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Binge watching
I currently live in a house with no TV, but I don’t really miss having one. I have grown accustomed to watching everything in my laptop. I usually watch series or movies during the weekend, as I spend most of my time in work from Monday to Friday and I live in a really busy house where I need to catch up with the news of my five housemates when I get back home!
When I have a chance to sit and watch something I am usually very keen on choosing comedies. Derry Girls is my go-to series and I’m anxiously waiting for season three now. I tend to binge watch this series a lot, as I find it really funny and it helps me when I’m feeling blue. I also like other comedies such as: Schitt’s Creek (it’s simply hilarious) and Shameless (the American version). I am also interested in historical dramas like: Outlander (a favourite), Peaky Blinders or The Tudors.
I always watch TV series in English, I’m usually not a big fan of the Spanish series (not even the famous Money Heist) and the Basque tv rarely makes new series, so English is always my first choice. When I watch TV series in other languages like Italian or French I like to keep the original language on and use English subtitles. I kind of challenged myself to stop using the subtitles when I watch series in English about a month ago, it’s easier when I watch series I am already familiar with (I know most of the Derry Girls scripts by heart), but I still find it hard when it’s a different accent or a new series. I must admite Outlander was quite tricky for me to understand but I love Scottish accent so much and I was happy to realise I was able to understand the locals when I travelled to Scotland after watching the series. I really think watching series helps a lot when it comes to developing our listening skills.
I only binge watch when I am sad, because when I’m feeling happy I prefer to do other things rather than staying in and watching series. I think the maximum I have ever binge watched was with the second season of Stranger things, when I watched most of the episodes in one go. But I don’t really enjoy the feeling after binge watching, I feel the same way as I do when I eat too much, and it’s not a pleasant sensation.
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Excellent work Olatz, very fluently expressed and wonderful use of vocabulary đź‘Ź
(You’ll definitely like Fleabag based on your Derry Girls addiction and you may also like Life in Pieces, which is an American show, very witty!)
I quite liked the first season on Money Heist but then I think it just got silly – that’s my limited experience of Spanish series unfortunately. I loved the first 3 seasons of Outlander, but then I lost interest in it – but am so happy that you found it helped when you went to Scotland. That’s brilliant.
Just a few notes;
> I have grown accustomed to watching everything ON my laptop
> as I spend most of my time AT work from Monday …
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I’m replying to your essay on the Destroys or Helps lesson here as I wanted to share the corrections on photo. Excellent writing @olatz very much towards C2 level. You’ll note some corrections I’ve made.
> Research is uncountable. Specific research projects are countable, but when speaking of research in general, you’re using an uncountable noun; treat it as singular.
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@luke I’m replying here to your essay from the Destroys or Helps lesson so that you can see the corrections by photo.
I’m impressed with the writing effort here (especially thinking towards IELTS – the structure, flow and use of vocabulary are very strong.)
Let’s take a look at what we can improve:
> Can you try and correct #1 and #2 for me?
> phrasal verb push back versus push someone/something back https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/push+him+back
If it’s not clear, let me know and if you have any other questions about the corrections I’ve highlighted, just let me know
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