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The document is a film worksheet for the movie 'The Help', aimed at helping students identify explicit and implicit content, extract specific vocabulary, and demonstrate comprehension of the film. It includes vocabulary exercises, character descriptions, comprehension tasks, and opinion questions. The worksheet is designed for an English language workshop and encourages critical thinking about themes of race and social issues presented in the film.

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The Help

The document is a film worksheet for the movie 'The Help', aimed at helping students identify explicit and implicit content, extract specific vocabulary, and demonstrate comprehension of the film. It includes vocabulary exercises, character descriptions, comprehension tasks, and opinion questions. The worksheet is designed for an English language workshop and encourages critical thinking about themes of race and social issues presented in the film.

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Rafael Galleguillos Castillo

La Serena
Idioma extranjero: Inglés

FILM WORKSHEET: THE HELP


Name:___________________________________________ class: workshop IV Date: ___/___/___.

Aims: -Identificar el contenido explicito e implícito de una película.


-Extraer vocabulario específico del tópico (frases hechas y palabras aisladas).
-Demostrar comprensión auditiva y lectora frente a situaciones de la película.

Vocabulary:

What kind of film is “The Help”? (circle the option)

a) Comedy
b) Sci-fi
c) romantic comedy
d) historical film
e) horror film

Find the meaning of the following adjectives:

i. Stubborn: v. Selfish:
ii. Kind: vi. Naïve:
iii. Humble: vii. Racist:
iv. Arrogant:

Movie Description:

Characters: Use one adjective to describe each Events Relating to the Following: write an
character. event related to the character.
1. Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan: 1. Theodore G. Bilbo:

2. Aibileen Clark: 2. Emmett Till

3. Minny Jackson 3. Roy Bryant

4. Hilly Holbrook 4. Medgar Evers


Rafael Galleguillos Castillo
La Serena
Idioma extranjero: Inglés

Complete the laws:

1. No person should require a) ________________ to nurse in wards or b) _____________ in


which c) ____________ are placed.

2. Books shall not be d) _____________ between e) ____________ and f) _______________


but shall be continued to be used by the g) __________ first h) ______________.

3. No coloured barber shall serve as a barber to I) _______________________.

4. Any person printing, publishing or circulating written matter urging for j)


__________________ or k) ________________ between whites and negroes is subject to
l) ____________.

Comprehension task 1: circle the correct option

1. In what town in Mississippi is "The Help" set?


a) Charleston
b) Hamilton
c) Madison
d) Jackson

2. Who is the author of the book upon which the film is based?
a) Kathryn Stockett
b) Jodi Picoult
c) Helen Fielding
d) Margaret Atwood

3. One of the most memorable characters in "The Help" is Minny Jackson, who finds herself
fired rather early on in the film. Why exactly is she fired?
a) For stealing a ring
b) For giving her employer food poisoning
c) For using her employer's private toilet
d) For being late
Rafael Galleguillos Castillo
La Serena
Idioma extranjero: Inglés

4. Who is the first African American maid to be interviewed?


a) Dana
b) Constantine
c) Aibileen
d) Minny

5. What is the name of the maid responsible for raising Skeeter?


a) Hilly
b) Dana
c) Constantine
d) Minny

6. Skeeter dreams of being a journalist and a writer, but her first job involves writing about
something rather mundane. What type of column is she tasked with writing for the local
newspaper?
a) The obituaries column
b) The ladies that lunch column
c) The homemaker hints column
d) The how to look lovely column

7. "There are real racists in this town". Who is the woman who speaks these words?
a) Hilly Hollbrook
b) Elaine Stein
c) Elizabeth Leefolt
d) Mae Leefolt

8. Aibileen always said the following: "You is kind. You is smart. You is ___!" What word is
missing here?
a) Important
b) Pretty
c) Unique
d) Wonderful

Comprehension Task 2:

1) What does Skeeter Phelan do? (profession)


Rafael Galleguillos Castillo
La Serena
Idioma extranjero: Inglés

2) What does Aibileen promise the little girl, if she does a pee-pee?

3) What´s the gardeners name?

4) What happened to Constantine and how long did she work in the Phelan household?

5) What does Minny say when she gives the cake to Hilly’s mom?

Opinion: (you can answer in Spanish)

a. What does Skeeter want to write about? Why?

b. Why was Minny fired?

Quotes: Translate the following quotations into Spanish.


What’s your opinion on them?

1. "Everybody knows they carry different diseases than we do.[…] A bill that requires every
white home to have a separate bathroom for the colored help."
Rafael Galleguillos Castillo
La Serena
Idioma extranjero: Inglés

2. : "The colored women down here. They raise a white child and then twenty years later the
child becomes the employer. It's that irony, that we love them and they love yet, yet ... We
don't even allow them to use the toilet in the house."

3. "What maid in her right mind would tell you the truth?

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