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Four or five years ago, @Cecilia Lemos, @Guido Europeaantje, @Jens Kjaer Olsen, @Sophia Mavridi, @Erika Osváth and @Geraldine Mayor were kind enough to help me experiment with skype and we made this video. I realised the other day that people were still watching it, although the sound was really poor on the original version. I thought it was time for an update! Here it is –
Thank you to the great performers! They were stars – and such fun to work with!
We put Carter to work for this week’s video lesson.
The rules for adverbs of frequency are actually very complex, so we kept to the basics here.
Hope you like it!
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Jay vs. the mouse. Find out who wins and learn how we use the word ‘afraid’ in our latest Q&A video lesson.
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This week’s new lesson is one I’ve been wanting to do for AGES! We have remade our lesson on ‘raise’ and ‘rise’, adding new scenes and a fuller grammar explanation. Hope you like it!
Knowing how to combine like with sense verbs is a jolly handy thing to know in English. In this video we start with ‘look like’ and teach the basic pattern. After that – well hopefully your students will be set up to use ‘like’ in lots more expressions.
Tag is a kids game where one person is ‘it’ and they chase after and try to catch the other players, but it’s not easy because the other players are all running away. And that’s how telephone tag gets its name. It describes those situations where people try to communicate by telephone but continually miss each other.
Telephone tag is a great context for teaching English for voicemails. Check out our latest collaboration video and subscribe to the teachers who helped make it so you don’t miss out on their future lessons.
JenniferESL, Gabby of Go Natural English, Minoo of Anglo Link, and Fluency MC (Jason Levine).
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I’ve written about EFL and copyright before. It seems only sensible to give creators their due and avoid getting sued for stealing stuff. Crikey – who wants to steal stuff? Isn’t it just common sense?
Well yes, but actually copyright law is also pretty complex and understanding the basics can be quite a challenge.
So here’s a great video from The Consultants-E that explains the basics. A big thank you to Gavin Dudedney and Nicky Hockly for helping to make us all more digitally literate.
Lots of terrific and exciting things have happened to me in my career that I’m so grateful for. I’ve met amazing people, made great friends, worked on projects I’m proud of, visited some glorious corners of the world, and seen some wonderful sights. I didn’t think I could top some of the things I’ve been privileged to do. But then I was a winner in this year’s YouTube NextUp competition. The experience has been right up there – gosh, I think it might have been a life changer!
So last month I walked into YouTube’s Space in NYC with the other winners and the energy was palpable. There was a chemistry in the air. I don’t know how the google selection algorithms worked but #team broccoli, as we named ourselves, formed an instant bond that fired on all cylinders. I think some of it was about the power of ‘Yes, and…’. If someone had an idea, it was going to be accepted and committed to and taken up and worked on and added to and…
So ‘No’ didn’t exist in my world for a week and I absolutely loved it. Thinking and hearing ‘yes’ for a week is … well…. just glorious.
I got trained – oh, so well trained in lots of tech stuff. Camera techniques, audio recording, set design, lighting, green screen editting…. Our instructors were AWESOME. (I say that as a Brit who doesn’t say awesome lightly.) It wasn’t stuff I could learn in a week. I still have such a long way to go to master things like After Effects and lighting and SEO, but I feel like I have been gifted with the tools I needed to get that learning journey on track.
I want to say a big thank you to Rachel at Rachel’s English. I’d received an announcement email about the competition that I’d ditched to my delete folder. Rachel forwarded me her copy and insisted I applied. If you’re ever in doubt, put aside voices in your head that say you’re too old or not worthy or might flunk or you don’t have time. Put in the effort and go for it. YouTube – Thank you! #Team Broccoli – I love you all and I can’t wait to see what you do next.
And now I’d like to introduce you to a few of the great friends I made at YouTube NextUp. Here are some of the videos we made together that week. Some are vlogs and some are joint projects and there are many many more wonderful videos that I haven’t included yet and I’ll have to keep adding to this list, but it’s just a taster….
Oh and I can’t forget Stan, our wonderful stenographer!
Subscribe to them all – they’re going places! Here are links to their channels:
Beatbox Television –
https://www.youtube.com/user/BEATBOXTELEVISION
Akeem Lawanson –
https://www.youtube.com/AtomIcHole
Kriscoart Productions
https://www.youtube.com/user/KriscoartProductions
Retro Weld –
https://www.youtube.com/RetroWeld
iIMAGINEblank –
https://www.youtube.com/iIMAGINEblank
Rikki Poynter –
https://www.youtube.com/rikkipoynter
Congahead –
https://www.youtube.com/martincongahead
Jackson Bird –
https://www.youtube.com/loraxism
Origami Tree –
https://www.youtube.com/josthebomb
Simple English Videos –
https://www.youtube.com/user/vickihollettvideo
Tim Bryan –
http://bit.ly/1VY0aXj
Tracy Campoli –
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTcampoli
The Art Sherpa –
https://www.youtube.com/theartsherpa
Greg’s Garage –
https://www.youtube.com/gregmporter
Jasmine Rose –
https://www.youtube.com/JazzyTe007
SkittLeZMusicTV –
https://www.youtube.com/skittlezmusictv
Drum beats Online –
https://www.youtube.com/user/DrumBeatsOnline
Jessica Flores
https://www.youtube.com/c/domesticatedme
Help your students fix five top mistakes with ‘Fix it’. It’s a checklist I’ve written that’s available for free at our Simple English Videos website. Just sign up for our mailing list and you can download it for free.
Lots of terrific and exciting things have happened to me in my career that I’m so grateful for. I’ve met amazing people, made great friends, worked on projects I’m proud of, visited some glorious corners of the world, and seen some wonderful sights. I didn’t think I could top some of the things I’ve been privileged to do. But then I was a winner in this year’s YouTube NextUp competition. The experience has been right up there – gosh, I think it might have been a life changer!