Let's Learn English! Topic: The News

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Is, um, it might seem like a relatively simple topic, but, uh,
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the news, um, when I started researching this lesson there is, uh,
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there are a lot of things that I can teach you about the news in English.
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So welcome to this English lesson about the news. Um,
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I'm going to jump right to the first page, uh,
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today and talk about news sources.
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But first let me make sure
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that everything is working. It looks like everything is working well at my end.
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Um, again, we are here for a lesson about the news.
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People are curious about what is happening in the world and what is happening
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around them. So most of us actually are interested in the news.
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Um, the news can be local, it can be, uh, the news of your country.
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It can be news from the world, uh,
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and you can get the news in a variety of different ways.
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So thank you for being here for this lesson about the news. As I said,
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we're going to start by talking about news sources.
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So when you talk about news sources,
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that means where you get your news from.
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So some of us are old and we still get our news from the TV.
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So we watch TV news. Notice there I said that you watch the news.
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Um, let's see here. Uh, yes, Deek,
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I've changed the color of the form and I've limited people to one question again
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that seemed to work well last Saturday. Uh, for those of you that aren't aware,
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you can only ask one question today. We're trying to, uh,
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limit the amount of questions. But news source, you can watch TV news.
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I mostly watch TV news. You can read the newspaper.
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So you watch the news on TV, you read the newspaper, uh,
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perhaps you listen to the news on the radio.
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That is still a very common way for people to, um, listen to the news.
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Or maybe you read the news on the internet,
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maybe you go to Google news or maybe you have an app, uh,
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possibly on your phone that you use to read the news. Um, so those are,
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I would think the four major news sources. Um, there might be others,
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but these are the major four news sources.
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The place where people get their news from. Um, so again, uh,
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we're going to start by talking a little bit about TV news.
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This is news that you get while you are watching television. Um, and again,
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this is my favorite way, uh,
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to watch the news are to get the news is on the television.
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Sometimes after supper at 6:00 PM,
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we turn on the television so that we can watch the news. Uh,
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and when you watch news on TV,
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you are most likely watching news from a news network.
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So a news network is something like CNN. In Canada,
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we have CBC news,
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this stands for the Canadian broadcasting corporation news.
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But generally you will watch a news network.
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I think most of you are familiar with CNN.
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This is a rather large news network from the United States.
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Some of you might be familiar with CBC news. Um, interesting fact.
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This news network has English broadcasting and French broadcasting.
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So in Canada you can watch the news in English.
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You can also watch the news in French. I, from time to time,
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watch the news in French. Uh,
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because that's a really good way for me to practice my French listening skills.
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So if you watch news on TV, it is from a news network.
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The person who is on the TV that is doing the talking would be most often called
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a reporter,
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but we would also call them a TV journalist. Okay.
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So this is a reporter or a TV journalist. You can use either word.
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Um, the, these are the people that go out into the world, uh,
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and they research what is happening. Uh, and they will report on the news.
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So a reporter has the name reporter because they report the news.
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Okay? So, um, I think TV journalists is, um,
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common as well. But for me, when I speak English, I would use the word reporter,
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television reporter. Um,
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if I knew someone who was on TV as a reporter,
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I would refer to them as a reporter. Um,
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I'm going to jump over and do some questions right away to get started.
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First question is from Vitaly Smirnoff. Hi teacher Bob.
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I hope you're having a great Friday. I'm going to say it again.
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It's the best time for the stream, one hour before I leave for work. Um,
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which news source do you prefer? I prefer,
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so I said I prefer the news on TV, but I also read Google news,
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so I go to Google news.google.com quite often.
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But my preferred method is to just sit on the couch and use the remote control
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to turn on the TV and watch the news that way.
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And it's definitely my favorite way to watch the news. Um, next question.
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I'll just do a few questions here. Kaiya says, hi Bob news.
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What's more popular in Canada? Just want to know the info boat Canada. Thanks.
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I think all the different kinds of news are popular in Canada.
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I think a lot of people get their news or read the news on the internet or on
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their phone using a news app, but I'm not sure what is the most popular.
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Um, next question from Gregory. Hi Bob. What is your favorite newspaper?
