Learn English with The Hobbit

• ☐ ☐ ☐ a pony [n] - a small horse (not a baby horse)
• ☐ ☐ ☐ encounter [v] - meet
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a burglar [n] - a thief [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ look into [phv] - examine, investigate
• ☐ ☐ ☐ uproot a tree [exp] - rip a tree out of the ground
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a troll [n] - an ugly giant humanlike creature [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ run into trouble [exp] - have problems
• ☐ ☐ ☐ hoot [v] - make a sound like an owl
• ☐ ☐ ☐ an owl [n] - a large bird that hunts at night
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a barn owl [n] - a type of owl [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a brown owl [n] - a type of owl [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ mutton [n] - sheep meat
• ☐ ☐ ☐ blimey [exp] - damn
• ☐ ☐ ☐ nags [n] - old horses
• ☐ ☐ ☐ gripe [v] - complain
• ☐ ☐ ☐ all skin and bone [exp] - a skinny animal with no meat or fat
• ☐ ☐ ☐ skinned and boned [exp] - remove the skin and bones from an animal
• ☐ ☐ ☐ gut [v] - remove the organs (heart, stomach, etc...) from an animal
• ☐ ☐ ☐ stinky [adj] - having a bad smell
• ☐ ☐ ☐ your cake hole [n] - your mouth
• ☐ ☐ ☐ my hooter [n] - my nose
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a squirrel [n] - a small rodent with a large bushy tail [image]

[n] - noun,  [v] - verb, [phv] - phrasal verb,  [adj] - adjective,  [exp] - expression

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Bilbo	Fili	Kili

• Bilbo (a hobbit) has joined a group of dwarves on an adventure.
• Bilbo is the official burglar (thief).
• Kili and Fili are in charge of watching the horses.

1. What is Kili's and Fili's problem?
   They are lost.
   They are hungry.
   The ponies are hungry.
   Some ponies are missing.
   
   
2. Who are Daisy and Bungle?
   Two dwarves
   Two ponies
   Two trolls
   
   
3. Why do Fili and Kili want Bilbo to investigate the problem?
   He has good eye sight.
   He is the official burglar.
   He is an excellent (pony) rider.
   
   
4. Why does Kili think that Bilbo is perfectly safe?
   Bilbo is good fighter.
   Bilbo is small.
   Bilbo is fast.
   Trolls are friendly.
   Trolls are stupid.
   Trolls are slow.
   
   
5. What is the signal to call for help?
   Throw a rock
   Hoot like an owl
   Whistle like a bird
   
   
6. What things are the trolls complaining about?
   Horses smell bad.
   The ponies are too small.
   One troll is very hungry.
   Their chickens escaped.
   Hobbits don't taste good.
   One troll is scared of dwarves.
   They eat mutton (sheep) every day.
   Horse meat doesn't have enough fat.
   The farmer that one troll ate was too skinny.
   Everything they cook tastes like chicken.
   
   
7. What does the troll think will improve the flavor of his soup?
   Meat (from a sheep)
   Snot (from a troll's nose)
   Hair (from a dwarf's beard)
   An eyeball (from a hobbit)
   
   
8. Where does the troll think Bilbo came from?
   His nose
   The trees
   The mountains
   
   
9. What does the troll think Bilbo is?
   A dwarf
   A child
   A pony
   A squirrel
   
   
10. What do they want to make with Bilbo?
    A pie
    A salad
    A sandwich
    Some soup
    
    

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Directions: Write sentences about the video clip using the words given. You can change the word form or add words, but you cannot change the word order. Use a present time frame (tense).
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Instrucciones: Escriba oraciones sobre el videoclip usando las palabras dadas. Puede cambiar la forma de la palabra o agregar palabras, pero no puede cambiar el orden de las palabras. Usa el tiempo presente.

Instrucciones: Escribe oraciones sobre el videoclip usando las palabras dadas. Puede cambiar la forma de las palabras o agregar palabras, pero no puede cambiar el orden de las palabras. Usa tiempo presente.

지시 : 주어진 단어를 사용하여 비디오 클립에 대한 문장을 씁니다. 어형을 변경하거나 단어를 추가할 수 있지만 어순은 변경할 수 없습니다. 현재 시제를 사용합니다.

