Improving your English through Podcasting

Podcasting is especially interesting for English learners as it provides a means for students to get access to "authentic" listening sources about almost any subject they may interest them. Teachers can take advantage of podcasts as a basis for listening comprehension exercises, as a means of generating conversation based on students' reaction to podcasts, and as a way of providing each and every student diverse listening materials. Students will obviously find the ability to listen to these podcasts useful especially due to its portability. Teachers can use Ready‐made podcasts from the Internet or create their own.
"Imagine!!" is an example of a own creation podcast. The students participated in the process and they could listen to their speaking (in this specific case - singing) and learn on what they must improve their pronunciation.

"Moving" is an example of a ready-made one from podcastinginenglish.com. While listening to the poscast, students can read the transcript and do the activities.

Transcript:abra o link numa outra janela,assim você poderá ouvir a entrevista enquanto lê o roteiro.
 http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/wksheets/moving.pdf
Worksheet (with answers):
http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/wksheets/moving_worksheet.pdf
Vocabulary worksheet :
http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/wksheets/vocabulary_worksheet_1_27.pdf