Creating an Event Map

Using the information chosen, explain the Genre using the following Event Map:

a. Place: (where the movie takes place)

b. Time: (what year is the movie adapted to)

c. Characters: (names of main and secondary characters)

d. Brief summary of story: (what the movie is about)

e. End: (how the movie ends)

EXAMPLE:

The House of the Spirits

a. Place: Chile.
b. Time: 20th century.
c. Characters: Esteban Trueba, his wife Clara,
their daughter Blanca, her lover Pedro.
d. Esteban Trueba marries Clara and is very
happy, but he becomes rich, conservative and
tyrannical. Blanca falls in love with a young
revolutionary and Esteban tries to stop their
love.
e. Blanca decides to stay with Pedro.



Once you finish creating the event map, proceed to write a summary of the movie.



OBJECTIVE: Describe a movie using the past simple and present perfect tense.

e.g.  New York City Detective John McClane has just arrived in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his wife. Unfortunately, it is not going to be a Merry Christmas for everyone. A group of terrorists, led by Hans Gruber is holding everyone in the Nakatomi Plaza building hostage. With no way of anyone getting in or out, it's up to McClane to stop them all. All 12!