Act and React!

Get ready

1

Read the question: “Can words be weapons?”. Drag the words related to “words” in the first category and those related to “weapons” in the second one.

2

Fill in the blanks with these words to reformulate the question.
Weapons

people

but wounds

be

whereas words

people

and might never be

. So you’d better be

and choose words

.

3

Brainstorm from the title of the chapter.

4

Check with this table what you already know.

Observe and listen

1

Associate the words with the correct character of the picture.

2

Find synonyms and antonyms of “evil”.

   

3

Listen to the audioguide and fill in the blanks.

It’s a for the American movie A Girl Like Her directed by Amy S. Weber. [...] The film tells the story of a  student, Jessica, who’s being by her  friend, Avery, one of the most girls in her school. [...] Avery has , a public  one and a and more discreet one.

4

Choose the correct answer.

a) The girl looking down is everybody’s dreamgirl. (Right. / Wrong.) 
b) The girl looking straight is the “girl like her”. (Right. / Wrong.) 
c) This story is based on a true story. (Right. / Wrong.)

Let’s have fun

1

Listen to the song. Note the silent letter in “knives”, “swords” and “knocked”.

Knives → 
Swords → 
Knocked → 

2

Write down the words related to violence.

3

Think of another sound like fingernails on a chalkboard, which really irritates you.

You, with your words like knives
And swords and weapons that you use against me
You have knocked me off myfeet again
Got me feeling like a nothing
You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard
Calling me out when I’m wounded