Emma Watson (2)

• Stage two: the degree
• Can an actor ever have a normal life?
• What other movies is Emma Watson in?

Stage Two: The Degree
Watson enrolled at Brown University in Rhode Island before production ended on the Harry Potter films. She began work on a degree in English at Brown in the fall of 2009, and she "was insistent on being normal and doing normal things."

Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn't. She lived in a dorm with a roommate and a community bathroom. But this didn't keep one student from crying out in class, "Ten points for Gryffindor!" after an intelligent response from Watson. Such attention can hardly be avoided by the Guinness World Record holder for highest-grossing actress of the decade, her movies earning US$5.4 billion.

In early 2011, Watson took a break from Brown when she returned to England. While there, she continued her studies at Oxford with intentions to return to Brown. The plan worked out well with several other films being released prior to her graduation from Brown in May 2014.

These included Marilyn Monroe biopic My Week With Marilyn (2011) and coming-of-age drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012).

Info Cloud
Teaching Topic: Wallflowers and Social Butterflies 壁花與社交花蝴蝶
wallflower 壁花, 通常指害羞的女生, 在party時站在牆壁
social butterfly 社交花蝴蝶

Closer Look
Such attention can hardly be avoided by the Guinness World Record holder for highest-grossing actress of the decade, her movies earning US$5.4 billion.

[Situation], [his/her/their] [something] [verb-ing].

- The bird glided beautifully through the air, its wings stretching over two meters wide.

- The neighbors are always having wild parties, their lud music blasting through the night.

Language Lab
enroll v.
to officially arrange to join a school, university, or course, or to arrange for someone else to do this
- Madison enrolled at USC last spring.
enroll on/for/in
- I enrolled in the modern French literature class this semester.

insistent adj. [insist v.]
demanding firmly and repeatedly that something should happen
- The government can no longer ignore people's insistent demands for reform.
insistent on
- The singer is insistent on travelling first class when he's on tour.

intention n.
a plan or desire to do something [↪ intend]
- The chairman said that he had no intention of running for re-election.
- Rachel returned home with the intention of helping her father with is business.
intend v.
- We intend to buy a new house this year.

coming-of-age adj.
- Martha's parents held a coming-of-age party for her at a fancy restaurant.
coming of age n.
the time when a person becomes an adult
the point in a young person's life, usually the age of 18 or 21, at which their society considers them to be an adult
- the ceremony of coming of age 成年禮

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