Thus the sitcom ‘Friends’ was chosen as a didactic material due to its rich informal and lexical content and because it discloses authentic cultural aspects of an English speaking country. It also presents communicative, real-life situations, which are highly relevant for the age of our participants. Due to its entertainment and motivational context, a relaxing and enjoyable atmosphere is created, promoting a low ‘affective filter’, which is greatly profitable for language learning acquisition . The importance of considering different audiovisual genres when applied as didactic tools in the classroom is stated by Ghia (2012), too, as different audiovisual genres, such as films, documentaries, TV series, news broadcasts and television shows ‘are characterized by a different use of language and by different degrees of interaction between dialogue and images’ .Therefore linguistic usage is considered to be closer to spontaneous conversation in the dialogues heard in films and television series, as opposed to news broadcasts, documentaries or television shows, which are perceived as having lower compliance to real orality