WHILE VIEWING
11. Watch the film clip. Patch is telling Carin about his project for a free hospital. Decide if the following statements are true or false.
1. Carin is looking at something in front of her. ☐ T ☐ F
2. Carin immediately understands why Patch is showing her these things. ☐ T ☐ F
3. Carin was out with Patch. ☐ T ☐ F
4. She looks a bit annoyed at the beginning. ☐ T ☐ F
5. Carin takes notes while Patch tells her about his project. ☐ T ☐ F
6. Carin asks Patch to wait for her to write down his ideas. ☐ T ☐ F
7. Patch asks Carin to take part in the project. ☐ T ☐ F
8. Carin accepts enthusiastically. ☐ T ☐ F
9. Patch says Dean Walcott has a limited idea of what life is. ☐ T ☐ F
10. Carin is happy to be involved in Patch’s project. ☐ T ☐ F
12. Watch the video again and fill in each blank with one word.
Patch: A free hospital.
Carin: A free hospital... Can I go back to 1. ............................. now?
Patch: No, no. Because I’m bursting with 2. ............................. and I need you to help me. It’ll be the first 3. ............................. hospital in the world. It’ll be a totally free-form building: it’ll have like slides, and secret passageways and 4. ............................. rooms.
Carin: Slow down, I can’t write that 5. ............................. .
Patch: I can’t slow down. We’ll use humour to heal pain and 6. ............................. . Doctor and patients will work side by side as peers. There’ll be no titles, no 7. ............................. . People will come from all over the world to fulfil their dream of 8. ............................. other people. There’ll be a community where joy is a way of life, where 9. ............................. is the highest dream, where love is the ultimate goal. You have all that?
Carin: Yeah, not verbatim, but the overall insanity’s intact.
Patch: That’s why you have to help me with this.
Carin: Patch, no.
Patch: Yes.
Carin: No.
Patch: Oh yes, yes! I know it’s not gonna be 10. ............................., but you said anything worth doing is difficult.
Carin: Look – um: I’m not like you Patch.
AFTER VIEWING
13. Watch the clip again and answer the questions.
1. What do you think is the relationship between Patch and Carin?
2. What was Carin doing before meeting Patch?
3. What does the term free mean in this context?
4. Why does Patch want to equip the hospital with slides and secret passageways?
5. Is Patch referring to doctors or patients when he says: “People will come from all over the world ....?”
6. What does Carin mean when she uses the word “insanity”?
7. Do you think Carin believes in Patch’s project?
8. What do you think Carin means when she says “I’m not like you Patch”?
