Studio Classroom- September 29- [Ask The Expert] Getting Paid to Watch Movies

【Chat Room】

• 本日討論重點：movie critics
• We need to be aware of kind of critic for talking about, one we use critic in a gerneral sense, we are refering to someone who are always finds fault the things.
• critic
  1. 批評者-like to critize 喜歡批評、挑剔、指責
  2. 亦可指批評家、評論家，可針對事物褒之或貶之，例如劇評、書評、影評
  --Critic can also refer people who's job is to write their own opinion about the book, the movie, the plays, like the professional movie critics in our lesson today.
• What a critic write?
  (a) criti'que n. 評論 A critic writes critiques.
• constructive criticism 建設性的批評，善意的批評，為了幫助他人有更好的表現
  - There's also criticism that tend to be helpful, we call it constructive criticism.
  - Being constructive is helping someone build something. And when you get constructive criticism, you get someone's advice how to make improvement.

【Language Tips】

1. critically adv. 具有批判性地、有鑑別力地
   (critical adj. 批判性的)
   ex:
   1. As a researcher, Peter was trained to think critically.
   2. The author of this critically acclaimed novel is nominated for the Nobel Prize.
   - critically acclaimed 大受評論界好評
2. in question [idiom] 考慮中的(under consideration)，討論中的(been questioned)
   ex:
   1. 本文：It's about writting in a way that captures the experience of watching the film in question.
   2. Steve：The book in question has sold over 1 million copies.
   3. This issue might be important, but it is not the point in question right now. (不是現在要討論的重點)
   4. The interviewee in question is now waiting in the conference room.
   - interviewee 面試者
3. file v. 歸檔；本文指：記者發稿(例1)；提出正式的申請(例2)
   ex:
   1. Our correspondent in Israel filed his report on this incident this morning. (駐以色列的駐外記者)
   2. The company filed for bankruptcy.
   - bankruptcy n. (申請)破產