Podcasts in ELT

Hello everybody. Gökçe here!

How often do you listen to podcasts? I, to be honest, don't find podcasts that exciting and it's not my preferred media when I have free time. I would rather listen to music. On the other hand, I have friends that listen to podcasts daily, when commuting or doing chores, etc. I used to crochet a lot back in 2020, so I listened to Ahmet Ümit's audiobooks as podcasts on Spotify. There was also a time in my life when I listened to anything goes with emma chamberlain and remember enjoying it, that was before realizing that I no longer wanted to think about daily struggles and just wanted to appreciate the limited time I had to myself.

My bestie İlayda (immediately check her blog out after!!) and I prepared a little podcast to see the process. We enjoyed it so much because we wrote a little murder mystery. Tap to listen to our sound-rich story podcast!

Making a podcast was easier than we thought. The only struggle was the countless times we had to re-record but there's no rose without its thorn, right? Also picking sound effects to enhance the impact of the murder mystery was so fun. We were given some keywords to write a story about, so finding ideas was not difficult.

When I become a teacher I will assign the task of listening to a podcast, if not creating one, to my students since it's a fun way of consuming media as well. Their interests vary, not a problem, because there are so many podcasts to pick from.

Hope you enjoy it. Until next time.

See ya!