Beginner Level Video Quizzes:
General Directions:
First, read the questions below BEFORE watching the video.
Second, watch the video ONCE all the way through.
Third, try to answer as many questions as possible without re-watching the video.
Fourth, watch the video a second time and again try to answer the remaining questions.
Lastly, answer any remaining questions with the help of the video, Ie; rewind, pause, etc..
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Aids: www.dictionary.com www.thesaurus.com
==========================================================The difference of "w" and "r" sounds.
American English (Subtitles)
1. What will native English speakers have a hard time explaining?
2. Where is most of the sound for "w" ?
3. Is your tongue moving much for the "w" sound?
4. Where is the sound for the "r" sound?
5. Which sound is like you're going to whistle?
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English Grammar - Parts of Speech - Indian English
Watch this Indian English teacher show you how to make correct sentences.
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Listen to well-known Buddhist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh explain his very simple philosophy to life. (Vietnamese-English)
Fill-In:
" You don’t have to do anything…. very _________.
You just become aware of the fact that you are breathing in…. breathing in…I know I’m breathing in. And breathing out, I know I’m breathing out. And I enjoy my in-breath, I enjoy my out-breath.
And suddenly I find that I am truly _________,…truly present. And this…everyone can do.
And it make a big _______________, how uh…to whom is life. And life is uh..in the present moment.
In the ________ and the now. That is the address of true life. So, mindful breathing can bring aspect to our,…to whom?...
To _________. ….And we should be able to do it, uh…in our daily life."
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American Classic Comedy
1. What’s the guest’s name?
2. Where is he from?
3. What’s his job title (with the STOA)?
4. What does STOA stand for?
5. Why is the STOA in New York?
6. How many members are there?
7. What’s the name of the other group?
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American English
National Geographic Spelling Bee 2007 Final Question
1. What is the answer to question #1 of the test? (It's an Arabic word)
2. What river does Belfast lie at the mouth of?
3. What language do people in Angola speak?
4. Who wins question number 4 and with what answer?
5. In what country is Hue' located?
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American English
This video is of an old children's TV favorite from the USA.
Mr. Rogers broadcast his television show for many years, spreading his good nature and positive outlooks. This is his goodbye.1. What do people on the street say to him? (00:10 - 00:12)
2. "Like expressing their feelings through, music and art and dance and sports and drama and computers and writing and......" (00:26 - 00:32)
3. What is tough for people? (00:45 - 00:50)
4. When we were much younger he said this. How does he like us? (00:56 - 00:59)
5. He is grateful for two things that he is sure we will do for children. What are those two things? (1:09 - 1:15)
6. What is such a good feeling?
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This is a song by a true American music icon. Enjoy it and practice your listening skills by filling in the missing lyrics.
NEIL YOUNG"Heart Of Gold"
I want to live,
I want to ________
I've been a miner
for a heart of gold.
It's these ______________
I never give
That keep me ______________
for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old.
Keeps me _______________
for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old.
I've been to _____________
I've been to Redwood
I crossed the ocean
for a heart of gold
I've been in my __________,
it's such a fine line
That keeps me _____________
for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old.
Keeps me ______________
for a heart of gold
And I'm getting old.
Keep me _______________
for a heart of gold
You keep me ______________
for a heart of gold
And I'm growing old.
I've been a _______________
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American English. Ronald Reagan (Ex-US president) delivers his infamous speech called, "A Time For Choosing."
Fill-In the 10 missing words below.
Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their ________ "accommodation."
And they say if we'll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he'll forget his _______ ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers.
They say we offer simple answers to complex _________. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer -- not an easy answer -- but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected ___________ that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally _________.
We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a __________ human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain, "Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skins, we're _________ to make a deal with your slave masters."Alexander Hamilton said, "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and __________ one."
Now let's set the record straight. There's no argument over the _____________ between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace -- and you can have it in the next second -- _____________.
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David Letterman American English Top Ten Favorite George W. Bush Moments.
Write the title of each Bush moment. (Not the comments that the announcer makes, but rather the title of each number.)
Example: "Number ten________________."
(write here)10.
9.
8.
7.
6.
5.
4.
3.
2.
1.
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