Difficulty: Beginner
USA
FIFA World Cup happens once in every four years. Following are the first six of ten interesting facts about the FIFA World Cup that you really need to know.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
A long overdue film focusing on the Native American musicians who contributed so much to blues, jazz, folk, pop, rock, and heavy metal.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA Northeast
Nouns are usually the first words we learn. The good news is that with nouns, we don't have to worry about gender in English. We do, however, have to be aware of gerunds that act like nouns but look like verbs, and countable or uncountable nouns.
Difficulty: Beginner
Canada
This video featuring Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in the Best Pop Video category. Without being explicit, the song addresses abuse and violence in relationships.
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
In this music video, clips from home videos show Ed Sheeran throughout his childhood. As an adorable ginger-haired kid, he plays with cats and is seen busking on the streets before stardom.
Difficulty: Intermediate
United Kingdom
People are increasingly interested in seeing animals in natural settings, so traditional jail-like zoos are giving way to open-plan zoos, and to eco-tourism.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
The fire that was set to smoke Jack out of the jungle has an unintended consequence—and a happy one at that.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
From 2009, this punk rock song from the album "21st Century Breakdown" was a hit single, and nominated for a Grammy. This music video also won several MTV awards in 2009.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Canada
"I Know What You Did Last Summer" is a duet from Canadian singer Shawn Mendes and Cuban-American singer Camila Cabello.
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom, USA
Cara Delevingne wins the Model of the Year Award at the British Fashion Awards 2014. This award recognizes the British model who has contributed most to the international fashion scene in the past year. Nominees for this category were: Cara Delevingne, Jourdan Dunn and Sam Rollinson.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Alan and his son Jake discuss the merits of going to college in this extended preview of an episode of the popular sitcom Two and a Half Men.
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
In final segment of this BBC series, we visit two more cities hosting the World Cup: Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA Northeast
Here's a quick summary of the different kinds of words we have in the English language and what they are used for.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Jack has the hunters build fires to smoke Ralph out of the jungle.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Aura Dione is a Copenhagen-born singer of Faroese, Spanish, French and Danish origin. According to Aura, the song, which she sings in English is about staying true to yourself and living out your dreams.
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