3.1.5 Building Vocabulary
Phrases Related to Movies
In this unit, you read about the movies. Below you will read some vocabulary words that are related to movies.
Read the phrases to understand their meaning
| The movie was a hit | The movie was very successful, popular. |
| The movie bombed | The movie was not good. |
| It is a feel-good movie | The movie makes you feel good. |
| The trailer was interesting | Trailer is the short summary of the movie to give you an idea what it is about. |
| I have a hard time understanding the dialogue without the subtitles | “a hard time ” means to have difficulty with something subtitles are the words that you see at the bottom of the screen when you watch tv or a movie. |
Fill in the blanks with the vocabulary words in the box.
| a hit | bombed | feel-good |
| hard time understanding | subtitles | trailer |
John: Hi Mary, did you see Drew Barrymore’s new movie? Mary: No, I didn’t but I saw the _____________________ and it didn’t look very good. I heard the movie ________________________. John: Well, I saw it . I had _______________________________ and I needed to read the subtitles, but I really liked the movie. I was a _____________ movie. I felt really happy after I saw it.
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