How to Talk about Music Movies TV Basic English Phrases

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my name is Alisha and today we’re going

to talk about music movies and TV so I

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artist but these are our topics for

today music and TV and movies and how to

explain them so today in this lesson

we’re going to look at how to explain

your experiences how to talk about

future plans and how to explain your

opinions oh good oh we can’t quite see

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we’re talking about music and movies and

TV so let’s begin we’re going to look at

some grammar points for today to talk

about your experiences and your

preferences so we’ll start in just a

moment we’re getting the text ready okay

so first I want to introduce a question

for asking about experiences first one

asking about experiences let’s look at

two patterns you can use for one for

movies and one for music and actually

this one is okay for TV as well movies

and TV first we’re going to use this

pattern have you seen this is the past

participle form of si have you seen

movie name yet yet have you seen movie

name yet so I have yet here you can

choose to include or drop yet from this

sentence if you use yet it sounds like

you expect the listener might have seen

the movie or you expect the listener is

going to see that movie at some point in

time so you can say have you seen movie

like have you seen x-men or have you

seen Batman for example have you seen

Batman yet is a similar sentence but

using yet implies you think the listener

will see or will see that movie at some

point in time same thing here have you

heard that song or that album yet so you

can choose to include yet if you like

here

but in this case we’ve changed the verb

so for movies and for TV we’re using

scene have you seen a movie or have you

seen that TV show here it’s music so we

need to change the verb have you heard

such-and-such song or have you heard I

don’t know what could we use Bruno Mars

his new album does given to him I don’t

even know I think have you heard the new

Bruno Mars song have you heard the new

Beyonce song yet again this is that

expectation do you expect the listener

will have heard it or do you expect

there’s like yet someone is going to

listen to it at some point

so please use yeah someone in the chat

mentioned we’re using present perfect

tense here have you

past participle verb so have you seen or

have you heard that thing so these are

our first questions for today we’re

going to do a chat answer with this

later so let’s practice then how do you

respond to this so some people already

using this how do you respond to this

question let’s look at some ways to

respond to these two questions let’s

take a look okay let’s look so do

respond to the question have you someone

in facebook someone said wants it have

you seen the shape of water nice that’s

a super famous movie right now so let’s

use that as our example have you seen

the shape of water yet so if you have

yes you saw it last week or something

use yes I have yes I have or I have seen

that movie I have so yes I have you can

ask the speaker the other person the

same question yes I have have you so you

don’t need to say have you seen the

shape of water yet you you can just make

a short question yes I have have you is

nice if you have not seen that you can

use no I haven’t no I have it here is

our negative or negative form no I this

haven’t is have not so no I do not have

the experience of watching

that movie this word communicates that

no I have it have you seen the shape of

water have you heard the new Beyonce

single yes I have have you or no I

haven’t have you so you can ask the

question again to the other person no I

haven’t have you or have you seen it

have you heard it so these are some

basic ways to maybe begin a conversation

about music and about movies okay so I

want to go on to the next part then so

if the answer is yes so some of you are

talking about like movies that you have

seen if the answer is yes if the answer

is yes you are follow-up question to

this we’ll look at it in a moment there

are two it’s just two simple examples

note both are in the past tense here so

what did you think and did you like it

so again to use the shape of water as

our example so did you see the shape of

water or sorry have you seen the shape

of water and then yes I have what did

you think so why do we use did why are

we using past tense here instead of like

what do you think we use did here

because it’s like your opinion

just after watching the movie so at that

point just after you watched the movie

what was your opinion in that moment

what did you think

or here did you like it so when you were

watching the movie what did you think at

that time in the past so use past tense

if you’re asking a question about like

an opinion in the past what did you

think about the movie what did you think

