A practical guide to English pronunciation covering individual sounds including L/R, N/NG, and F/V/H distinctions, vowels and consonants, minimal pairs, connected speech, stress, and rhythm, with particular attention to the needs of Japanese learners.
A video series introducing transformational grammar at beginner to intermediate level, covering basic sentence structure, the present simple tense, negatives, questions, emphasis, and the major word classes including pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and articles.
A playlist covering the perfect forms of the English verb at beginner to intermediate level, explaining the present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect, and the distinction between simple, continuous, and perfect aspect.
A grammar series teaching English in context at intermediate level, covering reported speech and backshift, the present perfect, modal verbs, conditionals, the passive voice, and conjunctions, with attention to common errors and descriptive grammar.
A playlist presenting a practical approach to English vocabulary acquisition and fluency, covering reading strategies including skimming and scanning, and techniques for developing second language fluency.
An advanced grammar series covering the present perfect and aspect, modal verbs, reported speech and backshift, the passive voice, phrasal and prepositional verbs, gerunds and participles, determiners, and dependent and noun clauses.
A curated playlist of grammar livestreams answering learner questions on a wide range of topics including modal verbs, reported speech, relative clauses, the infinitive and gerund, adverbial clauses, tense and aspect, prepositions, collocations, and connected speech.
A playlist exploring Shakespeare’s social circle in Stratford-on-Avon, with individual videos on friends and contemporaries including Richard Quiney, Richard Field, Thomas Greene, Julius Shaw, Hamnet Sadler, and others.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Oliver Twist, examining Dickens’s treatment of social reform, poverty, and conformity in Victorian England.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Wuthering Heights, exploring the relationship between Heathcliff and Cathy and the question of whether they may be half-siblings.