TED-Ed
Cambridge Ideas - How Many Lightbulbs?
Humans have become addicted to fossil fuels. From pumping oil into our cars, to burning natural gas to heat our water, or using coal to create electricity that lights our homes, we are constantly relying on these nonrenewable resources....
Yossarian the Grammarian
English Grammar. What Adjectives Are: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains what adjectives are and how to correctly use them in sentences.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: Appositive and Punctuation: English Grammar, Language
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how punctuate appositive phrases. [8:05]
Yossarian the Grammarian
Sentence Diagramming 1: Verbs, Subjects, Adverbs: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to diagram a sentence that has verbs, subjects, and adverbs.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: How to Read a Writing Assignment
This video lesson focuses on how to read and understand a writing assignment. It begins by defining keywords used in assignments: analyze, compare and contrast, evaluate, describe, and propose. Then using a sample assignment, it...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing Effective Topic Sentences
This tutorial focuses on the purposes of topic sentences and how to write effective ones. It provides 2 videos: the first reviews the two purposes of a topic sentence, and the second shows how to write an effective topic sentence. Real...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Emphasis: Framing
A video lesson explaining how to use sentence framing to emphasize a specific sentence or idea. [3:46]
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Varieties of English
This Skillswise site focuses on varieties of English. Included are a video about why learning different varieties of English is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, quizzes on the information presented, and games to...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: Top 10 Essay Writing Dont's
This animation features the concept of essay writing and makes recommendations of do's and don'ts to improve the quality of the writing. 3:37sec.