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CLIP SOURCE: Silver Linings Playbook
TYPE OF ENGLISH: American English




QUESTIONS:

1. What are the two people talking about at the beginning?
  The prescription pills they've taken
  The movies they've seen
  The food they know how to cook

2. After the woman says she's tired, she _______________.
  asks the man if he'll drive her home
  asks the man if he'll walk her home
  asks her sister to drive her home

3. The man says that the woman _______________.
  is crazy
  scares people
  has poor social skills

4. The woman's sister tells her husband to _______________.
  drive the woman home
  drive both the man and the woman home
  walk the woman home

5. The woman who is standing asks her sister to _______________.
  stop talking about her in the third person
  stop talking about her in front of other people
  stop telling people she's a bad person

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Learning a language through watching movies can be surprisingly effective, and there are several reasons why it works well. Check our other exercises for more reasons!

Contextual learning
Movies provide language in real-life contexts. Instead of memorizing isolated words or grammar rules, you see how words, phrases, and expressions are used naturally in conversations, body language, and social situations. This helps your brain associate language with meaning and emotion, making it easier to remember.

Exposure to natural speech
Movies expose you to native pronunciation, intonation, and rhythm, including slang, idioms, and regional accents. This helps train your ear to understand the language as it's really spoken, rather than the simplified or overly formal version you might find in textbooks.



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