It's been less than a week since the end of the Spring Festival, and for the working party, it means that it is not far from going to work.
Do you want to start learning at home, but you have no motivation at all? It is better to start from watching the movie to adjust the state, while watching the movie while accumulating IELTS oral material ~ such a two-for-one thing, do not hurry to see!
How do I accumulate IELTS speaking material through movies?
Movies, as a frequent topic in IELTS speaking, also appeared in the oral question bank this season
Part 2 has two topics related to movies, one for you to introduce a funny movie, and the other for you to introduce a thought-provoking movie
Topic 1 - Funny movies
Describe a movie/film that made you laugh.
You should say:
What it is
When and where you watched it
Who you watched it with
And explain why it made you laugh
Topic 2 - Thought-provoking films
Describe a film that made you think a lot.
What it was
When you saw it
What it was about
And explain why it made you think a lot
These two topics are actually not difficult to answer, relatively close to everyone's life, you can choose your favorite movie and the examiner to describe it. But there will be a lot of technical vocabulary involved, such as the English name of the movie, such as the English of the film genre, such as how to describe the movie.
If you want to accumulate material on how to describe the movie, recommend a website to everyone: Rotten Tomatoes (English name: Rotten Tomatoes, equivalent to the American version of the Douban movie), on which you can accumulate your own colloquial material by watching movie reviews
Taking the 2020 dark horse movie "Soul" as an example, this movie is indeed worth watching, and it is a thought-provoking movie. On Rotten Tomatoes, some of the film reviews about this movie are as follows ↓↓
These comments can be used directly on your colloquial expressions, accumulating more authentic usage for you.
However, the site requires a ladder, so students with ladders can copy the link directly →
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/
Friends without ladders can also consider IMDb, and the film reviews here can also be used to learn from Oh~
(Film review section below the movie)
IMDb URL: https://www.imdb.com/?ref_=nv_home
After talking about the method of accumulating materials, the following sister recommends the 7 best foreign language movies in the Douban 2020 annual list, with an average score of 8.0 or more, to save you from the famine of home dramas!
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" > Douban 2020 foreign language film of the year</h1>
Speed King
English name: Ford v Ferrari
Genre: Drama / Biography / Sports
Douban score: 8.6
Based on the true story, focusing on a team of American engineers and designers led by car designer Carol Shelby, as well as his British driver Ken Miles, Henry Ford II asked Shelby to build a brand new car in hopes of defeating the long-dominant Ferrari at the 1966 Le Mans World Championship. In the end, the Ford GT40 successfully defeated Ferrari in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and won the championships in 1967 and 1968.
blackwater
English name: Dark Waters
Genre: Drama
Douban score: 8.5
Based on Nathaniel Rich's article "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare" published in The New York Times, it revolves around Robert Billott, who served as a defense lawyer for 8 years and filed an environmental lawsuit against chemical giant DuPont, which revealed decades of DuPont's history of chemical pollution.
Gentlemen
The Gentlemen
Genre: Comedy/Action/Crime
Douban score: 8.3
Little Woman
Little Women
Genre: Drama / Romance
Douban score: 8.1
The film is adapted from the world-famous book "Little Women". Joe (Silsa Ronan) discusses her first draft of her work with the publisher owner, and with "I want to take charge of my own life" hanging on her lips, she often recalls this noisy and warm home: the dignified and beautiful meg (Emma Watson), the introverted and careful beth (Eliza Scanlon), the lively and cheerful art-loving Amy (Florence Pouilly) and the seemingly rebellious but very assertive self-made four sisters, who experienced war, family, and love during the Civil War , still able to understand and support each other, the courage to imagine a life alone. For them, growth may be to try to live with ideas and souls, and to become the proudest person to look at!
The Lamentations of Richard Jewell
English name: Richard Jewell
Genre: Drama / Biography / Crime
Douban score: 8.2
Based on true events, Richard Jewell is known worldwide as the security guard who discovered the bomb device in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Bombing. He acted quickly and saved countless lives and became a hero. But within days, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and he dreamed of becoming a law enforcer, who was slandered by the media and the public, and became the FBI's top suspect, in an unprecedented predicament. Jewell turned to independent lawyer Watson Bryant for help, firmly declaring his innocence. However, in the process of exonerating Jewell, Bryant finds himself fighting against the combined resistance of the FBI, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and the police; at the same time, he constantly warns Richard not to believe anyone who tries to destroy him...
Crazy Hominid 2
The Croods: A New Age
Genre: Comedy / Animation / Adventure
Douban score: 8.0
After escaping from the cave and surviving the apocalyptic crisis, the Gollum family decided to find a new home. Halfway Gai has become a member of the Gollum family, but what makes Gua Ge a headache is that Gai and his daughter XiaoYi are nong and I every day, and they still want to form a small family that belongs only to two people. Just as the Gollum family is starving, they discover a fertile land hidden in a high wall with abundant food, and the civilized couple Hop and Phil who originally opened up this paradise are friends of Gai's parents who have died. After the initial warm hospitality, Hope and Phil, who are bent on matching Guy and their daughter Xiaoxiao, find that the Gollum family has become a stumbling block, and they use a trick to snatch Gai over. The two families are in a fight, and Gai and Xiaoyi have also caused a rift, but they do not know that the danger is slowly approaching...
creed
English name: Tenet
Genre: Drama / Action / Sci-Fi
Douban score: 7.7
The survival of the world is at stake, and the word "creed" is the only clue and weapon. The protagonist travels around the globe, carrying out secret agent activities in an effort to uncover the mystery of the "Creed" and complete a mysterious mission that transcends real time. This mission is not a time journey, but a "time reversal".
Okay~ the movie is introduced here! Hurry up and choose your favorite movie and start watching it! After reading it, don't forget to pick up the comments and accumulate some material for your IELTS speaking! [A flash of inspiration]