News: Japan Earthquake, fuel shortages, power cuts
panic buying: when people rush to the shops to buy food because they are afraid being too late to get any.
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Japanese Tsunami
This report is not up to date. More than ten thousand lives have been lost so far in the disaster.
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Tragedy in Cambodia
More than three hundred thirty people are dead and hundreds more injured after a stampede during a water festival in Cambodia’s capital. The nation’s prime minister is describing the deaths as the biggest tragedy since the communist reign of terror in the nineteen seventies. Thousands converged on Diamond Island Monday night for a concert celebrating [...]
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Good News: Chilean miners rescued
One by one, some forty minutes apart, the trapped miners in Chile are emerging from a half-mile under the ground and into a hero’s welcome. The first of the thirty-three came up just past midnight local time and by mid-morning, thirteen had climbed into the rescue capsule nicknamed ‘the Phoenix’ and taken the smooth ride [...]
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News: Hungarian Disaster
Hungarian police have detained the head of the aluminum company responsible for a flood of caustic red sludge that killed eight people. Police say they were questioning the managing director in suspicion of public endangerment causing multiple deaths and environmental damage. Hungarian prime minister victor Orban says his administration is freezing the company’s assets. Orban [...]
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Haitian-Americans talk about the earthquake
Haitian-Americans, many of whom live in South Florida, are praying for good news after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti Tuesday. The earthquake registered a 7.0, toppling buildings and causing widespread damage. (Jan. 13)
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The Bhopal Disaster
On this day, the third of December, twenty-five years ago, at least 3800 people died as a result of a gas leak at a pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. Some believe that as many as 25000 people died in total during the years that followed. Even today, dangerous chemicals are still leaking into the air [...]
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News: flooding in Northern Britain
Cumbria is the county that has Britain’s famous Lake District, a very beautiful area of lakes and mountains. Here is the transcript of the video. Some words have been removed. Can you guess what they are? Answers at the bottom of the page. Authorities in England say they are (1)___________ checking the safety of about [...]
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Waste of time interview (boy in balloon story)
I decided to put this up to show you how the media can feed us with complete junk. A journalist wastes his time (this is the Associated Press, not some local small ads paper) interviewing a man who saw nothing! In the interview he even admits that he didn’t know what was going on, and [...]
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Crash and grab
Jonathan’s comment on the report: This kind of crime is nothing new. In Britain we call it ‘ram-raiding’ not ‘crash and grab’, although the American term is pretty good. The video gives you a good opportunity to enrich your vocabulary as several similar words are used: Burglary: cambriolage Burglar: cambrioleur To steal: voler Thief : [...]
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News: Boy band singer dies
The former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern was famous for keeping his Irish accent, not trying to change it to something more ‘statesmanlike’. Listen to the way he says, ‘thirty-three’ – if you have difficulties pronouncing the ‘th’ sound in English, you are not alone! The singer with the popular Irish boy band has died [...]
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Good example of bad journalism
Poor journalism in this report about the Airbus crash. A journalist’s job is to report facts, not make insinuations. This crash has no link with the Rio-Paris flight, but referring to it in the same report makes Airbus planes seem unsafe, and seems to be propanganda in favour of Airbus’s American rival, Boeing. A Yemeni [...]
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