Watch this English lesson to learn vocabulary for health and sickness. We’ll also show you how some words we use to talk about illness are different in British and American English. You’ll learn vocabulary for: – cold and flu symptoms like fever, sore throat and blocked or runny nose – germs and bugs – symptoms […]
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Learn the difference between who and whom in this English grammar lesson. Who is a subject pronoun and whom is an object pronoun. We’ll show you: – how who and whom work – a test to see if who or whom is correct – when it’s appropriate to use whom in formal writing – when
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In this video lesson we compare the pronoun who with its possessive form, whose, and show examples in action. We look at: – how to use who and whose in questions – how to use who and whose in relative clauses – the important difference between whose and who’s To make most nouns possessive in
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How do we say numbers like twenty, thirty, forty, fifty etc. in English? Well, it depends. There are some curious differences between how I say them in British English and how Jay says them in American English. For example, twenny vs. twenty. Jay often drops the middle t in twenty and says twenny. Then there’s
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Learn how to say thank you in English conversation – British and American. You’ll see lots of examples of thanking in action and enjoy plenty of jokes along the way. We’ll show you: different ways to tell someone they’re nice how to use the structure Thanks for -ing (with a gerund) some formal phrases like
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We love English comedy skits and sketches at Simple English Videos! They mean you can see English in action, and help us to make learning English fun. It’s really motivating when you can get a joke in English and they can make new English words and phrases more memorable too. So in this video Vicki
2018 memories – our favourite English comedy skits. Read More »
Next week, we’ll be publishing our 2018 review video. Please come and join us at 3 p.m. New York time on Friday 28th December 2018 for the YouTube premiere. This will be the first Simple English Videos Premiere. The chat will be live and Jay and Vicki will be there to respond to your questions
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The first conditional is a useful English grammar structure for talking about future possibilities. If you watch this video, you’ll see lots of first conditional examples. Hey – we just used a first conditional there! It’s such a useful structure! First conditionals have two clauses: the condition and possible result. We’ll show you how to
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What are Christmas crackers? They’re a British tradition. Just about everyone has a cracker with their Christmas meal. And what’s inside a Christmas cracker? Watch us pull a cracker and we’ll show you. You’ll also learn some Christmas cracker vocabulary along the way. There are always three things in a cracker – a paper hat,
What’s inside a Christmas cracker? Let’s see! Read More »
In our last video we looked at six different ways to pay someone a compliment and you can see that video here: https://www.simpleenglishvideos.com/6-easy-ways-to-pay-compliments-in-english/ In this video we’re looking how NOT to give compliments. We’ll show you examples of things that can go wrong, and suggest ways to avoid them. For example: Complimenting a woman on
How NOT to pay a compliment in English (back & left-handed compliments) Read More »
