hi welcome to this latest video about the IELTS speaking exam in this exam to
In this video I'm going to show you how to use 12 collocations
which are also very important for your writing exam 12 less common words again
important for writing as well 5 native and/or idiomatic expressions and 3
phrasal verbs so we're going to look at three different IELTS part 3 questions
all about films as a way of introducing this vocabulary to you first question
why do you think people like films I'd say that escapism is the most obvious
answer certainly if he think about fictional films they offer people the
chance to momentarily forget their humdrum lives for example instead of
thinking about what the kids are going to have 40 a young mom and her friend
could sit there fantasizing about James Dean or Johnny Depp or whoever today's
hot rod is equally a couple who might be going through a bit of a rough patch
could go together and watch a rom-com have a laugh and maybe come away feeling
better about things for kids I think films can really fire their
imaginations if you think about fantasy films such as Lord of the Rings or film
set in space such as Star Trek so escapism is the idea that you can escape
from something in this case reality or your daily life a fictional film is a
film it's not a true story it's something that has been invented humdrum
lights a good collocation humdrum means monotonous boring humdrum lives just
your ordinary day-to-day existence which can be quite boring for some people if
you fantasize about something this is as though you dream about that thing oh
yeah I really fantasizing about this all that so it could be a pizza when you're
hungry yeah or it could be a person that you really fancy ah a heart throb is a
person that you really fancy but a heart frob really is a person that lots of
people really fancy a rough patch a good collocation if a couple is going through
a rough patch then their relationship isn't going very well it's going through
a period when things aren't working very well rom-com this is short for a
romantic comedy but we in spoke in English we wouldn't say romantic comedy
very often we would just say rom-com to come away a phrasal verb
if you come away from something feeling better then by the end of it when you
leave something might feel better so for example if Real Madrid went to play
Manchester United and came away with a win than by the end by the time they
left then they had got this win to fire somebody's imagination
if you fire imagination then you really make the egg modulation kind of explode
you can really imagine lots of things if your imagination is really fired or
fired up second question how have films changed since you were a child hmm great
question I think anyone that likes sci-fi films would tell you that the
quality of the special effects has improved out of all recognition over the
past 20 to 30 years or so gone are the days of flimsy sets that visibly wobble
when anyone goes near them their place we have all manner of
fantastic Technicolor explosions news to represent the effects of various weapons
well it's also changed I think is people's idea of what is acceptable on
the big screen there's a lot more vulgar language such as swearing in films these
days and also a ton of gratuitous violence such as in Reservoir Dogs so
sci-fi is short for science fiction so for example films about space where
science has allowed us to do things that we really can't do in today's world
special effects these are those things that you see when the screen goes boom
and things like that improve out of all recognition is a kind of native
expression meaning that something has improved hugely dramatically improved a
lot gone are the days of another native expression meaning this isn't true
anymore these things don't exist anymore so if you went back 30 or 40 years
honestly you would have seen film sets where on things like Star Trek where you
would actually see the bridge of the Starship Enterprise wobble where people
walked near it so wobble means to do this like a plate like jelly on a plate
flimsy means weak and liable to break or fall over technicolor
just means newsing lots of bright vivid colors in combination the big screen
another collocation it's an informal way of referring to the cinema so the big
screen means the cinema the big screen that you watch on at the cinema but we
news it to mean cinema vulgar language vulgar language is language that might
offend people such as swearing a ton in this context a ton
something means lots of something gratuitous violence
another important collocation it means violence that simply isn't really
necessary to tell the story of the film third question why do you think people
still go to the cinema when it's possible to watch any film at home on
top quality screens ah I think it all comes down to the whole cinema
experience think of the popcorn or chocolate and the absurdly oversized
sodas and the feeling of shared experience with so many other people I
definitely think that the enduring appeal of the cinema can be put down to
that sitting at home just doesn't cut it really for many people of course another
factor is that unless you're going to get some awful bootleg copy there was
film from the back of the cinema and somebody's mobile phone then you can't
see films at home the instant that they come out these days so many people are
about instant gratification then it's not surprising that people still flock
to the cinema in their droves to see new releases
so if sort of if it all comes down to something phrasal verb to cut it all
comes down to something it means that I think really this is the reason this is
why something is happening it all comes down to the fact that the real reason is
that cinema experience self-explanatory I think but a collocation putting those
two terms together absurdly oversized soda sodas or fizzy drinks like
coca-cola oversized beads too big absurdly means ridiculous as though in
other words they're so big you can't believe it you know the ones that are
like this shared experience again I think self-explanatory but a
good collocation shared experience the things experiences that you share with
other people which happens in the cinema but not really if you're watching at
home on your own and during appeal another collocation
enduring means that something lasts for a long time the appeal of something is
why something is popular so why is cinema still popular why has it been
popular for a long time why will it probably be popular in the future
because of the whole cinema experience put down if something can be put down to
something as a phrasal verb then that means that this is that you can identify
the reason behind it it can be put down to this so for example the reason why so
many English people like going on holiday to hot countries can be put down
to the fact that we have terrible weather in our country the expression to
just not cut it means if you don't cut it it's something isn't good enough
something that doesn't cut it isn't good enough so sitting at home as an
experience for watching films just isn't good enough for many people a bootleg
copy so a bootleg copy is an illegal or pirated copy of a film so occasionally
you might see when you go to the cinema you'll see that thing that comes up at
the start that says you're not allowed to sit at the back recording are on your
mobile phone instant gratification colocation people that like to be
instantly gratified once in want an immediate result they want immediate
satisfaction from something to flock somewhere in their droves and native
expression meaning that lots of people go to a particular place new releases
collocation simply films that have just been
released so I hoped you enjoyed this in total there were 32 expressions in this
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