Level: Medium to High Language: Future forms, Technology, Negotiation In 1995, Newsweek magazine published an article […]
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: Colloquial, Personality, Politics, Relationships, Phrasal Verbs Extension activity language (High level […]
Shakespeare, as interpreted by teenage girls (two movie scenes from Mean Girls)
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: Modals, Greetings, Question forms David Lynch makes movies where nothing is […]
The Mystery Man (movie scene from Lost Highway by David Lynch)
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Phrasal verbs, Relationships, Narrative tenses […]
A fruity love story (video: Le malaise de l’orange by Carrotbomb)
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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: Mixed Tenses, Future, Reading Comprehension A classic Hitchcock thriller from 1948 […]
Rope – Opening Scene (movie clip by Alfred Hitchcock)
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 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: Vocabulary to describe companies, management, shareholders, etc. This is a short, […]