Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Annette explains three more colloquial contractions people use in everyday conversation: gotta [got to], gotcha [got you], and dunno [don't know]. She also gives us examples in context.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
The letter "O" is a tricky vowel, because there are several ways to pronounce it, both when it's single and when it's double!
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Here is a live performance of American singer songwriter Jack Johnson singing his hit song "Taylor". Enjoy!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Australia
At the University of Sydney, physicist Derek Muller explores the possibility of an anti-gravity wheel through a series of field tests.
Difficulty: Beginner
France, USA
This song from Schoolhouse Rock is to help kids understand about bones. Without bones, we're just blobs. It was written by George Newall and sung by Jack Sheldon.
Difficulty: Beginner
Australia
Penny is dancing with another guy to Great Balls of Fire while Timmy shyly looks on. But then something happens... The music for the final scene is the hit song from both 1963 and 1977 Da doo ron ron. These nonsense syllables were originally intended as placeholders until lyrics for those lines could be written, but they caught on, and were kept as actual (though nonsensical) lyrics.
Difficulty: Newbie
United Kingdom
Anna explains when we use the present continuous, or present progressive tense and gives us some examples.
Difficulty: Beginner
Australia
Donna teaches Timmy to dance, and in the background we hear two hits from the period: Rip it Up from 1956 and Great Balls of Fire from 1957.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Negotiating a salary is one the trickiest phases of a job interview. Here are some tips.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Australia
Penny is a 12-minute short film about a young man who wants nothing more than to dance with the girl of his dreams. The only problem is ... he can't dance.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
From the emperor's council to the townspeople, everyone is pretending that the garments exist. Hopefully, someone will eventually have the courage to speak up!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
Kaley Cuoco talks about the terrifying trip to New Zealand with her boyfriend's family that ended in her swinging through a canyon.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
This very entertaining animated version of the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale "The Emperor's New Clothes" has a moral that is applicable in society and politics to this very day. And though looking good is important, that is most definitely not the moral of this story!
Difficulty: Newbie
United Kingdom
Watch this video featuring Alexander Pointer to learn the many ways of greeting people in English.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Here is the trailer for the first season of the TV series “Merlin,” an action drama inspired by the legend of King Arthur. The late great John Hurt provides the voice for the Dragon.
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