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Sintel in Search of a Dragon
Actualizado el 21.09.15/08:44
Would you like to watch a beautiful but sad story? Here is Sintel, a short video which will make you feel and think deeply. You will feel the sorrow of a girl who is looking for a baby dragon that she has lost. In her search, Sintel finds difficulties and has to fight to get what she wants. The end is not as she expected, but she finally gets a reward for her quest. Likewise, young people are always in search of something and they have to fight. This film shows that you may get a reward if you make efforts to achieve a goal.
1. The video
Sintel has been created by the Blender Foundation on an Open Movie Project. First of all, enjoy the video while you watch it in full screen without subtitles. It is a wonderfully animated film with a song in the end. Pay attention to Sintel's feelings throughout the story. Then you can choose English or Spanish subtitles if you need them.
2. Sintel's feelings and emotions
1. Sintel is a very sensitive person; like you, perhaps? I think that the most important feature in this video is the great variety of Sintel's feelings and emotions. Do you agree? Can you identify them in these pictures? Fill the gaps with the number which corresponds to each of the feelings (in the form of adjectives) which Sintel shows in the pictures above.
Example: happy. Key to check your answers: rightwrong
| broody | exhausted | scared | |
| furious | surprised |
worried |
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| sorry | terrified | desolate | |
2. Now do this test to match Sintel's feelings with the causes which provoked them. The pictures above will help you. Click on a number and then on a letter.
3. What feelings did you have when you saw some scenes in the story? For example:
I was very sad when Scales died, but I was very happy when Scales' baby dragon went with Sintel in the end.
3. Sintel's thoughts
Now you have to guess what Sintel is thinking on those situations when she is feeling something special. Match her feelings with her thoughts. If you find it difficult, ask your teacher for help. What other thoughts can you add?
4. The story
The story is quite simple, but it is very effective. Here is the story in chronological order, that is, presenting the story according to the time in which the actions happened. It is told using the present tense, and you have to change the twenty verbs in Present Simple into the Past Simple tense. But be careful, because there are regular and irregular verbs. After you type each answer, press ENTER or click anywhere on the document. Key to check your answers: rightwrong
5. Write about Sintel and the dragon
I hope you liked this moving story. You may want to write a comment here to show what you feel about Sintel's story. Yes, I know, it is very sad. So, perhaps you can change it and write a new story in the editor below and email it to your teacher or to yourself, or you can also print it.
6. Sintel's song: 'I Move On'
Finally, listen to Sintel's song again and read the lyrics below.
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Come Take My Journey I Have Been Waiting |
As The Dawn I Will Be Listening |
As The Dawn |
If Sintel's story is worthwhile watching, tell your friends to come and enjoy the video and the activities.
(Updated on 12th September 2015)
Por Alejandro Valero en Inglés el 10.05.11 con 48 comentarios
storytelling,
feelings,
writing,
intermediate
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[21] Por Lara el 08.06.11/19:09 
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I liked it but it is very sad especially when Sintel kills Scales in self defense. 
[22] Por Anne el 12.06.11/13:28 Responder
I think the story is very beautiful, but I think that the end is very sad. 
This is my invented end, I think it isn't very sad: Sindel kills the big dragon and when she cries because she doesn't find Scales, he appears behind a tree and then they go home and were very happy for ever. That's all! 
The activities are very interesting, I think I can learn a lot with them.
[22.1] Por Alejandro Valero el 12.06.11/14:10
Thank you, Anne. I think the end is so sad because the movie authors want to stress that the efforts people make to achive something are not always fulfiled by a good reward. You can always make a mistake or find an unexpected ending. However, there is sometimes an added hope which can make up for the efforts; in this case it is Scales' baby dragon, that goes with Sintel in the end. 
[23] Por Ana M. Almarza el 12.06.11/20:11 Responder
Now let me give you my own ending, please.
The video is over but the story could go on like this:
Sintel didn't see Scales' baby dragon because she was thinking of her dead friend so the baby was hurt. When he started crying she saw him and she looked after him as she had done with his mother long time ago.
Sintel let him go when he felt strong to fly back to Dragon Land because she knew that his home was there.
Scales' baby told his friends that Sintel was a special girl who looked after dragons when they were hurt and Sintel became a dragon vet.
Now she feels happy because many dragons visit her quite often and she is no longer alone. 
[23.1] Por Alejandro Valero el 13.06.11/23:43
This is a very nice ending, Ana. And I hope that Sintel will find an ecologist boyfriend who can love her and help her with the business. 
[24] Por Marta el 12.06.11/21:57 Responder
The story is very sad,because the girl kills her own pet.
[25] Por Fabio 1ºE el 13.06.11/11:51 Responder
I liked the beginning but not the end because it is so sad
[26] Por Pablo Villegas el 13.06.11/20:01 Responder
I liked the story , but it is very sad
Sintel is very sad because she kills Scales. 
[29] Por Marta 1ºE el 14.06.11/19:30 Responder
The story is very nice but the end is very sad because Scales died.
[30] Por Pablo el 15.06.11/12:19 Responder
The film of Sintel is very great. The baby dagon is scary. in the story the landscape is beautiful. The character had big hands and she is brave. Sintel fights with the dagon, Sintel wins. The end of the teacher is great.