about the song bow says so we don’t have

to put yet at the end of the sentence no

in your question you don’t have to but

using yet means that like there’s an

expectation the other person is going to

see it so we’ll use what did you think

and did you like

it all right so how do you answer these

questions how do you share your opinion

a simple opinion about a movie or about

a TV show or about music let’s look at

several examples I have a few examples

prepared

let’s look okay so what did you think

about the shape of water or what did you

think about the new album for example

all right so I have a scale here this is

sort of a scale of positive and maybe

not so good

negative responses here I thought it was

great again notice everything here is

past tense this is all past tense again

so did you like it yes I did I thought

it was great here past tense I thought

it was so it is your movie your TV show

the song the album whatever I thought it

was great

nice okay so very positive general I

liked it make sure to pronounce this D

sound clearly I liked it

here’s one for a negative I didn’t like

it I didn’t like it

okay so the very simple did not I did

not like it but try to contract use I

didn’t like it I didn’t like it much

more natural okay another one I thought

it was good so here’s I thought it was

good I thought it was great

what’s the difference this one is more

is higher higher level I thought it was

good I thought it was great this one is

better here this is one oh thanks God

this one I wasn’t impressed I was not

impressed impressed is like that feeling

of oh wow this is really good this is

really amazing but if you didn’t feel

that emotion you can say I wasn’t

impressed I wasn’t impressed so this is

probably something you imagine is going

to be good

okay one more I thought it could have

been better so here’s some more complex

grammar if you’re interested in a more

grammatically complex sentence you could

try this I thought it could have been

better

could have been means in the past them

there was potential for the movie to be

quite good but it wasn’t so good so I

thought it could have been better to

practice a more native level

pronunciation - I thought it coulda so

make this could have I thought it could

have I thought it could have been better

I thought it could have been better so

this one’s maybe a grammar challenge a

negative opinion and a grammar challenge

here great so we have all of these in

slike opinion phrases to use them so

let’s try to use all this so we have the

question what did you think maybe have

you seen and so on so our first viewer

question for today so please get ready

and think about these our first question

for today is have you seen Black Panther

yet have you seen Black Panther yet and

what did you think

have you seen black pants so please send

it in the chat have you seen Black

Panther yet and what did you think so in

my case this is true in my case

no I haven’t I haven’t seen black pant

there yet so yet implies I want to I

want to or I’m planning to see it so try

to use some of you are saying no yes try

to use this have construction this

present perfect construction have you

seen Black Panther yet no I haven’t I

haven’t nice Connor great ok in YouTube

and then if you have maybe and so far no

no no I haven’t no I haven’t but if you

have seen Black Panther what did you

think what did you think so again I

liked it I thought it was great I

thought it was good I wasn’t impressed

great ok Bryce says I really liked it

good lots of you say no I haven’t no I

haven’t ok I haven’t seen it yet is good

I haven’t seen it yet in the YouTube

chat and Facebook now - I haven’t seen

it yet good

okay I haven’t seen it yet Wow most

people say no okay I have it good and

rindra points out no I haven’t but I

would like to know I haven’t but I would

like to great and garrison High garrison

says I haven’t I’ve not ah great point

I’ve not so this is an interesting

pattern that we don’t really use in

American English we so garrison thanks

for this sorry this point I’ve not

something something so on the facebook

chat you can see there’s I’ve not seen

that movie yet I’ve not this is not a

it’s not incorrect it just sounds a

little bit old so in American English we

don’t really use I’ve not seen that

movie or I’ve not heard it yet it sounds

kind of formal maybe a little bit older

style you can use it but we tend to in

American English use I haven’t seen it

yet I haven’t seen it yet

okay good some people say I thought it

was great I haven’t seen it yet

nice I would like to see it good alright

good nice alright so that’s our first

point for today our first kind of set of

questions and grammar points to study so

you can use these grammar points with

music movies and TV to talk about your

experiences great so let’s take a short

break just a short break to introduce

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but let’s get back to the topic for

