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You are going to see a film, called Sliding Doors. It shows us the two different ways in which Helen’s life would have continued depending on such a simple thing as catching a train. Watch the film and write A or B if the sentences below belong to the first version (Helen with short hair) or to the second one (Helen with long hair/a band aid on her eyebrow). What would have happened anyway?
� Helen is sacked____
� Helen catches the underground and meets James, though she’s not interested in him at
first. _____
� Helen catches her boyfriend with another girl _____
� Helen misses the underground, goes out and gets mugged _____
� Helen dumps (leaves) her boyfriend _____
� Helen gets drunk in a bar. _____
� Helen stays at her friend’s _____
� Helen suspects that Gerry, her boyfriend is lying _____
� Helen accepts a job as a sandwich delivery person _____
� Helen changes her hairstyle _____
� Helen starts going out with James _____
� Helen follows Gerry to the library _____
� Lydia tells Helen off for delivering poisoned sandwiches _____
� Helen gets a loan and starts her own business _____
� Helen falls asleep just when Gerry was about to tell her the truth about him and Lydia
_____
� Helen faints _____
� At Clive’s party, Gerry tries to convince Helen to go back to him _____
� Helen finds that she’s pregnant. _____
� She also finds out that James is married _____
� Helen finally gathers that Gerry is seeing someone _____
� James tells Helen that he will soon be divorced. _____
� Helen turns up at Lydia’s apartment because Lydia had offered her a job (of course she just
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� Helen is sacked A/B
� Helen catches the underground and meets James, though she’s not
interested in him at first. A
� Helen catches her boyfriend with another girl A
� Helen misses the underground, goes out and gets mugged B
� Helen dumps (leaves) her boyfriend A
� Helen gets drunk in a bar A/ B
� Helen stays at her friend’s A
� Helen suspects that Gerry, her boyfriend is lying B
� Helen accepts a job as a sandwich delivery person B
� Helen changes her hairstyle A
� Helen starts going out with James A
� Helen follows Gerry to the library B
� Lydia tells Helen off for delivering poisoned sandwiches B
� Helen gets a loan and starts her own business A
� Helen falls asleep just when Gerry was about to tell her the truth about
him and Lydia B
� Helen faints A/ B
� At Clive’s party, Gerry tries to convince Helen to go back to him A
� Helen finds that she’s pregnant. A/ B
� She also finds out that James is married A
� Helen finally gathers that Gerry is seeing someone. B
� James tells Helen that he will soon be divorced. A
� Helen turns up at Lydia’s apartment because Lydia had offered her a job
This is the story of Will, hip unmarried Londoner who is in his late thirties. He lives on his own, but wis life gets suddenly disrupted when he meets Marcus. It all began when Will started dating Angie, a single mum. He noticed that going out with these women had certain advantages, like the fact that they would always consider him better than their previous partners and that they were commitment-free relationships. While all this happens, Marcus is having a hard time both at home and school. Everybody bullies him and to make matters worse, his mum suffers from severe depression. So, after Angie dumped him he set out to look for these women and he joined
SPAT (Single Parents Alone Totether).
At his first SPAT meeting, Will makes up the story of his life, including a 2-year-old: Ned, whose mum had run off with Will’s best friend. Suzie feels sympathetic and she begins going out with Will. Suzie is friends with Marcus’ mum (Fiona) and one they she invites him to a picnic with Will. When Suzie asks Will what he does for a living, he tells the (so far) only true fact about him: he doesn’t need to work since he lives off the royalties of a song his dad had written years before. At the end of the day something terrible happens: Marcus’ s mum had tried to commit suicide.
Just when Will decices the whole single-mum plotline is getting too complicated for him, Marcus tries to set him up with his mum since he feels the two of them isn’t enought to make a solid family. But Will doesn’t share his views: he doesn’t mean to help them. In fact he doesn’t mean to help anyone. Marcus insists, though. He follows Will everywhere and finally tells him that he knows that he doesn’t have a child at all. He pushes his way into Will’s home and life and begins visiting him regularly after school.
Shortly after that, Will finds out that Marcus is being bullied by his schoolmates. His advice is for Marcus to become invisible, to blend in with the crowd and takes him shopping for a cool pair of trainers. But they get stolen, so Marcus has no choice but to tell his mum what’s been happening lately. Fiona is not happy about this and speaks to Will in a restaurant in front of lots of people.
Will reminds her that she’s being insensitive towards the kid.
Christmas arrived and Will is invited over to Marcus’ s for dinner together with the child’s father, his girlfriend and grandmother. Suzie turns up but the angry feelings eventually disappear and they all have dinner together. Then, something important happened to both Will and Marcus: they got a crush
on a girl.
On New Year’s Eve Will meets Rachel, who ended up assuming he had a 12-year-old child Marcus meets Elli, who was a bit unfriendly with him at first. They became friends and this earned Marcus his schoolmates’ respect. Will asks Marcus to pretend he’s his son, and takes him to Rachel’s house, so the two kids can meet and play together. It turns out that Ali (Rachel’s son) is in the same school as Marcus and he feels terribly jealous of everyone around his mum. He doesn’t seem to like Marcus either. One day Will decided he had to break the news to Rachel: he was not Marcus’ natural father. Rachel felt very disappointed and she believed Will was not
being honest. So she leaves the restaurant and leaves him all alone.
Predict the ending (you may select more than one option)
a) Will and Marcus finished their friendship b) Will and Rachel made things up and began a relationship which didn’t
last long c) The four of them became a crazy sort of family (which included Fiona) d) Marcus went back to his old weirdo ways e) Will starts dating Fiona Watch and check