ÓSCAR, THURSDAY 19th MARCH, 16:15 – 17:15

Hello, merluz@s!

How’s the confinement going? I hope you’re helping out at home… well, I know you do.

¿Cómo va la semana, chicos? Para amenizarla y seguir aprendiendo el idioma hoy os traigo un fragmento de Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (que sé que a todos os gusta, 😉). NADA DE FICHAS.

¿Y en qué consiste la tarea? Well, today’s topic is about pronunciation and vocabulary acquisition. A continuación, os voy a dejar un transcript de una escena de la película. Antes de que veáis el video, quiero que cojáis markers de 2 colores diferentes. Pongamos, por ejemplo rojo y azul (si no podéis imprimirlo, siempre podéis copiar y pegarlo en word o apuntar las palabras en un cuaderno).

Con rojo vamos a marcar antes de reproducir el video aquellas palabras de las cuales desconocemos su significado. Comprobaremos si una vez terminado el video ya sabemos el significado.

ANTES DE REPRODUCIR EL VIDEO, LEED UN PAR DE VECES EN VOZ ALTA EL TRANSCRIPT DE LA ESCENA. Después, reproducid el video y marcad con azul aquellas palabras que creáis que habéis pronunciado mal, y repetidlas al final. Pero hay que hacerlo, eh. Os vigilo…

Antes de empezar, ya os adelanto que Hermione se pronuncia “Hermaini” y no “Hermión”.

TRANSCRIPT

[Later on, the Hogwarts Express is travelling through the countryside. Harry is in sitting alone in a train compartment, and Ron appears in the doorway.]

Ron: Excuse me, do you mind? Everywhere else is full.

Harry: No, not at all.

Ron: [sits across from Harry] I'm Ron, by the way. Ron Weasley.

Harry: I'm Harry. Harry Potter.

[Ron goes agape.]

Ron: So-so it's true? I mean, do you really have the...the...

Harry: The what?

Ron: [whispers] Scar...?

Harry: Oh [lifts up his hair bangs to reveal it]

Ron: Wicked.

[A trolley comes by the compartment, full of sweets.]

Woman: Anything off the trolley, dears?

Ron: [Holds up his mushed sandwiches] No, thanks, I'm all set. [smacks lips.]

Harry: We'll take the lot! [pulls out coins]

Ron: Whoa!

[A bit later, Harry and Ron are not sitting together eating bundles of sweets. Ron's rat, Scabbers, is perched on Ron's knee, a box over his head.]

Harry: Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans?

Ron: They mean every flavour! There's chocolate and peppermint, and there's also spinach, liver and tripe. George sweared he got a bogey-flavoured one once!

[Harry quickly takes the bean he was chewing out of his mouth.]

Harry: [picks up a blue and gold package] These aren't real chocolate frogs, are they?

Ron: It's just a spell. Besides, it's the cards you want. Each pack's got a famous witch or wizard. I got about 500 meself. [Harry opens the package, and a chocolate frog jumps onto the window and climbs up.] Watch it! [The frog reaches the open gap in the window, and jumps out.] Oh, that's rotten luck. They've only got one good jump in them to begin with.

Harry: [seeing Dumbledore's image in the card] I got Dumbledore!

Ron: I got about 6 of him.

[Harry looks at the card again, but Dumbledore has vanished.]

Harry: Hey, he's gone!

Ron: Well, you can't expect him to hang around all day, can you? [Scabbers squeaks] This is Scabbers, by the way, pathetic, isn't he?

Harry: A little.

Ron: Fred gave me a spell as to turn him yellow. Want to see?

Harry: Yeah!

Ron: [clears throat] Ahem. Sun-

[A girl called Hermione Granger, with bushy brown hair, dressed in robes, appears at the doorway.]

Hermione: Has anyone seen a toad? A boy named Neville's lost one.

Ron: No.

Hermione: Oh, are you doing magic? Let's see then.

Ron: [clears throat again] Sunshine, daises, butter mellow, turn this stupid fat rat yellow!

[He zaps Scabbers, but nothing happens. Ron shrugs.]

Hermione: Are you sure that's a real spell? Well, it's not very good, is it? Of course I've only tried a few simple spells myself, and they've all worked for me. For example... [Hermione goes over and sits across from Harry. He points her wand at his glasses and Harry tenses] Oculus Reparo. [The tape on the nose-band vanishes, repairing his glasses as if they were good as new. Harry takes them off, amazed.] That's better, isn't it? Holy Cricket, you're Harry Potter. I'm Hermione Granger...and you are...?

Ron: [with his mouth full] I'm...Ron Weasley.

Hermione: Pleasure. You two better change into your robes. I expect we'll be arriving soon. [Gets up and leaves, then comes back and looks at Ron.] You've got dirt, on your nose, by the way, did you know? Just there. [Points to the dirt mark on Ron's nose. Ron scratches his nose, embarrassed.]

Eso es todo chic@s, si tenéis cualquier duda no dudéis en dejarla en comentarios. See you next week!