VOA: English in a Minute (May/June 2016 - 8 Episodes)
Looking for ways to improve your listening skills and learn English idioms? Check out Voice of America's English in a Minute and listen to brief video clips that explain American English colloquialisms.
National Geographic Learning brings the world to your classroom with Life, a six-level integrated-skills series that develops fluency in American English. Through an exploration of real world content from National Geographic presented through stunning images, text, and video, learners will strengthen their existing global connections while learning the English skills needed for communication in the 21st century.
Subtitled Music Video (Love Is A Silent Thief - Katie Melua)
This brilliant song was released in the album Kateva (2015). The lyrics for this song is written by Katie Melua and Toby Jepson. The magnificent movie, The Color of Pomegranate (1969), by the revered Armenian director, Sergei Parajanov, acted as an inspiration for Katie Melua to make this song. In fact, the song’s music video is wholly based on the scenes from the aforementioned film.
In adiition to the clip and its subtitle, you will find a PDF file containing the helpful collocations and phrases in this song.
Think about this: How would you address a group of two or more people? Would your default terminology be: ”you all,” “yous,” ”you lot,” “you guys,” “you’uns,” “yinz,” “you,” “y’all,” or something else? Would that change depending on whom you were talking to or where you were using it? What do you call a long sandwich that contains cold cuts and vegetables? Is it a “sub,” “grinder,” “hoagie,” “hero,” “poor boy,” “bomber,” “Italian sandwich,” or something else?
National Geographic Learning brings the world to your classroom with Life, a six-level integrated-skills series that develops fluency in American English. Through an exploration of real world content from National Geographic presented through stunning images, text, and video, learners will strengthen their existing global connections while learning the English skills needed for communication in the 21st century.
