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What is a podcast?

Podcast listening assignment

We're going to practise listening by listening to a podcast.

You can choose from two podcasts Spooked and The Moth.

I have selected two episodes that you can listen to.

You listen to the one that interests you most.  

Listen to the podcast and do the assignments. 

Spooked

Spooked features true-life supernatural stories, told firsthand by people who can barely believe it happened themselves. Be afraid. Created in the dark of night, by Snap Judgment and WNYC Studios. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, Freakonomics Radio, Death, Sex & Money, On the Media, and many others.

The Moth 

Moth stories are true, as remembered by the storyteller and always told live. Listen to the latest episode of The Moth Radio Hour, Moth Podcast, or dip into our library of stories going back to 1997.

Spooked - s01e03

"Border Boogeyman" - Back in the 90s, Rocky Elmore worked as a border patrol agent, just East of San Diego. He did night patrol—and out there, in the pitch black, he was never sure if he was completely alone.

"The Seer" - The trouble began in Sri Lanka, when Chandra’s aunt woke up one day and couldn’t move her arms or legs. The doctors had no answers, but a mysterious priest led the family on a quest to find the truth beyond medical science.

https://spookedpodcast.org/episode-3-borderlands 

1. What does Rocky mean with “top dog”?

2. How do the background noises help the story?

3. Why couldn’t they see what was in the creek?

4. What was Jeb’s story?

5. Where did the second story take place?

6. Why did they go to the priest?

7. What is in the tin box?

8. What did they do to the voodoo doll?

9. What happened to the priest?

10. Do you believe in the supernatural?

The Moth 

Moth stories are true, as remembered by the storyteller and always told live. Listen to the latest episode of The Moth Radio Hour, Moth Podcast, or dip into our library of stories going back to 1997.

The Moth 

Hitchhiking, Mosh Pit, and Iggy Pop

A daughter realizes how naïve she’s been when she learns the truth about her mother’s pregnancy; an exchange student experiences Japanese mosh pit etiquette; a teenager does a newspaper review of an Iggy Pop album and gets a surprising response.

You'll listen to three moth stories. This is the first one: 

https://themoth.org/stories/good-news-versus-bad

1. Why does she call it ‘an ice-cream of doom’.

2. Why did she feel guilty about towards her father?

3. What’s the importance of the baseball in the story?

4. Did you like the story? Why or why not?

The Moth 

This is the second story: 

http://themoth.org/stories/japanese-mosh-pit

Think of two questions to ask with this story and put them here.

The Moth 

This is the third story: 

https://themoth.org/stories/school-night

What is the message of this story?