BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM

Characters in the film

-Jules' father Alan supports his daughter's football career. He practices with her and goes to watch her matches. Her mother, Paula, doesn't like it. She wants her daughter to be more feminine.

 

-Joe is the coach of the Hounslow Harriers. He used to play football, but a knee injury forced him to stop playing. 

-Jesminder (jess) wants to be a profesional fotballer. Unfortunately, her parents have more traditional ideas about her future.

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1.THE HUNSLOW HARRIERS

Exercise A:

1- Pinky has her engagement party.
2- Jules sees Jess playing football in the park, and asks her to join the Hunslow Harriers.

3- Jess' mother sees her wearing shorts and playing football with Tony's friends, and tells her she's not allowed to play football.

5.Jess lies to her parents that she has a part-time job, so she can go out and play football.
1.Jess and Jules go shopping for football shoes.
3.Pinky's boyfriend's relatives see Jess and Jules laughing and hugging, and think she is kissing a man.

Exercice B:

1.-'I was married at your age.' Jess mother
2.-'If she's more interested in playing football than chasing boys, well quite frankly I'm over the moon about that.' Jule's father
3.-'Your mother's right. It's not nice. You must start behaving like a proper woman.' Jess' father.
4.- 'No boy's going to want to go out with a girl who's got bigger muscles than him.' Jule's motherExercice C:

Both Jess and Jules, they are expected to:
-To be feminin get married
-Be weaker than a boy
-Football is not for girls
-Do only girl's things
-Don't have bigger muscles than boys.
-Do not play sports. 
-Enjoy shopping
-Find a boyfriend

Jess, she is expected to:
-To be a housewife
-To have a husband
-To marry young
-To create a family
-To wear long clothes without showing her legs
-Get married and a good indian man 
-Cook well

Juls:
-To find a boyfriend
-To wear make-up
-To be more feminin. 

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2.WILL PINKY GET MARRIED?

Exercise A:

1- The Hounslow Harriers go to Germany

2- Joe goes to Bhamra's house to try to persuade them to allow Jess to play football.

3- Joe and Jess almost kiss. Jules sees this and becomes jelous.

4- The Bhamras find out Jess went to Germany, and try to make quit the team.

5- Tony tells Jess that he is gay.

6- Jess gets into a fight with another football plyer.

7- Jess' father sees Joe and Jess hugging.

8- The wedding is back on again.

Exercise B:

1. Pinky blames her sister because her wedding is cancelled. She tells her parents that Jess has continued playing football. They are very angry and tell her she can't continue to play.
2. Jules like Joe. In Germany, Joe and Jess almost kiss. Jules sees this and is upset and jealous. Jess visits Jules house and they have an argument.
3. Pinky is very sad that the wedding is cancelled. She persuades Teetu, her boyfriend, to talk to his parents. Teetu's parents and the Bhamras arrange for the wedding to coninue. Unfortunately, the wedding date is the same day as Jess' final mach.

Exercise C- “Whose life are you living?”:

He means that this isn't the live that Jess want to live, it's the live that Jess parents want for her.

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Two main characters:

JESS: Jess is an Indian girls who wants to play football, but her parents don't let her to play. One day, Jess is playing on the park with her friends and appears Jules, an English girl. Jules invited Jess to play in the girls football team because she's really good.

Jess starts playing football but her parent's doesn't know.

JULES: Jules is an English girl and she plays for a women's football team. Her father supports her daughter's football career but her mother doesn't like it. Jules is in love with her coach Joe, but Joe is in love with Jess. Jules and Jess became really good friends and at the end she came her dream true.