Showing posts with label reading and listening practice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading and listening practice. Show all posts

Friday 5 October 2012

BBC World Service - Witness, Fifty years of the Beatles

BBC World Service - Witness, Fifty years of the Beatles




Click on the title link above and listen to Beatles music clips (Love, Love Me Do; Please, Please Me and she Loves You) with an interview led by Simon Watts in 1962.  

The four young Beatles (Ringo, George, John and Paul) are interviewed as are George Martin and Brian Ebstein (their manager and stage manager respectively).  

Their 'natural sense of  humour' and 'love for fun' comes through really well in the interview as indeed do some of their 'character flaws'. 

The interview was conducted in a very different time era where musicians did as their manager and stage manager told them.  They dressed in suits as directed by Brian Ebstein instead of the jeans and leather jackets they had originally turned up for audition in.  

Very informative. Listen, sing along and enjoy!


Thursday 23 August 2012

Totem Poles - TEFL Global Resources

Telling Stories through Totem Poles

Read and listen to this short video approximately 3 minutes long.
Copyright of Charles Kelly www.manythings.org/


David Boxley describes the meaning of the totem pole for his family and people.  He was brought up under the influence of  Christian missionaries. Once a teacher, he then decided to create and tell stories through totem poles allowing him to express his Tsimshian identity and heritage. Watch him carve and decorate totem poles from red cedar wood with knives, chisels and sandpaper.