English Listening Comprehension Through Movies – Exercise 22



Movie: The Hummingbird Project
English dialect: American English



QUESTIONS:

1. What does the woman want to buy (hypothetically)?
  A brokerage in New York
  A house in Kansas
  A lemon company in Zimbabwe

2. How many shares does she want to buy (hypothetically)?
  10,000
  1,000
  10

3. How long does the process that the man is describing to the woman currently take?
  16 milliseconds
  15 milliseconds
  17 milliseconds

4. How much money can be made a day using the new line the man is creating?
  500 million dollars
  50 million dollars
  5 million dollars

5. How much time is a single flap of a hummingbird's wing?
  17 milliseconds
  16 milliseconds
  15 milliseconds

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DID YOU KNOW? Emotional memory and language acquisition

One reason film-based learning is so effective is the role of emotion in memory formation.

The neuroscience: The amygdala (which processes emotion) is directly connected to the hippocampus (which handles long-term memory formation). When you experience an emotional reaction — surprise, humour, tension, empathy — your brain is primed to store the associated content more durably.

What this means in practice: A word encountered during a tense or funny or surprising scene will be remembered far better than the same word in a textbook. The emotional hook makes the linguistic content stick.

Choose films you enjoy: A learner who loves thrillers will absorb crime and suspense vocabulary effortlessly; one who loves romantic comedies will pick up social and relational language naturally. Follow your interests — the language will follow.

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