Inside the project "
What happened on your birthday?", you have to write and record a discussion. Well, in order to do that correctly, here you have some advice:
- It has to sound natural, all the members of the group have to talk more or less the same.
- When you explain the event you have chosen to the others, do not take too long, give them a rough description of what happenned and do not explain all of them one after the other.
- Use a big variaty of formulas (all types), abuse of them, remember that English people are more polite than us when talking!
- Try to sound English! Exagerate! Careful with the /r/(strong), /j/, /y/ ... these are not English sounds!
- Contextualise the recording. Who are you? Where are you? What is the point of meeting your friends?
- Once you reach an agreement, finish it properly. Take the contextualization into account.
- Concerning the technique, use sound effects, if you can. (It makes the discussion sound "real")
- Record your discussion using "Audacity", a programme for editing audio. It's easy to use it, and you can download it free from google. If you click on it, a tutorial will explain you how to use it.
- Convert it into an mp3.
- Send it by e-mail to your English teacher, or, create a docs document and share it with her.
Here you have some of the discussions that students of your age recorded in previous years. Listen to them, they may help you a lot (learn form the good and not so good models)!
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