Learn English Watching Movies!
Watching movies is a great way to learn English! Most of the best students I meet watch a lot of movies. It’s excellent for listening, speaking, vocabulary, slang and idioms, even for reading.
Here are two different ways to use movies to learn English:
1. For speaking and listening fluency, just watch the movie for fun without stopping. Find a movie you like and watch it many times. Don’t worry about understanding every word. The first time you might watch with subtitles in your language so that you know the story, but after that only use English subtitles or no subtitles, and listen in English. This will improve both your speaking and your listening. (Yes, it’s true: you learn to speak by listening and you learn to write by reading.)
2. For reading, writing and vocabulary, choose a few minutes of the movie and go through it very slowly. Look at each sentence carefully and look up all the words in your dictionary. Repeat the sentences out loud.
If you’re only going to use one of these methods, do the first one. Don’t do #2 too much or you might get lost in your dictionary and thinking too much.
Watching movies on DVD is much better than watching on cable TV. Using DVDs you can repeat the movie when you want to, as many times as you want; you can control the subtitles, and you can choose the movies that you like.
- The Name's Rango
Rango goes into a saloon in the town of Dirt. He uses his acting skills to take control of the situation. Animal: You're a long ways from home, ain't ya? Who exactly are you? Rango: Who am I? I could be anyone. Animal: What's the matter? You missing your mommy's mangos? Rango: As a matter of fact, I am. But not as much as your daddy's cooking! - You Made the Cat Angry
Bartender: What are you doing here, senior? Did you lose your ball of yarn? Puss: So funny. Bartender: One leche coming up. Puss: I am not looking for trouble. I am but a humble gato in search of his next meal. Perhaps you gentlemen can help me find a simple score.
Man: Well, perhaps if one of us were to tell the law that you are in town, we could split the reward. - I'm Melting! - The Wizard of Oz
Spoiler alert! (A "spoiler" is something that shows you the end of a story or movie. You might not enjoy the movie as much if you already know the ending. So when you see "spoiler alert" you can decide not to watch or listen if you don't want to "spoil" the ending, or ruin the ending for yourself.) This clip shows how Dorothy kills the wicked witch at the end of The Wizard of Oz. - Waffles! - Shrek Forever After
Donkey: Yea! Waffles! And I thought the Waffle Fairy was just a bedtime story! Sticky stacks of golden, syrupy, delicious-ass... Shrek: Donkey! Don't eat that! There's a stack of freshly-made waffles in the middle of a forest. Don't you find that a wee bit suspicious? Donkey: Mmm... Shrek: Oh, you're just... I don't... I said don't! Don't! No! Get away from it! Donkey: (Licks the waffles.) - I Wish To Report A Mutiny - On Stranger Tides
Sparrow: The ship is ours! Blackbeard: Gentlemen, I be placed in a bewilderment. There I were, resting. And upon a sudden, I hear an ungodly row on deck. What be that, first mate? Angelica Teach: Mutiny, Captain. Blackbeard: And what fate befalls mutineers? Now, we know the answer to that, do we not? Mutineers hang! Sparrow: Captain, I wish to report a mutiny. - Your Focus Needs More Focus - The Karate Kid
Dre: She used her chi last night, didn't she? You've got to teach me that, like, how to control people? Han: There's only one person you need to learn how to control. Dre: Who? Han: Empty your mind. Flow with my movement. Connect to the energy around you. Dre: I kind of just want to learn the cobra thing. Han: Cobra takes a lifetime. It requires great focus. - Brad Pitt And Bruce Willis In A Mental Hospital - 12 Monkeys
You can read the whole script of 12 Monkeys here: dailyscript.com/scripts/twelve_monkeys but it's a script, not a transcript. A script is the movie or play as it is written by the author. A transcript is what they actually say in the movie, so it might be a little different. It's kind of interesting to see the small changes that happen in the process between writing the original script and what the actors actually say. - Your Mission Jim - Ghost Protocol
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to penetrate the highly secured archive inside the Kremlin and retrieve Cobalt's file before he can destroy it. New intel suggests Cobalt is already enroute, leaving you four hours, fifty-two minutes to infiltrate. To save time, we've chosen your team for you: agents Carter and Dunn. - Who Killed My Sister from The Wizard of Oz I love this movie! When I was a child The Wizard of Oz was on television every year. I remember when my family got our first color TV in the 1960's because the first time we watched this movie in color we were amazed when Dorothy opens the door to Oz and the picture changes to color. We were so surprised!
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Apr 24, 2012 @ 17:43:50
http://www.filmsubs.blogspot.com – movies in english language with english subtitles online
Apr 25, 2012 @ 23:52:29
“you learn to speak by listening and you learn to write by reading”, catchy !
thanks for the tip that shows you know what you are doing
Abu Nusaibah, an avid English learner