First Certificate Podcasts

Podcast #2 - Shine by Kevin Reeves

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Stanley) — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:27:54 PDT

This podcast features the song Shine by Kevin Reeves kindly available from the Podsafe Music Network

song lyrics (will be available shortly)
the transcript (will be available shortly)

Shine is also featured in the first 'English Pod Song' podcast, a longer music podcast for English Language Learners.

Other featured music: Excerpts from Toffee by Frankie Ho

Podcast #1: Interactive detective story

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Stanley) — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:17:05 PDT

The first podcast is the first part a detective story:

The Amateur Detective
Part 1: the Inheritance (5.14MB, 5.37 minutes)

Gerry never thought he'd ever think about realising his dream to become a private
detective. That was until his luck changed and he came into some money...

Instructions:

Listen to the podcast as many times you like and think about how the story continues.
When you're ready, write the next part to the story.
When you have finished writing, record it as an mp3 file and upload your file here
Listen to how other students continue the story.
Which one do you like best? Write a comment to let us know
The second part of the story will be available as a podcast soon

About 'First Certificate Podcasts'

noreply@blogger.com (Graham Stanley) — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 02:55:54 PDT

First Certificate Podcasts is a site aimed at EFL students studying for the Cambridge First Certificate in English exam.

What is 'First Certificate Podcasts'?

We aim to provide extra listening practice and exam tips & tricks through podcasts (short mp3 audio programmes). Some of these programmes will feature advice and help with taking the exam, while others will be aimed at giving you extra listening practice.

What is a podcast?

A podcast is an mp3 audio file available on the Web which you can listen to as often as you want. You can listen to these audio files in several different ways:

At this site, by pressing the podcast button
On CD (download the file and burn it onto a CD)
In your mp3 player by subscribing to the podcast feed (see following section)

How do I subscribe to 'First Certificate Podcasts'?
(the best option if you want to listen to the podcasts in your mp3 player)

Download free 'podcatching' software from iPodder or iTunes or a similar site.
Click on the red xml button at the top of the page to get the feed
Copy the URL (address) of the feed and add it as a subscription to your 'podcatcher'
The next time you run the podcatcher, the mp3 files from 'First Certificate Podcasts' will be downloaded automatically to your computer.
Copy the mp3 files to your mp3 player

What about Copyright?

All the recordings are made available to you via the Creative Commons licence 'Some rights reserved' :

You can freely use, copy and distribute anything on this site provided credit is given and a link provided to this site.