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Jackie: You're listening to talk about English with Jackie Dalton, Callum
Robertson and our guests today: Anna McKane – journalist, author and
trainer and Stefan Roemermann, an English learner from Germany.

Jackie: We've been talking about blogging and hearing from the London
Underground blogger, Annie Mole. Here at BBC Learning English, we
have our very own blog.

Callum: (explain teacher/student blog)

Jackie: On the phone from Slovakia we've got Anita…

(talk to Anita)

Jackie: Stefan we set you an exercise earlier on where you had to come up
with new words for a sentence we gave you. How are you getting on?

Stefan: (responds)

Callum: The sentence we gave you was 'The person ran down the road towards
the building,' What have you come up with?


Stefan: (responds)

Jackie: One part of using language which is very important for most
journalists is choosing words which are accurate and neutral. Callum,
could you explain what that means?

Callum: (being fair)

Jackie: We're going to hear now from Fouad Razek, formerly Head of News
and Current Affairs for the BBC's Arabic service. He's very much
aware of the importance of choosing your words carefully as a
journalist so that you explain things as objectively as possible.
He's about to give us an example of a recent difficulty with language
that came up. Have a listen

Fouad

Jackie: (summarise: martyr – pleases Palestinians, terrorist - pleases Israel
use 'suicide attacks' as a more neutral phrase) Anna, is choosing the
right language difficult for journalists?

Anna: (responds)

Jackie: Stefan, you had a question for us?

Stefan: What does 'watershed' mean?

Callum: (Explains 'watershed' – a time in the evening after which television
programmes which are not considered suitable for children can be
broadcast)

Jackie: That's all we've got time for. Next week: the media, Poland – our
country of the month - and the results of our competition to win an
mp3 player. You've got until Monday 18
th
September to enter – details
of how to do that are on our website. Thanks to our guests, Anna and
Stefan and do join us again for more Talk About English. Goodbye!

All: Goodbye!

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