Movies Vocabulary- Opinions

Opinions on movie vocabulary

Ask for and give opinions on the topics on the next page, discussing each one as long as you like then moving onto another.

Useful phrases for discussing the topics Useful phrases for asking for opinions “What do you think about…?”/ “How do you feel about…?”/ “What’s your opinion on…?” “Do you agree that…?”/ “Do you (also) think that…?” “And you?”/ “What about you?”/ “How about you?” Useful phrases for giving opinions “(Personally,) I think…”/ “In my (personal) opinion,…” “Definitely.” “I suppose so.” “I’m not (so) sure.” “Not at all.”/ “I completely disagree.”

Ask about words below you don’t understand, things which you are not sure are good or bad ideas, etc, discussing your views about each one as a class each time.

 

Brainstorming stage

Without any help, write vocabulary related to movies in the right gaps here:

Movie genres

 

 

 

 

 

 

People involved in movies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Writing connected to movies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other movie vocabulary

 

 

 

 

 

Look below for ideas, brainstorm more, then compare as a class.

Topics to give opinions on and discuss

• (name of a character)
• (name of a director)
• (name of a series of movies)
• (name of an actor)
• 1980s movies
• 60s movies
• accents
• action movies
• all-time top ten movie lists
• animation/ cartoons
• art house movies/ independent (American) movies
• Australian movies
• awards/ award ceremonies (The Academy Awards/ Oscars, etc)
• big budget movies
• biopics
• black and white movies
• blockbusters
• bloopers
• Bollywood movies
• British movies
• budgets of movies
• car chases (e.g. in The Fast and the Furious series of movies)
• casting/ casting agent
• censorship/ cutting scenes from movies
• children’s movies
• cinemas/ movie theatres
• classic movies
• comedies (rom-coms, slapstick, spoofs, etc)
• (director’s/ DVD extra) commentary
• cop movies
• costume dramas/ historical dramas
• critic-proof movies
• director’s cut
• (wildlife) documentaries
• domestic dramas
• the domestic film industry in this country
• (illegal) downloading
• dubbed movies/ dubbing
• DVDs
• (happy) endings
• fantasy movies
• film critics
• film festivals (The Cannes Film Festival, etc)
• flashbacks
• gender in the movies (the Bechtel test, etc)
• Gone with the Wind
• Hollywood movies
• horror movies
• IMAX
• com
• James Bond (Double Oh Seven)
• (modern/ classic) Japanese movies
• leading actors nowadays
• length of movies
• literary adaptations
• melodramas/ melodramatic acting
• movie certification (U, PG, 12, 15, 18-certificate movies, etc)
• movies set in (name of a particular place)
• murder mysteries/ whodunits
• musicals
• nudity
• opening scenes
• plot summaries
• plots
• popcorn
• prequels
• remakes
• re-watching a movie
• (online) reviews
• Roman Holiday
• romance
• sci-fi movies
• (reading) screenplays/ scripts
• sequels
• sentimental movies
• shorts
• silent movies
• soundtrack albums
• special effects/ computer effects
• spoilers
• spy movies
• subtitled movies/ (English/ Japanese) subtitles
• superhero movies
• trailers
• TV spinoffs
• voiceovers
• watching on a smartphone
• (spaghetti) westerns