Working Plan

1. Working Plan:

1. Getting acquainted (+ your targets)
2. A few words about online format
3. Vocabulary list and expressions ~ 20 mins
4. A movie: time to watch! ~ 20 mins
5. Discussion: individual input / opinion, group work
+ rating + feedback

2.

The Neigbour’s
Window
(2019, USA)
Director: Marshall Curry
Writers: Diane Weipert (short story), Marshall
Curry
Stars: Maria Dizzia, Greg Keller, Juliana Canfield

3. Facts About A Short Movie:

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It tells the story of a middle aged woman with small children whose life is
shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the
street…
It was brought up as the winner of "Best Live-Action Short Film" at the
Oscars in 2020
Inspired by a true story, the film was written and directed by four-time Oscarnominated documentary filmmaker, Marshall Curry. Starring Tonynominated Maria Dizzia, Greg Keller, and Juliana Canfield.
Marshall Curry (born c. 1970) is an Oscar-winning American documentary
director, producer, cinematographer and editor. His films include Street
Fight, Racing Dreams, If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation
Front, Point and Shoot, and A Night at the Garden.
In 2017, Curry released the Academy Award nominated short film A Night at
the Garden, a documentary about a 1939 German American Bund rally at
Madison Square Garden, which attracted 20,000 Nazi supporters.

4. Neighbor's Window / Vocabulary (1)

1) They are whooped - to give a loud, excited shout, especially to
show your enjoyment of or agreement with smth E.g. The audience
was whooping and clapping.
2) When kids got spanked - to hit a child with the hand, usually
several times on the bottom as a punishment
3) They need to order some drapes - curtains of thick cloth E.g. I’ve
ordered new drapes for the living room.
4) Disgraceful – what does it mean?
5) Stop drooling - to allow saliva (= liquid in the mouth) to flow out of
your mouth E.g. The dog lay drooling on the mat. I drooled all over
my pillow

5. Neighbor's Window / Vocabulary (2)

6) They are getting off on it - to leave a place, usually in order to start a
journey E.g. If we can get off by seven o'clock, the roads will be clearer.
ALSO: informal to leave work with permission, usually at the end of the day E.g.
How early can you get off this afternoon?
7) Break a leg tonight – do you know what does it mean?
8) Haggling about contracts and recoupment schedules
Haggling - the act of arguing about the price of smth in an attempt to make the
seller reduce it E.g. haggling over/about
Recoup (=refund) to get back money that you have spent or lost E.g. It takes a
while to recoup the initial costs of starting up a business.
9) One of them (kid) was snotty or poopy or hungry or had a scraped knee
– rude and behaving badly, esp. by treating other people in a way that shows
that you believe yourself to be better than them E.g. He has three snotty
teenage daughters

6. Neighbor's Window / Vocabulary (3)

10) Gawking at the neighbors - to look at smth or someone in a stupid or
rude way E.g. Don't sit there gawking like that - give me a hand!
11) I think you’re overacting – please explain
12) The way you are captivated by them - to hold the attention of someone
by being extremely interesting, exciting, pleasant, or attractive E.g. With her
beauty and charm, she captivated film audiences everywhere.
13) It feels like to have your face constantly rubbed - to press or be
pressed against smth with a circular or up-and-down repeated movement E.g.
She yawned and rubbed her eyes sleepily
14) Who is doing drop off? – phrasal verb to start to sleep. E.g. I must have
dropped off during the show, because I don’t remember how it ended.
15) Old geezer at work - a man, often old or unusual in some way E.g. a
funny old geezer. She got talking to some geezer in the pub.

7. Neighbor's Window / Vocabulary (4)

16) Getting jiggy with it – active, excited, hang-loose; relaxed;
unselfconscious. A played out slang term from the mid to late 90's meaning
getting loose
17) Have you tried just ripping into them? - to attack or criticize someone
or smth with great force E.g. She ripped into her opponent's proposals,
calling them "completely unworkable".
18) Do you think he’s a hungover? - feeling ill with a bad pain in the head
and often wanting to vomit after having drunk too much alcohol E.g. That
was a great party last night, but I'm (feeling) really hungover this morning.
19) I hope that does not seem creepy - strange or unnatural and making
you feel frightened E.g. a creepy film, a creepy smile
20) Your children are adorable and hilarious – please provide
synonyms

8. The movie with subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1vCrsZ80M4

The movie with subtitles:
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=k1vCrsZ80M4

9. Suggested topics to discuss:

1) Why do we usually like to observe and/or learn about other
people’s private lives?
2) Why did the woman from the opposite side of the street
observe the family with children too? Was it just a matter of
curiosity?
3) Is there any future and chances for communication between
those two women, or was it just a single case of compassion in
the street?
4) Follow the emotion’s dynamics: from the beginning till end –
how was it developing?
5) Is the story remarkable in any way? Why do you think so?
6) Do you miss your own twenties? In what way?

10. The Neighbor’s Window

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