As the harvest ends and the Christmas season approaches, families across the United States come together to share a lavish meal in the annual celebration known as Thanksgiving. In this video, we learn some of the crucial vocabulary used at this special time of year.

Abi opens her picture dictionary and introduces us to some useful vocabulary pertaining to houses. In particular, she focuses on the outside areas surrounding the house and various tools.

Abi has found a special dictionary that she hopes will help her friend learn lots of new vocabulary. Picture dictionaries are not ordered alphabetically, but instead organized by theme.

Sigrid finishes preparing her simple lunch using the wild greens she had gathered that morning.

Back home, Sigrid works out on her terrace preparing the greens she has picked. She will cook the lambsquarters, but she'll eat the purslane raw, as a salad. She also has some regrets about one missed opportunity.

Abi reflects on the year that has passed and looks forward to the new one. She gives some great advice on how to make those New Year’s resolutions stick, at least for a little longer than usual!

The weather’s good, and our student heads outside to study. Cafés and coffee shops are places to work, as well as to hang out and enjoy time with friends. We learn that it's important to her to take physical wellbeing very seriously as well, with several gym workouts every week. At the end of the long college day, there’s a gentle wind down before bedtime.

Sigrid goes on a hike, sees some edible greens, and decides to go back with the right equipment. As you will see, foraging is her idea of fun.

After a little early study, our Harvard student skips breakfast and heads out to her first class. It’s a busy life of classes, homework, and dining hall meals, but she still finds time to socialize and even work a part-time job.

A student at Harvard, one of America’s most prestigious universities, shows us what daily life involves for her, starting from when her alarm clock goes off in the morning.

Abi takes us through possible creative uses of different types of paper, which she has learned about through her experience as a filmmaker.

Sigrid muses about how much she loves this time of year and time of day where she lives in Italy. If she had one complaint, it would be: too much green!

Schools in Britain are formal places of education. Pupils wear a uniform and the day is structured around the lesson plan with some welcome breaks in between! We join a school in Wales on the first day for many of its pupils.

Sigrid describes her day using verbs in the simple past tense. Each verb will flash on the screen in the past tense with the infinitive in parentheses, just in case you need a little help. There is even a vegetarian pasta recipe included!

There’s a lot of variation in the way native English speakers pronounce words, and some variety in vocabulary too! In this video, speakers from England, the US, and Australia compare and contrast their accents and vocabulary.