Movies for Language Learning
by Eric Paul Monroe on Jun.16, 2009, under Virtual Classroom
Watching movies reinforces linguistic acquisition skills. To find actual US television channels, please visit my Culture page and utilize the drop down menu in the top right-hand corner. If you currently find yourself outside of the United States, you will more than likely need to use a proxy server to view selected streaming videos. Otherwise, take advantage of a tracking site to view soap operas, situational comedies, and films.
Improve your knowledge of native English speaking countries’ cultures as well as English dialectal manifestations of rhythm and intonation through authentic content.
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June 16th, 2009 on 23:52
Movies are art because this can make us feel differents feelings like happiness or sadness, we can learn things in movies like how use a gadget know about others cultures.
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June 17th, 2009 on 22:07
Hi Eric
Well I like the movie “the king Arthur” because I like the medieval histories and romances. Also in the movie spoke about Arthur who is a big leader who fight for the defense of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century.
Many people think that history of the king Arthur, it’s only a myth but I think that this it´s a real legend because in that times the people fight for the power.
Finish your article, Carlos.
June 18th, 2009 on 17:52
As you know, I am a huge fan of the movies, also known as the 7th art. I like all types of generous of films: drama, action, comedy. Now, is time to a teaser of a few of my favorites movies in all time.
The Prestige (2006): The history is about two magicians Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and their rivalry in the professional field as much as the personal. The characters begins with a very strong relationship, even they work together in the same escapism show, but after a terrible mistake made by Alfred that cost the life of the Robert loved woman, an interminable fight begins to see who of both has the best spectacle. Later in the movie, Alfred prepared the most amazing act in magic history that is impossible to copy and became the obsession of Robert.The Lion King: The Walt Disney´s animated movie in 1994 and for me, the best animated movie in history. The movie tale us the story of Simba a lion who lost his father and inspiration during an explosion set up by his evil uncle named Scar, who later after his brother death, became the new king. Simba later ran away to a mysterious place where met new friends and born within the idea of recover what for bloodline rule belongs to him.
The Dark Knight: Best movie ever made and released at the end of the summer of 2008. Is an adaptation of the comic book Batman. In the movie we can see a master piece of acting role by Heath Ledger in the role of “The Joker”. The story told us the eternal confrontation between Batman and The Joker who has taken control of the city crime. In the other side, appears Harvey Dent who has became the new face of good people in Gotham city and tries to erase the crime in the city, but after a several events in the movie, he became crazy and transform in the well know criminal, “Two Face”.
June 19th, 2009 on 03:11
Under the Tuscan sun is my favorite movie, I love the provincial Italy but for me the most important is the meaning, the moral of this love story which I can apply in my life. Life always wants to give me experience, is changing me constantly, is making me growing up and it doesn´t matter how hard or sad can be a moment, life is allways great and if I have boldness everything will be perfect for me.
June 21st, 2009 on 00:58
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The Prestige (2006): The history translation error… is about two magicians Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and their rivalry in the professional field as much as the personal. The characters begins subject-verb agreement… with a deeply strong relationship, even working together in the same show, but after a terrible mistake made by Alfred that cost the life of the article usage… Robert’s beloved woman, an interminable fight begins to see who has the best spectacle. Later in the movie, Alfred prepared the most amazing act in magic history that is impossible to copy and became the obsession of Robert.
The Lion King: Walt Disney’s animated movie in 1994 and for me, the best animated movie in history. The movie tale orthographics/ subject-verb agreement… us the story of Simba a lion who lost his father and inspiration during an explosion set up by his evil uncle named Scar, who later after his brother apostrophe usage… death, became the new king. Simba later ran away to a mysterious place where met new friends and start within the idea of recover what for rephrase… bloodline rule belongs to him.
