Teacher Prix what is the best way to use tv series to learn English that's what you're
going to learn in this video coming up hey friends Teacher Prix here to help you talk
to anyone anywhere anytime in English thank you so much for watching this lesson now the
first thing you need to understand is the difference between process and result why
is that important oftentimes students feel frustrated because they watch tv series but
they can't understand the problem with that is that the tv show the tv news or the podcast
these are all activities that represent the result meaning that's what you want to do
you know that's the dream that's the goal they do not represent the things you need
to do the activities you need to do to unlock your listening skills so that you can actually
understand those movies and tv shows that is a big confusion students make process what
you need to get done to be able to get the good stuff the results being able to watch
things in English and understand them if you truly want to understand tv series tv shows
podcasts movies tv news you gotta understand that it's not about just hitting play sitting
down and having a good time no you gotta work on specific activities now the first strategy
that I’m going to recommend the next time you watch a tv show the next time you watch
a, you know an episode of your favorite tv show or maybe a movie is to focus on pronunciation
and intonation practice now here what you need to understand is this is not the let's
have fun time it's let's work on the goddamn process time so that I can finally understand
movies and have a good time so it is time to focus so ideally for all the recommendations
that I’m going to give you the three ones you will need to choose short scenes from
movies you like from episodes of your favorite tv shows but not the total thing not the complete
episode not the complete movie that's not how you get work done it's not about listening
a lot it's about doing the smart work to get there so by choosing a short scene you can
activate the subtitles and begin the process of working on intonation and pronunciation
this will help you speak more clearly and understand the patterns that native speakers
follow when they are communicating when they're having a conversation when they're angry when
they're happy when they are having a romantic conversation the speed will change the rhythm
the intonation will change so you gotta start working on that so that your brain can learn
to identify the pronunciation style the intonation how the voice changes because sometimes students
don't understand and they keep doing the same thing just hitting play and listening but
they don't do smart work grab a short scene and really dive into the content you will
repeat it a few times it's not just once okay this is a routine that you will need to establish
you will need to follow so like five minutes or four minutes and pay attention to these
nuances okay the intonation practice shadowing choose one character and read the lines follow
along read along this will help you improve your pronunciation intonation and comprehension
okay this is a very important practice the second way to use tv series to really start
understanding those people you know is to do a comprehension practice okay you're gonna
follow the same strategies I described in the first one a short scene okay has to be
a short scene no longer 10 minutes is a big stretch okay but let's focus on five minutes
if you can't 10 minutes but nothing more than that okay and here you're going to do a comprehension
test you're gonna watch it you can activate the subtitles in English then you can begin
to test your vocabulary comprehension what are the new words you are learning in this
part of the episode and my friends if you follow this recommendation you will learn
a ton of vocabulary then you will begin to understand that your comprehension problem
is not just listening it's vocabulary and sometimes in some cases it's structure grammar
you're not familiar with okay so follow this exercise and I am sure you will be surprised
with the amount of information you will gather by uh checking these activities and understanding
where your challenges are okay so here you will watch a short scene that will work on
vocabulary comprehension and scene comprehension what is going on what is the conversation
about what is character A telling character B why is this important why are they angry
why are they fighting so it's comprehension time okay did you get the main idea
did the character say a joke and you were like oh what is this joke about sometimes
native speakers tell jokes during a movie scene or a tv show scene that we are not familiar
with and because of that we don't understand there's a lot of culture involved and sometimes
history that's why the joke doesn't make sense to us maybe they make a reference to an old
tv commercial or to an old tv character that we don't know and as a result we think oh
my listening sucks my comprehension is terrible when in reality you don't even know the person
they're talking about or the commercial or the movie scene okay so be aware of that so
here is the second strategy that you're going to follow now I’m going to tell you strategy
number three but if possible support my channel by hitting the like button and subscribing
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the third one is describe characters okay this will help you work a lot on grammar in
a more active way pick your favorite shows and then start describing the characters let's
say for example Friends who is Monica what can you tell me about Monica okay what stories
can you tell me about Monica and the things that have happened to Monica during the the
show okay this is an amazing exercise that will help you work on present past it will
allow you to use grammar in in a more contextualized environment so let's say your favorite show
is Suits okay what can you tell me about Harvey Harvey Specter oh my god I love that character
what are some crazy stories that happened to him in the show that you remember this
is an amazing practice and every week you can practice describing something else that
happened to a specific character you decide you can do this with movies you can do this
with tv shows it's an amazing way to use tv series to improve your English I am sure that
if you follow these strategies your comprehension vocabulary grammar and speaking will improve
dramatically i hope you enjoyed this lesson other than that share like and subscribe I'll
see you next time bye