Movie: “Red One”
– C1-C2 (advanced) –
Practice Your Listening Comprehension
Practice Your Reading Comprehension
With Amazon Prime Video’s recent release, Red One, a Christmas-themed action/comedy/sci-fi/fantasy film, holiday movies are being given a whole new meaning! Gone away is the romantic cheese and predictable tropes of America’s greeting-card-turned-film factory and its slightly edgier competitor, Lifetime.
SYNOPSIS
Red One is a high-budget, dead-pan, absurdist holiday story for older audiences. It centres on the kidnapping of Santa Claus, unintentionally made possible by an international black market worker, and the inevitable chaos that his kidnapping causes around the world, among a variety of cultures.
WHAT TO LEARN
While watching this high-octane holiday feature, there are a plethora of English-language elements that you can practice and learn:
listening comprehension
reading comprehension (if subtitles are used)
American English
informal language
technical language
present simple
present continuous
imperative
question structures
contractions
phrasal verbs
idioms
G-dropping
unvoiced plosives
vocabulary related to:
Christmas
unbelief
corruption
international folklore and mythology
technology
business operations
giving instructions
executing plans
and much more…!
Have you ever seen a Christmas movie? What is your favourite and why? Practice your English by telling me about it in the comments below.
