Film, TV and video

A piece of advice that I love to give to English learners is not to limit themselves to studying books. Rather, I advise them to improve their skills of listening and understanding watching films and TV series in English. It’s fun and it will help you to learn English before you know it! Want to…

Grey’s Anatomy is one of the most popular TV series of recent years even if the hospital-setting has been done a hundred times before. The number of characters and the plot intrigues between the lives of the various doctors makes for an interesting and involving watch. The plot The story of Grey’s Anatomy revolves around…

The Cinema Beltrade features films from quality film makers with the original language and subtitles. WHERE: Cinema Beltrade, via Oxilia 10 (MM1 Pasteur, tram n. 1) – 20127 MilanoTICKETS: adult € 6,5; reduced price € 5,0; pass 6 films € 24,00. Daily pass 2 films: € 10INFO: info@cinemabeltrade.net Examples of films sent in the past Stop the pounding heart…

It’s always good to have a few alternative sites and ways of downloading films in English. Downloading your favoruite films will allow you to build up a sort of personal archive on your hard disk so you can watch them when you want and as many times as you want. This is handy if you…

Here are some handy links you can use to download all of your favourite films at a great price. If you want to play it safe and what you download is high quality and won’t come with loads of glitches and playback issues, what could be better than building up your own personal video library?…

When you don’t know what to do with yourself and you want to relax a little bit (maybe after lunch or dinner) then there’s nothing better than settling down to watch a film in English for free on Youtube. How to watch English films on Youtube If you open Youtube and you don’t have any idea of what to…

How many times have you been about to watch one of your favourite films in the original English version when you realize it’s not as easy as it first seems? If you English level isn’t very advanced it is important to find a film that is within your linguistic reach. This means films with dialogues…

Watching films in English is important for your listening skills and to enlarge your vocabularly (maybe with the help of subtitles in English). One of the many benefits of watching films in the original English is that you will appreciate the actors much more when they speak and act in their natural voices (rather than…

Watching a film in English is a great exercise for helping and developing your listening skills and improving vocabulary in English. There are loads of comedies which will entertain you with their pleasant and typically English humour and nice insight into British culture. A cult film not to miss, even if a bit dated, is Withnail…

With itunes it’s possible to rent or buy films in English. Watching films in English can be really useful training to improve your own English in a fun and effective way. You’ll need quite a bit of concentration to follow the story and read the subtitles in English at the same time, but slowly, slowly…