The Things You Should Know
The Things You Should Know
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British Literature
A very short overview of the major works in the history of British literature (including works by Irish authors back when Ireland was part of the UK).
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British Politics
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Overview of the British political system, its political parties, political history, an even a little bit about the politics in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
American History - 2/2 - Later American History
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An overview of American history since the late 19th century, covering the 20th century. Immigration, expansion, wars and America the superpower.
American History - 1/2 - Early American History
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An overview of early American history, from the earliest English settlements and to the American Civil War in the time of Abraham Lincoln.
British History - 2/2 - Since 1750
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British History - 2/2 - Since 1750
British History - 1/2 - Until 1783
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Overview of medieval and early modern history of Britain, mostly England.
Global English - Different Forms of English
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Learn about the many varieties of English
History of the English Language
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An overview of English language history.
English Figurative Language
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An introduction to figurative language in English
Geography of the English-Speaking World
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A basic introduction to (mostly) British and American geography, plus a little on the Commonwealth, in addition to demographics
American Politics 1/2 - The Political System
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An overview of the American political system. The next video is on American party politics.
American Politics 2/2 - Party Politics
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An overview of American party politics.
English Speaking and Pronunciation
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A basic introduction to English pronunciation for foreign learners of English
English Word Classes and Grammar
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A basic introduction to English grammar in ONE video!

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @riz8437
    @riz8437 8 днів тому

    The UK is only a democracy in that everyone gets a vote and that governments will abide by the time limits for parliaments. Apart from that it is not democratic. The voting system is not democratic and nor, as a result is parliament. Also the government is not democratic as the House of Lords is not elected and neither is the monarch.

  • @hisirihwyd
    @hisirihwyd 9 місяців тому

    Is this playlist for English Vg1 or all three years?

    • @profnick
      @profnick 9 місяців тому

      Just wherever they're useful. The Vg1 curriculum is more general, but you are expected to know a little history. Just make sure you have an updated textbook.

  • @Buddussyhasincome
    @Buddussyhasincome 11 місяців тому

    Hello urians

    • @melle37
      @melle37 11 місяців тому

      hi po

    • @chonqiuu
      @chonqiuu 11 місяців тому

      ​@@melle37good afternoon po

  • @hiu1795
    @hiu1795 Рік тому

    Is it British accent ?

  • @prashantmishra1994
    @prashantmishra1994 Рік тому

    Hi there! Your narrative of the British Literature's history is nice because you generate interest in the listeners' mind. Thanks & regards.

  • @galinor7
    @galinor7 Рік тому

    Over 50% of the vocabulary is Romance yet an awful lot isn't used. 99 of the most common 100 words are Germanic.

  • @jirkadolezal8127
    @jirkadolezal8127 Рік тому

    👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @onepointofview
    @onepointofview Рік тому

    Jane “Ear”?

  • @antoniog.z.4372
    @antoniog.z.4372 Рік тому

    Thanks a lot!! I had some of these facts loosely somewhere in my head without a proper time line.

  • @romaevt546
    @romaevt546 Рік тому

    Great videos! Very well explained, and easy to understand. I have a question in Norwegian; Dekker videoene gammel læreplan i engelsk VG1?

  • @agapenasruas1531
    @agapenasruas1531 Рік тому

    Thx

  • @k.s783
    @k.s783 Рік тому

    Thank you for an interesting presentation, nicely done and easy to follow. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the germanic language was introduced to England by a group from the Saxon area of Europe. Once merged with the English culture it became known as Anglo-Saxon. Anglo is a prefix indicating a relation to, or descent from, the Angles, England, English culture, the English people or the English language, such as in the term Anglosphere.

  • @amourakhlifi1332
    @amourakhlifi1332 Рік тому

    Thanks a lot

  • @NyalBurns
    @NyalBurns Рік тому

    ‘No. 10 Downing st equivalent to the white house’. Hahaha no bro.

  • @zildaemanuel5001
    @zildaemanuel5001 Рік тому

    ABSOLUTELY VERY INTERESTING INFORMATION THE BRITISH POLITICS 🇬🇧

  • @anthologylou
    @anthologylou Рік тому

    lmao watching this today with the Queen dead, Prince Phillip dead and Brexit having long ago happened. Thanks a lot

  • @suyadnyateguh1793
    @suyadnyateguh1793 Рік тому

    thank you so much sir, 🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @ability5284
    @ability5284 2 роки тому

    agatha christie??????????

