BEST TV SERIES FOR LEARNING ENGLISH - PART 3
00:00 - Intro
This video will feature trailers and evaluations of five of the best TV series for learning English: Downton Abbey (period drama, 2010-2015), The Great British Bake Off (cooking competition, 2010-present), Call the Midwife (period drama, 2012-present), Sherlock (crime drama, 2010-2017), and Killing Eve (thriller, 2018-present). Each series will be evaluated for its educational value, with an emphasis on the use of English language and grammar.
00:00:05 - Downton Abbey
Description: Set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey, the series follows the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with the great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
Genre(s): Period Drama
Release Year: 2010
Evaluation: 9/10
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu3mP0c51hE
00:02:38 - The Great British Bake Off
Description: The Great British Bake Off is a British television baking competition in which a group of amateur bakers compete against each other in a series of rounds, attempting to impress a group of judges with their baking skills.
Genre(s): Cooking Show
Release Year: 2010
Evaluation: 8/10
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtkMeqfOHb8
00:03:27 - Call the Midwife
Description: Call the Midwife is a British period drama television series based on the best-selling memoirs of former nurse Jennifer Worth, who worked in the East End of London in the 1950s and 1960s.
Genre(s): Period Drama
Release Year: 2012
Evaluation: 8/10
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOCCDXSsztg
00:04:12 - Sherlock
Description: Sherlock is a British crime drama television series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. The series was created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson.
Genre(s): Crime Drama
Release Year: 2010
Evaluation: 9/10
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrBKwzL3K7s
00:07:08 - Killing Eve
Description: Killing Eve is a British spy thriller television series, produced in the United Kingdom by Sid Gentle Films for BBC America. The series follows Eve Polastri, a British intelligence investigator tasked with capturing psychopathic assassin Villanelle.
Genre(s): Thriller
Release Year: 2018
Evaluation: 9/10
Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk0PyD-XNZA