Reviewing home is where the heart is Reflect and review
1. (a) Take a look at the images on page 1. Consider the association each image has with the theme of ‘home’. Rank the images from most relevant (1) to least relevant (6).
(b) Share the image that you feel ranks the highest. Explain your choice and listen as others share their choice with you.
(c) What image would you choose to replace the image that you feel ranks the lowest? Describe the image you would replace it with and explain your choice.
2. Fill in the unit review on pages 13–14 of your Portfolio. Language skills 1. Write out the following passage, making corrections as you go.
the girls looked awfully bored to me i saw them on the sun-roof yawning and painting their nails and trying to keep up their bermuda tans and they seemed bored as hell i talked with one of them and she was bored with yachts and bored with fl ying around in aeroplanes and bored with skiing in switzerland at christmas and bored with the men in brazil
2. (a) What do each of the following fi lm terms mean: framing wide shot zooming lighting?
(b) What is the effect of each of these techniques?
3. Write a paragraph about a fi lm that you have studied or enjoyed. Refer to the techniques listed above in your answer.
Oral assessment
Prepare a two-minute speech entitled ‘What Home Means to Me’. Carefully consider what home means to you. Plan what you would like to say. Write your speech. Practise the delivery of your speech. Make sure it is two minutes long.
When you are ready, deliver your speech to your classmates.
