Learn English with The Hobbit

• ☐ ☐ ☐ don't bother [v] - don't waste time on
• ☐ ☐ ☐ squash [v] - crush into a liquid
• ☐ ☐ ☐ sauté [v] - cook in a pan with oil or butter
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a sprinkle of sage [n] - a small amount of sage (a spice)
• ☐ ☐ ☐ seasoning [n] - spices
• ☐ ☐ ☐ don't fancy [v] - don't like, don't want
• ☐ ☐ ☐ turned to stone [exp] - changed from flesh to rock or stone
• ☐ ☐ ☐ reason (with them) [v] - negotiate (with them)
• ☐ ☐ ☐ half-wits [n] - idiots, stupid people
• ☐ ☐ ☐ plate (something) up [phv] - put (something) on a plate to be served
• ☐ ☐ ☐ this lot [n] - this group
• ☐ ☐ ☐ skin (someone) [v] - remove (someone's) skin
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a filleting knife [n] - a long thin knife used for cutting meat
• ☐ ☐ ☐ rubbish [n] - I don't believe you! (garbage)
• ☐ ☐ ☐ scoff [v] - eat something very quickly
• ☐ ☐ ☐ crunchy [adj] - making a sharp noise when bitten or crushed
• ☐ ☐ ☐ infested with [adj] - full of something terrible
• ☐ ☐ ☐ be up to [exp] - be doing something dishonest
• ☐ ☐ ☐ a ferret [n] - a small rodent (animal) [image]
• ☐ ☐ ☐ take us for fools [exp] - try to trick, fool, or deceive us
• ☐ ☐ ☐ dawn [n] - when the sun rises (early morning)
• ☐ ☐ ☐ in one piece [exp] - safe, not badly injured
• ☐ ☐ ☐ nous [n] - intelligence

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

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Bilbo	Gandalf	Thorin

• All of the dwarves and Bilbo have been captured by trolls.
• Gandalf disappeared the day before.

1. The trolls _______ on how to cook the dwarves.
   all agree
   can't agree
   
   
2. It is almost _______.
   noon
   dawn
   dusk
   midnight
   
   
3. Bilbo wants to _______.
   protect the dwarves from parasites
   help the trolls cook the dwarves
   steal the troll's knife
   stall for time
   
   
4. The trolls _______ the taste of raw dwarf.
   like
   don't like
   
   
5. Bilbo tells the trolls that the dwarves _______ and _______.
   can use magic
   are full of sage
   don't smell good
   are infested with worms
   
   
6. The trolls _______ Bilbo.
   all believe
   don't all believe
   
   
7. The trolls _______ scared of Gandalf.
   are
   are not
   
   
8. The trolls turn into stone after _______.
   Gandalf casts a spell
   they eat one of the dwarves
   they are exposed to sunlight
   Bilbo infects them with worms
   
   
9. Thorin _______ grateful that Bilbo helped them escape.
   is
   is not
   
   

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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).
( ) = optional   [ ] = necessary

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.

troll / roast / dwarf

The trolls are roasting the dwarves.

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troll / debate / best / way / cook / dwarf

The trolls are debating the best way to cook the dwarves.

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troll / named / Willian / tell / them / get / on / it / that / they / not / get / turn / stone / when / sun / come / up

The troll (who is) named Willian tells them to get on with it so that they don't get turned [to/into] stone when the sun comes up.

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troll / decide / eat / dwarf / raw

The trolls decide to eat the dwarves raw.

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Bilbo / jump / up / and / give / troll / some / cook / advice / stall / time

Bilbo jumps up and gives the trolls some cooking advice (in order) to stall for time.

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Bilbo / first / say / dwarf / need / more / seasoning / and / then / they / infest / parasite

Bilbo first says (that) the dwarves need more seasoning and then (that) they are infested with parasites.

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one / troll / suspect / Bilbo / try / fool / them

One of the trolls suspects (that) Bilbo is trying to fool them.
One troll suspects (that) Bilbo is trying to fool them.

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troll / seem / unconcern / when / Gandalf / appear

The trolls seem unconcerned when Gandalf appears.

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when / Gandalf / expose / troll / sunlight / they / turn / stone

When Gandalf exposes the trolls to sunlight, they turn [to/into] stone.

