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Picture warm-up

1. What do you see in this picture?
2. Who are these people, and what are they doing?
3. Does this look like your life here, or in your home country? How is it the same or different?

Discussion questions

1. What kind of movies do you like best?
2. What movie have you watched more than once?
3. What TV shows are popular in your home country?
4. Do you watch movies with subtitles? In which language?
5. Can watching TV help you learn English? How?
6. Do you prefer going to the movie theater or watching at home?
7. What streaming services do you use?
8. What American TV show helped you understand American culture?
9. Do you prefer happy endings or sad endings?
10. Should children’s TV time be limited?
11. Who is your favorite actor or actress?
12. Do you like to binge-watch shows? What was the last one?
13. Are movies better than books? Why or why not?
14. What movie from your country should everyone see?
15. If your life were a movie, what kind of movie would it be?

Key words

Say the word, then read the example sentence out loud.

• genre
  Comedy is my favorite genre.
• subtitles
  I watch movies with English subtitles.
• streaming
  Most people use streaming services now.
• episode
  I watched three episodes last night.
• series
  That series has five seasons.
• binge-watch
  We binge-watched the whole show this weekend.
• plot
  The plot was hard to follow.
• character
  The main character is a young doctor.
• actor
  He is a famous Mexican actor.
• sequel
  The sequel wasn’t as good as the first movie.
• spoiler
  Don’t tell me the ending; no spoilers!
• documentary
  We watched a documentary about oceans.
• rating
  This movie has a PG-13 rating.
• recommend
  Can you recommend a good movie?
• theater
  We saw the movie in a theater.

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