The Bardwell Road Centre Podcast

Presenters: Philippe (the Netherlands) and Sunny (South Korea)
Topic: Holidays

In this show, adult English language students in their first week of GO2 (an upper-intermediate level general English course) talk about their past and future holidays.

Philippe and Sunny, this week's presenters, did a grand job of preparing the show. Before the recording, they chose the topic and prepared a set of interview questions, which they distributed at the beginning of the recording session, to help their classmates mentally prepare for the interviews. Jointly, Sunny and Philippe introduced and ended the show, and chose the linking jingles. Great work, guys!

We hear interviews with:

Gabriela (Brazil)
Anne (the Netherlands)
Gabriel (Venezuela)
Borja (Spain)
Emilie (France)
Laura (the Netherlands)

Here are Sunny and Philippe's questions:

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Philippe & Sunny
Questions for Podcast
Topic : Holiday.

LAST SUMMER HOLIDAY
1. Where have you been during the last summer ?
2. What is your happiest memory ?
3. A : How was the local food?
B : Did you enjoy their culture?

ST CLARE'S HALF TERM HOLIDAY
1. We have 1 week holiday in October, did you know that?
2. Do you already have a plan for that holiday?
3. Why do you want to go to this place?

IDEAL HOLIDAY
1. What is your ideal holiday?
2. What was your best holiday in your life?
3. What was your worst holiday in your life?
4. Which country do you want to visit?
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The show was recorded in class, on second teacher, Geoff's, Apple PowerBook computer with the program Garageband. After editing in Garageband, the audio volume was leveled using the program Levelator (www.gigavox.com/levelator), and converted to MP3 using LameBrain (check at www.macupdate.com).

Please listen to our discussion and add your comments on our blog page at bardwellroad.podomatic.com.

This show was produced at the Bardwell Road Adult Centre, St Clare's, Oxford, UK

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comments on this show

at 01:00AM Sunday on September 16, 2007, domi said:

I have a problem with the first question: where HAVE you BEEN during LAST summer ?

Shouldn't it be 'where WERE you last summer ?

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at 09:36AM Friday on September 21, 2007, Geoff said:

Hmn... nobody else has commented, so I (class teacher, Geoff) will.

Yes, I agree with you, domi. The question used the present perfect, but should have been in the past simple tense, because the time period is in the past without connection to the present.

I talked about it with my co-teacher, Maura, and it was discussed in the class with the students.

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