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ADVISE or ADVICE? What’s the difference?

https://youtu.be/-wO9W-pJtFQ Advise vs. advice. Two almost identical words with different meanings. Learn how to use these words correctly by watching this funny story with lots of advise and advice examples. After the story Jay and Tom teach you everything you need to know about using advise and advice in a sentence. This video will show you verb and adjective collocations (words that naturally go together with advise and advice) as well as the pronunciation

November 10, 2023 No Comments

Intermediate

The Phrasal Verb Rap Video with Fluency MC

https://youtu.be/YJyRc_QOhbw Fluency MC, the master of English Language Training rap videos, entertains and educates learners with this amazing performance teaching phrasal verbs in his own, unique, teaching style. Filmed in Almeria, Spain, the new home of Simple English Videos, Fluency performs in front of historic and magnificent scenery in the south of Spain. He squeezes 31 phrasal verbs into 2 minutes of knowledge entertainment. The Complete Transcript Check it out. Take a look. Inspect. Investigate. Come

October 26, 2023 3 Comments

Intermediate

“Look” as a Phrasal Verb and the Sad Tale of Mr. Gerbil

Look is not only one of the most used words in the English language, it take on more power as phrasal verb. Yana, Tom, and Jay make Look as Phrasal Verb a fun, and worthwhile lesson as Tom tells his psychiatrist the sad tale of Mr. Gerbil. The Transcript My sister let the towel unravel from her hand, and Mr. Gerbil landed with a thump. We looked over its tiny little body, looking for any signs of life, but it

October 15, 2023 2 Comments

Intermediate

How to use LOOK in English – It’s not as easy as it looks!

In this video we show you the 4 main ways to use the verb Look. Many English students make mistakes when trying to use this tricky verb. Watch Tom , Yana, and Jay as they teach you how to use Look in everyday conversations. Tom and the Psychiatrist Look, you’ve got to stop whining. No wonder your wife left you.I’m paying you to help me, not attack me. You look pathetic. Look is one of the

September 28, 2023 No Comments

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Holiday Events in Philadelphia 2021

Join us for the holidays in Center City Philadelphia in the holidays this year and learn lots of useful English vocabulary along the way. We’ll take you to see:The Comcast Holiday Spectacular ShowLove ParkThe Christmas VillageCity Hall and Dilworth Park You’ll also learn some differences between British and American English like:different meanings for ‘tuck in’‘walker’ and ‘zimmer‘smoosh’ Hi everyone. We have visitors.I’m Scott.I’m Christine.And we thought we’d go out and see what’s happening in Philadelphia

December 17, 2021 No Comments

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The top 50 MOST FREQUENT irregular verbs | part 1

Learn the 50 most common irregular English verbs in this two part series. Based on corpus research, you’ll learn the key verbs you need to know. And to make sure you remember them, we follow a two step process. Step one: you see and example or definition and you have to try to guess the verb. Step two: you say the three parts of the verb (base form, past form, past participle). This is first

November 5, 2021 No Comments

Intermediate

11 British and American word differences

Here’s another video in our series with Super Agent Awesome on British and American English word differences. In this video we look at differences like zit and spot and say what we’d call them in British and American English. This time the words include: band aid – plaster zit or pimple – spot caravan – convoy recreational vehicle (RV) mom and mommy – mum and mummy mom and pop store public transportation -public transport public

November 5, 2021 No Comments

Intermediate

English weight loss vocabulary – a success story

Find out how Vicki and Jay lost 80 lbs and learn lots of useful English weight loss vocabulary. For example:put on weightgain weightlose weightplump, chubbycalorie counting dietscrash dietsfad dietslow carb/ high carb dietsvegan dietgoing on a dietgetting back on a dietbreak your dietruin your dietplateaucut back oncut down oncut outfull, full upendurancewatch your weight Some of you have noticed that Jay and I have both lost weight.Exactly.Which we’re very proud of and we’re going to

October 8, 2021 No Comments

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