Authentic English Movie and TV Dialogue

Author: Lu Ke
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: Many readers have devoted a lot of effort to learning English but still feel their English proficiency is not up to par, and they still can't understand the speech of native English speakers. Some successful people believe that interacting more with foreigners is a shortcut to mastering English, but the reality is that most readers have few opportunities to interact with foreigners, or even no opportunities at all. So, how can one truly learn English well? How can one speak authentic English? Practice has proven that watching English-language films and TV shows from the UK and the US, and learning the spoken language and idioms from them, is an effective method for mastering English. This book selects dialogue excerpts from sixteen classic films from the UK and the US, accompanied by fluent expressions, witty conversations, annotations, keywords, follow-up drills, and answers. Fluent expressions selects representative sentences from the films to improve the reader's spoken language skills; annotations explain the difficulties in the dialogue, while keywords are the new words that appear in the dialogue. These two parts aim to help readers better understand and master the dialogue content; follow-up drills select some exercises to test the reader's mastery of the knowledge in this unit, and include an answer section for reference.