– B2-C1 (intermediate to advanced) –

Practice Your Listening Comprehension

Practice Your Reading Comprehension

One of Netflix’s most recent Christmas movies (as of 2024) stars beloved American actress Lindsay Lohan and lauded Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth. Together, respectively, they play a new girlfriend being introduced to her boyfriend’s mother for the first time. For such a simple act, things certainly are not easy for Lohan’s character–or for Chenoweth’s for that matter–as family secrets complicate the Christmas season, making for captivating intrigue and some great laughs.

WHAT TO LEARN

While watching this movie, there are a variety of English language elements that you can practice and learn, including:

• American English

• American accents

• American culture

• phrasal verbs

• the present simple

• the past simple

• the future

• the conditional

• informal language

• descriptive language

• contractions

• reductions

• vocabulary related to:

  • relationships (dating, marriage, family, in-laws, self, etc.)

  • love

  • loss

  • business

  • secrets

  • condescension

  • current events

  • Christmas

• and much more…!

What is your favourite Lindsay Lohan movie? Do you have a favourite Christmas movie? Practice your English by telling me about it in the comments below.

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• Song: “Stretchy Pants”

ATTRIBUTION

• Movie poster thumbnail courtesy of vasili_z on themoviedb.org