1. Warm up activity:
□ Imagine yourself as a traffic policeman. You have just finished your shift directing traffic near a school from morning till noon. Talk to a small group for 5 minutes about your experience.
2. Now read the short passage about the film and answer the questions that follow:
From Filippos Fylaktos' film "My Brother, the Traffic Policeman"
The persona of a traffic policeman has always been a curious one. It has often found important space and close treatment in literature and other arts. Besides the many poems about this fascinating character, there is at least one movie where the central character is a traffic policeman. In 1963, Greek film maker Filippos Fylaktos made this film named My Brother, the Traffic Policeman. It featured a slightly manic traffic policeman, Antonis Pikrocholos, who is utterly devoted to service and duty, and applies the traffic code with unyielding severity. Tickets rain down upon law-breakers in particular taxi-drivers and especially Lampros, who happens to be in love with Pikrocholos' sister, Fofo. In his turn, the traffic policeman is in love with a businessman's daughter, Kiki, who is afraid to reveal her feelings to her father. Besides, Antonis has given lots of traffic tickets to a bus belonging to her father's company. For all these reasons, the road to marriage for both couples is long and strewn with obstacles, but the outcome is a happy one for everyone involved.
3. Guess the meanings of the following words from the context:
a. persona
b. curious
c. fascinating
d. manic
e. devoted
f. obstacles
4. Answer the following questions:
a. What does 'giving tickets' mean in the context?
b. What idea of the central character have you formed?
c. What is meant by 'the road to marriage'?
d. In which language was the movie probably made?
e. How does the movie end?
5. Find the meaning of the word 'manic.' What is the root word for manic? Describe in 5 sentences how a manic traffic policeman would behave in real life.
6. Do you think our traffic policemen perform the following duties? If not, why?
a. apply traffic codes with severity
b. give tickets to all law-breakers
7. The passage suggests that traffic policemen have found important space in literature. Can you remember reading about a traffic policeman in any novel, short story or poem?
8. Imagine that you are a taxi driver and have broken traffic rules on the road. Now write a dialogue between the traffic policeman in My Brother, the Traffic Policeman and yourself.
9. Go to Google and find out more about the film and write a 200 words paragraph based on your search. If possible, watch the film on the You Tube.
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