Coraline

Episode 1

Task 1. Discuss in pairs:

1. Do you like your parents? A little
2. What do you want to change in them? Why? I would change their
way of thinking, because sometimes they say things that affect my
security and self-esteem, but it’s already a way of thinking
because of the education their parents gave them.

Task 2. Choose correct answers:

1. What was Coraline looking for?
a) a well b) a cat c) water
2. Who owns the black cat?
a) Coraline b) Wybie c) nobody
3. Who owns the Pink Palace?
a) Wybie’s grandma b) Coraline’s parents c) nobody
4. What does the name “Wybie” mean?
a) Why were you bored? b) Why were you born? c) Why were you boring?
5. Where did Wybie find the doll?
a) in the forest b) in his room c) in his grandma’s trunk
6. What did Coraline’s father tell her to do?
a) explore the house b) do some gardening c) go playing in the rain
7. What did Coraline find in the living room?
a) boxes b) snow globes c) a little door

Task 3. Match the words to make collocations:

1. dowsing d) a) the house
2. grandma’s f) b) globes
3. explore a) c) well
4. stop e) d) rod
5. snow b) e) pestering me
6. deep c) f) trunk
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Episode 2
Task 1. Answer the questions:
1. Who did Coraline find behind the little door? His other parents.
2. What were they doing? His mother was cooking and his father was playing the piano.
3. What was the song about? Coraline.
4. Where does Bobinsky work? A retired gymnast.
5. What was in parcels for Bobinsky? There was cheese.
6. Who warned Coraline not to go through the little door? Bobinsky Mouse.
7. Who else did Coraline visit? The Ladies Spink y Forcible.
8. What did they see in Coraline’s cup? One hand and giraffe.

Task 2. Who said the following:

1. “Buttons? Do you like them?” Coraline's other mother.
2. “Who’s starving? Raise your hand.” Coraline’s other father.
3. “But you were not you. You were my other mother.” Coraline.
4. “Sometimes the mice are little mixed-up.” Bobinsky Mouse.
5. “Caroline….you’re in terrible danger.” The Ladies Spink.

Task 3. Write the words for the definitions:

1. the meal that you have in the early evening Lunch
2. a small round object on your shirt, coat with a hole Bottom
3. a room in a house that is used for work or study Studio
4. to suffer or die because you do not have enough to eat Poverty
5. a sauce made from the juice that comes from meat as Gravy Sauce
it cooks, mixed with flour and water
6. soft, wet, sticky ground Mud

Task 4. Discuss in pairs:

1. Why did Coraline like the other world? Because it was different from what she lived.
2. Was it a dream or it was real? Reality.
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Episode 3
Task 1. Watch and write true or false:
1. Wybie had been in the Pink Palace many times before. False.
2. Wybie thought that the Pink Palace was dangerous. True.
3. Wybie’s grandma disappeared in the Pink Palace. False.
4. Coraline’s other farther was in his study. False.
5. The garden looked like Coraline. True.
6. Another Wybie couldn’t talk. True.
7. Coraline thought that another Wybie was cheerful. True.
8. Coraline’s real mother bought her new gloves. False.
9. Coraline’s real mother went shopping. True.
10. Coraline went through the little door in her dream. True.

Task 2. Who said the following:

1. “You’re just like them. I meant my parents”. Coraline.
2. “I’ve never been inside the Pink Palace”. Wybie.
3. “My dreams aren’t dangerous”. Coraline.
4. “I thought you’d like him if he spoke a little less.” False mother.

Task 3. Describe:
1. The other Wybie. He doesn’t speak, with bottoms eyes.
2. The other Bobinsky. He is a gymnast.

Task 4. Complete the sentences with the words:

stalking fix cheerful lock move

1. We ……………………move………………… here three years ago.

2. Our TV doesn’t work. We have to ……………fix……….it.
3. I’m always ……………cheerful……………….with my friends.
4. …………look……………..the door, please.
5. Stop ……………………stalking……………me! You’re scaring me.
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Episode 4
Task 1. Choose the correct answers:
1. Who did Coraline meet?
a) the real cat b) the other cat
2. Where did she go after dinner?
a) to Bobinsky’s circus
b) to the actresses’ performance
c) to the garden
3. What happened to the actresses?
a) they became younger
b) they became older
c) they became fatter
4. What tiny thing did Coraline have to do to stay in the other world?
a) close the little door
b) choose the colour of the buttons
c) have buttons instead of her eyes
5. How did Coraline feel?
a) happy b) scared c) upset
6. Why did the cat kill the mouse?
a) the cat was hungry b) it was a rat c) the cat didn’t like circus mice
7. Why was the other mother angry?
a) Coraline wanted home
b) Coraline didn’t want chocolate
c) Coraline didn’t like the dinner
8. Where did the other mother throw Coraline through?
a) the wall b) the mirror c) the door

