Megacities

Click here to watch Andrew Marr's Megacities (about Dhaka, London, Shanghai and Mexico City).

Below, you can find some more documentaries on some megacities:

Dhaka (the fastes growing megacity in the world)

Mexico City

Sao Paulo

Here's the fill in exercise about Mexico City.

And, last but not least, here are a whole bunch of listening, reading and grammar exercises on megacities which will certainly contain something that is useful to you. 

Enjoy!

Cherry's dilemmas

TV presenter and blogger Cherry Healey encounters a mass of conflicting information when it comes to advice for parenting her young daughter, Coco.

In her quest to determine what type of mother she should be, she meets a range of parents with different approaches to raising their children. There's the strict, the laidback, the no-rules, the fearful, the bossy and many variations thereof. Cherry ponders which course she will steer and how she will stick to it:

Cherry's Parenting Dilemmas (trailer)

There are some other dilemmas that bother Cherry, too:

Cherry's Cash Dilemmas (fragment)

And here's the link to Cherry's colourful blog.