MYP English Language Acquisition Phase 5-6

Objective A: Listening

Time allowed: 60 minutes Total Length of Text: 9.47 minutes

Instructions:
1. Watch one at a time each video excerpt from the movie “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the
Witch and the Wardrobe”.
2. Answer the questions directly and clearly with supporting explanations and details.
3. Pay attention to the number of marks for each question.
4. Replay the listening text when needed. Note that the time allotted will still be as is.

Achievement
Level Descriptor Task-Specific Clarification
Level
7-8 The student: You can:
● identifies explicit and implicit information ● identify the main idea and supporting details,
(facts and/or opinions, and supporting and infer unstated meanings;
details) in complex authentic texts;
● analyse the spoken message, gestures, sound
● analyses conventions in complex authentic effects, lighting and camera movements used in
texts; and the movie;
● analyses connections in complex authentic ● evaluate the effectiveness of text components,
texts. predict succeeding events in the text, and connect
your understanding of the movie with your own
world and life.

Description of command words

Identify Provide an answer from a number of possibilities. Recognize and state briefly a distinguishing fact or feature.
Analyze Break down in order to bring out the essential elements or structure. (To identify parts, relationships and interpret
information to reach conclusions.)

Criterion A Phase 6: Listening

Strand 1 Strand 2 Strand 3
Identify explicit and implicit information (facts Analyze conventions Analyze connections.
and/or opinions, and supporting details)
Q 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12 Q 5, 6, 9, 10, 17, 19 Q 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18
TOTAL: 9 TOTAL: 9 TOTAL: 9

Total: / 27

Mark Scheme: Phases 6 Objective A (Listening)

Achievement Level Points
1 1-3
2 4-6
3 7-9
4 10-13
Achievement Level Points
5 14-17
6 18-20
7 21-24
8 25-27

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Text 1: Aslan meets Jadis (3.46 minutes)

Answer the questions directly and clearly with supporting explanations and details.

1. Why did the White Witch meet up with Aslan? (1 mark, strand i)

2. What did Edmund do to anger Jadis, the White Witch? (1 mark, strand i)

3. As per tradition, how should traitors be punished in Narnia?(1 mark, strand i)

4. What did Aslan and the White Witch discuss inside the tent? What do you think Aslan
promised to the White Witch? (2 marks, strand i)

5. At minute 0.40, the White Witch appeared to be standing on the ground after getting off
the palanquin. Describe what a.) camera angle and b.) camera shot was used and c.) how
did they make the character look from your perspective as an audience. (3 marks, strand
ii)
 6. At minute 3.10 to 3.11, Aslan gave a very loud growl that made the White Witch lose her
balance. What does this tell us about Aslan? (1 mark, strand ii)

7. How did the shot at minute 3.33 foreshadow or give you clues about what is going to
happen to Aslan? (1 mark, strand iii)

8. Based on the tradition in Narnia, the White Witch has the claim to the blood of a traitor.
Was she wrong in demanding Edmund’s life or is it only fair as it is what the tradition
dictates? explain your answer. (2 marks, strand iii)

Text 2: Aslan's Sacrifice Part 1 (2.38 minutes)

Answer the questions directly and clearly with supporting explanations and details.

9. At minute 0.53, the White Witch stood in darkness with only reflection of the fire before
her radiating her face. How did this lighting effect help explain her motive or goal in that
scene? (1 mark, strand ii)

10. All throughout the scene, background music plays in harmony with the evil cackle and
menacing laughter of the crowd. How did this music add to the atmosphere or mood of the
scene? (1 mark, strand ii)

11. At minute 1.44, the White Witch ordered her followers to shave Aslan. Why did she first do
this? How did it make Aslan feel? (2 marks, strand i)
 12. What did Aslan and the White Witch symbolize? (2 marks, strand i)

13. If you were Lucy and Susan, what would you have done? (1 mark, strand iii)

14. If you were Aslan, would you have sacrificed your own life in order to protect Edmund
from the White Witch? Explain your answer.(2 marks, strand iii)

Text 3: Aslan's Sacrifice Part 2 (2.38 minutes)

Answer the questions directly and clearly with supporting explanations and details.

15. Was Tilda Swinton’s acting performance as the White Witch convincing enough for you?
Explain your answer. (2 marks, strand iii)

16. Go back to minute .34 to .58. The White Witch said a few words before she ended Aslan’s
life. Do you think Aslan’s life has gone to waste? Explain (2 marks, strand iii)

17. Name two specific film techniques (for example; type of camera shot, name of camera
angle…) used in this scene. Be specific by giving a time stamp (2 marks, strand ii)
18. If you could speak to Andrew Adamson, the director of the movie, what comments or
suggestions would you give him to improve this scene? (1 mark, strand iii)

19. How did the prosthetics, make-up, costumes and CGI effects of the monsters help create
the mood in this scene? (1 mark, strand ii)