
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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