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You’d like to practise listening with videos, wouldn’t you?

Students in Fourth Course can make the most of this page to share interesting videos with each other. It’s so easy to do! Here’s a selection of websites to get you started:

TO WATCH A VIDEO

On this blog entry, click on “Comments”, and look at the Comments at the bottom of the page. Simply click on the title of the video.

TO SHARE A VIDEO WITH EVERYONE

  1. First choose a suitable video from a website.
  2. When you’ve got a good clip, click on “Comments” on this blog entry.
  3. Look at “Leave a Reply”, which is at the end of the page.
  4. In the “Name” box, write the title of your chosen video (not your name).
  5. In “Mail”, you must give your email address, which won’t be published.
  6. Now copy the web page address for the video and paste it into the “Website” box (for example, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH2xwjjZgq4)
  7. Type in the spam filter password from the image displayed.
  8. Write a short description of the video in the last box. Please feel free to give your opinion about it.
  9. Finally, click on the “Submit Comment” button to send your contribution.
  10. Thank you very much indeed for taking part!

189 thoughts on “Share videos”

  20. June 18, 1940. House of Commons
    “What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”

  21. May 13, 1940
    First Speech as Prime Minister to House of Commons
    On May 10, 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister. When he met his Cabinet on May 13 he told them that “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” He repeated that phrase later in the day when he asked the House of Commons for a vote of confidence in his new all-party government. The response of Labour was heart-warming; the Conservative reaction was luke-warm. They still really wanted Neville Chamberlain. For the first time, the people had hope but Churchill commented to General Ismay: “Poor people, poor people. They trust me, and I can give them nothing but disaster for quite a long time.”

    I beg to move,
    That this House welcomes the formation of a Government representing the united and inflexible resolve of the nation to prosecute the war with Germany to a victorious conclusion.
    TRANSCRIPT
    On Friday evening last I received His Majesty’s commission to form a new Administration. It as the evident wish and will of Parliament and the nation that this should be conceived on the broadest possible basis and that it should include all parties, both those who supported the late Government and also the parties of the Opposition. I have completed the most important part of this task. A War Cabinet has been formed of five Members, representing, with the Opposition Liberals, the unity of the nation. The three party Leaders have agreed to serve, either in the War Cabinet or in high executive office. The three Fighting Services have been filled. It was necessary that this should be done in one single day, on account of the extreme urgency and rigour of events. A number of other positions, key positions, were filled yesterday, and I am submitting a further list to His Majesty to-night. I hope to complete the appointment of the principal Ministers during to-morrow. the appointment of the other Ministers usually takes a little longer, but I trust that, when Parliament meets again, this part of my task will be completed, and that the administration will be complete in all respects.

    I considered it in the public interest to suggest that the House should be summoned to meet today. Mr. Speaker agreed, and took the necessary steps, in accordance with the powers conferred upon him by the Resolution of the House. At the end of the proceedings today, the Adjournment of the House will be proposed until Tuesday, 21st May, with, of course, provision for earlier meeting, if need be. The business to be considered during that week will be notified to Members at the earliest opportunity. I now invite the House, by the Motion which stands in my name, to record its approval of the steps taken and to declare its confidence in the new Government.
    To form an Administration of this scale and complexity is a serious undertaking in itself, but it must be remembered that we are in the preliminary stage of one of the greatest battles in history, that we are in action at many other points in Norway and in Holland, that we have to be prepared in the Mediterranean, that the air battle is continuous and that many preparations, such as have been indicated by my hon. Friend below the Gangway, have to be made here at home. In this crisis I hope I may be pardoned if I do not address the House at any length today. I hope that any of my friends and colleagues, or former colleagues, who are affected by the political reconstruction, will make allowance, all allowance, for any lack of ceremony with which it has been necessary to act. I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
    We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realised; no survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that mankind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, “come then, let us go forward together with our united strength.”

