ESL -videos with subtitles

To speak the truth, extensive listening is far better than testing listening BUT listening and understanding is the best. As careless inkjet learners we need language information. Mind you, that is as good as it can get. 
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Those are the links we can click for our videos with subtitles:


Firstly,  TED talks. Here the interest must be content. Follow the talks you want to learn about. Choose the   SPEAKERS / THEMES you want to follow.
Features: 8000 talks with subtitles on screen and the bestest interactive script on the web (on the right side)


Secondly, Universalsubtitles, a project of Participatory Culture Foundation. 
A lovely opportunity to become a user of English in an open source project!!!!


Then, a couple of individual work on enjoyable video clips and sketches:
Mingo Mendez (Catalonia). LiveScripts - Guiones.  Life is the movie where we are the leading character while we write the script of the movie we would like to live or shoot.


and lst but not least,  Mikesy András (Hungary) a creative teacher from CentreEurope who presents the History of the English!!! (you can miss it)

1. The next big thing.... SixthSense coming soon



TWO. Click on title or on link to watch it there.
Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy...
4 minute  22 languages,  where you can download or edit any subtitle available, Easy as ABC.
http://www.universalsubtitles.org/ca/videos/BxDoaAHJnwTI/



here the famous Steve Job's conference at Standford University -2005


3. Rowan Atkinson as Devil: Welcome to hell  (at LiveScripts -M Mendez)

    Hello. It's nice to see you all here.
Now, as the most perceptive of you probably realized by now, this is Hell and I'm the Devil.
  Good Evening!
But you can call me Toby if you like,
we try to keep things informal in here as well as infernal.
That's a little joke of mine; i tell it every time.
    Now you are all here for... Eternity, which I hardly need tell you it's a heck of a long time.
So you'll all get to know each other pretty well by the end.
But for now I'm gonna have to split you up into groups.
    Will you stop screaming? Thank you.  (see all the piece at the link above)

4. Snappy Hamlet monologue: (Blackadder - Comedy)
 (script below from 2:10 to 3:25)
All the piece transcript at Hamlet Sketch-small rewrite  

(2:10) Blackadder: Bill, Bill, Bill... Why do we have to fight? It's long, long, long. We could make it so snappy...
Shakespeare: "Snappy"?

B:   Yeah, you know: give it some pizzazz. How's it begin, that speech?

Sh: [sits] "To be."

B:  Come on, come on, Bill.

Sh: "To be a victim of all life's earthly woes, or not to be a coward and take Death by his proffered hand."

B:  There, now; I'm sure we can get that down!

Sh: No! Absolutely not! It's perfect.

B:  [preparing to write] How about "To be a victim, or not to be coward"?

Sh: [shrugs] It doesn't make sense, does it! To be a victim of what? to be coward about what?

B:  OK, OK. Take out `victim'; take out `coward'. Just start "To be, or not to be."

Sh: You can't say that! It's gibberish!

B: But it's short, William, it's short! Listen, it flows: "To be, or not to be; that is the question." D'de, d'de de de, d'de d'de de de! OK?

Sh: You're damn right it's the question -- they won't have any bloody idea what he's talking about! (3:25)

Q and A. Isabel Wilkerson

Q & A. Interesting People. Informative Conversations

Isabel Wilkerson - (with transcript) 20 sept 2010
Isabel Wilkerson talked about her book The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Random House, 2010). It is the story of African-American migration from the South to the North and West during the period of 1915 to 1970.

WIKInomics -Grown Up Digital with Dan Tapscott

wikinomics & grown up digital
watch full interview at googlevideo

Wkinomics short 2min & long 9min






GROWN UP DIGITAL




In his book Grown Up Digital, Don Tapscott argues that Mark Bauerlein author of The Dumbest Generation and other short-sighted cynics have failed to see the distinctive and profound gifts the current generation of tech-savvy 12 to 30-year olds has to offer the world. Thanks to the ubiquity of technology in their lives, the Net Generation is poised to transform the form and functions of school, work, and democracyand for the better. With its comprehensive examination of the Net Generation, and based on a 4.5 million dollar study, Grown Up Digital offers valuable insight and concrete takeaways for leaders across all social institutions who are finding it necessary and advantageous adapt to this changing social fabric.

In this clip, Tapscott discusses the unique characteristics that will enable the Net Generation to change even save the world!

DON TAPSCOTT, also author of Wikinomics, is one of the worlds leading authorities on business strategy, with emphasis on how information technology changes business, government and society.

For more information about Don and his advocacy of the Net Generation, visit www.grownupdigital.com.

Do you speak English....?

video with subtitles

Do you speak English?

She: Excuse me, excuse me, Sorry,Do you speak English ?
He: No, I don't, sorry.
She: Aha, My car's broken down.
I wonder if you could tell me where to find a garage.
He: You know, That's a waste on me.
I dont understand what you are saying.
She: You don't speak any English at all.
He: Not a word. There's one of these things
I wish I'd paid more attention in school
(to he2) Excuse me, excuse me?
Do you speak any English?
He2: English , no- What's the problem?
He1: I don't know, I cant understand her.
She: My car is broken down, and I need to find a garage.
He2: No , I am sorry, I didn't understand you at all.
She: Alright, well, thanks.
He1: Anyway, If you go down that way, about half a mile. There's a village. there might be some lads there who speak English.

She: Ich spreche ein bisschen deutsch, sprechen Sie deutsch? - Parlo una mica d'alemany, parla l'alemany vostè?
He1: Deutsch? Nein. Sprichts du deutsch? - Alemany? No. Tu parles alemany?
He2: Deutsch? Nein, nur eins oder zwei Wörter, aber ich bin nicht flieBend. - Alemany? No, només una o dues paraules pero no fluid.

He1: We couldn't be of much help.
He2: Sorry about that. You never know.
He1: Next time you are over, maybe we would have learnt a little bit of English for you.

e1: Oder deutsch vielleicht! - O alemany potser!
He2: Ja, das wäre toll - Sí, aixó seria fantàstic.

He1: I can speak English!
He2: So can I.

Sean Connery speech