Difficulty: Advanced
USA
Academy Award winning actor James Earl Jones performs a passage from Shakespeare's Othello at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Ireland
Miss Purdy’s fiancé, Pierce, is stunned to find that schoolboy Ardal’s challenge to a duel was no idle threat. As he faces his opponent, some truths are revealed.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Ireland
Eight-year-old Irish schoolboy Ardal has a big crush on his teacher, Miss Purdy. The only problem is that she already has a fiancé. Undeterred, Ardal audaciously challenges his rival to a deadly duel...
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
Mila Kunis reads the first chapter of Luckiest Girl Alive, Jessica Knoll’s bestselling mystery novel adapted into the film starring Mila as Ani Fanelli and Finn Wittrock as Luke Harrison.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
While the family listens to a popular radio comedy, the mood is anything but fun in the Hardy household, with tensions running high between father and son, and husband and wife. Then a letter arrives, and Mrs. Hardy sets out by bus.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
Mrs. Hardy and Victor journey home, saddened and puzzled by Miss Thompson’s abrupt departure. Later, Victor plays with his friend Andy by the railway line, and they talk about their mothers and teachers.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Australia, USA
Actress and comedian Rebel Wilson stars in Senior Year, a film about a woman who has an accident during high school, and wakes up twenty years later with a desire to finish her degree. Of course, she finds that much has changed in the meantime!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
A shock awaits Victor and Mrs. Hardy when they visit the school headmaster in search of news about Miss Thompson.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
This sci-fi action adventure has all the exciting elements of a great movie experience. A time-traveling pilot crash lands in the past and finds himself face-to-face with his younger self.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
USA
The relationship has its ups and downs, and here we see the couple fighting in the kitchen after his old friends visit. As she turns twenty-one and he doesn’t show up on her birthday, the writing is on the wall for this doomed relationship.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
Mr. Hardy is quite hurt by Victor’s success and reacts angrily, accusing his wife of paying more attention to Miss Thompson than to him.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom, USA
This is a trailer for the movie, Benny & Joon, a quirky romantic comedy starring a young Johnny Depp, in which love is found when two eccentric misfits are brought together by a fateful game of poker.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
It’s the weekend, and young Victor’s parents aren’t getting along well at home. It’s a relief when his mother takes the boy over to a friend’s house to play.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
Mrs. Hardy does her best to deflect her son’s questions about his schoolteacher, Miss Thompson. The boy enjoys school, but the idea that one day he’ll go to college to study art is not one his grandfather has any time for.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
United Kingdom
This film, set in the industrial North of England in the nineteen fifties, opens in a school classroom where Mrs. Hardy has gone to fetch her son after the school day. She generally stops in to chat with his teacher, Miss Thompson, much to her husband’s displeasure when he comes home from the factory expecting to find food on the table.
Are you sure you want to delete this comment? You will not be able to recover it.