跟读练习: How to Talk About TV Shows in English - Spoken English Lesson - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Hi, I’m Kasia.
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Hi, I’m Kasia.
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Welcome to Oxford Online English!
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In this lesson, you’ll learn how to talk about TV and TV shows in English.
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Do you watch TV?
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How and where?
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What kind of shows do you like or dislike?
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You’ll see how to answer these questions and more in clear, detailed English.
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By the way, have you visited our website: Oxford Online English dot com?
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If not, go and check it out!
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You can take classes through Skype, WhatsApp, WeChat, or many other platforms.
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Now, let’s get back to our topic.
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Here’s a question: how much TV do you watch?
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Do you watch much TV?
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Not really.
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I used to, but now I’m too busy, and I don’t have the time.
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Sometimes I put something on in the background while I’m doing other things, like cooking or cleaning.
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You? I go through phases.
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Sometimes I get really into a show, and I binge-watch it over a few days, or I’ll have weeks where I watch a lot of TV in the evenings.
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But, at some point, I get tired of it and I take a break for a few weeks.
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So you’re either watching TV all the time, or not at all?
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I guess! I get addicted to things easily.
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I’ve never really understood the whole binge-watching thing.
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I’ve never been *that* into a show.
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I can watch one, two episodes of something, but then I want to do something else.
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That’s a better way to do it.
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It’s fun to watch a really good show, but sometimes I feel guilty, like I could be doing something better with my time.
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Yeah. Do you watch much TV?
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In the dialogue, you heard several phrases you can use to talk about your TV-watching habits.
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Look at four sentences.
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Do you know what these mean?
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Are any of them true for you?
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‘Go through phases’ is a general phrase.
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You can use it to talk about many things.
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It means that you have times where you do something a lot, and then times when you don’t do it much.
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So, if you say ‘I go through phases’, and you’re talking about watching TV, you mean that there are times when you watch TV regularly, and times you don’t.
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Maybe one month you watch a lot of TV, but the next month, you hardly watch any.
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If you ‘get into’ something, then you become really interested in it.
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If you get into a TV show, you start watching it, and then you like it and you want to watch more.
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You can use ‘get into’ for other things.
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You could say ‘I got into photography when I was a teenager’, meaning that you developed a strong interest in photography at that time.
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‘Binge-watch’ means that you watch a lot of episodes of a TV show in a very short time.
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Maybe you watch a whole season of a show in one or two days.
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A ‘binge’ has the idea of something unhealthy.
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Finally, if you put something on in the background, you aren’t really watching it.
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Maybe you’re half-watching, or you’re listening but not watching.
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What about you?
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Look at four questions: Could you answer these questions?
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Try it now!
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Make sure you answer with a full sentence.
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Try to use the language from the dialogue and this section.
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Pause the video and make your answers.
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How was that?
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Could you answer fluently?
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If not, remember that you can always review the dialogue and the section again.
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Let’s look at our next topic.
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Are you watching anything good at the moment?
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I’m looking for a new show to watch.
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There’s this medical drama I’ve been watching.
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It’s on Wednesdays at nine o’clock.
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You should check it out!
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‘On Wednesdays’?
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You mean on actual TV?
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Yeah… Wow! You still watch broadcast TV?
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I haven’t connected my TV aerial for years.
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So, you just stream everything?
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Yeah. That’s weird.
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I mean, no one I know watches broadcast TV these days.
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I guess I’m a bit old-fashioned.
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I like having a choice of channels.
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Mainly, I’m a big sports fan, so I get a cable package.
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That way, I can watch football and basketball games live.
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That makes sense.
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Still, having to watch something at a specific time seems so inconvenient.
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I like being able to watch what I want when I want.
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I have a set-top recorder, so I can record things and watch them later.
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Plus, you can skip the ad breaks.
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Ad breaks! I had forgotten about those.
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Most streaming services don’t have any ads.
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So, you never stream things?
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You’ve never used Hulu or Netflix or anything like that?
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No, never. I just don’t have much interest.
