Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
In this beautiful live version of “Closest Thing to Crazy,” Katie Melua questions how she ever came to feel the way she does about the one she loves. The song, written by English singer-songwriter, Mike Batt, was Katie’s debut single from her first album Call Off the Search.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
With the dazzling sparkle of Christmas around us, Katy Perry invites us to think of the important things that money can’t buy... such as love!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Jamaica, USA
Do we live within bubbles of our own complacent conformity? Are we slaves to a hypnotic rhythm of life that prevents us from challenging ourselves and facing the issues of the world around us? American pop star Katy Perry and Jamaican reggae star Skip Marley ask questions and deliver a political message in a dancehall pop song.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
Lily Allen joins English band Keane on stage for a charity concert at London’s Brixton Academy, singing a unique acoustic version of their hit “Everybody’s Changing."
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Singers Kelly Clarkson, Trisha Yearwood, and Rebe McEntire give a dazzling performance of a classic song that takes us to the very heart of the Christmas story. The lyrics describe how Jesus was born one night in Bethlehem. The heavenly angels sang, and shepherds were first to hear the good news and witness the glorious sight.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
A fun and easy video where you get to learn the words you use to describe your family members and your relationship to them. A family tree helps in visualizing the connections.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
How do you feel? This beginner video will help you find the right adjective to describe how you're feeling.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
"Kids in America” was the debut single for British singer Kim Wilde. Catching the mood and the imagination, this pop masterpiece defines the style and attitude of the early 1980s.
Difficulty: Beginner
Australia
Australians Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave of the band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds sing a beautiful but macabre duet about a man who brought his sweetheart to a river and killed her. A 19th century Irish song entitled “Down in the Willow Garden” inspired Cave to write the song.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Daylight saving time doesn’t actually benefit anyone. Strangely, it’s still observed in seventy countries around the world.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Talk show host Seth Meyers delivers a comedic monologue based on the biggest stories from that week’s news on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
Latin Quarter is a British band combining pop, reggae and folk rock, well known for their political and social protest songs. The most successful of these is “Radio Africa”, which has been reissued several times and has neared the top of the charts in many countries.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom, USA
Laurel and Hardy were a comedy double act during the early classical Hollywood era of American cinema. The team was composed of thin Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and heavyset American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957). They became well known during the late 1920s through the mid-1940s for their slapstick comedy. In this segment, they find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere without any gas. As Ollie says, a wartime C-Card (a card reserved for people essential to the war effort) wouldn't be of any use.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom, USA
Traveling musicians Stan and Oliver think they really might be stranded, a stranger comes along with exactly the right thing to help.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom, USA
Stan and Oliver get caught up in con — selling the “Little Wonder Gas Pill,” an answer to gas rationing.
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