Touching Story – Going Home

Organiser: Alzheimer’s Disease Association SG

Title: Going Home

Award: First Prize

Produced by Kirill Tee

Directed by Vinn Bay

A.D: Leonard Chow

D.O.P: Austin Lai

Boom Operator: Joseph Chang

Edited by Kirill Tee & Vinn Bay

Questions:

1.Which meal is the grandma trying to cook?

(1) Breakfast.        (2) Lunch.        (3) Dinner.

2. What does dementia mean?

(1) Forgetting very simple things.

(2) Cooking for a long time.

(3) Always asking people questions.

3. The grandma must have been on the street alone for a long time.

Guess for how long it may be and why do you think so?

4. What kinds of things does the grandma forget?

Give three examples according to the video.

5. The grandma forgets her son and her daughter-in-law, but remembers her granddaughter.

Guess the possible reason.

Pantene You Can Shine

Teaching Tips:

Ask Ss to write down the most touching sentence they feel and why.

(對白翻譯)
A duck tries to fly!?
鴨子想要飛！？

and a deaf tries to play the violin…
聾啞人還想拉小提琴？

Are you crazy?
妳是瘋了嗎？

Why
為什麼

don’t you learn something else?
妳不學別的?

You are wasting everyone’s time.
妳是在浪費大家的時間。

You still play the violin?
妳還在拉小提琴嗎?

Why am I different from others?
為什麼我和別人不一樣？

Why…do you have to be like others?
為什麼……妳必須要和別人一樣？

music
音樂

is a visible thing.
是一件顯而易見的事情

Close your eyes.
閉上妳的眼睛

You will see
妳會看見

Classical music contest
古典音樂競賽

What? got a problem?
有什麼問題嗎？

Amazing performance from our last contestant…
我們最後一位參賽者的表現令人驚嘆

Now its time for…
而現在…

Well, seems like we have one more contestant
看起來我們有更多一個參賽者

And here she is…
在這兒，她是…

You can shine
妳也可以發光

讓愛傳出去Pay It Forward

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All credits go to its rightful owners

Plot:
When 11-year-old Trevor McKinney (Osment) begins seventh grade in Las Vegas, Nevada, his social studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Spacey) gives the class an assignment to devise and put into action a plan that will change the world for the better. Trevor calls his plan “pay it forward”, which can be described as a charitable pyramid scheme, based on good deeds rather than profit. “Paying it forward” means the recipient of a favor does a favor for a third party rather than paying the favor back.

Trevor does a favor for three people, asking each of them to return the favor by doing favors for three other people, and so on, along a branching tree of good deeds. Trevor does his first good deed for a homeless man named Jerry (James Caviezel). This effort initially appears to be unsuccessful, but Jerry will pay his debt forward later in the film by talking a suicidal woman out of jumping off a bridge.

Meanwhile, Trevor’s mother Arlene (Hunt) meets Eugene after discovering Jerry in their house and confronting Eugene about Trevor’s project. Then Trevor selects Eugene as his next “pay it forward” target and tricks Eugene and Arlene into a romantic dinner date. This also appears to fail, but then Trevor and Arlene argue about her alcoholism and she slaps him in a fit of anger. The two adults are brought together again when Trevor runs away from home and Arlene asks Eugene to help her find him.

Trevor’s school assignment marks the beginning of the story’s chronology, but the opening scene in the film shows one of the later favors in the “pay it forward” tree, in which a man gives a car to Los Angeles journalist Chris Chandler (Jay Mohr). As the film proceeds, Chandler traces the chain of favors back to its origin in Trevor’s school project. After her date with Eugene, Arlene paid Trevor’s favor forward by forgiving her own mother Grace (Angie Dickinson) for her mistakes in raising Arlene, and Grace, who is homeless, helped a gang member escape from the police. This gang member then helped the daughter of the man who gave Chandler his new car.

After finding Trevor, Arlene begins to pursue Eugene romantically. Eugene has burn marks visible on his neck and face, and he initially resists Arlene’s overtures. When they finally sleep together, he is seen to have extensive scarring over his torso. Arlene accepts Eugene’s physical disfigurement, but abandons their relationship when her alcoholic ex-husband Ricky (Jon Bon Jovi) returns to her, claiming to have given up drinking. Ricky’s return angers Eugene, whose own mother had a habit of taking his abusive, alcoholic father back. He explains that his stepfather intentionally burned him, and he warns Arlene of Ricky’s potential to abuse Trevor. When Ricky resumes his abusive behavior, Arlene realizes her mistake and asks him to leave again.

Chandler finally identifies Trevor as the originator of “pay it forward” and conducts a recorded interview in which Trevor describes his hopes and concerns for the project. Eugene, hearing Trevor’s words, realizes that he and Arlene should be together. As Eugene and Arlene reconcile with a passionate embrace, Trevor is fatally stabbed while defending a friend against a group of bullies. This news is reported on television, and Eugene and Arlene are soon visited by hundreds of people who have participated in the “pay it forward” movement, gathering in a vigil to pay their respects to Trevor.

Main cast:
* Kevin Spacey as Eugene Simonet
* Helen Hunt as Arlene McKinney
* Haley Joel Osment as Trevor McKinney
* Jay Mohr as Chris Chandler
* James Caviezel as Jerry
* Angie Dickinson as Grace
* Jon Bon Jovi as Ricky McKinney

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Make Way For Ducklings

Make Way for Ducklings won the 1942 Caldecott Medal for McCloskey’s illustrations.

Story Review:

It’s not easy for duck parents to find a safe place to bring up their ducklings, but during a rest stop in Boston’s Public Garden, Mr. and Mrs. Mallard think they just might have found the perfect spot–no foxes or turtles in sight, plenty of peanuts from pleasant passers-by, and the benevolent instincts of a kindly police officer to boot. Young readers will love the mother duck’s proud, loving protection of her wee webbed ones, and those with fond memories of Boston will enjoy familiar locales, from Beacon Hill to Louisburg Square, and over the Charles River–often from a duck’s-eye view.  –Karin Snelson

讓路給小鴨子

野鴨 馬拉 太太在波士頓城外河中小島上生了八隻小鴨。當小鴨學會走路後， 馬拉 太太要帶他們走回波士頓公園去住。他們一家人要如何穿越城內交通最繁忙的街道和十字路口呢？這就是這本生動活潑圖畫書要告訴您的。

 

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Teaching tips:

1. Play the flash file.

2. Divide the students into 6 groups and ask each group to copy the scrip for 2 minutes. (Total 11:13)

3.  Tell everyone your part and discuss the main idea of the story.

4. Ask students some questions about the plot.

5. Write down a sentence pattern you learn from this story and make a sentence.

Suggested questions:

1. What were Mr. & Mrs. Marllard looking for?

–> A place to live.

2. What place did Mr. & Mrs. Marllard decide to live in?

–> Boston Public Garden.

3. What did they eat in the place they live?

–> Peanuts.

4. How many ducklings did Mr. & Mrs. Marllard hatch?

–> Eight.

5. What were the ducklings names?

–> Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack and Quack.

6. The ducklings’ names are in rhyme.  What’s the rhyme?

–> ack.

7. What did Mrs. Marllard teach her ducklings?

–> She taught how to swim,  how to dive,  to walk in a line to come when they were called, and to keep a distance from bikes and scooters and other things with wheels.

8. Who helped the Marllard family to cross the road, and what’s his job?

–> Michael, the policeman.

9. What does the writer try to tell us?

–> We should protect animals.