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What is your favorite kind of news, thanks for the answer.
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So my favorite newspaper is the globe and mail. Um,
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I actually have a copy of the globe and mail rate here. Uh,
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so this is, you can see there the globe and mail.
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This is a popular Canadian newspaper. We get it at school.
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So I often read it at work on my break. So anyways,
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just a quick, quick, a quick pause.
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There's no such word as quick in English. A quick pause if you're new here.
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Thank you so much for being here. We have about 328 people watching.
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We are talking about the news. If you are not a subscriber to my channel,
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there is a button over there,
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a red button that says subscribe and you should click it. Give me a thumbs up.
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Also during the lesson you can ask questions using the link that either Dave or
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Todd will put into the chat and I will try to answer as many of those questions
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as possible.
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And let's keep the chat for conversation and let's keep the chat in English.
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That is the best way to do this. Let me do one more question. Uh,
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Dick Shantz has the next question.
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Do you prefer reading the news online or reading the newspaper?
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Do you think newspapers will become less common in the future as reading the
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news online is more convenient. That is already happening in Canada.
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Newspapers, the print version of the newspaper, um,
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is having trouble surviving in Canada. Okay.
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So more and more people are reading online, so yes.
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[inaudible] I think newspapers will eventually become completely digital.
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Um, anyways, let's continue talking about TV news.
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The person here is called an anchor. Okay. This is a news anchor.
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Um, I think we used to say anchorman, but now there's men and women.
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So instead of anchorman, we just say news anchor. Um,
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because both genders can equally work in the field of TV news.
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So here we have a news anchor.
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The news anchor is usually at the news desk. Okay?
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The news anchor is not usually outside of the newsroom.
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The news anchor doesn't go out to report on the news.
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The anchor is usually at the desk and they are the main person that talks while
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you watch the TV news. So that is the anchor. Um, the person,
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let me go here.
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The person who goes out to report the news is the person that we would call a
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reporter. Okay. So just a little difference there.
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The anchor is inside the reporter is often outside.
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We also have what we would call a correspondent.
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So a news correspondent is usually, um,
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from my understanding a person who is in another country or who is far away
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reporting on the news.
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Often when there is a war in some part of the world,
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there will be war correspondence.
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So a correspondent is someone who goes to a part of the world where there is
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news to report on, uh, and they report back to, um,
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the news desk or the news network.
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So a little bit different than a reporter.
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I mean a correspondent is technically a reporter,
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but a correspondent would be someone who is out in the field. We would say.
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Um, so we have camera man, camera woman.
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So this is the person that you usually don't see when you are watching the news.
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Um, but we definitely have the people who operate the equipment.
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So whenever you see a reporter or a correspondent,
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there is often a camera person,
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a cameraman or a camera woman operating the camera so that you can see the news.
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Sometimes we forget when we watch the news that there is a camera person
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somewhere. Um, but there definitely is a camera person somewhere.
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Um, when you are watching, um,
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the news you would say that they are,
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you are watching a news story or a news segment.
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So this current segment is on American politics or this current story is about
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American politics. You can use either words.
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When I talk to my coworkers I would say things like,
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did you see that story on the news yesterday about that plane crash or some
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other news story. So we definitely refer to those,
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um, who are reporting, they are telling the story. It is a news story. Um,
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I, I'm just going to pause and say hi to everyone in the chat.
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There are a lot of people saying hello to me.
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Thank you very much for being here and seeing hi. I really,
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really do appreciate it. Um, for those just joining us,
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we are doing a lesson about the news.
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I'm going over all different English words and phrases that you would use if you
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are talking about the news.
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And we are in the middle of talking about a TV news.
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Let me find that sheet. We're about halfway through talking about TV news,
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one of the four news sources. Um,
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so I referred to this earlier. Um,
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the people who are at the news or in the newsroom, uh,
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we also call this a studio,
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but these people are reporting the news from a newsroom.
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So the room behind them, we would call a newsroom.
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We would also call this a studio. Okay.
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So that is where the anchors would be located.
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They would be in the newsroom or in the studio.
