WWW.ESLpod.com is a site of free podcasts on a wide variety of topics. The podcasts are free for you to listen online or download to your ipod. Additional items, like the learner's guide, from this site do cost. You can purchase a guide for each podcast or subscribe.
The speaker talks slowly. I listened to the podcast English Café 309. It is about the movie, West Side Story, but also includes questions from listerners on the meaning of terms like “ship” in friendship. Music helps adds to the slowness of the session and you can move the recording ahead.
There are a variety of ways you could enhance this lesson about a classic movie. For example, the student could borrow the movie or listen to the musical sound track after listening to the podcast. Then he or she could come to a tutoring session prepared to talk or even write about it as part of a lesson or independently.
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If passing the GED was a goal, the learner could study classic literature by watching the Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet. The topic is a popular one with multiple themes. A dicussion could be about family relationships or gangs today. You could talk about how gangs today are similar or different from those pictured in the move.
Other topics on www.ESLpod.com are business, daily life, dining, transportation, entertainment, health, relationships and travel. The Travel section includes 72 recordings including several on hotel rooms, traveling as a single, flying, winds and storms and traveling on a cruise. The newer sessions have higher numbers. Recordings in travel go back to 2005.
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