Level: Intermedite (B1) Age: Teengers Time: This lesson n be divided up in vrious wys to suit the time you hve with your students. Below re two time options tht you n hoose from depending on the length of your lss. However, these re just suggestions nd there re plenty of other wys you ould divide the lesson up. 90 minutes Complete ll tivities in A history of rdio nd A rdio interview. 60 minutes Complete ll tivities in A rdio interview. Summry: This lesson is divided into two setions: A history of rdio nd A rdio interview. Students will (depending on the length of the lesson): 1 look t the history of rdio; 2 red n interview; 3 rete their own rdio show. Key skills: Rdio vobulry, question forms Mterils: One opy of the A history of rdio nd A rdio interview worksheets per student; enough extr opies of the A rdio interview worksheet for every student to hve one ut-up prgrph of the text Teher s notes 1 A HISTORY OF 1 Ask students: When did you lst her rdio interview? Wht sttion do you listen to? Why do you like it? Wht sttion do your prents / older reltives listen to? Why do you think they like it? 2 Give students opies of the A history of rdio worksheet nd fous on Ativity 1, the text bout the history of rdio. Explin tht the prts re not in the orret order. The students should put the prts into the orret order so tht they tell the story of rdio from the beginning to the present dy. Key: 1 h; 2 g; 3 d; 4 b; 5 f; 6 ; 7 j; 8 ; 9 i; 10 e 3 Chek through the order. Then, students work in pirs on Ativity 2 nd prepre four questions bsed on the text. When they hve written their questions, they tke turns sking their questions to the rest of the lss. You my wnt to give them n exmple question before they begin: Wht prt did Guglielmo Mroni ply in the history of rdio? (He sent the first wireless messge.) Key: students own nswers A INTERVIEW 1 Explin tht you wnt the students to imgine tht they re going to interview BBC rdio host. Hnd out A rdio interview worksheet 1. In the Prepre the interview tsk, they will find some informtion bout the host, s well s some prompts to help them prepre questions for him. Tell them to form questions using the prompts. Key (suggested nswers): In wht wys do you think rdio hs hnged over the pst 20 yers?; b Do you think rdio will still be here in 100 yers?; Aprt from plying musi, you lso interview musiins. Whih interviews do you prtiulrly remember?; d Ws there prtiulr rdio show or host tht you regulrly listened to when you were young?; e How would you desribe your show?; f Ws rdio importnt to you when you were growing up?; g Your show is on BBC 6. Cn you tell us bout the sttion?; h Did rdio ply n importnt prt in your suess?; i Who deides wht musi you ply on your show?; j Wht do you like bout working in rdio? 2 Chek through the questions together nd mke sure they hve the sme mening s the suggested questions in the nswer key. 3 Give eh student one ut-up setion of the interview on the A rdio interview worksheet 2. If you hve more thn 10 students, split the students into two or more groups; otherwise, work s whole lss. Students must first red their setion nd ssign to it the orret question from the previous tsk. Go round nd monitor to mke sure eh student hs the orret question students should not onfer with eh other. Key: 1 f; 2 d; 3 h; 4 g; 5 e; 6 i; 7 ; 8 j; 9 ; 10 b 4 Students now tke turns reding their texts loud (in the order the sentenes pper on the worksheet). The rest of the lss hs to deide whih question is being nswered in eh se.
5 Hnd out omplete opy of A rdio interview worksheet 2 to eh student nd get them to red the whole interview. Then, eh student should prepre one question for the other students to nswer, bsed on the informtion in the prgrph they were given in the lst tivity. Students then sk eh other their questions, either s whole lss or in their groups, s pproprite. Who got the most orret nswers? 6 Tell the students tht you wnt them to imgine tht they re going to present one-hour rdio show. How would they fill the time? Wht musi would they ply? Who would they interview? They should work in pirs or smll groups nd pln their show. Before they begin, point them towrd the Phrsebook on A rdio interview worksheet 1 nd go over the lnguge. They should mke use of it in their show. 7 When they hve hd time to omplete the tsk, sk the students to hoose segment from the show tht they n present to the rest of the lss. Ask the groups to perform the segment from the show. Teher s notes 2 HOMEWORK TASK Tell your students tht listening to rdio is gret wy to improve their listening skills nd vobulry. For homework, they should hoose n English-lnguge rdio show (probbly using the internet), nd mke time every week to listen to it. They ould report bk to the lss on whih show they hose, nd who or wht ws fetured on the show most reently.
