LESSON PLAN BASED ON RADIO PODCASTS.podcasts available on request.

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WARMER: 6 minutes – whole class
Connection to previous unit Mass Media 1:The Press
Did you listen to the news last night? Havent’t you heard? (you give
them a striking piece of information as for example) “Obama won the
US elections.I woke up this morning and as usual, I turned the radio on
and there it was. He had made it! Again!”
I always listen to the radio when I have breakfast.
What about you? Do you know which station I listen to? (they will mention the radio
stations they know and I will write them on the board)
What type of stations do you listen to? ( radio formula,
Top Forty)
Where do you – or your parents – listen to the radio? On
which device? ( they will mention their mobiles but we
can show them the pictures to revise alarm clock, car
radio and so).
I will continue by mentioning that my favourite programme is broadcasted/ on air at 11
o’clock in the morning but I still listen to it. How can I do it? ( they will say that I can
do it online but I want them to get to the word podcast.)If they didn’t say the word I
would tell them that I listen to it on my car way back home. They will get the word
download at some point. If they still don’t come up with it I will give them the word and
three possible meanings for them to choose.
ACTIVITY 1 (5 minutes)
What’s a podcast? In pairs discuss which is the right choice. Give arguments for your
answer.
Is it…
a) the act or process of downloading data?
b) a multimedia digital file made available on the Internet for downloading to
a portable media player, computer, etc..?
c) a means of compressing a sound sequence into a very small file, to enable digital
storage and transmission?
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Now they are ready for the following activity.
ACTIVITY 2 (5 minutes) INDIVIDUAL/PAIR WORK
Listen and match the type of programme with its genre. For example, sport -1.
a) Sport
b) News
c) Music
d) Learning
e) Drama(soap opera)
I have downloaded 5 podcasts and using audacity I have extracted the first seconds of
each programme.
I hope that now they want to know where I’ve taken those and I will connect to
bbc/podcasts and lead them to the following activity.
ACTIVITY 3: 25 minutes
They have to do a treasure hunt based on the podcasts they can find on the site. I have
used a really basic tool. Click here
This is the way they will see the page but they would have signed in before.
Once they find the answers, they would send them to me by mail.
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An interesting variation of the activity would be to record their answers and thus
creating their own podcasts on Mass media voxopop. Unfortunately I’m more than
aware of the lack of mics available in schools so I’d rather leave the task for homework.
The question I would post is What’s your favourite radio programme? Why?
ACTIVIDAD 4: ROUND UP (10 minutos)
Para finalizar la actividad les dirigiré a la última respuesta de la treasure hunt para que
descubran las infinitas posibilidades de aprendizaje. Para enlazar con la siguiente
actividad he elegido el siguiente podcast.
6 minute English tv addict
Tras escucharlo tendrán que contestar a la siguiente pregunta.
And you? Do you watch more or less hours than the average UK kid?
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