1.- The Day After Tomorrow

Jake Gyllenhaal's school trip to Gotham becomes a fight for survival when a new Ice Age suddently dawns in 'The Day After Tomorrow.'
Emmy Rossum, left, Arjay Smith and Austin Nichols are students holed up in the New York Public Library with Jake Gyllenhaal in 'The Day After Tomorrow.'
Genres: Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller
Running Time:2 hrs. 4 min.
Release Date: May 28th, 2004
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense situations of peril.
Distributors:20th Century Fox Distribution
BEFORE THEY WATCH
Talk about the type of movie it is, how long the film lasts, when it was released.
Introduce the subject by asking students how much they know about global warming, the threats to humanity in this respect, whether they have already seen the film, etc.
Tell them to pay great attention to the conflicts and dilemmas presented in the film for further discussion.
STUDENTS WATCH THE FILM
1.  Once the students have seen the film, you will provide them with a number of activities.
2.  Who´s who? How are they related? Tell as much about them as you can. Did you like/dislike the character? Why ?
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Fill in the paragraph below with the words in the box
Global - trapped - even - costs - Ice - flooding
What if we are on the brink of a new …………..Age? This is the question that haunts climatologist Jack Hall.
Hall’s research indicates that ………………warming could trigger an abrupt and catastrophic shift in the planet’s climate.
While Jack warns the White House of the impending climate shift, his 17 year-old son Sam finds himself………………. in New York City where he and some friends have been competing in a high school academic competition.
He must now cope with the severe …………..and plummeting temperatures in Manhattan. Having taken refuge inside the Manhattan Public Library, Sam manages to reach his father by phone.
Jack only has time for one warning: stay inside at all…………….. As full-scale, massive evacuations to the south begin, Jack heads north to New York City to save Sam.
But not ………………….Jack is prepared for what is about to happen--to him, to his son, and to his planet.
At the Computer Activities
Listening Comprehension
Students have to be at a computer (at school or at home) for the following Activities.
They will watch a series of trailers (one at a time), listening carefully to do the tasks required in the different Worksheets. They may listen as many times as they need.
Activity # 1
Students click here and watch the video. Terry Rapson (Ian Holm) wakes Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) with some grave news. They view the scene and do Worksheet 1
WORKSHEET 1
1.- Who gets a call?
2.- Who´s calling?
3.- Why is he calling?
4.- What has been the temperature fall ?
5.- Has this ever happened in the last 10,000 years?
Activity # 2
Students click here
Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) warns Vice President Becker (Kenneth Welsh) of the impending danger from deadly storms. They view the scene and do Worksheet 2
WORKSHEET 2
Answer, complete or tick True or False
1.- Prof Hall and the vice president have met before True False
2- Prof Hall meets the president as he comes out of a room True False
3- Prof Hall has new data about the weather True False
4- Why is it urgent? ………………………………………………………………
5- “ You have to start thinking…………………………………………………..”
6- Does the vice president want to evacuate? ……………………………….
7- “ If we don´t act now,………………………………………………………….”
8- The vice president believes Pr Hall is crazy True False
Activity # 3
Students click here
Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) and Terry Rapson (Ian Holm) realize that the
catastrophic storms are occurring world-wide. They view the scene and do Worksheet 3
WORKSHEET 3
Provide the answers in the following short dialogues:
A: Is this an isolated incident?
B: ………………………………………………………………..
A: It´s time you got out of there.
B: ………………………………………………………………..
A: What can we do?
B: ……………………………………………………………….
Activity # 4
Students click here
Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) requests a plan for evacuation of the northern states.
They view the scene and do Worksheet 4
WORKSHEET 4
Provide the answers in the following short dialogues
A: Exactly what are you proposing, professor?
B: Evacuate ………………………………………………………………………
A: What about the people in the North?
B: If they ………………………………………………………………………….
ONLY FOR TEACHERS
Answers:
1.2 à ice - global - trapped - flooding - costs - even
1.3 à # 1 1.- Prof Hall 2.- Terry Rapson 3.- There has been a brutal drop in temperature 4.- 13 degrees 5.- It hasn´t
# 2 1.- True
2.- False
3.- True
4.- The climate is changing rapidly
5.- … about large scale evacuations
6.- No He doesn´t
7.- …it´s going to be too late
8.- … is out of his mind
# 3 1.- I´m afraid not. We´ve located 2 other super stars
2.- I´m afraid that time has come and gone, my friend
3.- Save as many as you can
# 4 1.- Evacuate everyone South of that line
2.- If they go outside the storm will kill them