The Dark Knight: best movie ever made and released at the end of the summer of 2008. Is an adaptation of the comic book Batman. In the movie we can see a master piece of acting role word choice… by Heath Ledger in the role of “The Joker”. The story told the eternal confrontation between Batman and The Joker who has taken temporal concordance… control of the city crime. In the other side lexical development… , appears Harvey Dent who has became conjugation problem… the new face of good people in Gotham city and tries to erase the crime in the city, but after a several events in the movie, he became crazy and transform in the well know criminal, “Two Face”.
July 3rd, 2009 on 20:45
Dear Luis,
I watched your Smilebox presentation about movies and I have some notes about it:
First: Your choice for your slideshow shouldn’t be random. It should be suitable for the subject you want to talk about.
Second: Your first photo wasn’t good. The choice here is very important to attract the eyes of your audience and also to give them a good reason to keep watching.
Third: You should arrange your photos to make something like series, so that your audience would be comfortable while watching and never repeat a photo.
Making a presentation is not about collecting some photos and then put them in a design to throw it afterwards. While making a presentation, you lead your audience eyes and hearts, so if you felt it, others will feel it too.
July 13th, 2009 on 03:35
Dear Berry,
Before you provide constructive criticism to Luis, you should first post your favorite movie here with a slideshow also. Maybe an exemplary slideshow here would motivate other students to follow your example. I am sure that all the students here would be more than interested in what is your favorite movie. I am certain that they would not have a great deal of knowledge about Egyptian movies.
Let me know when you have finished with your presentation and I would do my best to display your tedious work here for everyone to enjoy.
Sincerely,
Eric Paul Monroe
http://www.eric-tesol.com/
July 22nd, 2009 on 00:49
You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress and prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill.
You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. They were so close that you could feel them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears.
Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is: it is hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely because almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true.
One of those people was Vivian Ward, she has a complete faith in her fairy tale. She believed that everything is possible.
Edward (Richard Gere) is a business man who makes Vivian (Julia Roberts) a job offer. He asks her to stay with him for a week and accompany him as needed.
But things get close for Vivian and Edward in a way that neither of them expects.
Simply, pretty woman is a fairy tale story. So if you believe in fairy tales you will love this movie, if not, forget it, it is not for you…
August 7th, 2009 on 16:58
The movies of kind of adventures, creatives, some reals are funny because represent something that sometimes is impossible believe. Pirats of Caribbean is a movie very creative, and is differents scenes show Jack Sparrow (Johnny Deep) that not always have all things sometimes you can lose or win but, is imporntant that you can live with or whithout somethings that not are important.
Narinia is another movie that represent unreal all the movie is unreal, this kind of movie is funny, creative and unreal.
August 7th, 2009 on 22:54
My favorite movie: Pink Floyd The wall
This movie is about a young rock star called Pink Floyd who has really big problems with his life because his childhood; his father died when he was just a baby and he is also affected by his overprotected mother , who won’t let him have a life of his own.
Pink is described at various stages of physical and emotional development. From the beginning of the movie there are events that contribute to the increase of the social bitterness and the depression of Pink. The figure of the wall symbolizes its own repression.
This movie has an enormous social critical, evidencing how people follow bad leaders.
The music is excellent!
August 8th, 2009 on 00:47
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August 9th, 2009 on 19:12
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August Rush
August Rush is an orphan boy who believes that music than he listen in anywhere is a message sent by his parents. The child is the sesult of a romantic encounter between a rock singer man and cellist woman, which are separated by her father, who takes the child and leave him inside an orphanage, tellig to her daugther that the baby had died.
When the child reaches eleven years he escapes from the orphanage for find to his parents, and he meets a group of street musicians,which are handled by a dangerous benefactor. And that is where he has his first real contact with music and he proves to be a prodigy.
To die the father of the woman he confessed the truth and she began searching for hisagreement son, while the father of the boy who does not know that he had a son is looking for the woman.
At the end for destiny reasons are fond the three in a concert, where the child lead a sinfonia that is composed by himself. Still unknown there is reveals a connection between these three and the music.
August 10th, 2009 on 01:05
My favorite movie Pink Floyd The Wall
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The music is excellent!
