b) He’s Danish and he speaks French

c) He’s English and he’s Wendy’s brother

d) She’s Belgian, lesbian and sage.

Question 2. What’s your favourite character? Do you have anything in common? What?

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a) The friend of Xavier’s father ________________

b) The Professor at Barcelona University ________________

c) The Gambian student ________________

d) The administrative assistant that tells Xavier about the Erasmus scholarship _________

e) The neurologist (Xavier’s friend) ________________

f) The neurologist’s wife ________________

g) The apartment’s landlord (when he’s paying the monitoring visit) ________________

h) Martine (Xavier’s girlfriend) ________________

i) Xavier’s mother ________________

Question 4: Now choose an adjective to describe:

- The city of Barcelona  ________________

- The bar in Barcelona where Xavier usually goes  ________________

Occupation : ______________________

Age : ______________

Nationality: ____________________

Language(s) : _____________________________

Lives the Erasmus experience in: ______________

Question 6: Complete the synopsis with the missing words.

girlfriend         working knowledge            heads              signs on                      job                   adventures               international                    melting pot                 initiation        

As part of a __________ that he is promised, Xavier __________ to a European exchange program in order to gain __________ of the Spanish language. Promising that they'll remain close, he says farewell to his loving __________, then __________ to Barcelona. Following his arrival, Xavier is soon thrust into a cultural __________ when he moves into an apartment full of __________ students. An Italian, an English girl, a boy from Denmark, a young girl from Belgium, a German, and a girl from Tarragona all join him in a series of __________ that serve as an __________ to life.

a) The French

b) The English

c) The German

d) The Spanish

1. unpunctual, relaxed, noisy

2. fashion conscious, jealous, controlling

3. neat, meticulous, efficient

4. insensitive, with a unique sense of humour.

Question 8: Comment on the following extracts from the film.

Xavier: “When you first arrive in a new city, nothing makes sense. Everything’s unknown, virgin... After you’ve lived here, walked these streets, you’ll know them inside out. You’ll know these people. Once you’ve lived here, crossed this street 10, 20, 1000 times... it’ll belong to you because you’ve lived here. That was about to happen to me, but I didn’t know it yet”.

Xavier: “I’m French, Spanish, English, Danish. I’m not one, but many. I’m like Europe, I’m all that. I’m a real mess”.

Question 10:

In what ways has this film proved the importance of learning foreign languages?

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Question 11: Would you like to spend a year in Barcelona? Explain why/ why not.

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Question 10:

When Xavier arrives in Spain he realizes that he needs to communicate with his roommates and other people, for this reason he is interested in learning other languages

Question 11:

we agree about not going to barcelona for one year for the next reason:

Leidy say, because of her children.

Yuri say, because of the afro Colombia culture.

Isabella say, because she wants to study in United state.

Niky say, because of in that country the abuse of drugs uncontrollable in young people and their emotions

Karen say, because of colombian tipical food that she loves.

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a) Alessandro

b) Lars

c) William

d) Isabelle

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Anne-Sophie. I would like to have aventures with men.

Xavier. I don´t know how to make. desicions.

Wendy. We are sly.

William. We have great ideas.

Alessandro. We are always late.

Alistair. We never stay.

B) The professor at Barcelona University ARROGANT DIFFICULT

C) The Gambian student FUNNY - INTERESTING

D) The administrative assistant that tells Xavier about the Erasmus scholarship NICE

E) The neurologist (Xavier´s friend) QUIET - INTERESTING - TOLERANT

F) The neurologist´s wife MODERN - KIND

G) The apartment´s landlord (when he´s paying the monitoring visit) TOLERANT - SERIOUS

H) Martine (Xavier´s girlfriend) HONEST

I) Xavier´s mother TOLERANT - QUIET

4: The city of Barcelona ANCIENT - BEAUTIFUL - COZY - CLEAN

The bar in Barcelona where Xacier usually goes FRIENDLY - COZY - SOCIABLE - FUN

At the beginning we see how Xavier has another perspective of what his year would be like in the place he was going to be where he would meet different cultural stereotypes, the new experiences he was going to live with people who also arrived with a different vision. In the end we found that from so much sharing in the same place, sharing cultures, meals different languages and aspects, they were getting used to each other and that is what Xavier expresses in the end, what more than being the same, he is everyone, each of the countries and members of that house