  • @katerinaxatzi8551
    @katerinaxatzi8551 2 роки тому

    Published article by the British Council of Athens: ''How Many Greek Words Are Used in English? List of 150.000!!! Influence of the Greek(Hellenic) language in today’s word, according to ''The OXFORD Companion to the English Language''!!! The GUINNESS Book of Records ranks the Hellenic language as the richest in the world with 5 million words and 70 million word types!!! Hellenic roots are often used to coin new words for other languages, especially in the sciences and medicine. Mathematics, physics, astronomy, democracy, philosophy, athletics, theatre, rhetoric, baptism, and hundreds of other words are Hellenic(Greek), this is a FACT!!! Greek words and word elements continue to be productive as a basis for coinages: anthropology, photography, telephony, isomer, biomechanics, cinematography, etc… In a typical everyday 80,000-word English dictionary, about 5% of the words are directly borrowed from Greek; (for example, “phenomenon” is a Hellenic word and even obeys Hellenic grammar rules as the plural is “phenomena”), and another 25% are borrowed indirectly. According to an estimate, more than 150,000 English words come from Greek words. These include technical and scientific terms as well as more common words! So, about 150.000 words in modern English have direct or indirect origins in the ancient Greek language. So, 30% of English words are…Greek! Hellenic and Latin are the predominant sources of the international scientific vocabulary, however, the percentage of words borrowed from Greek rises much higher than Latin when considering highly scientific vocabulary (for example, “oxytetracycline” is a medical term that has three Hellenic roots). And finally, had you ever wondered how the world was going to be if the Greek language never existed?''

  • @katerinaxatzi8551
    @katerinaxatzi8551 2 роки тому

    On September 26, 1957 and October 2, 1959 in Washington, as part of the World Bank Annual Meetings, Mr. Xenophon Zolotas, a famous and highly educated Greek, delivered two speeches in English using (exclusively) Greek words. Not ancient ..... but words used by the Greeks, as they are, from Antiquity until today, in their daily lives and not only!!! Mr. Zolotas was a great Economist, who at the age of 24 became a University Professor, for a number of years Governor of the Bank of Greece and Prime Minister. who by many has now been accepted as one of the most important personalities of the last century). The special element was that he used throughout his speech words that were of Greek origin and are used in English. The audience watching the IMF meeting was speechless and Zolotas's speech became historic with him and his wife making headlines in the NYT and "Washington Post". (Somebody must be fluent in English and Greek to be able to write two such speeches. I will quote you the first one.) The speech was: ''Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas. With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous Organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel, a panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my eucharistia to you Kyrie, to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of this Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia. Η δεύτερη ομιλία στις 2 Οκτωβρίου 1959: Kyrie, It is Zeus’ anathema on our epoch for the dynamism of our economies and the heresy of our economic methods and policies that we should agonise between the Scylla of numismatic plethora and the Charybdis of economic anaemia. It is not my idiosyncrasy to be ironic or sarcastic but my diagnosis would be that politicians are rather cryptoplethorists. Although they emphatically stigmatize numismatic plethora, energize it through their tactics and practices. Our policies have to be based more on economic and less on political criteria.Our gnomon has to be a metron between political, strategic and philanthropic scopes. Political magic has always been antieconomic. In an epoch characterised by monopolies, oligopolies, menopsonies, monopolistic antagonism and polymorphous inelasticities, our policies have to be more orthological. But this should not be metamorphosed into plethorophobia which is endemic among academic economists. Numismatic symmetry should not antagonize economic acme. A greater harmonization between the practices of the economic and numismatic archons is basic. Parallel to this, we have to synchronize and harmonize more and more our economic and numismatic policies panethnically. These scopes are more practical now, when the prognostics of the political and economic barometer are halcyonic. The history of our didymous organisations in this sphere has been didactic and their gnostic practices will always be a tonic to the polyonymous and idiomorphous ethnical economics. The genesis of the programmed organisations will dynamize these policies. I sympathise, therefore, with the aposties and the hierarchy of our organisations in their zeal to programme orthodox economic and numismatic policies, although I have some logomachy with them. I apologize for having tyrannized you with my hellenic phraseology. In my epilogue, I emphasize my eulogy to the philoxenous autochthons of this cosmopolitan metropolis and my encomium to you, Kyrie, and the stenographers.''

  • @wafaa-ux2rh
    @wafaa-ux2rh 2 роки тому

    Oops. Philip..

  • @pradyumnnahata9665
    @pradyumnnahata9665 2 роки тому

    "His name is Prince Philip. He's still alive." Ha.

  • @jaydeoverson7556
    @jaydeoverson7556 3 роки тому

    😑😑😑😑😑 damn assignment

  • @luanavelter8446
    @luanavelter8446 3 роки тому

    great video

    • @garougarou159
      @garougarou159 2 роки тому

      Dear Luana, excuse me , but what is the meaning of Unclay? I talk about The novel of Powys "Unclay".

  • @stoneper5027
    @stoneper5027 3 роки тому

    Thanks a lot from Kyrgyzstan!

  • @stoneper5027
    @stoneper5027 3 роки тому

    An Excellent explanation

  • @leanajs
    @leanajs 3 роки тому

    Thank you from france!

  • @devikaweerakoon6901
    @devikaweerakoon6901 3 роки тому

    Great... Thank you. Please do more videos on lit.

  • @louqmanbadr1733
    @louqmanbadr1733 3 роки тому

    Thanks!

