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Sigrid explains - Causative constructions - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

What are causatives? Causal verbs are used to cause things to happen. They're used in causative constructions. Although there are various specific verbs in this category, we commonly use four ordinary verbs for this: ("have," "let," "get," and "make"). Let's make some sense of them.

Sigrid explains - Causative constructions - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

Now that you have an idea about what causal verbs and causal constructions are, let's give them some context. We're still using the verbs "have," let," "get," and "make," and the theme is housepainting.

Sigrid explains - Causative constructions - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

Let's look "under the hood," and see how to build causative constructions using "have," "let," "get," and "make."

Parts of Speech - Modal Verbs - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Newbie Newbie

USA

Modal verbs are special verbs that go together with action verbs to indicate ability, permission, obligation and more. Let's see how they work.

Parts of Speech - Modal Verbs - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

Every modal verb is a bit different and not all of them can be used in all tenses. We use "may" for permission, but we can use "can" and its conditional form "could" as well.

Parts of Speech - Modal Verbs - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

When do we use "should" and "could"? At the end of the video, you'll also find a preview of the next 2 videos where modals are used in everyday speech for discussing probability.

Parts of Speech - Modal Verbs - Part 4 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

Sigrid has lost a couple of important items and is trying to think where they might be. In this part, she has lost her car key. She uses plenty of modal verbs to tell her story, including modal verbs expressing probability.

Parts of Speech - Modal Verbs - Part 5 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

Now Sigrid has also lost her glasses! In this final part, learn how to use modal verbs to express probability, and find out whether she finds the missing items.

One Language, Three Accents - American vs. British vs. Australian English

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

Australia, United Kingdom, USA

This video clearly presents some fundamental differences between American English, British English, and Australian English in terms of spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary.

Luana explains - Cooking utensils - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

Let's learn the names of various kitchen utensils with Luana! We'll start with the utensils used to prepare and cook food, such as tongs, sifters, graters, knives, cutting boards, pots and pans...

Luana explains - Cooking utensils - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

In the second part of this lesson, Luana goes through the kitchen items we use to serve and eat our food, and explains how and when they are used.

Luana and Austin - Packing Their Suitcases View Series

Difficulty: difficulty - Beginner Beginner

USA

In order not to forget anything, Luana and Austin have made a list of the clothes and other items they need to pack. Austin reads the list while Luana gathers the items, and then they discuss their strategy for getting to the airport on time.

Basic Vocabulary - Common Words in Context - Part 1 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Newbie Newbie

USA

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 speaker!

Basic Vocabulary - Common Words in Context - Part 2 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Newbie Newbie

USA

In part two, we learn five more common and crucial words, and learn them in the best way possible: in context!

Basic Vocabulary - Common Words in Context - Part 3 View Series View This Episode

Difficulty: difficulty - Newbie Newbie

USA

More simple, but very common words are used in context in part three of this series for beginners. We learn more of the most common prepositions and new conjugations of the verb "to be."

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