Learning with Pretty Woman

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Sobre o curso

In the 1990 romantic comedy

Pretty Woman, 

wealthy corporate raider Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) hires Hollywood sex worker Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) to be his social escort for a week. As they navigate high-society events and lifestyle changes, the professional arrangement blossoms into an unexpected romance bridging two completely different worlds.

Instructions:

  1. Watch the clip of the show as many times as possible, first with the subtitles in English only, then, if needed, with the Portuguese subtitles as well. 
  2. While you’re watching try to undersdand:
    • The context:
      • what are they talking about?
      • who are they?
      • where are they? 
      • what are they like?
      • what are their names?
      • what’s their job?
    • The structures they use to express their thoughts and ideas.
    • New words and expressions for you to implement in your vocabulary.

     3. Check the slides to fully understand the dialog.

     4. Do the warm-up activities before watching the videos when studying the modules.

    5. In each module, we’ll analyze the structures of their speech from different perspectives, learning how to communicate in English and stop depending on our Portuguese to know what to say.

   6. Do the quiz after you finish the module to check your understanding and review topics that are still not clear.

   7. As an extra challenge, every time you finish a module, leave a comment using the structures you learned or with examples of the same structures in songs, series, movies, books, etc. Apply the notice technique in your daily life.

   8. Leave in the comments your questions about the topics that you studied.

Modules for this course:

  • Expressions & Vocabulary

  • Prepositions

  • Modal Verbs

  • Indirect Questions

  • Using “it”

  • Using “that”

  • Any & Some

  • Phrasal Verbs

  • Simple Past

  • Pronunciation tips

The challenge is always the same: notice the strutures and try to understand what they are talking about.

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O que você aprenderá?

  • Como aplicar a técnica de noticing para aprender estruturas e utilizá-las na sua conversação.

Conteúdo do curso

Watch
Watch the clip with English subtitles only as many times as it takes. Check the slides after watching to fully understand the dialog.

  • Watch the clip in English

Watch
Watch the clip with English & Portuguese subtitles as many times as it takes. Check the slides after watching to fully understand the dialog.

Expressions & Vocabulary
Let's analyze the new words and expressions. The idea here is that you use them in your daily life!

Prepositions
Let's analyze the use of/lack of prepostions in the structures in their speech.

Phrasal Verbs
Let's learn some new phrasal verbs (two or three words that, when combined, become a new word)!

Simple Past
Observe and Learn the simple past structure.

Any & Some
Let's analyze possible structures and word combinations using "any" and "some".

Indirect Questions
Questions that don't look like questions, let's analyze how to build this structure!

Using “it”
"It" can be a mystery for many Brazilian speakers, let's analyze together when to use it and learn it once in for all!

Using “that”
One of the translations of "that" is "que" in Portuguese. But did you know sometimes, even though in Portuguse it is necessary, in English it isn't? Let's learn when that happens!

Modal Verbs
Do you know what modal verbs are and how to use them? Let's learn some of them based on the examples we see in the clip!

Pronunciation Tips
Let's pay attention to some pronunciation characteristics of their speech.

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