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Theme:
Arts and culture
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Describing and discussing films.

You will:
• review the common genres and adjectives to describe films you
learned before the lesson
• learn common questions to ask people about films
• practise asking and talking about films.

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Let’s discuss!

1. Do you often go out to movies or do you like to watch them at

home?
2. What kind of movies do you like? What kind of movies DON’T you
like? Why?
3. Are you and your partner the same or different?

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Genres
1. comedy, rom-com (romantic comedy) -comedies
2. drama -dramas
3. thriller -thrillers
4. sci-fi (science fiction)
5. horror
6. adventure /ch/
7. animation, animated films anime (Japanese)

Adjectives
interesting, amazing, enjoyable, entertaining, predictable, boring,
horrible/terrible/awful, disappointing, scary, funny, dramatic, sad, violent,
action-packed, beautiful
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 Look at these pictures. Can you guess the genre of these movies?

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 Can you name other genres/types of films?

romantic-comedy thriller action

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Ideas: fantasy, police movies, historical,

drama, documentary/ies…
I like: comedies, dramas, thrillers,
adventure animation
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 1 Asking for GENERAL OPINIONS OR DESCRIPTIONS.
How was the movie? What was it about? Did you like it/What’s your opinion
about the movie?

2 Asking about DETAILS.

What did you see? Where did you watch it? What kind of films do you like?

3 Responding to something negative that was said.

Didn’t you like it? You didn’t like it? Why do you think the movie was bad?
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Take turns to ask these questions.
romantic-comedy
1. What kind of films do you usually watch? thriller adventure
action animation
I usually watch…dramaS / comedies / animation / animated movies. horror comedy
sci-fi
2. What movie did you watch recently?
entertaining
I watched… action-packed
3. How was it? It was….exciting and a little long, but it was good. predictable
violent
4. What was the acting like? / Didn’t you like the acting? enjoyable
disappointing
I liked the acting. It was OK.

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Choose a film you have seen and tell your partner(s)
about it. I saw… It’s an action movie…. It’s about…
Think about:
• the genre
• adjectives to describe the film
• what it’s about (It’s about a man and a woman…)
• what did you like or didn’t like about the film.

Discuss the films with your group. When you have finished, decide on
the best film for you all to see together at the weekend.

Tell the class which film you have chosen to watch and why.
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 What went well? To improve?
Great job talking about your movies and Remember pronunciation:
using the adjectives and genres we learned packed /pact/
today. watched /tchd/
sci-fi (remember the long “I” in science).
expectations
Fantastic descriptions and conversations!

I want to watch all of your films. ☺ I will describe you the film = I will tell you about
the film, I will describe the film to you.

Not the better movie = not the best movie.

There are a lot of good music = There is a lot of

good music / there are a lot of good songs…

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 Complete the Progress activities online.

Review the language we practised today: film vocabulary.

https://premierskillsenglish.britishcouncil.org/course-
stages/lesson-1-film-vocabulary

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/speaki
ng/a2-speaking/giving-your-opinion
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