today if you’re just joining live

today’s topic is music movies and TV and

how to talk about that so we’re going to

continue to talking about your likes and

your dislikes that’s our second point

for today so we have actually quite a

lot and not a lot of time so let’s get

into it quickly alright so let’s go into

I want to describe today I don’t want to

just say I like or I didn’t like

something I want to introduce some more

some more specific adjectives you can

use to talk about things that you liked

or things you dislike so first let’s

introduce a couple of patterns that we

can use for both movies and music and TV

for that matter

so um basic patterns so first a positive

pattern I liked it or I didn’t like it

because it was and your adjective here

so here is one simple pattern we can use

I liked it or I didn’t like it because

adjectives so I’m going to introduce

some adjectives here in just a second

and then here we can say a similar

pattern I liked it or I didn’t like it

because it had noun phrase so you’ll

notice here before the noun phrase were

using had in past tense it had a noun

phrase it had bad acting it had bad

music it had a weird actor I don’t know

but here before the adjective we’re

using was so please be careful of this

grammar point here all right so let’s

look at some adjectives that you can use

to talk about

these different forms of media so let’s

begin with some positive adjectives for

movies and for TV vegan Oh where’d they

go okay let’s go to Sarika let’s go to

positive adjectives for movies and TV

okay I have four here to talk about

movies and TV shows we have funny funny

means it makes you laugh please be

careful I noticed a lot of you asked on

the adjective video we did about fun and

funny

you can check I think maybe the first or

second episode of ask Alicia for a an

in-depth explanation of the difference

between those but funny funny is

something that causes laughter it makes

you laugh it makes you smile

action-packed action-packed so action

yes is art is a noun but action-packed

with this - here this becomes an

adjective we can use this as an

adjective packed means like full of

something something is like

action-packed so noun + packed is full

of that thing full of action so an

action-packed movie like die hard is an

action-packed movie for example or the

matrix is an action-packed movie for

example another one dramatic dramatic is

a good one so dramatic kind of maybe a

heavy story something where lots of

maybe very serious things happen to the

characters typically not so happy

dramatic stories so often like war

stories are quite dramatic another one

romantic a romantic movie so a love

story in other words so these are some

common positive adjectives we can use

for movies and for TV alrighty now let’s

look at a few negative adjectives for

movies and TV we’ll though I have just a

couple the first one maybe is a little

new so it’s slow a negative adjectives

for movies and TV slow maybe this is new

for some of you slow doesn’t refer to

like the speed that

we move at slow refers to the pace of

the story so if the story like

everything happens quickly in the story

the pace is fast it’s a fast-moving

story if however the movie’s story goes

very very slowly

we could say the movie was slow we can

say that so slow as an adjective if the

story is boring just say it was a boring

movie we can also use weird weird so

something that’s just strange maybe it’s

hard to understand perhaps or it’s not

what you expected it’s not typical it’s

weird it’s weird

all right good so with that let’s go on

to some expressions we can use for music

expressions for music than two there are

a lot I won’t talk a lot about each of

these because we don’t have much time

but some positive expressions we can use

for music so for a song we can talk

about songs in a few different ways

there are many different words we can

use to talk about songs we could say

song or tract or tune lots of words so

you can substitute here so for example

that’s a really good song that is that’s

a really good song is a nice one or

great song great track great song or

great track these are both just quick

short little positive expressions you

can use great song great track nice ok

another one this is super catchy catchy

so catchy means like you hear it and it

it’s like it you remember it easily it

sounds nice and you like you want to

continue listening to that this is super

catchy so I included super here this is

super catchy is good you can remove this

just this is catchy it’s fine as well

this is catchy another one I can dance

to this I can dance to this this is

something usually said like while

dancing like oh I can dance to this this

is good

so another general positive comment this

one I love singing a

to this song I love singing along so

singing along to we use the preposition

to hear I love singing along so singing

together with so we don’t say sing

together with we use this expression I

love singing along to this song I love

singing along to this artist to this

album for example I love singing along

to is the preposition here finally if

you want to talk about a live show the

concert was amazing so please be careful

not live we don’t say the live was

amazing we say the concert was amazing

or their live show was amazing for

example so the concert was amazing or I

hear they are amazing in concert for

example

all right so please get ready I guess

we’ll do Gish yes I guess we’ll do one