How to Talk about Music Movies TV Basic English Phrases
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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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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
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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
more question for today that is about
your recent experiences with movies TV
music so maybe our only other question
for today is to please think of a movie
a TV show or song and album you recently
heard or you recently watched so what
did you think of that thing whatever it
was so please share about a recent movie
or TV show or concert or album you saw
so what did you think so in my case for
example I recently saw so past tense I
recently saw the documentary what the
health what the health so it was a food
documentary so in my case I didn’t like
the narrator’s voice but the documentary
was really informative informative so
I’m using the word informative meaning
it had a lot of information I learned a
lot of things from the documentary it
was really informative in
my case so please share about a recent
movie or concert you saw what did you
think so again please use this pattern
to answer I thought it was or I liked or
I didn’t like that thing so Ricardo says
the newest jewett Judas Priest album was
great was great
nice okay good so past tense what did
you think it was great
nice nice I recently saw Ferdinand and
it was sweet ah Ferdinand is that that a
band i know Franz Ferdinand I’m not sure
it was sweet so yeah games and songs
they used the word sweet sweet is like a
casual adjective which means cool or
good or whatever sweet so we can use
that for casual conversations Raphael
says I saw game night it was pretty nice
good good good good
okay other ones so a recent movie or
concert you saw so you can explain with
an adjective we talked about
or you can use something different I
haven’t seen a movie for a long time
good I haven’t seen a movie for a long
time so if you have not recently watched
a movie you can say that I haven’t seen
a movie for a long time Freddie says I
recently saw Katy Perry
it was amazing nice good garrison I have
I saw I saw the Martian last week ah
remember if you want to explain a
specific point in time
don’t use present perfect tense use
simple past tense simple past tense I
saw something last week Jeremy says I
Gareth dear May sorry I recently saw
Black Panther and it was really awesome
because it had a lot of action scenes be
careful too much in the chat it says it
had too much action scenes too much
sounds negative it sounds like oh no I
ate too much candy last night and now
I’m sick we used too much for a negative
but in this sentence it sounds like a
positive it had a lot of action scenes
okay good so just something to think
about if you missed it you can go back
and watch rewatch this video to check
the example patterns we discussed
earlier okay good but let’s finish up I
have to finish up maybe I think by
introducing maybe the last points for
today is that gonna work Kyle I’ll just
introduce the last points go for it okay
let’s introduce just the last points I
want to talk about so I want to finish
today by talking about your future plans
how to explain your future plans for
like watching a movie watching a TV show
listening to music so at the beginning
of today’s session we practiced I
haven’t seen it yet or I haven’t heard
it yet so in those cases it’s like you
have a plan to watch something or you
have a plan to listen to something for
example so to explain those future plans
what can you do for movies then if you
want to explain your movie and your TV
watching plans then
there are a couple let’s see I’ll
introduce three patterns then for this
so for your movie and TV watching plans
I’ll move okay for your movie and TV
watching plans let’s use something like
this I’m gonna see it on this day so for
Black Panther in my case I haven’t seen
Black Panther yet but I really want to I
need to make plans to I could say for
example I’m gonna see it on Sunday I’m
gonna see it on Monday I’m gonna see it
on Tuesday or I’m gonna see it this
weekend so here I have the casual gonna
I’m going to I’m going to do something
I’m gonna don’t use will because will is
used when like we make the decision in
the conversation so like I’ll see it
this weekend if you decide in that
moment okay but if you have plans that
you made before the conversation please
use going to to explain them if however
you don’t really have a plan and you
don’t know you can say I don’t know if
I’ll be able to see it anytime soon so
grammar here is a little complex
I don’t know so in other words no plan
yet I don’t know if I’ll be able I don’t
know if I will be able so it’s like
you’re making a prediction you’re making
a guess about the future I don’t know if
in the future I can go or not that’s
what this means and here I have anytime
soon meaning in the near future in the
near future good okay so that’s for a
movie and TV watching plans
let’s finish then today how to explain
music related plans now let’s take a
look at the last point for today’s
lesson live lesson so for music related
plans again we have gonna so for a new
song or a new album for example I’m
gonna try and listen to it later this
week so here just an example I’m gonna
try and listen to it so a new album or a
new song later this week
okay another one I’ll listen to it later
so this is a very general statement I
just some time later sometime later in
the future I’ll listen to it so this one
you’ll notice I’ve changed it I’ve got
aisle here so I decided in the
conversation I’ll listen to it later
here I’m gonna try it sounds like you’re
really planning to do that here so
slight difference in nuance between
these two finally for a concert then I’m
going to their concert next month so
here I have there so this is for a band
a group of people so I’m going to their
concert next month I’m going to his
concert I’m going to her concert next
month we can use that for solo artists
so I’m going to his concert and going to
her concert for a band I’m going to
their concert and hear it next month
change this to next week tomorrow
whatever this weekend Junior is gig the
same as concert yeah gig tends to sound
a little smaller scale though so like a
gig sounds kind of like a little concert
a small event really hmm thanks for the
question no good all right Carly on
facebook says is gonna formal no gonna
is not formal gonna is not formal and
actually we use gonna I’ve written I
wrote gonna in this in this sort of
presentation space this is used in
casual situations in speaking we say I’m
gonna that’s fine but in writing this is
considered quite casual yeah alright
good so that’s everything I want to talk
about today that was a lot we got
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