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Wow. How do you generally watch TV?
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In the dialogue, we talked about two different ways to watch.
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Do you remember?
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You can watch broadcast TV, meaning traditional TV where you choose a channel and watch programs on a schedule, or you can watch TV on a streaming service, like Netflix or Hulu.
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You also heard some different advantages of these two ways to watch TV.
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Here’s a question: can you think of two advantages of watching broadcast TV, and two advantages of streaming?
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In the dialogue, you heard these: ‘I like having a choice of channels.’ ‘I can watch football and basketball games live.’ ‘I like being able to watch what I want when I want.’ ‘Most streaming services don’t have any ads.’ If you watch something live, you watch it as it’s happening, in real time.
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‘Ad’ is short for ‘advertisement’ or ‘advert’.
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‘Ad’, ‘advert’ and ‘advertisement’ all have the same meaning.
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Also, they’re all countable nouns.
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Be careful not to mix these up with ‘advertising’ which is the abstract noun, and is uncountable.
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Can you think of any other advantages of broadcast TV or streaming services which weren’t mentioned in the dialogue?
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Try to think of one more advantage for each.
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Pause the video if you want some thinking time!
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What did you think of?
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Of course, there are many possibilities!
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Here are four ideas.
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Broadcast TV is usually free, because it’s supported by advertising.
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Broadcast TV has more news and current affairs programs.
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Streaming services produce their own exclusive shows and films, which you can’t watch anywhere else.
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Many streaming services let you watch TV shows from other countries and in other languages.
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Did you get similar ideas?
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Do you agree with these points, or not?
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What about you?
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Do you watch broadcast TV, streaming services, or both?
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Which is better for you, and why?
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Pause the video and try to answer these questions with at least three full sentences.
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Take your time, and practise your answer several times, until you can speak fluently.
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Could you do it?
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Great! Let’s move on.
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What kind of thing do you watch?
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It depends.
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Sometimes, if I’m tired at the end of the day, I’ll just put on a sitcom, or a cookery show or something.
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If I want something more serious, I like drama series, and some documentaries.
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I like comedy a lot, too.
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Do you ever watch stand-up?
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No, mostly just sitcoms, and a few cartoons like Bojack Horseman and things like that.
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Bojack Horseman?
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What’s that?
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It’s a really dark animated comedy.
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What’s it about?
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It’s about a horse who used to be a famous TV star, and it’s set in a world where animals live together with people, and… You know what?
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It’s a little hard to explain.
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But, it’s really good.
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You should check it out.
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Who’s in it?
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Lots of people.
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Will Arnett, who was in Arrested Development, and Alison Brie.
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A lot of other big-name actors, too.
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Is it funny?
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Yeah, it is, but it’s dark.
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It’s quite sad sometimes.
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Hmm… Maybe I’ll take a look.
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Where’s it on?
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It’s a Netflix production, so I think you can only watch it there.
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In the dialogue, you heard several questions you could use to ask someone about TV shows they watch.
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Look at the questions.
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Can you complete the missing words?
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Can you remember the answers, or can you work them out?
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Let’s look together.
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Could you answer these questions for yourself?
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We’ll look at how to answer in a minute; first, let’s check the meaning of the questions.
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What does ‘who’s in it?’ mean?
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And what about ‘where’s it on?’ ‘Who’s in it’ is asking about the actors.
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You’re probably asking whether the show has famous actors.
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You can use the preposition ‘in’ to talk about acting in a show or film.
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For example, you can say: ‘He was in Arrested Development,’ or ‘Robert de Niro was in Heat.’ ‘Where’s it on’ is asking about where you can see something.
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You can use the preposition ‘on’ to talk about where or when a show is happening.
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You can use it for other things, too, like films at the cinema, plays at the theatre, or concerts.
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Now, think about the first question: what kind of thing do you watch?
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You could answer this by saying: ‘I mostly watch crime series.’ ‘I watch a mix of documentaries and medical drama.’ ‘I watch a bit of everything.’ What about you?
