"I've read the book. I've seen the film."

Week 21^st – 23^rd October, 2014

Hello everybody! How’s your weekend going?

“I´ve read the book. I’ve seen the film.”

‘When a book becomes a bestseller, we know the film version is soon going to appear. But which is usually better, the book or the film?’

This was the introduction to a radio programme. The question was “Do good books make good films?” people phoned and gave their opinions.

One of the listeners said it is a good thing they make the movies because some people buy the book after seeing the film. If there wasn’t a movie, people wouldn’t read the book. Another listener said that it depends. Sometimes the book is very good and the film isn’t or the other way round: the book is bad and the film is great!

What’s your opinion?  Do good books make good films? Have you ever read the book because you saw the film and felt curiosity? Have you read a book and after that went to see the film to see how close it was to the story in the book?

Just tell me!

The title of our lesson was “I’ve read the book. I’ve seen the film.” There was a song in the 70s called “I’ve seen the film. I’ve read the book.” You can listen to it in here:

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 I read “Millennium” because I saw the poster for the first film. The film was called in Spanish “The men who didn’t love women.” I saw the poster in the underground and I felt curious because of the title. I didn’t go to the cinema but I bought the book, in English. The title of this first book in English is “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” The writer was Swedish. I don’t know what the title of the book is in Swedish. When books are translated into different languages, you don’t have to translate literally because sometimes those words don’t make sense into the other language. So, the translator reads the book and choses the title which best describe the story. I saw the films a long time after I had read the books.

In my view (opinion) the films are as good as the books.

Of course, we went on (continued) practising present perfect. And first, we played a bingo with participles. I think we are going to play bingo with participles to see if I get you to learn them. Meanwhile you can practise listening and repeating with this video.

On Tuesday, we´ll talk about our most important possessions and we’ll learn the use of ‘for’ and ‘since’ with present perfect.

Enjoy your Sunday! We slept longer last night! One more hour!