PODCAST

A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download in order to listen to. These recordings can be very useful in the educational field so that students have audios with which to work both from home and in the classroom, these audios are recorded by their teacher and therefore are appropriate for their level and task.

Podomatic is a website that allows you to easily find, create, distribute and promote podcasts, both audio and video. In this way teachers can upload files so that their students have access to them.

Below I propose an idea to work both resources in the classroom:

This is a poem about many animals that live in, by and around you. It repeats the sound of words, too. Poems that repeat the sounds of words are called rhymes.

Click on the following link to hear my PODCAST - ANIMALS

Here it is the poem you have just heard, now try to answer the following questions. You can hear the poem as many times as you need.

Animals live in many places – in water, grass, and trees.

Some hop, some jump, some climb, while others run with ease.

Animals can swim in lakes or fly high in the sky.

Smaller ones crawl in the rocks for a shady place to lie.

Whales dive deep to look for food in an ocean or a sea.

And bees buzz among the flowers, gathering nectar happily.

If I could be an animal – perhaps a deer or bear,

I would live wild in the woods and run from here to there.

Can you tell which words rhyme or sound the same? Does bear and there rhyme? How about sky and lie?

Think about more words that rhyme and try to make your own poem. Your poem needs to be at least 4 lines long and it also needs a title. You should have your first two lines rhyme. The third and fourth lines should also rhyme.