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And you'll often hear a reporter say,
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and we're going to go back to bill in the studio,
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or we're going to go back to the studio and Joe is going to talk about the
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weather. Okay. So often you will hear them refer to the studio, uh,
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as the newsroom. Um, or the new,
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they'll refer to the studio as the place where the dues is coming from. Uh,
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often when a reporter is out in the field,
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we also say that they are on location.
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So when a reporter is outside reporting on the news from the location where the
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news is happening, we would say that they are on location. Okay.
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So you'll even hear things like, um,
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we're going to go to Jane who is downtown on location where there is a parade.
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Okay.
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So on location means that they are at the place where some news event or a news
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story is happening or unfolding. Okay.
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Let me get a little drink of water here
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and then we'll do a few more questions.
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We talked about camera man and camera woman.
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We would refer to all of the people involved in the news as the news crew.
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So when you, uh, sometimes are in your downtown area,
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you will see a news crew.
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So you will see a sound person and a camera and a cameraman and the news
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reporter, you will see all of these people. Oh,
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Susanna just said on the scene in the chat. That is another location.
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Yes or sorry, another way to refer to it. You could say, um,
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Phil is on the scene at the, um, where the accident is downtown.
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So on location, on the scene. Um, but yes,
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the news crew is the group of people, um,
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that goes out to report the news and often they will be in a news van and I
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forgot to make a picture, but they could also be, uh,
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reporting the news from a helicopter.
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Some news networks have a helicopter in the air, you know,
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[inaudible], you know, the sound of a helicopter. Um,
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but I only made a picture of a news van. So you definitely have, um,
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different vehicles that news reporters use in order to get to the location where
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the news is happening. Um, and then the last one,
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I kind of mentioned this earlier,
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often a reporter who is reporting on a story from a location, uh,
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out in the world where we'll say,
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and now back to the studio where James is going to talk about the weather or
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back to you. Jim. Um, thanks for letting me report on this story.
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So you'll hear this phrase used when you watch the news. Uh, so that's TV news.
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Um, I'm going to do a few questions.
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I know I've been letting the questions build up. Oh yes,
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there's Gaga has the next question. Gaga says,
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what do you think about maybe people will abandon newspapers entirely in the
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future with the development of technology?
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I think newspapers will become fully digital.
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I think they will definitely be online only in about 10 years.
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Henry from Taiwan. Hi Bob.
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How does teacher Bob deal with fake news or the spreading of misinformation?
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Thank you. I try to read multiple news stories.
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So if I read one news story and I find it hard to believe Henry,
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I will try to find other new stories to read. Okay.
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So that if I read three or four stories on the same topic and I try to always
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get my news from a reliable source like CBC news,
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the Canadian broadcasting corporation, um, Oh, thank you so much, uh,
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for becoming a member.
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I have trouble pronouncing names when it's not the standard English alphabet,
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but sometimes [inaudible] will help me,
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but thank you so much for becoming a member. That is awesome of you. Um,
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next question. Let's see. Um,
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next question is from Lala Lolita. Hi dear teacher. We miss you a lot.
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How have you been? I've been good. How can we say what's new?
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If we meet someone? Come on.
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[inaudible] what other way to say that in English. Oh,
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so not technically related to the news, but a yes,
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we definitely just one sec here, Vitaly.
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Thanks D chance for helping me with names. Vitaly,
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thank you so much for becoming a member. That's awesome. Have you, uh,
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in English we say a lot of things. Uh, we say what's new?
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That is a very common English, so English phrase.
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So a direct translation of quad NIF. Uh, totally works. Um,
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remember, I'm only going to answer questions related to the news. Um,
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and, uh, here we have a question from Shen. Um,
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let's see here. Um, Shen says, do you watch the NBA often?
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Not a lot, but I watched the Raptors a lot last year when they won.
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I think the recent news about Kobe Bryant is still being followed by people.
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I feel sad while Charlie Puth, Wiz Khalifa singing, seeing CU again to him.
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Yeah, it is a very sad situation.
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So Shen is referring to a news story from a little while ago that, you know,
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Kobe Bryant was in a helicopter accident and passed away. Um,
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and it is very sad news. So, um,
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there are still new stories about that happening for sure. Uh, let's see here.
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Next question from Valerie from Ukraine. Hello Bob.
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Do you watch news about violence and crime?
