The Curious Case of Benjamin Button certainly ●lives up to● its title. It
is a very unusual film about a man who lives his life backwards:
he is born as an old man and dies as a baby.
The story begins in 1918 when a woman gives birth to a baby
with the appearance of an elderly man. The mother dies and
the father ●walks out on● the baby, who is called Benjamin. Two
workers ata nursing home, Queenie and Tizzy, decide to look
after Benjamin, who ●fits in with● the elderly residents at the
home because he looks so old. But as the years pass, Benjamin becomes physically younger.
At the age of twelve, he meets a young girl called Daisy and ●gets on with● her very well despite having the appearance of an old
man, but later they lose touch when Benjamin ●signs up for● a job on a boat.
Years later, he ●catches up● with Daisy again in Paris. In their forties,
they finally look the same age for the first time - and fall in love.
They almost marry and settle down together, but they never ●go through with● it. One reason is that Daisy could never ●put up with● Benjamin's strange condition.
In the end, they ●run out of● time: Daisy is becoming an old woman and Benjamin is becoming a child. He finally dies in Daisy's arms as a baby.
2 Match the highlighted phrasal verbs in the text with their
definitions below.
1 to have a (good / bad) relationship with
2 to abandon or leave
to complete something
4 to match or equal.
5 to use all of your supply of something.
6 to agree to do something (eg. work).
7 to succeed in finding or reaching somebody.
8 to look and act like part of a group_
9 to tolerate or be patient about something-​