August 10th, 2009 on 03:57
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August 10th, 2009 on 04:51
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October 14th, 2009 on 23:33
I like to watch movies because in this form you can travel through a lot of stories, places, worlds, cultures and situations.
Some movies are great but some are boring. You can learn something when you watch a movie, in this way you can open your mind, improve your knowledge and learn something that you didn’t know.
I love the movies about cars like fast and furious, I enjoy watching those movies and I want to transformer my car in that form, but I’m not going to drive very fast because I don’t want to have an accident, one day I’ll have a gorgeous car like in the movies.
October 15th, 2009 on 23:00
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October 16th, 2009 on 23:28
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October 18th, 2009 on 20:18
I definitely believe that movies, musiccomma usage and videos are the better way for reinforcing our hability of listening, to know new words and understand the context this would be used.
My last comments maybe were not very clear. I wanted to say thatI always have been very respectful of the steps of the learning and I consider that firstly we should have a more extensive vocabulary and to have more resources for understanding the expressions of other cultures in english.After triying to understand all dialogues in any movies spoken in english successfully without can do it, I have reinforced my idea. I think is easy, and I compare it with math learning, you can not solve a problema about complex numbers if you do not understand algebra laws.
I consider that the fast in the way of talking and the quality of the pronunciation are very important too. Some languages like asian lenguages are spoken more fastly than others and that make more difficult to understand it.
October 18th, 2009 on 21:09
I hope to do my homework, because today the internet service is no good, I am losting the service for a while moments.
Well, for me watch a movies is good, because firts I like so much go to cinema, and second I think this is way for to learn many things about other culture and to know other countries.
I know some cities across the movies, for example:
Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Dallas, Las Vegas and some countries like German, Canada, Francia,etc.
When the people like me, do not have oportunity for traveling, this is the best way for to know others country.
I watched some nice movies, with a beatiful landscapes, but my prefers movies are the romantics.
My prefer movie is “The gladiator” and after “The last Samurai”, “Troya“, ‘Titanic” for to mentioned some of them.
By the way, read a books is too a good way for to learn about the others culture and histories about the interesting persons.
The lats books that I had been reading are about when you can to make your life better.
I had bought some books that can help me for to have a better relation with my children and by myself.
In conclution for me is that read a interesting books is a good habit.
October 19th, 2009 on 04:42
I love watching movies in English and it’s funny because a few years ago I didn’t like watching movies in other languages also from other countries, but to be honest the last two movies that I watched from China were excellent.
When you watch a movie in other language, you develop your listening, writing and watchingreading skills. Sometimes is not to easy understand every word, but if you understand the main idea from the movie nothing maters.
I enjoy watching romantic movies or horror movies and one of my favorite movie is “The diary of Bridget Jones”, probably the accent is a little bit difficult because British accent is completely different from U.S accent but honestly is a good way to push yourself to understand people from different countries.
Another way to learn a new language is listen to music or watch T.V., in my case this is 100% effective because in the past I used to listened music, but the most of the time I didn’t understand the meaning from the lyrics. Nowadays, is much easy for me and also I enjoy talking with people from other country, even when my pronunciation is not the best one.
October 20th, 2009 on 23:53
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November 19th, 2009 on 21:33
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theaction movies. Sometimescomma usage I watch another kind of movies.When you are watching movies you can learn new words or new expressions.
Also, you can see in the movies wonderful landscape and you can know the culture of another country.
Finally, my favorite movies are the rock and fast and furious.
November 21st, 2009 on 04:09
I love whatching movies especially in the cinema, because they have the bigger screen, and the images are very clearcomma usage and the sound is very good.
My favorite kind of movies are: action movies, comedy movies, and especially vampier movies. But there are some movies that narrate historical events from different places,and my favorites are the Greek culture.
I have many movies that i like: “INTERVIEW WHIT A VAMPIRE” “TROY” “UNDERWORLD”, etc.
I think the movie introduces something in the people, can be: mode, religion, culture, etc.
