A New Series for Leaving Cert Students available on Podcast
January 10, 2012
A New Year, a new school term and Raidió na Life 106.4FM is continuing its series for Leaving Cert students, Gaeilge na hArdteiste, with an emphasis on Oral Irish in the weeks ahead. Starting on Friday January 6th 2012 at 6.30pm, the Dublin-based Irish language station will broadcast eight programmes focusing on the Oral Irish exam, in particular on the new aspect of the exam, Describe a Picture-Series and Conversation.
The oral Irish test is of much greater importance in the Leaving Cert in the new syllabus. Marks have jumped from 150 to 240 for the 2012 exam. Another programme, concentrating on the Aural, Reading Comprehension and Composition, will follow. All programmes are available on podcast. Earlier programmes in the series, broadcast during the first term, are also available on podcast and individual students can listen at a time that suits them.
The first programme gives an overview of the new syllabus. Ten follow-on programmes then focus on the literature course. Two experts, who know the course inside-out, discuss part of the course on each programme. The poets Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Pádraig Mac Suibhne and Biddy Jenkinson, along with prose-writers Ré Ó Laighléis, Éibhlís Ní Dhuibhne , Deirdre Ní Ghrianna, and a host of other authors whose works feature on the new Leaving Cert syllabus, can be heard discussing their work. This is a great opportunity for Leaving Cert students to hear some of the poets and other authors reading their own work and explaining what inspired them. Teachers will find the programmes particularly useful – the variety of views will help provoke classroom discussion. This series, by the Scéal Eile production company, has been funded under the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland’s Sound & Vision Scheme for broadcast on Raidió na Life 106.4FM.
Further Information: Máiréad Uí Dhomhnaill: 087-7443037.
