This test is a waste of time

Pre-Viewing activities

1. What have you already heard about a well-known series House M.D.?

2. Judging by the title of the episode ‘Ignorance is Bliss’ predict what will happen (the plot).

While-Viewing activities

1. Write down any vocabulary that you don't know, and check it in a dictionary.

2. Guess what the vocabulary means from the situation and the words around it:

ü TTP

ü to confirm the diagnosis

ü to give smb. a splenoctomy

ü to fish for smth.

ü to have an appointment with smb.

ü long-term meds

ü to do biopsy

ü polycystic kidney disease

ü to cause brain damage

ü unverifiable symptoms

ü to go through withdrawal

3. Characterization. Match the characters with the sentences given and write down adjectives describing them.

Who said this?

Life is too short to worry about money.

2. So what looks like TTP, acts like TTP, tests like TTP but isn’t TTP?

Liver failure would explain all the symptoms.

This test is a waste of time.

5. I can’t have doctors punching each other.

6. When my brain was on low, everything didn’t seem so miserable anymore.

Post-Viewing activities:

1. Write a summary of the film.

2. Acting / Role-playing: You can pretend to be characters in the film. For example, you can pretend to be Dr. House and Mr. Sidas and act out a scene.

3. Discussion1: What would you do if you were Mr. Sidas? Why?

Discussion 2: Most films have a theme or a message. What do you think? Is it dangerous to have IQ more than 150?