Name: Talking about films 🎬🍿 Real Easy English
Uploaded: 2025-12-01T17:02:02.000Z
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So, Georgie, what are we talking about in today's episode?

Today's episode is all about films and television.

We'll talk about our favourite movies and shows.

Ok, Neil, so what kinds of films do you like?

I like foreign films, films that are not in English because I like stories from other countries.

One type of film I really like is films that you can learn from.

And the other type of film is films that you can escape from reality.

So usually quite silly films or fantasy films.

So Georgie, can you tell us about your favorite film, the Harry Potter film you mentioned?

So you want to know about the plot, which is what happens in the film.

So Harry Potter is all about a boy who discovers that he is a wizard, that is someone who does magic.

And he goes to a school for magic called Hogwarts and he meets his best friends Ron and Hermione, who are other characters in the film.

And he spends a lot of his time trying to escape a dark wizard called Voldemort.

It sounds like there's lots of interesting characters in these films.

Yes, very evil characters and also really nice characters.

So Georgie, you talked a lot about your favourite film, Harry Potter and the grammar you used to describe the film was present simple.

So for example, you said the film is about a boy who discovers that he is a wizard and he goes to a school, a special school for wizards and he makes friends with Ron and Hermione.

We use the present simple to describe the plot of a story, like a book or a film.

We also use the present simple to tell stories, sometimes things that happened to us in the past, which is interesting.

Well, I think my favourite film is from when I was a kid and it's Raiders of the Lost Ark.

It's very old, but it's got Indiana Jones and he was my hero when I was a kid.

He's all about action and adventure and catching bad guys.

See, I'm not a big fan of action and adventure.

I actually don't because I have quite a short attention span.

Yeah, again, I think there's so much choice these days.

Sometimes actually I watch nothing because I don't know what to choose.

But sometimes I really get into a TV series and yeah, watch it all very quickly and talk about it a lot.

But you know, I stream them like everybody these days.

You stream TV shows and movies and that means watching films or TV using the Internet.

You can watch things whenever you want when you stream things.

Okay, let's look again at the vocabulary we learned during the conversation.

We learned plot, which means the story of a film, TV program or book.

Character that's a person in a story and stream watch a film or program online.

Simple to talk about what happens in a film.

For example, Harry Potter goes to a magic school called Hogwarts and meets two best friends.

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