bbc强化听力系列--Live webcast – Good, plain English Part 3（在线收听）

Live webcast – Good, plain English Part 3

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!