Produce Oral Texts: Podcasts (3 credits)

Learning Intention & Success Criteria

Learning Intention: To develop deeper understanding of your chosen text and develop your understanding of oral language techniques.

Success Criteria: you will have been successful when you have:

• • you have developed an oral presentation that discusses the themes of your text: 4+ minutes @ Level 2 and 6+ minutes @ Level 3.

  • you have used oral language techniques such as voice, rhetorical devices and volume to create and hold a reader's interest

Section Four: Some examples of podcasts (65 minutes)

You can find other podcasts through platforms such as Spotify.

Section Six: Planning and producing your podcast (3-4 lessons)

Episode Format

Having an overall plan for what you're going to talk about is important so that you make sure you cover everything that you need to without waffling on or leaving important bits out. This structure also helps you to keep your listener's attention.

So what does a specific episode sound like? Check out this post about podcast intros, but it has a bunch of examples of different episode formats for popular podcasts. Here is a checklist to also make sure you get everything right.

Here’s one example:

• Teaser

• Intro Music

• Welcome

• Information and content on your research

• Call To Action (“what's your take on the theme of the text you've studied - what should we all be doing after reading it? What epiphanies have you had about the world that we live as a result of reading this text?”)

• Outro Music

Get creative with this part.

Writing / preparing your script - content creation

This part ensures success! This is where you can plan your ideas so that you develop your ideas and make links between them throughout your podcast in a "striking" fashion (which means that you grab your listener's attention and hold it as well as convincing them you are right and making them think how they can apply what they've listened to in their own lives).

This may include use of: narrative, anecdote, quotation, allusion, imagery, explanations, analysis, explorations, critique, details, examples, a range of dimensions or viewpoints.

Additionally , you want to select and use language structures and oral language features appropriate to the particular oral text to create consistency in meaning and effect, and to sustain interest.

Check out this website or this one to help you plan out your content- the loose bullet point approach will probably work best as then you won't come off like you're reading it! Watch the videos below as well for some ideas on how to best structure your content.

Recording & Editing

In a very basic way, you can simply use the Voice Memos function on your phone to record and then email through your podcast.

But, if you want to go a little more fancy on it by editing, adding in background sounds and things that will help you to push your grade higher, then download the free app, Anchor, which is powered by Spotify.

Which ever you do, be sure to listen back to what you have recorded and check for things like sounding like a robot, rustling pages, long gaps - if you hear any of these things, re-record!