اما واتسون و دیو و دلبر

Aww yeah! Today, we are learning English with Beauty and the Beast.

You are going to watch some scenes from the movie alongside an interview with actress Emma Watson.

You’re going to greatly improve your British pronunciation, learn tons of vocabulary grammar and so much more.

If you’re new here, this is how the lesson will work:

you’ll watch some clips with subtitles then we’ll teach you all of the most important vocabulary, pronunciation, and cultural context, before you test everything you learn by watching it a final time without subtitles and answering some quiz questions.

Let’s get started!

Beauty and the Beast, really, if you think about it, is like, four movies in one.

It’s an action movie- we’re making a live-action film. It does a huge amount of stunts, and there’s wolf fighting, and horse riding, and you know, guns and sword fights, and all of that going on.

It’s also a comedy.

The comic timing of characters like Cos worth, and Lumiere, and Mrs Potts, Uhm it’s just hysterical in my opinion.

Uhm then, on the other hand, it’s a romance.

Uh it’s a romantic drama. So and then it’s a musical.

And then, there’s music, just to kind of really, add it on the top, music and dance, and theater really.

Ah, if it isn’t the only bookworm in town.

So, where did you run off to this week?

Two cities in Northern Italy.

I didn’t want to come back!

Have you got any new places to go?

I’m afraid not.

But you may reread any of the old ones that you’d like.

Thank you.

You library makes our small of the world feel big.

Beauty and the Beast, really, if you think about it, is like, four movies in one.

A beast is an animal, especially a large, dangerous, or unusual [uncommon] one.

In the movie and other fantasy stories, “beast” is used to refer to besast-like mondters (for example, a half man, half animal).

By saying Beauty and the Beast is four movies in one, Emma means that the film can be seen and enjoyed from different perspectives, which she will explain in this interview.

Example: This jacket is actually two in one. It is a rain jacket, but it can also be used in formal situations.

Beauty and the Beast, really, if you think about it, is like, four movies in one.

It’s an action movie- we’re making a live-action film.

In filmmaking, live-action is a production that shows real people acting, as opposed-generated effects.

The original Beauty and Beast is an animation.

Emma is saying that they were making a live-action film and that it was also an action movie.

Recently, Disney has been making lots of live-action films of their animated classics.

It does a huge amount of stunts, and there’s wolf fighting, and horse riding, and you know, guns and sword fights, and all of that going on.

Stunt is an exciting moment of action, usually in a film, that is dangerous or appears dangerous and usually needs to be done someone skilled.

Here, Emma uses the noun “Wolf fighting”, meaning a “fight with wolves”.

When collocated like that, you can create a variety of different nouns.

Example: Most people coming to this gym prefer weight lifting over cardio exercises.

She also says horse riding, which is also a noun referring to the activity of riding horses.

So, in another example, if a film wins awards, we could say it is an “award-winning film”.

It’s also a comedy.

The comic timing of characters like Cos worth, and Lumiere, and Mrs Potts, Uhm it’s just hysterical in my opinion.

Comic timing is the concept that things can be funnier when done or said at the correct speed and with pauses.

Check out how Chandler from the TV series Friends tries to be funny by adding pauses and speaking at a specific speed, which helps his jokes, or the things he says to sound more funny.

I went to that tanning place your wife suggested.

Was that place.

the sun?

You know what’s weird?

Donald Duck never wore pants.

But, whenever he’s getting out of the shower.

He always puts a towel around his waist.

I means, what is that about?

You might have noticed that comedians like Ellen DeGeneres also do this.

You’re an amazing actress.

Not one, but two nominated films tonight you’re in.

That’s just, uh.That is so.

What is the word for it?

Selfish, I guess.

It’s also a comedy.

The comic timing of characters like Cos worth, and Lumiere, and Mrs Potts, Uhm it’s just hysterical in my opinion.

Someone who is hysterical is so excited, angry, or in panic, that they start to scream without control.

Now if something is considered hysterical, it simply causes people to become uncontrolled in such a way.

Most commonly, we say this to mean that something is very funny, and makes you laugh a lot, as Emma does here.

it’s just hysterical in my opinion.

Uhm then, on the other hand, it’s a romance.

Uh it’s a romantic drama.

