06/11/2015 The Emotional Robot 1 of 13 (c) Jaime Selwood ENW Episode 219 TECHNOLOGY HOMEPAGE AND SOCIAL MEDIA ENW 405 Introduction This week’s ENW podcast reports on the anniversary of one of the best-known double acts around the world – Tom and Jerry. The animated adventures of the grey and white cat and the small brown mouse have entertained people around the world for 80 years. What are the origins of the pair? Who created them? What is the reason for their enduring popularity? ENGLISH NEWS WEEKLY will try and explain all!
Transcript
06/11/2015 The Emotional Robot 1 of 13
(c) Jaime Selwood ENW Episode 219 TECHNOLOGY
HOMEPAGE AND
SOCIAL MEDIA
ENW 405 Introduction This week’s ENW podcast reports on the anniversary of one of the best-known double acts around the world – Tom and Jerry. The animated adventures of the grey and white cat and the small brown mouse have entertained people around the world for 80 years. What are the origins of the pair? Who created them? What is the reason for their enduring popularity?
ENGLISH NEWS WEEKLY will try and explain all!
Contents Pages
Part 1 | Warm Ups
Odd-One-Out Page 1 Brainstorm Page 1
Famous Double Acts Page 1 / 2 Quiz | This Week Page 2
Part 2 | Before Listening / Reading
Jumbled Words Page 3 True or False Page 3 Vocabulary |Antonyms Page 3
Part 3 | Listening / Reading
The News Story 399 Words Page 4 What Do You Think...? Page 4
Part 4 | After Listening / Reading
Q & A Page 5 A & Q Page 5
Part 5 | Extra Stuff
Extra English I Page 6 7 to Chinwag Page 6 Writing Activity Page 7
And Finally….
Did You Know? Page 7 TV Links Page 8
The Answers Pages 8-10
| A1 This symbol = Listening activity in the podcast.
[202002-02] | The Cat & Mouse Turn 80! | February 7th, 2020
| PART 1 | Warm Ups |
Warm Up | 1 Odd 1 Out
Look at the four boxes below, which box is different from the other three? Write your reason in the box underneath. Check your answer later.
a) Bonnie b) Superman c) Mickey d) Holmes
My Reason… __________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Warm Up | 2 Brainstorm
How many different words can you connect to the word(s) in the box? Can you think of at least 10 words? Why do you think this?
| Animation |
Warm Up | Famous Double Acts
A popular Internet search engine has published a list of famous double acts. The order has been decided by how often they were searched for. Can you guess the correct answer from the clues? (more hints on page 2!)
Double Act Clue Country Name Clue
1 Cat and Mouse 8 Fast Food
2 Gotham City 9 The Beatles
3 Sesame Street 12 Baker Street
4 Great Dane+ 14 Crime Duo
5 Star Wars IV-VII 19 Comedy Duo
6 Nintendo 34 Famous lovers
#4 is a rather big dog and a cowardly companion & #5 is not a droid double act!
Famous Double Acts! | Order by Internet Search Engine
Read the list of 12 famous double acts and then place them into the correct
order on page 1! Which do you think are the most searched for?
A BATMAN & ROBIN G LAUREL & HARDY B BERT & ERNIE H LENNON & MCCARTNEY C BONNIE & CLYDE I MARIO & LUIGI D HAMBURGER & FRIES J ROMEO & JULIET E HAN SOLO & CHEWBACCA K SCOOBY DOO & SHAGGY F HOLMES & WATSON L TOM & JERRY
Warm Up | 4 | A1 Quiz
Read the questions about this week’s news story. Remember if you don’t know – use the Internet to help or GUESS!
Q1 What year was the first Tom & Jerry animation? a: 1930 b: 1940 c: 1950 Q2 2: How many short films have Tom & Jerry starred in (by 2020)? a: 164 b: 264 c: 364 Q3 What year did Tom & Jerry speak for the first time in a cartoon? a: 1940 b: 1987 c: 2005 Q4 How many Academy Awards (Oscars) have Tom & Jerry won? a: 0 b: 3 c: 7 Q5 What were the original names for Tom & Jerry? a: Jasper & Jinx b: Salem & Sweep c: Tom & Jerry Q6 Which Hollywood studio originally produced the Tom & Jerry cartoon? a: Warner Bros b: MGM c: Paramount X1 What are the names of the spoof Tom & Jerry in the Simpsons? X2 Which two animators created Tom & Jerry? X3 Which cartoon figure below was NOT created by Hanna-Barbera?
Read the headline of News Story - The World’s Most Famous Double Act Look at the 5 statements. Guess if you think 1 – 5 are True or False!
1 Tom & Jerry were originally called Jasper and Jinx. [T] [F] 2 The Mayflower landed in the Americas in 1660. [T] [F] 3 Tom & Jerry were voted the USs favourite animation in 2017. [T] [F] 4 Tom & Jerry have won 7 Academy Awards. [T] [F] 5 The 2010 Haitian Earthquake killed around 300,000 people. [T] [F]
Pre-Listening / Reading | 3 Antonyms
An antonym is a word with a similar meaning. Match the 10 words on the left with their antonyms on the right. All the antonyms in black are from the News Stories.
