ESLPod Review

Blog Post #4: Podcast Review

 ▶ Provide a link to the podcast on your blog

- ESLPod : http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html

- ESL podcast English Café episode 393: http://www.eslpod.com/website/show_podcast.php?issue_id=13343708

▶ General information about the content and quality

- Host: Dr. Jeff McQuillan From LA, California (Directed by Dr. Lucy Tse)

- Website adress: eslpod.com (to download the learning guide for this episode)

- Topic: Famous American Movies
 ; in 1962 film called "The Manchurian Candidate" the thriller with actions and suspense.
 ; In terms of the cold war
 ; Based on the book in 1959 by Richard Condon

- Provide vocaburary definations, general background information about movie such as actors, actresses, singers, director.

 - Q&A
; differences: expression & idiom & term
; The expression question: What name do you go by?
; He heard en masse

- Quality of the podcast
It has a very specific details about the movie. Thus, after I listened to this I felt I learnt many things about the movie. It was also very fun to listen.


▶ What do you think about the podcast? Which type of learners could benefit from the podcast?  

In my opinion, listening to podcast is a good way to improve your listening skills and also to build your background knowledge in western culture perspectives. When you listen to the podcast it is not only about listening activities but also widening your knowledge through it. If the podcast is a right level for the student and comprehensible it is beneficial to the listeners who are ready to learn. That is, the learner is the one who tries to find the content. Thus, that learner is ready to learn something from it already. And if the learner can try to do note-taking while listen to it, it is even more effective to improve its listening skills.