Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA New England
Check out the beautiful Shoolhouse B & B on Rhode Island and make it your next holiday destination by the ocean.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
This bizarre, satirical film from Calvin Communications satirizes a typical approach to industrial promotional films, showing how the idea of the "American Dream" is utilized to sell products.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
We are repeatedly invited to imagine our own company or product name inserted in a film parodying generic advertising films and their efforts to play on and profit from our dreams and aspirations.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
A dedicated math teacher is taken by surprise in an America where facts no longer matter and even the answer to the most simple mathematical equation comes into doubt.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Mrs. Wells is suspended after correcting a first-grade student who believes that two plus two equals twenty-two. The situation spirals out of control, becoming headline news and sparking debate across America. Will Mrs. Jones lose her job? And without math, will the school be able to calculate the correct amount for her final pay check?
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
People believe some surprising things. Take the people in this short film—surely milk can’t help grow back human hair and radio static can't bake a loaf of bread... or could they!? Don’t doubt, just believe!
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Sigrid begins her tale of how she ended up in Italy, where she's now living. She was born in Minneapolis and raised in New York. As a young adult, she relocated to Switzerland in order to study early music. In this video, she talks about traveling to Europe for the first time and learning about the different genres of music prior to the classical era.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Sigrid describes her time in Basel, and how she ended up visiting France and Italy as well.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Sigrid talks about some of the ways she learned how to speak Italian and French.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Sigrid talks about the reality of conversing with someone who has Alzheimer's. They often have trouble finding the word for the thing they are thinking of.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Every four years, in the United States, elections are held for the office of the presidency. Sigrid lives in Italy, so she needed an absentee ballot in order to vote. Here's her story.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Sigrid takes a walk in Huntington on New Year's Day. She talks as she walks, thinking about the year to come and about the changes to the area since she had last been there.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
USA
Sigrid continues walking up the hill and into the park on her right. She finds a little trail through the woods and then heads back to town.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Canada
Canadian rock band Simple Plan performs Summer Paradise, a reggae and ska punk-based track inspired by the band vocalist's hobby of surfing. One reviewer commented: It’s a quintessential summer track, with all the hooks and melodies to make you feel like you’re either at the beach, or on your way there having the time of your life.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Ireland
This power ballad version of a song written by Prince became Sinéad’s international breakthrough hit, topping music charts around the world. Her deep emotions are clear to see in this memorable video, as she explores feelings of love and loss.
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