Footsteps and faulty boilers: a podcast on a sceptic's ghost walk
Two podcast hosts join a guide whose ghost walk tells each story and then looks for a rational explanation (infrasound, carbon monoxide, creaking timber); students listen for detail and attitude, learn words from the podcast and script their own sceptic's ghost-walk stop.
C1Adults55 minPodcast
About this lesson
A C1 listening lesson (podcast). Dialogues and stories to listen to, with transcripts, speed control and ready-made questions.
- Level
- C1
- Skill
- Listening
- Type
- Podcast
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 55 minutes
- Topic
- Halloween
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Listening (read aloud), Multiple choice, True / False, Gap-fill
- Key words
- sceptic, dread, draught, out of the corner of your eye, infrasound, faulty, carbon monoxide, creak
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Follow an informal three-way podcast conversation and identify speakers' attitudes
- Understand explanations of scientific ideas given in everyday language
- Tell a ghost story and offer a reasoned explanation for it