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GFerro - Listening Activities
by GFerro - (2013-12-18)
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Task: Watch and describe the videos.

In the video “Love language – Love story (the best remake)” there’s a girl who is sitting on a bench in a park. She is studying and listening to the music when a boy comes and sits near her. He is studying too and he tries to make conversation, but she only asks her if she can lend him her highlighter.
On the second day there is the boy who is sitting on the same bench waiting for the girl. When she arrives she sits at the usual seat. She is listening to the music again so the boy asks her what is she listening to, but she doesn’t hear him. So he writes the question on a post-it. When she sees it she writes the answer on another post-it: “A special song”.
Then the boy asks her, still writing on a post-it, if he can listen to it and she replies that she is too embarrassed. They go on writing on post-it, asking each other the name and something else. The boy asks for her telephone number, but she says she hasn’t one. He replies: “That’s a terrible lie”. They burst out and she says she will be there again the day after.
The third day they meet again at the same place and they go on writing on post-it and laughing.
At the end she asks him if he wants to listen to her song but when he puts on the headphones he is amazed because he doesn’t hear anything.
She makes him understand that she is deaf so he writes on a post-it that she is still beautiful.
End of the story.

In the movie “The language of love ‘Amazing’ Ellen DeGeneres a 17 years old, Charlie, is in a classroom with other students. They’re doing a French test and he is reading the writing task B “Describe your best friend, write your response on a letter to your friend”.
At first he worries about the task because he finds difficult to express himself in a foreign language. He had already done the grammar exercises and he think that the exam was going so well until that task.
He doesn’t know if he has to think up a friend or he has to speak about Sam, his real best friend.
Thinking about what to do he does some meditations about the language saying that even if you learn all the words in a dictionary it doesn’t mean you can speak the language, but the aim is to speak French like a French man and he is thinking about how to do this.
So he starts to think about Sam: they do everything together, but recently Sam is sad because his parents are going to divorce. Sam tries to smile and hide is feelings inside but Charlie had noticed it anyway. Then Charlie confesses he is in love with Sam and he wonders what is happening to himself and he realizes he can’t control his feelings. Charlie struggles to find the words to be true to himself and to his best friend but he is afraid of his reaction and of what others may say.
He realizes that Sam is his best friend and means more than any French mark. He thinks maybe the best thing to do is just keep his feelings inside but at the end he decides to speak with Sam so he writes in the letter his feelings and he says to Sam: “Je t’aime”.