Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrate Christmas today! Today is Friday and today is Christmas so it is time for funny Christmas song!
Meet Mr. Duncan – English teacher from Wolverhampton, Great Britain. Mr. Dunkan. He worked in China for 4 years and hе produces English teaching videos on You-tube now. All his lessons are absolutely free!
Mr. Duncan thinks that «The World of English is a fun and exciting place to be!» And it is true! His video lessons are absolutely hilarious!
Today Mr. Duncan sings for you song by Nana Mouskouri “Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly”
Transcription:
Deck the halls with boughs of holly
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la
'Tis the season to be jolly
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la
Don we now our gay apparel
Fa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la.
Troll the ancient Yule-tide carol
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la.
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la.
First time I saw “The evolutions of dance” several weeks ago at YouTube. I saw the original of this dance. Actually, it is the show of popular American comedian and dancer Judson Laipply. Evolution of Dance is the finale to Laipply's show called "Inspirational Comedy".
And I saw a lot of variations of Evolution of Dance later. Most of them were danced by grooms and brides! Why is this dance so popular among newly wedded?
The answer is simple: the book “The Best Wedding Reception Ever!” written by Peter Merry. The author offers to use “The evolutions of dance” as part of wedding show!
And I offer you watch on of the best and funniest wedding evolution of dance!
Is “The evolutions of dance” a new wedding tradition in the USA?
Hello everyone! Today I want to show you part of a George Carlin comedy show called “The Little Things”.
I do not understand everything in this video, because George’s speech is fast, but believe me, it is really hilarious:)
As for me, this man was one of the best American stand-up comedian.
By the way, he became super popular in America after his "Seven Dirty Words You Can't Say On Television." This is from the 1978 show "George Carlin: Again!"
Hello everyone! It is Friday again and today I am going to show you another really funny video! See the shortest and the funniest version of USA history at My English Webmarks:
Read transcription:
Now it's time for a brief history of the United States of America.
Hi, boys and girls, ready to get started?
Once upon a time there were these people in Europe called pilgrims. And they were afraid of being persecuted.
So they all got in a boat and sailed to New World where they would not have to be scared ever again.
"Oh, I'm so relaxed. I feel so much safer." But as soon as they arrived they were greeted by savages. And they got scared all over again.
"Indians!" So they killed them off.
Now you'd think wipin' out a race of people would calm them down but no, instead they started getting frightened of each other
Witch! Witch! So they burned witches.In 1775 they started killing the British so they could be free.
And it worked, but they still didn't feel free. So they passed the Second Amendment which said that every white man could keep his gun.
"I love my gun! Love my gun." which brings us to the ingenious idea of slavery
You see, boys and girls, the white people back then were also afraid of doing any work. So they went to Africa, kidnapped thousands of black people,brought them back to America and forced them to work very hard for no money.
And I don't mean no money like "I work at Wall-Mart and make no money» I mean a zero dollars, nothing. Nada, zip. Doin' it that way made the USA the richest country in the world.
So, did havin' all that money and free help calm the white people down? No way. They got even more afraid. That's because after two hundred years of slavery the black people now outnumbered white people in many parts of the South.
Well, you can pretty much guess what came next. The slaves started rebellin'. They finally rised and lead to old master's head got chopped off. When white people heard of this they were freakin' out and going "I wanna live, Don't kill me, big black man"
Well, just in the nick of time went came Samuel Colt who in the 1836 invented the first weapon ever that could be fired over and over without havin' to reload. And all the Southern Whites were like Yee-haw! but it was too late. The North soon won civil war and the slaves were freed.
Yep, they were free now to chop all the old masters' heads off. And everybody was like "Oh, no, we're gonna die" But the freed slaves took no revenge. They just wanted to live in peace. But ya couldn't convince the white people of this.
So they formed the Ku Klux Klan and in 1871 the same year that the clan became illegal terrorist organization another group was founded. The national rifle association.
Soon politicians passed one of the first gun laws, making it illegal for any black person to own one. It was a great year for America that the KKK and the NRA.
Of course they had nothing to do with each other and it was just a coincidence. One group legally promoted responsible gun-ownership and the other group shot and lynched Black people. And way it was all the way till 1955 when the Black woman broke the law by refusing to move to the back of a bus. White people just could not believe it.
"Why wouldn't she move? What's going on?" Man, all hell broke loose. Black people everywhere started demandin' their rights. And White people were had a major freakin' field meltdown. And they were all like "Run away, run away!"
And they did. They all ran clean into the suburbs where it was white and safe and clean. As they went out and bought a quarter of a billion guns and put locks on their doors, alarms on their houses gates around their neighborhoods and finally they were all safe and secure and snug as a bug.
Hello again! Isn’t it a lovely day? Today is another Friday and I just found another reason for you to smile! Here is absolutely hilarious video:) Actually it is a commercial for one of English learning school in Russia. But as for me, it is really unusual commercial!
So...what is typical drinking song for your country?
