The Bardwell Road Centre Podcast

Presenters: Saud and Tanja
Topic: Travelling and holidays

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

Tanja (Switzerland) and Saud (Saudi Arabia) acted as guest presenters. They chose the topic, prepared interview questions, introduced the show, interviewed their classmates, and chose the linking jingle. We hear interviews with:

Klemens (Austria), who answers in a surprising, tongue-in-cheek way
Boris (Belgium), who balances warm sincerity with moments of inspired lunacy
Nadia (Switzerland), who is clearly a raconteur of personal anecdotes
Carolina (Brazil), who paints a marvellous picture of the life of a young person in Brazil
Nikolai (Denmark), who entertains with information about a sports-related weekend trip, plus some very strange conversation about extremely long-distance travellers!

Sorry for the poor sound quality in the first few minutes of the show. We forgot to turn off an air heater, which - unnoticed - got increasingly noisier.

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 like travelling?
2. What kind of travelling do you prefer?
3. What was a holiday you can remember well and why?
4. Do you prefer to travel with your family or with your friends?
5. Which holiday or journey would you like to repeat?
6. What was your worst experience when travelling?
7. Is there a place you'd like to travel to that you've never been to before?

Please listen to our discussion and add your comments on our blog page at bardwellroad.podomatic.com.
N.B. Don't miss the special "bloopers" section at the end where we include our "out-takes" (= mistakes and general craziness)!

This show was recorded in class, on group teacher, Geoff's, Apple MacBook Pro computer with the program Garageband. The Garageband jingles used is "Island (Short)". 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.