ETA 2005

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Learning English through Movies Harry Potter as
an Example

• Johanna Katchen (???)
• National Tsing Hua University
• http//mx.nthu.edu.tw/katchen
• katchen_at_mx.nthu.edu.tw

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Advantages of Using DVDs for Language Learning

• We can change subtitle/caption options
• Beginners can use L1 to enjoy the film and get
  general meaning

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• Intermediate students can use L2 to study and
  identify the language by reading it
• We can turn off captions to challenge and quiz
  ourselves or our students
• We can turn the L2 captions back on to check our
  answers

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• Teachers can easily locate chapters without
  running a tape forward and backward
• Depending on the DVD player, it may be harder to
  locate exact spot within a chapter
• We can easily repeat short segments to hear a
  sentence or phrase again this is good for when
  students are filling in a cloze or when making a
  word-by-word transcription

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Some Names fromHarry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire

• The image above and most others in this
  presentation are taken from the pre-release
  photos available on the Warner Brothers website.

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• Beauxbatons is another European wizarding school,
  probably located in France because the language
  used in the school is French. The name of the
  school means beautiful (beaux) wands
  (batons).

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• A baton is a long and thin stick, which is also
  the shape of a wand. Cheerleaders at sports
  matches may twirl batons. The conductor of an
  orchestra may use a small baton to lead. In some
  countries policemen carry batons, which they use
  when people get out of control.

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• Little girls often like to learn to twirl batons.
• The demonstration against the governments new
  education policy was peaceful until the police
  got out their batons.

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• Madame Olympe Maxime is the headmistress of the
  French wizarding school. She is a very large
  woman, possibly with a giant as parent.

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• Olympe is the French version of the personal
  name Olympia.
• Mount Olympus was the legendary home of the Greek
  gods and goddesses, and we see this name in the
  Olympic Games.
• If something is of Olympic proportions, such as a
  woman like Madame Maxime, it is very large. The
  name Maxime, too, suggests large size, as in
  maximum.

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• That restaurant serves dinners of such Olympic
  proportions that whenever we eat there, we always
  take home enough leftovers to serve for lunch the
  next day.
• What is the maximum salary you can give me
  considering my qualifications?

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• Fleur Delacour, a student from Beauxbatons,
  French name that means Flower (fleur) of the
  Court (de la cour).
• Her surname also sounds similar to Flower of the
  Heart (de la coeur). She is certainly the flower
  of Rons heart as he is smitten by her beauty.

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• Durmstrang is a European wizarding school
  somewhere in the North of Central or Eastern
  Europe, and it seems German may be their language
  of instruction.
• In Durmstrang Rowling makes a joke on the term
  Sturm und Drang, literally storm and stress,
  a German literary movement in the 18th century
  which involved works portraying the individuals
  revolt against society.

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• Sturm und Drang can also refer to the stressful
  teenage years in which students revolt against
  the rules of their elders. Assuming the students
  at Durmstrang are the same age as those at
  Hogwarts, then age 11 18 would encompass
  exactly those difficult adolescent years until
  adulthood is reached.

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• Igor Karkaroff, the Headmaster of Durmstrang, has
  a Slavic name. Igor is a common personal name in
  Russia.
• In older American films, the name Igor was often
  given to a sinister character, usually portrayed
  as large and strong but somewhat stupid, willing
  to do anything his master commanded, even quite
  horrendous things.

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• The name Karkaroff brings out other interesting
  connotations. The name sounds like carcass, a
  dead body, or the sound crows makeCaw-caw! The
  off (or -of, -ov) suffix is common in
  Slavic names.
• There was an actor with a similar name, Boris
  Karloff, who was tall and thin and a bit
  scary-looking, and he played sinister roles.
  Karkaroff is described as looking and behaving
  very much like the Karloff roles.

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• There is an additional negative connotation with
  the name Karkaroff. In many dialects of English,
  including what is considered to be a more
  Standard British English, the post vocalic r is
  not pronounced, or not pronounced too
  prominently.

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• That would mean that the first r would not be
  pronounced.
• The second r would be pronounced, but given the
  syllable structure, it would be considered the
  first sound of the last syllable. Thus we would
  get ka ka rof kaka is a childrens word for
  feces.
• Mommy! I think the baby made kaka. Shes
  smelly.

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• Viktor Krum, a student from Durmstrang in Book 4,
  is supposedly from Bulgaria. His personal name
  reveals the European spelling of Victor, one who
  claims victory, and he does like to compete and
  win.
• Krumm is a Germanic word for crooked, and there
  is evidence that hes not very honest.

