READING ACTIVITY 2º MEDIO

OBJETIVO: > Usan palabras clave y vocabulario del texto al describir personajes del texto
leído o relatar su trama.
WARM UP: WHAT WILL BE THE EXTRACT WE ARE GOING TO ANALYZE

BEFORE WE START PAY ATTENTION

TO TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE,SPECIFICALLY

FUTURE POSSIBILITIES WE USE THE
FOLLOWING MODAL VERBS.
EXAMPLE: IN THE TWENTY MORE YEARS WE
COULD HAVE ROBOTS IN OUR HOMES.
IN THE FUTURE SCIENTIST MIGHT FIND CURES
FOR DNA DISEASES
IN TWO MORE YEARS SCIENTIST MAY FIND
CURE FOR COVID

EXERCISE. READ THE NEXT DIALOGUE (FROM A.I MOVIE) AND ANALYZE.

1- WHAT TYPE OF TEXT IS IT?

2- WHAT IS THE GENERAL IDEA OF THE TEXT?
3- WHAT IS THE THEME OF THE STORY?
4- CREATE A TITLE FOR THE DIALOGUE

DISEMBODIED VOICE (BLUE FAIRY) David…Daaaaaaaaavid…David…Daaaaaaaaaavid…

MARTIN’S BEDROOM-
*EMPTY BLUE FAIRY You have been searching for me, haven’t you David?
DAVID For...my whole life.
BLUE FAIRY And what after all this time have you come to ask me?
DAVID I had a wish to make.
BLUE FAIRY And what is your wish?
DAVID Please make me a real boy so my Mommy will love me, and let me stay with her.
BLUE FAIRY David, I will do anything that is possible, but I cannot make you a real boy.
DAVID Where am I? This looks like my house, but it is different.
BLUE FAIRY Yes, it is different, but it’s also your home. We read your mind, and it’s all here.
There’s nothing too small that you didn’t store for us to remember. We so want you to be
happy. You are so important to us David, you are unique in all the world.
DAVID Will Mommy be coming home soon? Is she out shopping with Martin now?
BLUE FAIRY David, she can never come home, because two-thousand years have passed, and
she is no longer living. Dearest David, when you are lonely, we can bring back other people
from your time in the past.
DAVID If you can bring back other people, why can’t you bring back HER?
BLUE FAIRY Because we can only bring back people whose bodies we dig up from the ice. We
need some physical sample of the person, like a bone, or a fingernail.
TEDDY David.
DAVID Yes Teddy.
TEDDY Do you remember when you cut some of Mommy’s hair
DAVID Henry shook me.
TEDDY And you dropped her hair?
DAVID I know. Now you can bring her back, can’t you?
SPECIALIST OBSERVATION ROOM SPECIALIST (NARRATOR) Give him what he wants
MARTIN’S BEDROOM BLUE FAIRY Dearest David, your wish is my command.
DAVID’S BEDROOM DAVID Hey Joe what do you know?
SPECIALIST (NARRATOR) David, I often felt a sort of envy of human beings and that thing they
call ’spirit’. Human beings had created a million explanations of the meaning of life in art, in
poetry, in mathematical formulas. Certainly, human beings must be the key to the meaning of
existence, but human beings no longer existed. So, we began a project that would make it
possible to recreate the living body of a person long dead from the DNA in a fragment of bone
or mummified skin. We also wondered, would it be possible to retrieve a memory trace in
resonance with a recreated body. And do you know what we found? We found... the very
fabric of space-time itself appeared to store information about every event which had ever
occured in the past. But the experiment... was a failure. For those who were resurrected only
lived through a single day of renewed life. When the resurrectees fell asleep on the night of
their first new day, they died, again. As soon as they became unconscious, their very existence
faded away into darkness. So you see, David, the equations have shown that once an
individual space-time pathway had been used, it could not be reused. If we bring your mother
back now, it will only be for one day, and then you’ll never be able to see her again.
DAVID Maybe…maybe she will be special, maybe she will stay.
SPECIALIST (NARRATOR) I thought this might be hard for you to understand. You were created
to be so young.
DAVID Maybe the one day will be like that one day inside the amphibicopter, maybe it will last
forever.
SPECIALIST (NARRATOR) David, you are the enduring memory of the human race, the most
lasting proof of their genius. We only want for your happiness. David, you’ve had so little of
that.
DAVID If you want for my happiness, then you know what you have to do.
SPECIALIST (NARRATOR) Listen. Can you hear that? The new morning has come. Go to her
David, she’s just waking up this instant.

TRUE OR FALSE.
1) DAVID IS A ROBOT
2) TEDDY IS AN ANDROID
3) THE EARTH IS STILL ALIVE
4) DAVID WANTS TO BE WITH HIS MOMMY
5) HUMANS NOW ARE LIVING IN THE ICE

ANALYZE THE TEXT.

1- WHICH WERE THE PROBLEMS THAT AFFECTED THE LIFE ON EARTH?

2- WHO WAS THE FAIRYTALE?

3- HOW MANY YEARS DAVID WAS FROZEN?

4- WHAT DID THE SPECIALISTS DO WITH THE HUMAN REMAIN?

5. WHAT DID DAVID WANT?

6- ACCORING TO THE DIALOGUE WHAT THINGS WERE VERY PROBABLY TO HAPPEN,

QUIETE POSSIBLY HAPPEN AND NOT VERY POSSIBLE TO HAPPEN?
A-
B-
C-

CLOSURE:
CREATE EXAMPLES USING INFORMATION FROM THE TEXT AND MODAL VERBS TO
EXPRESS FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
THE SPECIALIST
DAVID
TEDDY BEAR