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How would you answer this question?
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Next, think of a show you really like.
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Look at the questions from the dialogue.
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We added some adjectives to the third question, because you’ll need different ideas depending on the show.
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Can you make four sentences, answering these questions, to talk about a show which you like?
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Let’s see a sample answer: ‘I’m watching a sci-fi show called The Expanse.
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It’s about human society in the future, when people live all over the solar system, and the tensions between different factions.
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The main story is about the discovery of alien life on one of Saturn’s moons.
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It doesn’t have any big-name actors in it; I haven’t seen most of the cast anywhere else.
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I think it’s quite original, although the story takes some time to get really interesting.
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I watched it on Netflix, but I think now it’s only on Amazon video.’ What about you?
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Try to make an answer like this, talking about a TV show you like.
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Use the questions to give your answer structure.
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Either write your answer down, or say it out loud.
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Or, do both!
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Could you do it?
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Try as many times as you like.
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For now, let’s look at our last section.
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Are you watching the new Game of Thrones season?
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No, actually.
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I gave up on it a while ago.
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Why, is it good?
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Yeah, I think so.
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Where did you stop?
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About two seasons ago.
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I liked it at the beginning, but I felt like it went downhill in later seasons.
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Some storylines just made no sense, and there was a lot of padding.
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Really? I think it’s just got better with time.
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The season they’re making now is the last one, and I think it’s the best yet.
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The plot has so many great twists.
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Normally, I can guess where a story is going, but with this, it’s full of surprises.
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Personally, I thought it was quite predictable.
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One problem was that it got too melodramatic.
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Every episode finished with a huge cliffhanger, like a bad soap opera.
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Well, they had a lot of plot threads to resolve from earlier.
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I think they’re doing a good job with it.
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I hate it when shows leave storylines hanging and don’t explain things properly.
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I am a little curious to see what happens with some things, but probably not enough to watch it again.
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I can tell you if you… No—no spoilers.
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I might change my mind.
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You should!
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If you don’t like a TV show, what reasons could you give?
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You heard several points in the dialogue.
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Do you remember them?
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Look at some phrases you heard: Could you explain the meaning of these?
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‘Go downhill’ is a conversational phrase meaning ‘get worse’.
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If you say ‘I liked it at the start, but it went downhill later’, you’re saying that the quality of the show got worse with time.
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If something makes no sense, it isn’t clear or understandable.
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If you say ‘some storylines made no sense’, maybe you mean that the characters made unrealistic decisions, or problems were solved in a very unrealistic, fantastical way.
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‘Padding’ means something which is added just to fill time.
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If a TV show has a lot of padding, there’s a lot of empty content, which doesn’t add to the story or the characters.
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Of course, you could use these sentences in different ways.
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For example: ‘It went downhill after the end of season one.’ ‘Some storylines didn’t go anywhere.’ ‘There was a lot of boring dialogue.’ Finally, let’s look at three more useful words you saw in the dialogue.
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Look at three sentences.
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Can you explain the highlighted words?
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A ‘cliffhanger’ is a dramatic ending to an episode, where you really want to know what happens next.
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Often, a cliffhanger means that the episode ends right in the middle of a key story moment.
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‘Plot threads’ are like storylines.
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Many TV shows have many characters and plot threads, which go in parallel to each other.
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Generally, you want a show to resolve all its plot threads, meaning that every storyline has an ending.
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Otherwise, a bad show might leave storylines hanging, meaning you never find out what happened.
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Finally, a ‘spoiler’ is when someone tells you about the story of a film or TV show before you watch it.
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Sometimes, TV reviews or articles will include the words ‘spoiler alert’ at the beginning.
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This is warning you that you shouldn’t read it if you don’t want to find out the story for yourself!
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Here’s a final task for you.
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Can you describe a TV show you really like?
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Say what kind of show it is, what it’s about, and why you like it.
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Put your answer in the comments, and you can get some feedback and corrections!
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Thanks for watching!
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See you next time!
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