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Vocabulary for talking about love – Happy Valentine’s Day!

Is it possible to fall in love in just one conversation? In this video we ask and answer 11 English questions that can lead to love and explore the vocabulary of love and relationships along the way. In this lesson you’ll learn vocabulary for talking about love and relationships including: – words for describing relationships: compatible, close, treasured – things lovers might do as they get closer such as: to impress, to be compatible, to

February 8, 2019 4 Comments

Intermediate

Sickness and Illness Vocabulary in British and American English

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 like feeling nauseous, having diarrhea and having constipation – different kinds of aches in English – different ways to say

February 1, 2019 5 Comments

Intermediate

Who and whom – when and how to use them

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 it’s not appropriate to use whom (Whom can sound pompous) – how we use whom in constructions with prepositions We’ll

January 25, 2019 4 Comments

Intermediate

Who, whose and who’s – an English grammar lesson

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 English, we add apostrophe ‘s’. However the pronoun who is different because its possessive form is whose. To check you’ve

January 22, 2019 No Comments

pronouncing numbers in British and American English

Intermediate

Pronouncing numbers in British and American English (1-100)

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 thirty. There he says the t but it sounds like very fast d sound – commonly known as a flap

January 11, 2019 1 Comment

Intermediate

2018 memories – our favourite English comedy skits.

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 and Jay are looking back and sharing their 2018 memories. They’ll show you their favourite English skits and sketches and

December 29, 2018 No Comments

English Jokes 2018 Review Video Premiere

Intermediate

English Jokes and a Premiere Announcement

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 and comments in real time. And if you miss it, you can also catch us in Facebook the next day

December 21, 2018 No Comments

Intermediate

The First Conditional in Action – English Grammar

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 form them, make negatives and questions, punctuate them and reverse the order. You’ll learn about a common mistake and the

December 14, 2018 No Comments

Intermediate

What’s inside a Christmas cracker? Let’s see!

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, a joke and a novelty. We’ll show you hats that don’t fit, corny cracker jokes with puns that will make

December 14, 2018 1 Comment

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