El uso de las películas (fragmentos) para aprender inglés.
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/movies/index.html
Hay diferentes tipos de películas, desde infantiles (más sencillas) a películas más recientes.
EJEMPLO: Beauty and the Beast
Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a young prince lived in a shining castle. Although he had everything his heart desired, the prince was spoiled, selfish, and unkind.
But then, one winter's night, an old beggar woman came to the castle and offered him a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter cold. Repulsed by her haggard appearance, the prince sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away, but she warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. And when he dismissed her again, the old woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress.
The prince tried to apologize, but it was too late, for she had seen that there was no love in his heart, and as punishment, she transformed him into a hideous beast, and placed a powerful spell on the castle, and all who lived there.
Ashamed of his monstrous form, the beast concealed himself inside his castle, with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world. The rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose, which would bloom until his twenty-first year. If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, hefell into despair, and lost all hope, for who could ever learn to love a beast?
But then, one winter's night, an old beggar woman came to the castle and offered him a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter cold. Repulsed by her haggard appearance, the prince sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away, but she warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. And when he dismissed her again, the old woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress.
The prince tried to apologize, but it was too late, for she had seen that there was no love in his heart, and as punishment, she transformed him into a hideous beast, and placed a powerful spell on the castle, and all who lived there.
Ashamed of his monstrous form, the beast concealed himself inside his castle, with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world. The rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose, which would bloom until his twenty-first year. If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, hefell into despair, and lost all hope, for who could ever learn to love a beast?
| Once upon a time | Había una vez. Es una introducción comúnmente utilizada en cuentos e historias. |
| a faraway land | una tierra lejana |
| shining | brillante. Para aprender diferentes formas de referirse a algo que brilla, veaWays of shining. |
| spoiled | arruinado, dañado |
| selfish | egoísta |
| unkind | cruel, despiadado, nada amistoso, poco amable |
| beggar | mendigo. El verbo to beg es mendigar. A beggar woman es una mujer que mendiga. Existe un proverbio que dice 'Beggars can't be choosers', que equivale al español 'A buen hambre, no hay pan duro.' |
| shelter | refugio |
| bitter cold | Bitter significa amargo y cold es amargo. En este caso, se trata de una metáfora que se podría traducir como frío terrible, extremo. |
| repulsed | rechazado. El verbo to repulse significa rechazar. |
| haggard | ojeroso, demacrado |
| appearance | apariencia |
| to sneer at something | despreciar algo |
| to turn somebody away | rechazar a alguien |
| to warn somebody not to do something | advertir a alguien de no hacer algo |
| to be deceived by something | ser engañado por algo |
| ugliness | fealdad. El adjetivo correspondiente es ugly (feo). |
| to melt away | Literalmente, significa derretirse. En sentido figurado, desaparecer, desvanecerse. |
| to apologize | pedir disculpas |
| punishment | castigo. El verbo to punish significa castigar. |
