Upside Down: Compound Adjectives

This is a love story. The premise of the plot - two twin planets with inverse gravities - is amazing. The setting is awesome and the scenes in which the characters are literally upside down are fascinating.

A. Watch the movie segment and rewrite the phrases below, using compound adjectives.

1. They are adapted to the  basic laws of double gravity that will never change.

2. An object weight can be offset by the other planet because of the concept that its matter is inverse.

3. One day Adam climbed the mountains so high and experienced an event that changed his life.

4. The view from the mountains had a look that was very ominous.

5. Eden was a pretty girl that had blond hair.

6. Eden had a fall that threatened her life.

7. The movie had many scenes whose visuals are attractive.


B. Discuss these questions:



1. What are the complications of a relationship like the one of the characters?

2. What are the advantages?

3. How do you compare those planets to the Earth?

4. What does the Earth and those twin planets have in common? Aside from the gravity laws, how different are they?

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Answer key:


1. They are adapted to the never-changing laws of gravity

2. An object weight can be offset because of the inverse-matter concept.

3. Adam experienced a life-changing event.

4. It was an ominous-looking view.

5. She was a blond-haired girl.

6. Eden had a life-threatening fall.

7. The movie has many visually-attractive scenes.

Memoirs of a Geisha: Compound Adjectives

This is a marvelous movie that is full of cultural information and conflicts. I learned a lot about the fascinating Japanese culture, but the most important thing is the plot, which is gripping from the very first scene. I strongly recommend it. My students had a great time practicing this very hard-to-explore grammar point, which became attractive with the segment.







A. Watch the movie segment and rewrite the phrases below, using compound adjectives.






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1. The geisha was a lady who has fair skin.

She was a fair-skinned lady.



2. She is a Japanese woman who has blue eyes.

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3. She was a geisha that had been trained well.

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4. The geisha had to flirt with a man who was on a bicycle that was moving fast.

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5. It was difficult for the geisha to walk on those shoes that had very high heels.

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6. The geisha has to learn how to dance with fans that had a beautiful design.

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7. The geisha's training is based on ancient beliefs that are rooted deeply.

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8. They have to wear kimonos that were tailored perfectly.

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B. Now discuss these questions with a partner.


1. What are some of the tasks a geisha has to go through to become successful?

2. Who are geishas?

3. What's your opinion about this tradition?

4. This segment takes place in 1941. How different do you think this tradition is nowadays?



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Answer key:

2. a blue-eyed woman

3. a well-trained geisha
4. fast-moving bicycle

5. high-heeled shoes

6. beautifully-designed fans.

7. deeply-rooted beliefs

8. perfectly-tailored kimonos