English Learning Journal 5

50 Words You're Pronouncing WRONGLY Right Now!

By Arabic Mike

YouTube Video

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AMERICAN vs BRITISH English **50 DIFFERENCES**
By Learn English Lab
YouTube Video

This video talks about the major differences between British

English and American English and the video listed 50 out. The
video didn’t just have 1 narrator to talk about all about these.
There will two people, 1 American and I British, and they sort of
argue about which words are which
Is right and wrong, and both of them get quite confused about
the words.
I learnt a lot of interesting knowledge in this video, e.g.
eggplants are actually called aubergine in UK, and Garbage
Cans are called dustbins in the UK, unfortunately, there are
some that are not so right. For example, most people don’t
call “Rubbish Guy” dustman. Instead, they call them binman in
the UK.
Despite this, I still learnt a lot in this video and I enjoyed
watching this video a lot because of the funny dialog and
interactive narrative is also a very nice addition to an already
well crafted video.

Lucas Martins 2D (22)

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I Tried Beating a Lie Detector Test
By BuzzFeedBlue
YouTube Video
Mike has taken on the task to see if he is able to outsmart a lie detector. He
says that people have tried biting their tongue, meditating or even held their
breath to try to outsmart the lie detector, but none worked. He eventually
tried to sneak an earbud to listen to blast music in one, and there will be a
guy saying yes and no words over and over in the other earbud, so Mike will
be able to not listen to anything the administrator of the lie detector says.
At last, he failed since the earbuds aren’t loud enough and he ended up
doing the whole thing the “normal” way.
In my opinion, I think lie detectors shouldn’t be actually used in crime
fighting since the only thing it does is record your body temperature and
heartbeat so if you are nervous or having the ability to stay abnormally calm
may affect the results. That does not sound safe at all and in fact numerous
innocent people are locked up due to the lie detector.
The video is over-dramatic at times but I enjoyed it. I think Mike idea is not
very practical since in an actual interrogation, there will be no earbuds to be
sneaked in whatsoever. However, it was a nice try but the plan needs
improvement. I really enjoyed the video not only because of it being thrilling
but I learnt a lot about the lie detector.

Lucas Martins 2D (22)

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Everything That Will Kill You... From A to Z
By CollegeHumor
YouTube Video
This amazing animation made by the channel CollegeHumor is very
humorous yet quite informative and useful in some ways. The main
character, a skeleton with a top-hat, uses his “test subject” to tell the
audience about different things, ranging from words starting with a-z, which
can kill people.
The special thing is that the test subject is just having his usual life, just like
any person, but the skeleton keeps pointing out things around him that may
cause death from him, and from the “test subjects” facial expression we can
tell he is getting more and more afraid.
This video uses a lot of difficult English words, and it is able to explain these
words flawlessly which fits right in the story without looking weird and
forced-in. I think the animation style is very special and it uses black and
white as its colour, with a 90s style animation, made mostly with rhymes. I
really enjoyed this video and I will certainly share it with my friends.

Lucas Martins 2D (22)

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Journal 1
Sherlock: How to Film Thought
Youtube video
 
This video from the channel NerdWriter1 is about how the popular TV
series Sherlock, explained a complex and compelling story beautifully in
just under 4 minutes, using brilliant camera work, script writing skills and
editing skills. It mainly is about how the directors are able to pull of suck a
trick that other film directors will struggle
  to accomplish in an hour.
Those 4 minutes presented Sherlock’s drug problems, his guilt of doing
so, and his pressure for trying to solve a mysterious case, which led to a
conclusion that serial killers may be just hiding in plain sight.
 
I am really fascinated by this video because I personally really enjoy
making scripts for plays, and also like to edit videos. It taught me how to
do scripts that are exciting, while able to reveal information to the
audience, and contain  a sense of suspense.
The video also talked about “The Leapfrog Scene Transition” in which the
character suddenly realizes the clues or solve the mystery. In my opinion, I
think this sort of transition will suddenly get viewers a dose of excitement
to see their beloved character “wake up”, and I will really try to learn
from that skill and improve my future writing quality. I really enjoyed
watching the video and learnt a lot from it.

Lucas Martins 2D (22)