Movie worksheet NOTTING HILL.

1) Order the sentences below according to the sequence of the events in the story.

a) Will takes Anna to his sister’s birthday party.                                                              (3)
b) Hundreds of paparazzi are waiting outside.                                                                  (5)
c) William’s house.                                                                                                         (1)
d) Anna and William meet for the first time in a bookshop.                                               (2)
e) Anna and William sleep together.                                                                                 (4)
f) William decides to end his relation with Anna because they live in different worlds.           (6)
g) Will decides to go after Anna and asks the receptionist of the hotel where Anna is.         (7)
h) Anna and William get married.                                                                                       (8)

2) The following sentences test your comprehension of a passage from the film nothing hill, some days after Anna and William’s first meeting. Say whether the sentences are TRUE or FALSE according to what you have seen. Correct the false statements.

a) William works in a hotel.                                                                                        (F)
 b) Anna loves William.                                                                                               (T)
 c) William has two sisters and one is paraplegic.                                                         (F)
 d) William’s apartment is very tidy.                                                                             (F)
 e) William goes to the hotel where Anna is and says he is a member of her family.        (F)


3) Complete the sentences below with one word, according to what you are told in the story.

A) Max, William’s brother –in-law, has problems with the Finances.
B) William’s youngest sister’s name is___Emma Chambers.
c) Anna is a Vegetarian. (Eating habits)
d) Bella and Max can’t have a baby.
e) Will’s youngest sister is in love with Spike.
f) When Will goes to Anna’s hotel room, he feels disappointed because he meets Anna’s boyfriend.

4) The following text in an extract from the dialogue between William and Anna. Read it.

W- Oh Jesus. Here, let me help.
He grabs some paper napkins and starts to clean in off – getting far too near her breasts in the panic of it…
A- What are you doing?!
He jumps back
W- Nothing, nothing… Look, I live just over the street. You could get cleaned up.
A- No thank you. I need to get my car back.
W- I also have a phone. I’m confident that in five minutes we can have you spick and span and back on the street again… in the non-prostitute sense obviously.
A- Okay., So what does ‘just over the Street’ mean give it to me in yards.
W- Eighteen yards. That’s my house there.
Anna accepts his offer. They enter. She carries a few stylish bags.
W- Come on in. I’ll just… it’s a mess. He kicks some old shoes under the stairs, bins an unfinished pizza and hides a plate of breakfast in a cupboard.
She enters the kitchen.
W- It’s not that tidy. I fear. The bathroom is right at the top of the stairs and there’s a phone on the desk up there.

Answer the questions

A) Where are William and Ann when they meet for the second time?
They was at street

B) What does William spill over Anna?
He spill orange juice.

C) Is William’s house tidy or a mess?
 It’s a mess.

D) What does he offer Anna to drink before she leaves? Does she accept it?
He offers to her  tea, water, honney, Coca, and sweets. She doesn’t accept.

5) Choose the correct option.

A) Anna/Bella/Max cannot have a baby because of a paraplegia.
B) William/Bella/Spike works in a bookshop.
C) William/Honey/Anna in an actress.
D) Anna gives William a present: a travel book/a painting.
E) Spike was surprised to find Anna, the Hollywood star, in his bathroom/ bedroom.

6) Match and form sentences about the film.


1) “Some people…  
2) William cannot find…                                                                          
3) William goes to the…                                      
5) Jeff, Anna’s boyfriend, asks William…
6) William sits alone
7) We can see…

a) 5 for some ice cold still water.
b) 6 on a bus.
d) 1 spends their whole lives together.”
e) 7 a big picture of Anna at the back of the bus                                                        
f) 3 cinema with his scuba-diving goggles.
g) 2 his glasses.


7) Complete the sentences using the right word from the box below.

Hugh Grant plays William Thacker; the l- owner of a small bookstore in London’s Notting Hill (described as “a small village in the middle of a city”). He’s an average Joe – When he’s not working, he spends time with his friends and his wacky Welsh 2- flatmate, but has no romantic life to speak of. One day, however, the bedrock of his existence shifts when Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), the most famous 3- actress in the world, walks through the door to his little 4- shop. Anna is in London to publicize a new film. Later, William literally runs into her in the street, 5- spilling orange juice all over her. 6- Embarrassed, he invites her to his place to clean up. Much to his surprise, she accepts his 7- offer and, after changing outfits, she gives him a lingering 8- kiss on the lips. William is immediately smitten and so, apparently, is Anna. Thus begins a 9- tempestuous relationship that asks whether a star can live happily ever after with someone who has never had his face in the 10- papers.

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8) Choose one of the options below and write a text of about 100 words.

a) Sum up the story of the film.
b) Choose one character and white about him/her (you can choose more than one)

Spike - The tenant of the apartment of Will, with whom he shares an apartment. Spike is the opposite of Will on almost everything. Wacky, somewhat perverted and owner of tastes somewhat peculiar, eccentric boy. Spike is in love with the younger sister of Will, who is as crazy as he is.