Videos
Choose the videos that are of greatest interest to you to supplement your basic language program and achieve your goal of practicing 36 hours with your Tell Me More program. Each video lasts about 25 minutes.
In the list below, you will find the titles and topics of each video and the grammar for which it provides examples.
Culture and Society
(6 hours 26 minutes)
1. Europe's Struggle against Pesticides
Body functions, health threats, present continuous
2. A Hamburger? No Thanks, Pass the Foccaccia
Food, drink careers, comparatives
3. Literary Types Want EU Support
Careers, publishing, payment
present tense and present continuous
4. Living on the Edge
Landscapes
present perfect, irregular verbs
5. Research into the Effects of Pesticides
Diseases, chemicals and laws
6. Promoting Scottish Identity through Music
Music
Development and growth, expressions "too," "too much" and followed by the gerund
7. Europe's Struggle to Reduce Pollution
Environment, ecology, units of measurement
Preterite
8. French Middle Purchasing Power Blues
Housing, finance, present perfect continuous
9. Improving Food Allergy Diagnosis
Describe and discuss health conditions
Scientific terms, crimes and justice
10. Teaching Good Habits for Clean Water
Environment, ecology, problems and inconveniences, impersonal structure
11. Translation Woes
Renumeration, training, information
Passive voice
12. Virtual Assistance for Music Teachers
Music, education, compound adjectives
13. Stockholm. Model of Climate-Friendly Innovation
Environment and ecology
Project management
14. A Bright Future for Stained Glass
Describing the composition of an object
Vocabulary for problem-solving
Grammar. for, since, ago
15. Humans and Machines Working on Road Safety
Computers, mathematics, mechanics
Dependent clauses with "that" and leaving out "that"
16. New Frontiers in Imaging the Human Body
Medicine
Problem-Solving
Means with "by" and use of the passive voice
1. The Tale of the Man-made Debris Circling the Earth
Describe an object
Cause and effect
Compound adjectives
2. Did Comets Start Life on Earth?
3. GPS Systems Uncover Mysteries of Time and Light
Mathematical operations, calculations
Grammar. also, as well, too
4. SMOS - the Satellite for Water and Salt
The solar system, meteorology, bodies of water
Grammar. Relative pronouns and adverbs
5. ESA Head of Science sets out Cosmic Vision Goals
Business world, project management, everyday life
6. Project Mars
Corporate life, planning
Grammar. Passive voice
7. All Aboard the Mars Express
Describe an object, express opinion
Grammar. Present perfect continuous
8. Studying the Sea from Space
Bodies of water, meteorology, health issues
9. One Hundred Days of Solitude
Physical and mental states, scientific research and social life
Grammar. Which, what
10. A Pocket-sized Ecosystem
Aerospace industry, biology
Grammar. Present perfect continuous
11. Space, Defence and Security
Security and defense
Risks and planning
12. Methane on Mars
Chemistry, describing situation in space
Grammar. Also, as well, too
13. Destination Moon, 1969 to Today
Evolution
Broadcasting
14. The Making of an Astronaut
Espressing opinions, describing a person, characteristics
Politics and the Economy
(5 hours 18 minutes)
1. China in Africa - What does the EU Think?
Geography, politics
Grammar: Nouns and adjectives of nationality
2. Spain: Housing Boom or Bust?
Banking, prices, describing one's financial and emotional state
Grammar. Compound nouns.
3. Mobile Phone Charges across Europe
Companies, prices, economic situations
Grammar: present conditional
4. Bittersweet Take on Belgian ID Crisis
Literature and theater
5. Embracing Globalisation without Hurting Citizens
Salary, business, corporation
Grammar. "even," to be likely
6. The Success Story of North-East Italy's SMEs
Explaining a problem
Advantages and disadvantages
The emphatic "do"
7. European Common Agricultural Policy Re-examined
Politics, habits and tendencies, resolving problems
8. Fishing for Tomorrow
Describing time, agriculture, science and measures
Grammar. "used to," "enough"
9. Construction Workers Close to Blows
Construction Industry, business world, assessing a situation
Grammar. Preterite continuous
10. The Space Business
Economics, negotiation, definition and characterization
11. Brazilians in Portugal
Public administration, economics, countries
Grammar. Uncountable nouns that may take "a"
12. The Textile Industry in Greece
Reasoning, business world, finance
13. Air Passenger's Rights
Air traffic, commitment and responsibility
Grammar. Meanings of "since"
1. Saving Cultural Heritage from Mother Nature
Materials, musical instruments, music
Grammar. for, since, ago
2. European Digital Library to Contain all Knowledge
Book and publishing, time expressions
Grammar. Possessive, prepositions of place
3. RFID and Healthcare: the Revolutionary Friendship
Medicine and treatments
4. Unveiling the Mysteries of Sleep
Thought processes, time expressions, research
Grammar. Passive voice
5. Number of Alzheimer's Patients Set to Increase
Intellect and memory, health problems
Grammar. Reflexive pronouns
6. Getting to the Bottom of Africa's Carbon Figures
Trees and Shrubs, scientific measures, research, chemistry
7. Designing Europe's Train of the Future
Describing an object, person or vehicle, behavior and relations
8. European Initiative Spearheads Medical Advances
Medical equipment
Grammar. Passive voice
9. Crusts, Crumbs and Chromatography
Scientific research
Grammar. Irregular comparatives
10. Preserving Europe's Bells
Sound and Architecture
Grammar. Relative pronouns and adverbs
11. Snow Scientists Research Falling Mercury
Evolution, environment and ecology
Grammar. "the more …. the more …"
12. Development in the Research of Rare Diseases
Medicine and medical fields, treatments and descriptions
Grammar. Means with "by"
13. Europe Grooms its New Generation of Scientists
Environment, ecology, natural sciences, chemistry, plants.
14. Technology that Will Soon Be Ready-to-Wear
Human body, body functions, exchanging information, describing and characterizing objects
15. Exploring Deep Water Corals
Bodies of water, describing movement
Grammar. Definite article with geographical names
16. Energy from the Sea
Geography
17. Dust Chasers Study Aral Sea Dust Storms
Composition of an object, thought process
Grammar. Definite article with geographical names
18. High-tech Textiles for a Material World
Materials, scientific research
Grammar. Compound adjectives
19. Listening to the Deep
Animal habitats, explaining problems, warnings
Grammar. Use of past participle as an adjective
20. Climate Change
Environment and ecology
Grammar. Expressing wishes
21. Virtual Reality
Mathematics, IT, forms of energy
Grammar. Percentages
22. Advancing on Hydrogen
Technical aspects, value judgements, reflection and planning
Grammar. When to use and when to omit "the"