The English Language

8. Speaking English














1. Indo-Europeans, Celts, Romans | 2. Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians - Old English | 3. Vikings, Middle English | 4. Modern English | 5. The Celts - Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Isle of Man | 6. North America - U. S. A. & Canada | 7. Down Under - Australia & New Zealand | 8. Speaking English





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Why is English Spelling so Strange?
 
 

 
 
 
Introductions & Greetings
 
Lesson from the programme Learn English Conversation
 
 
 
Welcoming Visitors
 
Lesson from English Conversation Lesson
 
 
 
Offers, Gratitude, Apologies and Requests
 
lesson from Learn English Conversation
 
 
 
Telephoning
 
English Conversation Lesson
 
 
 
English Listening Practice
 
 
 
Common Daily Expressions # 1
 
English Listening & Speaking Practice
 
 
 
Common Daily Expressions #2
 
English Listening & Speaking Practice
 
 
 
Common Daily Expressions #3
 
English Listening & Speaking Practice
 
 
 
Common Daily Expressions #4 (Telephoning)
 
English Listening & Speaking Practice
 
 
 
Common Expressions #5 (Making Appointments)
 
Lesson from the series English Listening & Speaking Practice
 
 
 
Common Expressions #6 (Business Meetings)
 
English Listening & Speaking Practice
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
About Vocabuary
 
 
Build Your Vocabulary
 
A Coronet Film (1948)
 
 
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Grammar
 
 
 
The Verb
 

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Verb: To be
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
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THE 16 TENSES

Present, Past, Future, Conditional

English with Lucy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljjiw9mC_Cg



THE CONDITIONALS

0, 1, 2 and 3 Conditionals

English with Lucy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXp0ETWXbWo



The Present Perfect vs The Present Perfect Continuous

Differences

English with Lucy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NGLHYVmr00



WHO - WHOM - WHOSE - WHO'S

English with Lucy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmxd_nej-wk




GERUND (-ing) or INFINITIVE (to)

English with Lucy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VaoDZpzWTw


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Introduction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UgpfSp2t6k

 

Episodes from the Window on Britain series

An introduction to Britain

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL66NfKUWDE

 

About London

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikssjG1GYqU

 

Food in Britain

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPT_JG0R21U

 

Homes in Britain

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcChAAprN2Q

 

Schools in Britain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xTVlXoEtzE

 

Sports in Britain

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOvam44IyWc

 

Media in Britian

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZZnCobtbzc

 

Law and order in Britain

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_SwCiDMLw

 

 

Looking for the Past

 

Episode from the documentary series Archeology at Work by the English Heritage Education Service

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFejIkYDH9Q 

 




LOST LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET

9 letters we stopped using

Rob Woods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJxKyh9e5_A


Why is there a B in DOUBT?

THE MEN WHO RUINED ENGLISH SPELLING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07f-cKWRtk


Why is the K in KNIGHT silent?

A guide to words beginning KN & GN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEFpZmChbGw


How to translate French words WITHOUT KNOWING FRENCH

3 clever tricks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ


Weird plurals in English

Men, geese, sheep, knives and many more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rhxeDInKu8


HOW TO USE THOU ...as well as thee, thy, ye & you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNkGb6nj934


Colour & Color - Why two spellings?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuUFap2E7Tg


Got & Gotten - British or American English?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKFcGW0cxVI


When a hundred was not 100

BIG NUMBER WORDS

Milliards, myriads, lakhs, crores & more

Rob Woods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlpw_35aq0g


English had genders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKaVI-IStNE


Why is there a G in SIGN?

Words ending with gn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdwX-q6HNZw


French words in English

A brief history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es-hoET1pKQ


English once had genders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKaVI-IStNE


How to translate French words WITHOUT KNOWING FRENCH

3 clever tricks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ


Thorough, thought, cough, furlough

Many ways of pronouncing OUGH in English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkdcYYduUeM





























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