The Bardwell Road Centre Podcast

Presenters: Borja (Spain) and Emilie (France)
Topic: Blood sports

In this show, adult English language students at upper-intermediate level, in their fourth week of GO2 (a general English course), talk about blood sports, and in particular, bullfighting.

Borja (on his last day at St Clare's before returning to Spain) and Emilie, this week's presenters, followed the - now standard - process of creating the show, and did a very good job of it. They:
- chose and researched the topic
- prepared a set of interview questions (coming up with good "open-ended" questions, designed to stimulate discussion)
- distributed copies of the questions (a day before the recording session - well done!)
- introduced and ended the show
- chose the linking jingle

We hear interviews with:
- Philippe (the Netherlands)
- Geoffrey (Belgium)
- Anne (the Netherlands)
- Sunny (South Korea)
- Cherlyn (South Korea)
- Laura (the Netherlands)

Before you listen to the show, why not try to decide how you would answer Borja and Emilie's questions? Here they are:

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What do you think about blood sports?
What do you think about killing animals?
Do you accept the argument when people say it is their culture?
Can you tell us about a typical blood sport in your country?
Do you agree with the blood sport of your country?
What do you think about bullfighting? And why?
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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 11:40AM Sunday on September 30, 2007, Geoff Taylor said:

If you want to learn more about bullfighting, here's a link to a short piece on a children's BBC website, the CBBC Newsround "Guide to Bullfighting":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/animals/bullfighting/newsid_3658000/3658676.stm

This BBC site also has a quiz on bullfighting:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/quiz/newsid_3660000/3660082.stm

Proficient users of English might also check the Wikipedia entry on bullfighting, though the piece cites no external references:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullfighting

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at 02:00PM Wednesday on October 03, 2007, lau said:

You are a good student Phillipe.
I have a English grammar exame, so wish me luck! Have fun in Oxford and say Hi to your classmates!

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