Improve Your English Listening Skills With Christmas Movies
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- How to understand native English speakers when they talk fast
- Common features of connected speech in English
- Christmas in English-speaking countries
- Have an least an intermediate level of English
- Enjoy watching movies and TV shows in English, especially Christmas movies
What could be more fun than curling up under a blanket to watch a classic Christmas movie on a cold winter's day? Not much right!?
But then you put on "Love Actually" and find that you can't understand half of what the characters are saying. So you switch on the subtitles and try to read while trying to listen and watch the movie.
You can maybe catch the "general idea". And the images help of course. But you feel like you're missing out on something. On enriching your English with all these fast-sounding native expressions that you can't catch.
So what's a Christmas movie lover to do? Watch more movies? Just keep practising?
Well, if you want to catch what fast-talking native speakers are saying in time for Christmas, then you're going to love Improve Your English Listening Skills With Christmas Movies
In the course you'll discover:
Why native English speakers talk so "fast" and what to do about it
How to watch movies, including Christmas movies, without subtitles
3 of my favourite Christmas movies & why I love them so much
Movie trivia and cultural knowledge to help you fit in better with native speakers
Tips to improve your English listening skills with any movie or TV show
New words and expressions that native English speakers use in conversation
Pronunciation tips to sound more like a native speaker
- English learners who love movies, especially Christmas ones
- English learners who want to improve their listening skills
- English learners who love to travel or who plan to move abroad
- English learners who want to be proficient in English
- English learners who want to sound like a native speaker
- English learners who want to fit in with native English speakers
- English learners who want to understand movies without subtitles
- English learners who want to understand fast-talking native speakers
Welcome to this course all about improving your English listening skills with Christmas movies. In this video, you'll discover what you're going to learn in this course and how it will help you understand fast-talking native speakers, connect better with them and improve your pronunciation and vocabulary skills.
Curious to know which movies we're going to work on together in this course? Discover the 3 films I've chosen and find out if they're new for you or old favourites. A little sneak peek - they're all comedies. Can you guess what they might be?
You're probably wondering how this course is going to work? Are we going to watch the whole movies together or what? Well no, but you are going to watch clips and use active listening techniques to better catch fast spoken English and learn how to watch these movies without subtitles!
Welcome to movie 1, Elf. In this video, I'll re-introduce the movie and talk about the scene that you're going to work on to improve your English listening skills.
Please make sure you download the worksheet "Elf exercises" as this document contains the link to the scene you need to watch. It also includes all the exercises you'll need to do to improve your listening thanks to Elf.
The main exercise in the worksheet is dictation - this is where you listen to a short section of the clip and try to write out what you hear. It doesn't matter if you miss or mishear a word - write out as much as possible as you understand it. After, you'll see the line you worked on and I'll give you feedback on what was hard to catch.
Once you've downloaded the "Elf exercises" PDF and worked through the activities, watch this video for the feedback on dictation 1.
Welcome to movie 2, Scrooged. In this video, I'll re-introduce the movie and talk about the scene that you're going to work on to improve your English listening skills.
Please make sure you download the worksheet "Scrooged exercises" as this document contains the link to the scene you need to watch. It also includes all the exercises you'll need to do to improve your listening thanks to Scrooged.
The main exercise in the worksheet is dictation - this is where you listen to a short section of the clip and try to write out what you hear. It doesn't matter if you miss or mishear a word - write out as much as possible as you understand it. After, you'll see the line you worked on and I'll give you feedback on what was hard to catch.
Welcome to movie 3, Home Alone. In this video, I'll re-introduce the movie and talk about the scene that you're going to work on to improve your English listening skills.
Please make sure you download the worksheet "Home Alone exercises" as this document contains the link to the scene you need to watch. It also includes all the exercises you'll need to do to improve your listening thanks to Home Alone.
The main exercise in the worksheet is dictation - this is where you listen to a short section of the clip and try to write out what you hear. It doesn't matter if you miss or mishear a word - write out as much as possible as you understand it. After, you'll see the line you worked on and I'll give you feedback on what was hard to catch.