【英语趣味课堂】利用电影学英语-Using Movies to Study English

Steve: So do you go by Andrew, or is Andy OK?

 

Andy: Ah, Andy please.

 

Steve: Can you tell us about the work you do with your website?

 

Andy: Sure. I've made a website for people to study English using movie trailers. (OK) Movie commercials. (OK) On the site you can see lots of different trailers, over 100, (Wow) and you can do various activities (Right) you can read a summary. You can do a cloze exercise (OK) you can read a script, you can pop, you can click on a vocabulary word and it will show you definitions, example sentences. (OK, OK) yeah, I added little quizes and stuff. (OK) Yeah, it's pretty fun.

 

Steve: So you have the subtitles¹ on there?

 

Andy: Ah, no subtitles. It's all English. (OK, yeah) English trailers with English voices only.

 

Steve: OK, so do you have the transcripts² in English? You have the English subtitiles in there?

 

Andy: Yes, yes, yes. The students can watch the trailers while they read.

 

Steve: Right. OK.

 

Andy: So, yes.

 

Steve: And what kind of movies have you been able to put into use?

 

Andy: Oh, gosh, recently we've added "War of the World's".

 

Steve: Oh, the H.G. Wells classic.

 

Andy: Yes, the new Speilberg version.

 

Steve: Oh, OK. OK.

 

Andy: Yes. Yes. Um, the new "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy³." is going to be up there shortly.

 

Steve: Right. OK.

 

Andy: It looks like a fun trailer.

 

Steve: Excellent. Yeah.

 

Andy: Ah, various genres⁴, too, like computer animation⁵ or love stories or action (OK. OK) Yeah something for everybody.

 

Steve: Yeah, and who, which type of people have been accessing the website, and who's getting the most from it?

 

Andy: Ah, people from all over the world are going now. I've had people e-mail about this site from over 25 different countries, so it's very international.

 

Steve: Excellent. Excellent. And how long have you had this website up?

 

Andy: Almost three years now. (Yeah) I guess, yeah about three years.

 

Steve: Wow. OK. It sounds extremely interesting. I'll be very much looking forward to having a look at it myself. How can I access this website?

 

Andy: The URL is www.english-trailers.com

 

Steve: OK, sounds great, Andy, Good luck with it.

1 subtitles   

n.说明字幕，印在外国影片上的对白翻译字幕，译文对白字幕；小标题，副标题( subtitle的名词复数 )；（电影的）字幕

参考例句：

• subtitles for the deaf and the hard of hearing 为耳聋和听力不佳者打出的字幕
• a Polish film with English subtitles 附有英语字幕的波兰影片

2 transcripts   

n.抄本（ transcript的名词复数 ）；转写本；文字本；副本

参考例句：

• Like mRNA, both tRNA and rRNA are transcripts of chromosomal DNA. tRNA及rRNA同mRNA一样，都是染色体DNA的转录产物。 来自辞典例句
• You can't take the transfer students'exam without your transcripts. 没有成绩证明书，你就不能参加转学考试。 来自辞典例句

3 galaxy   

n.星系；银河系；一群(杰出或著名的人物)

参考例句：

• The earth is one of the planets in the Galaxy.地球是银河系中的星球之一。
• The company has a galaxy of talent.该公司拥有一批优秀的人才。

4 genres   

（文学、艺术等的）类型，体裁，风格( genre的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Novel and short story are different genres. 长篇小说和短篇小说是不同的类别。
• But confusions over the two genres have a long history. 但是类型的混淆，古已有之。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译

5 animation   

n.活泼，兴奋，卡通片／动画片的制作

参考例句：

• They are full of animation as they talked about their childhood.当他们谈及童年的往事时都非常兴奋。
• The animation of China made a great progress.中国的卡通片制作取得很大发展。