The expression on the other hand is used when you want to give [say] another point or fact about something.

That is really different from what you said before.

Your mother was there for me at a time when no one else was.

Not only was she a singularly gifted witch she was also an uncommonly kind woman.

She had a way of seeing the beauty in others even, and, perhaps.

Most especially; when that person could not see it in themselves.

And your father, James, on the other hand, he had a certain, shall we say, talent for trouble then, on the other hand, it’s a romance.

Uh it’s a romantic drama.

When talking about types [genres] of movies and TV series, drama refers to highly emotional ones, that are focused on emotional, serious situation and interactions between characters, not on comedy or action scenes.

So Emma is saying that the movie is a comedy, but also (on the other hand) is a romantic drama.

Ah, if it isn’t the only bookworm in town.

Bookworm is an informal way to call a person who is constantly reading books.

Your father and I have been friends since time began.

I’ve watched you grow up, lndy.

I’ve watched the two of you grow apart.

I’ve never seen you this concerned about him before. Dad?

He’s an academic, a bookworm.

He’s not a field man.

Dad?

So, where did you run off to this week?

If you run off to a place, you are suddenly leaving the place you are, and escaping to go somewhere else.

The Beast wouldn’t hurt anyone.

I’ve heard of the effects of dark magic, but I’ve never before seen it with my own eyes!

This is a threat to our very existence!

We can’t have her running off to warm the Beast.

Lock her up too.

No!

The man is asking Belle [Emma Watson] about the story she discovered in the last book she read, and where it happened.

So, where did you run off to this week?

Two cities in Northern Italy.

I didn’t want to come back!

So Belle responds that she “ran off” to two cities in Northern Italy.

She might be making a reference to the popular story of Romeo and Juliet, which took place [happened] in the North of Italy.

Have you got any new places to go?

I’m afraid not.

Although afraid means the same as scared, here “I’m afraid.” is a polite expression used before telling someone, something that might make them sad, disappointed, or angry.

Example: Will John be there?

I’m afraid not.

Things haven’t been going very well here, I’m afraid.

Of course I came back.

I’ll never leave you again.

I’m afraid it’s my turn to leave.

We’re together now.

It’s gonna be fine.

We have to see Professor Dumbledore.

Immediately!

I’m afraid Professor Dumbledore is not here.

He received an urgent owl from the Ministry of Magic, and left immediately for London.

Have you got any new places to go?

I’m afraid not.

But you may reread any of the old ones that you’d like.

Thank you.

To reread is to read something again.

Belle has read all of the books in the library, and so now is rereading them.

You library makes our small of the world feel big.

The way Belle uses “corner” here is to refer to an area of a country or land, often somewhere quiet or far away.

Example:

It’s important to meet people from outside of your corner of the world in order to broaden your global perspective.

So You need someone at the helm of the movie like this, that can really do all of those things.

And, it takes someone quite special I think to get all of that working very well, and I think Bill has done a brilliant job of that.

We wanted to make sure that we know she lovers reading, we know she loves to travel, but we also wanted to give her this element of being quite industrious, and quite practical, and very inventive.

What are you doing?

The laundry.

Come!

The blue bird.”

“That flies.”

“Over the dark.”

“Wood.”

That was amazing!

What on earth are you doing?

Teaching another girl to read?

Isn’t one enough?

You need someone at the helm of the movie like this, that can really do all of those things.

If you are at the helm of something, you are in charge of it, for example, a captain or pilot.

Example:

Captain Jack Sparrow is at the helm of the Black Pearl.

Emma is saying that for doing such a complicated movie with so many details, you would need a really capable director.

And, it takes someone quite special I think to get all of that working very well, and I think Bill has done a brilliant job of that.

Somebody that is considered brilliant has great intelligence or skill.

Tony Stark.

Visionary, genius, American patriot.

Even from an early age, the son of legendary weapons developer, Howard Stark, quickly stole the spotlight with his brilliant and unique mind.

At age 4, hebult his first circuit board.

At age 6, his first engine.

And at 17, he graduated summa cum laude from MIT.

However, in British English, brilliant is used asslang to say that something is very cool.

Similar to the word awesome in American English.

It’s not much.

But it’s home.

I think it’s brilliant.

but we also wanted to give her this element of being quite industrious, and quite practical, and very inventive.

