English Practice Through Film

A workbook designed to help Advanced English Language Learners increase their listening, reading and vocabulary skills. Exercises cover each scene in Sydney Pollack's political thriller, "The Interpreter." This workbook would also be useful for ELL who are interested in the Language Interpreting field as a resource for interpreting vocabulary, types of interpreting, the "Do's & Don'ts"of interpreting, as well as the inaccuracies of how language interpreting is portrayed in film. In "The Interpreter," Academy Award winners Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn star in this action-packed thriller. In one of the hidden corridors of power at the United Nations headquarters, Interpreter Silvia Broome (Kidman) overhears a potentially explosive secret about a planned assassination attempt. But when federal agent Tobin Keller (Penn) investigates her claim and digs deeper into Silvia's dangerous past, he begins to question whether she is a victim - or a suspect. From Oscar winning director Sydney Pollack comes the riveting, edge-of-your-seat story of international intrigue. - Universal Pictures / PG-13 The skills exercises include: True/False, Multiple Choice, Short Answer, Check What You Hear, Vocabulary in Context, Interpreting Vocabulary, and Making Inferences.