Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Host Kaley Cuoco of The Big Bang Theory opens the 38th annual People's Choice Awards, which seems to be going smoothly until her monologue is crashed by Neil Patrick Harris of the TV series How I Met Your Mother.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
"Big Yellow Taxi" was originally written by Joni Mitchell while she was in Hawaii and considering the effect of humans on their environment and how we often take things for granted. This version is performed by the band Counting Crows from Berkeley, California and features vocals by Vanessa Carlton.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Kelp is a fascinating plant. What we see on the surface has little in common with what's actually there. Californian harbor seals are mammals but they do a lot of hunting underwater.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Opposition MPs react after parliament voted against Boris Johnson's extremely tight Brexit bill timetable, which the government said was necessary to reach the prime minister’s target of leaving the EU on October 31st.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
"Nothing Breaks Like a Heart" is the lead single from British musician Mark Ronson’s album Late Night Feelings and features American superstar Miley Cyrus, with whom he co-wrote the song. It carries the unmistakable melancholy of something coming to an end, or as she sings, "Things fall apart, but nothing breaks like a heart."
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
The Ocean Cleanup is a Netherlands-based, non-government environmental engineering organization that develops technology to extract plastic pollution from the oceans. They have developed a "passive" cleanup system that takes advantage of the natural oceanic forces of wind, water, and currents.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
This is Dido performing “Thank You,” the hit song from her debut album No Angel. Life is not always easy, but Dido is thankful to have a special person who makes everything all right.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
The Blippi Sink or Float game is a fun science experiment for kids, helping to explain density and buoyancy. In this video, Blippi takes us to gather some interesting items, and still finds time to get dizzy playing on the playground. Then, he’s back indoors and ready to see which of the objects will sink... or float!
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Watch the famous speech delivered by Charlie Chaplin's character in the film The Great Dictator from 1940. "We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness."
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Every fall, the monarch butterflies migrate back to their breeding grounds in California. These fascinating and stunningly beautiful creatures weigh only a gram, yet travel extraordinary distances to complete their lifecycle. In the early spring, deep in the Yosemite valley, the sun warms the wet ground, forming clouds of misty fog.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Canada, Jamaica, USA
Brothers Dudley and Chris had the honor of being part of the first ever Jamaican bobsled team, competing at the nineteen eighty-eight Winter Olympics. We hear the true story of how this unlikely team came into existence, and how Chris went from being a spectator to an Olympic competitor with less than a week’s training.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
James Blunt sings “Cold,” the first single from his album Once Upon A Mind. James seems to be lacking warmth in his life as he sings about his loneliness and his faraway love a thousand miles across the cold ocean.
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
Grandpa Pig is the best at mending things! But when Mummy Pig gives Grandpa Pig her old computer, it takes a little while for him to get the hang of it.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom London
In this scene from the classic British sitcom Only Fools and Horses, Del Boy and Rodney are left stranded when their van breaks down on the way to a party, and they really don’t want to be seen in their costumes!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Jamaica, USA
Decades later, the events of the nineteen eighty-eight Winter Olympics seem harder and harder to believe, even to the men at the heart of the original Jamaican Bobsled team. But it really did happen, and the proof is in the strong sporting and commercial legacy they leave for the next generations.
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