How To Learn English With Movies (+Movie Vocabulary)

If you are a movie lover, want to  learn how to talk about movies and  

describe movies in English language, and how  to improve your English language by watching  

English movies, then this lesson is for you!

Hello! my name is Maddy from Piece Of Cake  English, and in this lesson we're going to  

talk about movies. First, we will learn how to  describe movies in English language. Then we will  

see if movies can actually help you improve your  English language and in what ways, and finally,  

we will see a review of a movie. So, if you want  to talk about movies, the first word you need to  

know is genre, genre. Now also pay attention to  the pronunciation because many students maybe say

but it's actually Genre. Now what is genre?  Genre is basically the style of a movie.  

We have many different genres. For example, we  have western movies about the American wild west,  

we have action movies which are movies with ,you  know, uh, action scenes, gunshots ,and you know,  

car chases. There are animated movies such  as cartoons. there are also Sci-Fi movies.  

Sci-Fi stands for Science-Fiction. It's  my favorite genre! It's about unrealistic,  

unreal things ,you know, it's like  Marvel movies or you know DC movies  

,These are very imaginary and maybe  about the future. We also have comedies,  

if you wanna have fun, if you wanna laugh, if you  wanna have a fun evening you can watch a comedy  

which is quite funny and then we have drama. Well,  drama movies are ,you know, they can make you sad,  

they can make you feel very emotional, they may be  romantic. These are drama movies. So, First thing  

you need to know if you want to describe a movie  is genre. but what about the second thing? it's  

the plot. now what is a plot of a movie? a plot  of the movie is actually the series of events  

that form the story of the movie. So,  if you want to say "I really enjoyed the  

movie because the story was good", instead of  story you should say plot. "I really enjoyed it  

because it had a very good plot", which means a  series of events that form the story. The third  

word you need to know about a movie is cast. Now,  cast is a collective noun meaning all the people,  

all the actors and actresses who act and perform  in a movie. Altogether, they're called the cast  

of the movie. For example ,you can say the movie  had a very good cast. It means all the actors and  

actresses were very very good, so it had a very  good cast, but the plot wasn't really interesting.  

You see how you can start talking about movies  and describing it by learning these words!  

So you might say it had a very good cast  but the plot wasn't really interesting, or  

the other way around, the plot was amazing but  ,you know, the cast didn't perform very well.  

Personally, whenever I want to watch a movie, I  check the cast list. The cast list is a list of  

all the actors and actresses who perform in a  movie. Now, I always check the cast list to see  

the members of the cast. "Members of the cast"  are the individual actors and actresses who are  

performing in the movie. So, cast refers to all  the people in the movie, cast list is a list of  

names showing who acts in this movie, and members  of the cast are actually actors and actresses. One  

movie that I watched about a year ago was "Once  upon a time in Hollywood". Now, I really recommend  

this movie because the cast is very strong. It  has a very strong cast, however, in my opinion  

the plot was weak and very boring. I didn't  like the story. There was no point in the movie.

The next word you need to know to describe a movie  is "character". Now, a character is an individual