We spent a lot of time reviewing videos but it's hard to find ideal free videos for ESL teaching. Videos may be too long, or artists may speak too much about what they don't show, or speak too little when they show something or do something. We will try to find better videos to replace them.

A common mistake when teachers teach a foreign language is they reverse the language teaching order. They teach words and grammars before they teach their students to express correctly. The right order is to teach students to express correctly first. After they can use the language almost correctly, help them if they are confused by the differences between different expressions. When teachers explain the differences, they teach their students grammars. When you use this website, you can 1. tell your students to describe something or narrate, or tell an event; 2. assign them videos to watch; 3. correct them, typically tell them who may say what to express what, or what to say under what circumstance, and what to expect people interpret it as, what reactions from people when they hear; 4. give your students your version and examples. The more versions and examples your students can see, the better and easier they can grasp the language.

Teachers may need to make their own lists and add remarks to make videos more helpful.

Tips to ESL students Always ask if what you say is what native speakers say. What do native speakers say? It's hard to learn. Dictionaries don't help. Translations don't help but make your English worse. Grammar lessons don't help. Watching news TV programs and reading news articles can help a little bit. Your English teachers can't help if they are not native speakers. Even if your teachers are native speakers, they usually don't help you learn enough to express your experiences, thoughts and ideas the way native speakers do. Forums are good places where you can learn a lot, but it takes you years to learn enough to sound like native speakers, let alone you speak English "identity-appropriately". If you need to speak in a language that is not your first language, search engines can help you determine if what you say is what native speakers say. It's easy and pretty accurate. If you search what you say but it yields little or no results, you can be certain that what you say isn't what native speakers say. But you still don't know what native speakers say. If the search engines show some results, check the websites. If they are used mostly by native speakers, probably you can trust them, or you should not.

Students need videos to learn action verbs, emotions, feelings, or describing things, or comparing different or similar things, etc. in the way native speakers do without dictionaries. To learn these language skills, reading or listening can hardly help. They have to see, feel, and experience. Artists that produce that type of videos should just show ESL students.