English Podcast - Improve your English language skills by listening to conversations about Australia
Conversations in English about Language & Culture in Australia - World Languages Podcasting provides a podcast series in various languages for the language student or native speaker to help improve language skills and knowledge of Australian culture. Each conversation is complimented with a full transcript and a page of language exercises.
Nicole Kidman. Steve Irwin. Colleen McCullough. Ned Kelly. Lynne and Glen ponder a number of individuals that could be quite easily categorised as iconic Australian people.
Podcast in English #4 - The Australian secondary school experience
Glen speaks to Ben, an Australian secondary student, about his impressions of life at a secondary school in Melbourne. Ben also draws on his experience of his exchange student experience to Germany and his family home stay.
How does Australian society structure its system of education? How expensive is an Australian education? Which avenues of study are open to both international students and Australian citizens?