ESCOLA BÁSICA INTEGRADA DE COLMEIAS 2013 / 2014 8 TH FORM 4 th LEVEL 1 Find the words. Comenius Project SLODIC - English classes Activities with the Film and Book Bend It Like Beckham A - VOCABULARY 1 / 6
2 Look for the words again. 2 / 6
B ORAL IDENTIFICATION Read the statements from the film. Identify their context and meanings. Statements Who? Context and meaning Your parents don t always Joe is talking to Jess. know what s best for you. You must behave like a proper woman. Mr. Bhamra is talking to Jess. Don t you want all this? I want more than this. Pinky and Jess are talking together. If you try to please your parents forever, you re going to end up blaming them. Joe is talking to Jess. If I had an arranged marriage, would he let me play football? Jess is talking to Beckham in her room. There s a reason Sporty Spice is the only one without a fella. Mrs. Paxton is talking to Jules and her dad. I don t want Jessie to suffer I don t want her to make the same mistake her father made, just accepting the situation. I want her to fight, and I want her to win. This is taking me away from everything they know. Mr. Bhamra is talking to Mrs Bhamra. Jess is talking to Joe. 3 / 6
1 Translate to Portuguese. C READING ACTIVITIES Synopsis Jess Bhamra (Parminder Nagra) lives in a London suburb, not far from Heathrow Airport. She is the youngest of two daughters in a Punjabi family. All Jess wants to do is play football. Her parents want her and her sister Pinky to be good Indian daughters. Pinky s wedding is approaching and this puts more pressure on Jess. Her life changes when she meets Jules (Keira Knightley) and is encouraged to join the local ladies football team, Hounslow Harriers. Jess is fi nally doing what she loves to do but has to lie to her parents. The team go to Hamburg to play, where her relationship with Joe, the team s coach, becomes much closer. Jess and Jules argue over Joe. Jess s parents fi nd out that she has been lying and she is banned from playing. The pressure on Jess is intensifi ed as an American football scout is due to watch an important cup match on the day of Pinky s wedding, when all of these conflicts come to a head and are satisfactorily resolved. 4 / 6
2 - Getting to know the characters: Jess - main character (female / football player / Indian origin) Jules her friend (female / football player / English origin) Joe - football coach (male) Tony friend of Jess (male) Pinky Jess sister Teetu Pinky s bridegroom Look at the following extract from the book Bend it like Beckham, by Narinder Chadha, and then answer the questions. 'But playing for the team is an honour,' I blurted out, unable to keep quiet any longer. Mum glared at me. 'What bigger honour is there than respecting your elders?' she demanded. Dad looked at Joe. 'Young man, when I was a teenager in Nairobi, I was the best fast bowler in my school, he said curtly. 'Our team even won the East African cup. But when I came to this country, nothing. I wasn't allowed to play in any team. These bloody goreh in their clubhouses laughed at my turban and sent me packing.' I looked down at the floor. I knew about this because Mum had told me, but Dad had never talked about it before. 'I'm sorry, Mr Bhamra,' Joe began. 'But now ' 'Now what?' Dad broke in. 'None of our boys are in any of the football leagues. And you think they'll let our girls in? I don't want to build up Jesminder's hopes -' he glanced over at me. ' She'll only end up disappointed like me.' a. What do the references to East Africa, goreh and turban tell you about Bamrah s background? b. What did the narrator want to do? c. Did the narrator s mother and father agree with her? d. What is the difference between the narrator s father s objections and those of her mother? e. In which city does the story take place? What do the book and film tell us about city life. 5 / 6
3 - Fashion a) Costume is also very important in the film in terms of balancing the traditional with the modern. Look carefully at the picture. Tell the differences and similarities between Jess and the rest of the team. b) Look carefully at these two pictures. Write topics next to the corresponding picture. The left-hand picture shows Jess in her back garden: - What is she wearing? - What is hanging on the washing line? - What do you think is being suggested here about Jess? Now look at the right-hand picture. It shows Jess telling Joe that she is leaving him and going to America: - What do the changes in costume tell us about the changes in Jess as we come to the end of the film? Hope you enjoyed getting to know the film and book! Your English teacher, Cláudia Mota 6 / 6