Vince: Building

March 8th, 2010 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in Interpreting, Native speakers & Fluent speakers | Post a Comment »

Today I interview Vincent Sicari, heritage architect. He tells me the steps to be taken before building or renovating a house.

You can use this worksheet, the Building Process, to make the most out of the interview.

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music by Hato de Foces

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 9:12 — 8.4MB)

Miguel: Type 1 Diabetes

March 1st, 2010 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in esol, Native speakers & Fluent speakers, Young Sydneysiders | Post a Comment »

We are studying topics related to Health. Listen to this interview with a young Sydneysider, Miguel, talking about Type 1 diabetes.

Tasks:

Listen to it once, to get the general gist of the conversation
Listen and do the Diabetes worksheet
Then listen to it in chunks, stop the file and repeat his sentences (without taking notes) as close as possible to the original
Listen and record yourself. Then compare both recordings
Listen to the whole conversation and take notes
Repeat the conversation from your notes. Record yourself doing it
Listen to chunks and translate into your TL (target language)

You can do this at home by yourself or with a classmate. To record yourself, you can use any of the recording applications found in any standard computer or download Audacity (free) & lame. This will allow you to create mp3 files, which you can download into your ipod or mp3 player to practise anywhere anytime!

For more information, visit Diabetes Australia

Music by Tresena

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 6:27 — 5.9MB)

Michael: My father the Town Crier

December 6th, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in esol, Native speakers & Fluent speakers, TAFE | Post a Comment »

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Michael Keating, a teacher from the English section at our college, visited our class last week and told us about his father, Graham Keating, who is a Town Crier.
Listen to our conversation to find out more about Town Criers, Michael and his dad.

You can also watch this video where Graham Keating introduces the new Town Crier for Liverpool Council. It will help you understand what a town crier does.

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Sculpture by the Sea 2009

November 10th, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in esol, Native speakers & Fluent speakers | Read Comments(1) or Post a Reply »

Video with audio

A group of AMEP students and their teachers went to Sculpture by the Sea on Tuesday 10th November, 2009. Listen to a couple of interviews with 4 visitors to this amazing exhibition. This worksheet will help you with listening comprehension.

You can use their comments as part of your blog post on the excursion.

Visit Our Class 2009, 2008 & 2007 for more posts on Sculpture by the Sea (tagged sculpturebythesea)

Music by Tresena

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Luke: Ultimate Stylist

October 18th, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in ESL podcasts | Post a Comment »

Many people have to leave everything behind and start anew. Listen to my chat with Luke Kara, a hairdresser from Turkey who, not knowing the language, came to Australia and in a very short time had established a very successful and professional hairdressing business.

After you listen to the interview, write an article for your blog. Write about migrants settling into a new country. Difficulties they may encounter and examples, like Luke’s, of people who have achieved their dream or are still working on achieving it.

Music by Mig

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Angelica, Cassandra, Melisa & Rachelle(s): Loftus Event Managers

August 17th, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in esol, Native speakers & Fluent speakers, TAFE, Young Sydneysiders | Post a Comment »

photo by Nicola Pegum

On August the 14th 2009 5 students from Loftus Event Manmagement worked for the Green Light for Green Skills conference organised by the TAFE NSW Managers Association.

They were registering the conference participants, helping with rooms, liaising with the hotel managers and conference organisers, etc. They had also prepared wonderful decorations created from recycled materials sourced from the Reverse Garbage co-operative in Marrickville. I talk to them about their experience.

Have you ever heard about Event Mangement as a job? Maybe you should look into it as a possible career. Listen to them and see what they think about it.

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Music by mig

Christina: Architecture

July 2nd, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in esol | Read Comments(1) or Post a Reply »

Architecture and building management are the other areas I discussed with Christina totsis.

Listen to our conversation.

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music Tresena

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Christina: Green Architect

July 2nd, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in esol, Native speakers & Fluent speakers, TAFE | Read Comments(1) or Post a Reply »

Christina Totsis works at St George TAFE. She wears many hats (check the meaning of this expression!). Listen to our interviews and find out about her role at the college.You can also visit her building management wiki.

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music by Tresena

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Health Expo 2009

June 25th, 2009 Posted by MariaRosa Ochoa in esol | Post a Comment »

St George college Student Association organised its annual Health Expo in May. AMEP-B students conducted some interviews which supplement the ones published in this blog. Unfortunately some of the recordings weren’t successful, so we can’t hear their interviews with the asthma, breast screening, blood donation and aquatic centre stall holders.

They also created mini radio programs around some topics related to health. like food and sports.

This is a summary of all the podcasts:

Dental Care

Our thoughts on Health Expo 09