Group 2
李家豪(Food Service Management)
楊明哲(Food and Nutrition)
 

 
  Ice Age  
  Quotation

Diego: Why did do that? You could have died, trying to save me.

Manny: That’s what you do in a herd. You look after each other.

你為何那樣做你可能為了我喪命

這是當夥伴的義務我們彼此照顧

 
  Story:

    Twenty thousand years ago, glaciers were overrunning the Earth, and creatures everywhere were fleeing the onslaught of the new age. But there were three animals traveling with different goals. Manny, Diego and Sod were a team. This quartet of misfits unexpectedly and reluctantly came together in a quest to return a human infant to his father. But lots of difficulties were lying before them. They passed the iceberg, contested food with the dodo birds and fought with saber-toothed tigers. They hang in the great courage and used the cohesive power to get the mission done.

 
      The film starts with an amusing squirrel. The cute squirrel was finding a place to store his treasure and brought out some funny events. At last, he was stamped by a crew of prehistoric animals. These animals were going to move to warm south. But a woolly mammoth named Manny was walking to the opposite direction, then he accidentally rescued a sloth named Sid who was being left behind by his family and unfortunately Manny couldn’t get rid of Sid. Later Manny picked up a human baby near the river and Sid insisted to carry the baby back to the human. A crew of saber-toothed tigers tried to attack the human tribe. The leader of saber-toothed tigers wanted to get the baby but the baby’s mother took it and escaped. The tiger leader was angry and asked his companion Diego to bring it back. As Manny and Sid got the baby, Diego appeared. Because Manny was giant and strong, Diego couldn’t easily get the baby. Diego persuaded Manny and Sid to help them tracing human. This was how their adventure stared. In the journey, though Manny was still aware of Diego, Diego was keeping in touch with his saber-toothed tiger companions and they planned to ambush in the middle way. When walking in the vast, ice-covered land, they ran across the squirrel again. He was still very funny in his actions even though he didn’t speak one word. The animals kept on moving and when they were walking through an ice cave which was quickly melt because they were located at an erupting volcano. Manny saved Diego’s life in time. The event made Diego in dilemma because he did not know whether Manny was his friend or enemy. By the time, they were approaching the ambush point, Diego finally decided to let Manny and Sid off. So they succeeded in carrying the baby back to his father’s hand.  
 


Response:

    Manny was a mammoth, a very powerful living thing. He was kindhearted and always glad to help others. His family was killed by human but he still cared to return the little baby to his father. He was alone until he met Sid. He helped Sid fought against the danger and he always help the other two of the herd. Diego was a saber-toothed tiger. He was the only meat eater in the herd. He could smell humans coming from miles away. He was sent by his leader to bring back a human baby for revenge and their next meal. His sinister and manipulative nature made Diego the perfect double agent in the herd. However, Sid was a little nosy. He was timid as a mouse. He liked to play tricks. His family abandoned him so that he was left alone in the great migration. Manny saved him from two rhinos. Sid was a smooth operator in the herd. My heart is deeply touched by the true friendship built up in the three.

 
 
 

Vocabulary List
 

1

impale

刺穿

11

lava

岩漿

2

bluff

斷崖; 虛張聲勢

12

love birds

親密情侶

3

an eye for an eye

報復

13

ambush

埋伏

4

be a jerk

壞蛋

14

loop

圈圈;

環狀物

5

to aggravate

aggravation

加重; 惡化

15

lick

6

settlement

移民

16

Could you scorch over a drop?

過去一點好嗎?

7

squirm

坐立不安

17

Will you cut it out?

別鬧了!

8

insignificant

微不足道

18

Doom on you.

咀咒你

9

triumphant

得意洋洋

19

Who’s up for round two?

下一個是誰?

10

Mammoth

長毛象

20

Survival of

the fittest

適者生存