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ANNOUNCER:
You’re listening to “The Reading Group” from the BBC World Service. In this series we bring
together listeners, students of English, literature teachers and other contributors from the
world of books to share their enthusiasm for reading. We hope that following this series will
encourage your own interest in reading books in English as a foreign language.
Insert 1 – presenter Gary Stevens outside Bush House
Hello. I’m standing a short distance away from Bush House - home of the BBC World Service
- and I’ve come to see the statue of a famous man, described here as a critic, essayist,
biographer, wit, poet, dramatist and talker. But Dr Samuel Johnson’s greatest achievement was
perhaps as a 'lexicographer' – he was the creator of the first comprehensive English dictionary,
published in 1755.
Dr Johnson spent much of his life in this part of London, and he once said “when a man’s tired
of London, he’s tired of life”! He worshipped in the church across the road and he lived in a
house about ten minutes’ walk from here.
Later in the programme, a Reading Group reporter visits this house – now a museum open to
the public - to see the place where Dr Johnson wrote his dictionary, and to find out how he compiled it.
Gary: Now here we are – and I’m joined in the studio by two students and a teacher.
Annemarit: Hello, I'm Annemarit. I'm from the Netherlands. I started learning English at
school when I was 12. As I was not very good at languages, I spent a few
summers as au pair in England. It was here that I started to read English books
for pleasure as well.
Adrian: Hello, I’m Adrian Sack, I’m a journalist from Argentina and I’m reading a play
byWilliam Shakespeare, King Lear.
Jeremy: Hello. I’m Jeremy Page, Director of Studies at International House, a language
school in London. I read and write a lot of poetry and short stories.
Gary: You’re all welcome! Now, Adrian and Annemarit, you’ve joined the Reading
Group because you love reading books in English, but I wonder, where do you
like to read?
Annemarit: Everywhere. I'm easily carried away by books so I take the book to the tube or
the train, even when I have a bath I'll read a book. It's very difficult to put it
aside.
Gary: Do you read in the bath Adrian?
Adrian: On the bus, in the train I can’t, because I lose my concentration. Maybe in my
house, waiting room, and when I was a student at university I felt tempted to
read when I had to study.
Gary: Do you use a dictionary when you read in English?
Annemarit: I do, sometimes. If I can figure out what the word more or less means I won't
look it up in the dictionary, but I think it's better because if you do look it up
you'll remember them more easily.
Adrian: I only use a dictionary when I finish reading, I take note of the words and after
that I do it. Sometimes I have to give up because I can't understand the meaning
of a paragraph, and I go to the dictionary and I search the word but I try to
avoid it until I finish my reading.
Gary: I'd like to turn to Jeremy now, our teacher from International House. How
important do you think it is for students to have a dictionary on hand?
Jeremy: I think it's important in terms of reader security but it's not a good idea to go to
the dictionary too often because it really does destroy the pleasure of reading.
Gary: Do you have any tips for listeners on how to maximise their vocabulary learning
when they're reading?
Jeremy: I think that it's important to be an active reader, not a passive reader. In other
words to make a note of any unfamiliar collocations that you may come across
within a text, any moments that you think when you're...