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FILM SCENE LEVEL L/S TASK EXTRA INFORMATION
13 Going on 30 2 3 Tell about future plans and goals Thirteen
13 Going on 30 2 1 Describe Objects 5 min in-
13 Going on 30 4 1 Meet Someone New 5 min in
13 Going on 30 6 3 Make Plans Very end of scene
13 Going on 30 7 1 Use Public Transportation
13 Going on 30 8 1 Meet Someone You Know Finding Matt
13 Going on 30 9 3 Tell about the Past
13 Going on 30 9 3 Make Invitations Last minute- invite to party
13 Going on 30 10 3 Make Invitations Invites to come look at purses in elevator
13 Going on 30 16 3 Tell about the past What happened to us?
13 Going on 30 18 2 Give and Receive Compliments 10 min in-- Great photos!
13 Going on 30 20 2 Give and Receive Compliments You're the sweetest guy ever!
13 Going on 30 23 1 Describe Objects
13 Going on 30 24 1 Describe Objects
Against the Crooked Sky :07 2 Describe People
Against the Crooked Sky :31 2 Describe People Describing the people who took the girl
Against the Crooked Sky :57 1 Talk about Family
Against the Crooked Sky 1:09 1 Meet Someone You Know
Against the Crooked Sky 1:16 2 Tell about recent past
Apollo 13 :03 2 Give Complements
Apollo 13 :45 1 Describe Objects Broadcast
Apollo 13 :50 2 Get "Help in an Emergency" Right after the broadcast
Apollo 13 1:20 3 Give Instructions Make oxygen tank
Apollo 13 1:03 2 Describe Emergency TV stations
Apollo 13 1:08 3 Get People's Attention and Interrupt Flight guy gets angry
Apollo 13 1:12 2 Make future plans and goals Tell about their intentions
Apollo 13 1:33 4 Describe an event Telling Grandma about the situation
Apollo 13 2 Describe People What they did after they landed the space station
Baker's Hawk 1 2 Describe People Description of Mr. McGraw in the mountains (negative)
Baker's Hawk 2 3 Make Plans The Hawk is Saved
Baker's Hawk 2 2 Describe People Mobs described (5 minutes into scene)
Baker's Hawk 2 2 Tell about recent past (5 minutes into scene)
Baker's Hawk 3 1 Meet Someone New Meet Mr. McGraw
Baker's Hawk 3 1 Give Instructions "How to care for a Hawk" (10 minutes into it)
Baker's Hawk 3 2 Describe Things Hawk (10 minutes into it)
Baker's Hawk 5 2 Describe People Description of Mr. McGraw in the mountains (positive)
Baker's Hawk 5 1 Give Instructions How to help a hawk fly (10 minutes into scene)
Baker's Hawk 6 2 Tell about recent past Robbery (5 minutes into it)
Baker's Hawk 9 1 Give and Receive Thanks Mr. McGraw and Billy say "goodbye" (15 minutes into the scene)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 8:00 2 Make Purchases Bargaining over a car
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 13:50 and 17:00 3 Agree and Disagree Arguing over how to care for children
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 15:40 2 Give Instructions
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 16:00 2 Describe Objects Candy
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 17:50 3 Compare People Truly Scrumptious discussed by father and children
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang   29:50 2 Describe Objects Sweet musical + song
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang   38:15 2 Give and receive thanks Children give their treasures to their father
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 54:00 2 Describe Objects
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1:04:30 3 Get People's Attention and Interrupt Mr. Potts is fixing the car when Truly interrupts him