Task 2. Who said the following:

1. “I’m not the other anything. I’m me.” Cat.
2. “But we need a YES if you want to stay here.” False mother of Coraline.
3. “Mustn’t talk when mother’s not here.” Other father of Coraline
4. “What a piece of work is a man.” Other spink and other forcible.
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Episode 5
Task 1. Answer the questions:
1. Who did Coraline see in the dark room? The souls of the children the witch had kidnapped.
2. Why had the beldam taken their eyes? To eat their lives.
3. What did they ask Coraline to do for them? They asked him to find their eyes so they could
be set free.
4. Why did Whybie come to Coraline? To help her escape.
5. Why did he run away screaming? Because he was happy to see him go home.
6. Where were Coraline’s parents? He did not find them until he found the person responsible.
7. What was Coraline supposed to find in the game? The eyes of children and their parents.
8. What was the first wonder? Garden of the father.

Task 2. Complete the phrases:

1. The ghost children: “So we let her sew the …………………… buttons……………….”
2. Coraline: “Grandma’s missing……………is the twin………… I think I’ve just met her.”
3. Coraline: “You aren’t listening to me!” – Wybie: “That’s because you’re
…………crazy……………”
4. Coraline: “Why don’t we play a ……………game……………….”

Task 3. Match the words to the definitions:

1 a clever trick that is used to catch someone 4 beldam
2 information that helps you understand something 6 escape
3 to use a needle and thread to make or repair clothes 1 trap
4 An old woman, sometimes ugly, mostly evil, who enjoys 5 vanish
hurting children
5 to disappear suddenly 2 clue
6 to get away from a place or dangerous situation when 7 wonder
someone is trying to catch you or stop you
7 something that makes you feel surprise 3 sew
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Episode 6
Task 1. True or False:
1. Coraline went to the theatre. True.
2. The dogs were birds. False.
3. There was Mr.B’s costume above the circus. True.
4. The cat got the ghost eye for Coraline. True
5. Coraline thought her parents were behind the little door. False.
6. Coraline’s parents were in the snow globe. True.
7. Coraline’s parents didn’t remember anything. True.
8. Coraline and Wybie threw the key and the hand into the well. True.
9. Wybie still didn’t believe Coraline. False.
10. They all had a party in the garden. True.

Task 2. Who said the following:

1. “Evil witch! I’m not scared!” Coraline.
2. “You’ll just go home and be bored and neglected same as always.” Bobinsky Mouse.
3. “And you brought a vermin with you.” Other father.

Task 3. Complete the sentences with the words in the correct form:

neglect head vermin eccentric

1. He’s not crazy. He’s just …………………eccentric………………….

2. I’m ………………………neglect………………….home right now.
3. You’ve ………………head………………….you studies and now you have problems with it.
4. This house is full of …………………vermin……………………It’s nearly destroyed.

Task 4. Discuss in pairs.

1. What kind of symbol are eyes and buttons? The eyes could signify the real world, and the
buttons a perfect world.
2. Why does the beldam steal children? The eat soul.
3. What is the perfect world for you? A perfect world for me would be a world without
problems, where people respect other people, respect their tastes, their ideals, their
thoughts. Let people also care for the planet and be their priority. Perhaps people also see
that money is not everything.
 4. Is it good or bad to be perfect? Why? The reality is that perfect people don’t exist, each of
us show the best of ourselves when we really aren’t that way, or have “bad” thoughts or
attitudes that we shouldn’t. So imperfection makes us all perfect.
5. Would you like to live in the perfect world with perfect people? Why? No, because the
world would be boring, nor do I say that I want bad people to steal, kill or insult, but the
different makes the interesting. Plus it would be tiring to always be “perfect”
-Jeimmy Jazmin Perez Salitre