Difficulty: Beginner
USA
We use a combination of the five senses to understand what is happening around us. If one sense is weak or lacking, we compensate with another sense.
Difficulty: Newbie
USA
What is the passive voice all about? Sigrid takes us through the basics, step by step. In the active voice, we focus on "who" does something and in the passive voice we focus on "what" someone does.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Although we use the passive tense in the present tense, it's used in other tenses, too, and that's what we look at in this lesson.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Here are some examples of sentences using both the active and passive voices. Different tenses are used, too!
Difficulty: Beginner
United Kingdom
Ever wondered why most Americans don't like tea? Have they ever even tasted a cup of tea properly prepared? Simon Jones is convinced that they haven't and gives a nice detailed description, taken from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," of how to make a proper cup of tea. Enjoy!
Difficulty: Beginner
Scotland
This memorable song by Scottish rock band Simple Minds was a big hit in the USA, as well as back home in the UK, where it spent two years in the charts in the mid 1980’s!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Canada
Canadian rock band Simple Plan performs Summer Paradise, a reggae and ska punk-based track inspired by the band vocalist's hobby of surfing. One reviewer commented: It’s a quintessential summer track, with all the hooks and melodies to make you feel like you’re either at the beach, or on your way there having the time of your life.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Ireland
This power ballad version of a song written by Prince became Sinéad’s international breakthrough hit, topping music charts around the world. Her deep emotions are clear to see in this memorable video, as she explores feelings of love and loss.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany
Singer-Songwriter Eva Croissant sings and plays (on acoustic guitar) her beautiful song “It’s up to you” at the Singer Songwriter Slam April 2009.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Germany
SINGinKA is a group that comes together to sing in a pub every month. In this video, you can hear them perform Roxette’s wistful and romantic ballad “Listen To Your Heart.”
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Sigrid presents a range of topics currently in the news, including Covid-19, the crisis at the Mexican border, spring break, water on Mars, and the Oscars.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
History was made on Mars when the small robotic helicopter called "Ingenuity" took its first flight from the surface of the Red Planet.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
This Yabla news broadcast features stories about two different kinds of animals, one enormous and one tiny. Sometimes we can predict how animals will behave, and sometimes not.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
Yabla brings you a special report about the 2020 Olympics, which are still scheduled to happen in Tokyo this summer. But can they really still go forward under the current circumstances?
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
It's rare to establish a new holiday, but this year it happened: Juneteenth is now officially observed in the United States. What is Juneteenth and what does is commemorate? Learn about it in this video.
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