royal wedding meghan prince harry
Intermediate
Jay

Meghan, Harry and the Royal Wedding. What do Americans think?

Are American’s excited about the royal wedding? After all, it’s a British event. Watch this video to find out what American’s think of Meghan and Prince Harry and to learn lots of great English expressions. This is a listening practice lesson with fast, natural English. Click here to see videos about British and American English differences. Click here to learn the difference between interesting and interested. Meghan, Prince Harry and the royal wedding Hi. I’m

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too not enough time
Elementary
Jay

Too and enough – how to use these useful English words

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 necessary. You’ll also learn about word order. We use too before adjectives and adverbs and enough after them. Click here

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hope vs wish
Intermediate
Jay

Hope and Wish Part Two – Past situations

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 get clear explanations in this video lesson. This is the second part of a two-part lesson on these verbs. In

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Intermediate
Jay

Hope and Wish – Part One – Present situations

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 use the phrase if only to add emphasis. Click here to see past two on how we use hope and

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hope wish saying something nice
Elementary
Jay

How to wish someone something nice in English – wish or hope?

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 use ‘hope’. It’s the verb we commonly use to give good wishes. In this video you’ll see lots of examples

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Intermediate
Jay

Potato Chips with ESL students from the New York Film Academy (NYFA)

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 cast and crew. They were also a joy to work with. Click here to watch more of our stories and

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likely probablity
Intermediate
Jay

Likely: An English Word You’re Likely to Need!

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 you’ll learn what happens to a marshmallow if you cook it in the microwave for 60 seconds. Mmmm. Irresistable! Click

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SEVY Awards
Intermediate
Jay

SEVY Speak English Challenge Awards Ceremony

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 the videos we received. We can’t give everyone an Oscar but we can award them a SEVY – a Simple

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Phrasal Verbs for Organizing
Intermediate
Jay

Learn English Phrasal Verbs for Organizing Things

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 Click here to learn 10 phrasal verbs for food and eating Click here to learn 8 very common separable phrasal

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it's or it's - apostrophe
Intermediate
Jay

It’s or Its? When to use an apostrophe

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 rob a bank. Click here to see some grammar videos. Click here to learn the meanings of some prefixes and

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