Culips Podcast Review

The Culips broadcast is more marketed for all learners and would be more suitable for a middle or high school classroom. In this podcast, there are 7 different series that a teacher could use for a variety of purposes. For example, one series is "speakeasy" where the podcaster focuses on pronunciation and sounding more fluent. There are also different conversations with different speeds such as "chatterbox" which is a series of stories, and "simplified speech" which is a slowed down version. There are also study guides that go along with these podcasts.

Culips seems really useful for the classroom. I appreciate that there are study guides and with each podcast there are particular vocabulary terms/idioms that are highlighted and explained. This makes the work for the teacher easier to figure out the podcast that they want to use. I also appreciate that there is a variety of series, so the teacher can determine what series would be appropriate for the learner. In terms of interest and authenticity, I would say that All Ears Podcast sounds more real and like a podcast one would listen to just driving down the road, but for instructional purposes Culips is a great teacher tool to have for ESL teachers.