Read the text about the film Slumdog Millionaire and choose the correct verb form

from the words in bold italics.

The film opens / is open
with a police inspector in Mumbai, India, interrogating Jamal
Malik, which / who is a former street child from the slums. In the opening scene, there are
four options on how Jamal won 20 million rupees: A) He cheated, B) He's lucky, C) He's a
genius, D) It is written. Jamal is a contestant on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. He has made
it to the final question, scheduled four 1 the next day, but the police are now accused /
accusing him for 2 cheating. The other possibilities, that he has a vast knowledge or that he
is very lucky, both seem unlikely.
Jamal explains that he is knowing / knew the answers to most of the questions by chance,
because of things that hapened 3 in his life. This is told / was telling in a series of flashbacks
documenting his childhood. This includes scenes of him gets / getting the autograph of
Amitabh Bachchan, the death of his mother during riots in the slums, and how he and his
brother Salim became friends the orphan girl Latika.
As his story is continuing / continues we see Jamal, Salim and Latika living in the slums.
However, the children are eventually discovering / discovered by Maman, a gangster, who
"collects" street children so that he
can / will train them to beg for money. The three
children try to escape, but only Salim and Jamal are successfull 4 and Latika is re-captured by
the gangster.
The brothers try to make a living, travel / travelling on top of trains, selling goods and
pretending to be tour guides at the Taj Mahal. Eventually they return to Mumbai as Jamal
wants to locate Latika. When he finds her works / working as a dancer, the brothers attempt
to rescue her but this ends badly as Salim and Latika start working for another gangster and
Jamal is threatened / threatened to stay away from them.
Years later, Jamal had worked / is working at a call centre, serving tea. By chance he
contacts his brother Salim and finds Latika again. He tries to convince Latika to leave but she
is scared so he promises / is promised to be at the Chhatrapati railway station every day
at 5 p.m. to wait for her. One day Latika attempts to meet him but caught / is caught by
Salim and Javed's men.
Jamal again losses5 contact with Latika but in a desperate attempt finding / to find her
again he goes on the game show because he knows that she will be watching / watch on
TV. At the end of the show, he takes / is taken to the police station as on-one can believe a
simple "slumdog" could know the all answers. After Jamal tells his whole story, the police
inspector allows him too6 return to the show for the final question. Meanwile7, Latika watched
/ is watching Jamal on TV and so Salim gives Latika his car and his phone and urges her to
run away. When Jamal tries to call Salim to ask him the answer to the last question, Latika
answers his phone instead. She isnt knowing / doesnt know the answer either, so Jamal
guesses the correct answer and wins the grand prize. Later that night, Jamal and Latika meet
at the railway station and finally share a kiss.
Adapted from wikipedia.org

Comprehension
1. The main story is about

a. the slums in India

b. love
c. Who wants to be a millionaire?

2. The story is told using flashbacks.

a. True
b. False

3. Jamal knew the answers to the questions because of events in his life.

4. Jamal goes on the game show to win the money.

a. true
b. false

5. He is arrested because the police think he cheated.

a. true
b. false

6. This text is

a. true
b. false

a. an advert for the film

b. an article reviewing the film
c. a report about the film

6. The aim of this text is to

a. inform
b. persuade
c. complain

8. The text is based on

a. personal opinions
b. facts

Vocabulary work
A: Use the words/phrases in blue in the text and match to their similar meaning.
1. to seriously question/ quiz someone
3. very worried/ upset
5. persuade
7. very big
9. to make money

2. previous/ before
4. choices
6. to save someone
8. tries
10. finally

B: The words in the text in red are wrong. How can you correct them?
1. four
2. for
3. happened

fore
four
happenned

for
with
hapened

4.
5.
6.
7.

sucesful
loses
to
meenwhile

successful
looses
two
meanwiel

successfull
losses
too
meanwile

of
happened
sucessfull
losess
meanwhile