Gabriel: Birthday PodCard

Download the MP3 file (518 KB, o:o2:12 mins).

Listen to this birthday podcard (audio card) and write the answers in your blogs.

What's the occasion?
How many people are talking?
Who do you think they are?
Who's having a birthday?
Where is this person?
What happened with a passport?
What's the weather like?
Do you know what a webcam is?
Search the internet to find a webcam from your hometown/country.
Where is Rovereto? Find information about it.
Why should Gabe take pictures?
What should he write in his diary?
What are other names for school bag?
What is Gabe's mum telling him to do?
Is she worried about anything in particular?
What is Gabe's brother telling him he should learn? and why?
Is he serious?

This is what the Director of Languages at Gabe's school wrote about exchanges:
Going on Exchange is a courageous and very particular learning experience...students engage with language in classrooms and set off for exchange with their own personal backgrounds and attitudes and intersect with the second culture at their own stage of development. There are no right and wrong points along the spectrum- it's a journey of change.
For many of us in Australia, coming here has been like an exchange, only that it's not a temporary journey, but a more permanent one. There are different stages of change when we get to know another culture. The last ones are ones of acceptance, adaptation and integration. We no longer believe that our own culture is the only one, or the best one. We are no longer ethnocentric in our view of the world around us. We understand and recognise that there are many different values and behaviours. We can finally start looking at things from different cultural perspectives.
We can discuss this in our forum this week.