Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
This whaling ballad was written long before the song became a surprise internet sensation. In the Nineteenth Century, the original Weller Brothers (Wellermen) brought supplies to remote whaling communities off the New Zealand coast. The lyrics speak of the voyage of one whaling vessel, the Billy of Tea, whose voyage did not go according to plan. Locked in an endless battle with a whale, they longed for a supply ship to bring them sugar, tea, and rum.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA Urban
Hip Hop is probably now the most pervasive popular music in the world, but it’s still at its freshest on the streets of New York, where it was born. These fresh young talents give us a take on Hip Hop’s new directions and ever changing possibilities for expression.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
Honda is a well-known vehicle maker that always had people's mobility in mind. Find out what their secret of success is!
Difficulty: Advanced
USA
Jimmy pairs up with Drake and squares off against Scarlett Johansson and Tariq from The Roots in a game of charades.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
Kaley Cuoco talks about the terrifying trip to New Zealand with her boyfriend's family that ended in her swinging through a canyon.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
Gwen Stefani talks about her Christmas album, You Make It Feel Like Christmas, and how Blake Shelton's adjusting to life as People's Sexiest Man Alive.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom, USA
Matthew McConaughey and Hugh Grant starred together in “The Gentlemen," but it seems that this is the first time they’ve really met. Matthew reveals all about ice fishing, while Hugh recounts an unlikely encounter on his wedding day, and a less than successful attempt at political activism.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom, USA
Jimmy asks actor Benedict Cumberbatch to provide adjectives, nouns, interjections, and other words in order to write a scene that they will perform together.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
Jimmy and Kaley Cuoco face off in a trivia game where the winner of each round gets a puppy to snuggle.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
Who will win the final round of the “pup quiz” and end up cuddling all of the adorable puppies? Jimmy Fallon and Kaley Cuoco put their animal knowledge to the test!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
Boris Johnson is Britain's new prime minister, and now has 100 days to deliver on his do-or-die promise to take Britain out of the EU on October 31, 2019.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
The Prince of Wales has set up a rainforest project in order to protect the remaining rainforests on this earth. He talks about the seriousness of climate change and how it will affect our lives and the lives of our children and grandchildren. He appeals to us to support him and his project.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
Pop Topic Minute Reports: Christina Aguilera was arrested along with her boyfriend Matthew Rutler in West Hollywood. Surveillance tape backs Lindsay Lohan’s Story and Lady Gaga debuts her new music video Born This Way.
Difficulty: Advanced
Jamaica
Meet Leford Green, an up and coming hurdler who represented Jamaica at the 2012 London Olympics as a member of their highly successful track and field team.
Difficulty: Advanced
Ireland
"Follow Me up to Carlow” is an Irish folk song, celebrating the famous victory of Irish “firebrand” Fiach McHugh O'Byrne and his countrymen, over a much larger force of English troops at the Battle of Glenmalure, which took place in 1580, high in the Wicklow Mountains. Carlow, from the title, was believed to have been an English fortress. Many of these lyrics will be hard to understand at first, even for a native English speaker. So try to follow along as best you can and enjoy the music!
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