1. What is the title of the film?

1. <Movie Poster> 1. What is the title of the film? Titanic 2. What is the cast? (the main actor and main actress)? Leonardo DiCaprio & Kate Winslet 3. Who is the director? James Cameron 4. Which genre does the film belong to? Romance / Drama 5. Where does the action take place? The sea / the ocean liner - Titanic 6. Look at the quote below the title, what would happen to the main characters?

2. Guessing the plot • Movie clips: • A sea explorer discovered the wreck of the Titanic. • Rose and Jack boarded Titanic. • Rose tried to jump off the ship but was stopped by Jack. • Jack was accused of stealing the diamond “Heart of the Sea”. • The Titanic hit an iceberg. • Jack rescued Rose by sacrificing himself. • The last time Rose saw her fiancee and • she told her story to Brock Lovett over eighty years later.

3. What is Titanic about?

4. Instructions: • Form into groups of six. • Get an envelop and each student should get a strip of sentence. • Each sentence is given an alphabet letter. • You are not allowed to show each other you sentence. • Each member in the group should take turns and read out their sentence aloud. • Then the group should work out the order of events. • When you are ready, one student from the group should come out and write his/her name, and the order (i.e. the letters) on the blackboard. • The fastest group with the correct answers will win.

5. Answer 1. F 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. E 6. D

6. Elements of a film

7. A film has • Setting • Characters and • Plot

8. Setting • The setting is the time and place where the story takes place. • The story of the “Titanic” took place in 1912. The ship was scheduled to sail across the Atlantic for New York.

9. Characters • They are the people or imaginary figures in the story. • They can be good or bad, clever or stupid. • The main character is the protagonist. • In “Titanic”, Jack and Rose are the main characters.

10. Plot • The plot is the events of the story. • The characters’ motives and behavior create the plot.

11. When you talk about a film, you can think about • What type of film it is • What do you feel while watching it and • What message it conveys.

12. Here is a checklist of things you might consider when talking about a film: • Plot • Setting • Characters • Theme • Directing • Special effects • Camera work • Lighting effect • Sound and Music

13. A film has actors and actresses who may even be stars

14. We learn from watching films.

15. Characterization

16. Titanic

17. The maiden voyage

18. Many different people go on board.

19. Do you know who they are?

20. Do you know their names?Which social class do they belong to?Do you know their relationship?

21. Who is she? Rose Which class do you think she comes from?

22. Does she look attractive to you?

23. Does she look happy? Do you think she will obey her mother’s orders?

24. This is Jack. Do you think he looks rich?

25. Is he always happy? Does he seem to have any worries?

26. What is he good at?

27. Cal Who is he? Which class does he come from? The upper class How will he look at Jack? He looks down upon him.

28. What about his attitude towards Rose? Does he want to control her or to be controlled by her?