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!

The Great Barrier Reef: it’s one of the most iconic, most beautiful and most diverse locations on earth. Stretching from Cape York in northernmost Queensland down to Bundaberg on the central coast, this enormous living organism (the world’s largest) is nothing short of breathtaking.

Rishi Sunak arrives at 10 Downing Street for the first time as Prime Minister, and speaks to the people.

The University of Cambridge is one of England's greatest universities. There's no main campus – instead, the university's many colleges are scattered throughout the charming town center. Many colleges welcome the public to browse around.

Get ready for another round of "Think Fast!" Sigrid will describe some objects and you have to figure out what each object is. Even if you don't know the word for it in English, you are still doing great if you can visualize the object being described.

Most Americans don't realize how Columbus Day came to be a national holiday, but it actually doesn't have that much to do with Christopher Columbus, and we might even recognize a connection to present-day events. To recall something Mark Twain once supposedly said, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

Columbus Day has always been a controversial holiday in the United States. In this video, Sigrid goes back in time to get some historical background, which sheds a new light on its significance.

In addition to Columbus Day, two new October commemorative holidays were signed into law by President Joe Biden.

Elderly couple Harold and Gertrude reminisce about their first date together. Although their memories are a little hazy, they can agree that it was a very special day!

Paul, who has an Australian accent, shares what he's noticed about the differences between the English spoken in England and in the USA.

Tommy is worried that nobody came to his baseball game, but it turns out that someone in his family did go. Find out who it was, and learn how to talk about past activities in the past tense!

In this video, you'll hear people talk about the past and the present. A man recites his poem, and then we go to a commercial break, where the fictional company Presto seems to have cornered almost every market with its wonder products!

Here are some examples of sentences using both the active and passive voices. Different tenses are used, too!

The honey badger is described as the most fearless animal on the planet. Although barely a foot tall, they have a reputation for attacking just about anything—from venomous snakes to full-grown lions. And they are not exactly meant for captivity: Stoffel the honey badger escapes from his enclosure regularly using anything from balls of mud to a rake.

Are you interested in aviation? Here's the first chapter of a documentary about the invention of the airplane entitled Kitty Hawk: The Wright Brothers' Journey of Invention.