Useful vocabulary

SHREK
(c) Material didáctico elaborado por María García Pérez como parte del proyecto Redes de Investigación
en Docencia Universitaria 2007-8, financiado por el ICE de la UA y coordinado por la profesora Mª
Lourdes López Ropero.
Useful vocabulary:
1. Swamp: ciénaga
2. Spell: hechizo
3. To cast a spell over somebody: hechizar a alguien
4. To break a spell: romper un hechizo
5. Ogre: ogro
6. Knight: caballero
7. Far far away kingdom: un reino muy muy lejano
8. Prince Charming: Príncipe azul
9. Snow White: Blancanieves
10. Gingerbread man: galleta de jengibre con forma humana
(cuento popular)
11. Little Red Riding Hood: Caperucita Roja
12. Sleeping Beauty: Bella Durmiente
13. Cinderella: Cenicienta.
14. Enchantment: encantamiento.
15. Bachelorette: soltera
16. Tournament: torneo
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LISTENING ACTIVITIES
1. Fill in the gaps in the song. First scene:
All Star by Smash Mouth
Somebody ________ ________ _______ the _______ is gonna _____ me,
I ain’t the _________ _________ in the _________.
She was ________ __________ of dumb with her ________ and her ________
In the ________ of an ____ on her _________.
Well, the _______ ________ ________ and they don’t _______ __________,
Fed to the _______ and I _______ the ground __________,
Didn’t _________ _________ not to ________ for _________,
Your ________ gets ______ but your ______ gets _________.
So ______ to _____, so _______ to _______,
So what’s _______ with ________ the _______ _______?
You’ll _______ ________ if you don’t _______
You’ll never ______ if you don’t _______.
Hey, _____, you’re an ____ _____, get your _______ on, go play,
Hey, _____, you’re a _____ _____, get the ______ on, get paid,
And all that _________ is _______
Only ______ _______ _______ the mold.
It’s a ______ ______ and they _____ its gets _______,
You’re bundled up ______, but ______ till you get ______.
But the meteor ______ beg to ______
Judging by the ______ in the _________ picture.
The ______ we ______ is getting pretty ______,
The water’s ________ _______, so you might as well ______,
My _________ on _________, how about ________?
That’s the ______ I _______ it and I _______ get _______.
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2. Watch scene four (the first time Lord Farquaard appears) and complete the
questions below.
a) What part of his “body” does the Gingerbread man not want to be eaten?
b) “Mirror, mirror on the wall”, what is the first question Lord Farquaad asks the
magic mirror?
c) According to the magic mirror’s answer, what is the only requirement Farquaad
needs to technically become a king?
d) Below is a list with some characteristics of the bachelorettes. Who does each
feature apply to? Write 1, 2 or 3 (1=Cinderella, 2= Snow White, 3=Fiona):
o She lives with seven other men.
o Her hobbies are cooking and cleaning for her evil sisters.
o She is a cape-wearing girl.
o She loves “piña colada”
o She loves Sushi.
o She has frozen lips
o She lives surrounded by hot boiling lava.
o She is a loaded pistol.
o Shut from a kingdom far far away.
e) What is Lord Farquaad going to organize in order to choose his best men to
rescue princess Fiona?
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3. WHO SAID IT? Watch scene ten (when they find a place to sleep at night). Decide
which characters say the following statements:
 “It’s perfect. It needs a few homey touches”
 “You want me to read you a bedtime story?”
 “Stars don’t tell the future, they tell stories”.
 “I know you’re making this up”.
 “Sometimes things are more than they appear”.
 “What we gonna do when we get our swamp anyway?”
 “There’s no”we”, there’s no “our”.
 “The first thing I’m gonna do is build a ten-foot wall”.
 “This wall thing is just a way to keep somebody out”.
 “This is one of those drop-it-and-leave-it-alone things”.
 “The world seems to have a problem with me”
 “They judge me before they know me”
 “Are there any donkeys up there?”
4. Are these statements TRUE OR FALSE? Justify your answers. Scenes twelve and
thirteen (it starts when Fiona and Shrek are eating):
1. Shrek offers to cook for her in his swamp.
2. Fiona says that visiting Shrek in the swamp will not be a very good idea.
3. Shrek does not know how to tell Fiona the food is disgusting.
4. Donkey tells them it is a romantic sunrise.
5. Donkey is no longer afraid of the dark.
6. Donkey suggests to Shrek that they go inside the hut and tell Fiona what he feels.
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7. Shrek answers he will go for a walk instead.
8. When Donkey first sees Fiona inside the hut, he is convinced that ugly woman has
in fact eaten the princess.
9. When Donkey is told about the spell, he thinks the princess is very good at poetry.
10. A wizard cast a spell over her when she was a little girl.
11. The only way to break the spell is with true love’s first hug.
12. Donkey claims Fiona and Shrek have many things in common.
13. Donkey threatens to tell Shrek the truth.
14. When Donkey goes outside the hut, he says to himself that he will need a holiday
when it is all over.
5. Fill in the gaps in the song (very last scene):
I’M A BELIEVER By Smash Mouth
I _________ ___________ was
Only ________ in ___________
Meant for__________ _________
But ________ _________ ________;
__________ was out to _________ _________
That’s the _________ it __________.
Dissapointment haunted
_________ ________ _________.
Then I _______ ________ _________,
Now I’m ______ ________
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Not a _________
Of ________ in my _________
I’m ____ __________
I’m _____ __________
I couldn’t ________ her
If I __________.
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