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Is Canadian television more boring than American? So first of all, yes,
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Canadian television is a little more boring. Um,
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and I don't usually watch the news station that reports on crime as one of their
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first stories.
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I usually watch a new station where they report on local news.
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Both good and bad news first.
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But there are some new stations where when you watch the news,
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the first stories are always about crime and violence and I think because they
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know that people are really interested in those news stories. But I watch,
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um, a calmer version of the news where that is not the case. Um,
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let's see here. Next question is from Nina at morning Bob. Morning. Nina,
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what educational magazines would you like to recommend?
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I usually watch national geographic and CBC news. Hi. Thank you.
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I do recommend CBC news if you are learning English.
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CBC news is a very well made new show. If you have access to it,
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I certainly recommend it and I don't read national geographic for news,
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but that is a great magazine for stories from around the world.
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Um, let's see here. This next question is not about the news,
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but I'm going to answer it anyways. Laila Lolita says, hi teacher.
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Do you often celebrate Valentine's day in Canada?
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So happy Valentine's day to all of you. Um,
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I should put a heart in the chat. Should I um,
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isn't that what you're supposed to do? Um, happy Valentine's day to everyone.
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It is Valentine's day here in Canada. Yes,
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we do celebrate Valentine's day in Canada. Um,
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I'm probably going to celebrate it this evening by going out with Jen.
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We might do a little bit of shopping and go out for coffee. Um, but yes,
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Valentine's day is definitely celebrated here in Canada. Um,
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and if you're wondering what Valentine's day is,
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it's an evening that you spend with the person you love and you usually you do
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something romantic. Um, let's see here. Um,
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remember I will only answer questions that are related to the topic.
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Okay. Uh, thank you Isabella Lopez for becoming a member.
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That is awesome of you. I appreciate it. Thank you so much.
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Enjoy your little crown and your, um, your name is in green now,
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so I will see you in the comments or in the chat just a little bit better.
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Thank you very much. Zarine says hello Bob.
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What is the meaning of hard line journalism?
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So hard line journalism means that they will always tell the truth and they will
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most likely ask really hard questions if they are interviewing someone.
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So hard line journalism tries to get to the bottom of things.
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When you try to get to the bottom of something, it means you want the truth.
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Um, and regardless of the consequences, you will always try to get the truth.
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So that's definitely what hard line journalism is.
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Um, let's see here. Another question about what I prefer real quick.
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I'm all from KSA. Hi Bob. Thanks a lot for your efforts.
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My question is which one do you prefer watching news on TV or the internet or
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newspapers? It really depends day to day. I like the news on TV,
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but when I really want to know something I go to the internet and if it's
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the weekend and there is a newspaper, I will read it.
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Let me do one more question and then we will move on with the lesson. Um,
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let's see here. Amman says, hi teacher Bob.
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My question is why is news called breaking news? I know that is urgent news,
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but why brick? So it's breaking news.
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So we say breaking news, I'm not sure why it's called breaking news,
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but breaking news is news that happens outside of the normal time on TV.
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So if the news is usually on at six o'clock and then all of the sudden you're
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watching TV at 9:00 PM,
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you're watching a different show just for entertainment and they stopped the
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show and the news anchor or reporter comes on,
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they would say breaking news and then they would report,
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would report on something that just happened. Anyways, let's keep going.
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Our next news source is of course the newspaper.
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And I had a newspaper here. The newspaper is the print news.
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It is one of the older forms of getting the news.
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The newspaper in Canada has been, um,
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the newspapers in Canada have been having trouble lately because people have
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started to get their news from the internet,
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so they don't buy newspapers as often as they used to. Um,
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we also have what are called tabloids.
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Tabloids are usually entertainment news, um,
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and they are usually in Canada,
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found in the checkout aisle of the grocery store.
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So if you go to the grocery store and you're buying groceries,
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when you go to pay for your groceries,
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there are tabloids for sale in the checkout line.
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Um,
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and generally tabloids report on sensational news and sometimes fake news.
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Okay. So that is what, uh, I don't buy tabloids.
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I not a,
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I'm not a big fan of sensational news or fake news or entertainment news.