  • @bigrubenzo
    @bigrubenzo 3 роки тому

    BRAvo

  • @bigrubenzo
    @bigrubenzo 3 роки тому

    Er du håkon fra sonans filmene?

    • @profnick
      @profnick 3 роки тому

      Nei, Profnick fra Profnick-filmene

  • @whimsicalprofessor3963
    @whimsicalprofessor3963 3 роки тому

    Finally, someone put it all into a nutshell. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!♥️

  • @ziqingzou8415
    @ziqingzou8415 3 роки тому

    Jane Eyre is a gothic fiction? I''d never heard about that.

    • @garougarou159
      @garougarou159 2 роки тому

      Dear Ziqing, excuse me , but what is the meaning of Unclay? I talk about The novel of Powys "Unclay".

  • @dmitryl-electronicmodules754
    @dmitryl-electronicmodules754 3 роки тому

    Grace, thank you, Sir, for your clear responses about the English language!

  • @dmitryl-electronicmodules754
    @dmitryl-electronicmodules754 3 роки тому

    Fortunately, the American or contemporary English language does not pertain to the Germanic (detestable) language!

  • @realjames1
    @realjames1 3 роки тому

    You just explained grammar in 18 minutes. I dedicate my degree to you my fine man.

  • @moayadnajjar4847
    @moayadnajjar4847 3 роки тому

    Amazing 👍🏻

  • @albertheijnpindakaas
    @albertheijnpindakaas 3 роки тому

    Fantastic video, thorough explanation.

  • @slaytercz8950
    @slaytercz8950 3 роки тому

    Beowulf - Anglo-Saxon epic Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales - William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear John Milton - Paradise Lost Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels W. Wordsworth John Keats Lord Byron Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice Charles Dickens - Oliver Twists Mary Shelley - Frankenstein Bram Stoker - Dracula Charlotte and Emily Brontë - Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes (The Hound of the Baskervilles) H. G. Wells - Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The War of the Worlds George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion (My Fair Lady - movie) James Joyce -Ulysses Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway George Orwell - Animal Farm, 1984 J. R. R. Tolkien ˈtɒlkiːn/- Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter series

  • @narimen7337
    @narimen7337 3 роки тому

    i need this lesson but i havn't undrstoud english well someone help me please 😣😣😣😭😭

  • @MrEmle1
    @MrEmle1 3 роки тому

    Er dine videoer i denne spillelisten alt jeg trenger til eksamen? + det å kunne analysere tekster og filmer

    • @profnick
      @profnick 3 роки тому

      For å være ærlig så vet jeg ikke fordi jeg har ingen erfaring med muntlig engelskeksamen for privatister. I mine egne klasser så er det jeg som lager eksamensoppgave basert på temaene jeg har gjennomgått med mine elever. Skriftlig eksamen er grei nok fordi man får forberedelseshefte dagen før som angir tema. Det er uansett kompetansemålene som er viktigst, men du bør høre med eksamenskontoret om du må skaffe deg en lærebok og om du kan få en leseliste eller om du kan lage selv.

  • @zeanaemad9065
    @zeanaemad9065 3 роки тому

    Thank you, amazing summery

    • @garougarou159
      @garougarou159 2 роки тому

      Dear Zeana, excuse me , but what is the meaning of Unclay? I talk about The novel of Powys "Unclay".

  • @MariaFernanda-oh4fr
    @MariaFernanda-oh4fr 4 роки тому

    Thank you so much! What book from the late 1800s to the present would you suggest for me to do a presentation of?

    • @AnaBeads
      @AnaBeads 4 роки тому

      I think you should make your choice based on your taste. You could try watching some of the James Ivory's films on Edwardian Britain and chose one of the books the film is based on, for instance, A Room with A View, Maurice, Howard's End.

    • @MariaFernanda-oh4fr
      @MariaFernanda-oh4fr 4 роки тому

      @@AnaBeads thank you so much!

  • @juliamrodas
    @juliamrodas 4 роки тому

    Thanks so much! I'm actually going to integrate a bit of this into a video I'm making for my English Lit class--I'll be sure to credit your work!

  • @brianlewis5692
    @brianlewis5692 4 роки тому

    English has the word 'yearhundred' for "century", and English has 'foredeal' for "advantage"...educators just don't want you to know those words exist because they don't want you to use them--they want to speak English the way they think the language should be spoken. Don't let them control you!

  • @aamiraliasad1747
    @aamiraliasad1747 4 роки тому

    Great work! Keep it up, sir.

  • @dmitryl-electronicmodules754
    @dmitryl-electronicmodules754 4 роки тому

    Fortunately, the American English language is not 100 percent pertains to the Germanic languages! Especially, the American English language pertains to the Iberian- Romance languages...!

  • @safayetrahman5758
    @safayetrahman5758 4 роки тому

    tremendous presentation 😎

  • @elisabethgbrandsoy
    @elisabethgbrandsoy 4 роки тому

    yo klasse