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Aimed at beginners and advanced beginners, this ongoing series of video lessons covers a range of topics that includes numbers, cooking, holidays, and just enjoying life.

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Sigrid explains - The Future

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Sigrid explains three ways to talk about the future and tells us about some of her new year's resolutions.

Sigrid explains - The Limerick - Part 1

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Sigrid explains what a limerick is, and how to write one. If you are so inclined, you can submit your limericks in the "comments" section of the video tab.

Sigrid explains - The Limerick - Part 2

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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.

Sigrid explains - N and G together

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The letter "G" often combines with "N" to make a special sound. Sigrid explains how this works.

Sigrid explains - Numbers - Part 1

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Sigrid explains what cardinal numbers are and gives us some writing and pronunciation tips.

Sigrid explains - Numbers - Part 2

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Ordinal numbers help us put things in order or in a sequence. Sigrid teaches us the suffixes we use to turn cardinal numbers into ordinal ones.

Sigrid explains - Numbers - Part 3

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Dates are usually expressed with ordinal numbers. Sometimes, though, what we write is different from what we say.

Sigrid explains - Humpty Dumpty

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Nursery rhymes are for children. The rhyme about Humpty Dumpty, however, is so famous that it's been used in literary and cinematic contexts as well.

Sigrid explains - Looking at Verbs in The Ugly Duckling - Part 1

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We have a look inside the story of The Ugly Duckling to see how the verbs work. First on the list is the past continuous tense.

Sigrid explains - Looking at Verbs in The Ugly Duckling - Part 2

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Sigrid looks at the regular and irregular verbs in part one of her rendition of The Ugly Duckling. As you listen, you can pause whenever necessary in order to practice the pronunciation of the conjugated verbs.

Sigrid explains - Looking at Verbs in The Ugly Duckling - Part 3

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In English, we use a lot of phrasal verbs. Let's see how they work using some examples from the story of the Ugly Duckling.

Sigrid explains - Looking at Verbs in The Ugly Duckling - Part 4

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Sometimes it's hard to know how to pronounce the "-ed" ending of a regular verb in the past tense. Here are plenty of examples, taken from the story of the Ugly Duckling.

Sigrid explains - The Solar System

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Let Sigrid tell you about the solar system that resolves around the Sun, including the order and characteristics of the planets within it. What is the closest planet to the Sun? What are the smallest and largest planets?

Sigrid explains - Traffic - Part 1

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Many of us have to deal with traffic on a daily basis. Here's how to talk about it in English, include expressions such as "traffic jam," "bumper-to-bumper," and "bottleneck."

Sigrid explains - Traffic - Part 2

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When we talk about traffic, it's not only about cars and trucks. We can talk about people on bicycles or on foot, too. They have some special rules to follow, especially in the city.

Sigrid explains - Swimming Pools - Part 1

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Sigrid shares what she has learned about having a swimming pool. As it turns out, having a pool is a lot of fun, but also quite a lot of work.

Sigrid explains - Swimming Pools - Part 2

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There are various things we need to do to keep the pool clean and the water circulating. Sigrid describes some of them. It's quite a lot of work, but she thinks that having a pool is still worth it.

Sigrid explains - The Tipping Point - Part 1

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In the first of three related lessons, we talk about the important and common word "point" as a noun in its most concrete form. We use "point" to talk about measurements, maps, numbers, and more.

Sigrid explains - The Tipping Point - Part 2

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In this lesson, we talk about the word "point" in its figurative sense, and as part of the phrasal noun, "point of view." In addition, we talk about verb, adjective, and adverbial forms.

Sigrid explains - The Tipping Point - Part 3

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In this lesson, we learn about the word "tip" and then we look at how it combines with "point" in the noun "the tipping point."

Sigrid explains - The Weather - Part 1

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There's more than one way to talk about the weather. In part 1 of this lesson, we talk about it in the present. We use nouns, verbs, and adjectives to describe the weather.

Sigrid explains - The Weather - Part 2

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This time, let's talk about the weather in the past using nouns, verbs, and adjectives. If we use the past tense, we can talk about yesterday, last week, last month, or even last year.

Sigrid explains - The Weather - Part 3

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In this lesson, we'll talk about the weather in the future. One way to express the future is with "going to": "It's going to rain." The second way is with "will": "It will rain." You will hear both in this video, so keep your eyes and ears open!

Sigrid explains - Shapes - Part 1

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In this video, Sigrid talks about the different types of two-dimensional shapes and some basic geometry.

Sigrid explains - Shapes - Part 2

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We can use dots and circles to describe things figuratively. Sigrid gives us examples with expressions like "connect the dots" and "inner circle."

Sigrid explains - Shapes - Part 3

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A square is a shape, of course, but there are plenty of ways we use squares to describe things figuratively. Let's look at some examples of when and how we do this.

Sigrid explains - Shapes - Part 4

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What expressions are related to the word "line"? We use "line" when talking about the laundry, behavior, or even time.

Sigrid explains - The 5 senses - Part 1

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The senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell are essential in experiencing the world around us. Let's consider them one by one and learn how to use them in conversation. We start with "sight" and "hearing."

Sigrid explains - The 5 senses - Part 2

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This segment is about the sense of smell and the sense of taste. When it comes to the five senses, every language seems to have some quirks, and English is no exception. For example, we use the same verb — "to smell" — to talk about perceiving an odor ("I smell the lemon") and giving off an odor ("The lemon smells delicious").

Sigrid explains - The 5 senses - Part 3

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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.

Sigrid explains - the passive voice - Part 1

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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.

Sigrid explains - the passive voice - Part 2

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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.

Sigrid explains - the passive voice - Part 3

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Here are some examples of sentences using both the active and passive voices. Different tenses are used, too!

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