Hi there! It's Asiya. You know learning the language is not just about sitting
with books at your desk. Think about children. They never use dictionaries
to learn new words or learn rules in order to start speaking, right? And
we all have this ability to pick up the language we're exposed to. Actually
watching TV is a great way to improve your listening skills, expand your
vocabulary and just learn what native speakers say in certain situations.
The key is to choose a TV show you can mostly understand already. So for this
video I've prepared a number of movies and series I really like for different
levels of English skills so you can choose what works for you. We start with
an intermediate level and go up. Some series are British and some are American
because you should be able to understand both accents. Okay, let's get started!
if you've tried watching movies in the past but didn't feel that you were
improving then perhaps the movie was too difficult try starting with cartoons or
animated movies they tend to be easier to understand a recent one is the
Queen's Corgi meet Rex ever since he was a puppy
he's been the Queen's top dog and he's shaken paws with the best the brightest
and the craziest fantastic little place you got here Liz and it's about the dogs
of the Queen Elizabeth the second the movie is quite funny and you see the
president Trump his wife Melania but it's mainly about dogs and I really liked it
then perhaps we could get formally acquainted real great never cross Tyson
now newsy nose out another funny animated movie is the ice age the temperatures
heading down freezing my tail off but how do we know it's an ice age because
of all the yeah probably you've seen it it's really famous and now there are
five movies which is great because it gives you time to get used to accents
and pronunciation I'm not going as you keep on watching
you'll be able to understand more than when you start so in this regard what
she's serious is great now I referred to me as Lord of the
flame hey Lord of the flame details on fire
I actually thought you're gonna eat me I don't eat junk food the next one is
Harry Potter you may already know that he loved it I showed you that I listen
to every book on audible I also watched all the movies
she's ever make anything happen Ellison you couldn't explain
you're a wizard Harry I'm a what if you've seen them already it's good
because you know the story so you'll be able to understand more dear mr. Potter
we are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry in a few moments you will pass through these doors and
join your classmates and I've actually chosen this one because of the
pronunciation well first it's British you hear British accents and then all
the actors are kids and kids tend to articulate more clearly than adults
I'm gage bad before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us
killed was expelled see nice sauger priority and it's long so you'll be able
to hear same words same things over and over again and it's great for learning
English yes our new celebrity first years should note the dark forest is
strictly forbidden with no magics to be used between the
classes of the colony if you wanna learn handy vocabulary for everyday situations
I have two suggestions the first one is the sing song this is the worst day of
my life the worst day of your life so far it's one of the longest running
American TV shows it's very popular and it's very funny and they talk about all
kinds of topics so you can learn lots of different things
president schwarzenegger that is me Springfield has reached crisis levels
I've narrowed your choices down to five unthinkable options
I was elected to lead not to read and they do talk like in a cartoon but you
think get used to it it's not fair to use a bug zapper to catch the fish the
second one is friends this is amazing how did this happen well Ross and I were
in grad school together but we haven't seen each other since then while I land
in China guess who's in charge of the dig Julie it's extremely popular as well
and when it was still running in the last season of it they were getting 1
million dollars each for each episode of the show that's how crazy populate was
and people still watch it a lot if you haven't seen it you should you will pick
up a lot of useful vocabulary if you're going to leave or study in an
english-speaking country there's always this little voice inside that kept
saying it's never gonna happen move on you know whose voice that was God but
the silver lining if you want to see it is that he made this decision all by
himself without any outside help whatsoever watching TV shows is a great
way to learn vocabulary on a certain topic and to be honest today I don't
spend too much time learning new English words even though there are still plenty
of words I don't know but I pick up words from what I watch and from what I
read and if you watch a whole serious about certain topic you will learn lots
of new words so I'm gonna give some suggestions I think most of us are
fascinated with professions of lawyers and doctors so if you want to learn more
about laws in America watch the suits you give me this and I will become the
best lawyer you have ever seen I just found our next Associate
take notes I'm not gonna repeat myself it's really engaging and you see a lot
of different situation install someone to watch every move we make how do we
stop it don't bother Harvey I'm out of here
whose goddamn solder you want there's no way I would ever betray Louis leave this
isn't your firm it's mine you can hand in your resignation my
serious about doctors is Grey's Anatomy are you serious as a heart attack
cardio humor oh yes sir I am laughing it's based in the US and it shows you
lots of situations I would say it's actually quite complex because the
medical vocabulary is quite challenging in any language you spend here as a
surgical resident will be the best and worst of your life you will be pushed to
the breaking point this is your starting line this is your arena
how will you play that's up to you I know that many of you study or work in
Business and Finance and I wanted to give you some serious to watch but I
couldn't find anything I don't know anything if you do please leave a
comment below but I know a great TV show I watch it a lot it's called the shark
tank match the country's most innovative passionate entrepreneurs with the most
prominent accomplished business investors they'd be using their own
money and investing in real businesses we've got a deal so if you want to have
your own business you should absolutely watch it it's amazing but even if you
don't it's highly entertaining and you hear real conversations it's very good
people thought we're not doing Virgin Galactic people would think you're not
doing this sacrifice is part of being an entrepreneur don't feel sorry for self
to get the job done let's come back to British accents great Sirius is yes
minister and then yes Prime Minister it's about a super man who became a
minister who studied just at London School of Economics and his aristocratic
permanent secretary who studied at Oxford and who speaks Latin it's very
British you will learn a lot about the culture and about all the
intrigues that happen then all you want to say what Minister I'm afraid that is
the penalty we have to pay for trying to pretend that we're Europeans here the
humor is really smart rather than embarrassing but the English
is a bit challenging Europe is a community of nations dedicated towards
one goal oh why do you suppose we went into it to strengthen the Brotherhood of
free Western nations really we went it to screw the French by splitting them
off from the German I don't think you should watch the whole movie with
subtitles on because then you just start reading them automatically but if you
watch the scene and you couldn't get what happened of course you can switch
on subtitles go back and reward it but then you should switch them off and
watch the scene again trying to hear what you means the first time around
but then your listening skills will improve if you want to challenge
yourself watch shallick turn
you're a soldier it's gonna take you a while to adjust is feeling life it's a
modern take on the iconic detective and the action happens today it's based in
London so you see lots of London and I must warn you that Cumberbatch who plays
shallick speaks fast and to use it's quite complex works so as I mentioned
before it's a challenge so this is what you do you enjoy you solve puzzles for a
living the names Sherlock Holmes consulting detective
I have a question for you - what movies have you watched in English and enjoyed
and recommend to others which ones did you find easier to understand so please
share your recommendations in comments below and thank you for watching me
today take care bye