[00:00.00]Unit 25 Real life
[00:08.36]Varieties of English
[00:11.61]1 a) The radio programme From Our Reporter in..
[00:16.35]features news reports from around the world.
[00:19.26]Listen to the three items from the US,
[00:21.57]India and Australia,
[00:23.40]and make brief notes in the table.
[00:26.14]1 American English
[00:29.66]Around 10,000 people gathered in Washington
[00:32.36]this week to protest against the globalisation
[00:34.85]policies of the International Monetary Fund
[00:37.28]and the World Bank,
[00:38.69]which were holding their annual general meeting
[00:40.68]in the nation's capital.
[00:42.66]Riot police used tear gas to disperse the
[00:44.87]marchers and several hundred were arrested
[00:47.20]over three days of protests.
[00:49.43]Following the recent protests in Seattle,
[00:51.94]which attracted an estimated 60,000 people,
[00:54.33]extra police were on duty to ensure
[00:56.08]that all scheduled meeting
[00:57.46]were permitted to go ahead,
[00:59.43]although four European finance ministers
[01:02.02]were unable to attend one meeting
[01:03.82]after being cut off by street protestors.
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