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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There’s a mistake students make with the verb explain that can sound funny. In this lesson you’ll learn how to use explain correctly. You’ll see the verb in action and learn the different structures we commonly use. You’ll also learn how we can use it to describe people’s intentions, motivations and behavior. Click here to
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Do we say Thank God or Thanks God? In this short video we show you how we use these phrases and fix a common (and funny) English mistake. Click here to see more videos with every day English. Click here to fix more vocabulary mistakes. Thank God or Thanks God? We’re going to fix a
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Come join the Eagles fans on the streets of Philadelphia as they celebrate a Super Bowl win. You’ll get listening practice with natural spoken English and learn some informal colloquial expressions and slang. Go Birds! Click here to see some different people singing the Eagles fight song on YouTube Click here to see more videos
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