miércoles, 22 de septiembre de 2010

Book summaries in 60-second videos

60 Second Recap is a website that hosts video overviews of many classic book titles. Each title has a selection of 60 second videos explaining different parts of each book.

The level of language is a bit high, because the presenter speaks quite fast, but the length of the videos is very short (just a minute) and most of the videos deal with classics of English literature we might know something about or might even have read.



Self-study activity:
Get together with an English-speaking friend and pick one of the books in the library, preferably one you know something about.

Pool your knowledge of the title of your choice, that is, say as much as you know or remember.

Then watch one of the videos corresponding to your book (there are usually four or five videos per title, each discussing different parts of the book) and discuss what you understood and the way the video completes what you already knew about that book.