The Great Gatsby

Here you have a summary of the novel. Do not watch it if you do not want to know the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Q2sBrFEME

Here you can watch a scene of the film:




You will agree with me that the last paragraph is extraordinary:

And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that is was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...And one fine morning--

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.**

13 Weather: Speaking

13 Weather

13 Environment: Speaking

13 Environment

10 Food and Drink: Speaking

10 Food and Drink

09 Shopping: Speaking

09 Shopping

09 Fashions: Speaking

09 Fashions

08 School: Speaking

08 School

07 Health: Speaking

07 Health

06 Relations: Speaking

06 Relations

06 Crime and Punishment: Speaking

06 Crime and Punishment

06 Animals: Speaking

06 Animals

05 Travel: Speaking

05 Travel

04 Sports: Speaking

04 Sports

04 Music: Speaking

04 Music

04 Hobbies, Reading: Speaking

04 Hobbies

04 Films: Speaking

04 Films

04 Art: Speaking

04 Art

03 Jobs: Speaking

03 Jobs Speaking

Oceans Rising

Here you can listen to a very interesting radio programme (NPR The Forum)about sea levels, which may rise twice as much by the end of this century than was previously predicted.

http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R903160900

Slumdog Millionaire

You can read this newspaper article with gaps first:
http://www.box.net/shared/mcb0sy0qbv

Now you can watch the scenes:





Fill in the gaps as you listen:

Fill in the Gaps Scenes1,2

Here is the trailer for you to enjoy:



Finally, you can watch a review of the film: