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Allo Allo: The British are coming part 1
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"ALLO , ALLO" : THE BRITISH ARE COMING
PILOT EPISODE PART 1
'"Allo Allo" is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC! from 1982 to 1992 comprising 85 episodes. The story is set up in a small town café in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. It tells the sotry of René Artois, a French café owner in the town of Nouvion. The Germans have occupied the tgown and stolen all of its valuable artifactgs. These include the first cuckoo clock ever made and a painting of The Fallen Madonna by Van Klomp. Colonel Von Strohm has decided to keep them for himself and forces René to hide them in his café. Hitler also wants the painting and sends Otto Flick of the Gestapo to the town to find it.
At the same time , the café is being used as a safe house for two brave but clueless British airmen. René is forced to work with the Resistance , led by Michelle Dubois.
Watch the first part of the episode and do the exercises below:
Say whether the following sentences are TRUE or FALSE:
1. The Colonel likes the food René served him
2. They have eaten rabbit
3. They are going to have some wine on the house
4. René wishes the winter would be over soon
5. The Colonel will have to give René 5 litres of paraffin if he wants to go upstairs with Yvette
6. There´s a woman with a pram to see René
7. Yvette does what she does because her mother has cold feet
CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
1. Michelle wants René to hide some British airmen there because something happened to the other café where the Resistance
used to hide them. What happened?
The owner retired and closed the café
The café was blown up
The Germans decided to use the café as a casino
2. Why doesn´t René want to keep the soldiers there?
Because it´s crawling with Germans
Because the Germans don´t trust him
Because he doesn´t speak English
3. Where will the forger prepare the papers for the British soldiers?
in prison
in the onion seller´s shop
in the cellar
4. Will René´s wife talk?
incessantly but not about anything important
he doesn´t think so
of course she will give away the secret
5. How will he recognize the British airmen?
they will be wearing black hats
they will knock on the cellar´s door
they will be disguised as onion sellers
6. Where´s the transmitter?
behind the bar
in René´s mother-in-law's room
in the cellar
7. Why is it there?
nobody goes there unless they have to
nobody knows his mother-in-law is alive
people think she is a witch
8. Is René´s mother-in-law prepared to die for France?
she wants to die as soon as possible
she is willing to die for a fair cause
she´s been prepared to die for 30 years
