Youglish video clips for whatchamacallit
English at the Movies from the Learning English channel at the Voice of America (VOA) Wikipedia
English @ the Movies: Give it a Shot
English @ the Movies: I Got This!
Youglish and Movie English
Don't Mess with Texas! Dame la Basura!
Reading for understanding AND fun.
Listen to my "trashy" Texas playlist while you read this Smithsonian article to practice reading for understanding AND reading for enjoyment.
Read titles and captions under photos first. Read each saying on the "Don't mess with Texas" trash cans at the Texas capitol building in Austin, TX .
Compose your own vocabulary list, starting with
- Seemingly - seems like;
- Myriad - many
- Seemingly - seems like;
- Myriad - many
- Lone Star state 1848 - Remember the Alamo
Explore more vocabulary and songs about and from Texas.
The present perfect is a time span that includes now.
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| Source from NOAA |
You can try thinking of the birds as discrete points of time and the waves as on-going aspects of a time span.
This video has the answers to these fill-ins. Thanks to Rachel's channel (Archived ) and Voscreen.
- Scene 1: A: He's your uncle? B: Him? Uh-uh. I've ______________ seen him before. - Scene 2: ______________ never been sick before. - Scene 3: Hello darkness, my old friend. I've ______________ to talk with you again. - Scene 4: l've ______________ changes for you, Shrek. Think about that.
Anne of Green Gables Crowd-sourced Annotation Project
I’ve added line numbers for easier reference. Feel free to comment on words that you would like to work on further.
빨간 머리 앤 Akage no An 赤毛のアン (Red-headed Anne)
image from https://10mag.com/directory/event/events/seoul/my-name-is-anne-of-green-gables-exhibition-sungdong-gu-seoul/
Anne of Green Gables by Author: L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
33 paragraphs - Gutenberg has the copyright exemption for the USA here.
CHAPTER I. Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Surprised (scroll up for the Table of Contents)
MRS. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down
into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and
traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the
Teacher's Choice list - How to find free on-line courses and series
Software tools and Government-sponsored and non-profit training
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| Source from VA.GOV |
English for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
MOOC - Massive Open Online Courses - https://www.mooc.org/
STATE DEPARTMENT
https://www.openenglishprograms.org/MOOC from US State Department https://americanenglish.state.gov/OPEN-MOOCs
COURSERA
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Education
https://www.usalearns.org/ in cooperation with the Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE) and the Project IDEAL Support Center at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Video channel https://www.youtube.com/@USALearnsEnglish
This page: https://grosslearning.blogspot.com/2023/12/teachers-choice-list-how-to-find-free.html
Baseball, 'n' Football, and Track, Oh my!
Congress pitches a bill to the President; the President balks.
- “Th-client must’ve balked. He just doeZn’t seem ready t-sign.” (ready to sign the document)
- We’re all in, but Tina balked because she’s a vegan ….
Site:.gov document Search to find who uses these terms!
Lions, 'n' Tigers, 'n' Bears, Oh my!
Morphemes morph (change) the root word
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| https://disneynews.us/character/morph/ (Archived) |
Bare infinitives/ roots see is the root form of
{see, saw, sight, seeing, sees
"see" turns out to be a good example because it has the infixed vowel change for past tense and it has that rare nominative form (cf. fear, fright)
The+s word ending indicates possession (x2), contraction, verb# agreement, plural
Spoken English: f r e n z
- friend's, friends' (APOSTROPHE)
- The friend's coming - The friend is coming
- He friends me on Facebook each time that I delete him.
- My friends and I play soccer together on Sundays.
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