These questions can be used to focus students' thinking while watching the film and/or to develop their understanding of film language.

CHARACTERS AND PEOPLE

• Can we talk about the narrators as 'characters' in these clips?

NARRATIVE

• What is the role of the Lord's test match of 1948 in the narrative of both clips?

SYMBOLISM/IMAGERY

• The film uses some of the pictures hanging in Lord's pavilion - why?
• What kinds of images are used throughout the film to substantiate the narrator's claim that cricket is part of the very substance of an Englishman's education?

SETTING

• Why does the film open at Lord's Cricket Ground?
• In clip two, what different settings are we taken to and why?