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Intro

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• oral
• trailer
• drag
• winded

• apocalypse
• nuclear war
• virus
• outbreak

• trend
• wreak havoc

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For some reason, movies about the apocalypse have been very popular recently. These movies depict many terrible ways that the world might end. The end could come because of global warming, or a nuclear war, or a terrible virus. Or, of course, the apocalypse might be caused by zombies.

World War Z is a new horror film about a zombie apocalypse. Brad Pitt stars as Gerry Lane, a worker at the United Nations. He searches the globe for information that can stop the zombie outbreak that is wreaking havoc all over the world. Find out whether Marni and Mason are excited about this new movie in this movies English lesson.

Dialog

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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.

Mason

Marni

Mason:  Marni, have you heard about World War Z? Are you excited about it?

Marni:  I am excited about it. I have heard of it. I actually read the book.

Mason:  Oh yeah?

Marni:  Yes, I did. And my understanding is the film is completely different from the book.

Mason:  OK. The book has zombies, right?

Marni:  Yes. But essentially the book is an oral retelling of the zombie war, so it’s people reflecting on their experiences with the zombie apocalypse. Now, the film has Brad Pitt, so, right there.

Mason:  I saw the trailer and there was this one really cool cut scene of basically what I assume are zombies make this giant human pyramid to try to climb over this big wall. And what I gathered from that is that this is a movie with fast zombies.

Marni:  Yes. And fast zombies equals scarier zombies.

Mason:  Scarier zombies by far. Because the fundamental choice you make with zombie movies is do you have slow, dragging-their-legs zombies, moaning and groaning, or do you have scary, fast zombies. They’re probably even faster because they’re dead and they don’t feel pain and they don’t get winded.

Marni:  The trend is definitely the faster zombie, and I think that this is where that film chose to go.

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