FILM TRAILERS - ESL: Nightcrawler



Here's what you do:
  1. Click on the video below.
  2. Watch the first 1:30 of the video, and pay attention to it! (You can pause and rewind the video.)
  3. Answer the listening comprehension questions below the video.
  4. Check your answers.



QUESTIONS:

1. At the beginning of the trailer, why doesn't the man hire Louis (Jake Gyllenhaal)?
2. The cameraman tells Louis that the footage of the accident will be ________________.
3. What do we know about the man Louis hires?
4. The woman at the TV station (Nina) thinks that Louis _________________.
5. Nina says that she's interested in _________________ footage.


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Did you know? Genre familiarity plays a bigger role in comprehension than most learners realize. When you know the conventions of a thriller, a romance, or an action film, you can use genre expectations to predict what you'll hear before you hear it — a strategy expert listeners use constantly, often without being aware of it.


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