My Podcast Project Plan
Title:
Increase Your English
Skills by Studying Aesop’s Fables
Main objectives:
1. Listening Practice
2. Vocabulary Acquisition
3. Understand/Discuss Universal Stories
Level:
Items 1-2 for Beginning-high to Intermediate-high. Items 1-3
Intermediate and above.
Class type:
Individual, internet based.
Aim:
Beside acquiring the skills above, students will develop initiative;
they will decide what stories are interesting to them via on-line feedback.
Activity focus:
Time:
5 minute podcast that includes narrator commentary
Material:
Computer, speakers
Sample Lesson:
1. The text to the story (see below) will be displayed on the
podcast site along with the podcast. A podcast will perform the reading
(perhaps once, maybe twice, read slow and then medium-fast.) 2. The narrator
will comment on the story explaining various sentences, e.g. explain what “dropping
pebbles into the pitcher” means. 3. The moral of the story will be explained,
then questions for the listener will be elicited (e.g. “Do you have this story
in your native culture, and how is it told?” “Do you have a similar story you
would like to share?” etc. 4. This process is meant to be interactive with
readers leaving written comments; perhaps later they can record comments.
This is a sample story:
“THE CROW AND THE PITCHER (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11339/11339-h/11339-h.htm#THE_CROW_AND_THE_PITCHER
)
A thirsty Crow found a Pitcher with
some water in it, but so little was there that, try as she might, she could not
reach it with her beak, and it seemed as though she would die of thirst within
sight of the remedy. At last she hit upon a clever plan. She began dropping
pebbles into the Pitcher, and with each pebble the water rose a little higher
until at last it reached the brim, and the knowing bird was enabled to quench
her thirst.
Necessity is the mother of invention”
The podcasts for these stories will commence on February 15th and the plan is to have one story per week.
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