“Strangers on a (Dublin) train” the Radio Sequel from Torre Barrina, in L’Hospitalet.

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Eventhough TorreBarrina  were not part of the project, we had exchanged activities to work on the episodes of Moderrn Love with Rose  well before the teachers at EOI Hospitalet turned their ideas into a project. As  Rose worked on several of the episodes of the series with her own students,  she shared this with us, which we felt compelled to include. Her students also voted on our stories and helped decide on the winners. We are truly grateful to Rose and her students for their fantastic help and contribution!

Here's Rose giving you some insight into how she works at TorreBarrina:

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My name is Rose Wolfson, I’m a freelance teacher of English and over the past fifteen years I’ve been working at different adult education and civic centres_ as well as at some EOI’s_ giving language and monographic courses and also conducting communication workshops such as Idiomatic, which is the space this radio sequel comes from. 

Among the many different activities and training courses that take place at Torre Barrina, there is Idiomatic, which is an English communication workshop I’ve been in charge of over the past five years. Every quarter we focus on different topics, and towards the end of the term, we try to carry out multimedia projects in small teams _ usually radio programmes or podcasts_ which reflect and consolidate the work that has been done during the course.     

Incidentally, prior to the beginning of classes last term, I’d had a chat with my dear old friend and fellow teacher, Griselda Paltor, on “Modern Love”, the TV show and New York Times column, and discussed the communicative and language teaching potential of both. We’d exchanged ideas for class activities on some of the nicest episodes, and as I loved Griselda’s proposal for “Strangers on a Dublin train”, I decided to use it in my Idiomatic class, as part of a series of activities on the issue of Personality, Love and Relationships, based on some of the stories from the show & column. Strangers… was clearly my students’ favourite, and one of the teams chose it for their end-of-term radio podcast, which they turned into a wonderful radio sequel!  I must say the whole project was their own collaborative creation: they came up with the idea for the sequel, they wrote the script, found the music they wanted to be played and of course acted out their characters’ parts in the story. My only job involved supervising the editing of the text, and giving them pronunciation and intonation feedback while rehearsing for the radio recording, in which we counted on the invaluable help and expertise of Jordi Melich, our radio and sound technician at Torre Barrina.

So having said all that, we’re delighted to take part in this wonderful project, and very grateful to have the chance to share it with other language learning centres!

Rose Wolfson