Have you heard Podcast before? It's an excellent tools for teaching and learning a second language.
What is Podcast? According to the Wikipedia, it said that, "A Podcast (or non-streamed webcast) is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication." (Wikipedia, 2011)
Anyone can make a podcast by recording a audio or video just with a microphone or video camera, a computer, and web. In addition, you can subscribe it, and also download it to your computer or MP3/MP4 player to watch and listen it whenever and wherever you want. Here's a short introduction about Podcasting and its usage which named Podcasting in Plain English.
Furthermore, I'd like to use this piece podcast from ESL Podcast to teach you how to describe people's look. In our daily life, sometimes it is necessary to descrie one's look. A effective way to describe can make some identification during people's interaction much easier. In this episode, the host gives detailed explanations about how to describe the features of one person.
I want to you listen to it carefully and design a short conversation depends on the 'describing people's look' topic. You can choose whatever scene or people you want, and bring it to our next class. We will share these conversations together and act it out in pairs or groups in the classroom.
After that, I would like you to choose 2-3 partners of your classmates and make a podcast by yourselves together in gorups. And this will be your final project for this semester.
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You have chosen a podcast about a topic that can be of high interest to students. If you decide to have your own students create similar dialogs, it would be good to tell them how how long you want the dialogs to be. You could do this by saying how many lines each speaker must say. In the same way, if you have you students create a podcast, they will need much more specific guidelines.
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