coffee break english season one episode two [Music] hello and welcome to another episode of coffee break english my name's josie and my name is mark we are very happy to be back with you for another episode how are you today josie i'm very well thank you mark how are you i'm okay i'm a little tired today well hopefully today's episode can wake you up a little that sounds good what is our topic today josie today we're listening to a text all about films and we're focusing on the past simple tense of the verb be okay
let's have a listen to our text and today we're listening to kate from the united states of america and don't worry if you don't understand every word that kate says the most important thing is to understand the general meaning okay let's have a listen to our text do you like watching films i do i love fantasy films because the stories are always really exciting i also like biopics because they help me learn about real events from history the word biopic comes from the words biography and picture so it is a film about someone's life the
last biopic i watched was first man which tells the story of neil armstrong who was the first man on the moon the script was excellent and the special effects were impressive i like most genres of film but i really don't like romantic comedies the stories and characters are always unrealistic the last romantic comedy i watched was terrible the plot wasn't interesting and the actors weren't very good i was very bored and it was difficult to stay awake i quite like horror films but they're very scary once i watched the horror film a quiet place in
the cinema with my friends we were very scared because the cinema was so dark as well as that there wasn't any music in the film so the atmosphere was very tense we were all terrified now i prefer to watch horror movies at home with the lights on what genres of film do you like what was the last film you watched josie what was the last film you watched hmm good question mark i think the last film that i watched was a monty python film so a classic british comedy film excellent what about you what was
the last film that you watched the last film i watched was a french film it's called a toushable the untouchables in english i think so let's take a look at our text again yes let's read each line and then we'll talk about the language so can you read the first line mark okay do you like watching films i do great so the first thing to notice here is we're starting with a question do you like watching films remember with most questions we use an auxiliary verb or a helping verb which helps us make the question
in this case it is do because we're in the present simple okay so we said do you like watching films and then the answer was i do that's right we just repeat the auxiliary verb and also do you like watching films is there another word for film mark we could say movie that's right film is british english and movie is american english but to be honest we can use both can't we absolutely yeah okay let's continue i love fantasy films because the stories are always really exciting good so fantasy films can you give me an
example of a fantasy film perhaps some of the marvel films could be fantasy films like avengers end game that's right yes something with superheroes or something in an imaginary world like the lord of the rings films okay i also like biopics because they help me to learn about real events from history the word biopic comes from the words biography and picture so it's a film about someone's life good so the word biopic it's a film about someone's life good the last biopic i watched was first man which tells the story of neil armstrong who was
the first man on the moon good did you see this biopic mark first man no uh did you see it yes i did it's a really good film i recommend it to you oh thanks also in this phrase we have the word was the last biopic i watched was first man was is the past tense of the verb be in the third person in this case so neil armstrong was the first man on the moon that's right okay the script was excellent and the special effects were impressive good so the script was excellent again the
past tense of b and what is a script mark a script is the words that the actors speak in the film that's right and the special effects were impressive special effects are the things which are added by a computer in a movie because this film was not filmed on the moon no it wasn't i think it would be a bit too difficult to film a movie on the moon here we use the past tense of b again which is were the special effects were impressive in this case were is the third person plural of to
be okay should we go through all of the parts of to be that's a good idea yes so i was you were he she or it was we were and they were good so it's not too difficult there are only two forms to choose from was and were okay we're going to take a short break but we'll be back in just a moment [Music] each episode of the coffee break english podcast is free and you can use our podcast to help you improve your english but there's more that's right we have a full course available
on our website which will help you make faster progress and understand everything much better for every lesson we offer videos bonus audio recordings lesson notes with exercises and vocabulary lists in lots of languages all this is available on the coffee break academy so visit coffee break academy dot com welcome back today we're talking about cinema yes we talked about fantasy films and biopics and now we're going to talk about more types of movies okay i like most genres of film but i really don't like romantic comedies good so this word genres what does that mean