  25. The debate is difficult to follow, but you start to understand something of the American English, another issue is that politicians sometimes lie and promise the moon; therefore what they say does not usually correspond with what they do when they obtained the vote of the citizens. In this website there are other interesting videos.

  29. “A mantra is a sacred utterance, sound, or incantation thought to hold mystical or spiritual power, which is spoken aloud or in meditation”.

  35. Highlights of the royal wedding day of Prince William and Kate Middleton, from my point of view:
    – The bride was radiant… but have you looked at the maid of honour and sister of the bride, Philippa Middleton?
    – Only the bride has the wedding ring.
    – The couple did not kiss in the ceremony but after that on the balcony of the Palace.
    – Prince Charles touched his nose with two fingers and immediately shook hands with the Abbot of Westminster. There’s something about that man that makes the Queen resists to yield the throne. By the way, the Queen keeps fit.
    – Some women’s headgear seemed to me ridiculous, particularly that of Victoria Beckham, with her hair in a ponytail. The tattoo on the neck of David Beckham also squeaked in this circumstance.
    – The ceremony was sober but not austere in these times of crisis and has developed with British punctuality.
    – Although there are polls that indicate that over 20% of English people are Republicans, in the videos we see that the people cheering members of the royal family. This married couple seems to give stability and continuity to the monarchy.

  42. Lyrics
    Ooh
    The first time that i saw you
    I said “for goodness sake
    That man’s got the power
    He’s a charmer with a snake”
    I was thrilled and fascinated
    But somehow liberated
    When you took me to a place i’d never been.
    You showed me lots of things i’d never seen
    You set me free
    As if you’d taken me
    Halfway up the hindu kush
    And i love you
    For showing me the view
    From halfway up the hindu kush
    The next time that i saw you, you looked into my eyes
    I was sitting on your carpet when i felt it begin to rise
    I kinda got the feeling
    I was floating to the ceiling
    Instead of looking at the sky
    You picked me up and showed me how to fly
    You set me free, as if you’d taken me
    Halfway up the hindu kush
    And i love you
    For showing me the view
    From halfway up the hindu kush
    From halfway up the hindu
    From halfway up the hindu
    From halfway up the hindu kush
    You set me free, as if you’d taken me
    Halfway up the hindu kush
    And i love you
    For showing me the view
    From halfway up the hindu kush

  43. Lyrics
    Strike up the band let it play
    love songs to haunt me and I will stay
    but when it comes to a waltz
    both words and music will ring false
    for you waltzed in and spun my world
    around in dizzy dance I swirled
    but suddenly you waltzed away from me
    those violins, they must go
    so no careless hand with a bow
    may play on the strings of my heart
    and make me remember how lovers part
    how you waltzed in and spun my world
    around in dizzy dance I swirled
    but suddenly you waltzed away from me
    strike up the band let it play
    whatever it chooses and I’ll say
    play me a waltz if you will
    I’ll sit here and listen waiting until
    my love returns to take my world
    and spin it round in dizzy swirl
    where girl loves boy and boy loves girl
    and feet don’t touch the ground

  44. “It’s the playground of the rich and famous. The city that most embodies the excessiveness of the American dream. Every night in Miami, the beautiful people come out to play. But look beyond the glitz and glamour, the opulent parties and notorious nightlife. A few streets away, the walls are pock marked with bullet holes. Welcome to the hidden side of Miami”.

  48. It’s amazing the effort that made this man to overcome his stuttering and speak to an entire nation in hard times in its history. Others, who aren’t stutterers’ students, should follow suit to articulate properly fifteen or twenty consecutive words in English.

  50. “Mark Dice asks people to sign a petition to cause hyper-inflation and destroy the US Dollar. Mark Dice is a media analyst, social critic, political activist, and author who, in an entertaining and educational way, gets people to question our celebrity obsessed culture, and the role the mainstream media plays in shaping our lives”.
    The ignorance of people about economic aspects and the speculators avarice was one of the main causes of the economic crisis.

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