We hope you have enough time to watch this video! Too and enough are really useful words that you can use with nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. In this video you’ll learn how enough means sufficient and not enough means needing more. Too many and too much mean more than sufficient or more than is […]
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Learn the different meanings and grammar of the English verbs ‘hope’ and ‘wish’ in this video lesson. This is an important lesson if you’re talking an English exam like IELTS, Cambridge First Certificate or TOEFL. They often have questions on these verbs because the grammar is tricky. You’ll see lots of examples in action and
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Learn the different meanings and grammar of the English verbs ‘hope’ and ‘wish’ in this video lesson. With clear examples and explanations you can master the tricky grammar. In part one you’ll learn about present situations. You’ll learn three structures we commonly use with hope and three with wish, and you’ll also learn how to
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Learn how to use the verbs wish and hope to give good wishes and say nice things to someone in English. We use the verbs wish and hope differently. Wish is more formal so when someone is wishing someone something it’s more likely to be written English. When we’re talking about future possibilities we generally
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We’re proud to present a video called Potato Chips that we made with students studying ESL and filmmaking at the New York Film Academy (NYFA). It includes some useful slang and informal English expressions: stressed out, chill out and screw it. The students came up with the concept for the video and they were our
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Learn how to to talk about probability in English with the word likely. It’s a word you’re likely to need! In this video you’ll learn the common structures and collocations we use with likely and see how we use them in action. You’ll also learn an idiom where we always use it ironically. And finally
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Do you need to understand people speaking English with different accents? Then you’re going to love this video. A couple of weeks ago we set our viewers a challenge: to send us video telling us who they are, where they’re from and what they do in English. And they did! We were blown away by
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Learn the meanings of common phrasal verbs like tidy up, throw away, lying around, put away and lots more. In this video English lesson you’ll see Jay and Vicki organizing their props and costumes and see how they use the phrasal verbs in action. Click here to learn 24 phrasal verbs for computers and technology
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We write it’s with an apostrophe when it’s a contraction of it is or it has. We don’t use an apostrophe when its is a possessive pronoun. I think people muddle them up because they confuse possessive nouns with possessive pronouns. We explain the difference in this video and also show you how not to
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Please join us for our first ever speaking challenge. Make a video of yourself speaking in English and tell us: who you are where you’re from what you do Upload your video to YouTube and send us the link and we will compile all your videos into one big video that we’ll post on our
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