Wednesday, November 23, 2011

A Useful Podcast

This podcast is related to the past earthquake in Haiti.  It talks about the Latina singer Shakira and her efforts of helping reconstruct the nation.  She created a foundation that helps children by providing schooling, health care, food, and more. It is basically a 2:30 minute audio podcast that gives a basic news report about Shakira’s foundation.  I really liked this podcast because the native speaker talks slowly and clearly.  This is the kind of podcast I would use in an Intermediate Spanish class as a listening comprehension activity (for homework). Students would be able to listen to the podcast as many times as they wanted and then answer given comprehension questions about the information contained within the news report.  It brings current events into L2 classroom discussion as well as practices listening comprehension!

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