This article suggests a method for those who want to improve their proficiency in English and has nothing to do with IELTS test.  

Learning a foreign language by watching movies can be a great way to get ahead in a second language and in some cases can be better than “traditional” language learning methods like classes and grammar books! Let’s go over why…

Watching foreign movies immerses you in real, fluid language. This exposes you to the way that the language is really spoken. It’s not slowed down for learners and it’s not made clearer for foreigners. For this reason, you can begin to adjust right away to the actual language as it is spoken today. This is an important skill since you will be using the language at a fast rate as the movie exposes to you, not the slowed down rate that teachers and audio programs use.

Probably most important about watching foreign movies is the fact that it is an enjoyable activity. For this reason, you are not as likely to tire of it as you are to tire of doing grammar exercises or reading dry language textbooks. With movies, you can keep watching and therefore spend more time in the foreign language than you would have if you had just been reading grammar books. More time in the language means more exposure and more learning.

With movies, you also get the added benefit of a visual reference. The visual images will help you understand what is being said so that you can understand better. Additionally, watching a story unfold will also help you begin to understand various vocabulary. Words are often likely to be repeated throughout the movie allowing you to pick them up.

For these reasons, watching movies can be a great way to increase your language knowledge and get more exposure in. If nothing else, you should watch a movie or two just for fun because it’s a fun thing to do. You should never force yourself to do only boring things in the foreign language you are trying to learn. With movies, you get to do something fun and learn at the same time which is the best combination for language learning. In this way, you will find that you pick up new words, sentence structure and more through watching movies.

I should also note that to help your learning along, you should have some way of keeping track of the words you come across. This way, you can review them later and not forget them. As I have mentioned in my previous articles, although learning English through watching movies can be quite fun you should not consider it only as way of having fun. Take the following steps if you want to make the best out of watching movies:

1_ watch the movie for the first time just to understand what the story of the film is. It is like skimming the passage to get the gist of the matter.

2_ the second time watch the movie and extract all of it new words and expressions. You can get all the words by downloading the script of the movie. Write down all the new words in a notebook. Write the definition and some examples for each word.

3_after the second time you can watch the movie again and again to review the new words that you have learned.