1. Tuesday 30th October
Spoken Language Part 2:
Writing a Podcast

2. Tuesday 30th October
Spoken Language Part 2:
Writing a Podcast
Your final written task for the spoken language unit will
be to write the script for a Podcast.
This is how it looks on the Edexcel task list…
“TASK: You will have to plan a podcast in
which you inform the listeners on a topic of
your choice”
Purpose – Audience – Try to show you have Genre –
Although they are often to
Show the marker
entertain, many podcasts considered your audience. Podcasts are
are informative –
usually quite niche – often for fans or that you know
describing past events or
provides tips/guides on listeners who are familiar with the what genre you
your specialist subject.
subject matter. are writing in!

3. Tuesday 30th October
Spoken Language Part 2:
Writing a Podcast
Podcasts: Like a radio broadcast but nowadays most
likely to be a short, bite-sized audio file (mp3) that
can be downloaded online through outlets such as
Apple’s iTunes.
This task will be doubly helpful for many of us – you
can record yourself delivering your podcast and this
can be marked for your solo speaking and listening
task if you need/wish to improve your mark from
late last year (when most of us were on Summer
Holiday mode post-exams!)

4. Tuesday 30th October
Spoken Language Part 2:
Writing a Podcast
• Anyone can make a podcast and
submit them to iTunes.
• There are podcasts on every
subject you can imagine on
iTunes and all are free to
download.

5. Tuesday 30th October
Spoken Language Part 2:
Writing a Podcast
• If you have iTunes on your
computer or on an iPhone or iPod
then you should have a look at the
range of topics out there – go to
popular categories such as TV, Film
or Games and see what the most
interesting podcasts are that pop
up 

6. Tuesday 30th October
Spoken Language Part 2:
Writing a Podcast
Top UK Podcasts
•The Guardian Film Show
•Financial Times Money Tips
•FIFA Ultimate Team UK Guide
•606 Football Weekly
•The Anfield Wrap LFC Podcast
Each of these has a specific audience and
only attempts to target this market

7. Mr Howard’s
model podcast
• If I wanted to create a podcast
about the latest goings on at
Peterborough United, I would need
to consider the GAP
• Genre: Podcast – First off, it needs
to have a clear title in the same way
as the examples I gave earlier, as
just like the App Store – if
customers do not know what your
podcast is about from the title, they
won’t click on it! Eg. The Anfield
Wrap gives a big clue that is a LFC
podcast, so Evertonians will know
not to bother clicking on it!
• It also needs to be clear what the
podcast is about in the introductory
first few sentences– they is nothing
worse than listening to a podcast
only to find out several minutes
down the line that it has no interest
to you whatsoever.

8. Mr Howard’s
model podcast
• If I wanted to create a podcast
about the latest goings on at
Peterborough United, I would need
to consider the GAP
• Audience: Consider who is going to
be listening – are they teenagers?
Older people? Small children? Tailor
your language to your audience
• Is your podcast going to be for
newcomers to your topic or is it
going to assume previous
knowledge?
• Eg. For my Peterborough United
podcast, I will assume that my
listeners will be Peterborough
United fans so I can mention players
past and present or use phrases that
only Posh fans will know (Like the
word Posh!) eg. I make a reference
to the “London Road End” –
Peterborough fans will know this is
the terraced stand behind the goal.

9. Mr Howard’s
model podcast
• If I wanted to create a podcast
about the latest goings on at
Peterborough United, I would need
to consider the GAP
• Purpose: “To inform” means to retell
or recount facts or information.
• In other genres, a newspaper article
“informs” us of the news
• A TV news broadcast “informs” us of
what is going on in the world
• Therefore, in my podcast, I am going
to “inform” my listeners of the
previous week’s Peterborough
United matches, informing the
listeners of how the team got on.

10. PERRIER
• Remember PERRIER
Pronouns
Emotive language
Rhetorical Questions
Repetition
Imperative Verbs
Exaggeration
Rule of Three
• Can you spot any use
of PERRIER devices in
my Podcast opening
on the next slide?

