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Unit 3 Stars in your eyes?

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1 Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (born 23 July, 1989) is an English actor best known for his role as

Harry Potter. 2 Emma Charlotte Duerre

Watson (born 15 April, 1990) is a British actress, model, and activist known for her first professional acting role as Hermione

Granger in the Harry

Potter film series. 3 Rupert Alexander Lloyd

Grint (born 24 August, 1988) is an English actor who rose to prominence playing Ron Weasley, one of the three main characters in the Harry

Potter film series.

1 Are they your favorite actors? What film series did this trio of stars appear in? Look at the actors and describe their emotions, what the characters are feeling (not film characters). The fact file box gives you some interesting examples from their lives to prove the character trait.

2 You are a researcher Search the Internet and find some more interesting facts about Emma, Daniel, and Rupert to describe their character traits. Use the Wiki pages. Adjectives in the box might help you to stay focused. Adjectives: emotional, hard-working, confident, educated, loyal, determined, strong-willed, ambitious, encouraging, intelligent. We might infer a character trait from something a character does only once, or we might draw our conclusions from a series of things the character says and does.

I think that Daniel is smart because …

I guess Emma is …

I consider Rupert …

Fact file Daniel achieved A grades in the three AS-level exams that he took in 2006. Grint took an avid interest in theatre, performing in school productions of a local theatre. Emma encourages young girls not to behave like princesses, but rather be active in helping others.

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4 Georgina Helen “Georgie” Henley (born 9 July, 1995) is an English actress, best known for her portrayal of Lucy Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia film series. 5 Anna Katherine Popplewell (born 16 December, 1988) is a British film actress known for her role as Susan Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia film series. 6 William Peter Moseley (born 27 April, 1987) is an English actor, known for his roles as Peter Pevensie in the film series The Chronicles of Narnia. 7 Alexander Amin Casper “Skandar” Keynes ([ˈkeɪnz]; born 5 September 1991) is an English former actor. He is best known for starring as Edmund Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia film series.

DID YOU KNOW? • The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of fantasy films from Walden Media. • It is based on The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of novels written by C. S. Lewis. • From the seven novels, there have been three film adaptations so far – The Lion, the Witch and the

Wardrobe (2005), Prince Caspian (2008) and The

Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) which have grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide among them. • Harry Potter is a British film series based on the

Harry Potter novels by author J. K. Rowling. • The series is distributed by Warner

Bros. and consists of eight fantasy films beginning with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) and culminating with Harry Potter and the

Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). • It is the second highest-grossing film series with $7.7 billion in worldwide receipts, of which seven out of eight films are among the 50 highestgrossing films.

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3 Let’s listen and talk: The Chronicles of Narnia: Interview a) Listen to the interview with Anna Popplewell and William Moseley. b) Talk about teenagers’ perception of the “Narnia”, their auditioning, creating a feeling of family, acting with animatronic animals.

4 For my folder: Info from the Internet Find out more information about The Chronicles of Narnia on the Internet. Then answer the questions. 1. What is the lion’s name that guided children in Narnia? 2. What is Narnia? 3. Who are the main characters (protagonists) in the film series? 4. What character is an antagonist (opposes the protagonists)?