Centro de Formação Profissional de Seixal

Name: ________________________________________ Class: _______________

Date: _____________________________ Teacher: Isabel Martinho

BEYOND BORDERS

Beyond Borders is a 2003 romantic-drama film about aid

workers(1), directed by (2) Martin Campbell and starring
Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen. The original music score
was composed by James Horner.

Although it reflected Jolie's real-life interest(3) in

promoting humanitarian relief (4), the film was critically
and financially unsuccessful. The film was marketed with
the tagline "In a place she didn't belong, among people
she never knew, she found a way to make a
difference."(5)

Concurrently with the release of the film, Jolie published

Notes from My Travels, a collection of journal entries
from her real-life experiences as a Goodwill Ambassador
(6) for the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR).

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Borders

A- Translate the numbered and underlined words / expressions.

(1) ____________________________ (3) ____________________________

(2) ____________________________ (4) __________________________

(5) _____________________________ (6) ____________________________

B. Watch the film and pay attention to the following details:

1. What’s the name of Jolie’s character? _________________________

1.1. What’s the name of the International Organisation she starts to work for?
______________________________

2. What’s the name of Clive Owen’s character? __________________________

2.1. What does he do? ______________________________

3. Where do the characters meet? City - ___________________________; place / event:

_____________________
 BEYOND BORDERS – Post-Watching Activities
(until the end of the Ethiopia part)

A. Read the following sentences about the film. Each has a mistake. Correct it.

1. Sarah (Angelina Jolie) is Scottish.

2. Sarah is married to an American.
3. Sarah and her husband aren’t wealthy people.
4. Sarah used to work at a dentist.
5. After the fund-raising ball where Sarah meets Nick (Clive Owen), Sarah travels to
Cambodia.
6. Nick is an industrialist who works in Africa in the humanitarian relief area.
7. In Africa Sarah finds out that the food she bought will last for 4 months.
8. In Ethiopia Sarah stays at a 5-star-hotel.
9. Sarah finds out that people in need lack vaccines, water and weapons.
10. After her experience in Africa, Sarah is going to work for the Red Cross International.

B. Who said that?

Sarah (Angelina Jolie) Nick (Clive Owen) Henry (Sarah’s husband)

Elliot (Nick’s friend) Charlotte (Sarah’s sister) CIA agent

16’20 I’m a city boy. I need four walls and a bed! ___________________

31’36 Is that perfume? You’re wearing perfume in the middle of the desert? ________

56’06 Dysentery, measles, pneumonia… There are no vaccines, of course, so… _______

1::08’39 You don’t have to transport guns to help people. __________________

1:26 I need to find him! _________________

1:28 Tell her that I’ve got some news and I’ll fax her in the morning! ______________

1:36’08 The people who disappear here don’t come back. _________________

1:38 What is this? Is this love, is it what it is? ___________________

C. Watch Sarah’s speech and then fill in the blanks with the words from the box.

Ladies and gentlemen, I feel very nervous to be standing in front of you tonight. I also feel
very honoured in particular because UNHCR was the _______________ to which I was first
introduced by my friend Elliot Hauser. I know that my being offered this place would have
given him enormous pleasure. Over 50 million people are _______________ or
_______________ persons in the world today. And because of close minds and funding
shortfalls, we are only able to reach half of those in need. So we rely in our partners. The
_______________ groups in El Salvador, Angola, Chechnya, Sri Lanka… Those NGOs, the
_______________ groups, from Oxfam right down to the smallest outfits run by people like
Elliot and… And I pray for those who survive of him, who continue his work without certainty
or security, wherever they may be in this _______________.

refugees organization aid world

non-governmental displaced