Touchstone 2nd Edition Language summary Level 3

Unit 10 Lesson B: Movies

Vocabulary
Types of movies
3D movie (n)
action movie (n)
animated film (n)
comedy (n)
fantasy (n)
horror movie (n)
love story (n)
musical (n)
romantic comedy (n)
science fiction (sci-fi) movie (n)
tearjerker (n)
thriller (n)
true story (n)
war movie (n)

Features of movies
funny (adj)
hilarious (adj)
scary (adj)
subtitled (adj)
violent (adj)
alien (n)
cartoon character (n)
costume (n)
fight scene (n)
monster (n)
music (n)
sad ending (n)
special effects (n)
suspense (n)

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Touchstone 2nd Edition Language summary Level 3

stunt (n)
Time expressions
already (adv)
still (adv)
(not) yet (adv)
for (two months) (prep)

Other words
fall in love (with someone) (v)
play (a character in a movie) (v)
spoil something for someone (v)
take place (in / on) (v)

Grammar
already, still, and yet with present perfect
You can use yet at the end of questions and negative statements for things that are expected:

A Have you seen Funny Guy yet? (= I imagine you're planning to see it.)
B No, I haven't seen it yet. / No, not yet. (= I haven't seen it, but I plan to.)

You can use already to say that you did something before now. You can use already after have
or at the end of affirmative statements:

A Have you seen Funny Guy yet?

B Yes, I've already seen it. / Yes, I've seen it already. (= I saw it earlier.)

You can use still in statements to say something is ongoing. In negative statements you can
use still for something you havent done, but you want to plan to do. Use still before haven't or
hasn't:

A Have you seen Funny Guy yet?

B No, I still haven't seen it. (= I've wanted to see it for weeks, but I haven't yet.)

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