The Talking People Podcast

Read the transcript of the Carter story and find my handout with language questions and another story, about the ORAL story Angela Carter took into account for writing “The Werewolf” (unfortunately known as… Red Riding Hood, the patriarchal version of “The Grandmother’s Tale”!) This post is new, from one posted in 2019 that was not … Continue reading A Feminist Halloween! Stories. The Werewolf, by Angela Carter

Check out the Unbowed webpage on the TP website Nota: marzo 2025: hemos tenido que crear este post de nuevo del original del 2019 porque aparecía con error y no se podía escuchar, no sabemos por qué. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/wangarimaathaich04.mp3

http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/ogichidaakweg_eng.mp3 Go to the downloadable workshop that includes this story: mujerpalabra.net > Clases y talleres > Tres Talleres de lucha noviolenta, ADNV y autodefensa en culturas de violencia-prevalencia, con “Ogichidaakweg” / Workshop 1 in Workshops on Nonviolent Struggle, NVDA and self-defence in cultures of violence-prevalence. Direct link: https://www.mujerpalabra.net/clasesytalleres/talleresluchanoviolenta/

Read the poem http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/tiffanymidge_writteninblood.mp3

Listen to questions answered by the United Nations on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Download the document (2 pdf pages) http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/FAQIndigenoushHumanRights.mp3 Go to the Talking People page on English-speaking Indigenous American People(s)

Listen to my reading of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (13 September 2007). Sit back! It’s half an hour! Download the document (32 pdf pages) Go to the Talking People page on English-speaking Indigenous American People(s) http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/indigenoushumanrights.mp3

Read the poems http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/dickinson2love.mp3

Read the poem http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/ellawheelercox.mp3

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Listen to this adaptation of an original advanced text on the Mirabal Sisters to the pre-intermediate level. It’s a mediation project by A2 (pre-intermediate students). I’ve recorded it to help them with the second part, and with the pronunciation of the pasts in the active and the passive! Read the transcript! More on the Mirabals … Continue reading Stories/Dates. The Mirabals & Nov 25 + Pron. Pasts!

Read the poems on the Literature page on the Talking People website

Go to Emma Donoghue’s page on Talking People and download a 10-page activity to work on the language in the amazing story. Here’s the audio. I hope you enjoy it! A warm thank you to Ms Donoghue for replying to my language questions. I’m sharing her answer with you all (see learning pack)! Happy March … Continue reading Stories. The Tale of the Voice, by Emma Donoghue

Find the text and the graphic here. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/artwork_mybodymyrules_desi.mp3

Find the text and the graphic here. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/artwork_women_rosa.mp3

Read the transcript here. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/fembios_valentinaquintero.mp3

Read the transcript here. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/fembios_adastolsmohegerberg.mp3

Read the transcript here. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/fembios_gertrudeeblion.mp3

Read the transcript here. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/fembios_gloriasteinem.mp3

Read the transcript here. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/fembios_hadizatoumani.mp3

Read the transcript here http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/fembiosmalala.mp3

Read the transcript here http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/fembios_evelynmillares.mp3

Read the transcript http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/fembios_simonedebeauvoir.mp3

Read the transcript here http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/fembios_hedylamarr.mp3

Read the transcript http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/feministbio_claudiamosquera.mp3

We start a new segment, Feminist Biographies, due to work by students involved in the I Semana Cultural Feminista 2019 of a public language school in Spain. Read the transcript here. Teresa de la Parra

Here is the Rebecca Solnit Pack (4 pdf pages) for Advanced EFL Learners (it includes the transcript of this podcast episode)

Here is a special episode, both in English and Spanish, for it’s been written for students and state-run/public language schools in Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas in Spain, where Education for Equality is a crosscurricular subject for adults, too. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/genderNfeminism.mp3 http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/generofeminismoycoeducacion.mp3 Textos escritos (la traducción al español tiene erratas corregidas en el audio): Mujeres citadas…

Go to the Talking People page for Books (no transcript, though) http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/maathai.mp3

Going to this webpage on Your Stuff! > Your Texts > Stories, you will find the transcript, too. It includes a page with Useful Language and links to get more Useful Language on various topics! http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/circus.mp3

Read the transcript http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/dial_whereareyoufrom.mp3

Go to the Ted Chiang webpage on Talking People http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/storyofyourlife_tedchiang_beg.mp3

Go to the Mina Loy page on Literature – Talking People http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/minaloylife.mp3

Download the AntiExam Pack: Virginia Woolf, the Spring Practice Test Pack for Elementary (Básico 1). Use this episode to prepare a monologue on Virginia Woolf. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/virginiawoolf.mp3

I’m excited to present a new segment (yes! Yet another! :D) which I’m creating because Mari Carmen, someone I worked with when she was in Básico 1 (Elementary) has sent in the script of a “monologue” she wrote for class, now that she is in “Intermedio” (B1). Thanks so much for this precious contribution! I’m … Continue reading Intermediate. OP on Healthy Food

Find the transcript here http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/06_TPTravelPhrasebook.mp3

Read the transcript here. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/writing_email_peopleplaces.mp3

Read the transcript here. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/writing_email_missingyou.mp3

Read the transcript here. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/writing_diaryentry.mp3

Read the transcript here. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/writing_shoppinghabits.mp3

No transcript. I’m protesting students’ obsession with reading and not training their ears to learn to understand. (It’s like a culturally patriarchal obsession with doing things the hardest and least enjoyable way, to make sure one fails, or has a hell of a time). So if you want a transcript, you can take it down … Continue reading Useful Language. Everyday sentences with C1 language items (socializing)

Read or print the poem http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/poems_conniefife_dearwebster.mp3

The worksheet with lots of questions is on this page (scroll down!) And here is the audio (part 2 – Questions with “he/she”) http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/qna_routines2_basico01.mp3

Read the transcript http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/seelookwatchhearlisten.mp3

Read the press release here. http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/genesharp_pressrelease.mp3

The worksheet with lots of questions is on this page (scroll down!) And here is the audio (part 1 – Questions with “you”) http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/qaroutines1.mp3

Read part of the transcript! http://www.talkingpeople.net/tp/0tppodcast/animals_osipandagorgorita.mp3

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