The Hours

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AS you listen to these scenes you can do these activities:

Exercises

Finally here you have the trailer:

The American Future

Through his books and documentaries, Simon Schama, a British born historian, has covered a lot of fertile ground.He spent the better part of a year travelling across America and producing a lengthy TV documentary and a related book called The American Future: A History.In this recent conversation with Bill Moyers, Schama talks at length about America and where it finds itself today. The first 15 minutes focuses on Obama and the challenges he faces. The remaining part gets into themes discussed in The American Future. You can access the videos and transcripts here:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/01162009/profile.html

The Oscars

If you want to watch The Oscars, you can go to:

http://www.oscar.com/

Why Him? Why Her?

On the topics of personality (01) and relations with others (06), we have an interesting discussion with Helen Fisher on NPR's The Forum:

http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R902191000

New Technologies

9/11

1) You may want to watch some videos about 9/11

You can go to this link for a playlist on the topic:

Click on this link: 9/11 playlist

2) You may also want to watch these videos:
















There is a website related to this topic in case you want to read more about it. Click here: 9/11

Happy Valentine's Day

Here you have a listening about the Brain in love from the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1524_love/page3.shtml

Happy Birthday Mr Darwin

To mark Darwin's birthday you can listen to an interesting discussion on npr's The Forum:

http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R902121000

Trace element

In Spanish: Oligoelemento

1. A chemical element required in minute quantities by an organism to maintain proper physical functioning

To find out more visit:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/trace+element

In Australia there is a group of performers called Trace Elements. Have a look at what they do!

Used to

You will find a video and questions here:

http://englishi2.blogspot.com/2007/11/used-to.html

Facebook

Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice

In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.

Teresa's Birthday

Thank you very much Teresa. It was delicious.
Happy Birthday!!