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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Speak English Challenge
Elementary
Jay

Speaking English Challenge. Who are you?

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 channel. Make sure your video is published as ‘public’ or ‘unlisted’ (not private) and send the link to us. The

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explain or explain me
Intermediate
Jay

Explain or Explain me? Fix a common mistake

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 learn about the verb suggest. Click here to see more vocabulary lessons. Click here to see more grammar lessons. Explain

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thanks God Thanks God
Elementary
Jay

Thank God or Thanks God?

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 very common and funny mistake today and it won’t take long. Do we say ‘Thank God’ or ‘Thanks God’? Let’s

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