1 Around 6 Simplify A Stagnate F Calm
2 Out 7 Mute B Reassure G Tiny 3 Changed 8 Massive C Articulate H In
4 Searched 9 Concern D Exactly I Animation 5 Desperate 10 Live-action E Ignored J Mystify
Listening / Reading | | Listening The World’s Most Famous Double Act
Three Words | Help Listen / Read the news story and choose the correct answer from the 3 choices! HINT – Look at the words around the gap to discover what type of word is missing!
405 The World’s Most Famous Double Act 1 2020, as well as being the first year of a new decade, will also be celebrating and
remembering some famous events throughout its 1: 365/366/367 days. It will mark the 2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae, 400 years since the 2: Mayflower/Titanic/Golden Hind landed in the New World, the 75th anniversary of the ending of World War II and 10 years on from the Haiti Earthquake that killed around 300,000 people. However, 2020 is also the 80th anniversary of when, perhaps, the world’s most famous double act first stepped 3: in/out/around.
2 In 1940 two young American animators by the names of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera debuted a cat and mouse duo called Jasper & Jinx. Since then, they have changed their names to Tom and Jerry, been part of 164 animated 4: feature/short/animation films, won 7 Academy Awards, been turned into a musical adaptation and become the most searched for double act on the Internet!
3 However, the origins of Tom the 5: blue/black/grey and white cat and Jerry the brown mouse was not auspicious. The famous Hollywood studio MGM was desperate to compete with successful animation characters such as Disney’s Mickey Mouse and 6: Warner Bros’/Universal’/Looney Tunes’ Porky Pig. Hanna and Barbera decided to simplify the search and chose a simple “cat and mouse” scenario. They also, crucially, decided to make both characters mute as they had both grown up and loved the silent films of the 7: American/Canadian/English actor and producer Charlie Chaplin.
4 The success of the cat and mouse capers of Tom and Jerry was instantaneous, helped by fact that as there were no 8: sound/voices/words, there was no need to dub the dialogue into different languages. Each cartoon of between 6-8 minutes took around 3-4 weeks to animate and cost $50,000 – which in 2020 works out as 9: $545,000/$754,000/935,000! Yet despite Tom & Jerry’s massive success, MGM decided to close down its animation department in 1957.
5 The popularity of television created a whole new fanbase for the cat and mouse cartoon and despite some concerns over racial stereotyping and levels of violence it remains as popular as ever. In 2015, it was named the most popular cartoon in the UK and in 2019 a Tom & Jerry 10: play/movie/musical was released in Japan. To celebrate the 80th anniversary a live-action Tom and Jerry film will be released at the end of the year. Tom and Jerry, it seems, have not finished 11: fighting/loving/debating with each other just yet.
How much can you remember from News Story? Read / Listen to the questions below and choose the correct answer. If you can’t remember any answers, guess!
Q1 What colours are Tom?
Q2 What studio originally produced the Tom & Jerry animations?
Q3 How long did it take to make one Tom & Jerry animation?
Q4 Who was the inspiration for Tom & Jerry not talking?
Q5 How long is the average Tom & Jerry animation feature?
Q6 Which country produced a musical on Tom & Jerry?
X1 Which animation studio produced Porky Pig?
X2 How many animation characters are in the news story?
Post-Reading | 2 A & Q
How much can you remember from the news story? Read the answers below and write the correct question. There is more than one possible correct question for each one!
An Idiom in English means a phrase or expression that explains a situation sometimes a literal meaning and sometimes to explain a complication situation.
Example: A DOUBLE-BLIND = A NO-WIN SITUATION DOUBLE-DUTY = DOING 2 THINGS AT THE SAME TIME
Can you match the ‘idiom’ with the correct meaning?
1 E 2 I 3 L 4 G 5 C 6 J A double-
blind A double-whammy
To double-back
Double-crosser
Double-entendre
Double Nickels
7 F 8 A 9 D 10 H 11 B 12 K
Double sawbuck
Double-speak
Double-digit
Double-Dutch
Double-six Double-duty
A B C D E F
Deliberately evasive,
confusing, contradictory
One year – 2 x 6
months.
A word or Phrase that can have
two meanings.
Numbers between 10-99
A no-win situation.
Slang for a €20 / $20
G H I J K L A traitor, turncoat. Someone
who changes sides.
Language that makes no sense
A situation where two negatives
happen in a row.
Slang for the speed limit of 55 mph in the
USA.
Doing two things at the same time.
To return to the place where you
have already started.
7 to Chinwag This Week’s ENW Podcast
ENW Podcast Topic | The World’s Most Famous Double Act
Ask / Answer the questions below on this week’s ENW Podcast Topic!
1 What did you think when you read this week’s ENW topic? 2 Who is your favourite double act? Why? 3 Which double act are you not keen on? Why? 4 What is your favourite animation character? Why? 5 Do you think animation can be too easy with violence? Why? 6 Have you ever watched Tom & Jerry? When?
