Level: Medium to High Language: Future forms, Technology, Negotiation In 1995, Newsweek magazine published an article […]
Rupaul’s Drag Race is an American TV show hosted by the world’s most famous drag queen, […]
Rupaul’s Drag Race – Red Runway (video by VH1)
Level: Medium Language: Relationships, Feelings, Music, Fashion WARNING: The song Youngblood and its accompanying video both […]
Youngblood (song by 5 Seconds of Summer)
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Level: Medium to High Language: Adjectives, Relationships, Adolescence, School, Colloquial expressions WARNING: While the song […]
Young, Dumb and Broke (song by Khalid)
Levels: Medium to High (6 different lessons) Language: Everything! (from Crime to Nature to Romance, depending […]
Breaking news! Film & TV lesson series now on OneStopEnglish (created by Picnic English)
Level: High Language: TV, Accents, Secrets, Feelings Looking for a worksheet on accents and pronunciation? With […]
Where did Jon Snow get his accent? (Game of Thrones video interview by ITV)
Level: Medium to High Language: Colloquial expressions, Shopping, Relationships, Personality, Christmas Love Actually is a 2003 […]
Would you like it gift-wrapped, sir? (Christmas movie scene from Love Actually)
Level: Medium Language: Transport, Shopping, City, Technology, Word Formation In some parts of the UK, […]
Fast and slow lanes for UK shoppers (video by On Demand News)
Level: High Language: Colloquial, Family, Relationships Eastenders is the most successful TV soap opera in the […]
The Slater sisters’ shock revelation (scene from Eastenders)
Level: Easy to Medium (worksheet 1) and High (worksheet 2) Language: Halloween, Colloquial structures, Question forms, […]
Happy Halloween! Ghostbusters Theme (song from the movie)
Level: High Language: Slang, Phrasal Verbs, Society, Social Problems, Education, Violence Coolio is a rapper from […]
Gangsta’s Paradise (song by Coolio)
Level: Medium to High Language: Relationships, Personality, Feelings, Job positions, Conditionals Bridget has something very, very […]
Bridget Jones: The edge of reason (scene from Movieclips)
Level: Low to Medium Language: Phrasal Verbs, Collocations, Partying, Daily routine Who said that you need […]
Cheap Thrills (song by Sia)
Level: Medium. Language: Partying, Phrasal Verbs, Body, Colloquial What do you do when you’re having fun […]
No (song by Meghan Trainor)
Level: High. Language: Literature, Money, Work, Personality, CAE and CPE Listening (Sentence Completion) A book review […]
Kafka’s Metamorphosis cartoon book review (video by Minute Book Report)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Food, Health, Debate, Politics, Writing Does the government have a right […]
Should it be illegal to advertise junk-food? (video by Sky News)
Level: Low to Medium Language: Presentations, Business English, Public Speaking, Technology Meet Jim. He needs to […]
How to give a great Powerpoint presentation (video by Wienot Films)
Level: High Language: Love, Feelings, Personality, Society, Phrasal Verbs, The Environment, CPE and CAE UOE Part […]
Fake plastic trees (song by Radiohead)
Level: Medium to High Language: Geography, Tourism, Travel, Movies, FCE Listening Sentence Completion Part of the […]
Ireland’s Star Wars island (video by Discover Ireland)
Level: High. Language: Crime, Narrative tenses, Transport, Feelings, Physicality In 1971, a plane was hijacked in […]
10 questions in 9 minutes: The unsolved mystery of plane hijacker DB Cooper (podcast by BBC)
Level: High. Language: Partying, Drugs, Phrasal Verbs, Sexuality, CAE and CPE Use of English Part 2 […]
Rebel Rebel (song by David Bowie)
Level: High. Language: Feelings, Fame, Colloquial, Body In this video, we see some professional Adele […]
Adele and the Adele impersonators (video by BBC)
Level: Medium. Language: Law, Crime, Food, Personality Homer really, REALLY wants a donut. He’ll do anything […]
Homer’s meeting with the devil (scene from The Simpsons)
Level: Medium. Language: Relationships, Feelings, Love, First Certificate UOE Part 2 King was one of the […]
King (song by Years and Years)
Level: High. Language: Phrasal Verbs, Collocations, Love, Relationships, Narrative Tenses If you lean on someone, it […]
Lean On (song by Major Lazer)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Feelings, Relationships, Love, Personality Madonna says that “Like a Virgin” […]
Like a Virgin (song by Madonna)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Health, Media, Marketing, Feelings, Giving your opinion Recently a provocative ad […]
Are you beach body ready? A controversial London ad (video by ABC News)
Level: High. Language: Word Formation, CAE Practice, Politics, Money, Feelings A Conservative government, Euroscepticism and extremely […]
The last living rose (song by PJ Harvey)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Discrimination, Science, Finance, Business English, Animals. Monkeys don’t want money, they […]
