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Sheffield Hallam students

Jackie: This is Talk About English. I'm Jackie Dalton

Callum: I'm Callum Robertson and with us is language learner Barbara
Menegazzi.

Jackie: During the past few weeks we've been on a road trip, travelling around
different language schools in England where students have come to learn
English. Callum, you were recently in southern England, how did it go?

Callum: (responds)

Jackie: The theme of our trip was 'journeys' and we asked students we met to
write poems or stories on the theme of journeys. We also had a couple of
people who did some music. Among these was Viet Do, who is from
Vietnam and is studying at City College, Manchester at the moment. He's
written music that takes us on a journey to the stars in the night sky.

Jackie: Viet Do, you've come all the way from Vietnam, a very long journey to a
completely different world, to England. How do you feel about that?

Viet Do: This is the first time I go abroad and I go by airplane. Even so, it's very
interesting because I have the chance to try myself in a new environment.

Jackie: Viet Do, we've had all kinds of stories and poems from different people,
but what you did for us was a song, Can you tell us a little bit about it?

Viet Do: It was a quiet night, I sat on my bed with the guitar [in] my hands. Its
melody conjures up nice pictures [of the] mysterious night and in the sky,
the moon and millions of stars are bright.

Jackie: So you wrote your song, The Moonlight At Midnight, one night and for
you, it conjures up - it creates - nice images of the night and the stars…

Viet Do: I love night, I love the moon. Actually almost all my songs were
composed in the evening – that's the time for peace of mind.

Jackie: You compose most of your songs at night – that was a nice phrase there:
night is a good time for "peace of mind". Peace of mind – a time when
you can relax and stop worrying about things. Viet Do, thank you very
much for sharing your music with us.

Jackie: Well if you liked that, you can find another of Viet Do's songs on a link
on the right hand side of the webcast page, which he devoted to his
mother after she commented that he'd never written a song especially for
her. There were lots of other journey stories that we collected. Amber of
BBC Learning English has been reading them all and is going to tell us
what she made of them.

(Amber and Jackie discuss)

Callum: You can find some of those journey stories that students have written by
following the 'Journeys' link on the right-hand side of our webcast page.

Jackie: We've also had some messages in from many of you around the world
talking about journeys that were important to you.

(read messages)

Competition results
Who said "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step?" (Lao Tzu)

Jackie: That's almost all we have time for in this programme, but to finish, let's
listen to one more recording we did on our road trip. This one was in
Brighton.

Callum: (describes)

Jackie: Let's have a listen, meanwhile from all of us here at BBC Learning
English, it's goodbye.

All: Goodbye.

Brighton British Center Song

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