11. The Posh Podcast Introductory few
words show that you
Imperative verb: Download the latest – know you’re writing a
command, ordering you to do it! podcast
• Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of
The Posh Podcast… Your weekly dose of all Pronoun: Your –
things Peterborough United, with your host suggests sense of
Blue Peter. Download the latest episode belonging/ownership
every Tuesday on iTunes.
• How much difference does a week make? Rhetorical question
We were on the bottom… rock bottom…
things looked like they couldn’t get any
worse. Repetition of “bottom” to
• Coming up, we will be taking you through show how low we were!
the two games Posh played this week - the
result of which is the whole of
Peterborough has been turned upside down Exaggeration
– mainly by one man. One man they call the
white Pele.
• You know him as Boyd. George Boyd.
Emotive language – the city
being turned “upside down”

12. The Posh Podcast
• “The White Pele” outdid the
Brazilian in the first of Posh’s
matches this week with a
wonder goal against
Huddersfield Town on Tuesday.
• The 27 year old winger knocked
in two goals on the night, but it
is the second of Boydy’s goals
that will be remembered.

13. The Posh Podcast
• Posh’s beloved Number Ten had a
little look…. Spotted their keeper
off his line… and executed his shot
brilliantly.
• What I didn’t mention is that he
was standing in the centre circle at
the time. If Leo Messi had done
that you would be seeing it over
and over again.
• The wondergoal sealed the blues’
first win at home all season to the
rapture of the London Road End.
Premier League – Here we come!

14. So now it’s your turn…
• You have seen how I have chosen an area that I know a fair bit
amount, as a Peterborough fan – could you put your own expertise
to good use?
• Some ideas:
• A podcast that takes a look at the previous week’s cinema
releases? Or music releases? Videogame releases?
• Eg. “Sweaty Goal Anonymous: How to improve your Ultimate
Team on the Cheap”
• “Hot or Not: What’s Hot and What’s Not this week in the charts”
• “Level Up: What games are out this week”
• A podcast that looks back on the week’s TV? Or the episodes of one
TV show in particular? Ie. Thousands download the weekly TOWIE
podcast, reviewing the previous week’s episodes and commenting
on what went on!

15. So now it’s your turn…
• A revision podcast – many schools create
revision podcasts to “inform” pupils about a
subject on an upcoming exam, that pupils can
then download and listen to in their own time
as part of their revision
• This idea might be doubly effective – you can
use another subject’s topics, just like those of
you who did your speeches on topics you had
to revise for PE/Psychology/Sociology etc.

16. An example of a plan
1. Introduction – Greeting and introduce the
Podcast: Give title, name of host, brief summary
of what your broadcast is going to be about and
how listeners to get future episodes (they all start
this way – even though listeners must have
somehow managed to find their way onto iTunes
in the first place, but they still mention it!)
•“Hello and welcome to…”
•If you enjoy this podcast, remember to check us
out every Friday with a new episode available to
download from iTunes

17. An example of a plan
2. Summarise what you are going to talk about this episode.
Listeners will want to know what to expect (in brief – don’t give
too much away, force them to listen to the whole thing to get the
big scoop!)
For my Posh example: “This week we will be discussing
Peterborough’s matches against Huddersfield and Derby as well as
reveal an exclusive interview with the manager.”
Eg.2 For a Fifa Ultimate Team podcast: “Coming up, we will reveal
the fastest 11 Silver Strikers available on Fifa, we rate this week’s
in-form players and we discuss: Should you saving those coins up
for Messi or Ronaldo?”
Eg. 3 For a film podcast: “This week we will review Skyfall – best
Bond yet? ,take a look at Madagascar 3, then we have some
exclusive news fresh from the set of The Hobbit.”

18. An example of a plan
3. Start talking about your first ‘item’
Ie. The first thing you mentioned in your “coming
up” summary
For our podcasts, aim for three solid items, as
described in the examples on the previous page.

19. Example of Podcast Plans
1. Introduction – get the word “Podcast” in there, mention
“iTunes” and the word “download” – show off you know the
conventions of a podcast
2. Coming up…. Three items that are in your podcast
3. Your three items, as you told the listeners above.
Eg. #3: Premier League
Eg. #1: Film:
Football:
Eg. #2: Games:
Item 1: Skyfall
review Item 1: The Merseyside
Item 1: Fifa 13 review
Item 2: Madagascar Item 2: Assassin’s Derby
review Creed III review Item 2: Man United vs
Item 3: News from Item 3: Call of Duty: Chelsea
the Hobbit preview Black Ops 2 – what Item 3: Man City so far: How
you need to know! have last year’s champions
fared this season?