Let's Talk - St George ESOL » travel

Marion: Back from Europe

MariaRosa Ochoa — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:15:36 +0000

Marion and Rosa’s students interview Marion, who has just come back from her trip to Europe.

Listen to them. What other questions would you ask her? You can write them in comments.

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Melinda: On Top of the World

MariaRosa Ochoa — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:42:00 +0000

Melinda is a 21 year old Sydney university student. She talks about her recent trips to India & Vietnam, her love of dancing, physical education, her career and her fantastic job as a Bridge Leader.If you want to know what this means , listen to our conversation. Print this worksheet before you listen. It will help you understand better.

(MB, o:02.70 )(Duration 00:11:50)

Music by Mig

Some of my students have written short articles about Melinda, Svietalana’s is one of them.

Carol: Constant movement

MariaRosa Ochoa — Tue, 29 May 2007 10:17:00 +0000

Do you know what a choreographer is? I had the pleasure of interviewing Carol Dilley, a dancer and choreographer who divides her time between Maine (USA) and Sydney. I called this piece Carol: Constant Movement for several reasons. Firstly she is a dancer. Secondly she is always travelling and working in several countries, mainly USA, Australia and Spain. Finally she is always learning something new. Her latest project is the creation of dance videos. You can see one of them below and the rest in her youtube address.

Listen to my conversation with Carol to learn more about her and what she does. You can print the worksheet beforehand. It will help you with the listening.

You can also watch this digital story which contains the same interview and excerpts from two of her dances.

Below is a video of Carol’s latest project: dance video clips. She is not only a coreographer and dancer, but also a director and editor of her own dance videos. You can watch them in youtube. This is an example.

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(11.4 MB, o:08:20)music by bill matthews

Lisbeth: 2 months, 10 countries

MariaRosa Ochoa — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:56:00 +0000

Lisbeth happened to be in our class when we got there for our afternoon lesson. We asked her if she would mind being interviewed for our class podcast and she kindly accepted, so we fired our questions on the spot.

Before you listen to the interview, have a look at this worksheets, they will help you follow the listening:
Lisbeth listening exercises
Lisbeth: quiz & writing
Lisbeth: itinerary
Download the MP3 file (1.87 MB, o:08:11)
Music by my brothers’ group Tresena

Emile: Around the world Slide Show

MariaRosa Ochoa — Fri, 19 May 2006 08:39:00 +0000

On Wednesday 167h May, Emile gave our class a fantastic power point presentation of his around the world trip. (His first podcast can be listened to here).We recorded all of the slide show, but as it would be too long in one podcast, I thought it was better to divide it into several episodes.

There is a worksheet to be done after listening to the podcasts.
As the podcasts* are quite lengthy, I’ve divided the recording into 2 podcasts.
First part: From The Gran Canyon to Mexico.Download the MP3 file 3.37 MB, o:14:46)

Music by my brothers’group Tresena

Second part: From Guatemala to Uganda
Download the MP3 file 2.24 MB, o:o9:49)

Music by my brothers’group Tresena Read our reactions to Emile’s slide show by visiting our blogs:
Djimi’s, Robert’s, Hideki’s, Harjit’s, Helen’s, Gloria’s *This podcasts are meant for students who attended the slide show mailnly. They are a bit hard to follow if you can’t see the pictures.