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Write a Movie Review

C¢ Complete the chart with information from the review in exercise A. Then discuss your answers
with a partner.

Title of movie: __The Deep Year movie was released:

Director:
Main character: Actor:

Plot/Story: An Icelandic fisherman must try to survive after his fishing boat sinks.
Setting (place) or visual effects:
This is a powerful/interesting movie because

2 BEFORE YOU WRITE.

A Work with a partner. Create a list of the three best movies that you have seen in the past
year. Help each other remember the actors in each one.

B Choose one movie from your list and prepare to write a review of if. In your notebook, make a
chart like the one in exercise 1€ and fill in as much information as you can.

3 WRITE two or three paragraphs about the movie that you chose. Tell the basic plot and the
setting. What made the movie powerful or interesting? Use your chart from exercise 2B and the
review in exercise 1A to guide you. Use at least three relative clauses in your review.

WRITING FOCUS Discussing Plot in the Simple Present

When we discuss the plot (the basic storyline) of a movie or a novel, we usually use a present
form of the verb. Even though we saw the movie or read the book in the past, the events in
the story continue to exist. Every time we watch the movie or read the novel, the same events
will occur. Notice the simple present in the first sentence of the plot summary:
Gulli, played by Olafur Darri Olafsson, is stranded in freezing cold waters after he survives
an accident that sinks his fishing boat.

4 SELF ASSESS. Underline the relative clauses in your review. Then use the checklist to
assess your work,
OOOO I used relative clauses with whose, when, and where correctly. [11.3, 11.7]
I used identifying and non-identifying subject relative clauses correctly. [11.1, 11.2]

I used object relative clauses correctly. [11.4, 11.5]
I used the simple present when describing the plot of the movie. [WRITING FOCUS]

UNIT 11 CONNECT THE GRAMMAR TO WRITING 331
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