Getting familiar with peers and the project
Introduction
Meeting people is the first step to start creating relationships. It is essential for you to meet and know your online classmates before you start working with them so that you can make good decisions about your team group. Also, studying what a radio program is and has is important to start constructing your own broadcasts. Paying attention to the language and structure of radio programs will help you create yours soon.
In this stage, you will know your peers and decide on your team work for the project. You will analyze different radio programs regarding their language, characteristics, content and you will become familiar with useful language needed to interact, express opinions, etc. (Conversation strategies).
Meeting people is the first step to start creating relationships. It is essential for you to meet and know your online classmates before you start working with them so that you can make good decisions about your team group. Also, studying what a radio program is and has is important to start constructing your own broadcasts. Paying attention to the language and structure of radio programs will help you create yours soon.
In this stage, you will know your peers and decide on your team work for the project. You will analyze different radio programs regarding their language, characteristics, content and you will become familiar with useful language needed to interact, express opinions, etc. (Conversation strategies).
Objectives:
- Speak about yourself fluently for at least one minute without reading
- Analyze and evaluate various radio programs
- Identify language related to radio programs and conversation strategies and create a collaborative glossary
- Get familiar and use two web 2.0 tools: http://blabberize.com/ or http://www.voki.com/ and https://voicethread.com/
Activity 1. Who are we?
In this activity, you will tell your online peers (eighth-graders and university students) about you. You will let them know about some personal information and the reasons why they could work with you. Make your recordings very interesting and convince others to work with you.
Instructions
In this activity, you will tell your online peers (eighth-graders and university students) about you. You will let them know about some personal information and the reasons why they could work with you. Make your recordings very interesting and convince others to work with you.
Instructions
- Introduce yourself mentioning: your name, age, institution, grade/semester/career, hobbies, reasons for learning English, and reasons why you could be a good partner to work with.
- Record your voice using either http://blabberize.com/ or http://www.voki.com/ and paste your link in the forum: "This is me". Then, listen to others' presentations.
- Choose your two group members based on their descriptions and post the names of the members in the forum: "Our radio program team". This group of three will be the team to work on the radio program.
- Self-assess your recording.
Activity
Activity 2: Let’s analyze the structure and characteristics of a radio program!
Looking at examples of radio programs is a good opportunity to see how professionals develop and organize their ideas to make them attractive to an audience. They consider different elements and characteristics to create the best radio programs that sell and make listeners want more. Here, you will analyze and evaluate those aspects to start making decisions about your own programs.
Instructions
1. Choose minimum two radio programs from the following list and listen to them:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio
http://transom.org/topics/howsound/
2. Answer the comprehension questions (True or False) and then check your answers in the feedback section.
3. Based on the Radio programs chosen and the comprehension questions answered, tick (x) the sentences with True or False accordingly.
4. Answer the open questions with your observations.
Looking at examples of radio programs is a good opportunity to see how professionals develop and organize their ideas to make them attractive to an audience. They consider different elements and characteristics to create the best radio programs that sell and make listeners want more. Here, you will analyze and evaluate those aspects to start making decisions about your own programs.
Instructions
1. Choose minimum two radio programs from the following list and listen to them:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio
http://transom.org/topics/howsound/
2. Answer the comprehension questions (True or False) and then check your answers in the feedback section.
3. Based on the Radio programs chosen and the comprehension questions answered, tick (x) the sentences with True or False accordingly.
4. Answer the open questions with your observations.
Activity
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Activity 3. Let’s analyze the language of a radio program!
Besides analyzing the elements of radio programs, it is essential to consider the language needed to sound either formal or informal, capture your listeners' attention, and make the program lively and interesting. In this activity, you will construct your own glossary with a bank of expressions for each part of the program, expressions to interact with your partners, expressions to give opinions, agree and disagree, and any other language you think you may need for your programs.
Instructions:
Besides analyzing the elements of radio programs, it is essential to consider the language needed to sound either formal or informal, capture your listeners' attention, and make the program lively and interesting. In this activity, you will construct your own glossary with a bank of expressions for each part of the program, expressions to interact with your partners, expressions to give opinions, agree and disagree, and any other language you think you may need for your programs.
Instructions:
- Listen to other radio programs found in these pages: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio and http://transom.org/topics/howsound/
- Look for expressions related to the following categories:
- Expressions to introduce the program/ topic
- Expressions to introduce a presenter/expert/host, et.c
- Expressions to interact with your partners
- Expressions to give opinions
- Expressions to agree and disagree
- Expressions to change topic
- Expressions to conclude the program
- Other useful expressions
- Create a collaborative glossary by recording all your expressions with your group (All members should participate). Use https://voicethread.com/ and paste the link below
Activity
Our collaborative glossary can be found here.
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