BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM

WORKSHEET 2: 
CHARACTERS IN THE FILM 

Jesminder (Jess) wants to be a professional footballer. Unfortunately, her parents have more traditional ideas about her future. She's really friendly, cheerful, active, sensitive and tolerant. 

Juliette (Jules) also wants to be a professional footballer. She plays for a women's football team, the Hounslow Harriers. She's really friendly, active, curious and cheerful.

Joe is the coach of the Hounslow Harriers. He used to play football, but a knee injury forced him to stop playing. He's really friendly, sensible, intelligent, tolerant and generous.












WORKSHEET 3: WHILE YOU WATCH

2.1: THE HOUNSLOW HARRIERS 
 

Exercise A: Put these events in the correct order.

1. Pinky has her engagement party.
2. Jules sees Jess playing football in the park, and asks her to join the Hounslow Harriers.
3. Je'ss mother sees her wearing shorts and playing football with Tony's friends, and tells her she's not allowed to play football.
4. Jess lies to her parents that se has a part-time job, so she can go out and play football.
5. Jess and Jules go shopping for football shoes.
6. Pinky's boyfriend's relatives see Jess and Jules laughing and hugging, and think she is kissing a man.


Exercise B: Who said what? Match the statement with the person who said it.

1. "I was married at your age". -- Jess' mother
2. "If she's more interested in playing football than chasing boys, well quite frankly I'm over the moon about that". -- Jule's father
3. "Your mother's right. It's not nice. You must star behaving like a proper woman." -- Jess' father
4. No boy's going to want to go out with a girl who's got bigger muscles than him". -- Jules' mother

Exercise C: Think about the expectations that Jess' and Jules' families have of them. Make lists of the things that hteir families and society expect girls to do. Make one list for both girls, and another list for Jess. 

Both Jess and Jules 

-They want a future of a Jess and Jules.
-They want a daughters like pinky's friends.
-They doesn't like that the firls playing football.
-Are expected not to play football.
-Are expected to enjoy shopping, to look nice, to find a boyfriend.

Jess

-Is also expected to get married to an Indian man.
-Is also expected to cook well.


2.2: WILL PINKY GET MARRIED?

Exercise A: This section starts with Pinky's wedding being cancelled, because her future in-laws think that Jess was kissing a white man at the bus-stop. Her parents then forbid her from playing football. Put the following events in order.

1.The Hounslow Harriers go to Germany.
2. Joe goes to the Bhamra's house to try to persuade them to allow Jess to play football.
3. Joe and Jess almost kiss. Jules sees this and becomes jealous.
4. The Bhamras find out Jess went to Germany, and try to make her quit the team.
5. Tony tells Jess that he is gay.
6. Jess gets into a fight with another football player.
7. Jess' father sees Joe and Jess hugging.
8. The wedding is back on again.

Exercise B: Rewrite these paragraphs so they are true. There are three mistakes in each paragraph. 

1. Pinky blames her parents - sister because her wedding is cancelled. She tells her parents that Jess has - hasn't stopped playing football. They are very angry and tell her she can - can't continue to play.
2. Jules doesn't like Joe. In Germany, Joe and Jess fight - kiss.  Jules see this and is upset and jealous. Jules - Jess visits Jules house and they have an argument.
3. Pinky is very happy - sad that her wedding is cancelled. She persuades Teetu, her boyfriend, to talk to his friends - parents. Teetu's parents and the Bhamras arrange for the wedding to continue. Unfortunately, the wedding date is the same day as Jess' university exams - final football match.

Exercise C: Joe tries to encourage Jess not to give up. When Jess says that her parents want  to protect her by not letting her play football, Joe asks her "Whose life are you living?" What does he mean?

- He mean that she must do what their parents say not what she feel. He isn't agree.
- He mean wich life are you living or your parents life


2.3 THE FINAL MATCH 

Exercise A: Answer the questions:

1. Why does Jess' mother pray to the picture of Babaji?
2. How does Jess feel at the start of her sister's wedding?
3. Why does Joe go to Jess' house during the wedding?
4. Why does Mr Bhamra allow Jess to go to the football match?
5. What does the American offer Jules and Jess?
6. What job does Joe take in the end?

Exercise B: What happens to these people at the end of the movie?

1. Jess and Jules - Friends and they went to USA.
2. Jules' mother - Finally be happy with her daughter
3. Jess and Joe - They kissed but now they are in diferent places in the world
4. Pinky and her mother-in-law - They were happy
5. Joe and Mr Bhamra - Finally were friends.

Exercise C: Atthe end of the wedding celebration, Jess is sitting in the car with her sister when her sister says "Don't you want all of this?"  ( a wedding, a husband, etc.). 
What does Jess mean when she says " I want more than this"? 

The think that she really wants is to become a football player.