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VOCAB from the movie (idioms)

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Netflix movie: “Holidate” (2020)

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxaaAoI57fk&feature=emb_title

Watch the trailer of the movie and read the short paragraph below. What is the film about? Summarize
it with your own words, and predict some scenes and events you think you will see in it.

Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to


be each other's platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch
real feelings along the way.
Sloane (Emma Roberts) and Jackson (Luke Bracey) hate the
holidays. They constantly find themselves single, sitting at
the kids table, or stuck with awkward dates. But when these
two strangers meet during one particularly bad Christmas,
they make a pact to be each other’s “holidate” for every
festive occasion throughout the next year. With a mutual disdain for the holidays, and assuring themselves
that they have no romantic interest in the other, they become each other’s perfect plus-one which leads to
some hilarious and provocative hijinks. However, as a year of absurd celebrations come to an end, Sloane
and Jackson find that sharing everything they hate may just prove to be something they unexpectedly love.

THE AMERICAN CULTURE. What do you know about holidays (days off) in the US? Can you match the
following dates to their corresponding celebrations? Watch out! There is an extra date!

o May 5
 Labor Day
o Sep 6, 2021 (first Monday)
 Christmas Day
o Dec 25
 New Year’s Day
o Jul 4
 Independence Day
o Oct 31
 Thanksgiving
o Feb 14
 Halloween
o May 1
 Easter Monday
o Apr 5, 2021 (first Monday)
 Saint Patrick’s Day
o Jan 1
 Cinco de Mayo
o Nov 25
 Valentine’s Day
o Mar 17
Netflix movie: “Holidate” (2020)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxaaAoI57fk&feature=emb_title

THE INDEPENDENCE DAY. What do you know about the celebrations and traditional customs on July 4 in
the US?
You can check out some information in the following links:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGZflMCZyMM&feature=emb_title
 https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/why-does-united-states-america-celebrate-
independence-day-4th-fourth-july-declaration-holiday/

What was different in 2020 due to the pandemic?


Read the following piece of news and comment on it with the rest of the class.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53254889

Read the following summary of the scene from the movie that you are going to watch:

By the Fourth of July, Jackson has become quite close with Sloane's family and is good friends with
her brother York (who he has been teaching golf for a year). While setting off firecrackers, Jackson
blows part of his finger off and Sloane is forced to drive him to the hospital to have it reattached.
The two get high at the hospital and run into Farooq, a doctor Sloane's mother tried to set her up
with; she flirts with him and Jackson becomes visibly jealous. They go back to his place where they
end up touching hands and experience a moment of attraction to one another.

Now, watch the scene and complete the idiomatic expressions. [Min. 45:20 – 53:10] Do you understand
their meaning? Can you use them in a sentence of your own?

 Just relax. I’ve got it all under control. You _____________________________________

 I just can’t _______________________________________________________________

 You’ve really got her _______________________________________________________

 Well… we’ll see. __________________________________________________________

Write examples of your own:

_____________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________

Do you know any other idiomatic expressions with the word ‘finger’?

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