MOVIE TIME !!!

1. USE THE FOLLOWING WORDS TO WRITE A

SYNOPSIS OF THIS MOVIE:
PRETENDS TO BE SAVES
PARTY
LIFE
KISS
A GREAT JOB
GOOD LUCK
HELP
BAD LUCK
MANAGER
CAFETERIA
DANCER
DISCOVER
FALL IN LOVE

2. MENTION AT LEAST 3 THINGS THAT

HAPPENED TO ASHLEY WHEN SHE WAS LUCKY. (USE COULD OR
HAD)
3. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
a. Whats Ashleys idea to attract her boss attention?
1. To throw a costume party
2. To make a masquerade bash
3. To sign up a contract with McFly
b. What card does the Fortune Teller show to Ashley?
1. The lovers
2. Fate
3. The wheel of fortune
c. Whats the name of Ashleys friends black cat?
d. Whats S.O.L.?
e. What does Katy (Jakes little cousin) tell Ashley?
1. Shes a tramp
2. Shes a good girl
3. Shes a loser
4. SHARE YOUR IDEAS WITH THE CLASS: DO YOU BELIEVE IN
LUCK? WHAT DO YOU THINK? (CHECK THE VOCABULARY IN UNIT
4 FOR MORE IDEAS)

MOVIE TIME!
FILM: TAKEN.
1. PAIR WORK DISCUSSION. Look at
the following words. How are they
related to trafficking? Talk to your
partner about it and come up with a
definition for it:
Prostitution
domestic work
garment making
industrial work
restaurant work
servile marriage

begging
slave-like situations
commercial sexual exploitation

2. Classify the tems into three categories:

a. Ways for a trafficker to recruit victims.
b. Reasons for trafficking flourishing.
c. Barriers for victims.

Cases regularly fall apart due to a lack of protection for witnesses, family involvement in
the trafficking activity, or fear of deportation.
Post traumatic stress disorder
Demand for cheap labor
Kidnap and abduction.
Fear of arrest or detention by U.S. government officials
Promise parents that they will marry their daughters - but the girls are forced into
prostitution.
High profits trafficking victims can be resold (versus drugs or arms)
Through advertisements in local newspapers offering good jobs at high pay in exciting
cities or use fraudulent travel, modeling and matchmaking agencies to lure unsuspecting
young men and women into trafficking schemes.
Poverty and desire for better life of exploited victims
Impunity: traffickers often go unpunished for their crimes
Fear of retribution against themselves and their family by traffickers
Lack of knowledge about the United States criminal justice system
Stigma
Mislead parents into believing that their children will be taught a useful skill or trade - but
the children end up enslaved in small shops, on farms, or in domestic servitude.
Use threats, intimidation and violence to force victims to engage in sex acts or to labor
under conditions comparable to slavery for the traffickers financial gain.
Political and economic instability of source countries
Fear of recrimination within their families and villages
Inability to speak English

3. You are a VTVPA agent (VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING AND VIOLENCE

PROTECTION ACT) Use the vocabulary from the previous activity to act out
an interview where you instruct people about how to protect ourselves from
trafficking. You can also pretend that you are Bryan Mills and you are telling people
what happened to your daughter and how can they be safe.