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November 21st, 2009 on 18:52
I love to see all kinds of movies, no matter if they are afraid, comedy, action, pending, etc. The thing that is really matter to me is that the movie is great, but my favorite kind of movies are: which touch the subject or are based on the average age. I prefer to see films at the cinema, because the cinema screen is bigger than my television at home and because at the moviescomma usage I can buy food like: nachos, candy, soft drinks, nachos, etc. To view the movie. And my favorite movies are: the Lord of the Rings trilogy, seven pounds and all of rocky.
November 22nd, 2009 on 00:23
I like to watch movies in my houserephrase but I prefer gopresent participle to the cinema.
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Also, you can see in the movies wonderful paintinglexical development and you can know the culture of another country.
Finally, my favorite movies are: the Rock and Fast and Furious.
November 23rd, 2009 on 01:52
I like to watch movies when I have free time,period usage I usually go to the cinema. When you are inpreposition: at the cinema, you can enjoy the sounds and effectslexical development: visual effects. In my case, I choose action movies. Sometimes, I watch other kindslexical development: genre of movies. When you watch movies, you can learn new words and expressions. Also, you can see in the movies wonderful viewslexical development: landscapes and you can know the culture of another country. Finally, my favorite movies are: The Rock and Fast and Furious.
Much better, Arturo.
November 23rd, 2009 on 04:39
I like to watch movies when I’m relaxed, and i like all kind of movies. For example action,comedy adventure and science fiction. I usually go to the cinema to watch the premieres for example Harry Potter and the halfblood prince
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Hello teacher this is the job of my favorite movie are th ones with a bit of fiction but the ones I like are those of the middle ages because I like dragons wars and my favorite movie is the lord of the rings and what I like most is the part when the movie has some effects in ghosts and monsters war that begin to fight and also the combinasion of soldiers against evil and also beyond what I like are the dragons that are great and that is my favorite movie.
Ivan, you have to revise your run-on sentences.
November 28th, 2009 on 03:42
I love watching action movies, because action movies are a film genre where the story is largely told through physical action. The action typically involves individual efforts on the part of the hero.
My favorite movie is Man on Fire, this film has to be one of the best, if not the best movie you’ve ever seen for a long, long time. Action films are sufficient to satisfy any viewer.
The only flaw that I can see with this movie is that it is drastically over stylized but I do not have too much of a problem with it. The action is great, the suspense is great, conjunction needed the acting is very good. It has all the makings of a good action movie and makes me tingle every time I watch it because of the strong emotions in the movie.
I thought that not only was it a great action movie, it also showed what anyone (especially a parent) would feel and want to do if someone killed their child. It shows that Crasy (Denzel Washington) would die for Pita(Dakota Fanning). I thought that it was a great movie; people should wake up and appreciate this movie for what it really is: a great piece of movie making.
February 19th, 2010 on 02:39
I think that to improve your speaking, watching movies is a good idea, because you listen preposition needed the pronunciation, I mean the one that is common there.
If you watch something that you like, or
you’reinterested in, you will enjoy it and learn wouldn’t be so hard.Personally I prefer comedy movies and I think in that movies they speak and act like in real life, there’s nothing invented, everything that you watch there could happen.
More content, Paulina.
February 19th, 2010 on 16:25
I think that to improve your speaking, watching movies is a good idea
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it’s good too,punctuation I always do it, usually isrephrase Lady GaGa’s songs. Thanks to her I’ve learned a lot of bad words hahaha.February 20th, 2010 on 18:58
Well i think that movies are a very good way to learn , because you learn vocabulary and the way they express them selfs, because if you watch a movie and you chosse for launguage English and for substitules English too that is a really good way to learn because you practice your listening and you reading coprehesion.
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February 21st, 2010 on 02:25
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February 21st, 2010 on 02:41
I think that to improve your speaking, watching movies is a good idea. You listen to the USA pronunciation. I mean the one that is common in the USA. If you watch something that you like
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