Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Maestro shows what can happen at conferences on the environment, where the blame is passed from person to person and little is resolved. But he also sees the necessity of paying attention to such issues, and encourages the kids to continue with their own plans to promote change.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Traveling aboard the flying globe that Maestro himself has invented, the young environmentalists set out to see the situation in other parts of the world up close.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Maestro takes the kids across the world to show them what is being done to deal with the worst issues related to waste and pollution.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
The kids are frustrated with how slow things seem to be progressing, but Maestro boosts their enthusiasm with some good news: Their search for a workspace is over, and a new environmental movement is born — The Guardians of the Planet!
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
It’s very warm for November, and the kids are playing outside. They’re convinced that the greenhouse effect is responsible for the unusual weather, and think it could make a good subject for the next issue of their newspaper.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Maestro speaks about the Earth’s atmosphere, and explains how the greenhouse effect is changing the planet’s ability to regulate its own temperature. The kids want to know what is being done about the problem, and what the outcome might be.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
The Gulf Stream plays a big part in maintaining the temperatures we are used to, and Maestro explains that if it is interrupted, parts of the world could become colder as an unexpected result of global warming.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
When a message arrives from an Inuit correspondent, a small team sets off to investigate the environmental changes that threaten the delicate balance of life in the frozen north.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
Debbie takes the young reporters along on a hunting trip and shows them one of the last remaining areas for wildlife. We hear more about the strain that a changing climate is placing on these remote and traditional communities.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
The group makes a plan to spread word of the Inuit's plight, but there's already a tense situation building, as hungry polar bears enter the village in search of food.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Ireland, United Kingdom
Boy band One Direction performs their hit “The Story of My Life“ in front of an enthusiastic audience at a summer festival in London, England.
Difficulty: Beginner
Australia, United Kingdom, USA
This video clearly presents some fundamental differences between American English, British English, and Australian English in terms of spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary.
Difficulty: Beginner
USA
This video explains in detail the easy procedure teachers need to follow in order to organize their students into classes.
Difficulty: Intermediate
USA
This short comedy film stars Steve Martin as an absurdly forgetful and absent-minded waiter. Mr. and Mrs. Cates have to tell him their order multiple times, and he still gets it completely wrong! At first, it’s hard to see why anyone would put up with this terrible service, let alone request a table in his section.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Ireland, Tanzania
Today is Joseph’s first day at his new school in his new country, Ireland. Things are very different to what he’s known before, and straight away, some of his fellow pupils start to make life difficult for him.
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