Difficulty:
Beginner
USA
Leroy Kenton shares facts seven, eight, nine and ten, and mentions that he will be rooting for Brazil in the World Cup. Brazil has won the World Cup five times and has always played in the tournament. Leroy saves perhaps his most interesting fact for last.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Have a look behind the scenes at the making of the latest Nespresso commercial, Epiphany, featuring George Clooney and Jack Black. With Lake Como as a backdrop, they share their views about how things are coming together.
Difficulty:
Beginner
USA
FIFA World Cup happens once in every four years. Following are the first six of ten interesting facts about the FIFA World Cup that you really need to know.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
A long overdue film focusing on the Native American musicians who contributed so much to blues, jazz, folk, pop, rock, and heavy metal.
Difficulty:
Beginner
USA Northeast
Nouns are usually the first words we learn. The good news is that with nouns, we don't have to worry about gender in English. We do, however, have to be aware of gerunds that act like nouns but look like verbs, and countable or uncountable nouns.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
United Kingdom
People are increasingly interested in seeing animals in natural settings, so traditional jail-like zoos are giving way to open-plan zoos, and to eco-tourism.
Difficulty:
Beginner
United Kingdom, USA
Cara Delevingne wins the Model of the Year Award at the British Fashion Awards 2014. This award recognizes the British model who has contributed most to the international fashion scene in the past year. Nominees for this category were: Cara Delevingne, Jourdan Dunn and Sam Rollinson.
Difficulty:
Beginner
United Kingdom
In final segment of this BBC series, we visit two more cities hosting the World Cup: Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow.
Difficulty:
Newbie
USA Northeast
Here's a quick summary of the different kinds of words we have in the English language and what they are used for.
Difficulty:
Beginner
United Kingdom
This video explores three more venues for the 2018 World Cup: Samara, St. Petersburg, and Kaliningrad. Aside from the arenas, Stalin's bunker, the Hermitage museum, and the beach are spotlighted attractions.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
The BBC reports on a floating wind turbine that could help provide power to remote communities. This helium-filled device is known as "the bat."
Difficulty:
Beginner
United Kingdom
We continue our tour of Russian cities hosting the 2018 World Cup. We're taken to Kazan, Rostov, and Ekaterinburg.
Difficulty:
Newbie
USA
Dates are usually expressed with ordinal numbers. Sometimes, though, what we write is different from what we say.
Difficulty:
Beginner
United Kingdom
Russia is gearing up to host the 2018 World Cup. Sarah Rainsford and Steve Rosenberg, the BBC’s Moscow correspondents, take us on a tour of Sochi, Volgograd, and Saransk, where we can see the stadiums that have been constructed and get a sense of each town.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
United Kingdom, USA
Discover the story behind the latest Nespresso commercial, entitled "Change Nothing," which stars George Clooney and Ian McShane.
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