Tom and Jerry are perhaps the world’s most famous double act! Which are your three favourite double acts? People? Food? Etc. Give as many examples as to your opinions as you can!
END OF PART 5
And Finally… | U/V/W/X/Y/Z | A4 ENW RECAP
(U) Whilst ENW 283 reported on how the wrong movie was named Best Picture in 2017. (V) ENW has released five podcasts centred around the Academy Awards. (W) The two most recent podcasts have reported on problems - ENW 229: Boycott Over White Oscars reported on how all the major nominees were Caucasian. (X) And for the first time ever a foreign language movie, Parasite, from South Korea took home the Oscar for Best Picture. (Y) The first was ENW 42: Silent Movie Wins Best Picture and the next was ENW 87: It’s Oscar Time from 2013 when we reported on how Daniel Day-Lewis won his 3rd Academy Award. (Z) This week was Oscar week in Hollywood! _______________ END OF PART 6
Warner Bros | (USA) 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiHulAQmdqI [02:59] The First Tom & Jerry Animation | Puss in Boots You Tube| (USA) 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGbEnoCPL1o [10:44] The Evolution of Tom & Jerry You Tube | (USA) 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=segdJ4jyUiU [09:35] 75th (2015) Anniversary of Hanna-Barbera
Podcast | Key
| A1 These activities are audio and can be listened to on the podcast.
Answers | Part 1 Warm Up 1-4
Warm Up 1 | Odd-1-Out
B – SUPERMAN A / C / D – are all one half of a famous double act! Superman is alone!
Warm Up 3 | Famous Double Acts
1: Tom & Jerry 2: Batman & Robin 3: Bert & Ernie 4: Nigeria 5: Scooby Doo & Shaggy 6: Han Solo & Chewbacca 8: Hamburger & Fries 9: Lennon & McCartney 12: Holmes & Watson 14 Bonnie & Clyde 19: Laurel & Hardt 34 Romeo & Juliet
A1 Warm Up 4 | Quiz
1 – B 2 – A 3 – C 4 – C 5 – A 6 – B
E1 – ITCHY & SCRATCHY E2 – HANNA-BARBERA E3: A
Answers | Part 1 Warm Up 1-4
Jumbled Sentences
Hanna and Barbera decided to simplify the search and chose a simple “cat and mouse” scenario.
A2 True or False
1 – T 2 – F 3 – F 4 – T 5 – T Antonyms 1 – D 2 – H 3 – A 4 – E 5 – F
405 The World’s Most Famous Double Act 1 2020, as well as being the first year of a new decade, will also be celebrating and
remembering some famous events throughout its 366 days. It will mark the 2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae, 400 years since the Mayflower landed in the New World, the 75th anniversary of the ending of World War II and 10 years on from the Haiti Earthquake that killed around 300,000 people. However, 2020 is also the 80th anniversary of when, perhaps, the world’s most famous double act first stepped out.
2 In 1940 two young American animators by the names of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera debuted a cat and mouse duo called Jasper & Jinx. Since then, they have changed their names to Tom and Jerry, been part of 164 animated short films, won 7 Academy Awards, been turned into a musical adaptation and become the most searched for double act on the Internet!
3 However, the origins of Tom the grey and white cat and Jerry the brown mouse was not auspicious. The famous Hollywood studio MGM was desperate to compete with successful animation characters such as Disney’s Mickey Mouse and Warner Bros’ Porky Pig. Hanna and Barbera decided to simplify the search and chose a simple “cat and mouse” scenario. They also, crucially, decided to make both characters mute as they had both grown up and loved the silent films of the English actor and producer Charlie Chaplin.
4 The success of the cat and mouse capers of Tom and Jerry was instantaneous, helped by fact that as there were no voices, there was no need to dub the dialogue into different languages. Each cartoon of between 6-8 minutes took around 3-4 weeks to animate and cost $50,000 – which in 2020 works out as $545,000! Yet despite Tom & Jerry’s massive success, MGM decided to close down its animation department in 1957.
5 The popularity of television created a whole new fanbase for the cat and mouse cartoon and despite some concerns over racial stereotyping and levels of violence it remains as popular as ever. In 2015, it was named the most popular cartoon in the UK and in 2019 a Tom & Jerry musical was released in Japan. To celebrate the 80th anniversary a live-action Tom and Jerry film will be released at the end of the year. Tom and Jerry, it seems, have not finished fighting with each other just yet.
399 WORDS
Answers | Part 4 Post-Listening / Reading
A3 Q & A 1 – Grey & White 5 – 6-8 Minutes 2 – MGM 6 – Japan 3 – 3-4 Weeks E1 – Warner Bros 4 – Charlie Chaplin E2 – Four (4)
A & Q | Example Questions A1 – How many days in 2020? A2 – How much did each of the original Tom & Jerry animation cost to make? A3 – What year did the original Tom & Jerry animation end? A4 – What year was a Tom & Jerry musical released in Japan? A5 – Which animation studio produces Mickey Mouse?
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