2. WARMER: 6 minutes – whole class
Did you listen to the news last
night? Haven’t you heard?
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?
4. ACTIVITY 2(5 minutes)
INDIVIDUAL/PAIR WORK
Listen and match the type of programme with its genre.
For example, sport -1.
Programme Genre Listening
News
Music
Sport
Learning
Drama(soap opera)
5. NOW YOU!
Do you know where
I’ve taken those ?
Click on Podcast bbc
6. ACTIVITY 3: 25 minutes
Let’s learn a bit more about
podcasts on the BBC .
Ready for a treasure hunt?
Click on
MASS MEDIA RADIO
Once you find out the answers
send them to my e-mail.
7. HOMEWORK
What’s your favourite
radio programme?
Why?
Record your answers
on Mass media
voxopop
8. ACTIVIDAD 4:ROUND UP (10 minutes)
Do you watch more or
less hours than the
average UK kid?
Check it on 6 minute
English tv addict
Editor's Notes
(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. They will mention their mobiles but we can show them the pictures to revise alarm clock, car radio and so).
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.
They have to do a treasure hunt based on the podcasts they can find on the site. I have used a really basic tool ( webposterwizard) 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?
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 elegí un podcast sobre hábitos televisivos.
