🎵📚 Audio Edition: The Economist - July 8th, 2023

The Economist is a global weekly magazine written for those who share an uncommon interest in being well and broadly informed.

Each issue explores the close links between domestic and international issues, business, politics, finance, current affairs, science, technology and the arts. #economist #theeconomist

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The Aviator [2004]

Biography | Drama
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale

A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.

IMDB 7.5

🌈 Can You Get Rainbows in Space?: A Colourful Compendium of Space and Science

Why is blood red? Why are carrots orange? Who invented the lightbulb? Why is the world ‘going green’? Is the sky really blue? And what is ultraviolet light?

You’ll discover the answers to these questions – and many more – in this incredible collection of scientific facts about colour. We’ll talk about light (the most important thing) and waves (not the kind you see at the beach – though you will learn why the sea looks blue!). You’ll find out how some animals are able to glow in the dark and how others change their colours to hide from predators. Keep reading to discover why leaves change colour in the autumn, why your veins look blue but your blood is red, and why the language we use shapes the colours we see . . .

240 SPEAKING TOPICS
with sample answers