Welcome to a new episode of English Vocabulary Booster.
My name is Lara and I'm a SALSA-certified English teacher.
Learning new vocabulary usually takes a long time, but we'll do it in a way that's easy, quick and efficient.
In every episode, we'll learn how to use five new English words or expressions, so that you too can start speaking like a native.
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Welcome back you guys.
I hope you're having an amazing week, and I've been crazy busy because I'm working on the new website and there's so much that I'm creating and I have so little time to do it, so I'm currently working on um on the weekends as well, so hopefully this is going to be over soon.
But here we are uh, recording another episode for the podcast, and this week's topic is movies.
Wow, that was a really good movie.
What do you think of it?
Yeah, it was pretty good.
Um, I mean, the cast was great.
Yeah, I guess they put together a nice cast.
Yeah, and I mean, what's the name of the guy who played the lead?
Ryan Gosling?
Yeah, that's the one.
Hey, he was good.
Oh, and the special effects.
Those were good, too.
What special effects?
Yeah, but I didn't like the ending.
It was too gory for my taste.
All that blood, right?
Yeah, yeah, you're right.
Just too much.
Definitely too gory.
All that blood and violence.
Man, it was bad.
Um, there was no blood.
It was a chick flick.
How could there be blood?
You didn't watch the movie, did you?
Well, I may have fallen asleep, but just for a little bit.
What do you mean?
How much did you miss?
Um, I think I woke up right before the end credits.
I can't believe it.
Okay, I have to be honest.
That kind of happens to me every time I watch a movie, especially if I'm at home.
I can't stay awake for some reason.
All right, let's begin with expression number one, cast.
I mean, the cast was great.
Who is part of the cast of a movie?
The people in the movie or the people behind the camera?
The cast would be the people in the movie.
So we're talking about the actors.
And think of your favorite movie.
Who was in the cast?
So my favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings Part 3.
So that is The Return of the King.
But if I have to think of a movie, and Elijah Wood was in the cast, by the way.
But if I have to think of a movie with a great cast, it would have to be Gangs of New York.
If you haven't watched it, it's a great movie.
I think I've watched it like three or four times.
I was obsessed with it.
And Daniel Day-Lewis is in the cast.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Liam Neeson, lots of great names.
It's a really, really good movie.
Expression number two, play the lead.
What's the name of the guy who played the lead?
If you play the lead in a movie, do you appear a lot or just from time to time?
If you play the lead, you appear a lot.
You're the main character.
You're the main actor.
And can you have more than one lead in a movie?
Yes.
Sometimes you can have maybe like two.
You don't have like 30 leads.
But you can have one or two people that play the lead.
Can you think of an actor who often plays the lead in the movies he's in or she's in?
So...
I would have to say probably Leonardo DiCaprio.
I can't really think of a movie that he's in where he doesn't play the lead.
I mean, literally like he's the main actor in pretty much every movie he's in.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
You can send me an email and say no, Leonardo DiCaprio was in this movie and he didn't play the lead.
But most of the times he does.
He's a really good actor.
Expression number three, gory.
It was too gory for my taste.
If the movie you're watching is gory, what are you more likely to see?
Blood or ghosts?
If a movie is gory, you're going to see a lot of blood, a lot of violence.
You know, like I don't know, people being cut up or people just like you know just a lot of blood and all that stuff.
Can you think of a movie you've watched that was gory?
So I don't watch gory movies usually.
Um, but I think the, so an example, I can't really think of a movie.
All right.
Because again, if I know it's going to be gory, I'm not going to watch it because I think it's disgusting.
But I was watching – a few days ago, I started watching this series.
What's it called?
I think it's Mindhunter.
Yeah, I think it's Mindhunter.
And it's about this therapist that interviews killers, like serial killers.
And he asks – a lot of questions and they're very graphic when they describe what they've done.
And sometimes you'll see pictures and images and flashbacks.
And it's just, it's too gory for my taste.
You see a lot of blood, a lot of, ugh, I can't, I can't stand it.
Expression number four, chick flick.
It was a chick flick.
How could there be blood?
Is a chick flick a movie mostly meant for a female audience or a male audience?
A chick flick, it's usually meant for a female audience.
So it comes from the word, obviously, chick, which is kind of slang for girl.
It's not super nice.
It's a bit sexist, but that's what a chick flick is.
You know, people do call some movies chick flicks.
So mostly when it's intended for a female audience.
And are chick flicks usually deep movies or not?
Not really.
They're usually very light.
So it's what we would call romantic comedies or rom-coms.
So you know, it's about love and maybe the girl breaks up and then she finds a great boyfriend, a boyfriend.
Something happens, you know, something very light.
It's usually not like a drama or thriller or a horror movie.
It's something very light and, you know, very like kind of sentimental.
It has to do with feelings.
And that's why usually girls like it better than guys.
Can you think of a movie that could be defined as a chick flick?
There's a lot of movies out there that are chick flicks.
One of my favorite ones from when I was younger used to be Mean Girls, which is like, if you want to really see what a chick flick is like, just watch Mean Girls, because that's a great example.
It's a very light movie.
It's not It's not deep or anything.
It's pretty silly and mostly for girls.
So yeah, Mean Girls.
Let me know if you've watched it because it used to be everywhere when I was younger.
Expression number five, end credits.
I think I woke up just right before the end credits.
When do you see the end credits?
Before, during, or after a movie?
Well, they are called end credits for a reason, so after the movie.
And what do you see in the end credits?
The names of the actors or their role?
You actually see both, both the names of the actors and their role.
They usually are side by side, you know?
Do you stay for the end credits or do you leave before?
Okay, I'm a little shamed at this because I don't know if that's a good thing.
Well, actually, I know it's not a good thing, but I don't know if it's really bad.
But I always leave before the end – or like during the end credits.
I don't stay and watch the whole thing unless I know that there's something.
Because sometimes some movies will include like an extra clip at the end, like right after the end credits.
In that case, I might stay, but I find it a little boring, unfortunately.
So a lot of times, as soon as the movie's over, I just stand up and walk away.
Yeah, I'm a little ashamed of that, but I think a lot of people most people leave during the end credits and don't stay for the whole thing.
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