The Bardwell Road Centre Podcast

Presenters: Carolina and Ernik
Topic: Our families

In this show, adult English language students in GO1 class talk about their families. (GO1 is an advanced level general English course, at St Clare's, Oxford, UK.

Carolina (Brazil) and Ernik (Albania) kindly acted as guest presenters. Carolina chose the topic and prepared interview questions for her classmates. Carolina and Ernik introduced the show, interviewed their classmates, and chose the linking jingle. We hear interviews with:

Klemens (Austria)
Marie-Liesse (France)
Saud (Saudi Arabia)
Boris (Belgium)
Nikolai (Denmark)

Interview questions:
(If you are listening in class, you could ask a partner the interview questions, then choose one or more of the speakers and note their answers.)

1. Do you have a big family?
2. How many brothers/sisters do you have?
3. If you don't have any, do you like being an only child?
4. If you do, do you fight a lot with your brother/sister?
5. What was the longest time you stayed without meeting anyone from your family? Did you miss them a lot?
6. Do you spend a lot of time with your family?
7. How do you like to spend time with your family?
8. Do you have any pets?
9. If you could choose any member of your family to see now, who would you choose?

Please listen to our discussion - don't miss the special "bloopers" section at the end where we include our "out-takes" (= mistakes). Add your comments on our blog page at bardwellroad.podomatic.com.

This show was recorded in class, on group teacher, Geoff's, Apple MacBook Pro computer with the program Garageband. The Garageband jingles used is "Getting Started". 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). The photo was edited in Adobe Fireworks. This show was produced at the Bardwell Road Adult Centre, St Clare's, Oxford, UK.