Fili / Kili / suppose / be / look / pony

Fili and Kili are supposed to be looking after the ponies.

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Fili / Kili / worry / because / two / pony / miss

Fili and Kili are worried because two (of the) ponies [are/went] missing.

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Fili / Kili / want / Bilbo / look / problem

Fili and Kili want Bilbo to look into the problem.

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Bilbo / scare / because / something / big / uproot / tree

Bilbo is scared because something big uprooted the trees.

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they / see / three / troll / prepare / cook / pony

They see three trolls preparing to cook the ponies.

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Kili / tell / Bilbo / hoot / owl / if / he / need / help

Kili tells Bilbo to hoot like an owl if he needs help.

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one / troll / complain / taste / horse / meat

One (of the) troll(s) complains about the taste of horse meat.
One (of the) troll(s) is complaining about the taste of horse meat.

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one / troll / sneeze / soup

One (of the) troll(s) sneezes into the soup.

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Bilbo / sneak / troll / camp / order / free / pony

Bilbo sneaks into the troll's camp (in order) to free the ponies.
Bilbo sneaks into the troll camp (in order) to free the ponies.

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while / Bilbo / try / steal / the / troll / knife / troll / grab / him

While Bilbo is trying to steal the troll's knife, the troll grabs him.

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one / troll / think / Bilbo / come / nose

One (of the) troll(s) thinks (that) Bilbo came [out of/from] his nose.

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troll / want / know / what / Bilbo

The trolls want to know what Bilbo is.

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troll / want / use / Bilbo / make / pie

The trolls want to use Bilbo to make a pie.

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The text below is from the [ original novel ]. You can also read a [ shortened version ] of the novel.

1. Which parts of the video are the same as the novel?
2. Which parts of the video are different from the novel?
3. Which parts of the novel are not in the video?

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They decided in the end that they would have to camp where they were. They moved to a clump of trees, and though it was drier under them, the wind shook the rain off the leaves, and the drip, drip, was most annoying. Also the mischief seemed to have got into the fire. Dwarves can make a fire almost anywhere out of almost anything, wind or no wind; but they could not do it that night, not even Oin and Gloin, who were specially good at it.

Then one of the ponies took fright at nothing and bolted. He got into the river before they could catch him; and before they could get him out again, Fili and Kili were nearly drowned, and all the baggage that he carried was washed away off him. Of course it was mostly food, and there was mighty little left for supper, and less for breakfast.

There they all sat glum and wet and muttering, while Oin and Gloin went on trying to light the fire, and quarrelling about it. Balin, who was always their look-out man, said: “There’s a light over there!” There was a hill some way off with trees on it, pretty thick in parts. Out of the dark mass of the trees they could now see a light shining, a reddish comfortable-looking light, as it might be a fire or torches twinkling.

When they had looked at it for some while, they fell to arguing. Some said “no” and some said “yes”. Then the rain began to pour down worse than ever, and Oin and Gloin began to fight.

That settled it. “After all we have got a burglar with us,” they said; and so they made off, leading their ponies in the direction of the light. They came to the hill and were soon in the wood. Up the hill they went; but there was no proper path to be seen, such as might lead to a house or a farm; and do what they could they made a deal of rustling and crackling and creaking (and a good deal of grumbling and dratting), as they went through the trees in the pitch dark. Suddenly the red light shone out very bright through the tree-trunks not far ahead.

“Now it is the burglar’s turn,” they said, meaning Bilbo. “You must go on and find out all about that light, and what it is for, and if all is perfectly safe and canny,” said Thorin to the hobbit. “Now scuttle off, and come back quick, if all is well. If not, come back if you can! If you can’t, hoot twice like a barn-owl and once like a screech-owl, and we will do what we can.”

Off Bilbo had to go, before he could explain that he could not hoot even once like any kind of owl any more than fly like a bat. But at any rate hobbits can move quietly in woods, absolutely quietly. So, naturally, he got right up to the fire—for fire it was—without disturbing anyone. And this is what he saw.

