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Movies in Madrid...

In this activity we will be visiting web sites for movies that are playing in Spanish speaking countries.

1. List below the information would you expect to find in an ad for a movie theater.

2. Choose one of the movie web sites below.

Madrid, España- http://www.softdoc.es/guia_madrid/ocio/cine/peliculas_vo.html

Caracas, Venezuela -http://www.caveguias.com.ve/informativas/espectaculos/cine/Cine.html

Santiago, Chile -http://www.cinemark.cl/cartelera.htm

Uruguay - http://www.uruguaytotal.com/cartelera/index_por_estreno.php

3. Select a movie and write down the following information about it.

Title of the movie

 

Name of the theater where it's playing

 

Show times

 

Telephone number

 

Address

 

Its nearest subway station

4. Now click on the title of the movie that you've chosen and write the following:

Actors and actresses

 

Director

 

Duration

 

Rating

5. Did you find all of the information that you expected? Put a check mark beside each item in #1 above that you found. Put an X in front of each item you did not find.

6. List here words that are similar to words in English.

7. List here words that are not like English but that you understand by context.

8. List words that you don't understand.

Repeat #2-4 with three other movies

(Shortcut: you can click on <back> until you get to the movie list)

12. Now make your own ad in Spanish for a movie. Be sure to include that name of the theater, address, telephone number, name of the movie, show times, director, actor, actresses.

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