1. Follow the instructions on each slide - write the questions and your answers, and notes, in your book.

2. What will this movie be about?
10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
What will this movie be about?
Predict the plot in sentences.

3. What clues does the poster provide about the film?

4. How is what we know from this poster, different to what the other one told us? Write down the additional facts this poster provides

5. Could this film be just another example of the 'high school romance genre'? (genre means category)
List other examples of movies in this genre in your book. (at least 3)

6. Is it an example of the 'coming-of-age' genre. (i
Is it an example of the 'coming-of-age' genre? (i.e young people transitioning from adolescence to adulthood.)
How does this movie fit into this genre? Mention one example where ‘coming of age’ seems to happen in the film. (If you get stuck, get some help from the next slide.)

7. This is a list of conventions for coming-of-age films:
Need help? Select one of these commonly used features of a ‘coming of age’ film from the list below, and find an example of it in 10 things I hate about you.
This is a list of conventions for coming-of-age films:
the use of cars to indicate status
stereotyped students
small towns are boring
education is boring and teachers are stupid
the revenge of the nerd
a boyfriend/ girlfriend is essential
having sex marks the initiation into adulthood
parents are frequently inadequate and spoil their children's lives by their stupid decisions OR they are totally irrelevant to their lives
music helps teenagers to define and express themselves
males are the dominant sex; females exist only as objects of their desires.

8. Interesting...
The movie is loosely adapted from Shakespeare's play: The Taming of the Shrew.
However, even though there is much in it that is well suited to modern beliefs and values ...
there are lots of ideas
that a modern audience
would find strange, for
example … (see next slide)

9. Bianca's speech Act 5 Scene 2 line 136:
"Fie, fie unfit that threatening unkind brow...
Thy husband is the lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign;"
What do you think this means? Use this link for a modern language translation of the play
Explain why would this not fit with today's ideology (beliefs and values).

10. Things to think about when watching:
The use of music in the film.
How information about the
characters is revealed
Camera shots for effect
Use of irony
Clothes/car symbolism

11. STEREOTYPING BY CARS
How do character's cars reflect their personality and their stereotype?
Answer this question for two characters.

12. You need to familiarise yourself with film terminology
You need to familiarise yourself with film terminology. Take a look at these links:
Camera Angles-Wikipedia
Camera Shots and Angles
Make notes on these terms: high, low and neutral angles: Long shot, mid-shot, close-up, extreme close-up

13. First viewing
CHARACTER
What is the first impression that you get of these main characters?
Kat, Cameron, Patrick, Bianca. Write one - two sentences on each, and try to explain WHY you have formed this impression.

14. Homework
Write Shakespeare’s sonnet 141 into your books. Here is a copy
of the poem:
In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,
For they in thee a thousand errors note;
But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,
Who, in despite of view, is pleas'd to dote.
Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted;
Not tender feeling, to base touches prone.
Nor taste nor smell desire to be invited
To any sensual feast with thee alone:
But my five wits nor my five senses can
Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee,
Who leaves unsway'd the likeness of a man,
Thy proud heart's slave and vassal wretch to be:
Only my plague thus far I count my gain,
That she that makes me sin awards me pain.