Three very large persons sitting round a very large fire of beech-logs. They were toasting mutton on long spits of wood, and licking the gravy off their fingers. There was a fine toothsome smell. Also there was a barrel of good drink at hand, and they were drinking out of jugs. But they were trolls. Obviously trolls. Even Bilbo, in spite of his sheltered life, could see that: from the great heavy faces of them, and their size, and the shape of their legs, not to mention their language, which was not polite at all, at all.

“Mutton yesterday, mutton today, and blimey, if it don’t look like mutton again tomorrer,” said one of the trolls.

“Never a blinking bit of manflesh have we had for long enough,” said a second. “What the ’ell William was a-thinkin’ of to bring us into these parts at all, beats me—and the drink runnin’short, what’s more,” he said jogging the elbow of William, who was taking a pull at his jug.

William choked. “Shut yer mouth!” he said as soon as he could. “Yer can’t expect folk to stop here for ever just to be et by you and Bert. You’ve et a village and a half between yer, since we come down from the mountains. How much more d’yer want? And time’s been up our way, when yer’d have said ‘thank yer Bill’ for a nice bit o’ fat valley mutton like what this is.” He took a big bite off a sheep’s leg he was roasting, and wiped his lips on his sleeve.

Yes, I am afraid trolls do behave like that, even those with only one head each. After hearing all this Bilbo ought to have done something at once. Either he should have gone back quietly and warned his friends that there were three fair-sized trolls at hand in a nasty mood, quite likely to try roasted dwarf, or even pony, for a change; or else he should have done a bit of good quick burgling. A really first-class and legendary burglar would at this point have picked the trolls’ pockets—it is nearly always worthwhile, if you can manage it—, pinched the very mutton off the spits, purloined the beer, and walked off without their noticing him. Others more practical but with less professional pride would perhaps have stuck a dagger into each of them before they observed it. Then the night could have been spent cheerily.

Bilbo knew it. He had read of a good many things he had never seen or done. He was very much alarmed, as well as disgusted; he wished himself a hundred miles away, and yet—and yet somehow he could not go straight back to Thorin and Company empty-handed. So he stood and hesitated in the shadows. Of the various burglarious proceedings he had heard of picking the trolls’ pockets seemed the least difficult, so at last he crept behind a tree just behind William.

Bert and Tom went off to the barrel. William was having another drink. Then Bilbo plucked up courage and put his little hand in William’s enormous pocket. There was a purse in it, as big as a bag to Bilbo. “Ha!” thought he, warming to his new work as he lifted it carefully out, “this is a beginning!”

It was! Trolls’ purses are the mischief, and this was no exception. “’Ere, ’oo are you?” it squeaked, as it left the pocket; and William turned round at once and grabbed Bilbo by the neck, before he could duck behind the tree.

“Blimey, Bert, look what I’ve copped!” said William.

“What is it?” said the others coming up.

“Lumme, if I knows! What are yer?”

“Bilbo Baggins, a bur—a hobbit,” said poor Bilbo, shaking all over, and wondering how to make owl-noises before they throttled him.

“A burrahobbit?” said they a bit startled. Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.

“What’s a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket, anyways?” said William.

“And can yer cook ’em?” said Tom.

“Yer can try,” said Bert, picking up a skewer.

“He wouldn’t make above a mouthful,” said William, who had already had a fine supper, “not when he was skinned and boned.”

“Perhaps there are more like him round about, and we might make a pie,” said Bert. “Here you, are there any more of your sort a-sneakin’ in these here woods, yer nassty little rabbit,” said he looking at the hobbit’s furry feet; and he picked him up by the toes and shook him.

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1. Describe the trolls - both their appearance and personality? Are they scary? Cute? Friendly? Funny?
2. Bilbo got caught while he was trying to steal the troll's knife. What should he have done instead?
3. Bilbo has been caught. What do you think will happen next?
4. Was it easy or difficult to understand the trolls when they spoke? Why? What accent do they have?
5. What do you call meat from a cow? From a pig? From a chicken? From a sheep? From a baby sheep? Which do you like most?
6. What is the difference between a pony and a horse? A mare and stallion? A colt, a filly, and a foal? (Use your dictionary.)