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Zombies
Zombies

Learn English with this zombies English lesson

Date: Oct 04 2013

Themes: Pop Culture

Grammar: Second Conditional Progressive

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Do you believe in the zombie apocalypse? Is it possible that one day, corpses will become reanimated and rise from their graves? Probably not, but it can be fun to imagine how you might react in a worst case scenario. What would you do if you were surrounded by zombies?

Zombies are famous for slowly lumbering down dark streets. Yet they still manage to catch people, which is what scares the pants off of movie lovers. Somehow slow-moving zombies trap people in their homes, afraid and unable to leave. Surely people can run faster than zombies, right? Not in zombie movies. That’s what makes them so entertaining!

Find out if Lily and Greta are ready for zombies in this English lesson about a popular movie monster.

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Greta

Greta

Lily

Lily

Greta:  Lily, how do you think you would do in the zombie apocalypse?

Lily:  I don’t know. I think about it a lot, and really, it just makes me nervous because I don’t know how self-sufficient I would be in that situation. How about you?

Greta:  I have thought about it in terms of which of my friends’ houses is the safest, and where to get the canned food, but there are certain things that I would really be struggling with. When corpses reanimated, dead people are coming at you… I don’t have a gun and I don’t know how to aim for the head, and all of those things that you see in the zombie movies. Where you have to get them in the head? I could not do that.

Lily:  Zombies walk pretty slowly, don’t they? So you could just run away, right?

Greta:  If you’re talking about the zombies that rise from the grave, they move slowly and they’re sort of lumbering with their arms out. But the zombies who have a virus that is transmitted through bite, they tend to run really fast.

Lily:  There are just too many options. It all just scares the pants off of me. I can’t deal with it!

 

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Greta has been thinking a lot about what she would do in a zombie apocalypse. Maybe too much. She thinks about where she would hide, what she would eat and how she would kill zombies that are attacking her. She’s definitely prepared.

It’s clear that Lily hasn’t thought about it very much, and maybe would rather not. There are too many things to consider and worry about for Lily. She’s hoping that if zombies ever came to life, they would move so slowly that she could run from them. She prefers to believe that than to think about shooting monsters in the head.

Do you like to imagine a world with zombies? How would you stay alive? Is thinking about zombies fun and silly, or is it unhealthy to think that way?

 

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mitya09

Russian Federation

We have seen zombies every day around. There are people who every day watch TV and listen to radio. Some time later they think in accord with TV images, they use same expressions, clothes and strive for same life mode. It scares the pants off of other people, which want to hear individual opinion.

05:59 PM Oct 04 2013 |

Ya Nina

Kazakhstan

Frankly speaking, I never like the movies about zombies, so I can hardly imagine our world with zombies. I’m always to react on these movies very emotional, my dreams become bad, I begin to see strange horrible creatures in the darkness, so I prefer to safe my state of mind from such imagination.
If I had to imagine our world with zombies, monsters, vampirs or another unpleasant and scared creatures, I could say that it would be terrible and horrible time in human life. I think so because we don’t know who they are, what they want and how we can live together. I don’t think that these creatures and monsters would be pleasant and friendly, because I don’t believe that so terrible creatures can be kind to us, humanity.

04:38 PM Oct 04 2013 |

 julito

julito

Argentina

The concept of zombies are thought to have originated in  Haiti, where there are countless tales of bodies brought back to life by a sorcerer. Whether  this is urban legend or real I can not tell . I am more scared of a lethal invisible virus  than  these  clumsy and soulless  corpses  brought back to life  to scare the pants off  of  innocent people.  

03:40 PM Oct 04 2013 |

Jasonlongo

Jasonlongo

Congo, Democratic Republic Of The

I don’t really wanna spend my time  watching zombie movies, it really scares the pants off of me, but this sort of apocalypse won’t never come true !!! never never !!!

02:23 PM Oct 04 2013 |

DanielBorges

Portugal

It’s difficult for me to imagine a world with Zombies. However, seeing it in movies it’s comfortable. Feeling that something terrifying and dangerous is happening behind the screen. We feel afraid, but at the same time we fell safe, and it absorbs completely our attention, so that’s funny! However if that real happened I would be trying to survive. I’m seeing me studying zombies, and their weaknesses to know how to make an effective trap or poison, or a way to avoid them.
Zombies make part of our imaginary, and I live well with that. The cinema makes very good films such as the recent World War Z with Brad Pitt. Where a virus is transmitted to humans infecting them and turning them in zombies of scare the pants off. The famous TV series The Walking Death is another example.


01:18 PM Oct 04 2013 |

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DELI72

DELI72

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

maybe i belive them,cause i love to kill them(head shot)....:D

12:06 PM Oct 04 2013 |

yazboy

yazboy

Morocco

I’m can really believe it, But i take it like a story as othrs.


10:25 AM Oct 04 2013 |

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安军

安军

China

zombies can ruined this world…

09:01 AM Oct 04 2013 |

oguzzugo

oguzzugo

Turkey

I don’t believe this.It’s bullshit.

08:36 AM Oct 04 2013 |

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alda10

alda10

Indonesia

I think it is weird that dead people can be dead again by shooting the head or stabbing the chest. their brain, their heart is not work again from the beggining. So, how come they can be dead by shooting the head and the heart which is already dead. their soul is not in their body anymore. it makes no sense. But, still, these kinds of horor movie is able to steal my intention. I like horor movies. If they really comes to live, I think I’ll pray all day and hope somebody to put dynamite on their dead body and I will ran away from the city. It’s funny and scary to think of it.

12:59 AM Oct 04 2013 |

NuriaRuiz

NuriaRuizSuper Member!

Spain

jaja very funny this conversation.



Regards.


Nuria

05:53 AM Oct 03 2013 |

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