Lesson 1
Meanings of happen
hi i'm vanessa from speak english with vanessa calm what in the world happened let's talk about it are you ready to take your english from regular boring english to fun a party...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Part of Making sense of tricky verbs
Using happen in everyday English
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Lesson 2
Talking about what occurred
the word happen to talk about something that occurred let's think about this situation that your friend just got engaged to be married how can we use happen to talk about this y...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 3
Questioning what is happening
you might say oh no this can't be happening you're questioning reality oh no this can't be happening when your friend first tells you that she got engaged she runs up to you and...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 4
Expressing coincidence
next level and use it in the advanced way the advanced way to use happen or happened is in situations where there is a coincidence two things that happen at the same time by acc...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 5
Using if you happen to
means you're not planning on seeing me but you know if you pass on the street or if you see each other at work okay tell her that I said hi if you happen to see her notice that...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 6
Conjugating happen to
second verb is the one that's not conjugated she happened to give a quiz the front door of my apartment is pretty heavy so whenever we leave I always tell my toddler my son to s...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 7
A chance celebrity encounter
yesterday you'll never guess what happened yesterday I was browsing in the local bookstore and I see Tom Cruise I was browsing in the local bookstore and I happened to see Tom C...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 8
That happens all the time
believe it I thought is this really happening as I walked by happened to turn towards me and smile immediately my face went red and he said oh don't worry that happens all the t...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Language: en
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