Step 1
What comes to mind when you see the word “Secrets”? Write your answer.
Step 2
Explain in your own words or look up the meaning of the following vocabulary if you don’t know it, and write your answers.
- To keep a secret:
- to reveal a secret:
- to confide in somebody:
- to confess:
Step 3
Answer the following questions:
- Can you keep a secret?
- Have you ever revealed someone’s secret?
- Who do you confide your secrets to?
- Did you keep a secret diary when you were a child?
- Do you know anyone who is very secretive?
- What are the most common secrets?
- Has anyone ever confessed something to you?
- Do you think men or women are more secretive?
- Do you think it is wrong for the media to reveal people’s secrets?
- Is it good to have secrets?
Step 4
Look up the meaning of the following words of vocabulary:
Trendy:
Cheerful:
Colourful:
Wonderful:
Insignificant:
Step 5
Now you will watch a film called Your Secret in which you have to think about a secret. Follow the instructions in the film, and when you have finished write about how you feel. https://player.vimeo.com/video/12890334 Write your answer.
Step 6
Now read the transcript of the film which is below. The transcript has some words missing. Try to complete from what you remember of the film. After watching the film a second-time to check your answers.
Transcript:
Let’s make something ___________ together. I mean you who are sitting watching this video and me. OK? Let’s think of something ___________. Not something you would buy. Not something trendy. Something ___________ and personal. Something colorful. Something important. Something _________________________________. Like how excited you were by ___________ when you were a kid. Like the smell of secondhand books or something only you can see, and this will be our secret. Now, keep your eyes ___________ and think of this special thing until you’ve counted to 3. If you’re reading this, your eyes are now ___________ . Unless you’ve got some special power and can see things behind your closed eyes. Or unless you’ve ___________ and haven’t closed them at all ___________ ___________ ___________ even ______________________ ______________________ Actually, I have seen your secret. It was ___________. Thank you for ___________ it with me. Did you like it? I did. Now let’s make a deal. Let’s take time every day to think of a beautiful secret, for instance, when you wake up. When you are taking a___________ . Anywhere, anytime. Don’t be scared, you are ___________. Your secret will always ___________ between you and me.
Step 7
What do you think the message of the film is? Write your answer.