How to watch movies learn English

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"Learning English from movies" was once a rather disdainful method. For a long time, I have a small prejudice that all fancy things are undesirable. As a matter of fact, today I do not think "learning from movies" is a shortcut. However, for students or readers, it seems that many people really want to learn English through watching movies. Their rationale is nothing more than "interest-oriented"-in fact, interest is not important at all. I have written many articles about this:

Is interest really so important?
How to identify your real interests?
Don't be interested in English

Nearly two years ago (2008.06), I gave a lecture in Tang Zhong, Yinchuan. After the meeting, I chatted with a girl. She mentioned that she had a good score in some of her subjects because she was interested, but some other subjects were not ideal, because she is not interested. I thought about it and told her,"Who can learn and do what they are interested in? Really good is, although not interested, as long as you can learn, and then can make good use '......". When the time passes, should the girl pass the college entrance examination? I don't know if she understood it at the time?

However, as a teacher, there are many times when it is not important to care too much about whether the student's starting point is correct or not. No matter what the reason is, it is very valuable to think about it. Therefore, you should give some effective suggestions to students who want to learn English from movies.

After downloading to what you want to see and what you like, first search for English subtitles on Google. You can use the following format to search for keywords:

English subtitle, movie name release year"

For example, if you are looking for English subtitles of "12 angry guys", You need to search

12 Angry Men 1957 english subtitle

As long as it is not a brand new movie or an uncommon movie, it is easy to use Google to find English subtitles.

There are many subtitle formats,We recommend that you only download English subtitles in "SRT" format.Because subtitles in this format can be opened directly using the Notepad program (this file itself is a text file ).

After opening the subtitle file in notepad, "Ctrl + A" (select all), copy the subtitle content to the Word documents in "Ctrl + C" (copy), and then read the text carefully.

Check all the words you don't know-recognize phrases-and create a Word Table of your own. (Read this article and learn how to make MS Word a learning tool ).

Then start watching movies. Try to skip subtitle lines first. If it is difficult, enable the english subtitle. Note: Do not read Chinese subtitles. Check the dictionary if you do not understand English.

Then I will try again to review the previously created Word Table twice or three times and try again later.

At this point, some readers will say, "Isn't that too arrogant? Nothing fun ......" Believe me, I certainly did not hear such a complaint for the first time (for those who are afraid of trouble, do nothing ). However, such complaints are short-sighted-no matter who they are, they don't have to be so arrogant for a lifetime. After making three or five movies, you will find that you are improving your speed. Most movies can be understood as a perfect match.

In general, it is quite limited to Improve English by watching movies. After all, movies and TV series rely more on screen-based storytelling. Most movies have more actions than dialogs. This is especially true for those who like to watch action movies and gun battles. What they hear is "Drop it !" Or "Go! Go! Go !!!" And so on. Even the dialogs in literature and art films are quite limited in terms of words --In any case, it is not as effective as "massive reading "..

There are also great differences between the series and the series, such24,Lost,The SopranosBasically, 2000 words are enough for a series, and the vocabulary required by some historical dramas is a little larger, for exampleRome,John AdamsAnd so on. Some other series seem to be difficult, but they are not. TypicallyHouse M.D.. When I first read it, I thought it was filled with a lot of medical terms. After one or two sets, I realized that there were one hundred words in total, such as MRI, spasm, and so on, it doesn't matter if you don't understand the medical content, because the highlights of the story have nothing to do with medicine. There are also some series full of slang, suchDead WoodsIt is of little significance to beginners. It is almost useless to learn slang like that.The West WingIt is how a group of elites operate the White House in the United States. Therefore, the quality of the lines is gorgeous, the sentence is wonderful, the logic is exquisite, and the difficulty is quite high. I personally recommended it to some students and found that only a very small number of students are interested. Most of them are actually just "learning, it is just an interface of "graphic.

If you say so much, let's do it on your own.