Make Your Way 7, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Look at these sentences taken from the film review of “Super Size Me”. Put them in the order in which you think the critic said them. Then listen again and check. 4 The writing station: A review You are a regular contributor to an online cinema webpage of independent film reviews. Write a review (200-250 words) of a documentary film (or another kind of film if you have not seen one) you have seen recently. Use a semiinformal style, do not use graphic symbols. To help you with this task, the following general guidelines on reviewwriting may be useful: 5 9 Spurlock is a great journalist who uses to get his message across. 10 McDonald’s are not happy with the film but have decided not to against Spurlock. __ a Spurlock uses a mixture of humour, information and top-class investigative journalism to produce one of the year’s most important films. __ b So that was the idea, nothing but McDonald’s for a month and see what happens. __ c “Super Size Me”, which is written and directed by Morgan Spurlock, is an uncompromising attack on America’s fast food industry. __ d I strongly recommend everyone to see this film. __ e It’s been a good year for documentaries, with films like “Fahrenheit 9/11”, “Bus 174”, “Touching the Void” and “The Fog of War” all doing well at the box office. __ f Without giving too much away, we watch a healthy young man’s health rapidly get worse in a frighteningly short amount of time. __ g The end result is a fascinating and at times harrowing portrayal of the dangers of fast food. __ h Inspired by the story of a lawsuit brought against McDonald’s by two obese American teenage girls who were blaming the company for their weight problem, Spurlock came up with the idea of eating nothing but McDonald’s every day for a month. a general introduction • – This should get the readers’ interest. It might be a sentence or two about the director or the topic of the film, for example. a brief description of what the film is about • – No more than one or two sentences. a more detailed account of what happens • – Include some of the interesting points the film makes but don’t give too much away. your opinion of the film • – Why you liked or didn’t like it. a conclusion • – Do you recommend this film? Why or why not? 169 4 Compact unit 4: Documentaries N r zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv