Difficulty:
Beginner
USA
Joe and his family head to the mountains on a ski adventure. When they arrive, Joe doesn’t pay any attention to the rules at the ski resort, or the hotel pool! He soon ends up in hot water, and once again his poor family suffers the consequences...
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Jennifer and Jimmy find they have something in common, they both love to diagnose their own illnesses and do so with some degree of success—on Jimmy’s side at least!
Difficulty:
Beginner
USA
For the final days of Sigrid's visit to the New York area, she leaves the rocky North Shore and goes south to a place she knows very well from her childhood—the beach! It's a nice place to visit even in the cooler weather.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
This song by The Rembrandts might be best known as the theme song for the TV show "Friends," and judging by the cast of this music video, it seems that they embraced this fact. Sadly, Matthew Perry has now passed away, but will always be remembered for his role as Chandler Bing.
Difficulty:
Beginner
USA
In part one, we learned how to create an assignment. In this second part, we learn how to locate previous assignments and copy them for use with a new class.
Difficulty:
Newbie
USA
Let's look at how Long Island was formed around 20,000 years ago. It has to do with a glacier that brought plenty of material along with it and left some behind when it receded.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
In these scenes from a 1967 episode of the classic American sci-fi series Star Trek, Captain Kirk is held prisoner and Spock mounts a daring rescue.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
United Kingdom
This memorable song by legendary British rock band Queen was part of the soundtrack to the movie Flash Gordon. It was the only single released from their first soundtrack album, under the title “Flash.”
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
U.S. rock group Toto struck musical gold in the 1980s with this catchy tune. The song's groove and instrumentation came first, then David Paich wrote the lyrics based on impressions of Africa from what he had seen in news reports on TV and from missionaries he had known as a student.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
United Kingdom
English band Duran Duran caught the mood of a decade with this nineteen-eighties summertime classic, complete with a video filmed aboard a yacht in the Caribbean!
Difficulty:
Beginner
USA
We're back on Long Island, exploring the North Shore with an outing to a wildlife refuge on one of the necks, or small peninsulas that jut into the Long Island Sound, the body of water separating Long Island from Connecticut.
Difficulty:
Beginner
United Kingdom
Katie Melua performs "Nine Million Bicycles" live in front a small audience. The song is from her album Piece by Piece.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Alice Cooper and his band play a classic song. Remember the last day of school? Alice Cooper captures that feeling, sending the audience into a frenzy!
Difficulty:
Intermediate
United Kingdom
Benedict Cumberbatch solo rappels down a cliff with some encouragement from Bear. In Running Wild with Bear Grylls, Bear is taking it up a level by teaching his celebrity guests essential survival skills that they'll have to master and then prove they can use in a high-stress situation.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
United Kingdom
English singer-songwriter Callum Scott came to prominence on the TV talent show “Britain’s Got Talent." He came sixth in the final, but went on to find major chart success with “You Are The Reason” from his debut album Only Human.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
United Kingdom
In this beautiful live version of “Closest Thing to Crazy,” Katie Melua questions how she ever came to feel the way she does about the one she loves. The song, written by English singer-songwriter, Mike Batt, was Katie’s debut single from her first album Call Off the Search.
Difficulty:
Beginner
USA
A young Johnny Depp stars in this music video for the song "Into the Great Wide Open" from American rock band Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.
Difficulty:
Beginner
USA
This last part about the D&R canal talks about the special bridges that were needed to cross the canal and who had to take care of them. And if you're wondering if the canal is still in use, Sigrid answers that question. There's a special tribute at the end of the video for which you might want this link.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Peter Parker’s life hasn't been the same since the world found out he's Spider-Man. Now he approaches an old friend whose powers might help him to change the past and erase this knowledge from the collective memory. But is this really what Peter wants?
Difficulty:
Beginner
Canada
Gordon Lightfoot, a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist, achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. His music has been performed and recorded by some of the world's most renowned musical artists. He recently passed away at the age of 84.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
We are repeatedly invited to imagine our own company or product name inserted in a film parodying generic advertising films and their efforts to play on and profit from our dreams and aspirations.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
This bizarre, satirical film from Calvin Communications satirizes a typical approach to industrial promotional films, showing how the idea of the "American Dream" is utilized to sell products.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
American singer-songwriter Phillip Phillips sang this song of reassurance and commitment when he won the eleventh season of the singing competition, American Idol.
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