Ed Sheeran – Shape of You

Learn English with Shape of You by Ed Sheeran. Fill in the blanks in the lyrics as you listen to the song.

Lauren Spencer-Smith – Fingers Crossed

Learn English with Fingers Crossed by Lauren Spencer-Smith. In Fingers Crossed, Lauren sings of an ex-lover and remembers when the pair were still together. Spencer-Smith recalls the good and bad of the relationship, going from the two planning to travel the world together to trying to the problems she sees in him. She uses the phrase “fingers crossed,” with this meaning that when he told her that he loved her it was a lie.

Kings of Leon – Walls

Learn English with Walls by Kings of Leon. Walls opens with a very somber vocal and guitar refrain that has the listener on the edge of their seat, waiting for the drums and grandness of the rest of the album to kick in, but this song opts for something different. It isn’t until the four-minute mark when vocalist Caleb Followill begins to belt out a heart-wrenching vocal melody.

Harry Styles – Sign of the Times

Learn English with Sign of the Times by Harry Styles. “Sign of the Times” is a slow-paced pop-rock track about avoiding emotion and reality during times of grief and hardship. The song draws inspiration from ‘70s rock songs from artists like David Bowie and Queen.

Carla’s Sandwich

This charming story presents a new way for young children to understand how to creatively embrace who they are, no matter what others think. Carla’s lunch box is filled with odd delights like the Olive, Pickle and Green Bean Sandwich, the Banana-Cottage-Cheese Delight, and the unforgettable Chopped Liver, Potato Chips, and Cucumber Combo. They are delicious and creative lunches to Carla, but her teasing classmates are unconvinced and abandon her at the lunch table to eat her bizarre sandwiches alone.

The Busy Life of Ernestine Buckmeister

Ernestine is in over her head. Monday through Sunday, Ernestine’s week is packed with after-school lessons— tuba, knitting, sculpting, water ballet, yoga, yodeling, and karate. Overwhelmed and exhausted, Ernestine decides to take matters into her own hands and heads off to the park with her Nanny where she builds a fort, watches the clouds, and plays all kinds of unstructured and imaginative games.

Brave Irene

Brave Irene is Irene Bobbin, the dressmaker’s daughter. Her mother, Mrs. Bobbin, isn’t feeling so well and can’t possibly deliver the beautiful ball gown she’s made for the duchess to wear that very evening. So plucky Irene volunteers to get the gown to the palace on time, in spite of the fierce snowstorm that’s brewing– quite an errand for a little girl.

A Bad Case of Stripes

Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them. Why? Because the other kids at her school don’t like them. And Camilla Cream is very, very worried about what other people think of her. In fact she is so worried that she’s about to break out in… A Bad Case of Stripes

As Fast As Words Could Fly

Young Mason Steele takes pride in turning his father’s excited ramblings about the latest civil rights incidents into handwritten business letters. One day Pa comes home with a gift from his civil rights group: a typewriter. Thrilled with the present, Mason spends all his spare time teaching himself to type. Soon he knows where every letter on the keyboard is located. When the civil rights group wins a school desegregation case, Mason learns that now he will be attending a formerly all-white high school. Despite his fears and injustice from the students and faculty, Mason perseveres. He does well in school—especially in his typing class. And when he competes in the county typing tournament, Mason decides to take a stand, using his skills to triumph over prejudice and break racial barriers.

Arnie The Doughnut

At first glance, Arnie looks like an average doughnut – round, cakey, iced and sprinkled, with a hole in the middle. He was made by one of the best bakeries in town, and admittedly his sprinkles are candy-colored. Still, a doughnut is just a doughnut, right? WRONG! Not if Arnie has anything to say about it. And, for a doughnut, he sure seems to have an awful lot to say. Can Arnie change the fate of all doughnuts – or at least have a hand in his own future?