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Curated Video
How to Stay Positive to Increase IELTS Speaking / Writing Scores
Today you’ll learn the strategy and vocabulary for staying positive in your IELTS answers.
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answers?
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Are you repeating negative words and ideas in your IELTS Speakin
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answers?
For instance,...
Curated Video
KS2 Primary English Age 9-13 - Writing: Planning to Write Non-Fiction Part 3 - Explained
SchoolOnline's Primary English videos are brilliant, bite-size tutorial videos delivered by examiners and skilled teachers. Ideal for ages 9-13, they cover every key skill in English Reading and Writing that students need to master in...
TED Talks
TED: How comic strips create better health care | Sam Hester
Comics creator Sam Hester is part of a growing movement within health care: graphic medicine. In short, literally drawing attention to a patient's needs and goals with pictures to foster better and more accessible caretaking. Hester...
KERA
"Baldo" Comic Strip Features Latino Voices
The comic strip Baldo has been published in newspapers across the United States for 20 years. It was the first ever to feature a Latino family as the main characters. Hector Cantu, the author of Baldo was inspired to create the comic...
Curated Video
Black Girl Geek Magic – She’s Blazing The Trail For All Like Her
Her family’s love of good stories, whether they were comics, anime, video games or even the Harry Potter Books, were all a key part of shaping the “geek” in Jamila Rowser’s personality while traveling the...
PBS
Are Graphic Novels... Novels? (Feat. Princess Weekes)
In the past few decades, literature has expanded to not only mean the “novel” but “graphic novels” as well. Today we are gonna break down how the graphic novel went from the comic book store to the classroom. Hosted by Lindsay Ellis and...
Wonderscape
The Power of Narratives and Literary Devices
This video explores the significance of communication through storytelling, emphasizing the power of the pen in shaping perceptions and actions. It introduces five key literary devices—narrative, plot, tone and mood, setting, and...
TED Talks
Randall Munroe: Comics that ask "what if?"
Web cartoonist Randall Munroe answers simple what-if questions ("what if you hit a baseball moving at the speed of light?") using math, physics, logic and deadpan humor. In this charming talk, a reader's question about Google's data...
Curated Video
Where the "comic book font" came from
The Guardian
Neil Gaiman author of Stardust and The Sandman comics takes over the Guardian books site
Neil Gaiman author of Stardust and The Sandman comics takes over the Guardian books site Subscribe to the Guardian HEREref='http://bitly.com/UvkFpD' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>HERE Writer Neil Gaiman spent a day editing the...
World Science Festival
Jonathan Coulton on Science, Crying, and Comic Books
Jonathan Coulton doesn't write your typical songs about pain and heartbreak — instead he brings us inside the hearts and minds of robots, zombies, squid, and sentient monkeys. You may even accidentally learn something about DNA and math....
Entertain The Elk
Writing For Comics
The first 500 people to click my link will get two months of Skillshare Premium for FREE!ef='http://skl.sh/theelk' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>FREE! The Killing Joke isn't just one of the best Batman comic books, but one of the...
ProTeachersVideo
Writing a Monologue: Bride
This short monologue about a bride-to-be can be used as an example of a comic script with secondary English students. Actor Tamsin Greig plays the part of an infant teacher who is so dedicated to her job that she plans wedding around the...
Extra Credits
Comics and Hard-Boiled - Pulp! Noir - Extra Sci Fi
Many sci fi writers, especially in the United States, had backgrounds in reading and writing detective stories. They introduced to the sci-fi genre the action hero--no longer just scientific or philosophical protagonists. Subscribe for...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How to make a sad story funny | Jodie Houlston-Lau
It may seem counterintuitive, but comedy is often key to a serious story. As a writer, you need your audience to experience a range of emotions, no matter what your genre. Comic relief is a tried-and-true way of creating the varied...
TED Talks
Jarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist
This talk paints the funny and touching story of a little boy who pursued a simple passion: to draw and write stories. With the help of a supporting cast of family and teachers, Jarrett J. Krosoczka tells how he grew up to create beloved...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The chaotic brilliance of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat - Jordana Moore Saggese
Like Beat writers who composed their work by shredding and reassembling scraps of writing, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat used similar techniques to remix his materials. Pulling in splintered anatomy, reimagined historical scenes and...
PBS
How Manga Took Over American Bookshelves (Feat. Princess Weekes)
Astro Boy, Dragon Ball, Akira, Sailor Moon, Demon Slayer, Death Note all these interesting, iconic anime have something very much in common they started off as: manga. Manga, by its most simplistic definition, are comics or graphic...
Curated Video
3 Strategies to Become a Wonderfully Winning IELTS Writer
Today you learn about 3 strategies that will turn you into a high-scoring IELTS writer!
Students often ask, “How do I improve my
writing?”
Or, also often, IELTS teachers hear, “How do I come up...
Students often ask, “How do I improve my
writing?”
Or, also often, IELTS teachers hear, “How do I come up...
Curated Video
11 Experiences You Need Before Your IELTS Exam
Today we’ll talk about the experiences you need before your IELTS Exam. Put them in your study plans!
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Students are fearful of being asked questions on the Speaking or Writing Exam about unfamili
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Curated Video
ChatGPT for Creatives - Let's Close It Out
In this video, we will discuss the final steps to take before wrapping up the creation of a manga or comic story, reviewing the story and characters to ensure consistency and coherence, refining the dialogue and pacing, and making any...
Curated Video
ChatGPT for Creatives - How to Save Your Work Right Away
In this video, the author talks about the importance of saving work while creating comics or manga. He also shares his personal experience of losing work and the lessons he learned from it. Finally, he offers practical tips on how to...
Curated Video
Musical Theatre's Most Iconic Duo | The Life & Times of Arthur Sullivan
Arthur Sullivan was one of those kids that made everyone hate themselves because while his friends were learning how to carry the one, he composed an anthem about weeping for Jerusalem on the shores of Babylon and he could play all of...
Wonderscape
Hyperbole: The Art of Exaggeration in Literature
This video unpacks hyperbole, a figure of speech that uses intentional exaggeration for emphasis or humor. It demonstrates hyperbole's widespread use in literature, referencing works by Mark Twain and Lewis Carroll, and includes an...