Breakfast At Tiffany's            Part 1 : Holly Golightly

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly

Before Watching :

Put the missing verbs in brackets into the correct tense

It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis _______ (flow) through cocktail-hour to breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't - except, of course, Holly Golightly. _______ (pursue) by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly _____ (be) a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She ____ (be) irrepressibly "top banana in the shock department" and deliciously eccentric. Her next-door neighbour _____ (be) a writer who _____ (be) "sponsored" by a wealthy married woman. _______ (guess) who's the right man for Holly _____ (be) easy. ______ (see) just how that romance blossoms _____ (be) one of the enduring delights of this gem-like treat of a film.

(From the introduction to the novel by Truman Capote, and video blurb)

While Watching :
  1. Why is there a man waiting for Holly when she gets home ? Who is he ?
  2. Why doesn't Holly open her front door herself ? Who does it ?
  3. How long has Holly lived in her flat ? Why is this surprising ?
  4. Why doesn't the cat have a name ?
  5. What are the mean reds ? How are they different from the blues ?
  6. When would she be prepared to give the cat a name ?
  7. What does Holly have to do on Thursdays ? Why ?
  8. According to Holly, how can you tell what a person really thinks about you ?
  9. Who is Holly visiting ? Why ? What must she do while she'd there ?
  10. Who does she give the information to ?

After Watching :

Complete the dialogue by adding the following missing words :
own    belong    crazy    like    right    slob (2x)    took    store    see    sure   

Holly: He's alright! Aren't you, cat? Poor cat! Poor ____! Poor ____ without a name! The way I ___ it I haven't got the ____ to give him one. We don't _____ to each other. We just ____up one day by the river. I don't want to ___ anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not ____ where that is but I know what it is ___. It's like Tiffany's.
Paul: Tiffany's? You mean the jewelry _____.
Holly: That's right. I'm just _____ about Tiffany's!

Created and Maintained by: Graham Stanley
All Lesson Plans Copyright Graham Stanley, 1999
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