Let's tick it off!

1. Bucket lists are boring. Right. Wrong.
2. On your bucket list, you can only write down the names of places you want to visit. Right. Wrong.
3. A bucket list is a list of promises to your family. Right. Wrong.

A famous bucket list

1

Match the film vocabulary to the information on the DVD sleeve.

2

Read the hypothesis below and find elements on the DVD sleeve that could justify them.

3

Here is Jenny’s guess. Fill in the blanks and note the predictions you agree with.

“Maybe one of the characters is

and lonely. He will try to

his bucket list before he gets too ill. He will

to Australia, where he will

the other character. They will

best friends.”

A plot summary

1

Read the DVD sleeve. Note the characters’ jobs. Note how they know each other. Note what they do together.
💡 Tip: Room+mate → roommate. 



Their jobs: 
How they know each other: 
What they do together: 

2

Tick out the wrong statements about the characters.

a) The characters are young and healthy.

b) They shared the same room in the same hospital.

c) One of the characters is very rich.

d) They decided to stay at the hospital and watch TV.

3

Match the pictures to the words. Click on the activities the characters of The Bucket List manage to do.

Go hot-air ballooning

Skydive

See the pyramids of Egypt

Visit the Great Wall of China

Drive a race car

Go bungee jumping

Go ziplining

4

How would you translate this movie title into French? Select the correct answer.

Ça attendra.

La liste du seau.

Sans plus attendre.

Mind reading

1

Fill in the blanks with information from the picture.

Jenny is going to visit a F T on at . Jenny wants to talk to her about her B L.

2

Click on the keywords you hear in the conversation.

×

bucket list

×

present

×

Italy

×

destination

×

best friend

×

disappointed

×

psychic

×

fortune-teller

×

pass

×

birthday

×

twin brother

×

father

×

skydive

×

letter

×

holidays

×

reptile

×

pen friend

×

results

×

fail

3

Select what Jenny will do (according to the fortune teller).

×

Get something nice for her birthday.

×

Pass her exams.

×

Find a good penfriend.

Go somewhere exotic.

Be pleased about her brother’s present.

La prononciation de « t »

Listen: I want a little bucket of water, not a bottle!

Réfléchis : Repère tous les mots contenant le son /t/. /t/ est-il davantage accentué quand il est situé au milieu d’un mot ou à la fin d’un mot ?



Répète : Betty Botter bought a bit of butter; “But,” she said, “this butter’s bitter!

Les composés de some

Observe : I will go somewhere (1.) exotic, I’ll meet someone (2.) nice from Spain and I will do something (3.) special for Christmas: go to New Zealand!

Réfléchis : Parmi les composés de some (en gras), lequel permet de désigner un lieu ? Un objet ? Une personne ?


Conclus : Les mots en gras sont composés de some et des mots , et ; ils forment un seul . Contrairement à la règle de l’adjectif anglais, les adjectifs qui qualifient les composés de some se placent le nom.

Mission 1

1

Your first mission is...

present fortune tellers.

write a dialogue.

×

act out a dialogue.

2

You will need to...

react to what your partner is saying.

use will / will not / won’t in questions and statements.

use some compounds.

prepare a “near-future” bucket list.

say hello, thank you, goodbye.

3

Choose your level:

A2

A2+

A1+