PROGRAMA DE LENGUA EXTRANJERA INSTITUCIONAL INTERLINGUA

NAME : Erika Muñoz Correa PROGRAM lengua castellana

CODE 20162150728
LEVEL 4 PROFESSOR: PAOLA ANDREA HOYOS R.

MOVIE WORKSHOP

1. Go to the link to watch the movie https://repelis24.co/pelicula/el-padrino/ or just search in

your Netflix account for ”The Godfather Part 1”

PRE-WATCHING
2. What do you now about the MOB (mafia)? Give your comments about it.

The mob is a clandestine organization, which uses terror and money to achieve everything they
want, they kill without mercy.

3. Complete the chart with the movie information:

The Godfather
Name of the movie:

Directive by: Francis Ford Coppola.

-Michael Corleone
 -Sonny Corleone.
-Don Vito Corleone
-Tom Hagen
Starring by:
 -Connie  corleone
- Carlo Rizzi 
 -Amerigo Bonasera 
 -Jack Woltz 
March 15, 1972
Release date:
United States
Country:

Original Language:
English

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 4. Write the translation of the words in bold in the following sentences:

a) And if some unluck accident should befall him, if he should be shot in the head by

a police officer, or if should hang himself in his jail cell, or if he's struck by a bolt of
lightning... *then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room*... and that, I
do not forgive.

Accident: Accidente Struck:_ golpe

Befall:_ ocurriera Lighning: agilidad, aligeramiento
Hang: ahorca Blame: culpar

b) Don Corleone: I said that I would see you because I had heard that you were
a serious man, to be treated with respect.

Heard: oído (oír) Serios: serio

c) It's true I have a lot of friends in politics, but they wouldn't be so friendly if they knew
my business was drugs instead of gambling which they consider a harmless vice.

Friendly: amigables harmless:_inofensivo

Gambling: Juegos Vice:_vicio

WHILE-WATCHING
5. Describe the physical appearance of the main characters of the movie:

Vito Corleone has little hair black with some gray hair, has a broad
forehead, always dresses very formally, has a mustache, has
bushy and black eyebrows, a large nose, small dark-colored eyes,
a small mouth, he is an old and he is tall.
Vito Corleone

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 Michael Corleone is handsome, he is a military man, with black
eyebrows, good body, small mouth, small dark eyes, medium
nose, abundant straight black hair and he is young.

Michael Corleone

6. According to this PLOT SUMMARY, write down your own version of the movie Plot
Summary. Tell me the story of the movie on your own words.

PLOT SUMMARY MY OWN PLOT SUMMARY

Vito Corleone is the aging don (head) of the The film is about Vito Corleone belongs to
the mafia, father of five children. The story
Corleone Mafia Family. His youngest son
begins with the wedding of her daughter
Michael has returned from WWII just in time Connie, who marries her father's godson.
The mafia proposes to Vito to be part of the
to see the wedding of Connie Corleone
drug business that he does not accept, and
(Michael's sister) to Carlo Rizzi. All of when he goes to buy fruit with his son, they
shoot him, take him to the hospital and he
Michael's family is involved with the Mafia, but
recovers. Then Sonny realizes that his
Michael just wants to live a normal life. Drug sister is mistreated, hurts Connie's
husband, after receiving a call again from
dealer Virgil Sollozzo is looking for Mafia
Connie who is mistreated and to
families to offer him protection in exchange desperately rescue her, he runs away from
his bodyguards and they kill him receiving
for a profit of the drug money. He approaches
many gunshot wounds, in Esos Vito he is
Don Corleone about it, but, much against the old, has no strength and dies, then Vito
assumes the position of his father, marries
advice of the Don's lawyer Tom Hagen, the
an Italian beauty, the most beautiful, an
Don is morally against the use of drugs, and employee betrays him and places a bomb
in Michael's car, where the Italian beauty is.
turns down the offer. This does not please
He remarries Kay Adams and I have a son.
Sollozzo, who has the Don shot down by Later, Michael wants to buy the casino,
then he takes revenge on all those who hurt
some of his hit men. The Don barely survives,
his father and interfere with his plans, and
which leads his son Michael to begin a violent murders those who killed his brother.
Eventually, he orders the murder of his
mob war against Sollozzo and tears the
sister's husband and goes to live with his
Corleone family apart. new wife and son somewhere else,
becoming the most powerful gangster even
more than his father.
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POST-WATCHING

7. Did you like the movie? Yes/No and why.

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yes, I did liked the movie because it has action and uncertainty. Furthermore, these types of
films are highly associated with the Colombian reality, which makes it more interesting. It
also shows many everyday aspects, such as abuse and even anonymous killings.

8. Complete the Corleone Family Tree:

Vito Corleone

Carmella Corleone Father

Mother

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  Conni Michael
Sonny Fredo Tom
Corleone e corleone
Corleone Hagen 
Corleone
Son
Son Adoptive
Son Son
Daughter

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