Ready for C1 p 24. KPop Demon Hunters Smash of the Summer. Verb Form Gap Fill

VERB FORM GAP FILL. Read the following text and fill in the gaps with the verb that best fits each space using the correct verb form affirmative or negative. There are TWO extra verbs you will not need. The activity begins with an example (0).

be,come across, occupy, defeat, release, become, stream, lead, struggle, do, harm

KPop Demon Hunters Smash of the Summer

School is out, young audiences (0) are available, and yet still, Hollywood animation is having a bad summer at the box office. In contrast to last year, when Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4 (1) two of the season’s top three, it seems entirely possible that not a single fully animated movie will hit the top 10. To make things worse, the Disney-Pixar original Elio (2) by “live-action” remakes of Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon.

With younger audiences guided toward those movies, Netflix has somehow managed to have its biggest animated movie ever: KPop Demon Hunters. This movie is about three women who form a pop group while moonlighting as, yes, demon hunters. It (3) in June – on the same weekend as Elio, no less – and it (4) a major phenomenon.

Animation seems like a safe bet. On a per-person basis, (5) a new cartoon is the most affordable option. But even after hiring film-makers from major animation studios, the streamers (6) with original material. So why did KPop Demon Hunters break through?

KPop uses bright, shifting animation inspired by comic books and anime. But though KPop Demon Hunters has some adult themes and scary monsters, it’s also aimed at young people. The movie repackages K-pop for an even-broader audience of native English speakers (something K-pop itself (7) for years at this point).

As with many superhero hits, probably the movie’s success (8) to numerous sequels and renewed enthusiasm for streaming animation. In the wake of so many sequels, KPop Demon Hunters is a reminder that kids in particular hunger for novelty, probably more so than their nostalgic adult counterparts.

KEY

0 ARE

1 OCCUPIED

2 HAS BEEN DEFEATED/WAS DEFEATED

3 WAS RELEASED

4 HAS BECOME/BECAME

5 STREAMING

6 HAVE STRUGGLED / ARE STRUGGLING

7 HAS BEEN DOING

8 WILL LEAD