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Watching without subtitles

Languages · Texts, Media & Translation · ages 15-16
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. A stretch goes over your head. What now?

    • Pause everything for a week
    • Ride it out on faces and tone, then rejoin at known words
    • Restart the whole series

  2. How do you choose material for subtitle-free watching?

    • Shows where you hold the plot for half an hour
    • The hardest new drama you can find
    • Clips you quit after five minutes

  3. Reading the book behind a series first can turn a blurry episode into one you can follow.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. What is the best use of one episode?

    • Half hear it while scrolling
    • Watch it at triple speed once
    • Mine it well: pause, repeat lines aloud, notebook phrases

  5. Lena follows show A for ten minutes before she is lost, and show B for thirty minutes with the gist coming through. Which should she watch?

    • Show A, because harder is always better
    • Show B, because she stays with the story
    • Neither, until every word is clear

  6. One scene confuses you over and over. What helps most?

    • Rewatch that scene twice
    • Jump to ten new scenes
    • Switch to a new language

  7. Kim looks up every word, pauses constantly, and stops enjoying it. What is off?

    • She should look up even more words
    • Listening never improves
    • Missing words fill in over weeks, so chase the plot, not each word

  8. Tom starts with a brand-new hard drama and quits in a week. What should he change?

    • Start with episodes he has seen before, using the known plot
    • Watch even harder films
    • Stop listening entirely
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Answer key

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Watching without subtitles W1-mt_gibt6RSHpo-s1

  1. Ride it out on faces and tone, then rejoin at known words · Holding the thread calmly stretches how long you can stay with it.
  2. Shows where you hold the plot for half an hour · Enough understanding keeps you with the story while new words wash past.
  3. True · Known names and words let your brain catch them when they fly past.
  4. Mine it well: pause, repeat lines aloud, notebook phrases · Full attention on one episode beats a season half heard.
  5. Show B, because she stays with the story · Material that holds you for half an hour trains your ears best.
  6. Rewatch that scene twice · Replaying the tricky part teaches more than piling on new scenes.
  7. Missing words fill in over weeks, so chase the plot, not each word · Chasing perfection kills the fun, while fog is normal.
  8. Start with episodes he has seen before, using the known plot · Known stories let him guess unknown words from what he sees.
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