The Reading / Listening - Top Gun: Maverick - Level 0

Tom Cruise's new film "Top Gun: Maverick" broke sales records. The biggest ever number of North American cinemas showed it. It's the widest release of all time. The movie also broke the record for the best Memorial Day opening film ever. It beat the 2007 movie "Pirates of the Caribbean".

Maverick is the sequel to the 1986 film "Top Gun". The producers are happy that "Maverick" did so well. They said: "These results are ridiculously, over-the-top fantastic." The movie has great reviews. A UK newspaper called it a "thrilling" blockbuster. Another said it was "the best studio action film in years".

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Sources
  • https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-61630131
  • https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/05/top-gun-maverick-breaks-box-office-records
  • https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/top-gun-maverick-memorial-day-box-office-tom-cruise-movie


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

Paragraph 1

  1. Tom Cruise's new
  2. "Maverick" broke
  3. The biggest ever
  4. North American cinemas
  5. It's the widest release of all
  6. The movie also broke
  7. the best Memorial Day opening film
  8. It beat
  1. the 2007 movie
  2. number
  3. time
  4. ever
  5. sales records
  6. showed it
  7. the record
  8. film

Paragraph 2

  1. Maverick is the sequel
  2. The producers are
  3. Maverick did so
  4. over-the-
  5. The movie has great
  6. A UK
  7. a "thrilling"
  8. the best studio action film
  1. newspaper
  2. top
  3. in years
  4. happy
  5. blockbuster
  6. to the 1986 film
  7. reviews
  8. well

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

Tom Cruise's new film "Top Gun: Maverick" (1) _______________. The biggest (2) ___________________ North American (3) ___________________. It's the widest release (4) ___________________. The movie also broke (5) ___________________ the best Memorial Day (6) ___________________. It beat the 2007 movie "Pirates of the Caribbean".

Maverick is (7) ___________________ the 1986 film "Top Gun". The producers (8) ___________________ "Maverick" (9) ___________________. They said: "These results are ridiculously, (10) ___________________ fantastic." The movie has great reviews. A UK newspaper called (11) ___________________ blockbuster. Another said it was "the best studio action (12) ___________________".

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

TomCruise'snewfilm"TopGun:Maverick"brokesalesrecords.Thebigg
estevernumberofNorthAmericancinemasshowedit.It'sthewidestrele
aseofalltime.ThemoviealsobroketherecordforthebestMemorialDayo
peningfilmever.Itbeatthe2007movie"PiratesoftheCaribbean".Mave
rickisthesequeltothe1986film"TopGun".Theproducersarehappythat
"Maverick"didsowell.Theysaid:"Theseresultsareridiculously,over-t
he-topfantastic."Themoviehasgreatreviews.AUKnewspapercalledit
a"thrilling"blockbuster.Anothersaiditwas"thebeststudioactionfilmin
years".

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

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Free writing

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Answers

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