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I'm a person who is, uh,
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works for a newspaper is called a journalist or a columnist.
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This is hard to say. Columnist, columnist.
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I'm a journalist and columnist are very much the same.
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A journalist reports on all kinds of things.
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A columnist usually writes on the same topic every week,
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but they are somewhat interchangeable, so for sure.
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Let me just check something here. Um, Nope, we're good. Sorry.
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I just wanted to make sure the audio is still working. Um,
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so the person who works at the newspaper is called a journalist.
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Um, they write articles, so they write news articles,
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but we do still just call them stories. Okay.
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If you aren't sure what to call, um,
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what someone is reporting on it is almost always just called a news story.
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Did you read that news story the other day about the dog that ran away?
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Okay.
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But particularly in newspapers we would also call them news articles.
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Okay. I say okay. Luck. Okay. Okay.
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Um, I think you're familiar with what headlines are.
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The headline is the title of the news story or article.
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So you will have headlines where the words are in a really,
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really big font and headlines kind of give you an idea of what the news story is
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going to be about. And of course we have with newspapers,
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the front page,
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it is exciting when you get your picture on the front page of the newspaper.
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If it's for something good,
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it's probably less exciting if your pictures on the front page of the newspaper
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if you did something bad.
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But the front page or front page news is the most important news of the day or
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the news that the newspaper thinks is the most important news of the day.
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Let me jump over and a few more questions. And then we will keep moving along.
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Let's see here. This is a question from Sean.
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Let me get pieced in here. Um, hello Shawn or Shawn.
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Hello, I'm new here. Do the Canadians often watch us news? Yes.
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So I will watch Canadian news most of the time,
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but I also watch us news a lot.
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We are close enough to the U S border, uh,
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that we can watch news from the United States park. Hi Bob. How are you?
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Who is your favorite anchor and who is the most famous anchor in Canada? Um,
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well I don't really have a favorite anchor. Um,
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my favorite anchor was a person. Uh, I'm just gonna check his stats here.
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Let's see. Here is a person called Peter Mansbridge.
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He was a reporter on the CBC. He was an anchor. Uh,
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he was definitely my favorite. Currently I do not have a favorite anchor. Um,
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Leonora, let me find Leonora. Hi Bob. Good morning.
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Do you think reading news everyday is a good way to practice English?
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So here is what I always recommend you do.
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Read the news in your own language and then read the same news stories in
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English and then watch those news stories in English.
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So read it first in your own language so you completely understand the story.
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So if you're reading a story about the Corona virus,
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read about it in your own language,
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then read stories about it in English,
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and then watch the news in English.
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It's a great way to help you learn new vocabulary and to learn new things.
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It's just an awesome technique. Um, let's see here.
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Kuo says, hi Bob.
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What's the hottest news in Canada recently? Thank you.
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I think the biggest news story in Canada is about the cruise ship just off the
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coast of Japan where people are not allowed off the ship because they're the
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Corona viruses on the ship.
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And the latest story I read was that 12 Canadians on that ship are now sick.
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So, and many other people. So that is probably the top news story.
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Um, Matt from Taiwan high teacher. Bob,
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do you like gossip news? No, I like normal, good logical,
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true news. I'm not a big fan of, uh,
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of anything gossipy or untrue. Uh,
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Norma has the next question. Hello Bob.
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I think newspapers will disappear little by little. Do you agree?
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I think newspapers in this form,
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I think these will disappear slowly. Um, but I think, uh,
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the news on the internet will survive.
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I think most of us will get our news from the internet as time goes on.
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Let me clean up my questions here. Uh, let's see. Next question.
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Let me find another one that's about the news again.
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If you asked a question and it wasn't about the news,
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then I'm just gonna skip over it. I, Layla, Lolita, hi again.
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I don't like to watch a lot,
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especially when it's not about bad news cause it affects in a bad way.
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Do you agree? I like to watch happy news,
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but I do also like to know what's happening in the world.
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So I will watch mostly news that is uplifting,
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that makes me happy. But I will also watch news that is more serious for sure.
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Okay. Um, we were talking about where we're,
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we were talking about the newspaper as a source of news.
