10 Great Movies to Improve Your English
Improving English with movies and films, one of the best way to improve and entertain yourself. When you feel bored from grammar and vocabulary books, you can watch some English movies and keep improving your English.
How watching movies will help you to improve your English and enrich your vocabulary?
First you will exactly hear the natural speakers, how they use words, how they pronounce it with face expressions and how they are using their gestures in dialogues.
Watching English movies speed up your English learning and you will hear a lot English idioms and slang words. Perfect shortcut to enlarge your vocabulary!
Also you will observe the daily life. (Well, it depends on what kind of movie you choose to watch but you got the point) When you meet with a native speaker of English, it will be more easy to understand them.
It is way easier to talk about movies and have new friends right? It is another benefit of watching movies.
Guide to Learn English with Movies
-Use subtitles, if you don’t feel comfortable with English subtitles, use subtitles in your language and try to catch some simple sentences, dialogues.
-Try to listen and repeat the parts you like or parts look hard for you. You will be more comfortable with yourself, so take your time and work on your pronunciation.
-Try taking notes idioms, expressions, sentences that you liked from the movie.
-Check yourself after the movie. How many words did you learn? Did you learn something new?
-Always try to enjoy and start small!
10 Movies to Improve your English
1.Matrix (1999)
“A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.”
2.Before Sunrise (1995)
“A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.”
3.Forrest Gump (1994)
“The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75.”
4.Field of Dreams (1989)
“An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the 1919 Chicago White Sox come.”
5.50 First Dates (2004)
“Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment up until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off and Henry think he’s finally found the girl of his dreams, until he discovers she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the next day.”
6.Good Will Hunting (1997)
“Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.”
7.You’ve Got Mail (1998)
“Two business rivals who despise each other in real life unwittingly fall in love over the Internet.”
8.10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
“A pretty, popular teenager can’t go out on a date until her ill-tempered older sister does.”
9.How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
“A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.”
10.Fight Club (1999)
“An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soapmaker form an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more.”
Bonus: Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
“An I.R.S. auditor suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his work, to his love-interest, to his death.”
What is your favorite English speaking movie? Share in comments!
