Talking about films 🎬🍿 Real Easy English

Welcome to Real Easy English, 

the podcast where we have real conversations in easy English 

to help you learn. I'm Georgie. And I’m Neil. To read along with 

this podcast, visit our website: BBC Learning English dot com. How are you today, Neil? I'm very well, Georgie. How are you? I'm pretty good, thank you, as well. 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. Great, let's get started. 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. What about you? I like two kinds of films. 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. OK. Do you have a favourite film? Yes, I do,

I really love the Harry Potter series. So, Georgie, can you tell us

about your favourite film, the Harry Potter film you mentioned? Yes. 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 and it's very dangerous. It's a great film! Wow, it sounds like there's lots

of interesting characters in these films. Yes. Very evil characters

and also really nice characters. Mm. 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. All present simple. Yes, that's right. 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. What about you?

What's your favourite film? Well, I think my favourite film

is from when I was a kid, and it's Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Wow. I haven't seen that. It's very old, but it's got Indiana Jones,

and he was my hero when I was a kid. — Really?

— Yeah. Why was he your hero? Because it was, he's all about action

and adventure and catching bad guys. Oh, interesting! See, I'm not a big fan

of action and adventure. So, Georgie, do you watch lots of movies? I actually don't, because I have

quite a short attention span. I actually prefer to watch TV or series. What about you? 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. — Mm-hm. That's called binge watching.

— Mm. How do you watch these series? Erm, on TV. But, you know, I stream them,

like everybody these days. So, you just used the word stream. 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. OK. Let's look again at the vocabulary

we learned during the conversation. We learned 'plot', which means 'the story of a film, TV

programme or book', so what happens. 'Character', that's 'a person in a story'. And 'stream' —

'watch a film or programme online'. And we learned how to use present 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. Thanks for listening to Real Easy English. You can find more easy conversation on our 

website: BBC Learning English dot com. Next time, we'll be talking about pets. Bye for now. Bye.