"JM Dumont" . wrote in message
...
I teach English in a French high school in South West France and I
use
BBC Worldservice in my classes on a Worldspace receiver and a Sony
ICF-7600D.
Does anyone in this newsgroup use shortwave stations and BBC WS in
class?
All the best from the sunny Pyrenees.

I don't teach, but if I did, I'd tape some international
broadcasts and use them from time to time. Some
of the ham broadcasts from Chernobyl would be
useful in pointing out how different the reality
was from the official Radio Moscow view. Radio
Pyonyang would be useful as well as the Lincolnshire
Poacher and the Disaster Net used during Katrina
and Rita. Getting people to think beyond their
cells and Blackberries and laptops would be
useful.

--Mike L.