Two monkeys are paid unequally (video by Frans de Waal for TED.com)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Prepositions of movement, Colloquial, Verbs This is a scene from […]
Welcome to the future! Marty McFly visits 2015 (movie scene from Back to the Future 2)
Level: High. Language: Colloquial, Partying, Phrasal Verbs, Personality. Do you feel like learning some cool English? […]
Uptown Funk (song by Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Personality, Business English, Colloquial, Swearwords, Instructions In this talk, Richard St.John […]
Get successful! Get rich! 8 tips in 3 minutes (video by Richard St.John for TED.com)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Third Conditional, Presentations, Public Speaking, Politics, Business English. Hillary Clinton wants […]
Do you believe her? Hillary Clinton explains why she deleted her emails (video by ABC News)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Word Formation, Parts of Speech, Gerunds/Infinitives, Relationships, Feelings, Love “I (just) […]
I just don’t know what to do with myself (song by The White Stripes)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Colloquial, Personality, Politics, Relationships, Phrasal Verbs Extension activity language (High level […]
Shakespeare, as interpreted by teenage girls (two movie scenes from Mean Girls)
Level: Easy to Medium. Language: Past Simple, Past Continuous, Feelings, Personality, Question Forms Eleanor Rigby describes […]
Eleanor Rigby (song by The Beatles)
Level: High. Language: Agreeing and disagreeing, Science, Personality, Phrasal Verbs, Clothes White and gold or blue […]
What colour is the dress? (video by CNN Hong Kong)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Word Formation, Personality, Feelings, Phrasal Verbs, Partying. Parties, glamour, L.A. living […]
Chandelier (song by Sia)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Modals, Greetings, Question forms David Lynch makes movies where nothing is […]
The Mystery Man (movie scene from Lost Highway by David Lynch)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Personality, Colloquial, Sex, Drugs, Narrative Tenses This is a song about […]
Walk on the wild side (song by Lou Reed)
Level: High. Language: Jokes, Psychology, Personality, Childhood Annie Hall (1977) is one of Woody Allen’s most […]
Annie Hall – three scenes (movie clips by Woody Allen)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Pronunciation, Childhood, Feelings, Family, Love, Relationships Swedish House Mafia say that […]
Don’t you worry, child (song by Swedish House Mafia)
Level: High. Language: Animal vocabulary, Narrative Tenses, Nature, Numbers Sometimes a dog is not a dog. […]
Salma Hayek’s animal story (video from The Ellen Show)
Level: Easy to Medium. Language: Relationships, Love, Colloquial, Weather What an 80s anthem. I just can’t […]
Just can’t get enough (song by Depeche Mode)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Prepositions, Phrasal Verbs Chris is a Canadian astronaut who […]
How to wash your hands in space (video by the Canadian Space Agency)
Level: Easy to Medium. Language: Verbs, Reading Comprehension, Past Simple, War The USA had a lot […]
What’s going on? (song by Marvin Gaye)
Level: High. Language: Narrative Tenses, Feelings, Personality In May 2013, British Army soldier Lee Rigby was […]
Terror attack in London: a French woman becomes a hero (video by The Guardian)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Past Modals, Colloquial, Feelings, Relationships, Love “If you liked it then […]
Single Ladies (song by Beyonce)
Level: Medium Language: Pronunciation, Phonetics, Love, Relationships, Weather Adele is in love! Well, originally Bob […]
Make you feel my love (song by Adele or Bob Dylan)
Level: High. Language: Nature, War, Animals Fish can be very similar to humans – especially when […]
You cheeky cuttlefish! Underwater astonishments (video by David Gallo for TED.com)
Level: Medium. Language: Colloquial, Partying, Feelings Sometimes you just want to go out to a party […]
Don’t stop me now (song by Queen)
Level: High. Language: Personality, Feelings, Celebrity A few months before Marilyn died, she sang Happy Birthday […]
Marilyn Monroe, The Final Days (video clip from documentary)
Level: High. Language: Colloquial, Narrative Tenses, Childhood Do you remember the TV sitcom The Fresh Prince […]
Fresh Prince of Bel Air rap (song from the sitcom)
Level: High. Language: Instructions, Jokes, Education, Insults, Praise Kids can be cruel. Especially with their brothers, […]
Knowledge is power (video from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air)
Level: Easy. Language: Verbs, Past Simple, Love, Relationships From 1963, this song has been called “the […]
Be my baby (song by The Ronettes)
Level: High. Language: Love, Relationships, Personality, Narrative Tenses Meg and Hamilton are a couple. They first […]
We met at Starbucks… (movie scene from Best in Show by Christopher Guest)
Level: Low to Medium. Language: Pronunciation, Love, Relationships “I can’t take my eyes off you” means […]
