Idioms
I've spilled the beans on English vegetable idioms in this video English lesson.
Now you'll be as cool as a cucumber when you hear or use these common expressions. No more will you go as red as a beetroot because you don't know the difference between a couch potato and a hot potato. Never again will you be in a pickle over these idioms.
There are also extras to help you learn, remember and use these idioms.
I've included an interactive quiz this time, too. I hope you enjoy completing it.
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Idioms
All the idioms in English that are associated with meat.
If you don't know your red meat from your white meat, your mutton from your lamb, then this is the video for you. You will learn Idioms like bringing home the bacon, ham-fisted, mutton dressed as lamb, no spring chicken, and chicken feed.
Don't be sheepish. Watch this video now and you won't have to run around like a headless chicken trying to remember meat idioms. You'll take to them like a duck to water and when your chickens come home to roost, you'll have all the right answers.
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Idioms
This English lesson looks at all of the English colour idioms I could think of.
You may be feeling blue about your English studies but I'm giving you the green light to pass any test with flying colours.
If you don't know the difference between a scarlet woman and a red herring, you will be tickled pink by all the idioms in this video.
So don't be yellow; watch this video all the way through and you will be able to do the extras with flying colours.
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Love and Marriage
February 14th is Valentine's Day.
Named after a 3rd Century Roman priest, Valentine's Day is a celebration of romantic love. The day is an opportunity to show your feelings for someone you like. It is a day when flowers, and roses in particular, become move valuable than gold, and chocolates acquire bigger boxes and price tags.
Whether you intend to celebrate the day or not, this video will introduce you to some of the truths behind the fiction of St. Valentine's Day. It will also provide you with lots of new vocabulary and the means to learn and practice your new found words.
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Astrology
This is one of a series of English lessons based on the theme of astrology. They are designed to teach you vocabulary, and especially personal descriptive adjectives.
If you were born between February 19th and March 19th, then your star sign is Pisces. The symbol of Pisces is two fish. Piscess element is Water. Pisces displays an immediate, generous and overwhelming emotional response to everything. They find it difficult to see the truth of things through the poetic, romantic cloud in which they hide reality.
Other star signs: Aries | Taurus | Gemini | Cancer | Leo | Virgo | Libra | Scorpio | Sagittarius | Capricorn | Aquarius | Pisces.
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Astrology
This is one of a series of English lessons based on the theme of astrology. They are designed to teach you vocabulary, and especially personal descriptive adjectives.
If you were born between January 20th and February 18th, then your star sign is Aquarius. The symbol of Aquarius is the water carrier. Aquarius' element is air. Uranus rules Aquarius. Aquarians are individualists. They build their lives on their own inclinations and can have trouble relating to other people.
Other star signs: Aries | Taurus | Gemini | Cancer | Leo | Virgo | Libra | Scorpio | Sagittarius | Capricorn | Aquarius | Pisces.
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Astrology
Life is uncertain. All of us would like to feel that there is a plan set out for us. Astrology has fascinated people for centuries because it claims to be able to provide us with a glimpse of this plan of our lives.
Astrology has been rejected by the scientific community as superstition, but many people still believe in the claims of astrologers. People consult their daily horoscope in the newspapers. Romances are decided on the matching of star signs. Some people plan their lives around their horoscope.
Star signs: Aries | Taurus | Gemini | Cancer | Leo | Virgo | Libra | Scorpio | Sagittarius | Capricorn | Aquarius | Pisces.
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Love and Marriage
This is video 8 of a series of 8.
These videos look at marriage through the words of some famous people.
This video uses the words of Ambrose Bierce and his obvious dissatisfaction of marriage and his cynical opinion of love.
The other videos in this series are:
- The History of Marriage
- Defining Marriage
- What Makes a Good Marriage?
- Why Marriages Fail
- In Favour of Marriage
- Warnings Against Marriage
- How to Stay Married
- Love and Marriage
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Love and Marriage
This is video 7 of a series of 8.
These videos look at marriage through the words of some famous people.
This video uses the life and works of Benjamin Franklin, the great American polymath.
The other videos in this series are:
- The History of Marriage
- Defining Marriage
- What Makes a Good Marriage?
- Why Marriages Fail
- In Favour of Marriage
- Warnings Against Marriage
- How to Stay Married
- Love and Marriage
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Love and Marriage
This is video 6 of a series of 8.
These videos look at marriage through the words of some famous people.
This video uses the words of King Vidor, the acclaimed American film director. It also looks in detail at two early 19th Century humorous engravings by James Gillray, published on 25th October 1805.
The other videos in this series are:
- The History of Marriage
- Defining Marriage
- What Makes a Good Marriage?
- Why Marriages Fail
- In Favour of Marriage
- Warnings Against Marriage
- How to Stay Married
- Love and Marriage
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Love and Marriage
This is video 5 of a series of 8.
These videos look at marriage through the words of some famous people.
This video uses the words of Samuel Johnson. Johnson was in favour of marriage, even if it was to a much older woman.
The other videos in this series are:
- The History of Marriage
- Defining Marriage
- What Makes a Good Marriage?
- Why Marriages Fail
- In Favour of Marriage
- Warnings Against Marriage
- How to Stay Married
- Love and Marriage
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Love and Marriage
This is video 4 of a series of 8.
These videos look at marriage through the words of some famous people.
