Material Development by Using Podcast

Material development in my teaching

Vu Thanh Thuy (Water) - Vietnam

Title: Running to Win - 15 Minute Edition
Source: http://www.digitalpodcast.com/feeds/62256-running-to-win-15-minute-edition

1. Goals:
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

• Select listening materials to practice at home; 
• Improve their spoken vocabulary; 
• Enhance their listening, speaking and writing skills. 

2. Subjects:
- 48 sophomore English majors of Lao Cai Teacher Training College
- Level of students: Intermediate level
- Age range: 19 - 23
- Listening time in the class: 3 periods per week (= 150 minutes)
- Learning background: Familiar with reading and writing; lack of time for listening in the class; lack of authentic materials; lack of vocabulary; no English environment.

3. Skills: Listening, Speaking and Writing skills

4. Description of activities

These activities will be given as an extensive listening task for students. The activities 1 & 2  are used outside their classroom. While the third activity will be presented in the warm-up activity of next periods. 

Activity 1: Choose 1 of the audios from the link http://www.digitalpodcast.com/feeds/audio to listen. Copy the link of the audio that you select to listen, then introduce it to your 3 friends as well as your teacher of English. 

            
Activity 2: While listening, answer the following questions:
a. What is the audio about?
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b. What are the vocabulary words that you learnt from the audio?
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c. What is the interesting thing that you gained from the audio?
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Activity 3: Tell your friends what you have listened to, the contents of the listening material as well as the interesting things that you gained from the audio in the warm-up activity of next period.