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X-Men: First Class

Past Perfect Tense

Date: Jul 11 2011

Themes: Alternative, Friend

Grammar: Past Perfect Tense

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Everyone feels a little bit different sometimes. Maybe you’re the tallest one in your family or the only one who likes music. Or maybe you have wings or can read minds.

X-Men: First Class takes place in the early 1960s, before any of the other X-Men films. It tells the story of some of the first mutants and how they came together to form the X-Men.

A mutation is something genetically different about a living creature. Things like unusual eye or hair colors are mutations. But in the X-Men comics and movies, some people have mutations that let them do all sorts of things like fly or change shape.

Listen to Jason and Ella talk about X-Men: First Class and times they have felt different.

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Jason

Ella

Jason: Have you seen the new X-Men movie, First Class?

Ella: I’m not really into comic book remakes. But you can try to convince me.

Jason: It’s pretty universal, you know? I’ve been a big fan of the X-Men since I was a kid, and hadn’t really seen or read any X-Men comics or movies recently. And when I was watching this one it occurred to me that it’s really a story about people that are different, and how they come together with other people who are different, and they don’t feel as alone anymore. I feel like that’s a pretty universal message, like who hasn’t felt different or isolated at some point?

Ella: I definitely can relate to that. So you’re saying that the movie can kind of apply to real life, too.

Jason: Yeah. I mean, we can’t, as far as I know, you and I can’t fly or control metal with our mind. But, you know, when I was a kid I had a lot of allergies and I was kind of sick, and I felt really different from the other kids at school. Maybe that’s why I liked the X-Men. Did you ever feel like that, like different from the other people around you?

Ella: Definitely. I grew up in a really small town in Florida, and I was the only Asian person in the entire town at my school. But I didn’t really feel ostracized. But you can tell when you’re just different from everyone else.

Jason: Right! The X-Men are these people who seem like freaks, but then, it turns out that they’re not freaks, they actually have super powers. So did you ever feel like being different was an advantage, that it was a super power?

Ella: Oh, it definitely was. People would always want to come over to my house and eat the food because we were the only Thai family in town.

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Discussion

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Jason is a fan of the X-Men comics and movies. He has enjoyed them since he was a kid, and he was excited to see the new film, X-Men: First Class.

When watching the film, Jason realized that the X-Men is really a story about a bunch of kids who feel different and alone, until they meet others like them who are also different. Then they realize that their differences, or mutations, aren’t actually weaknesses. They’re strengths.

Ella doesn’t usually like comic book movies, but she can relate to the story of X-Men: First Class. When she was growing up, she felt different and alone because she was the only Asian person at her high school. But being different was also a strength. Everyone wanted to come to her house for dinner so they could taste her mother’s Thai cooking!

Have you ever felt different from everyone else? Could your differences also be strengths?

Comments

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jennyhuynh_13

Viet Nam

I feel different from my class…I cant bear them

KardelenF

Turkey

I tihink really good movie.Different person,different cast.

I love Lucas Till wonderful charecters

James McAvoy incredible handsome and great actror

Miss.Meero

Egypt

I don’t really like movies about mutations and mutants; I feel they are kind of childish to me

hayam mansoor

Egypt

i am a fan of x men movies

i adore them i ve watched all the parts of x men

they are amazing

i love hugh jackman in that wonderful character wolverine

and halle berry as storm

and also the pretty famke jassin as gean grey

but i am sad coz i didnt find hugh jackman halle berry and famke in the last part

LLye

China

Each of our person is different just like there is not the same leaves in the world,even twins.It’s common for us to feel different from others.Especially for teenagers.We need differences. And because of differeces,our world is so wonderful.

sofree

China

Not really. People always feel themselves as different, unique, but actually they are just normal person.

mshare

Saudi Arabia

to be honest, i feel this every now to then , i really dont perceive what is the reason behind it , but it makes me feel satisfied with what i have done and achieved so far .when that feeling strike me it works well with me . it urges me to come up with new ideas , new achievements and new positions . to make progress in your own life i think you ought to be different and distinguished person not to the degree you feel that you above others but enough differences to get your dreams . so the more you feel different the more successful jobs you will do .

anyhow , I only meant positive demeanor and manner we must do, self–confidence is always required if we have ambitions regardless what others people believe providing we don’t offend others .

MUHAMMAD92

Saudi Arabia

nic lesson, person my be their differencesalso strengths.

Sir_pouria_H

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

I think being different or being like other people is not so important.Whomever you are just it’s important to be popular between people around you and be a person that other people like you.It’s the key of life.

InnaM

Russian Federation

I think that there are so many people in our world who feel themselves different from others, especially if you’re teenager. The thoughts of teenager usually are like that : Nobody understands me, even my friends and my family. I am different, I need to find my way in this life and so on…

In my opinion every person is different because of tastes, race, education, culture, behaviour and others social criterias. And I can say that it’s really cool that our world is so different, and there are so many unlike people, cause it makes our life just better and much more interesting!)

What concerns me, of course I’m an ordinary girl, but I’m sure that I have something what makes me different from others, and fairly often that thing is my approach to life) Anycase we have one common thing – WE ARE ALL De3IFFERENT!!!!)

InnaM

Russian Federation

Madline

Jordan

franckly, Iamn’t a uniqe girl at all but we can say am a uniqe girl in my thoughts and in the the ways which I think of :)

Amo0ol

Saudi Arabia

maybe

but thanks for the lesson any way^^

narendra12

India

i regard say i have sth speciale .and these thing give me a sense of pride. in fact there around of every single persons have a good strenth and they proud ourself because they are different and uniqe to among the people

regard ….........

dilek23

Turkey

I am different EVEN from myself!!!

Lizaza

Belarus

Yes, all people are different from each other, but I prefer to think that I’m not different, I’m special !

Guinhu

Germany

Nah, don’t look into this, not everydody is the same!!! ¬¬

Guinhu

Germany

Nah, don’t look into this, not everydody is the same!!! ¬¬

dilek23

Turkey

More to the point, on the whole, I feel alienated from people in the coourse I work for as an english teacher, which is because I occasionally make an attempt to change the typical education system. As a case in point, I tend to break so-called rules made by course administration; therefore, their facial expressions and warnings make me feel isolated and different. Despite all those adverses, I feel strong since this is what I like to do as a teacher, and I cannot break the promise I have given to ” myself.”