mark it's just like seeing types or sorts of film exactly types sorts kinds of film and it's a french word which we use in english okay so but i really don't like romantic comedies so a romantic comedy is a film which has some some romance some love a love story and some comedy so it's funny too exactly so maybe a film like uh notting hill is a romantic comedy okay or love actually that's right a christmas romantic comedy okay the stories and characters are always unrealistic good so the characters these are the people in the
story the people in the film and they are unrealistic so if the stories and characters are unrealistic that means it's hard to believe them that's right yes we can see the word real in the word unrealistic so realistic means like real life like reality and unrealistic is the opposite it's not like reality i don't believe it excellent the last romantic comedy i watched was terrible yes so here we have some more past tense of to be was the last romantic comedy i watched was terrible third person again and terrible means really really bad let's find
out why it was terrible the plot wasn't interesting and the actors weren't very good hmm let's look at some vocabulary first in this phrase the plot what's the plot mark that's the story what happens in the film exactly we can talk about the plot of a film the plot of a tv series or the plot of a book and the actors are the stars of the film that's right brad pitt is a famous actor okay also in this sentence we have the past tense of b in the negative form the plot wasn't interesting wasn't is
short for was not this is a contraction and weren't is short for where not so we can say the plot was not interesting and the actors were not very good that's right let's continue i was very bored and it was difficult to stay awake good so i was very bored i i wasn't interested i was bored and it was difficult to stay awake awake is when you are not asleep yes think of the verb to wake up in the morning that's right i quite like horror films but they are very scary yes so a horror
film is a film which is very scary maybe it has monsters or ghosts in it for example the exorcist is a famous horror film that's right i hate horror films they are too scary for me do you like horror films mark i don't like horror films at all but kate says once i watched the horror film a quiet place in the cinema with my friends we were very scared because the cinema was so dark yes kate says she likes horror films but when she watched a quiet place she was very scared and why was she
scared mark because the cinema was so dark that's right it was dark it wasn't light there were no lights on in the cinema okay as well as that there wasn't any music in the film so the atmosphere was very tense good so another example of b in the past tense there wasn't any music and the atmosphere what's the atmosphere mark it's the feeling it's the impression that you get when watching the film that's right yes and the atmosphere was very tense tense is the opposite of relaxed so they were tense they were scared the cinema
was dark there was no music that doesn't sound like fun to me me neither okay kate says we were all terrified now i prefer to watch horror movies at home with the lights on good so we were all terrified terrified means very very scared and so now she doesn't like going to the cinema to watch horror films yes she watches them in her house at home with the lights on so not in the dark okay then she says what genres of film do you like what was the last film you watched yes so here she
finishes with a question with the verb be in the past tense what was the last film you watched remember to make a question with to be we simply change the subject and the verb in the phrase for example mark what was your favorite film when you were a child when i was a child my favorite film was the sound of music oh me too i love that film it's still my favorite film i think that's it's a good choice okay let's listen again to kate's text do you like watching films i do i love fantasy
films because the stories are always really exciting i also like biopics because they help me learn about real events from history the word biopic comes from the words biography and picture so it is a film about someone's life the last biopic i watched was first man which tells the story of neil armstrong who was the first man on the moon the script was excellent and the special effects were impressive i like most genres of film but i really don't like romantic comedies the stories and characters are always unrealistic the last romantic comedy i watched was
terrible the plot wasn't interesting and the actors weren't very good i was very bored and it was difficult to stay awake i quite like horror films but they're very scary once i watched the horror film a quiet place in the cinema with my friends we were very scared because the cinema was so dark as well as that there wasn't any music in the film so the atmosphere was very tense we were all terrified now i prefer to watch horror movies at home with the lights on what genres of film do you like what was the
last film you watched [Music] that's it for this lesson don't forget you can improve your english even more with the coffee break english course we provide extra materials for each lesson and you can find out more about this at coffee break academy dot com that's right mark and if you'd like to practice your english you can also do so on social media just search for coffee break english on facebook and on instagram where we post regular language challenges and cultural information and this week we're asking you about the last film you watched we look forward
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