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Watching a film trailer, if you do it attentively, with the eye of an active language learner, is what we could call a visually-aided vocabulary activity. And there are so many available to you every year!
Many film trailers feature superimposed short reviews to encourage the viewer. Expressions like "it will keep you glued to the screen" and such. If the expressions or vocabulary used in these captions are new to us, we will be using two (usually involuntary) strategies to understand them: one is connotation, since we know that these trailers are in fact a form of advertising so the language in it will be largely positive. The second one is their context, which includes visual cues, dialogue and voiceover.
Can you provide a definition, even if it's just approximate, of the expressions in the captions of these film trailers? Share the expressions and your definitions in the comments section! Some of you will want to focus on adjectives, while others may prefer idiomatic expressions (like the "glued to the screen" I mentioned earlier).
I hope you enjoy the trailers! I chose four documentary films: a different way of showing love to nature in A Will for the Woods, the talent hidden in the background of the stage in Twenty Feet from Stardom, the hardest exam in the world (no, not your certificate exam!) in Somm, and visual impact in Samsara.
Hope to see your comments soon!
A WILL FOR THE WOODS - Trailer from First Run Features on Vimeo.Watching a film trailer, if you do it attentively, with the eye of an active language learner, is what we could call a visually-aided vocabulary activity. And there are so many available to you every year!
Many film trailers feature superimposed short reviews to encourage the viewer. Expressions like "it will keep you glued to the screen" and such. If the expressions or vocabulary used in these captions are new to us, we will be using two (usually involuntary) strategies to understand them: one is connotation, since we know that these trailers are in fact a form of advertising so the language in it will be largely positive. The second one is their context, which includes visual cues, dialogue and voiceover.
Can you provide a definition, even if it's just approximate, of the expressions in the captions of these film trailers? Share the expressions and your definitions in the comments section! Some of you will want to focus on adjectives, while others may prefer idiomatic expressions (like the "glued to the screen" I mentioned earlier).
I hope you enjoy the trailers! I chose four documentary films: a different way of showing love to nature in A Will for the Woods, the talent hidden in the background of the stage in Twenty Feet from Stardom, the hardest exam in the world (no, not your certificate exam!) in Somm, and visual impact in Samsara.
Hope to see your comments soon!
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