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• Krum has that somewhat negative vowel sound of
  schwa and it sounds like crumb, a small piece of
  bread or some other food that has accidentally
  fallen away. Crumb can also mean a worthless
  person.
• Viktor Krum is portrayed in a somewhat negative
  way (over-ambitious, surly, possibly not
  trustworthy), but Hermione likes him.
• There is also a related adjective crummy, meaning
  filthy, miserable, worthless, or cheap.

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• Do you think our basketball team will be
  victorious tonight?
• Dont eat cookies in the living room. Youre
  getting crumbs all over the floor!
• That hotel was really crummy we never had any
  hot water and the walls were so thin, we could
  hear the guy next door snoring!

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• Bartemius Crouch was a former official in the
  Ministry of Magic until it was revealed that he
  helped his son, a supporter of Voldemort, escape
  from Azkaban. His personal name is from
  Bartholomew, an old name not too popular now,
  except in the shortened form of Bart, as in Bart
  Simpson.

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• Crouch means to bend ones knees to be closer to
  the ground, sometimes to hide ones evil or
  threatening intentions, sometimes out of humility
  or fear. Crouch becomes afraid of his son and
  he is also put under a spell, so he indeed
  crouches.
• The burglar was crouching in the bushes, waiting
  for the owners of the house to go out to dinner
  then he would sneak into the house through the
  back door.

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• Ludovic Bagman is introduced in Book 4 as the
  Head of the Department of Magical Games and
  Sports at the Ministry of Magic. Ludovic comes
  from Ludwig, meaning famous warrior, and as a
  former famous Quidditch star, he could be seen as
  a famous warrior. Ludo- is also the Latin root
  for to play or sport. A bagman is someone
  who collects or distributes illegal money for
  another, and Bagman has a problem with gambling.

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• Rita Skeeter is the news reporter who gives Harry
  trouble.
• Skeeter is a slang word for mosquito, a pesty
  insect. She can also transform herself into an
  insect, a beetle.

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• Veela are introduced in Book 4 as cheerleaders
  for the Bulgarian team in the Quidditch World
  Cup. We mention them here to show that Rowling
  even looked to the folklore of Eastern Europe for
  her characters.

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• In Serbian folklore, Veela were female spirits of
  the forests. They were extremely beautiful and
  attractive to men, but they disliked men and
  killed them or chased them away, although
  sometimes they would come to their aid.
• In Harry Potter we see the males attracted to
  the Veela songs, but when the Veela are angered
  they turn into ugly birds of prey.

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• Nagini is the snake from which Voldemort takes
  his nourishment in Book 4. Naga- is Sanskrit
  for snake.

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• The Pensieve is a bowl-like object in
  Dumbledores office into which he places some of
  his thoughts or memories, either for storage
  because his brain is too full, or to look at more
  objectively.

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• Rowling made it up from two wordspensive and
  sieve. When someone is pensive, he is thinking
  a lot.
• A sieve is a utensil found in a kitchen that is
  used to separate solid objects from liquid, such
  as seeds from lemon juice.
• Another similar utensil is a strainer, and
  Dumbledore strains his thoughts, separating out
  their contents and analyzing them.

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• How come youre looking so pensive, like that
  famous statue Rodins Thinker? Are you in
  love?
• Have you seen the sieve? I want to make some
  real orange juice from these oranges Mom gave me.

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• Omnioculars look like binoculars, an ordinary
  device used for bird-watching and watching other
  things from a distance.
• The word binoculars is made up of bi(n)- for
  two and ocular for eyes/glasses.
• Rowling introduces omnioculars, which seem to
  function like binoculars with a built-in video
  camera, permitting instant replay even at
  different speeds.

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• Omni- means all, and with omnioculars you can
  see everything in all sorts of ways. Other words
  that incorporate the root omni- are omnipotent
  (all powerful) and omnipresent (all
  presentalways and everywhere).

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• Where are my binoculars? There are some red
  birds in that tree Id like to look at before
  they fly away.
• Some people say their god is omnipotent and
  omnipresent.

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• Sonorus! Wizards do not need microphones. They
  just point their wands to their throats and with
  this command their voices are magnified, as
  Ludovic Bagman does for the Quidditch World Cup
  in Book 4.
• Sonus is Latin for sound. We see this root
  in words like sonar, measurement undersea by
  sound waves, and sonogram.

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• When sonar is used to locate submarines or other
  undersea objects, it might harm the hearing of
  whales and other ocean creatures.
• The doctor took a sonogram, and Mary could see
  her little baby boy inside her.

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• To access todays slides, go to
  http//mx.nthu.edu.tw/katchen They will be
  upoaded by the middle of next week.
• If you would like to learn more behind the names
  in Harry Potter, you can find more of these slide
  shows, as well as some quizzes and other related
  materials, at http//elearn.nthu.edu.tw

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• You can also purchase this book at the booth of
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