Textbook: Real Listening and Speaking 4 Cambridge University Press (with answers & audio CD)
Books
October-December (Fiction): The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie (Andersen Press, 2008; 230 p.w.pics). Post your comments
January-May (Biography): Barack Obama. Dreams From My Father (Canongate, 2007 - 442 pages but we'll only read Part I, his childhood and early youth, which is 130 pages) Other options: Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (HarperCollins, 368 pages), or Nick Hornby's High Fidelity (Penguin, 245 pages; plus movie)
Please, check out below for the rest of the materials we'll be using this year
Many of the resources below are available for free on the Net or at our Library

(For Textbook and Books, please, see above) ...
Many of the resources below are available for free on the Net or at our Library
Audio Podcasts
From a wide and varied selection offered by your teacher, you should at least subscribe to three: one from the BBC (British English), one from the PNR (US American English), and then, e.g., an EFL podcast, especially if your "grammar" is not good.
Assorted Short Stories
You'll read some in class and as many as you like at home: The Debutante, by Leonora Carrington (Surrealist Literature); Ada, by Gertrude Stein (Experimental literature); Minisagas by ex Avanzado 2 students; There's a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me With an Umbrella, by Fernando Sorrentino; How Did I Get Away with Killing One of the Biggest Lawyers in the States? It Was Easy, by Alice Walker.More: A Telephone Call, by Dorothy Parker (to review modals and hypothetical language); Cat in the Rain, by Ernest Hemingway (a member of The Lost Generation); A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud, by Carson McCullers (on love)...
Poems & Songs
You need to read at least 3 poems this course. Suggestions: The Housing Poem, by Dian Million; A Litany for Survival, by Audre Lorde (at the TP Podcast ).
Joy Harjo, Ani Difranco... and your suggestions.
Screenplays/Scripts (Movie & TV)
Friends (season 1, episodes 1-3 ), How I Met Your Mother (episode 1 and 10, S1 and this episode at the Students' Corner, an OP by Alex in course 2008-09), ...?
Movie scripts: High Fidelity, Casablanca, ... ?
Movies & TV Series - proposals
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) - Cultures, Africa, Humor, Tenderness
Across the Universe (2007, original musical) - The Beatles, The Hippy Movement / Vietnam, Romeo & Juliet
High Fidelity (2000) - middle-age crisis, music, London
TV: Friends, How I Met Your Mother and series you pick
Documentaries - proposals...
Story of Stuff (check out Students' Corner) Post your comments on our blog
The Baby Human. Geniuses in Diapers (6 episodes to pick from) Post your comments on our blog
How Art Made the World Post your comments on our blog
Travel documentaries: Pilot Guides, Spain: On the Road Again ...