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coffee break English season 1 episode 2
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hello and welcome to another episode of
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coffee break English my name's Josie and
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my name is Mark we are very happy to be
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back with you for another episode how
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are you today
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Josie I'm very well thank you Mark how
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are you I'm okay I'm a little tired
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today well hopefully today's episode can
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wake you up a little that sounds good
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what is our topic today Josie today
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we're listening to a text all about
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films and we're focusing on the past
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simple tense of the verb
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be okay let's have a listen to our
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text and today we're listening to Kate
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from the United States of America and
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don't worry if you don't understand
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every word that Kate says the most
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important thing is to understand the
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general
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meaning okay let's have a listen to our
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text do you like watching films I do I
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love fantasy films because the stories
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are always really
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exciting I also like biopics because
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they help me learn about real events
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from history the word biopic comes from
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the words biography and picture so it is
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a film about someone's life the last
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biopic I watched was first man which
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tells the story of Neil Armstrong who
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was the first man on the moon the script
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was excellent and the special effects
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were
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impressive I like most genres of film
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but I really don't like romantic
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comedies the stories and character s are
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always
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unrealistic the last romantic comedy I
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watched was terrible the plot wasn't
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interesting and the actors weren't very
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good I was very bored and it was
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difficult to stay awake I quite like
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horror films but they're are very scary
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once I watched the horror film a quiet
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place in the cinema with my friends we
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were very scared because the cinema was
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so dark as well as that there wasn't any
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music in the film so the atmosphere was
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very tense we were all
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terrified now I prefer to watch horror
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movies at home with the lights on what
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genres of film do you like what was the
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last film you
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watched well Josie what was the last
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film you watched hm good question mark I
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think the last film that I watched was a
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Monty Python film ah so a classic
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British comedy film excellent what about
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you what was the last film you watched
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the last film I watched was a French
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film it's
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called ah The Untouchables in English I
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think so let's take a look at our text
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again yes let's read each line and then
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we'll talk about the language
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so can you read the first line Mark okay
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do you like watching films I
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do great so the first thing to notice
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here is we're starting with a question
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do you like watching films remember with
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most questions we use an auxiliary verb
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or a helping verb which helps us make
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the question in this case it is do
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because we're in the present
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simple okay so we said do you like
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watching films and then the answer was I
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do that's right we just repeat the
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auxiliary
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verb and also do you like watching
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films is there another word for film
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Mark we could see movie
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that's right film is British English and
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movie is American English but to be
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honest we can use both can't we
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absolutely
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yeah okay let's
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continue I love fantasy films because
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the stories are always really
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exciting good so fantasy films can you
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give me an example of a fantasy
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film perhaps some of the Marvel films
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could be fantasy films like Avengers
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endgame that's right yes something with
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superheroes or something in an imaginary
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world like the Lord of the Rings
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films okay I also like
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biopics because they help me to learn
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about real events from history
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the word biopic comes from the words
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biography and picture so it's a film
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about someone's
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life good so the word biopic it's a film
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about someone's
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life good the last biopic I watched was
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first man which tells the story of Neil
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Armstrong who was the first man on the
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moon good did you see this biopic Mark
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first man no uh did you see it yes I did
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it's a really good film I recommend it
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to you oh thanks also in this phrase we
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have the word was the last biopic I
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watched was first
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man was is the past tense of the verb be
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in the third person in this case so Neil
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Armstrong was the first man on the moon
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that's right okay the script was
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excellent and the special effects were
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impressive good so the script was
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excellent again the past tense of B and
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what is a script mark a script is the
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words that the actors speak in the
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film that's right and the special
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effects were
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impressive special effects are the
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things which are added by a computer in
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a
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movie because this film was not filmed
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on the
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moon no it wasn't I think it would be a
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bit too difficult
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to film a movie on the
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moon here we use the past tense of be
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again which is were the special effect
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were
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impressive in this case were is the
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third person plural of to
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be okay should we go through all of the
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parts of to be that's a good idea yes so
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I was you
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were he she or it
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was we
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were and they were good so it's not too
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difficult there are only two forums to
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choose from was and were welcome back
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today we're talking about Cinema yes we
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talked about fantasy films and biop
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and now we're going to talk about more
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types of movies okay I like most genres
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of film but I really don't like romantic
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comedies good so this word genres what
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does that mean
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Mark it's just like seeing types or
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sorts of film exactly types sorts kinds
