For the final days of Sigrid's visit to the New York area, she leaves the rocky North Shore and goes south to a place she knows very well from her childhood—the beach! It's a nice place to visit even in the cooler weather.

Joe and his family head to the mountains on a ski adventure. When they arrive, Joe doesn’t pay any attention to the rules at the ski resort, or the hotel pool! He soon ends up in hot water, and once again his poor family suffers the consequences...

Annette is in a park in beautiful Oxford, England today, and she wants to introduce us to the sport, or hobby, of slacklining. There’s a lot of skill involved, but Annette has mastered it, and she shows us how it’s done!

Finally home! Sigrid talks about her trip home and how it feels to be back after a month away.

Sigrid has more fun with limericks, attempting to sing one, and dedicating another limerick to her boss. She offers a final limerick from Edward Lear, the king of limericks. See Part 1 for instructions on how limericks work and how to write one.

It's been a stormy and fiery year in the United States, both weather-wise and in the government.

As the harvest ends and the Christmas season approaches, families across the United States come together to share a lavish meal in the annual celebration known as Thanksgiving. In this video, we learn some of the crucial vocabulary used at this special time of year.

Isaac travels by van through North America with his wife and his dog. Today he stops off in Quebec, Canada to tell us a little about the culture, cuisine, and most famous landmarks of this old city.

Building something that works can bring a lot of satisfaction. In this case, it's building bikes. Paul likes figuring things out, and seeing what works and what doesn't. Together with a friend, he embarks on a challenging project: building an electric cargo bike!

Isaac loves to travel and see different countries, and he’s found that Yabla is the best way to learn the languages he needs to speak!

Paul goes into detail about what materials he used to construct the electric cargo bike. Some features turned out to be essential, such as the kick-stand.

Abi reads extracts from a version of Clement Clarke Moore’s famous Christmas poem, popularly known by its first line “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” about a father who witnesses the visit of Santa Claus on one magical Christmas Eve.

Isaac hikes to visit a waterfall in Canada’s Fundy National Park. The wooded and rocky park is at the end of the Appalachian mountain range and has a shoreline on the Bay of Fundy, which has some of the most dramatic tides in the world.

What's the difference between "clean" and "dirty" energy? Sigrid reports on different kinds of energy and discusses trends in heating our homes.

Sigrid describes traveling from her home in Italy to Tacoma, Washington in the United States to care for her sister with Alzheimer's disease. She stayed there for a whole month.

Sigrid talks about the reality of conversing with someone who has Alzheimer's. They often have trouble finding the word for the thing they are thinking of.

Isaac and his dog, Bucket, are our guides for a road trip across the great open landscape that forms the United States of America. From vast swathes of Kansas farmland and Colorado’s Rocky Mountain ranges to the expansive salt flats at Bonneville, we’re certainly getting a taste for the open road!

What's the difference between disinformation and misinformation? And what about misleading information? Find out in this video.

Audio and video sources can be factual, and can be used as evidence, but they can both be doctored, too. When we don't have the facts, we might have hearsay, but can we trust it?

Modal verbs are special verbs that go together with action verbs to indicate ability, permission, obligation and more. Let's see how they work.

Every modal verb is a bit different and not all of them can be used in all tenses. We use "may" for permission, but we can use "can" and its conditional form "could" as well.

Kate lives in Grand Lake, Colorado, a small town that is considered the gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park. Kate’s friend Tom is inspired by the cold and recent snow to go out and take a plunge in the icy lake!

When do we use "should" and "could"? At the end of the video, you'll also find a preview of the next 2 videos where modals are used in everyday speech for discussing probability.