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Tapescripts Unit One E.T. the Extraterrestrial Part II Movie Reviews Passage One Directions: Listen to the following movie review and then answer the questions. The movie E.T the Extra-Terrestrial made my heart glad. It is filled with innocence, hope, and good cheer. It is also wickedly funny and exciting as well. E.T the Extra-Terrestrial is a movie that you can grow up with and grow old with, and it wont let you down. It tells a story about friendship and love. Some people are a little baffled when they hear what it described: Its about a relationship between a little boy and a creature from outer space that becomes his best friend. It works as science fiction, its sometimes as scary as a monster movie, and at the end, when the lights go up, theres not a dry eye in the house. The movies hero is one particular little boy named Elliott. Hes natural, defiant, easily touched, conniving, brave and childlike. A lot of those achievements rest on the very peculiar shoulders of the E.T. itself. With its odd little walk, its high-pitched squeals of surprise, its tentative imitations of human speech, and its catlike but definitely alien purring, E.T. becomes one of the most intriguing fictional creatures Ive ever seen on a screen. And one of the ways E.T. communicates is to share its emotions with Elliott. Thats how Elliott knows that the E.T. wants to go home E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a reminder of what movies are for. Most movies are not for any one thing, of course. Some are to make us think, some to make us feel, some to take us away from our problems, some to help us examine them. What is enchanting about E.T. is that, in some measure, it does all of those things. Passage Two Directions: Listen to the following movie review and then answer the questions. Almost 50 percent of Americans, according to recent polls, and millions of people elsewhere in the world believe that UFOs are real. For many it is a deeply held belief. For decades there have been sightings