Today class 4P2 did a great job of preparing our first podcast. Benjamin, our new German assistant interviewed the class with some basic questions about our school. Can you spot the mistake? You can download the recording here and subscribe to future recordings by clicking on "Subscribe to my podcast" on the right hand menu.
Look out for other recordings coming up over the next week from classes 1L2 and 4Q1.
Nice work, guys! Do you think you'll be doing more and would you add music and things to it, too, or just keep it the spoken word? Looking forward to it whatever format you choose.
Posted by: Ewan McIntosh | September 14, 2006 at 07:06 PM
This sounds fantastic, great to hear all about Montrose Academy in German. Look forward to hearing more from you.
Posted by: Lynne | September 14, 2006 at 07:40 PM
Not only good to hear about your progress but also to hear about Mr Curran's development as your teacher. Unfortunately, don't have sound on my PC at home but looking forward to hearing more of your activities.
Bis bald
Alison Hurrell
Posted by: Alison Hurrell | September 14, 2006 at 10:00 PM
Great stuff! I will let my pupils listen to this next week and see how much of it they can understand. Hopefully they will be in touch.
Posted by: David Noble | September 14, 2006 at 10:32 PM
This is great. I started a similar blog last week called Two Stars and a Wish http://www.nodehillfrench.typepad.com/. The pupils have reacted very positively to it so far.
I like your use of the photo album by the way.
Best wishes
Joe
Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom - www.joedale.typepad.com
Posted by: Joe Dale | September 14, 2006 at 11:38 PM
Wow - some great accents there. The lad Benjamin sounds particularly promising - or did I miss something?
I am training to hopefully become a French teacher and your work is inspiring. Will keep checking up on any new entries.
Posted by: Gordon Lumsdaine | September 15, 2006 at 04:01 PM
Mr Curran and 4P2,
Congratulations! I really enjoyed your podcast. I liked how 4P2 sounded very natural when they were being interviewed. Their German was good and I thought they had good accents too. Maybe the next one could be longer - it would be great to hear more!
Posted by: Helen Duncan | September 16, 2006 at 12:08 PM
We listened to your recording. It was good but we didn't understand much, but we are only in 1st year.
Robbie Beanz says 'the comments were good but you should try singing hey hey hallo and see if you are better than us at singing but i doubt it'
Craig B says 'u sounded very German and you sounded like a drowning cat'
Posted by: Klasse 1L2 | September 18, 2006 at 10:49 AM
guys!!
i think your letters were all very good!! even though there were some minor spelling mistakes i could understand everything. it was very interesting for me to read them and a lot of fun at the same time.
i hope you keep up the excellent work!
well done everybody
Ben
Posted by: benjamin | September 21, 2006 at 12:49 PM
Hi,
This is a great example of a class podcast! I don't speak much German myself but I could understand everything you said, as your accents and pronunciation are really clear.
Keep up the good work, 4P2!
Annelie
Posted by: Annelie | September 22, 2006 at 10:13 AM
Ausgezichnet. Great pronunciation and lots of confidence in delivery. Keep up the fantastic work. Keep an ear out for my S4 presentations in a couple of weeks. If you are bilingual listen to some S3 French.
http://thegordonschools.typepad.co.uk/ratemymates
Posted by: Adam Sutcliffe | September 25, 2006 at 08:26 PM