Hello everyone! It is nice to write for you again:)
Do you know what does T.G.I.F. mean? It means: Thank God It’s Friday! Actually it is very common phrase in the USA, especially at Friday:) With this phrase people express their relief at the end of the work week.
Friday is a great day for and thinking about relaxation at the weekend. This day is not intending for serious information. So, I decided to begin a new rubric called “T.G.I.F” at My English Webmarks!
Since today every Friday I am going to publish different funny stuff about the English language, and learning English language, and English people and so on, and so forth :)
I hopу you will enjoy it!
Today’s video: “Do You Speak English?” by BBC comedy
Hello everyone! Today is the fifth day of increasing our English Vocabulary! Yesterday I promised you to tell about really special resource. So it is time for performing a promise :)
Today I am going to tell you about HotForWords – very special video lessons for discovering new words and their meaning! And especially I want to talk about the beautiful woman behind of HotForWords – Marina Orlova.
Marina is originally from Russia, but she lives in USA now. Believe me, she is absolutely amazing! She is really cool! She is the “Sexiest Philologist in the world” according to New Yorker Magazine! I found her web-site last week and I was so excited! I thought: I should write about her in my blog!
Her method of word explaining is…different? What can I say…I don’t know…I think you can like her, I think you can hate her, but you can’t stay indifferent to her!
What I am talking about? Her lessons are better to see once than hear a hundred times! By the way, Father’s day will be celebrated on June 21 in America. If you are listener of VOA Special English , you already know about the history of this holiday. Otherwise you can see Marina’s video “Father’s day”:
What would you say? Isn’t that nice? Tell me what do you think about Marina. And I have another little question for you. Do you celebrate Father’s Day in your country?
Hello Everyone! Today is the fourth day for increasing our English vocabulary and I have a little question for you:) Do you like music? Why am I asking? It is because of our great resource for increasing your vocabulary number four: The Princeton Review Vocab Minute!
It is short podcast for ESL learners and it is music podcast! Every time the team of Princeton Review Vocab Minute sings 60 seconds’ song that teach you a few new words. They have two levels’ songs: junior level and senior level. All their songs are really funny and useful! So enjoy English!
Listen the example of junior level song by Princeton Review Vocab Minute:
Don’t forget to come back to “My English Webmarks”. Tomorrow is our final day of “Increase your English vocabulary!” week. And I'll tell you about really special resource!
And, of course, leave a comment on this post. Your opinion is very important for me! And practicing writing skills is very important for you:)
It is one of my all time favorite web-site for listening practice! You should visit this one! It's got nearly 1,000 listening activities with transcript and interactive quiz!
Here you can find:
Interviews : natural conversations with various speakers of English from all over the world! People talk about their countries and particular qualities of their life, about their culture and things they like and dislike, about traditions, environmental problems and many other things. You can learn much that is new!
Mixer: listening activity that features six speakers. Each speaker answers the same question. You can listen to the answers for fun or test your listening comprehension by answering the questions.
Video responses: short video clips that relate to the audio from the main listening activities. Each response has the transcript of the video response and a simple quiz to test listening compression. Watch videos of people discussing questions about the interviews!
Listening Games: in these games you should listen the audio and choose the picture that is right for the audio. There is very little reading. The listening games are designed for beginning students.
STeP stands for Standadized Test Practice. These English listening activities are designed to help you prepare for Standardizes Tests of English and become accustomed to exercises used to test listening and reading comprehension on TOEFL®, TOEIC® and IELTS®.
News Center: an animated newscast with six stories. Practice Academic English with short newscasts! Good for beginner and intermediate levels.
Talking Points: activities that help you with test taking skills and academic English. Each listening activity is a mini-lecture or presentation divided into six sections. Listen to mini lectures. Perfect for Academic English practice!
Songs: it is my favorite part! It is a great way to learn English. Below are some great songs by independent artists. As you listen, the words are displayed on the screen so you can sing. You can catch the lyrics as well as work on grammar, pronunciation, reading speed, reading by chunks and common slang and idioms.
ELLLO is the work of Todd Beuckens. Todd is a full-time English teacher based in Japan. He now teaches in Kyuushuu. He creates elllo in his free time! It is amazing!
You also can subscribe ELLLO podcasts: free ESL/EFL podcasts with interviews, slideshows, audio notes , and original songs so you can keep practicing your English even when you are away from your computer.
And, of course, you should visit ELLLO blog - ELLLO-ology!
The first resource I want to tell about is FreeRice.com. It is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program. Their partner is the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
FreeRice is very interesting and helpful website. You can increase your English vocabulary and feed a hungry person at the same time!
How is it possible? Just go to Free Rice and start playing! On the home page you’ll see a word with four definitions. To play the game, click on one of the four definitions that you think is correct. For each word you get right Free Rice donate 10 grains of rice through an international aid agency!
FreeRice has two goals:
1.Provide education to everyone for free. 2.Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. This is made possible by the generosity of the sponsors who advertise on this site.
