English Resource Booklet 2 - Animal Aid

Lesson 6: As Seen On TVResource 23Analyse this!Use these questions to help you think about the film and its purpose. Fill in as much as you can whilst you arewatching the programme.1. What sort of music is playing as the film opens? Describe the atmosphere this creates.2. The first animal we see is an orangutan – a mother and baby scene – what feelings does this provoke inyou and how does it do this?3. What other wild animals do we now see, after this initial scene? Write down as many as you can andmake a comment about why you think there is such a variety.4. The film cuts to scenes of animals in cages and confined spaces. What effect does it have on you as aviewer to move so abruptly between the idyll of the first images and the horror of these?5. The narrator continues to talk throughout these scenes. Write down any words or phrases that you thinkare particularly striking and give a brief explanation of what makes them so noticeable.6. The narrator recites a long list of abuses humans commit against animals and each one is illustrated bya piece of film footage. Write down as many as you can and explain why you think the animal waschosen to accompany the narration.44