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1:34:54 2 Tell About the Near Future and about the past Grandpa is forced to work for the Vulgairians
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1:40:00 2 Give Instructions Vulgarians search for car and children
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1:46:00 2 Describe People Children are described
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1:58 1 Meet Someone New A boy in the sewer meets the Potts
Cupid & Cate 0:05:20 2 Make phone call Kate and Sister
Cupid & Cate 0:11:20 1 Meet Someone You Know
Cupid & Cate 0:17 3 Describe a Place
Cupid & Cate 0:19:30 1 Meet Someone You Know
Cupid & Cate 0:21:30 2 Give and Receive Compliments
Cupid & Cate 0:22:22 1 Meet Someone New
Cupid & Cate 0:22:36 2 Give and Receive Compliments
Cupid & Cate 0:23:20 1 Talk about Family
Cupid & Cate 0:24:20 2 Give and Receive Compliments
Cupid & Cate 0:25:40 2 Give and receive thanks
Cupid & Cate 0:31:00 2 Give and Receive Compliments
Cupid & Cate 0:33:00 2 Give and Receive Compliments
Cupid & Cate 0:33:00 2 Describe People
Cupid & Cate 0:34:45 2 Describe People Handsome and Smart
Cupid & Cate 0:35:30 3 Tell About the Past
Cupid & Cate 0:36:22 3 Make Invitations
Cupid & Cate 0:38:20 3 Make Invitations
Cupid & Cate 0:51:00 3 Manage a Conversation
Cupid & Cate 1:07:35 1 Meet Someone New
Cupid & Cate 1:08:15 3 Describe a Place Store
Cupid & Cate 1:12:00 3 Tell About the Past War story
Cupid & Cate 1:16:00 2 Go to the Doctor
Cupid & Cate 1:17:00 1 Meet Someone You Know
Cupid & Cate 1:24:00 2 Go to the Doctor
Cupid & Cate 1:31:00 3 Apologize Sorry for being impatient
Cupid & Cate 1:33:45 3 Apologize
Emma 0:06:00 2 Tell about recent past Wedding
Emma 0:07:00 2 Describe People
Emma 0:07:52 3 Make Invitations
Emma 0:10:30 2 Give and Receive Thanks
Emma 0:11:40 1 Meet Someone You Know
Emma 0:12:30 3 Compare People
Emma 0:13:20 2 Describe People
Emma 0:14:00 1 Describe Objects
Emma 0:18:00 2 Tell about recent past
Emma 0:18:00 3 Agree and Disagree
Emma 0:21:00 3 Apologize
Emma 0:24:00 2 Describe People
Emma 0:29:00 2 Give and Receive Compliments Proposal
Emma 0:35:45 2 Give and Receive Compliments More gossip
Emma 0:37:00 2 Describe People Mr. Churchill
Emma 0:39:26 3 Tell About the Past
Emma 0:41:42 3 Describe a Place See the city/village
Emma 0:43:00 2 Describe People
Emma 0:45:45 3 Tell About the Past
Emma 0:50:40 2 Describe People
Emma 0:52:50 3 Make Invitations Ask to dance
Emma 0:55:50 3 Compare Places
Emma 1:04:00 2 Give Complements
Emma 1:08:30 3 Compare People
Emma 1:09:15 3 Make Invitations
Emma 1:10:30 3 Give and Receive Thanks
Emma 1:30:00 3 Tell About the Past
Emma 1:40:30 3 Agree and Disagree
Harry Potter #1 1 1 Meet Someone You Know Dumbledore and McGonagall
Harry Potter #1 3 3 Agree and Disagree Harry and Dursley Fight
Harry Potter #1 4 1 Introduce Self and Others Hagrid introduces himself and Harry
Harry Potter #1 6 1 Perform simple banking transaction Gringotts
Harry Potter #1 7 1 Make Purchases Shop for a wand
Harry Potter #1 9 1 Use Public Transportation Platform 9 3/4
Harry Potter #1 10 1 Introduce Self and Others Ron and Hermione meet Harry
Harry Potter #1 13 3 Get People's Attention and Interrupt Professor McGonagall gets the attention of students
Harry Potter #1 18 2 Get "Help in an Emergency" Mountain Troll
Harry Potter #1 19 2 Tell about recent past Tell about Gringotts
Harry Potter #1 26 2 Tell about recent past Hagrid tells about Fluffy
Harry Potter #1 28/29 2 Give Directions Wizards Chess
Harry Potter #1 28/29 3 Give Instructions Wizards Chess
Harry Potter #1 33 1 Meet Someone You Know House Cup Winners!
