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Situations. Bumping into a friend & talking about movies (3, Elementary/Pre-intermediate, A2)
We are happy to share with you a lovely contribution by teachers in one of Spain’s public/state-run language schools for adults (EOI schools).
Going to the movies: Hidden Figures (2017) – with the crosscurricular viewpoint of Education for Equality (Coeducación)
Dialogues for 3 levels: Básico/Pre-intermediate (A2), Upper Intermediate (B2), and Advanced (C1)
Kindly recorded by teachers at the EOI Fuengirola English Department: Marisa & Roberto (for the Básico dialogue), John and MF (for Upper Intermediate & Advanced). Scripts written by… guess who! 😀
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Situations. Bumping into a friend & talking about movies/films (1, Advanced, C1)
We are happy to share with you a lovely contribution by teachers in one of Spain’s public/state-run language schools for adults (EOI schools).
Going to the movies: Hidden Figures (2017) – with the crosscurricular viewpoint of Education for Equality (Coeducación)
Dialogues for 3 levels: Básico, Upper Intermediate (B2), and Advanced (C1)
Kindly recorded by teachers at the EOI Fuengirola English Department: Marisa & Roberto (for the Básico dialogue), John and MF (for Upper Intermediate & Advanced). Scripts written by… guess who! 😀
Read the transcript here
Elementary/Pre-intermediate. Today! (2) My Day Today 2.2
Read the transcript (for 2.1 and 2.2)
Stories. Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts, by Adrienne Rich
Read this 1997 article written by Adrienne Rich! (for Advanced students)
Stories. There Was Once, by Margaret Atwood
Stories. Gertrude Talks Back, by Margaret Atwood
Stories. Asking Questions in Church, by michelle
Poems. Child, by Sylvia Plath
Read the poem at the Mujer Palabra website.
Check out the webpage at Talking People about Sylvia Plath
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Poems. Song, by Adrienne Rich
Read the poem and learn more about this insightful author
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Quotes. June Jordan
Read the quote and learn more about June Jordan.
Listen to her beautiful very intelligent thought!
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Stories. A Telephone Call, by Dorothy Parker
Read the story and learn about how to exploit literature to keep learning the language!
Poems. Her Kind, by Anne Sexton
Check out the Talking People webpage for Anne Sexton, and you’ll be able to listen to her!!!
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Stories. The Debutante, by Leonora Carrington
Half of this audio is me talking about the writer Leonora Carrington first, a Surrealist artist (painter and writer, trilingual! She does/did that in English, French and Spanish!) and then comes her story “The Debutante,” so you can listen to it in two 5-minute sessions!
More on Leonora Carrington at Talking People (Literature).
Poems. Brief Bus Stop, by Ani Difranco
Read the lyrics here (from her album “not so soft”, 1991)
Language notes: “to wane” is something the moon does, because the moon waxes and wanes! “To toe the line” is ‘to conform to a rule or standard’.
More on Ani Difranco at the Talking People Website (Music)