Hitchcock.

Alfred Hitchcock always managed to make a brief appearance in his movies: He was sometimes

getting on a bus, or crossing a street, pr walking in front of a store, or across the courtyard in an

apartment. However, for the movie Lifeboat in 1944, he was faced with a difficult problem. The

entire movie was set in a lifeboat out at sea, and there were only a few characters in the boat.

Originally, he wanted to float by as a dead body, but he was afraid he d sink! His clever solution

was to place a photograph of himself in a newspaper that one of the characters read during the

course of the movie.

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VI. Furthering Listening and Speaking

Listening

Task 1: Only One Line

Peter has always wanted to be an actor, but never succeeded because he had a hard time

memorizing lines. A friend of his told him about a small part in a play. He promised Peter that he

could do it because he s only have to remember one line. Peter decided to take the part. His only

line was, “Listen, I hear the guns roar!” Peter practiced and practiced, “Listen, I hear the guns

roar!” On the opening night of the play Peter was very nervous. Backstage, he practiced his line,

over and over again, “Listen, I hear the guns roar! Listen, I hear the guns roar!” Finally came his

turn, Peter went onto stage. He heard a loud BOOM and cried out in spite of himself, “WHAT

THE HELL WAS THAT?”

1. memorizing lines

2. remember one line

3. I hear the guns roar

4. a loud boom

5. his line

Task 2: An Interview with J.K. Rowling

Q: How did you get the idea for Harry Potter?

A: I was traveling on a train between Manchester and London and the idea for Harry just fell into

my head. At that point it was essentially the idea for a body who didn t know he was a wizard.

Q: Did you always plan to write Harry s story in more than one book? If so, how many?

A: I always conceived it as a seven-book series because I decided that it would take seven years,

from age eleven to seventeen, inclusive, to train as a wizard, and each of the books would deal

with one year of Harry s life at the school.

Q: Any clues about the next book?

A: I don t want to i\give anything away, but I tell you that the books are getting darker. Harry s

going to have quite a bit to deal with as he gets older. Sorry if they get too scary!

Q: Of the many things you must have heard people say about Harry Potter, what are some of your

favorites?

A: My very favorite was from a twelve-year-old Scottish girl who came to hear me read at the

Edinburgh book festival. At the end of the festival, the queue for signing was very long. When the

girl finally reached me, she said, “I didn t WANT there to be so many people here, because this is

MY books!” That is exactly how I feel about my favorite books. Nobody else has a right to know