Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Annette explains three more colloquial contractions people use in everyday conversation: gotta [got to], gotcha [got you], and dunno [don't know]. She also gives us examples in context.
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
As writer and tour guide Susie Millar tells us about some of Northern Ireland's attractions, such as the Titanic museum and the incredibly beautiful Causeway Coastline, you won't want to wait any longer to buy a ticket for Belfast.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
This is the second film adaptation of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, published in 1953. The opening scenes show the arrival of 24 military school boys on a deserted island in the Pacific, after their airplane has crashed into the ocean.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Laid back American folk-rock musician Jack Johnson appears in the video to his hit recording “I Got You”. It’s off the album “From Here To Now To You”. Enjoy!
Difficulty: Beginner
France, USA
This song from Schoolhouse Rock is to help kids understand about bones. Without bones, we're just blobs. It was written by George Newall and sung by Jack Sheldon.
Difficulty: Beginner
Australia
Penny is dancing with another guy to Great Balls of Fire while Timmy shyly looks on. But then something happens... The music for the final scene is the hit song from both 1963 and 1977 Da doo ron ron. These nonsense syllables were originally intended as placeholders until lyrics for those lines could be written, but they caught on, and were kept as actual (though nonsensical) lyrics.
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
British singer-songwriter Anne-Marie performs Ciao Adios, whose title uses both the Italian and the Spanish words for "bye." It's a break-up song, but rather than crying herself to sleep, the girl is getting over it and moving on in the midst of fast-paced lyrics and contagious dancehall-inflected rhythm.
Difficulty: Beginner
Australia
Donna teaches Timmy to dance, and in the background we hear two hits from the period: Rip it Up from 1956 and Great Balls of Fire from 1957.
Difficulty: Beginner
Ireland
A live performance, by The Navvies, of a traditional Irish song about North men and South men being on the same road, and carrying the same burdens.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Negotiating a salary is one the trickiest phases of a job interview. Here are some tips.
Difficulty: Beginner
Northern Ireland
"The Bit That I Don't Get," sung by Katie Melua, is from her fifth studio album, Secret Symphony. She sings about breaking up, and trying to make sense of it.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Zendaya is given a series of Disney related questions and she has to choose her favorite answer.
Difficulty: Beginner
Denmark
Here is the video for the song "Friends" from "Before the Dinosaurs," the second studio album from Danish singer-songwriter Aura Dione .
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
From the emperor's council to the townspeople, everyone is pretending that the garments exist. Hopefully, someone will eventually have the courage to speak up!
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
This very entertaining animated version of the classic Hans Christian Andersen tale "The Emperor's New Clothes" has a moral that is applicable in society and politics to this very day. And though looking good is important, that is most definitely not the moral of this story!
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