The Bardwell Road Centre Podcast

Presenter: Charlotte
Topic: Holidays

In this show, adult English language students in GO5 class talk about holidays. (GO5 is a general English course at pre-intermediate level at St Clare's, Oxford, UK.)

Charlotte, from Barcelona, Spain, chose the topic, prepared the questions, introduced the show and interviewed her classmates.

We hear interviews with:
Frank (China)
Ingrid (Spain)
Alina (Ukraine)
Nasser (Saudi Arabia)
Katharina (Switzerland)

Interview questions included:
(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.)
- Where is your dream holiday?
- What did you do last holiday? (Where did you go?)
- Do you prefer a beach, mountain or city holiday? Why?
- Do you travel with a lot of luggage?
- What is important for you to take?
- Who do you prefer to go with?

Please listen to our discussion and 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 jingle chosen by the presenter is "Travelling Shoes". After editing in GarageBand and (for noise removal and deletion of unnecessary silence) Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/), the audio volume was leveled using the program Levelator (www.gigavox.com/levelator), and the file was converted to MP3 format using LameBrain (check at www.macupdate.com). The photo was edited in Apple iPhoto and Adobe Fireworks.

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