Somebody who is considered industrious work very hard and consistently.

Mor commonly we might say “hardworking”.

Example:

She is the most hardworking [industrious] accountant you will ever meet.

Somebody who is invented, has the ability to create or design new things or to think originally.

What are you doing?

The laundry.

Laundry refers to both the activity of washing clothes, and the dirty clothes themselves.

Although you could just say “I have to wash my clothes. “

Native speakers much more often say “I have to do my laundry”.

Okay. Let’s do laundry.

Hey sheldon.

Hello.

Doing laundry?

Of course I’m doing laundry.

Saturday night is laundry night.

And I’m in the laundry room; so.

Come!

The blue bird.”

“That flies.”

“Over the dark.”

“Wood.”

Wood or woods refer to an area of land that is smaller than a forest, but that is covered with trees.

That was amazing!

What on earth are you doing?

On Earth is used for emphasis in questions that begin with words such as ‘how’, ‘why’, ‘what’, or ‘where’.

It is often used to suggest that there is no obvious or easy answer to the question being asked.

Example:

How on Earth did that happen?

Why on Earth would he want to go to sucha place?

The Green Initiative for only 12 million dollars will charge–

Okay. I’ve heard enough.

Now, don’t we already have a Green Initiative?

I mean, didn’t we do a whole thing, hang a banner, make a video, sting was there.

I thought I met Sting.

You did meet Sting.

Yeah I met Sting. So why on Earth would we spend another 12 million dollars?

Well, because we can always do more.

I can’t leave now Sheldon.

I’m very busy.

Besides, why would I want to do you a favor after the way you treated me in the cafeteria?

What on Earth are you talking about?

My behaviour in the cafeteria was delightful.

Can you think of an example with this expression?

Practice your English by writing it in the comments below!

In the animation, Maurice is kind of the inventive, but in this movie, it’s actually Belle who is forging forward and innovating, and coming up with new ways to doing things, which I thought was really interesting and was an idea that I loved.

Belle also does some teaching in this film.

She wants to not only does she love reading for herself, but she actually loves sharing her love of books, and, she loves sharing the things that she finds special and interesting. And I loved that too, that she she wants to share.

A book that truly allows you to escape.

How amazing!

It was her cruelest trick of all.

It was just another curse.

The outside world has no place for a creature like me but it can for you.

In the animation, Maurice is kind of the inventive, but in this movie, it’s actually Belle who is forging forward and innovating, and coming up with new ways to doing things, To forge ahead, or forge forward, is to suddenly make a lot of progress.

Somebody who is innovating, introduces and suggests improvements and new ideas.

To come up with something (such as a plan or solution) means to think about these ideas.

Now, if you two don’t mind, I’m going to bed, before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed, ot worse-expelled.

Belle also does some teaching in this film.

She wants to not only does she love reading for herself, but she actually loves sharing her love of books, and she loves sharing the things that she finds special and interesting.

While the most correct pronunciation, which you probably learned in school, of this word is interesting [in-tur-es-ting], natives (both Americans and Brits like Emma) often shorten it, so it sounds like in-tres-ting.

Notice that it goes from 4 syllables (in-tur-es-ting) to just 3 (in-tres-ting).

What an in-tres-ting necklace.

Oh, that’s, uhm. in-tres-ting.

No, No, it’s not in-tres-ting

Okay?

It’s very, very not in-tres-ting.

It’s actually 100% completely the opposite of in-tres-ting.

I got it, Ross.

This happens with other words, too.

How would you pronounce this?

You probably said com-for-tuh-bul

While there is nothing wrong with saying it this way, a native would probably reduced this to comf-tur-bul, again removing one of the syllables.

Thid happens all the time, so remember to pay attention to it in your favourite series and movies.

Welcome to your new home.

It’s modest but comf-tur-bul.

gotta go, wish me luck!

Oh!

Good luck!

Hey Rach, now that you work in Ralph Lauren, could you bring me back some of those polo shirts?

Uh, well, you know what?

it don’t know if I’d feel comf-tur-bul stealing on my very first day.

Unwilling to steal from work. In-tres-ting.

and, she loves sharing the things that she finds special and interesting.

And I loved that too, that she. she wants to share.

