Phrase Flower - A Treasury of Idiomatic Expressions in English Movies

Author: Shi Zhijian
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This book carefully selects, summarizes, and organizes the most frequently used new and cool words from a large number of American and British films, accompanied by classic and exciting dialogue examples. It enables learners to master authentic film vocabulary in a short time, making it easy to understand original English films and speak natural spoken English effortlessly. The book truly achieves the goal of learning authentic English through movies. The dialogues in this book feature the following characteristics: 1. Large quantity. The total number is close to 500 films, with an unmatched scale. The film list is available for download at www.JackyShi.com. 2. Diverse genres. Including romance, action, crime, musicals, animation, science fiction, thriller, horror, adventure, epic, art-house, western, comedy, suspense, war, and documentaries. 3. Long span. Covering films released from 1931 to the beginning of the 21st century. 4. Balanced selection. Combining both high-achieving artistic films and commercially influential ones, as well as mainstream and non-mainstream films. It considers both Hollywood films and those from the UK, Australia, Canada, and other English-speaking countries.