Harry Potter #1 33 2 Describe People Harry, Ron, Neville, and Hermione described
Harry Potter #2 1 2 Tell About Near Future Dursley's tell about what they will do when guests arrive
Harry Potter #2 4 1 Talk about Family Meet the Weasley's
Harry Potter #2 11 1 Introduce Self and Others Gilderoy Lockhart
Harry Potter #2 12 3 Agree and Disagree Slytherin vs. Griffyndor
Harry Potter #2 14 3 Tell About the Past About the Chamber
Harry Potter #2 13 2 Tell about recent past 30 seconds in-- Harry recounts hearing voices
Harry Potter #2 22 2 Tell about recent past Moaning Myrtle explains how it hit her
Harry Potter #2 23 2 Tell About the Past 3-4 min in-- Ron, Harry, Hermione discuss
Harry Potter #2 27 2 Give and Receive Thanks Spider Attack
Harry Potter #2 29 3 Tell About the Past Chamber of Secrets, Moaning Myrtle tells how she dies
Harry Potter #2 28 2 Get "Help in an Emergency" Ron & Harry find Lockhart
Harry Potter #2 30 1 Describe Objects Blackfire-  Snakeskin described
Harry Potter #2 31 2 Tell About the Past Heir of Slytherin
Harry Potter #2 36 1 Meet Someone You Know Welcome Back
Harry Potter #3 3 1 Introduce Self and Others The Knight Bus
Harry Potter #3 3 1 Directions to a Place 10 min in-- The knight bus
Harry Potter #3 3 2 Describe People 5 min in-  Description of Sirius
Harry Potter #3 6 2 Meet Someone You Know In grave Danger
Harry Potter #3 6 2 Describe People 3 min in-  Sirius
Harry Potter #3 9 2 Tell About Near Future May be hard to understand
Harry Potter #3 10 3 Give Instructions Buckbeak
Harry Potter #3 10 3 Agree and Disagree 3-5 min in-- Harry and Draco
Harry Potter #3 11 2 Describe Objects Boggart in the Wardrobe
Harry Potter #3 12 2 Describe People Talent for Trouble
Harry Potter #3 14 3 Give Instructions Substitute Teacher
Harry Potter #3 18 3 Tell About the Past Harry Potter's parents death
Harry Potter #3 19 3 Give Instructions 30 sec in- 
Harry Potter #3 20 2 Tell about recent past Scabbers death- Hagrid explains law suit
Harry Potter #3 21 2 Tell About Near Future Professor Trelawney's prediction
Harry Potter #3 22 3 Apologize 5 min in-  About scabbers
Harry Potter #4 5 1 Make Purchases Ron buys sweets
Harry Potter #4 3 2 Tell About Near Future 10-15 min in The Triwizard Tournament
Harry Potter #4 11 3 Make Plans Sirius Conversation
Harry Potter #4 14 3 Give Instructions 5 min in-  The first task
Harry Potter #4 15 2 Tell About Near Future Best foot forward
Harry Potter #4 15 3 Give Instructions 5 min in-
Harry Potter #4 16 3 Manage a Conversation 10 min in-  Harry and Cho
Harry Potter #4 22 2 Describe Objects Dreams and Suspicions (might be hard to understand
Harry Potter #4 27 2 Tell About the Past Veritaserum
Harry Potter #4 28 2 Describe People Funeral- Parting ways
Monster's Inc. 6 1 Meet Someone New 10-30 minutes
Monster's Inc. 9 3 Manage a Conversation
Murder on the Orient Express 2 1 Meet Someone You Know Mr. Poirot meets up with a friend at the hotel
Murder on the Orient Express 3 1 Public Transportation Not much dialogue- just people taking tickets
Murder on the Orient Express 7 2 Tell about recent past Secretary of deceased answers questions about murder
Murder on the Orient Express 7 3 Tell About the Past Secretary of deceased answers questions about murder
Murder on the Orient Express 8 2 Tell about recent past Mrs. Hubbard Questioned
Murder on the Orient Express 8 3 Tell About the Past Mrs. Hubbard Questioned
Murder on the Orient Express 9 2 Tell about recent past Couple questioned about murder
Murder on the Orient Express 9 3 Tell About the Past Couple questioned about murder
Murder on the Orient Express 10 2 Tell about recent past Princess and maid questioned
Murder on the Orient Express 10 3 Tell About the Past Princess and maid questioned
Murder on the Orient Express 13 2 Tell about recent past Car salesman questioned
Murder on the Orient Express 13 3 Tell About the Past Car salesman questioned
Murder on the Orient Express 14 2 Tell about recent past The whole murder is described and Poirot unfolds the mystery
Murder on the Orient Express 14 3 Tell About the Past The whole murder is described and Poirot unfolds the mystery
Railway Children 2 2 Give Instructions "Go to Bed now!"