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Thorin / blame / Bilbo / problem / troll / but / Gandalf / praise / Bilbo / ingenuity

Thorin blames Bilbo for their problem(s) with the trolls, but Gandalf praises Bilbo's ingenuity.

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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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Just at that moment, William came up behind and popped a sack right over Thorin’s head and down to his toes. And so the fight ended. A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them, arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly; and Bilbo up in a bush, with his clothes and his skin torn, not daring to move for fear they should hear him.

It was just then that Gandalf came back. But no one saw him. The trolls had just decided to roast the dwarves now and eat them later—that was Bert’s idea, and after a lot of argument they had all agreed to it.

“No good roasting them now, it’d take all night,” said a voice. Bert thought it was William’s.

“Don’t start the argument all over again, Bill,” he said, “or it will take all night.”

“Who’s arguing?” said William, who thought it was Bert that had spoken.

“You are,” said Bert.

“You’re a liar,” said William; and so the argument began all over again. In the end they decided to mince them fine and boil them. So they got a great black pot, and they took out their knives.

“No good boiling them! We ain’t got no water, and it’s a long way to the well,” said a voice. Bert and William thought it was Tom’s.

“Shut up!” said they, “or we’ll never have done. And yer can fetch the water yerself, if yer say any more.”

“Shut up yerself!” said Tom, who thought it was William’s voice. “Who’s arguing but you, I’d like to know.”

“You’re a booby,” said William.

“Booby yerself!” said Tom.

And so the argument began all over again, and went on hotter than ever, until at last they decided to sit on the sacks one by one and squash them, and boil them next time.

“Who shall we sit on first?” said the voice.

“Better sit on the last fellow first,” said Bert, whose eye had been damaged by Thorin. He thought Tom was talking.

“Don’t talk to yerself!” said Tom. “But if you wants to sit on the last one, sit on him. Which is he?”

“The one with the yellow stockings,” said Bert.

“Nonsense, the one with the grey stockings,” said a voice like William’s.

“I made sure it was yellow,” said Bert.

“Yellow it was,” said William.

“Then what did yer say it was grey for?” said Bert.

“I never did. Tom said it.”

“That I never did!” said Tom. “It was you.”

“Two to one, so shut yer mouth!” said Bert.

“Who are you a-talkin’ to?” said William.

“Now stop it!” said Tom and Bert together. “The night’s gettin’ on, and dawn comes early. Let’s get on with it!”

“Dawn take you all, and be stone to you!” said a voice that sounded like William’s. But it wasn’t. For just at that moment the light came over the hill, and there was a mighty twitter in the branches. William never spoke, for he stood turned to stone as he stooped; and Bert and Tom were stuck like rocks as they looked at him. And there they stand to this day, all alone, unless the birds perch on them; for trolls, as you probably know, must be underground before dawn, or they go back to the stuff of the mountains they are made of, and never move again. That is what had happened to Bert and Tom and William.

“Excellent!” said Gandalf, as he stepped from behind a tree, and helped Bilbo to climb down out of a thorn-bush. Then Bilbo understood. It was the wizard’s voice that had kept the trolls bickering and arguing, until the light came and made an end of them.

The next thing was to untie the sacks and let out the dwarves. They were nearly suffocated, and very annoyed: they had not at all enjoyed lying there listening to the trolls making plans for roasting them and squashing them and mincing them. They had to hear Bilbo’s account of what had happened to him twice over, before they were satisfied.

“Silly time to go practising pinching and pocket-picking,” said Bombur, “when what we wanted was fire and food!”

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“Where did you go to, if I may ask?” said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along.

“To look ahead,” said he.

“And what brought you back in the nick of time?”

“Looking behind,” said he.

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1. How does Bilbo stall for time?
2. In the book, Gandalf distracts the trolls until dawn. In the movie, it is Bilbo who distracts the trolls. Why do you think the director of the movie made this change? How does it serve the story?
3. Gandalf and Thorin have different opinions of Bilbo? How does each feel about Bilbo? Why?
4. In the world of The Hobbit, what are the differences between goblins, orcs, and trolls?
5. Trolls turn to stone in sunlight. What other mythological creatures cannot withstand sunlight? What happens if they are caught in the sun?