This video uses the words of an anonymous person plus the painter Hogarth. The video gives one reason that so many marriages fail to survive.
The other videos in this series are:
- The History of Marriage
- Defining Marriage
- What Makes a Good Marriage?
- Why Marriages Fail
- In Favour of Marriage
- Warnings Against Marriage
- How to Stay Married
- Love and Marriage
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Love and Marriage
This is video 3 of a series of 8. These videos look at marriage through the words of some famous people.
This video uses the words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English writer. He shows what makes a good marriage, at least for the Emperor Kublai Khan, if not for himself.
The other videos in this series are:
- The History of Marriage
- Defining Marriage
- What Makes a Good Marriage?
- Why Marriages Fail
- In Favour of Marriage
- Warnings Against Marriage
- How to Stay Married
- Love and Marriage
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Love and Marriage
This is video 2 of a series of 8.
These videos look at marriage through the words of some famous people.
This video uses the words of Sydney Smith, an English clergyman and wit. He gives us his definition of marriage.
The other videos in this series are:
- The History of Marriage
- Defining Marriage
- What Makes a Good Marriage?
- Why Marriages Fail
- In Favour of Marriage
- Warnings Against Marriage
- How to Stay Married
- Love and Marriage
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Love and Marriage
This is video 1 of a series of 8.
These videos look at marriage through the words of some famous people.
This video uses the words of Voltaire and Will Rogers. They tell us what they think of marriage and divorce.
The other videos in this series are:
- The History of Marriage
- Defining Marriage
- What Makes a Good Marriage?
- Why Marriages Fail
- In Favour of Marriage
- Warnings Against Marriage
- How to Stay Married
- Love and Marriage
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English Jokes
Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective that ever existed.
Nowhere in the universe would you find another who shares his singular ability to deduce the truth. And there's his friend Dr. Watson.
This joke centres on Watson's attempt to out-deduce Holmes himself.
You might have heard this joke before, but it's never been told like this.
Learn dozens of new words and expressions in English and have a good laugh at the same time.
I'm sure Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would have approved of this English lesson.
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English Confusables
There are certain words in English that are confusing because we spell them the same, they sound the same, but they don't mean the same things. These words are called homonyms.
Saw is a homonym, as is rose, and countless others.
This video lesson introduces some of these homonyms and helps with your understanding and pronunciation. You will never again be confused by the verb to tire or the noun, tire (or tyre).
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Environment
This lesson looks at language used in recycling common materials such as metals, plastics, glass, wood, etc.
There are extensive self-test exercises to complete, and a short article to recycle.
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10 Medical Collocations
Here are some exercises to help you learn 10 common medical collocations.
These words and expressions are used not only by medical professionals, but are also commonly used by the public when talking about medical matters.
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Origins
The lesson is about the origins of the English and the fate of the original Britons.
It looks at some collocations, several phrasal verbs, some vocabulary of England, and some adverbs.
The lesson has a 2'45" video listening, a 405 word typescript to read, many self-test questions, a linked crossword puzzle and a Hangman game.
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Phrasal Verbs
This lesson looks at Intransitive Phrasal Verbs and how they are used in English.
Links are provided to extensive sets of flashcards.
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Jokes in English
English jokes
A lot of English humour depends on word play.
Many words in English have more than one meaning and it is this double meaning that gives a joke its humour.
For example:
What’s orange and sounds like a parrot?
Find out in this lesson.
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Grammar
This lesson looks at the zero conditional, its form and its use in English.
There are other lessons available on Linguaspectrum that will help you understand
The First Conditional
The Second Conditional
The Third conditionals
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Grammar
A lesson looking at the form and use of the English first conditional.
There are other lessons available on Linguaspectrum that will help you understand
The Zero Conditional
The Second Conditional
The Third conditionals
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Grammar
A lesson looking at the form and use of the English second conditional.
There are other lessons available on Linguaspectrum that will help you understand
The Zero Conditional
The First Conditional
The Third conditionals
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Grammar
A lesson looking at the form and use of the English third conditional.
There are other lessons available on Linguaspectrum that will help you understand
The Zero Conditional
The First Conditional
The Third conditionals
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Phrasal Verbs
This lesson looks at English Inseparable Transitive Phrasal Verbs.
A link is provided to extensive sets of flashcards.
Phrasal Verbs Intransitive Flashcards
Phrasal Verbs Inseparable Flashcards
Phrasal Verbs Separable Flashcards
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Phrasal Verbs
Some transitive phrasal verbs are separable.
This lesson takes a look at such verbs and gives practice in using them.
There is also an extensive set of flashcards giving definitions to 170 separable phrasal verbs.
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Lifestyle
Would you like to learn the secret of happiness while learning English?
We are happy to release this English language lesson which lets you do that.
Based on an authentic English text, the lesson looks at various aspects of the text and provides plenty of multimedia, interactive activities for you to enjoy.
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Grammar
This English language lesson is an introduction to English conditionals.
There are other lessons available on Linguaspectrum that will help you understand
The Zero Conditional
The First Conditional
The Second Conditional
The Third conditionals
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Reading Comprehension
A short English language lesson based on an authentic text that introduces some basic medical vocabulary.
The original title of the article is: "How conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) reduces fat deposits in arteries by 30%".
This lesson will be of interest to medical professionals.
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Phrasal Verbs
Phrasal verbs are one of the most confusing parts of the English language. This introduction to phrasal verbs will help your understanding.
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