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World War Z
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World War Z
《僵尸世界大战》

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Date: Jul 24 2013

Themes: Pop Culture

Grammar: Gerunds vs. Infinitives

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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.

出于某种原因,灾难类电影最近一直很受欢迎。这些电影描述了可能会导致世界灭亡的许多种可怕方式。其原因可能是全球变暖、核战争或是可怕的病毒。当然有的灾难可能是由僵尸造成的。

《僵尸世界大战》(World War Z) 是一部新上映的恐怖电影,它与僵尸带来的灾难有关。布拉德·皮特 (Brad Pitt) 领衔饰演一名联合国工作人员格瑞·莱恩 (Gerry Lane)。针对正在全球肆虐并带来毁灭性打击的僵尸,他在全世界搜集能够阻止其蔓延的信息。在本节以电影为主题的英语课上,看看玛尼和梅森是否对这部新上映的电影激动不已。

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Marni

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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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Discussion

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Marni is excited about the new movie World War Z. She’s even read the book the movie was based on. The movie is different from the book, but she’s excited that Brad Pitt is in the movie.

Mason was excited by the trailer of the movie. One thing he noticed in it was that the zombies in the movie moved quickly, as opposed to older horror films where the zombies move very slowly. Both Marni and Mason agree that fast zombies are scarier. The trend in movies today seems to be to use these faster, scarier zombies instead of the slow ones.

Have you seen, or do you plan to see World War Z? Do you like scary movies in general? What are your favorite scary movies?

 

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note13

Thailand

I have seen zombie movie for many times ago but this movie is different from other zombli movies because all the zombie can move very fast and be faster when the movie approves the end. The new version of zombie is attracted me. The real horror that this movie reflect to us is the rapid speard of virus by human to human.

06:37 AM Jul 24 2013 |

linjoy

linjoy

China

I am going to the Theater this Sunday to see AFTER EARTH by Will Smith.


 

06:36 AM Jul 24 2013 |

sibby724

sibby724

Taiwan

haha I watched it alone. 3D version is amazing.

05:57 AM Jul 24 2013 |

Sharing s Caring

Bahrain

As usual, English baby used to introduce and use the latest movies as an education tool to teach us new words and more grammar, members sometimes comment on the lesson or comment on the subject of the movie itself. Wold war Z, the final world war :(
Knowing that everything humans think of will happen! So I do believe in the apocalypse as a sudden end to the world, but I came to know that there will be major events before that, leading gradually to that final and real end not only as disappearance of all human, animals and mountains but also the reshaping of earth. Most religious people from all religions agree or disagree somehow on these stages which I will mention some in here: (1) the earth will change the spinning direction once causing that the sun will come from west not east then the day as we know now will continue as usual. (2) there will be two wars one between Muslims and Christians united against another enemy and they will win then a subsequent war much bigger between Muslims against Christians that will finish a lot of humans. (3) One guy will appear from a city near Asfahan in Iran followed by some Jewish living somewhere near, he will say first that he the last messenger then he is the God. He will be followed by most of the people and the majorities are women. He is very strong and has lots of control over the natural resources. His opponents will try to fight him but they will not win. (4) Somewhere in Syria or Palestine, in one night Jesus will land from the sky and he will lead the war against that strong man and Jesus will manage to kill him. (5) Then people like zombies but not dead people, known that they are behind a Great Wall but the location is unknown, by that time they will manage to cross it and they keep going destroying everything they pass by, by that time Jesus will instruct his people to live above mountains as no one can beat those type of enemies. Then these strange people will die due to virus all at once in a bulk death. (6) Jesus will know about that then he will ask God help in clearing the earth from their dead bodies and he will rule the world in peace for 7 years full of peace and safety that even affect animals not only humans . (7) After Jesus the people will forget again and return to bad acts then there will be a sudden death for all good people and only bad people will stay alive where the real end of time will happen by strong earthquakes and major events that will horrify the living bad people by that time whom will absolutely die in pain.
End of the story and end of the world :)
P.S. no sources :) you guys can find and share. Sharing s Caring, Wish you long happy life all.

04:37 AM Jul 24 2013 |

Hossam_bounab

Algeria

they r preparing us for the real catastrophe,, it’s the work of the Illuminati

12:34 AM Jul 24 2013 |

haitham4vip

Egypt

a war included many  countries

12:29 AM Jul 24 2013 |

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