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hi everybody and welcome back to top
words my name is alicia and today we're
going to talk about 10 tv related words
let's go
to shoot to film the first expression is
to shoot or to film to shoot or to film
actually we use these words here to
shoot to shoot means to take video to
record video in a sentence this show was
shot in england
to shoot becomes shot to shoot shot in
past tense we can also use to film film
comes from kind of older cameras where
film actual physical film was used now
of course we use mostly digital media
but we use to shoot or to film video
or to shoot a tv show to talk about
recording something for use in movies or
tv
to broadcast to air
to broadcast or to air so this these are
words which mean um to to play a tv show
on tv to air a tv show to broadcast a tv
show recently i feel like to air is more
common like this tv show airs every week
on friday in a sentence new episodes air
every friday we use actually we use
broadcast for our live streams on this
channel like we could say like a live
broadcast every week at 10 pm est that's
true
so we can say broadcast or we can say
air i feel like broadcast is a little
more natural for
internet things we don't really use
errors every week for internet things we
use air for a tv but yeah broadcast
would be more for internet programming i
think
to cast
the next expression the next vocabulary
word is to cast to cast there are a
couple different meanings of this word
there's a phishing related word which
means to throw out like a fishing line
to try to get a fish this motion is
called to cast but if you're reading
something about your favorite tv show
and you see two cast it means
to choose someone to play a character to
choose someone to play a character is to
cast so for example in a sentence who
was cast in the role of the princess so
to cast someone as a character is in the
expression we use uh jennifer aniston
was cast as rachel in friends
or dean kane was cast as superman in the
superman tv show from the 90s to give an
american pop culture example cast
okay the next expression however is the
noun form cast so cast as a noun not as
a verb as a noun the cast is the group
of actors and actresses who play the
characters in the tv show or the movie
you're watching so that's everybody all
of the actors and actresses are called
the cast together their group is called
the cast so for example uh that show has
an all-star cast
season
series the next expression or the next
word is season or series depending on
which country you may hear uh let's see
let's see season season is usually used
in the us and ceres i think is used
maybe in england and maybe in australia
as well
so season and series these mean like the
roughly the years of a show in a
sentence how many seasons have you seen
so the kind of like the chapters of
shows over like maybe 10 weeks or 12
weeks or so you might watch one season
of a show it usually has like 8 to 10
maybe 12 episodes we'll talk about later
so one season is like one year of a show
episode
the next expression is episode episode
so episode is one usually for a tv show
one 30 minute or 160 minute block of
time
in a sentence every episode of that show
is so good so maybe each week one
episode airs from a tv show or two
episodes air every week so an episode is
one part of a season so for example to
use these words together we could say
there are 10 episodes in every season of
my favorite tv show so episodes are
these kind of small blocks of time small
parts of each story
to run
to run to run to run is a verb that has
many different meanings in english oh we
can't talk about them all in one video
or even a million videos but
to run in this case means how long a
program is broadcast or how long a
program airs for so we would say that
show is running for six seasons it means
that show is going to be broadcast on tv
for six seasons so in another example
sentence that show ran for just three
seasons so to run a show refers to the
length of time that that tv program can
be viewed on tv maybe more example
sentences are better here so like uh
this show has a planned run of 10 years
for we want to run this again next year
for example so that means
how often you want to broadcast
to be set in the next expression is to
be set in to be set in refers to the
place where the story happens in the tv
show we can also use this for books and
for movies any storytelling situation
you can use to be set in in this example
sentence this show is set in new york
city the expression to set in can refer
to place yes but it can also refer to
the time period of a show so for example
maybe a show is set in the past far in
the past you could say this show is set
in the old west or this show is set in
ancient china this show is set in
england in the 1600s so that's uh the
location and the time when the tv show
is set so place and location we can use
to be set in
to recur
the next word is to recur to recur so to
recur means to happen again uh something
that that continues uh something that uh
repeats to recur so we use this for
characters and themes in particular in
tv shows so we might see a recurring
character that character is a recurring
character in the series they repeat they
appear again and again uh from time to
time not as a regular character but they
they appear sometimes like supporting
characters in a sentence joker is a
recurring villain in the batman series
he shows up from time to time he's a
recurring character a recurring villain
in this case
script
the next word is script script script is
the text for the show tris script is uh
the
the text that the actors and actresses
read to tell you the story it's the
stuff that the writers create and
yeah actors will read that those are the
words for the show the script so in a
sentence the script of this show is
really well written fun fact there is no
script for this show unscripted really
there's no script sometimes people are
like they're surprised to find out
there's no script for this some people
are like you're not reading anything i'm
like no of course not do you think that
i was reading all that it's always so
clear to me like the episodes that come
out where i have had to read something
like for the uh
the postcard contest for example there's
this it just everything just slows down
and is so like the vibe is so weird
anyway no script for this show that's
the end so those are 10 tv related words
and you can use some of these words with
movies and other stories as well if you
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