We use at the end to talk about the final part of something. For example, at the end of the rainbow. At the end of the tunnel. In the end is similar to eventually or finally – so after everything has been dealt with, talked about, settled and decided. Learn more and see examples in the video. Click here to see more grammar videos In the End/At the End Video Oh, what movie are you watching? Oh,
There’s a brilliant George Gershwin song that compares British and American pronunciation. It goes, ‘You say tomayto, and I say tomahto’. The lyrics are fantastic but they’re not 100% accurate which is troubling for word nerds. We wanted to create a song that reflected pronunciation differences with greater accuracy. Hope you like it. Click here to see more pronunciation videos American and English Pronunciation Song Lyrics I am English. I’m American. I speak English. I
Do you find you’re always using ‘will ‘ and ‘going to’ to talk about the future? Here are two more expressions that native speakers use. This video was inspired by my son. When he was six, he knew he shouldn’t play with matches, so he went behind the curtains to experiment and the curtains caught fire. I was out at the time and his Dad was in charge. He acted promptly and luckily nobody was injured. But
Story History: Are you using these words correctly? They’re false friends in many languages. Learn the meaning of story and history and how we use these words differently in English. Click here to see more vocabulary videos. Click on the links to watch some more videos on common false friends: sympathetic and nice, actually and currently, miss and lose, sensible and sensitive Story and History Video Transcript Children like to listen to stories before they go to bed. Cinderella
Learn the different meanings finally, at last and lastly. These connectors or conjunctions can be confusing. Watch this short video to fix common mistakes. You’ll learn the meaning of lastly (the final item in a list), how finally can be used in the same way – or have another meaning (when something has taken a long time), and how we use at last to say we’re glad about something happening after a delay. Click here
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 video we made with Rachel. An interview with Rachel of Rachel’s English transcript Jason finds out how Rachel began her
Looking or free English reading practice? Here’s a very funny short story by James Schofield that provides excellent vocabulary practice. You’ll love the clever twist at the end. James is an English teacher and a very talented writer. This story was first published in print in http://www.business-spotlight.de/. Find out about James’ latest writing project at http://www.jrtschofield.blogspot.de Full Moon Short Story Video Script Nick Samuel was 48, married to Claire, and had two nice children at
I’m British but I live in the US and I’ve discovered there are all kinds of ways to confuse Americans like Jay with my British English. Here are five. I say zed. What would you say Jay? I’d say zee. OK. Zed in British English is zee in American. Let’s try another. Could you spell your name please? Yes, it’s Hollett. H-O-double L-E-double T. H-O-W… No. Double L E double T. Oh, you mean Hollett.
This video has original music and lyrics by The Audio Justice, an Auckland, New Zealand based indie rock band. The Audio Justice are Mark Whiteman and Grant Duncan and they also both happen to be English teachers! This track was written by Grant and recorded in Oct 2012. We have their permission to promote it on Youtube. Follow The Audio Justice on Youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/user/AudioJusticeChannel Or on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Audio-Justice/145283145611843?ref=stream The Audio Justice’s albums and
Raise and rise – these verbs have similar meanings. Learn how we use these transitive and intransitive verbs differently. Raise is a regular verb and rise is irregular (rise, rose, risen). And importantly, raise is transitive and rise is intransitive. That means raise has a direct object. We always raise something. Rise, on the other hand, has no direct object. You can’t rise something. See lots of examples and learn how to use these verbs
