50:09

The Adventure Of English: English Goes Underground

Season 1 Episode 2 SBS2 November 24, 2009

History

English

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11-12

Classification: General

The Norman invasion of 1066 relegated English from the primary language of the country to a poor third - after French, the tongue of the court, and Latin, the tongue of the church. This episode tells the story of its re-emergence.

50:57

The Adventure Of English: Many Tongues Called English, One World Language

Season 1 Episode 8 SBS November 16, 2007

History

English

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Classification: Parental Guidance

In this final episode Melvyn Bragg travels to the United States, examining the influences and changes that helped make American-English evolve. Words like "skyscraper", "well-heeled", "yes-man", "go-getter", "lobby" and "elevator" are all American terms.

28:46

Worlds Of English: The Rise Of English

Season 1 Episode 1 The History Channel August 28, 2011

English

Intercultural Understanding

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9-10

Classification: Parental Guidance

The decision to use English in countries where it is not the first language is controversial. In South Africa, some schools are refusing to teach in English, and in Malaysia, opposition to English classes has led to riots on the streets. Is speaking English an essential 21st century skill and how are new generations growing up with the internet influencing the use of English in the digital age?

25:11

Worlds Of English: The Future Of English

Season 1 Episode 2 The History Channel September 4, 2011

English

Intercultural Understanding

7-8

9-10

Classification: Parental Guidance

The decision to use English in countries where it is not the first language is controversial. In South Africa, some schools are refusing to teach in English, and in Malaysia, opposition to English classes has led to riots on the streets. Is speaking English an essential 21st century skill and how are new generations growing up with the internet influencing the use of English in the digital age?

50:54

The Adventure Of English: English In America

Season 1 Episode 5 SBS2 December 15, 2009

History

English

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11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

This episode begins with the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers in America in 1620, and their efforts to maintain the purity of the language they spoke. They borrowed relatively little from the natives, and the regional accents of the early settlers blended to produce a much more uniform sound than was the case in their homeland. Later, Scots and the Irish added their influence.

4:14

Everyday English: At the Restaurant

Season 1 Episode 1 ABC Me February 7, 2019

EALD

Languages

English

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9-10

Classification: General

In this episode of Everyday English, learn to talk about food and meals.

4:58

Everyday English: Families

Season 1 Episode 2 ABC Me February 14, 2019

EALD

Languages

English

7-8

9-10

Classification: General

Learn how to talk about your family in this episode of Everyday English.

50:31

The Adventure Of English: The Battle For The Language Of The Bible

Season 1 Episode 3 SBS2 December 1, 2009

History

English

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Classification: General

Recounts the story of how English became the language of the English church. The long uphill battle begins with John Wycliffe and the first English translation of the Bible and the program goes on to describe how in the time of Henry V, political necessity made English the language of state, and how the work of the Chancery and later of the printers, helped to codify it.

51:27

The Adventure Of English: The Language Of Empire

Season 1 Episode 7 SBS November 9, 2007

History

English

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Classification: Parental Guidance

The English language pushed hundreds of local languages aside. In Australia, English was coloured by a few of the local Aboriginal words - kangaroo, koala, boomerang, barramundi, woomera and cooee. Australian-English quickly developed its own character and was shaped not so much by the local native languages but by the regional and criminal backgrounds of the early settlers.

50:30

The Adventure Of English: Birth Of A Language

Season 1 Episode 1 SBS2 November 17, 2009

History

English

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Classification: General

The way in which a few tribal and local Germanic dialects spoken by a hundred and fifty thousand people grew into the English language - spoken and understood by about one and a half billion people - has all the characteristics of a tremendous adventure. An adventure of tenacity, luck, near extinction on more than one occasion, dazzling flexibility and an extraordinary power to absorb.

50:27

The Adventure Of English: This Earth, This Realm, This England

Season 1 Episode 4 SBS2 December 8, 2009

History

English

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11-12

Classification: Mature

The fourth program visits the England of Queen Elizabeth the First, and shows how naval enterprise and foreign trade brought scores of new words into the language - anchovy from Spain, ketchup form Malay, and knapsack from Dutch are just three familiar exports from this time. We see how scholars were bringing new Latin terms into the language, and how there was a movement to stop this and keep English pure if it had succeeded, we might now say ungothroughsome instead of impenetrable. We visit Penshurst Place, home of the Sidney family, to see how poetry joined swordplay as a proper attribute of any up-and-coming young man. And we travel to the South Bank of the Thames and to Stratford-upon-Avon to find out how Shakespeare's English really sounded, and how he combined the languages of the common people and the aristocracy to take English to new heights and to invent so many memorable words and phrases that it seems - as a modern spectator said of Hamlet - that his plays are full of quotations.

8:34

The evolution of Australian English

Clip from The Adventure Of English

English

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Classification: Parental Guidance

Melvyn Bragg discusses the way Australian English has evolved, from the First Fleet to Elizabeth II's first visit, influenced by criminal slang and Aboriginal terms along the way.

1:59

Fluent English speakers will change their accents

Clip from Worlds Of English

English

7-8

Classification: Not Classified

Three experienced English speakers reveal they change accents and phrases to be understood in different situations.

22:00

Worlds Of English: A Global Language

Season 1 Episode 3 BBC World News July 30, 2011

English

Intercultural Understanding

7-8

9-10

Classification: Parental Guidance

Globalisation is having a huge impact on communication within the workplace, often driven by American multi-national companies. Why has English emerged as the language of international communication and what are the social, and political consequences?

4:15

Everyday English: Holidays

Season 1 Episode 3 ABC Me February 21, 2019

EALD

Languages

English

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9-10

Classification: General

Learn more about travel options, tenses and idioms in this episode.

8:35

The Adventure of English: Australian English

Clip from The Adventure Of English

History

9-10

Classification: Parental Guidance

In Australia, English was coloured by a few of the local Aboriginal words - kangaroo, koala, boomerang, barramundi, woomera and

50:44

The Adventure Of English: Speaking Proper

Season 1 Episode 6 SBS November 2, 2007

History

English

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11-12

Classification: Parental Guidance

This episode begins In the Augustan Age - the first half of the 18th century - where admiration for Latin literary models was at its height in England. Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, led a movement to fix and regulate the language on the model of Latin.

46:51

Why Don't You Speak English?

Season 1 Episode 2 ABC2 March 18, 2015

Personal and social capability

Languages

11-12

Classification: Mature

This video has closed captioning

In part two of this compelling series, four British families open the doors of their homes to four immigrants who can't speak English. What ensues is a fascinating clash of language and culture.