Extra Exercise:

LISTENING
6-MINUTE ENGLISH
Before you listen…
Match the words to their meaning.
(1) to burst into tears
(2) misty-eyed
(3) a weepy / a tearjerker
(4) to blub
(5) a sob story
(6) goose bumps
(7) to cry your heart out
(8) it’s a crying shame
(9) to cry over spilt milk
Why we love a movie
that makes us cry
( ) to worry about something that can’t be changed
( ) it’s regrettable, unfortunate or unfair
( ) to start crying loudly and suddenly
( ) to cry uncontrollably
( ) a story someone tells to get sympathy
( ) feeling that you might start to cry
( ) small bumps on your skin
( ) a film that makes you cry
( ) to cry noisily

This week’s question: Which film won the most ever Oscar awards?
A. Ben Hur B. Slumdog Millionaire C. Gone With the Wind

Now listen…
Match the films below to what Rob and Feifei mentioned about them.

(A) Turner and Hooch (B) The Railway Children (C) Les Misérables (D) Jaws (E) Toy Story 3

( ) When the father returns from exile, the daughter goes to the station shouting
( ) It really is a tearjerker and won several awards
( ) This movie made Feifei burst into tears
( ) People get misty-eyed because this film makes them nostalgic about their youth
( ) Not really a weepy, but contains scary bits that can make you blub

Complete the statements below.

Dr. Averil Leimon, Psychologist:
People want to have their _____________ manipulated, because then they're
allowed to have them. We spend so much of our life being told you shouldn't feel
like that, you don't feel like that, when _______________ we do feel like
that. And both the _______________ and the, you know, the auditory allows
us to know what emotion we're meant to feel.
Philip Sheppard, Film music composer:
All of us sort of need to find a catharsis, especially within a group to have this
sort of place to have an emotional _______________. It ends up being
something where you need to have that kind of release. As British people we're
terribly bad at it I think. But when people find an ________________ for it
such as a film, especially when they are in a ________________, people's
emotional responses are much more instantaneously responsive.