Lesson 344--When talking about movies

 

When talking about movies, we have lots of words that you will find useful.

premiere/debut (verb and noun) :  This indicates when the movie will start being shown to the public.

Avengers 2 premieres on Thursday. (verb)

Ant-man debuts on Friday. (verb)

The Avengers 2 premiere is on Thursday. (noun)

The Antman debut is on Friday. (noun)

We also use some more casual language for this.

come out

The movie comes out on Friday.

Lesson 334--Blaze a Trail

 

 

Blaze a Trail (verb)

trailblazer (noun)

 

This verb is used to describe an action that is being done for the first time.

This noun is used to describe the person doing this unique action.

examples

Martha blazed a trail for all women when she became Mayor of the city.

Martha was a real trailblazer.  She became the first female Mayor of the city.

By being the first person to sign up for the new program, Jimmy was considered to be a trailblazer.

Melissa was blazing trails when she became the first one in her family to go to university.