TEACHING IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS TO LEARNERS OF EFL THROUGH A CORPUS BASED ON DISNEY MOVIES Irene López Rodriguez Brown University‚ USA Elena María García Moreno Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Cartagena Abstract: This paper attempts to provide a strategy for the teaching of idioms to learners of EFL through a corpus based on Disney movies. Adopting a cognitive approach‚ idioms are seen as being motivated by conceptual metaphors which tend to be grounded in our embodied experiences and which
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Capra himself has many deeply instilled values and all of his films portray that being a great example for auteur theory. Though some of his films show these morales more forth right than others‚ all of them contain a bit of Capra somewhere‚ or in one of the characters. In Capra’s films "It’s a Wonderful Life" and "Pocketful of Miracles" there are many similarities and differences between Capra’s characters‚ and thematic elements. Though Capra is known for having very wholesome‚ American‚ do-gooders
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2004. They have produced over 44 “classics” and are one of the most recognized names in animated film (Peterson).We expose young girls to these animated films at a very young age‚ yet doing so does not seem to be good for these children. Disney’s movies are littered with a virtually unattainable image of what a woman should look like and feeding such images to girls at a young age is wrong and causes low self esteem and poor body image. The term body image refers to a person’s sense of satisfaction
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Romeo and Juliet is a classic love story written by William Shakespeare‚ in the Elizabethan era of English history. The work tells of the fatal attraction between Romeo and Juliet‚ how they met and why‚ their falling in love and their ultimate sacrifice for each other’s love‚ their actual lives. Fate has complete control‚ is a theme that is riddled throughout the text written by Shakespeare. It is essentially pointing out the view that everything we do or will‚ is at the mercy of fate‚ and whatever
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young adults. There are many other recent films such as this one that base its plot on drug use‚ underage drinking‚ and casual sexual activity. With teens and young adults indulging in this form of explicit media‚ it makes many ultimately wonder “do movies targeted toward adolescents encourage illegal and recreational drug use” and are teens attempting to imitate the wild behaviors displayed on the silver screen? This specific topic has raised many concerns among majority of the American population
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Scary Movies An American short story published in 1995 written by Steven Amidon. There have always been racial problems in America‚ which is no wonder since the Americans took black people as slaves a long time ago. However‚ in the beginning of the 20th century the process of solving the racial issues in America begun. Nevertheless‚ it was a very difficult process‚ which really has not come to an end yet. The story takes place in a suburb of New York in the year of 1968. The main character is
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Partisan war movies played an important role in the process of forming of People’s Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Many believed they were just portraying partisan’s war victories‚ which is true in some way‚ but beneath the surface‚ there is much more to it. Josip Broz Tito‚ Yugoslav’s supreme commander and president‚ was in need of a national myth which would glue his nation together and war movies were the best in the business to do so. National myth was “unity and brotherhood”‚ phrase which could
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Old Movies are Making a Comeback. Could you ever imagine falling in love with some who is different from you? However‚ your parents will not allow you to marry him/her. How would you feel? Nowadays many old time movies are coming back‚ in newer versions. For example‚ movies that were popular back in the 70’s and 80’s are now being redone with better special effects‚ and even sometimes the movies change their plot. In the movie Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner‚ the plot sets us in a relationship where
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1. Describe what you think would be a successful marketing mix for the first two High School Musical movies as well as any upcoming sequels. Answer: A successful marketing mix for the High School Musical‚ film series would be using the four Ps of marketing which includes price‚ product‚ place and promotion. Keeping the price aside because there is basically no price for a television film which the consumers have to pay directly‚ the other three are vital elements of a film marketing campaign
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Movie 1: Arirang The documentary has two parts‚ "The Korean American Journey‚" which covers the community’s history from 1903 to about 1960‚ and "The Korean American Dream‚" which continues the story through the present. The film begins the story of how and why‚ in less than three years in the early 1900s‚ more than 7‚000 Koreans left their strife-torn homeland for new lives on the sugar plantations of Hawaii. The film is more than just another tale of a people immigrating to America and finding
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