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Upper intermediate & advanced

A 52-minute video cassette and a teacher's booklet which provides historical background notes, teaching suggestions and extended activities, as well as the complete time-coded transcript to facilitate the use of the film.

 

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 Greyhound: One-Way Ticket is both a sociological documentary as well as a road movie. For Sheila and her five children, Robert who is homeless, Tina who is in love, Jeremy and John - teenage bank robbers, the Greyhound bus leaving New York for the West is a ticket to a new life. On the road, over a distance of 2,500 miles, each traveller in his own way helps us discover the meaning of the American Dream today.

 This documentary is a good starting point for the study of American society and its myths of the Melting Pot and the American Dream, its love of the road, problems of poverty and homelessness as well as what the Greyhound Company represents today.

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