#Movies esl vocabulary movie#

Because they are set in an imaginary world where there is magic and imaginary creatures. Juan: 'But I wouldn't call The Lord of the Rings movies 'adventure movies'. My favourite adventure movies are the Indiana Jones movies and The Lord of the Rings movies.' Peter: 'You've just described adventure movies. But I prefer to watch movies where there is some action but also the main characters are on journey in some exotic and strange places to explore or discover some treasure or save somebody.' And you? What genres do you like to watch?' There's nothing better than to go to the cinema and watch a film like Die Hard or Terminator. Movies where danger and action (like people fighting, car chases, climbing etc.) are very important parts of the storyline. My favourite war movies are Saving Private Ryan and The Great Escape. Movies whose main story/subject is about war and how it affects people. Peter: 'I like a lot of different types of movies. Juan: 'What are your favourite genres of movies?' The second part of this exercise will be coming soon. To learn the vocabulary to describe the different parts and roles in films (essential for talking about films), do our online exercise on ' vocabulary for describing films/movies'.

#Movies esl vocabulary movie#

By first reading a text and then answering the questions in a quiz/test, this exercise will help you to quickly learn the names of the main movie genres in English, understand what they mean and remember them. To help you learn the names of the different movie genres, I have created the below exercise. If you like movies, knowing what the names of the genres of films that you like to watch is not only important for easily finding films, but it also will help you to talk about films when speaking in English. if the story is told in an exciting way, realistic way, comedic way etc.). But genres can also be used to group films together by how the style in which of the story is told (e.g. movies/films which are in hospital and are about saving people's lives). Genres are normally used to group movies together which have a similar setting and story subject (e.g. These groups are commonly called 'genres'. To help people find a type of movie which is right for their taste, all movies are grouped/categorized by either their subject/story or the style it is made in. Some people like movies which are about criminals, while other people like movies about two people falling in love. Everybody has their own taste of movies/films ('movies' is used in American English and 'films' in British English) that they like to watch.