English Makeover - Part 6 – Metaraja Anburasan | Текст песни

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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. The English
Makeover learners will be telling me about their problems and well…I’ll see what I can do to
help.
ANNOUNCER:
In today’s English Makeover, Karen will be helping a journalist and radio producer from the
Tamil section at the BBC World Service.
Clip: Anburasan
I’m Metaraja Anburasan. I come from southern part of India, from the city of Chennai. It is the
capital of the state of Tamil Nadu.
I work for the Tamil section and I’m a producer. Basically, I have a journalistic background.
Every day we deal with news stories and news despatches, for example we have to translate
them into the regional language, which is Tamil. Apart from that we have to do interviews in
English and in addition to that we write news copy and sometimes despatches concerning our
target area.
Vicki: At the moment, Anburasan broadcasts in the Tamil language. As far as using
English is concerned, he does translations from English to Tamil, conducts interviews and
sometimes prepares news stories about his region for other programmes. But soon things are
going to change - he’s off to work for a programme that’s broadcast in English.
Clip: Newshour clip/signpost
Coming up in the next 60 minutes…
Vicki: The BBC World Service programme, Newshour, which Anburasan is going to
work on for a while.
Clip: Anburasan
For six months I’ll be working with Newshour programme with the World Service. I’ll be one
of the producers working on the programme. I think my nature of job includes like writing
briefs about various interviews and giving a background about any major news development
throughout the world or taking part in the morning meetings and explain what could be the
news agenda for the day. And sometimes I may be asked to work in the newsroom where I will
be asked to edit or write news stories.
I’ll be working in a completely English speaking environment. I’ll be working with a lot of
people, presenters, producers who all work basically in English so obviously I’ll be writing and
speaking and communicating in English.
Vicki: Not only is the Newshour programme broadcast in English but Anburasan will
also be working in an English-speaking office, writing in English and attending planning
meetings like this one.
Clip: Newshour meeting
Newshour planning meeting…
Vicki: In the workplace, operating completely in a second language can be difficult. I
asked Anburasan what he was most worried about.
Clip: Vicki interviews Anburasan about his English language skills
ANBURASAN: First thing, I would like to improve on writing proposals, like project
proposals and also presenting an application form for attachments or for any jobs. But in the
BBC, because when you write a very good application if you present your case quite well that
itself like makes the job very easier. So in this particular area even though I write well in
English maybe I would like to know more about how precisely, how concisely I can explain
about myself and what I have done so far in my career.
And second thing would be this very cultural aspect where the words I use in normal day to
day conversation with English people, whether that offends them or whether it is kind of not
appropriate. So that's another area where I would like to work on like in a day-to-day
conversation how I talk to people and how I communicate with people.

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