Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
Schools in Britain are formal places of education. Pupils wear a uniform and the day is structured around the lesson plan with some welcome breaks in between! We join a school in Wales on the first day for many of its pupils.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Sigrid describes her day using verbs in the simple past tense. Each verb will flash on the screen in the past tense with the infinitive in parentheses, just in case you need a little help. There is even a vegetarian pasta recipe included!
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
Get ready for another round of "Think Fast!" Sigrid will describe some objects and you have to figure out what each object is. Even if you don't know the word for it in English, you are still doing great if you can visualize the object being described.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
Watch this video for "Dance The Night Away," the first top 20 hit of the American rock group Van Halen.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Most Americans don't realize how Columbus Day came to be a national holiday, but it actually doesn't have that much to do with Christopher Columbus, and we might even recognize a connection to present-day events. To recall something Mark Twain once supposedly said, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Columbus Day has always been a controversial holiday in the United States. In this video, Sigrid goes back in time to get some historical background, which sheds a new light on its significance.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
In addition to Columbus Day, two new October commemorative holidays were signed into law by President Joe Biden.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Elderly couple Harold and Gertrude reminisce about their first date together. Although their memories are a little hazy, they can agree that it was a very special day!
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
Sing along with this bright and happy colors song. What's your favorite color?
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Tommy is worried that nobody came to his baseball game, but it turns out that someone in his family did go. Find out who it was, and learn how to talk about past activities in the past tense!
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
In this video, you'll hear people talk about the past and the present. A man recites his poem, and then we go to a commercial break, where the fictional company Presto seems to have cornered almost every market with its wonder products!
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Here are some examples of sentences using both the active and passive voices. Different tenses are used, too!
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Chances are you’ve seen pigeons in your neighborhood, but did you know that these birds can fly up to 50 miles per hour or that a baby pigeon is called a "squeaker"?
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Learn how to ask and say what you did this morning, yesterday, or on the weekend. With their humorous take on everyday life, the Side by Side team shows you how!
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
What do people traditionally do on Memorial Day and Labor Day? Let's find out.
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