BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM

Worksheet 2: Characters in the Film

Describe a picture

Picture A:

This picture shows Jess and Joe. They are hugging. Joe is very happy, but Jess is worried about something. Jess is wearing a pink dress and Joe is wearing a dark jacket. We see that they are in a football pitch, this pitch is very green. In the background, I can see the publicity of the team.

Picture D:

This picture shows Jess looking at the portrait of Beckham. She’s sitting in the floor. In the bedroom I can see a lot of photos and one T-shirt about Beckham. The walls of the bedroom are white and brown. The bedroom has one little window and a big bed.

Describe two characters
 

Jess: First she wanted to become like David Beckham. Every day she plays football with her friend in the park. But one day Jules offered her to play in feminine football team. But her parents didn’t want that his daughter play football. They want that Jess became a Hindu wife. Finally Jess and Jules went to play football in America

Jules: She plays in a feminine football team. One day she saw Jess. Jess was playing football in the park. Jules offer to Jess to play in feminine football team. Jules and Jess became friends. But one day Jules get angry with Jess because she kisses Joe his coach, Jules was falling in love with Joe. Finally Jess and Jules became friends. They went to America to play football.

Jessminder (Jess)

wants to be a professional footballer. Unfortunately, her parents have more traditional ideas about her future.
adjectives: stubborn, competitive, talented, desobedient and she achived her goals.

David Beckham

Is an international football star.
adjectives: Handsome, chatty, optimistic, sensitive and sensible.


Juliette(Jules) 

also wants to be a professional footballer. She plays for women's football team, the Hunslow Harriers.

Jess' parents

Mr and Mrs Bhamra immigrated to Britain before their children were born. They want their daughters to be proper Indian girls. 

Jules' father 

Alan supports his daughter's football career. He practices with her and goes to watch her matches. Her mother, Paula, doesn't like it. She wants her daughter to be more feminine.

pinky 

 is Jess' older sister. She is busy planning her wedding to her boyfriend, Teetu.

Joe 

 is the coach of the Hounslow Harriers. He used to play football but a knee injury forced him to stop playing.

Tony 

is Jess' best friend. He plays football with her in the park. Tony has a secret.

WORKSHEET 3: 2.2 WILL PINKY GET MARRIED?

Exercise A: This section starts with Pinky's wedding being cancelled, because her future in - laws think that Jess was kissing a white man at the bus-stop. Her parents then forbid her from playing football. Put the following events in order.

1.-Jess gets into a fight with another football player.
2.-Jess' father sees Joe and Jess hugging. 
3.-Joe and Jess almost kiss. Jules sees this and becomes jealous.
4.-The Hounslow Harriers go to Germany.
5.-The Bhamras find out Jess went to Germany, and try to make her quit the team.
6.-The wedding is back on again.
7.-Tony tells Jess that he is gay.
8.-Joe goes to the Bhamra's house to try to persuade them to allow Jess to play football.

1-4
2-8
3-3
4-5
1-6
2-7
8-6

Exercise B:Rewrite these paragraphs so they are true. There are three mistakes in each paragraph. 

1.-Pinky blames her parents because her wedding is cancelled. She tells her parents that Jess has stopped playing football . They are very angry and tell her she can't continue to play.

-Pinky blames Jess because her wedding is cancelled. She tells her parents that Jess hasn't stopped playing football. They are very angry and tell her she can't continue to play.

2.-Jules doesn't like Joe. In Germany, Joe and Jess fight. Jules sees this and is upset and jealous. Jules visits Jess' house and they have an argument. 

-Jules likes Joe. In Germany, Joe and Jess nearly kissed. Jules sees this and is upset and jealous. Jess' visits Jules house and they have an argument. 

3.-Pinky is very happy that her wedding is cancelled. She persuades Teetu, her boyfriend, to talk to his friends. Teetu's parents and the Bhamras arrange for the wedding to continue. Unfortunately, the wedding date is the same day as Jess' university exams.

-Pinky is upset that her wedding is cancelled. She persuades Teetu, her boyfriend, to talk his parents. Teetu's parents and the Bhamras arrange for the wedding to continue. Unfortunately, the wedding date is the same day as Jess' final match.


Exercice C: Joe says that is the she's life not the live of her parents.

 2.3 THE FINAL MATCH

Exercice A: Answer the questions.

1.- Why does jess' mother pray to the picture of Babaji? 
-Because she doesn't want Jess to play football.

2.-How does Jess feel at the start of her sister's wedding? 
-Very sad

3.-Why does Joe go to Jess' house during the wedding?
-Because he wants that Jess play the football match.

4.-Why does Mr Bhamra allow Jess to go to the football match?
-Because she was really sad.

5.-What does the American offer Jules and Jess?
-To play in a football team.

6.-What job does Joe take in the end?

-He trains the femenine girls team.

Exercice B: What happens to these people at the end of the movie?

1.-Jess and Jules
-They went to Sta Clara to play football.

2.-Jules' mother
-She accepts her daughter to play football

3.-Jess and Joe
-They start a relationship

4.-Pinky an her mother-in-law
-They get very well.

5.-Joe and Mr Bhambra
-Become friends while Jess  go to USA.

Exercice C: At the end of the wedding celebration, Jess is sitting in the car with her sister when her sister says "Don't you want all of this?" (a wedding, a husband, etc.). What does Jess mean when she says "I want more than this?"

- Because she wants to be a football player.

Worksheet 3: While You Watch

2.1: The Hounslow Harries

ExerciseA: Put These events in the correct order.

1- Pinky has her engagement party.
2- Jules sees Jess playing football in the park, and asks her to join the Hounslow Harriers.
3- Jess' mother sees her wearing shorts and playing Football with Tony's friends, and tells her she's not allowed to play football.
4- Jess lies to her parents that she has a prart-time job, so she can go out and play football.
5- Jess and Jules go shopping for football shoes.
6- Pinky's boyfriend' relatives see Jess and Jules laughing and hugging, and think she is kissing a man.

Exercise B: who said what? Match the statement with the person who said it.

1. I was married at your age. Jess' mother
2. If she's more interested in playing football than chasing boys, well quite frankly I'm over the moon about that. Jules' father
3. your mother's right. It's not nice. You must start behaving like a proper woman. Jess father.
4. No boy's going to want to go out with a girl who's got bigger muscles than him. Jules' mother.

Exercise C: Think about the expectations that Jess' and Jules' families have of them. Make lists of the things that their families and society espect girls to do. Make one list for both girls, and another list for Jess.

Both Jess and Jules

-Femenins girls.
-Have a boyfriends.
-Don't have bigger muscles.
-Espected to get married.
-Are not espected to play sports.
-Enjoy shopping: to look nice, to find a boy friend.

Jess

-Is also expected to get maried to an Indian man.
-Have to cook well Indian food.