It’s election season in the United States and Ronald Grump is running for President. In this parody video, a puppet Donald Trump outlines his plans to make American (rather than America) great again. Update: We made this video before Donald Trump was elected. At the time we thought the chances of him winning were scary …
Songs are a great way to learn English. They’re good listening practice and research shows that singing along is a powerful way to improve your fluency and learn new words. Here’s a beautiful song sung by Doris Day and a lesson on some of the vocabulary first. There are two videos here so make sure …
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Learn how to improve your pronunciation, work on your English accent and become more intelligible with great tips from impressionist Akeem Lawanson, the hilarious creator of the AtomicHole YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/AtomIcHole As well as improving your accent, you’ll also learn how to talk like Kermit the Frog, or any other celebrity or cartoon voices that …
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This short conversation illustrates two formal questions we use to ask for opinions in English. English learners sometimes ask ‘What’s your opinion?’ without realizing that it is a formal way to ask the question. ‘What do you think?’ is more common and would sound more natural most of the time. Note that in the video, …
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If you need to understand Americans, it really helps to understand baseball idioms. They often come up in conversation. We use many of these idioms in British English too, but not all. Watch these videos to learn their meanings and see lots of examples. There are four baseball idiom videos here, so keep scrolling down …
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‘Try’ is a special verb in English because we can follow it with either a gerund (ing form) or infinitive. However the meaning changes. Watch the video and learn how ‘try to do’ is different from ‘try doing’. Watch videos about some other verbs that can be followed by gerunds and infinitives. Learn how their …
Try to do and Try doing (gerunds and infinitives) Read More »
Security Safety – do these words mean the same thing? Sometimes the meaning of security overlaps with safety, but safety is the more general term. In this video lesson we go in depth and look at how we use these two words in English. To see a simpler explanation,click here. Click here to see a …
Security and Safety – an in depth explanation of these two English words Read More »
This video tells the story of an event we came across going on in the street near our home. It was an art project that carried an important message about gun violence and homicides in the US. Transcript I am an Adjunct Professor at Montgomery Community College and I am an artist. And this is …
Here’s an interview we recorded between a couple of English teachers that many of you may know. Rachel has a fantastic channel on YouTube teaching English pronunciation and Jason also has a fantastic channel where he teaches using rhyme, rhythm and raps. Click here to see more videos on pronunciation Click here to see another …
Rachel of Rachel’s English is interviewed by Jason R Levine (Fluency MC) Read More »
