The podcast BBC World News for Children is an interesting podcast to incorporate in my ESL lessons. In Sri Lanka we learn British English and most of the teachers like me are nonnative speakers. So our students are at a great disadvantage as they don't get a chance to hear the native speaker accent in the classroom. Further in the classroom we as teachers speak at a slow pace to make sure students understand what we say. But in real life speech, let's say they communicate with a native speaker, they have to cope with the pace and accent alike and respond promptly.
I would use this podcast World New for Schools:26th April 2011 in class to expose students to the authentic speech of the native speakers. And plan a listening activity
And I will use the particular podcast to improve their listening skills. I would design my lesson plan in such a way that students listen to this twice and at the end of or during the first hearing they write down two examples for each of Present perfect, and Past perfect tenses. In the second hearing they verify the accuracy of their answers. This would be an ideal example to teach listening for specific information while paying attention to tenses they have already studied in class.
This activity is good for upper intermediate and advanced ESL students. It's quite difficult for teachers to design their own listening tasks but they can easily use podcasts like the one mentioned above for a variety of activities like cloze texts, scanning for specific details, vocabulary exercises, etc.
And I will use the particular podcast to improve their listening skills. I would design my lesson plan in such a way that students listen to this twice and at the end of or during the first hearing they write down two examples for each of Present perfect, and Past perfect tenses. In the second hearing they verify the accuracy of their answers. This would be an ideal example to teach listening for specific information while paying attention to tenses they have already studied in class.
This activity is good for upper intermediate and advanced ESL students. It's quite difficult for teachers to design their own listening tasks but they can easily use podcasts like the one mentioned above for a variety of activities like cloze texts, scanning for specific details, vocabulary exercises, etc.
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BBC News for Children sounds like a good choice for your students. As you are well aware there are many varying accents in English. For new learners, it is very confusing to try to understand speakers of all these varieties of English. If British English (such as the variety on the BBC)is the type of English that your students would most likely come in contact with, then that is the best choice!
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