SHOW: “Wild Cards”
– C1-C2 (advanced) –
Practice Your Listening Comprehension
Practice Your Reading Comprehension
Available to watch on CBC Gem and Netflix, “Wild Cards,” now with three seasons (and counting), is a Canadian crime scene investigation show filmed in Vancouver, Canada that centres on the unlikely pairing of a grumpy maritime patroller and a sophisticated crime consultant, who may or may not still be practicing the same illegal lifestyle as that of her arrested criminals.
WHAT TO LEARN
While watching this hilarious and intriguing detective drama, there are a variety of things that English learners can practice and discover, including:
listening comprehension
reading comprehension (with subtitles)
Canadian English
various accents
formal vs. informal language
humour
present simple
past simple
future
conditional
imperative
uses of the verb, “to get,” in context
uses of the verb, “to do,” in context
phrasal verbs
idioms
LOTS of question structures
negation
adjectives
complex sentence structures
structures of desire/need
small talk
contractions
unvoiced plosives
vocabulary related to:
crime
legal system
work
relationships
knowledge
intention
problem solving
injury
refusal/rejection
and much more…!
