Brrr. It’s so cold today. Yes. It’s a bit chilly. It’s twenty five degrees. What would that be in England? Oooh, minus something. But how did you know I was English? Well, I could tell by your accent. Oh!
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Click here for more hang out and Q & A videos This week’s lesson is a Q&A – we’re going to answer some of the questions you’ve sent us. Hey, we’re back in our room with interesting things. Yes, they come from all over the world, like your questions. So what’s this lesson about? We’re
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Click here for more hang out and Q & A videos Hey, they’re here. Oh good. You can open them later. Later? Yeah. Hey, we’ve got a new set design. Yes. We’ve got things from all over the world. Can you spot what they are and where they come from? In today’s lesson we’re going
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Click here for more hang out and Q & A videos So this week’s lesson is a little different to normal. We’re just going to chat and hang out. Now Vicki’s been in New York City all week and she’s gonna tell us about that. Yeah, I’m going to tell you about that, and then
Indirect questions (sometimes called embedded questions) are useful things to know. We often use them when we’re talking to strangers and we want to be polite. But they can be tricky because of the word order. In this video you’ll learn how direct and indirect questions operate differently and find out how to avoid some
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Cook Cooker Chef – do you know the meanings of these three words in English? It’s worth learning. You don’t want to tell people you’re the cooker if really you’re the cook or the chef. Click here to learn about concentrated and concentrating and avoid another common mistake. Click here to see more vocabulary videos.
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To have something done – this is a common structure we use to talk about actions where someone performs a service for us. In this video you’ll learn how the structure works and how to use have and get in the passive as causative verbs – verbs that indicate one thing causes another. Click here
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Come Go Bring Take Fetch Get – learn how to use these common English verbs. We’ll show you their meanings and lots of examples in the video. Click here to see more vocabulary videos. Come Go Bring Take Get Fetch Video Script Carter, bring me the newspaper. Carter, get the newspaper. Why don’t you go
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to take to last We use both these verbs to talk about the length of time things continue. Take is more frequent than last and we use it to talk about the time required to do something – the time that is necessary. We use last more generally to say how long something continues. Here
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We use the verb to take to ask about jobs and journey times in English. To find out how much time is required, we ask questions like How long does it take? and How long will it take? And to say how long, we say It takes… To Take Video Script To compare the verb
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