Welcome to this beginner series, in which the one hundred most commonly used words in the English language are used in context. Master them, and you will be on the way to becoming an English...

Although we use the passive tense in the present tense, it's used in other tenses, too, and that's what we look at in this lesson.

Katie Melua's music video "If You Were a Sailboat" taken from the album Pictures.
Melua said of the song: “What I liked...

Listen to this catchy and very well-known tune “Nine Million Bicycles” by British singer Katie Melua.

In Central Park, John finds himself next to a sculpture of the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, author of some of the world’s best loved stories, including "The Ugly Duckling."

Forged by the volcanic heat that still bubbles at the heart of this great American wilderness, the mighty Yellowstone was the first of America’s National Parks. Located mostly in Wyoming, it is...