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ANNOUNCER:
It's time for English Makeover from BBC World Service.
In this series, learners of English from around the world tell us their language problems. And
there's advice for them and you, from experienced teacher of English, Karen Adams.
Clip: Karen Adams
Hi, I’m Karen Adams and I’m an English language teacher and teacher trainer. And over the
years, I’ve helped or at least I hope I’ve helped, hundred of learners to improve their English.
The English Makeover learners will be telling me about their problems and well…I’ll see what
I can do to help.
ANNOUNCER:
Today's learner is Sora Hong from South Korea. Presenter Vicki Sullivan visited Sora at
college to see how the English Makeover team could help her with her English.
Clip: Kitchen
Cooking atmos…
Clip: Sora Hong
My name is Sora Hong, I’m from South Korea. I’ve been here nearly two years. I’m study at
Westminster Kingsway College. I just finished catering course, NVQ1 level and I'm gonna
study here until 2005. I want to specialise in pastry. I want to be a pastry chef.
Vicki: Sora’s got ambitions to be a pastry chef, making cake and special bread. But in the
international kitchens ofWestminster Kingsway College, everything goes on in English and this
can make things difficult.
Clip: Vicki interviews Sora about her English language skills
SORA: In Korea, we learn study English but we don’t know much conversation or things like
that. We just learn grammar.
VICKI: Have you found your English has improved since living in England?
SORA: Yeah. Of course. I couldn’t speak English. Just my name.
VICKI: So what do you do here on a day-to-day basis? What’s a typical day for you?
SORA: Normally we start ten o’clock and then we have a theory lesson and after two we have
a practical lesson in the kitchen so we finish five-o-clock or five thirty. And in the first year so
we just learn basics - preparation of vegetables and the meat, kind of meat and the method of
cooking, things like this.
VICKI: And all of this is done in English, obviously. How hard is that for you to understand
when all your lessons are in English?
SORA: First time it was really hard but now it’s getting used to..
VICKI: So you find it easier now than at the beginning?
SORA: Yeah.
VICKI: And do you have to do any kind of written work while you’re here?
SORA: Yeah. This I hate this written work. It’s really difficult. It’s total different from when
you speak.
VICKI: What do you think about your English generally? Do you think it’s quite a good level?
Do you think people usually understand you or not?
SORA: Maybe people pretend to understand me but I don’t really know. I don’t think people
always understand me.
VICKI: So do you have any specific problems with your English that you’d like help with?
SORA: Yeah. Pronunciation. I have problem with the sounds /r/ and /l/. For example if I want
to say ‘rice’ sometimes I say ‘lice’. It’s total different meaning. In Korean it’s the same
pronunciation but English is different position of your tongue. So it’s quite.. really hard.
VICKI: So that’s hard for you because the pronunciation is different in Korean. So are there
any other problems that you have?
SORA: Yes. Specially in the kitchen the ingredient is really hard to know because specially
pastry I never heard the name before. The cake, Victoria Sponge and things like this.
VICKI: So you have to learn specific vocabulary for your ingredients. O.K.
Clip: Kitchen
Cooking atmos…
Vicki: You just heard Sora Hong, a trainee chef from South Korea, talking about some of the
problems she has with English. She talked about two main difficulties. First pronunciation. She
confuses the sounds /r/ and /l/.

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