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  • Welcome to English at the Movies.

  • American Classics.

  • Where We Teach You American English Heard at the Movies.

  • The 1989 movie Field of Dreams tells the story of Ray Kinsella, a corn farmer in the state of Iowa.

  • Ray is a fan of the famous baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson.

  • One night, Ray hears a mysterious voice in the cornfield.

  • Listen for the words.

  • If you build it, he will come.

  • If you build it, he will come.

  • And what was that?

  • What was what?

  • That voice.

  • Just now we didn't hear anything.

  • Ah, yeah, If you build, he will.

  • But what do you think?

  • If you build it, he will come?

  • Means is it a dreams can be successful.

  • If you work hard or B, people will buy anything.

  • If you build it, he will come.

  • The answer is, A dreams can be successful if you work hard.

  • Ray follows his dream and build a baseball field in the middle of his cornfield, even though he is in debt.

  • In the end, it gave Ray a better life, and that's English at the movies.

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