(Advanced Film / Lit SPIN) Operation Avalanche

Trailer:

Trailer

Watch the clip Reanimating Kubrick: Operation Avalanche. On the problems the filmmakers had to overcome and the processes they used in creating a "believable fake".

What is the premise of the film Operation Avalanche?
Why do the characters in the film visit Stanley Kubrick's set?
Why was it so important to have Kubrick appear in the film?
Why did the director initially assume it would be easy to have Kubrick appear in the film?
Why did it turn out to be a challenging task?
What story was Operation Avalanche based on?
Why did the director feel they couldn't use a lookalike in the film?
How did the crew get "lead in" footage for the sequences that were to feature Kubrick?
How did they create the rest of the 2001 set?
How did the visual effects person turn the archival photographs into 3d space?
How did they make Kubrick move?
How did they "reverse engineer" the photos?

Watch:

Operation Avalanche

(Intermediate) Signposting

Introduction:

What are "signposts" and why do we need them in public speaking?

Write down nine different types of signpost:

1. Purpose: _______________ Example: _____________________
2. Purpose: _______________ Example: _____________________
3. Purpose: _______________ Example: _____________________
4. Purpose: _______________ Example: _____________________
5. Purpose: _______________ Example: _____________________
6. Purpose: _______________ Example: _____________________
7. Purpose: _______________ Example: _____________________
8. Purpose: _______________ Example: _____________________
9. Purpose: _______________ Example: _____________________

Watch:

Signposting

(Advanced) President Duterte's Bloody War On Meth

 

Match the collocations an put them in the correct order:

unorthodox 

vigilante

extreme

global drug

night-time

law

hunt

suspected

deadly

enforcement

down

trade

raids

Groups

Measures

criminals

force

techniques

Watch:

President Duterte's Bloody War On Meth

Discuss:

Should the U.S be helping fund Duterte's campaign of fear?

Play Devil's Advocate: think of ways of justifying Duterte's actions. 

(Upper-Intermediate) Russell Brand - Unlikely Leaders

In the 'Unlikely Leaders' collection Open University academics select figures from a variety of fields and explain in their opinion why they've identified them their nominated individual as a leader. In this episode OU Health and Social Care Academic Sara Mackian nominates comedian Russell Brand as her 'Unlikely Leader'.

Watch:

Unlikely Leaders


Russell brand offers another kind of _______ of what a leader might be.

He's been very very high profile for __ ___ ____ ______s.

He's somebody who's come from very ______ ________s.

He knows he's made mistakes - he ______ to them - he writes very _______ly about them...

He's not going to jump in a judge s______ away. He's going to ____  _____, he's going to listen...

He talks very _____ly about his spiritual q____.

He very p_______ly used his experience...

He en_______ to think and to reflect before r_____g.

(Advanced) Once in a Lifetime

Once in a Lifetime

And you may find yourself

Living in a shotgun shack

And you may find yourself

In another part of the world

And you may find yourself

Behind the wheel of a large automobile

And you may find yourself in a beautiful house

With a beautiful wife

And you may ask yourself, well

How did I get here?

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

Into the blue again after the money's gone

Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

And you may ask yourself

How do I work this?

And you may ask yourself

Where is that large automobile?

And you may tell yourself

This is not my beautiful house!

And you may tell yourself

This is not my beautiful wife!

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

Into the blue again after the money's gone

Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Water dissolving and water removing

There is water at the bottom of the ocean

Under the water, carry the water

Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

Into the blue again in the silent water

Under the rocks, and stones there is water underground

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

Into the blue again after the money's gone

Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

And you may ask yourself

What is that beautiful house?

And you may ask yourself

Where does that highway go to?

And you may ask yourself

Am I right? Am I wrong?

And you may say yourself, "My God! What have I done?"

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

Into the blue again in to the silent water

Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground

Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down

Letting the days go by, water flowing underground

Into the blue again after the money's gone

Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Look where my hand was

Time isn't holding up

Time isn't after us

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Same as it ever was

Letting the days go by (same as it ever was)

Letting the days go by (same as it ever was)

Once in a lifetime

Letting the days go by

Letting the days go by

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