Can’t take my eyes off you (song by Andy Williams)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Psychology, Marketing, Medicine, Technology, Business Do I want children? Should I […]
Do I want children? Should I get married? (video: The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz on TED.com)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Adjectives of personality, Adjectives of physicality, Colloquial expressions Alanis, what a […]
Hand in my pocket (song by Alanis Morissette)
Level: High. Language: Mixed Tenses, Relationships, Family, Scandal This is a short news report […]
A Playboy Opera: Anna Nicole Smith (video by BBC News)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Relationships, Love, Phrasal Verbs A simple song about a person who […]
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps (song by Cake)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Phrasal verbs, Relationships, Narrative tenses […]
A fruity love story (video: Le malaise de l’orange by Carrotbomb)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Phrasal Verbs, Partying Oh Kesha, your poor mother. Didn’t she teach […]
Tik Tok (song by Ke$ha)
Level: Medium. Language: Prepositions, Phrasal verbs, Cars A fast, expensive car and an arrogant driver. What […]
Lamborghini worth £300,000 crashes in West London (video from YouTube viral vids)
Level: High. Language: Mixed tenses, Verbs, Personality, Fame Fame, glamour, drugs, death. Norma Jean was a […]
Candle in the wind (song by Elton John – original version)
Level: Medium. Language: Marketing, Technology, Personality, Sales Have you ever been to a virtual store? This […]
A virtual store in South Korea (video by Tesco supermarkets)
Level: Medium to High. Language: Pronunciation /ei/ and /ai/, relationships, love Elvis, are you ill? Or […]
Fever (song by Elvis Presley)
Level: High. Language: Informal letter, email, personality, relationships The late, great Leonard Cohen: Musician or poet? […]
Famous Blue Raincoat (song by Leonard Cohen)
Level: High. Language: Vocabulary for Advertising, Marketing, Technology. Giving your opinion. These are two commercials from […]
Advertising and new technologies (video by Lacta and Samsung)
Level: High. Language: Relationships vocabulary, Casino vocabulary, Probability Love is like a trip to the casino. […]
Love is a losing game (song by Amy Winehouse)
Level: Easy Language: Weather, Past Simple Have you ever needed to run from the beach because […]
Panic! A dramatic storm comes to the beach on a summer’s day (video by On Demand News)
Level: Easy to Medium Language: Feelings, Verbs Don’t feel sad. Everybody has bad days. Listen to […]
Raindrops keep falling on my head (song by BJ Thomas)
Level: High Language: Narrative tenses, Humour Charlie thinks that it’s important for people to be in […]
The shared experience of absurdity (video by Charlie Todd for TED.com)
Level: Medium to High Language: Colloquial expressions, Clothes, Partying, Love, Relationships Michael wants his lady friend […]
The Way You Make Me Feel (song by Michael Jackson)
Level: Medium Language: Numbers, Past Simple, Narrative Tenses, Buildings Did you know that a plane crashed […]
Plane crashes into the Empire State Building in 1945 (video by Pathé News)
Level: Easy to Medium Language: Verbs, Reading Comprehension One of the most famous songs of all […]
Hey Jude (song by The Beatles)
Level: High Language: Third Conditional, Personality This song featured on the TV series Grey’s Anatomy. Did […]
How to Save a Life (song by The Fray)
Level: Easy to Medium Language: Mixed Tenses, Future, Reading Comprehension A classic Hitchcock thriller from 1948 […]
Rope – Opening Scene (movie clip by Alfred Hitchcock)
Level: Easy to Medium Language: Phrasal verbs, Clothes A song made famous by the 1980s movie […]
You Can Leave Your Hat On (song by Joe Cocker)
Level: Medium to Hard Language: Mixed tenses, relationships, personality Thom Yorke, Radiohead’s singer, says that this […]
Creep (song by Radiohead)
Level: Medium to High Language: Comprehension questions, daily routine, sounds, sleep Sleep Whisperers are people who […]
The Sleep Whisperers (video by ABC News)
Level: Medium to High Language: Prepositions Why doesn’t she care? Listen, complete the missing prepositions and […]
I Don’t Care (song by Icona Pop)
Level: Medium Language: Past Simple, Narrative tenses, Comprehension questions, House, Furniture Ben is a modern, young man. […]
The 35-year-old who lives in 1946 (video by BBC News)
Level: Medium Language: Past Simple, Narrative Tenses, Feelings, Reading Comprehension, Holidays, Sailing, Nature A classic song […]
Sitting on the Dock of a Bay (song by Otis Redding)
Level: Medium Language: Vocabulary to describe companies, management, shareholders, etc. This is a short, […]
Understanding a Company’s Corporate Structure (video by Investopedia)
Level: Easy Language: Verbs, Mixed Tenses “Hit the road” is an expression which means to leave […]