Movies always had such a great importance in my english learning. I´d rather use them than books because with them I´m able to improve my listening and reading skills (using subtitles in English) and still, as in books, I can upgrade my vocabulary and learn a lot of new words. It´s easier to learn, and most times we don´t even need translation, because the visual images and the screenplay help us to comprehend almost everything.
My first all-in-English movie was seen when I was fifteen years old. My English wasn´t so good back then and I had never seen a movie about oriental culture, but even so it was an unforgettable and pleasant experience to watch "Ana and the King". After this one, every movie I rented was watched completly in English, first with subtitles on (in English) and then a second time without subtitles at all, just listening and comprehending.
Beyond all this kind of learning that movies provides us we still have to admite that it is the second best way to get in touch with any foreign culture and the real living habits of their people. That´s why we´re able to understand much better the dialogues, analyzing them ourselves rather them just rely on translations that many times sacrifices a lot of good things in order to make a more general group of people to understand it .
For these and some more other reasons (we can´t forget the entertainment and the pleasant times movies give us), I consider watching movies a great way of learning.
Beyond all this kind of learning that movies provides us we still have to admite that it is the second best way to get in touch with any foreign culture and the real living habits of their people. That´s why we´re able to understand much better the dialogues, analyzing them ourselves rather them just rely on translations that many times sacrifices a lot of good things in order to make a more general group of people to understand it .
For these and some more other reasons (we can´t forget the entertainment and the pleasant times movies give us), I consider watching movies a great way of learning.
4 comments:
Already we talk so much about movies, why don’t we leave them to class? Each one could choose a scene of the best film in our opinion (or one that we find great because some topic, or because it was important in our learning process), select some points which we think interesting and also work with vocabulary. Yes? No?
OBS: I got up so inspired! hehehehe
Right, it´s a great idea!!!!!!
Just let me think a bit in order to work this out, in terms of equipment/room, OK.
Carla
(What I wrote during the class)
I agree with you. I really like movies and in fact I guess that (except for songs being so easy to memorize) they are better than songs to make us improve our listening and vocabulary, because they bring spoken stress, accents and a visual "translation" in many cases. But I have to admit that I pay more attention to the film itself than to English practice, and generally don't risk not to understand some expressions, so I read in Portuguese listening to English and think "so that's how they say it", so I'm really impressed with your dedication.
I guess that movies should be more used by teachers, because they bring languages in "real" situations for uas to observe them, and it would be also a good oportunity of introducing students to art too ;)
Hmm, I guess that's a really interesting idea and eveybody got inspired!
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