Curated Video
Understanding Idioms: Decoding the Meaning of 'Water Under the Bridge
In this video, the teacher explains the concept of idioms and how to understand their meanings through context clues. Using the example of "water under the bridge," the teacher encourages students to think beyond the literal...
Cerebellum
French: Shopping and Introduction to the Past Tense
Going shopping and buying clothes is a popular hobby, especially in Paris - the fashion capital of the world! This is part 2 in the series: 'Talking About Yourself'.
Curated Video
Connecting Ideas in Writing with Transition Words and Phrases
In this video, the teacher guides students through the process of using transition words and phrases to connect their ideas in their writing. The teacher provides examples and explanations, and encourages students to practice identifying...
Curated Video
Adding Time Transitions to Improve Your Writing
Writers include transitions about the sequence of events to help their readers follow along. Let's practice adding transitions that reveal time.
Curated Video
Mastering Transitions in Writing: Keeping Your Reader Engaged
In this video, the teacher explains the importance of using varied transitions in writing to keep readers engaged. The teacher provides examples of time and place transitions and discusses the use of punctuation. Through interactive...
Curated Video
Connecting Reasons to Claims in Argumentative Writing
This video is a lesson on using linking words and phrases to connect reasons to a claim in argumentative writing. The teacher provides examples and guides students through revising a draft to make the connections between their reasons...
Oxford Online English
English Sentence Structure - English Grammar Lesson
In this lesson, you can learn about sentence structure in English. You’ll learn how to construct all kinds of sentences in English, from the simplest possible sentences, to long, complex sentences which contain many different ideas. In...
Cerebellum
Critical Reading & Writing - Passage Based Reading
This video serves as an introduction to the Passage Based Reading section of the SAT. This is part 5 from the series 'Critical Reading & Writing'.
Curated Video
Understanding Idioms: Skeletons in the Closet
In this video lesson, students will learn the meaning of the idiom "skeletons in one's closet" by using context clues. The teacher explains that idioms cannot be understood by looking at the meaning of each individual word, and...
Curated Video
Understanding Idioms: Don't Burn Your Bridges
In this video, the teacher explains the meaning of the idiom "to burn bridges" using context clues. The lesson emphasizes that idioms cannot be understood by looking at the literal meaning of each word, and instead, learners should rely...
Curated Video
Understanding Idioms: Being in Over Your Head
In this video, the teacher explains the meaning of the idiom "to be in over one's head" using context clues. The teacher emphasizes that idioms cannot be understood by looking at the individual words and encourages students to use...
Cerebellum
Advanced Spanish: Spanish Prepositions
Learn all about prepositions - words like "above", "below", "under", and "over". This is part 1 in the series: 'Advanced Spanish: Prepositions'.
Advocate of Wordz
Epistrophe & Anaphora - Poetry Defined
There are many literary and poetic devices we use in our everyday speech. Epistrophe and Anaphora are also the kind of literary devices which can be a great and easy introduction into poetry for our youth. But don't be mistaken my...
Curated Video
Viewer Spotlight: How we determine abortion-related terminology
Typically, when discussing abortion, we aim to call it just that: abortion. (Scripps News)
Curated Video
How 'Gen Z Slang' Connects To Black Culture Appropriation
A style of speaking known as African American English has been used by young White people more recently, which can lead to appropriation.
Curated Video
RR8118B FRANCE A WHISTLED LANGUAGE
Background to story: In a tiny French village on the Spanish border, a handful of
people still practise a whistled language. They maintain a formerly widespread
tradition that's survived for centuries.
Film: Rev – Sound: Mag/SOF –...
Bloomberg
Fed's Lacker Expects Inflation Close to 2% in 2017
March 21 -- In today's "Morning Must Read," Bloomberg’s Tom Keene and Bloomberg Intelligence's Carl Riccadonna discuss comments from Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Jeffrey Lacker on U.S. inflation expectations. They speak...
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TED-Ed
How Misused Modifiers Can Hurt Your Writing
Misplaced modifiers are a common grammar error, but can your learners identify when a modifier can interfere with a reader's understanding? Watch a short and entertaining video from Ted Ed that illustrates misplaced modifiers, as well as...
Curated OER
Prepositions - English Grammar #1
Discover how to use prepositions in order to talk about location and direction. Definitions of prepositions, prepositional phrases, noun phrases, and more are given. Separate prepositions are then discussed and used in sentences....
Curated OER
Prepositions - English Grammar #2
Continue learning about prepositions of location and direction in part two with Jennifer. Different prepositions are discussed with the same fill-in-the-blank format from part one. The video ends with questions where the viewer chooses...
Curated OER
Prepositions - English Grammar #3
Finish the series on prepositions of location and direction in this video. Direction and location are distinguished with a description and a vignette at the local playground. Viewers then see a statement and choose the correct...
Curated OER
Participial Phrases and Participles as Adjectives
Participles can be part of a verb phrase (participial phrase) or act as an adjective. Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how the verb "to wear" functions differently in various sentences.