Presenter: Saood
Topic: Fighting and arguing
In this show, adult English language students in GO2 class talk about fighting and arguing. Talgat, from Kazakhstan, and Saood, from Qatar, chose the topic and prepared the questions. On the day, Talgat was absent, so Saood introduced the show and interviewed his classmates alone.
We hear interviews with:
Donatienne (Belgium)
Francesco (Italy)
Simone (Germany)
Young Soo (South Korea)
Kubra (Turkey)
Jacek (Poland)
Yeon Hee (South Korea)
Interview questions
(If you are listening in class, you could ask a partner the interview questions, then choose one or more of the speakers and note their answers.)
Fighting and arguing
1. Have you ever been in a fight or an argument?
2. When you were a child, were you aggressive or not?
3. What would you do if somebody said a bad word to you or teased you?
4. Have you ever seen one of your friends having a fight? (If yes, what did you do?)
5. Have you ever fought with your brothers or sisters?
6. Have you ever been punched without any reason? What did you do?
7. Have you ever had to kill somebody? (Have you thought of doing that?)
Please listen to our interviews and add your comments on our blog page at bardwellroad.podomatic.com.
This show was recorded in class, on group teacher, Geoff's, Apple MacBook Pro computer with the program Garageband. The Garageband jingle used is Dustbowl. After editing in Garageband and Audacity (for noise removal and deletion of unnecessary silence), the audio volume was levelled using the program Levelator (www.gigavox.com/levelator), and the file was converted to MP3 format using Switch Audio File Converter (http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index.html). The photo was edited in Apple iPhoto and Adobe Fireworks.
This show was produced at the Bardwell Road Adult Centre, St Clare's, Oxford, UK.