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of film and it's a French word which we
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use in
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English Okay so but I really don't like
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romantic comedies so a romantic comedy
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is a film which has some some romance
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some love a love story and some comedy
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so it's funny too exactly so maybe a
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film like uh Notting Hill is a romantic
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comedy okay or Love Actually that's
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right a Christmas romantic
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comedy okay the stories and characters
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are always
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unrealistic good so the characters these
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are the people in the story the people
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in the film and they are
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unrealistic so if the stories and
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characters are are
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unrealistic that means it's hard to
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believe them that's right yes we can see
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the word real in the word
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unrealistic so realistic means like real
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life like
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reality and
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unrealistic is the opposite it's not
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like reality I don't believe
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it excellent the last romantic comedy I
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watched was
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terrible yes so here we have some more
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past tense of to be was the last
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romantic comedy I watched was terrible
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third person again and terrible means
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really really bad let's find out why it
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was terrible the plot wasn't interesting
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and the actors weren't very good H let's
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look at some vocabulary first in this
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phrase the plot what's the plot Mark
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that's the story what happens in the
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film exactly we can talk about the plot
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of a film the plot of a TV series or the
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plot of a book and the actors are the
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stars of the film that's right right
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Brad Pit is a famous
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actor okay also in this sentence we
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have the past tense of be in the
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negative form the plot wasn't
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interesting wasn't is short for was not
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this is a
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contraction and weren is short for where
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not so we can say the plot was not
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interesting and the actors were not very
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good that's right let's
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continue I was very bored and it was
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difficult to stay
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awake good so I was very bored I I
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wasn't interested I was bored and it was
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difficult to stay
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awake awake is when you are are not
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asleep yes think of the verb to wake up
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in the morning that's
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right I quite like horror films but they
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are very
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scary yes so a horror film is a film
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which is very
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scary maybe it has monsters or ghosts in
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it uh for example uh the Exorcist is a
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famous horror film that's right I hate
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horror films they are too scary for me
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do you like horror films Mark I don't
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like horror films at all but Kate says
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once I watched the horror film a quiet
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place in the cinema with my
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friends we were very scared because the
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cinema was so
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dark yes Kate says she likes horror
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films but when she watched a quiet place
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she was very scared and why was she
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scared mark because the cinema was so
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dark that's right it was dark it wasn't
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light there were no lights on in the
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cinema okay as well as that there wasn't
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any music in the film so the atmosphere
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was very
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tense good so another example of be in
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the past tense there wasn't any
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music and the
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atmosphere what's the atmosphere
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Mark it's the feeling it's the
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impression that you get when watching
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the film that's right yes and the
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atmosphere was very tense tense is the
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opposite of
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relaxed so they were tense they were
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scared the cinema was dark there was no
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music that doesn't sound like fun to me
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me
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neither okay Kate says we were all
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terrified now I prefer to watch horror
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movies at home with the lights on good
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so we were all terrifi terrified
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terrified means very very scared and so
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now she doesn't like going to the cinema
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to watch horror films yes she watches
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them in her house at home with the
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lights on so not in the dark okay then
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she says what genres of films do you
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like what was the last film you watched
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yes so here she finished fines with a
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question with the verb be in the past
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tense what was the last film you watched
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remember to make a question with to be
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we simply change the subject and the
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verb in the
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phrase for example
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mark what was your favorite film when
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you were a
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child uh when I I was a child my
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favorite film was The Sound of Music ah
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me too I love that
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film it's still my favorite film I think
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that's it's a good
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choice Okay let's listen again to Kate's
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text do you like watching films I do I
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love fantasy films because the stories
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are always really
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exciting I also like biopics because
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they help me learn about real events
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from history the word biopic comes from
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the words biography and picture so it is
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a film about someone's life the last
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biopic I watched was first man which
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tells the story of Neil Armstrong who
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was the first man on the moon the script
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was excellent and the special effects
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were
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impressive I like most genres of film
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but I really don't like romantic
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comedies the stories and characters are
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always
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unrealistic the last romantic comedy I
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watched was terrible the plot wasn't
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interesting and the actors weren't very
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good I was very bored and it was
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difficult to stay awake I quite like
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horror films but they're very scary once
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I watched the horror film a quiet place
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in the cinema with my friends we were
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very scared because the cinema was so
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dark as well as that there wasn't any
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music in the film so the atmosphere was
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very tense we were all
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terrified now I prefer to watch horror
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movies at home with the lights on what
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genres a film do you like what was the
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last film you watched that's it for this
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lesson h
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