Podcast

Hi! I’m Gema Macías Jiménez. I have created a podcast about my university years and my experience as an Erasmus student. This activity is addressed to second of Batxillerat students.


LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• To develop students’ listening comprehension skills
• To extend students’ vocabulary
• To learn or revise how to pronounce the past tense and past participle of regular verbs
• To raise awareness of the target culture

BATXILLERAT COMPETENCES

Communicative competence
Comprehension of an oral narration related to a personal experience.
Pronunciation practice of the –ed ending of the past tense and past participle of regular verbs.

Personal and interpersonal competence
Completion of a quiz to check and reflect upon one’s comprehension of the listening activity.
Completion of a survey to reflect on and be critical about the activity.

Digital competence
Ability to access and use a Blog to listen to a podcast, take a quiz and do a survey.

Competence in knowledge and interaction with the world
Knowledge about the Black Country dialect and awareness of the target culture.

DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY

Students listen to their teacher’s podcast anywhere and at any time, with their personal computer, tablet or cell phone.

The podcast has three parts: first, the teacher talks about her university years and her Erasmus experience. Secondly, she explains some vocabulary and expressions she has used. Finally, she explains how to pronounce the –ed ending of the past participle and past tense of regular verbs, and asks students to do some practise by asking them to guess the pronunciation of the past tense of some regular verbs.

As follow-up activities, students have to take a quiz and do survey.


TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS

The technological tools I have used are: Audacity, to record the listening comprehension. Podomatic to upload the podcast and iTunes to publish it (http://gema-maciasj.podomatic.com/rss2.xml).  For the quiz, I have used Hot Potatoes, and for the survey, Google Forms.

To start the activity click on the play button:

After listening to the podcast, click here to check your comprehension

Finally, click here to give me feedback

JCloze. Do this activity to test your knowledge about conditionals

Moneythink. (Review the conditionals)

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!

Have you ever wondered what you (do) if you had a million dollars? What about $100 milliion? It would be almost impossible to spend that amount unless you (buy) big houses, expensive cars and jewelllery for yourself, your family and your friends. That's exactly what Boston Celtics basketball player Antoine Walker did - and in 2009, he discovered that he owed millions of dollars to the bank. This (not happen) if he had known something about money management.

But how do young people learn about money management? Some educators believe that it should be taught at school. "Unless their parents are very knowledgeable about money issues, teens (not get) the best advice from them," says one teacher. Moneythink is one solution. This programme was started in 2009 by Greg Nance, a university student. He and other volunteers give money management lessons to local students. If Nance's dream (come) true, Moneythink will become a nationwide programme by 2020.

One reason for Moneythink's success is that the volunteer-teachers use real-life examples. Greg thinks that if he hadn't used Antoine Walker's story, it (be) much more difficult to catch the students' interest.

JCross. Do this activity to practise vocabulary we have seen in unit 5

Vocabulary Unit 5

Crossword

Complete this crossword with vocabulary we have seen in Unit 5, then click on "Check" to check your answer. If you are stuck, you can click on "Hint" to get a free letter.

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Across: 1. Clearly very much better than what is usual 5. A piece of paper with a price that is fixed to a product, or the amount that something costs. 7. Something that is not genuine, but that has been made in order to trick people into thinking it is genuine 8. A person who buys goods or a service 9. A type of product made by a particular company 11. To be the right size or shape for someone or something 12. Describes someone who has a natural ability to do something well 14. To intentionally not listen or give attention to

Down: 1. Too expensive; used whowing disapproval. 2. To recognise how good someone or something is and to value them 3. Showing or expressing thanks, especially to another person 4. Something which is sold at a low price and which you think is good value for the money 6. A reduction in the usual price 10. To make someone worried, unhappy, or angry 13. To be able to buy something because you have enough money

JQuiz. Do this activity to test your knowledge of vocabulary related to consumerism

Vocabulary on consumerism

Quiz

 

1. What is the correct definition of "rip-off"?
   1.   A very good deal
   2.   Something that is not worth what you pay for it
   3.   Something extravagant
   4.   A product that is in demand
2. What is the correct definition of "luxury item"?
   1.   An everyday product that everybody has
   2.   A very old-fashioned product
   3.   A very expensive product that is pleasant to have but not necessary for living
   4.   A product is that 100% recyclable
3. What is the correct definition of "bargain"?
   1.   Something on sale at a lower price than its true value
   2.   Something you want to get rid of because you do not use it anymore
   3.   A very exotic product
   4.   Something you do not want to buy because you think it is very expensive
4. What is the correct definition of "fake product"?
   1.   A very valuable product
   2.   A product that is made to look real or valuable in order to deceive people
   3.   Something that has been used in the past by someone else
   4.   A product that uses the newest technologies
5. What is the correct definition of "status symbol"?
   1.   A product we associate with a particular country
   2.   An enviromentally-friendly product
   3.   Something that has no value
   4.   A thing that people want to have because they think other people will admire them if they have it