Book that truly allows you to escape.

As we saw before, books allow you to escape and live in another reality.

So the Beast is saying that this book actually, or truly allows you to escape (through magic).

It was her cruelest trick of all.

It was just another curse.

In fantasy stories, a curse is magical words said to somebody in order to invoke a supernatural power and punish or affect someone negatively.

It was her cruelest trick of all.

In this case, trick simply refers to a clever or interesting way of doing something.

Example:

Check out this move I learned playing soccer, the hat trick.

Somebody who is cruel causes pain and suffering to other intentionally.

Cruelest means the most cruel;

there is nothing that is more cruel than that-it is the superlative of the adjective.

In English, superlative normally appear as one of these two options:

a) For short adjectives:

adjectives + est

Example:

Coolest; fastest; smartest.

LeFou!

My dearest companion.

It’s beautiful.

But, of course.

Master wanted you to have the finest room in the castle.

For long adjectives: Most + adjective

Example:

Most intelligent, most creative, most fascinating.

He taxed the village to fill his castle with the most beautiful objects, and his parties with the most beautiful people.

You are the wildest, most gorgeous thing I’ve ever seen.

Nobody deserves you.

It was her cruelest trick of all.

It was just another curse.

The outside world has no place for a creature like me. but it can for you.

Did you notice the connected speech here?

Beast didn’t say “buT iT can for you”, he said:

buh-dih can for you, buh-dih can for you.

we hear two interesting instances of morphing T sounds here.

First, the T of “but” becomes a tap T because it is between two vowel sounds.

So buT it becomes buh-dit

This is more common in American English, but Brits do it somethings, too, as Beast does here, and as we saw earlier.

What on the Earth are you doing? What on the Earth are you doing?

Second, the T of it, because it is at the end of the syllable, becomes a stop T sound (ih).

buh-dih can for you. buh-dih can for you.

Hey after you finish this lesson be sure to check out this funny lesson that we made with an interview of Emma Watson on The Ellen Show.

Beauty and the Beast, really, if you think about it, is like, four movies in one.

It’s an action movie- we’re making a live-action film. It does a huge amount of stunts, and there’s wolf fighting, and horse riding, and you know, guns and sword fights, and all of that going on.

It’s also a comedy.

The comic timing of characters like Cos worth, and Lumiere, and Mrs Potts, Uhm it’s just hysterical in my opinion.

Uhm then, on the other hand, it’s a romance.

Uh it’s a romantic drama. So and then it’s a musical.

And then, there’s music, just to kind of really, add it on the top, music and dance, and theater really.

Ah, if it isn’t the only bookworm in town.

So, where did you run off to this week?

Two cities in Northern Italy.

I didn’t want to come back!

Have you got any new places to go?

I’m afraid not.

But you may reread any of the old ones that you’d like.

Thank you.

You library makes our small of the world feel big.

So You need someone at the helm of the movie like this, that can really do all of those things.

And, it takes someone quite special I think to get all of that working very well, and I think Bill has done a brilliant job of that.

We wanted to make sure that we know she lovers reading, we know she loves to travel, but we also wanted to give her this element of being quite industrious, and quite practical, and very inventive.

What are you doing?

The laundry.

Come!

The blue bird.”

“That flies.”

“Over the dark.”

“Wood.”

That was amazing!

What on earth are you doing?

Teaching another girl to read?

Isn’t one enough?

So, in the animation, Maurice is kind of the inventive, but in this movie, it’s actually Belle who is forging forward and innovating, and coming up with new ways to doing things, which I thought was really interesting and was an idea that I loved.

Belle also does some teaching in this film.

She wants to not only does she love reading for herself, but she actually loves sharing her love of books, and, she loves sharing the things that she finds special and interesting. And I loved that too, that she she wants to share.

A book that truly allows you to escape.

How amazing!

It was her cruelest trick of all.

It was just another curse.

The outside world has no place for a creature like me but it can for you.

Alright! I hope you had as much fun with that lesson as I did! And don’t stop the learning now.

Be sure to improve your British vocabulary and pronunciation in this lesson with Emma Watson, or check out all of our lessons with Disney movies in this playlist.

Now, it’s time to go beyond the classroom, and LIVE your English, Aww yeah!