Learn English with this movies English lesson
Date: Dec 05 2012
Grammar: Definite & Indefinite Articles
Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
Between the theater, videos and DVDs, and online services like Netflix, there are so many movies out there. How can you decide which are worth checking out? Sure, there’s advertising, but sometimes the trailer or commercial sets up false expectations.
So is it best to just rely on reviews? Or on word of mouth? Or do even recommendations from friends have their pitfalls? In today’s English lesson about movie English, hear what Jason and Mason think.
Dialog
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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
Jason: I like seeing movies, but I just don’t see all that many, because sometimes I find it hard to know what’s good.
Mason: I’d say until somebody goes and you get their recommendation, it’s pretty hard to actually know if it’s going to be good. Because the previews, they’ve got it down to a science. Like, I’m gonna make the preview that gets the guys who like action-y, sports stuff, and I’m gonna make the preview for people who like, you know, intellectual dramas. And it’s the same movie, but they can show it both ways.
Jason: That’s true, I’ve seen people re-cut trailers of movies, like re-cut a comedy to make it look like a drama.
Mason: If too many people say a movie’s awesome, I’m probably going to hate it, just on principle.
Jason: Right.
Mason: ‘Cause they’ll set my expectation way too high, and I’ll go and I’ll be like, “Oh, it wasn’t really as good as everyone said.”
Jason: Yeah. Sometimes word of mouth leads me astray, you know? The one I thought of now, it’s The Number 23. It’s a movie with Jim Carrey that everyone hated. But I saw it for some reason anyway, and I liked it a lot. So if I had listened to those people, I would have missed out.
Mason: Huh. I remember that. I never saw it. But I’d give it a shot. On your recommendation, Jason, I’d give it a shot.
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Discussion
Jason tells Mason that he likes seeing movies, but has difficulty knowing which movies will be good. Mason agrees. He likes getting a recommendation from a friend, because movie previews or trailers can be misleading.
However, there are problems with getting recommendations, too. Mason says that if too many people tell him that a movie’s great, then he has to rebel against popular opinion. Jason says that the opposite’s true, too; if he listened to all the people who said a movie was bad, he might have missed out on a movie he actually liked, such as The Number 23.
Mason’s glad to know that Jason liked this movie. Maybe he’ll see it now, on Jason’s recommendation.
How do you decide which movies to see? Whose movie recommendations do you trust? Are you more or less likely to like a movie if everyone else says it’s good or bad?
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