Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Every four years, in the United States, elections are held for the office of the presidency. Sigrid lives in Italy, so she needed an absentee ballot in order to vote. Here's her story.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
Sigrid explains three ways to talk about the future and tells us about some of her new year's resolutions.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Sigrid explains what a limerick is, and how to write one. If you are so inclined, you can submit your limericks in the "comments" section of the video tab.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Sigrid has more fun with limericks, attempting to sing one, and dedicating another limerick to her boss. She offers a final limerick from Edward Lear, the king of limericks. See Part 1 for instructions on how limericks work and how to write one.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
The letter "G" often combines with "N" to make a special sound. Sigrid explains how this works.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
Sigrid explains what cardinal numbers are and gives us some writing and pronunciation tips.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
Ordinal numbers help us put things in order or in a sequence. Sigrid teaches us the suffixes we use to turn cardinal numbers into ordinal ones.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
Dates are usually expressed with ordinal numbers. Sometimes, though, what we write is different from what we say.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Nursery rhymes are for children. The rhyme about Humpty Dumpty, however, is so famous that it's been used in literary and cinematic contexts as well.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA New York
We have a look inside the story of The Ugly Duckling to see how the verbs work. First on the list is the past continuous tense.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
Sigrid looks at the regular and irregular verbs in part one of her rendition of The Ugly Duckling. As you listen, you can pause whenever necessary in order to practice the pronunciation of the conjugated verbs.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
In English, we use a lot of phrasal verbs. Let's see how they work using some examples from the story of the Ugly Duckling.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Sometimes it's hard to know how to pronounce the "-ed" ending of a regular verb in the past tense. Here are plenty of examples, taken from the story of the Ugly Duckling.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
Let Sigrid tell you about the solar system that resolves around the Sun, including the order and characteristics of the planets within it. What is the closest planet to the Sun? What are the smallest and largest planets?
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
Many of us have to deal with traffic on a daily basis. Here's how to talk about it in English, include expressions such as "traffic jam," "bumper-to-bumper," and "bottleneck."
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