Harry Potter

Intro

1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.

• on the minds
• the states
• dragged
• climax

• build up
• cool
• wizard
• orphan

• Quidditch

2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.

The movie Harry Potter has been on the minds of millions of children for several years. The frist Harry Potter movie was released in the states on Nov. 16th, 2001. Listen below to see if Miguel liked the it.

Dialog

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

Miguel

Nedra

Miguel:  Nedra, have you seen that Harry Potter movie?

Nedra:  No, I haven’t Miguel. Have you seen it?

Miguel:  Actually, I did see it last week and I really wasn’t that happy that I did. It wasn’t a great movie. Did you read the Harry Potter books?

Nedra:  I started reading one of them, but I didn’t finish it.

Miguel:  Well I wouldn’t really reccommend the movie. It might be good for children, but it totally bored me.

Nedra:  So Miguel, what was really wrong with the movie? What did you not like about it?

Miguel:  The main problem for me was that it just dragged on too long. The plot wasn’t really interesting and it didn’t have a great climax so it was like there was a big build up and then about half way through the the movie,

Nedra:  There must have been some part that you thought was cool?

Miguel:  Well, I was pretty unfamiliar with the whole Harry Potter thing and the the story is actually pretty neat. I mean the, the, the little kid is a wizard and, um, he goes to a school of wizards and that’s kind of a neat concept, um, but the special effects and stuff were no where near as cool as other big movies these days like The Matrix

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