Railway Children 2 2 Tell about recent past Mother explains to children that the father is gone (10 minutes into scene)
Railway Children 4 2 Tell About Near Future Mother explains that they are poor and what the future holds for them
Railway Children 5 2 Give Instructions/ Going to the Doctor Doctor explains to children how to care for their mother
Railway Children 5 2 Tell About Near Future Children send a letter to the "trainman" asking for help (10 minutes into it)
Railway Children 6 3 Tell About the Past Russian Man's Story of escape revealed
Railway Children 8 2 Get "Help in an Emergency" Children warn the train from crashing (5 minutes in)
Railway Children 8 1 Meet Someone New Children meet the trainman and receive an award for their service (15 minutes into the scene)
Railway Children 8 2 Give and Receive thanks Little train toy is fixed (25 minutes into the scene)
Railway Children 8 & 9 3 Make Plans Children plan a birthday party (end of scene 8 and beginning of scene 9)
Railway Children 9 2 Describe People and Things Children give gifts to their friend.  Each friend has said a kind thing about the friend.
Railway Children 9 2 Get "Help in an Emergency" Children save boy in train tunnel.  They go and get help.
Some Like it Hot 0:12:00 3 Apologize Coffee spilled on Mafia head-honcho
Some Like it Hot 0:18:00 2 Search for a Job 2 main characters ask agency for a job
Some Like it Hot 0:43:45 2 Give and Receive Thanks
Some Like it Hot 1:04:00 1 Meet Someone New
Some Like it Hot 1:12:30 3 Make Invitations Over the phone- Go on a yacht
Some Like it Hot 1:18:00 3 Make Invitations Go on Yacht-- Card
Some Like it Hot 1:11:00 1 Describe People
Some Like it Hot 1:22 1 Meet Someone You Know Ahoy, Ahoy.  Been waiting long?
Some Like it Hot 1:27:00 3 Tell About the Past A Lie-- but a love story
Some Like it Hot 1:55:30 2 Tell about recent past Mafia leader talks about the past
The Other Side of Heaven 1 1 Introduce Self and Others John telling about himself
The Other Side of Heaven 1 1 Tell About the Past history and feelings
Tuck Everlasting 1 3 Tell About the Past describing background
Tuck Everlasting 1 1 Meet Someone New Miles and Jesse meeting Mae Tuck
Tuck Everlasting 2 3 Tell About the Past how Winnie Felt
Tuck Everlasting 3 2 Tell about recent past Miles and Jesse being followed
Tuck Everlasting 3 3 Give Instructions Tuck tells the family to be careful
Tuck Everlasting 4 3 Give Instructions How to catch fireflies
Tuck Everlasting 4 3 Agree and Disagree Winnie going to school
Tuck Everlasting 4 3 Tell About the Past How Winnie felt
Tuck Everlasting 5 1 Meet Someone New Jesse meets winnie
Tuck Everlasting 6 1 Meet Someone New Tuck meets Winnie
Tuck Everlasting 6 1 Introduce Self and Others More people are introduced to Winnie
Tuck Everlasting 7 2 Get "Help in an Emergency" Fosters looking for Winnie
Tuck Everlasting 7 1 Talk about Family Mae tells about grandchildren
Tuck Everlasting 10/11 3 Tell About the Past History of the Tucks
Tuck Everlasting 13 3 Interrupt to get attention

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