Learn English With the “Break Up” Video: Social Media for Business English

Learning English or improving English can be greatly helped with videos.

Videos provide English learners with real-life English. This English is spoken at the normal speed and uses vocabulary and sentence structure that native English-speaking people employ.

This English is not the type that most students find in their textbooks or on cassettes or CDs.  It is the real thing. And for this reason, learners of English, especially those who are still at the beginning and intermediate levels find it challenging to listen and watch English language videos.

Here’s an interesting video called “Break Up”. It has won several awards. It was produced in 2007 for the Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions.

Before you watch, here’s a little background and some questions to focus on the story:

The film is about a symbolic love relationship between a man and a woman:

• who does the man represent?
• who does the woman represent?
• what does the woman want?
• what’s the man’s reaction?
• what’s  her main compliant?
• what does he know about the woman?
• how does he think he can make her happy?
• what is her reaction to his suggestions?

Vocabulary in Context:

• “I just put down a mil on a TV commercial just to talk to you.”  What does “mil” mean here?
• “We don’t even hang out in the same places anymore.” What does the phrasal verb “hang out” mean?
• “You can’t tell me you missed the billboard in Times Square?” Billboard? What is it?
• “I’m out of here!” What does this idiomatic expression mean?

Here’s the short film. Enjoy. Then please post questions or comments in the box below.

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