Difficulty:
Intermediate
United Kingdom
"Put your hands behind your head and step away from the phone!" Gary Turk's "Look Up" is a lesson taught to us through a love story, in a world where we continue to find ways to make it easier for us to connect with one another, but always results in us spending more time alone.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Ireland, United Kingdom
English comedian David Mitchell has host Graham Norton and the other guests in stitches as he drolly points out the alarming effect the internet has had on people’s perception of what is true.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Jimmy’s camera crew asks kids from Los Angeles and New York City, the two biggest U.S. cities, what they know and what they really think of each other. You can usually rely on children to speak their minds! There are some revealing and amusing answers.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
The crew continue their interviews of kids from New York and LA. What do they really think of their far-away rivals on the opposite coast of the United States?
Difficulty:
Intermediate
United Kingdom, USA
The city of Oxford is home to some 150,000 residents and a famous seat of learning, the oldest English-speaking university in the world. Although the exact date of its founding isn't known, it is said that local priests and monks were first taught in monastery schools in the area in the eleventh century.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
A dedicated math teacher is taken by surprise in an America where facts no longer matter and even the answer to the most simple mathematical equation comes into doubt.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Mrs. Wells is suspended after correcting a first-grade student who believes that two plus two equals twenty-two. The situation spirals out of control, becoming headline news and sparking debate across America. Will Mrs. Jones lose her job? And without math, will the school be able to calculate the correct amount for her final pay check?
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
PopTopicTV Min Reports: Seems like stars these days can’t seem to keep there clothes on from Britney to Rihanna and even RiRi’s ex-Chris Brown got in the act, well… kinda?
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Abi tells us a little about the history of the origami paper crane, from its significance in Japanese culture to her own personal contact with this powerful modern symbol of hope and goodwill.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
In Grand Lake, not far from the Rocky Mountains National Park, it has become a tradition for people to get together and play ice hockey on the frozen lake in the middle of winter. Kate introduces us to some of her friends there and also to a very American snack, the s’more!
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA New York
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo weighs in on a video showing police brutality in Buffalo, New York. It was an incident that occurred during the protests over the police killing of George Floyd.
Please be advised that this news report contains violent content.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Timothy Russell Strayer and Michael Barsinsky, two members of the "Occupy" movement, talk about the main points of the occupation with respect to the Guantánamo Bay problem and the ways in which society can be changed in a progressive way.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
The nation's first Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman recites her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration ceremony for the 46th presidency of the United States of America. So many people were emotionally touched by this performance that we wanted to share it with our Yabla learners. It's a living example of contemporary American poetry and was part of a unique moment in American History.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Hasn't everyone tried to miss a day of school by pretending to be sick? Annette reads us a humorous poem by American poet Shel Silverstein about the very subject.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Legendary Apple co-founder Steve Jobs gives the graduation speech at Stanford University. Jobs himself never graduated from college, but does recall how what he learned in certain college classes played a role in the design of the first Apple computer.
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