Looking back upon the discourses and debates that occurred within the past few months in our Talk Show classes reveals a substantial concept about them: Talk Shows are intended to challenge the minds of the participants. Rendering an environment for the purpose of critical and decisive conversation is as crucial as the presence of individuals who are willing to immerse themselves inside the realm of engaging dialogs.
Fortunately owing to the fact that Talk Show is a derivative of ESL conversation courses, learners attend these classes for the aim of amending their dialects and idiolect and their capabilities concerning English as a second language, and hence it is safe to say that all the attendees of the show are indeed interested in the matter.
However, we can not overlook the rawness of diverse levels that could be ascribed to the participants who are primarily English learners and not professional speakers. In this way ,the challenge of being in these classes are two-folded simply because the participants have to overcome the difficulties related to comprehension and production of thoughts in the second language as well as strive for making their statement as sensible and judgmental as possible.
It's no surprise then, that I convey the class towards a more mature, round-table discussion akin to humanity courses taught in universities across the world and the multitude of TV and radio talk shows of all natures such as Doug Stephan's Talk Radio Countdown Show and NBC's Meet the Press.
The participants may find themselves remotely confused and hasty at first; after all not every person had preliminary experience in this type of debating in their own language, let alone English, but as time goes by the ease of attending these classes would become plain for both the host and the participants, which is incisively what happened during my classes.
Bellow you can hear the first episode of TALK SHOW PODCAST (20 minutes ) which provides a brief summary of the major themes negotiated in Talk Show classes so far:
Alternatively you can download the podcast here
