In this video lesson, Luana explains the names given in English to our nearest and dearest relations: the brothers, sisters, cousins, parents, uncles and aunts that make up our family tree.

Meet Ron Swanson, director of the Parks and Recreation Department in the fictional, mid-sized city of Pawnee, Indiana, USA, and April, his new assistant. April was not hired for her good record, enthusiasm, or potential as an employee, but rather because she promises to help Ron avoid people.

Learn to ask questions about an apartment you might be interested in when looking for a new place to live. Along with some essential vocabulary, we practice the crucial difference between “there is” and there are.”

"They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!" In this classic scene, William Wallace (played by Mel Gibson) rallies his troops for battle.

Boy band One Direction performs their hit “The Story of My Life“ in front of an enthusiastic audience at a summer festival in London, England.

This song was a huge hit in the nineteen eighties for the British band Culture Club. Their flamboyant and charismatic singer, Boy George, said that it’s all about being true to yourself, saying “If you don't act like you feel, then you get Karma-justice, that's nature's way of paying you back.”

This atmospheric song by legendary English rock group Pink Floyd broods with melancholic nostalgia, and the desire to return to a golden time of youth that is no longer accessible.

To get to know a place, you need to know where things are. The best way to do this is just to ask! But it’s not always straightforward, especially when you’re new to the neighborhood and have no points of reference!

On Graham Norton’s chat show, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who first came to prominence as “The Naked Chef," talks with movie stars Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence about his learning disability, and his unlikely rise to becoming Britain’s number one best-selling nonfiction author.

Mrs. Hardy does her best to deflect her son’s questions about his schoolteacher, Miss Thompson. The boy enjoys school, but the idea that one day he’ll go to college to study art is not one his grandfather has any time for.

For the final song of this concert with his band The Spiders from Mars, David Bowie performs his song "Rock 'n Roll Suicide."

They may have very different reputations, but both the great white shark and killer whale are fierce predators that face off in a showdown atop the ocean food chain.

This song was written during a turbulent period of Adele's life as she navigated a divorce. She's asking for some forbearance, some kindness. She sings,"Go easy on me." Another way to say that is, "Be kind," or "Give me a bit of a break."

Here's the music video for a classic power ballad by American rock band Bon Jovi.

This film, set in the industrial North of England in the nineteen fifties, opens in a school classroom where Mrs. Hardy has gone to fetch her son after the school day. She generally stops in to chat with his teacher, Miss Thompson, much to her husband’s displeasure when he comes home from the factory expecting to find food on the table.