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VIMEO - Staff Picks

Short videos are the best and most videos here are short

- The Vimeo Staff pick videos are mainly in English

- Mostly short films and music videos

- The quality is good as they are selected by staff who watch lots of videos

Food Videos and Recipes

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The YouTube channel of British TV Chef, Jamie Oliver and his friends. The videos are mainly recipes and can be followed without understanding all the English so can be a good way into English listening.

The Late Late Show with James Corden

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The YouTube channel of The Late Late Show, an American talk show, presented by British actor/comedian James Corden, recommended:

- Carpool Karaoke

- karaoke in cars feat. Adele, Coldplay, Stevie Wonder, Lady Gaga...

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- Role Call

- actors perform all their movies in 5-10 mins

- feat. Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, Samuel L. Jackson...

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Mr Bean Cartoon

In this animated version of Mr Bean, he speaks

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- but he doesn't speak very much, so it's easy to understand

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Movie Clips

YouTube channel 'Movie Clips' featuring short clips from lots of well known movies. 

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Most of the clips are really short.

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ASMR Latte

I heard about ASMR from one of my students

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ASMR videos use sounds that are relaxing for some people

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Some people call it 'brain massage'

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This ASMRtist 'ASMR Latte' is from Korea, but she has lots of videos in English (and Japanese and Korean)

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Give it a try, you might find it relaxing and pick up some English too

Short Videos about Animals

Beautiful, high quality videos from the BBC

 

- Fun to watch, don't worry too much about the English and enjoy

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Short Films from Australia

More short films from Australian Film Festival, Tropfest.

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Tropfest is the biggest short film festival in the world.

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Most of the videos are really short and very interesting.

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Short of the Week

More short films

 

- Similar to Vimeo Staff Picks

- Quality is good

- Ths videos are short

- for intermediate to advanced learners

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Dude Perfect

34'000'000 subscribers (at time of writing)

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This is one of the most popular channels on Youtube.

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Sports, comedy, stunts...

Howcast

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Hundreds of 'How to' videos.

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Do you ever learn how to do things using YouTube? 

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Why not try doing it in English.

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One-Minute World News

Interested in news?

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- try one-minute world news from the BBC

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- updated 24 hours a day

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Great Big Story

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Short videos telling the stories of people around the worlld

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- some of the videos are in different languages with English subtitles

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Elllo - One Minute English

There are lots of one minute videos here from English speakers around the world.

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The videos on this page are one minute long, and they have quizzes

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There is lots of other stuff to check out on Elllo too, but I like this page.

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Spongebob Squarepants

Sometimes it's good to watch kids stuff as a second language learner

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- Why not give SpongeBob a go?

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- I used to watch Japanese kids cartoon Doraemon when learning     Japanese (and read the comics too)

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60 Second Docs

Lots of short documentaries

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Real stories from real people

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All videos have English subtitles, so you can listen and read

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