The Bardwell Road Centre Podcast

Presenter: Frank
Topic: Hobbies and interests

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

Frank, from China, chose the topic, prepared the questions, introduced the show and interviewed his classmates.

We hear interviews with:
Katharina (Switzerland)
Charlotte (Spain)
Alina (Ukraine)
Nasser (Saudi Arabia)

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.)

- How do you spend your free time?
- Do you have any hobbies? Can you tell me about...?
- Do you like sport?
- Do you need any special equipment? Is it expensive?
- At the weekends, do you prefer going to parties, going to the cinema or staying home?
- If the weather is bad, how do you spend your time?
- If you go out, who do you like 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 "Carousel". 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.