The Bardwell Road Centre Podcast

Presenter: Alina and Katherina
Topic: Cinema and films

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

Alina (Ukraine) and Katherina (Switzerland) chose the topic, prepared the questions, introduced the show and interviewed their classmates.

We hear interviews with:
Charlotte (Spain)
Nasser (Saudi Arabia)
Frank (China)

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.)
- What kind of films do you prefer? (action, comedy, romance, drama, black and white)
- Do you prefer going to the cinema or watching DVDs at home? (Why?)
- How often do you go to the cinema or watch DVDs?
- Do you have a favourite actor?
- If you could be a famous person, who would you like to be?
- What film have you seen recently? (Did you like it?)

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 "Pastel Slide". 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.