Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Maestro speaks about the Earth’s atmosphere, and explains how the greenhouse effect is changing the planet’s ability to regulate its own temperature. The kids want to know what is being done about the problem, and what the outcome might be.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
The Gulf Stream plays a big part in maintaining the temperatures we are used to, and Maestro explains that if it is interrupted, parts of the world could become colder as an unexpected result of global warming.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
When a message arrives from an Inuit correspondent, a small team sets off to investigate the environmental changes that threaten the delicate balance of life in the frozen north.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Debbie takes the young reporters along on a hunting trip and shows them one of the last remaining areas for wildlife. We hear more about the strain that a changing climate is placing on these remote and traditional communities.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
The group makes a plan to spread word of the Inuit's plight, but there's already a tense situation building, as hungry polar bears enter the village in search of food.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Ireland, United Kingdom
Boy band One Direction performs their hit “The Story of My Life“ in front of an enthusiastic audience at a summer festival in London, England.
Difficulty: Beginner
Australia, United Kingdom, USA
This video clearly presents some fundamental differences between American English, British English, and Australian English in terms of spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
This video explains in detail the easy procedure teachers need to follow in order to organize their students into classes.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
This short comedy film stars Steve Martin as an absurdly forgetful and absent-minded waiter. Mr. and Mrs. Cates have to tell him their order multiple times, and he still gets it completely wrong! At first, it’s hard to see why anyone would put up with this terrible service, let alone request a table in his section.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Ireland, Tanzania
Today is Joseph’s first day at his new school in his new country, Ireland. Things are very different to what he’s known before, and straight away, some of his fellow pupils start to make life difficult for him.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Ireland, Tanzania
Joseph’s bullies try to goad him into a playground fight, but Joseph has been through worse in his life, and stands his ground. Things look bleak, and their teacher has lost control of her class. Will Joseph find a way to fit in?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Ireland
Eight-year-old Irish schoolboy Ardal has a big crush on his teacher, Miss Purdy. The only problem is that she already has a fiancé. Undeterred, Ardal audaciously challenges his rival to a deadly duel...
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Ireland
Miss Purdy’s fiancé, Pierce, is stunned to find that schoolboy Ardal’s challenge to a duel was no idle threat. As he faces his opponent, some truths are revealed.
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
World Wildlife Fund: Making sustainability a priority, the Marshik Dairy — a fifth-generation family farm — implemented a new, technologically advanced and energy efficient barn design for their 155 cows. The new design included robotic milking facilities, energy efficient lighting and ventilation, and renewable wind and solar power.
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