Difficulty: Intermediate
Australia, USA
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Isaac travels by van through North America with his wife and his dog. Today he stops off in Quebec, Canada to tell us a little about the culture, cuisine, and most famous landmarks of this old city.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Isaac visits one of America’s most well-loved settings for outdoor adventure, Yosemite National Park, which is famous for its iconic granite peaks, waterfalls, and roaming bears!
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Isaac hikes to visit a waterfall in Canada’s Fundy National Park. The wooded and rocky park is at the end of the Appalachian mountain range and has a shoreline on the Bay of Fundy, which has some of the most dramatic tides in the world.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Isaac and his dog, Bucket, are our guides for a road trip across the great open landscape that forms the United States of America. From vast swathes of Kansas farmland and Colorado’s Rocky Mountain ranges to the expansive salt flats at Bonneville, we’re certainly getting a taste for the open road!
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Annette welcomes us aboard her narrowboat home for a taste of a uniquely peaceful lifestyle that consists of navigating canals in the heart of the beautiful English countryside.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Maggie has just landed in Mexico, and heads straight for Tulum, a once crucial trading post for the Mayan civilization, with spectacular clifftop ruins.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
The travel kids visit a town almost completely covered by volcanic rock some twenty years before. There’s not a great deal left of it for them to see! They walk out onto the glassy and slippery surface of the lava flow, where volcano expert Ken takes a sample of some liquid rock to measure the temperature. It’s super hot, and Julian makes the excellent decision to keep his hands well clear!
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Why do some of the national parks in the United States resemble the European Alps? Geologist Dr. Robert Darga answers this question.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany, USA
Why are some rock formations and animals found on more than one continent? The explanation dates back to the Ice Age.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Geysers represent a very popular tourist attraction in Yellowstone Park. How do they work and where do they come from? And what is sandstone? The video answers these questions.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
In this segment, we learn about the role weather plays in the creation of rock formations in the national parks of the United States.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
We visit Bryce Canyon, where valuable fossils have helped understand the geological history of the planet. The sandstone spires of the canyon are breathtaking.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
The narrator explains how the breathtaking rock formations of Antelope Canyon came to be, and why mountains around the world can provide a metaphor for human existence.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Hindi-English, Chinese-English, and Singaporean-English are discussed and we're introduced to some fun words, such as “badmash” (noun, a bad person in Hinglish) or “chope” (verb, to set aside a place in a fast food restaurant by setting down an object like a hankie or magazine in Singlish).
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
If you had to guess, which countries in the world would you say have the largest numbers of foreign born residents? This video presents some interesting facts about the diverse populations of 10 different countries.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Yabla brings you a special report about the 2020 Olympics, which are still scheduled to happen in Tokyo this summer. But can they really still go forward under the current circumstances?
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
Pierre talks about the tradition of afternoon tea, which is practically a ritual in England. Today, he's taking a relaxing break with Earl Grey tea and digestive biscuits.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
The Biden administration announced a plan to provide a legal pathway into the country for more than 20,000 Venezuelan migrants. At the same time, thousands of others who enter the U.S. illegally will be sent back to Mexico.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
There has been a mixed response to the new legal pathway that allows some Venezuelan migrants to enter the United States, while expediting the expulsion of others. Along with some praise and some criticism, there are calls for the new program to be extended to help migrants from other nearby nations.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Australia, USA
Paul, who has an Australian accent, shares what he's noticed about the differences between the English spoken in England and in the USA.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Join Karine as she goes behind the scenes at the University of Oxford, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious educational institutions and alma mater to kings and presidents.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
In this video, you can learn all about Oxford, England, a beautiful university town steeped in history. There are many places of interest spread among the many colleges that comprise the university.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Here's a video from the World Wildlife Fund. Traditionally, anaerobic digester systems have not been practical on small dairy farms, but this didn’t stop Sensenig Dairy, a 100-cow farm, from pursuing its goal. Then Sensenig teamed up with the local community to collect enough waste to produce 1,401,600 kilowatt hours of electricity per year from "trash" that would otherwise end up in a landfill.
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