After my search in the Web (looking for something in the Web is very boring, in my opinion...- Sorry, but I needed to admit it-)I found three podcasts I like.
Choosing a speific podcast has been very far from being simple, since generally I found some interesting Web pages which contained a lot of useful podacasts.
Anyway, that's what I decided to share with you:
1) http://pinkgeek.net/weblog3/rss.xml
It's not a podcast; it's a page in which " The adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is subdivided in different parts. You can click to listen to the story. I think it's a wonderful way to spread culture.
Oh, I love Sherlock Holmes! He was one of my favorite character when I was younger...I think I red everything about him...
2) http://eslpod.com/website/show_podcast.php?issue_id=467
It's an example of daily conversation. In this specifc case, the topic is car renting. The characters speak slow and there is also the transcript of the oral text, so everybody can follow the argument. It's a very useful tool for improving students' listening skills.
In this Web site you can find other conversation models to practise your ability.
3) http://www.voanews.com/english/customcf/podcastxml.cfm?id=3
Here global issues in science, technology and the environment are the main subject. It's useful to improve everybody's listening skills and in the meanwhile you can learn something about culture, society (especially American) since all the podcasts offered by this Web-site deal with real topics and problems of the present day.
What about the world of podcasts?
I'll probably seem to be banal, I know, but they're...USEFUL. Listening to them you can improve your ability and you can also can learn something. However, as for everything in the Internet, there's the other side of the coin...The Web is a huge tub where everybody in the world can put something...and something is just rubbish...so, pay attention!
3 commenti:
Hi Alberto!!
I just visited the second website u suggested...It's really cool because u can choose the topic or the kind of conversation u want to listen to. I listened to two guys talking about how to describe people's body types. This sort of podcast is very useful above all because it provides the script of the oral text. Thank you for the advice... Well done!
C U!
Laura
Hi Alberto,
I'm sorry you found so boring surfing the Web, anyway you did a great job! I visited the first site you suggest, and I found an answer to what I complained in my post! Here the rhythm is not slowed down, and you don't feel it as fake (did you see what I mean?). I tried to visit the third site you chose, but I didn't find any link to podcasts...
Only something about your post: it is very well written, but there are little "distractions"...
"but I needed to admit it"
You'd rather use a simple present...
"I think I red"
mind while you're typing, you surely meant I think I read!
"argument"
reading the text I realized that what you meant is probably a conversation or a dialogue, an argumente is 'a conversation or discussion in which two or more people disagree, often angrily'(taken from the Oxford on-line Dictionary).
I hope you don't mind me correcting your writing!
See you on Monday!
bye!
Claudia
Hi Alberto !
Don't worry for your little mistakes. I read your message about computer problems so I understand that you had little time on Monday to do your post.
I enjoyed listening to Sherlock Holmes' adventures. I like Conan Doyle's stories but to tell you the truth I've always preferred Edgar Allan Poe's tales like 'The murders in the Rue Morgue' or 'The Masque of the Red Death'. Certainly you know that the former is considered the first detective story and probably many detectives as Sherlock Holmes followes the example of the protagonist of this tale: Auguste Dupin.
Thank you! It was a very long time since I last listened to 'The adventures of S. H.'.
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