Schindlers List - Reading comprehension and listening task

Schindlers List - Reading comprehension and listening task

by Waine Evans

Schindler's List is a movie made in 1993. It´s an American historical period drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It´s based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The film relates a period in the life of Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten German businessman. He saved the lives of more than a thousand, mostly Polish Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern. Ideas for a film about the Schindlerjuden (Schindler Jews) were proposed as early as 1963. Poldek Pfefferberg, one of the Schindlerjuden, made it his life's mission to tell the story of Schindler. Steven Spielberg became interested in the story when executive Sidney Sheinberg sent him a book review of Schindler's Ark. Universal Pictures bought the rights to the novel, but Spielberg, unsure if he was ready to make a film about the Holocaust, tried to pass the project to several other directors before finally deciding to direct the film himself.

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The unconditional _________ of Germany has just been announced. At midnight tonight, the war is over. Tomorrow, you'll begin the _______ of looking for survivors of your families. In most cases, you won't find them. After six long years of murder, _______ are being mourned throughout the world. We've survived. Many of you have come up to me and thanked me.

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The unconditional _________ of Germany has just been announced. At midnight tonight, the war is over. Tomorrow, you'll begin the _______ of looking for survivors of your families. In most cases, you won't find them. After six long years of murder, _______ are being mourned throughout the world. We've survived. Many of you have come up to me and thanked me.

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The unconditional _________ of Germany has just been announced. At midnight tonight, the war is over. Tomorrow, you'll begin the _______ of looking for survivors of your families. In most cases, you won't find them. After six long years of murder, _______ are being mourned throughout the world. We've survived. Many of you have come up to me and thanked me.

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Thank yourselves. Thank your ________ Stern, and others among you who worried about you and faced death at every moment. I'm a member of the Nazi party. I'm a munitions manufacturer. I'm a _________ of slave labour. I am a criminal.

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Thank yourselves. Thank your ________ Stern, and others among you who worried about you and faced death at every moment. I'm a member of the Nazi party. I'm a munitions manufacturer. I'm a _________ of slave labour. I am a criminal.

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At midnight, you'll be free and I'll be ______. I shall remain with you until five minutes after midnight. After which time, and I hope you'll forgive me, I have to ____.

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At midnight, you'll be free and I'll be ______. I shall remain with you until five minutes after midnight. After which time, and I hope you'll forgive me, I have to ____.

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I know you have received ______ from our Commandant, which he has received from his superiors, to _______ of the population of this camp. Now would be the time to do it. Here they are, they're all here.

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I know you have received ______ from our Commandant, which he has received from his superiors, to _______ of the population of this camp. Now would be the time to do it. Here they are, they're all here.

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This is your opportunity. Or, you could leave, and return to your families as men instead of

.

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In memory of the _________ victims among your people, I ask us to _______ three minutes of silence.

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In memory of the _________ victims among your people, I ask us to _______ three minutes of silence.

Multiple Choice

I want that cloth distributed to the workers. _______ and a Half meters each.

Also, each person is to get a bottle of Vodka.

They won't drink it, they know its value.

Likewise, those egyptian cigarettes we organized.

• One

• Two

• Three

• Four

Multiple Choice

It will be done, everything you ask.

We've written a _______, trying to explain things.

In case you were captured.

Every worker signed it.

• note

• paper

• letter

• article

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That's Hebrew from the Talmud. It says:

"Who ever saves one life, saves the world

."

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I could have got ____ out.

I could've got ____.

If I just...

I could've got ____.

Multiple Choice

Oskar there are ___________ hundred people who are alive because of you, look at them!

• eleven

• twelve

• thirteen

• fourteen

Multiple Choice

If I had made more money

I threw away so much money.

You have no idea.

There will be _________ because of what you did.

• genarations

• geneerations

• gennarations

• generations

Multiple Choice

I didn't do enough.

You did so much.

This car... Goeth would've ________ this car...

Why did I keep the car?

• buy

• bought

• buys

• buying

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Ten people, right there.

Ten people.

Ten more people...

This

...

Two people.

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This is

...

Two more people.

Multiple Choice

They would've given me ___ for it... At least one.

It would've given me one.

One more.

One more person...

A person, Stern.

• two

• three

• four

• five

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What is the missing sentence.

For this..., I...

Could've got...

___ ____ ______!

And I didn't!

And I didn't!