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This movie guide provides background information about the film The Imitation Game, which is a historical drama about World War II. It gives context about the war and introduces the topic of the ENIGMA cipher machine used by Germany to encode messages. It reveals that mathematician Alan Turing was part of the British effort to crack the ENIGMA code at Bletchley Park, where he developed a machine to decode German messages. After the war, Turing's homosexuality led to his criminal prosecution and chemical castration, and he later died by suicide. The guide prompts readers to consider how societal attitudes have changed regarding women, emotions, bullying, and homosexuality since Turing's era.

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The Imitation Game Students

This movie guide provides background information about the film The Imitation Game, which is a historical drama about World War II. It gives context about the war and introduces the topic of the ENIGMA cipher machine used by Germany to encode messages. It reveals that mathematician Alan Turing was part of the British effort to crack the ENIGMA code at Bletchley Park, where he developed a machine to decode German messages. After the war, Turing's homosexuality led to his criminal prosecution and chemical castration, and he later died by suicide. The guide prompts readers to consider how societal attitudes have changed regarding women, emotions, bullying, and homosexuality since Turing's era.

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THE IMITATION GAME

MOVIE GUIDE

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BEFORE WATCHING
1) What historical drama movies have you seen? What sorts of
things do you expect to see in movies of this genre?
2) What do you know about World War II?
Read the following paragraph and fill in the gaps. You may
search for the information you don’t know.
World War II was a conflict between ____________ and ___________ that involved all the
world's major countries. It was the most destructive war in history and millions of people were
killed. It was fought between the __________ (Germany, Japan, and _________) and the
_________ (Britain, _________, and the Soviet Union among others).
Hitler's invasion of _________________ in ________________ 1939 drove Great Britain and
______________ to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. Over the
next six years, the conflict would take more lives and destroy more land and property around
the globe than any previous war.
3) What was ENIGMA? Fill in the gaps to answer the question.

Enigma was a cipher device used by ______________ to encode


strategic_____________before and during __________________.

4) How was ENIGMA cracked? Read the following paragraph and choose the correct
option.

In 1932–33 Polish/French mathematician Marian Rejewski deduced the wiring pattern inside
the wheels of Enigma, assisted by Enigma operating manuals provided by the French/British
secret service, to make a successful decryption machine. When the Italians/Germans improved
their encryption, rendering Rejewski’s work outdated, American/English mathematician Alan
Turing developed a more advanced machine that was deciphering Enigma messages by 1940.
.................................................
AFTER WATCHING
• Write the name of the characters

• Who was Alan Turing?

Read the article about Turing’s life and fill in the gaps with the words in the box.

London - chemical castration - codes - scientist - suicide


statue - gross indecency - decoding - illegal - computer - prize

Alan Turing was an English mathematician and _______________who is widely considered to be the founder of the
______________science discipline. The Turing machine, an abstract concept detailing many of the foundational ideas in
computer science, is one of the most important milestones in the history of computing.

Turing was born in _____________on June 23rd 1912. During World War II, Turing was employed at Bletchley
Park working on ___________German ciphers. He developed a cryptoanalytic machine which would decode the German
Enigma_______________.

Homosexuality was still ___________in the United Kingdom in the 1950s, and in 1952 after inadvertently mentioning to
police that he was in a homosexual relationship after reporting a break-in, Turing was charged with____________, and
was given a choice between imprisonment and____________________ of which Turing chose the later.

On June 8th, 1954, Turing's cleaner found him dead of an apparent ______________by cyanide poisoning. Turing was
honored by the Association for Computer Machinery's Turing Award, the highest ________________in the field of
computer science, and a _________of him was erected at the University of Surrey on the 50th anniversary of his death.
YOUR QUESTIONS
• Work in pairs. Write 2 questions about the movie.
________________________________________________________________?
________________________________________________________________?

............................................................................................

• How has society changed since Alan Turing’s time in these areas:

➢ women and work


➢ showing your feelings
➢ bullying at school
➢ homosexuality

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