Choose a topic, practice it, and we will work on it together in class.
| English | Korean | Example |
|---|---|---|
| action movie | ์ก์ ์ํ | The new action movie is full of car chases. |
| comedy | ์ฝ๋ฏธ๋ ์ํ / ํฌ๊ทน | We watched a comedy and laughed all night. |
| romantic comedy | ๋ก๋งจํฑ ์ฝ๋ฏธ๋ | This romantic comedy is perfect for date night. |
| horror movie | ๊ณตํฌ ์ํ | I can't sleep after watching a horror movie. |
| thriller | ์ค๋ฆด๋ฌ ์ํ | The thriller kept me guessing until the end. |
| science fiction | ๊ณต์ ๊ณผํ ์ํ / SF ์ํ | Science fiction often imagines life on other planets. |
| fantasy | ํํ์ง ์ํ | The fantasy film features dragons and ancient magic. |
| animation | ์ ๋๋ฉ์ด์ / ๋งํ ์ํ | Kids and adults both love that animation. |
| documentary | ๋คํ๋ฉํฐ๋ฆฌ / ๊ธฐ๋ก ์ํ | The documentary explores the lives of deep-sea creatures. |
| drama | ๋๋ผ๋ง ์ํ | The drama tells the story of a struggling family. |
| western | ์๋ถ ์ํ | My grandfather still enjoys old westerns on Sundays. |
| musical | ๋ฎค์ง์ปฌ ์ํ | The musical had wonderful songs and dance numbers. |
| mystery | ๋ฏธ์คํฐ๋ฆฌ ์ํ / ์ถ๋ฆฌ ์ํ | In this mystery, a detective hunts a missing painter. |
| crime film | ๋ฒ์ฃ ์ํ | The crime film follows a clever bank robber. |
| war film | ์ ์ ์ํ | The war film shows the reality of battle. |
| biopic | ์ ๊ธฐ ์ํ | The biopic is about a famous jazz singer. |
| historical drama | ์๋๊ทน / ์ฌ๊ทน | The historical drama is set in the Joseon era. |
| adventure film | ๋ชจํ ์ํ | The adventure film takes place in the jungle. |
| disaster movie | ์ฌ๋ ์ํ | In the disaster movie, a huge earthquake hits Seoul. |
| superhero movie | ์ํผํ์ด๋ก ์ํ | Every summer brings another big superhero movie. |
| independent film | ๋ ๋ฆฝ ์ํ | The independent film won awards at small festivals. |
| silent film | ๋ฌด์ฑ ์ํ | Charlie Chaplin starred in many classic silent films. |
| blockbuster | ๋ธ๋ก๋ฒ์คํฐ / ์ด๋์ | The blockbuster earned millions on its opening weekend. |
| box office | ํฅํ ์์ / ๋งคํ์ | The film broke every box office record. |
| plot | ์ค๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ / ๊ตฌ์ฑ | The plot was too complicated to follow. |
| subtitles | ์๋ง | I watch English movies with Korean subtitles. |
| dubbing | ๋๋น | The dubbing didn't match the actors' lips. |
| sequel | ์ํธ | The sequel was even better than the original. |
| prequel | ํ๋ฆฌํ / ์ ํธ | The prequel explains how the hero grew up. |
| trailer | ์๊ณ ํธ | The trailer made me want to see the film. |
| cast | ์ถ์ฐ์ง | The movie has an amazing all-star cast. |
| director | ๊ฐ๋ | The director spent five years making this film. |
| screenplay | ๊ฐ๋ณธ / ์๋๋ฆฌ์ค | She wrote the screenplay for that award-winning film. |
| scene | ์ฅ๋ฉด | The opening scene was filmed in Busan. |
| soundtrack | ์ฌ์ด๋ํธ๋ / ์ํ ์์ | I listen to the soundtrack on my way home. |
| special effects | ํน์ ํจ๊ณผ | The special effects made the dragons look real. |
| main character | ์ฃผ์ธ๊ณต | The main character is a shy high school student. |
| villain | ์ ๋น / ์ ์ญ | A good villain makes the story more exciting. |
| supporting role | ์กฐ์ฐ | She won an award for her supporting role. |
| premiere | ์์ฌํ / ์ฒซ ๊ฐ๋ด | Fans gathered outside the theater for the premiere. |
| review | ํ๋ก / ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ | I always read reviews before choosing a movie. |
| critic | ํ๋ก ๊ฐ / ๋นํ๊ฐ | Critics praised the film for its honest story. |
| rating | ๋ฑ๊ธ / ํ์ | The movie has a rating of nine out of ten. |
| audience | ๊ด๊ฐ | The audience clapped loudly at the ending. |
| film festival | ์ํ์ | Her short film was shown at a film festival. |
| cinematography | ์ดฌ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ / ์ํ ์ดฌ์์ | The cinematography made every scene look like a painting. |
| spoiler | ์คํฌ์ผ๋ฌ | No spoilers, please; I haven't seen it yet! |
| plot twist | ๋ฐ์ | The plot twist at the end shocked everyone. |
| ending | ๊ฒฐ๋ง | I didn't expect such a sad ending. |
| remake | ๋ฆฌ๋ฉ์ดํฌ / ์ฌ์ ์ | The remake is faithful to the 1980s original. |
| genre | ์ฅ๋ฅด | Horror is my favorite genre of film. |
| actor | ๋ฐฐ์ฐ / ๋จ์ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ | The actor trained for months for the role. |
| actress | ์ฌ์ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ | The actress plays a brilliant young scientist. |
| screening | ์์ | The late-night screening starts at eleven thirty. |
| masterpiece | ๊ฑธ์ / ๋ช ์ | Many critics call the film a modern masterpiece. |
| flop | ํฅํ ์คํจ์ | Despite the huge budget, the movie was a flop. |
| based on a true story | ์คํ๋ฅผ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ํ | The film is based on a true story. |