Vocabulary: Cinema and Television

Cinema and Television Vocabulary

• Televisión (n.): a device shaped like a box with a screen that receives electrical signals and changes them into moving images and sound.
• Program (US) / programme (GB) (n.): a broadcast on television or radio.
• Broadcast (v.): to send out a programme on television or radio.
• Soap opera (n.): a series of television or radio programmes about the lives and problems of a particular group of characters.
• Sitcom (n.): a funny television or radio show in which the same characters appear in each programme in a different story.
• Series (n.): a set of television or radio broadcasts on the same subject or using the same characters but in different situations.
• Documentary (n.): a film or television programme that gives facts and information about a subject.
• News broadcast (n.): a television or radio programme consisting of reports about recent events.
• Episode (n.): one of the single parts into which a story is divided, especially when it is broadcast on the television or radio.
• Talk show (n.): a radio or television programme on which famous guests are asked questions about themselves.
• Reality show (n.): a television programme about ordinary people who are filmed in real situations.
• Weather forecast (n.): a statement of what the weather is likely to be for the next day or few days broadcast on televisión.
• Host / hostess (n.): a person who introduces guests and performers on televison.
• Commercial (n.): an advertisement that is broadcast on television or radio.
• Televise (v.): to show or broadcast on television.
• Advertisement (n.): a picture, short film, song, etc. that tries to persuade people to buy a product or service.
• Viewer (n.):  a person who watches something, especially television.
• TV channel (n.): a television station.
• Cinema (n.): a theatre where people pay to watch films.
• Trailer (n.): a 2-3 minute video summary of a movie.
• Movie (US) / film (GB) (n.): a piece shown in a cinema or on television and often telling a story.
• Comedy film: a type of film that is intentionally funny either in its characters or its action:
• Detective film (n.): that focuses on a detective-hero’s investigation into the mystery surrounding a crime.
• Documentary film (n.): a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event.
• Horror film (n.): a film in which very frightening or unnatural things happen, for example dead people coming to life and people being murdered.
• Musical (n.):  a play or film in which part of the story is sung to music.
• Romance film (n.): genre wherein the plot revolves around the love between two protagonists.
• Science-fiction film (n.): genre that incorporates hypothetical, science-based themes into the plot of the film.
• Western (n.): a film based on stories about life in the west of the US in the past.
• Actor / actress (n.): someone who pretends to be someone else while performing in a film, play or televisión.
• Cast (n.): the actors in a film, play, or show.
• Dialogue (n.): conversation that is written for a play, or film.
• Director (n.): a person who is in charge of a film or play and tells the actors how to play their parts.
• Producer (n.):  a person who makes the practical and financial arrangements needed to make a film, play or television programme.

Definitions taken from the Cambridge Dictionary.