Learn English with Friends | Part 2 (2)

the easier it is to find those places where people are discussing it, but

even like in the comments on YouTube, that can be a really, um, fruitful...

a place of fruitful discussions like people leave really interesting

comments about movies and TV shows, like from, um, I use a lot of movie

clips in my work and so under the clips that people are having really

cool discussions and, and have really interesting insights about, you know,

different movies and different TV shows.

So, um, yeah, it's fi it's finding that place where you can, you can

apply what you're, what you're learning when you're watching practically.

And then also kind of, um, you know, using, using movies and TV series as a

tool to kind of improve different skills.

That's also possible.

But I, I like doing that with clips from movies and TV series and really

going in deep and, um, you know, working on your listening skills,

working on specific lines of dialogue, listening to them, repeating them.

Um, if you've got no one to talk to, you can even just, you know, record yourself

talking about maybe an episode you've just watched or a movie you've watched.

You could do a summary of it, you know, um, you could write a review of it.

Like there's, it's, it's trying to exploit something, you know, really from

all the possible angles so that you're working on, so you're, you're not just

passively watching, um, the TV series or movie, but you're really, you know,

working on all those different language skills at the same time while using

something that you wanna watch anyway.

Excellent.

Yeah, those are some fantastic tips and I'll, we'll leave of course, the

links to, uh, your website and YouTube channel so people can go explore

and, and, um, see all of the cool, the tips that you have for learning

English using movies and TV shows.

Um, just before we go, uh, what TV shows and movies are you loving

lately?

Oh yeah.

Good, good question.

Um, with my own students this year, we've watched a lot of movies by the

Cohen Brothers and that has been really cool 'casue they are such amazing, um,

directors and their movies have so many themes, so many layers, um, and they have

a really fascinating creative process.

So yeah, it's been really good to watch, um, some classics by them, like the

Big Lebowski or Barton Fink or Fargo.

I love Fargo.

Um, and then in terms of TV...

oh yeah.

Such a great, that's my favorite by them.

Really, really awesome.

Movie.

And then in terms of TV series, that sort of the only one, I do always watch

Stranger Things when it comes out.

I really enjoy that.

Yes, me too.

Um, I still haven't finished actually the, the latest season, which is very

late in the day to say that because, um, yeah, it was released a while ago now.

But, um, otherwise the, the, the other TV series that I'm, I'm, I'm following

pretty seriously is, um, What we Do In the Shadows, which is, um...

oh.

The movie?

Do you know it?

Yes, so there was a movie.

The movie is good, but then they turned the movie into a, a kind

of ongoing, uh, documentary.

So it's like a fake documentary.

Yeah.

So it's set in a, in the United States actually, the, the, the

documentary as opposed to New Zealand, which was where the film was made.

'Cause the director is from, from New Zealand.

Yeah.

So the, it's about these vampires living in Staten Island, in this big house.

And, um, yeah, it's like fake documentary style and it's really silly.

But there were, there were actually a couple of like themes running

through it, which are, um, quite clever that kind of hold it together.

But each episode is just so, it's just so silly.

Like, 'casue obviously the vampires have a hard time, you know, living in the mo...

in the modern, in the modern world.

And, um, yeah.

So it's, it's, it's just really funny to, uh, it's just really,

really well done and, uh, hilarious.

And there's some very funny, there's some good accents in it as well.

So, um...

excellent.

I'm gonna have to find that.

'Cause I did not know...

I love the, the film.

That was so funny.

What was it?

Werewolves not swear-wolves.

I say that all the time.

Yeah.

There's some ongoing vampire werewolf, um, tension in Staten Island.

Okay, I have to watch this.

Yeah.

But no, that's, I think the series is funnier than the the movie.

Oh really?

Oh, definitely gonna watch this.

Okay.

Thank you for that tip.

Oh my goodness.

Um, okay.

Cara, listen, I feel like we could go on forever talking about movies, TV shows.

Yeah, I'm a big time.Um, Film Nerd and TV...

I watch too much TV let's just say, but, but we'll stop there.

And, um, like I said, I'll pop the links to your, uh, website and

YouTube channel in the description.

So everyone, uh, go check those out.

Check out Cara's page and YouTube channel.

And Cara, thank you so, so much for joining me today.

You're welcome.

Thank you for having me.

Oh, it's a pleasure.

Bye.

Bye.