsule? If you could communicate with people in the future, what would you tell them?
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