A HISTORY OF 1 Put the story of rdio in the orret order. The first offiil ommeril rdio liene in the United Sttes wsn t given until 1920. A few yers lter, there were hundreds of sttions nd thousnds of listeners. b The brodst inluded Fessenden plying the violin. He lso red the Christms story from the Bible nd plyed reording of Hndel s Lrgo. During World Wr II, rdio beme the most importnt soure for news, nd the first rdio journlists ppered. d Fessenden mde the first brodst of the humn voie on Deember 24, 1906, from Brnt Rok, Msshusetts, USA. e Digitl tehnology now mens produing rdio shows is muh esier nd heper. The rrivl of internet rdio nd podsts mens rdio still hs future tody. f After the end of World Wr I, Lee de Forest strted brodsting musi nd news in New York. However, most people thought rdio should only be for two-wy ommunition. g Reginld Fessenden, Cndin engineer who hd worked for Thoms Edison, ws onvined tht the wireless telegrph ould rry the humn voie. h The history of rdio strted in 1900, when Guglielmo Mroni sent messge from Englnd to Cnd by wireless telegrph. Before tht, messges hd been sent using wires. i j In the seond hlf of the dede, television rrived nd the future of rdio ws unertin. Things hnged in the 1950s, when rok n roll rrived in the United Sttes nd young people wnted to listen to musi on the rdio. FM rdio, whih is better qulity thn AM rdio, ws invented in the 1930s, but it wsn t used until the 1970s beuse no one thought better udio qulity ws importnt. 2 Write four questions to sk the lss bout the story of rdio. A history of rdio worksheet b d
PREPARE THE INTERVIEW You re going to red n interview with Tom Robinson, who spent 27 yers s reording rtist nd touring musiin with the Tom Robinson Bnd (TRB) between 1975 nd 2002 before beoming rdio host for the BBC. Write the questions you think we sked. Here s list of the informtion we wnted to find out. b rdio / hnged over the pst 20 yers? rdio / still here in 100 yers? interviews / you prtiulrly remember? A rdio interview worksheet 1 d fvorite show or host when / young? e desribe / show? f rdio importnt when / growing up? g tell bout the sttion? h rdio / ply importnt prt in your suess? i who / deide / wht musi to ply? j wht / like bout working in rdio? PHRASEBOOK How to sound like rdio host Thnk you for tuning in to Rdio... Tody, on Rdio..., we ll be tlking to... / hering musi from... / disussing... And now, on Rdio..., we hve worldwide exlusive for you: the brnd-new single from... And now for the interview you ve ll been witing for / the news / the wether. We re joining... live on the streets of... to her people s views on... Tody, we re disussing... Cll us to shre your views with our listeners or to pose question to tody s guest. And next, we re going over to... A big thnk you to ll our listeners. Be sure to tune in gin tomorrow. Till then, good-bye.
READ THE INTERVIEW Red the interview nd write the questions in the orresponding spes. Q1 Yes. I ws born in 1950 nd my fmily didn t even hve TV until I ws 11 yers old. So I grew up with the hbit of listening to rdio rther thn wthing television. In the mid-1960s, BBC musi rdio ws still very onservtive. The reords tht teengers liked were very seldom plyed. So most of the musi we herd t tht time me from pirte rdio ships outside British territory with powerful trnsmitters on bord. Q2 The pirte rdio sttions were finlly losed down in mid-1967. In those lst six months, new dis jokey rrived on bord the Rdio London ship. The musi tht he plyed ws so new nd so different tht he helped bring bout musil revolution in the United Kingdom tht yer. His nme ws John Peel. Q3 Yes. In those pre-internet dys, ntionl rdio ws the only wy people ould get to her new bnd. If the BBC s ntionl pop sttion, Rdio 1, didn t ply your reord, then nobody would ever know it existed, but lukily, they did ply my first single, 2-4-6-8 Motorwy. A rdio interview worksheet 2 Q4 BBC 6 Musi is digitl network dedited to good-qulity modern musi, nd the so-lled Heritge trks tht hve influened tody s musiins. Q5 I try to ply mix of interesting new musi nd interesting old musi. Younger listeners seem to enjoy hering older rrities in mongst the newer, more fmilir trks. Older listeners of my own genertion lredy know those, of ourse, but shre my exitement t disovering the newer stuff. Q6 The musi on my show is ombintion of trks from the urrent sttion plylist, suggestions from my produer, nd few oddities brought long by me. All rdio sttions hve plylists. The gret dvntge bout working t 6 Musi is tht the plylist unusully onsists of pretty interesting musi. Q7 Brin Eno, Thom Yorke, nd Bob Geldof were ll outstndingly rtiulte nd interesting interviewees. Mrk E. Smith of The Fll ws the sriest tlking to him felt like tiptoeing ross the rter of dormnt volno. Q8 Mking rdio shows you re lwys foused on the job in hnd, not onerned with stuff like mke-up, mer ngles, nd lighting shots. And you preserve your nonymity beuse people don t know wht you look like. Tht s blessing in this elebrity-obsessed ge. Q9 The biggest hnge hs been in reent yers, with the rrivl of fst internet. You n listen to sttion in Austrli just s esily s one in London. You n listen to BBC shows t ny hour of the dy or night. So you no longer hve to miss fvorite show. And, with podsting, the possibility of mking rdio shows is vilble to everyone ll you hve to be is good. Q10 Theter nd oper hven t disppered, despite the rrivl of rdio, TV, nd inem. And rdio is very, very muh heper to produe thn TV, inem, theter, or oper, so the nswer is resounding yes.