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A newspaper is divided into sections,
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so there are different sections of the newspaper. Um,
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and those sections can include,
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the first part is really just the news section and it can be
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local news news that's happening in your city.
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It can be national news news that is happening in your country and it can be
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world news news that is happening around the world. Okay.
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So the first section of the newspaper is just really the news section.
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It's where you will read stories about things that are happening around the
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world, around your city and in your country. Um,
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there is also a business section. In fact,
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the one I've been holding up is the business section of the globe and mail.
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And the business section gives you information about companies and business and
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trade and stocks and money.
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It just talks about all the things in the world that have to do with business
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and money and finances. Um,
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another popular section of the newspaper is the sports section.
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So obviously this is the first section that some people grab notice.
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A section of a newspaper actually comes apart.
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Like you can take sections of the newspaper out. When I was a kid,
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when the newspaper came, uh, I would always grab the comics.
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There was a section that just had comics. Uh,
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and when I was a kid I would grab that section and that would be the first
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section I would read.
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Many newspapers also have an entertainment section. Okay.
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So you have a sports section, a business section and entertainment section.
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They might also have a section called culture.
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They might have a section for religion in some American cities.
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The newspaper has a section for religion and they might have a section for
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classified ads,
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which are advertisements that people put in the newspaper to sell things.
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Let me just look through, um,
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the rest of my lesson here to see how to pace things. Um,
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we talked about this one already. Um,
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breaking news is news that happens outside of the normal news cycle.
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So if the news is normally on at a certain time,
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but all of the sudden the news is on at a different time,
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it is probably because there is breaking news,
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there is something new happening in the world that they want to tell you about.
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Um, let me do a few questions, but before I do,
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I just to thank everyone for being here.
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Thank you so much for the people who are members help to support my channel.
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That's awesome of you. Thanks for doing that.
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I know Rachel and Shannon Lawley Lawley are here and we got a couple of new
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members today. Thank you. That's awesome. Thank you.
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To all of those of you who subscribe, if you're new here,
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don't forget to click that red button and just a couple of things.
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This video will be available again tomorrow or it's available right after I do
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it, but tomorrow it will have English subtitles.
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So if you're having trouble understanding parts of it, um,
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you should come back tomorrow and watch parts of it again. And this is new.
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There will be a, uh,
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the audio from this lesson will be available as a podcast probably in about two
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or three hours from now. I will put it up as a podcast.
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It might take awhile for it to, um, go out to all the podcast providers,
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but it's on Spotify, Apple podcasts, um, and everywhere else.
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So I'm just so you know that I will put a link below to help you with that.
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Let me do a few more questions here. Let's see.
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Leo from Brazil says, um, hi Bob. How's it going?
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How often do people in Canada spread fake news on the internet?
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Because here in Brazil, people spread it a lot.
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So it happens the most when there is an election,
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when we are voting for a new prime minister or when we are voting for a new
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premier, those are the names of our leaders.
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That's when we see the most fake news, um,
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that for sure. Uh, Divia says,
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when should I ask questions related to the other topic?
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Tomorrow morning at 11:00 AM there will be another livestream and it's open
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question. Um, and if you get your question in early,
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I will be able to answer it. Um, let's see here.
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June Lynn says,
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how to improve writing skills by reading the news or other ways.
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So here's how you improve your writing skills with the news.
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You read a news story in your own language,
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you read it in English as well. You watch it in English,
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and then you try to write what we call a summary.
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So you try to remember all the details of the new story and you try to write
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your own version of the story.
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So if you read a story about a lost dog in your own language,
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you read that story in English, you watch a news story about it,
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then you sit down and say,
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two days ago a dog named Fifi ran away from their owner.
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Okay? So read, read, watch, and then tried to write yourself.
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That would be a great way to practice your writing. Uh, let's see here.
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Um, Lionel says,
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what do your coworkers think about your job on YouTube and your passion for
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teaching? Thank you so much. I don't, here's a little secret.
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I don't often talk about my YouTube channel with my coworkers.
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I actually don't often talk about my YouTube channel with anyone.
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I talk about it with my wife Jen. Uh, we talk about it a lot. Um,
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and how to make it better. Jen is actually, um,
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part of making this work really well.
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I talk about it with my older kids quite a bit cause they helped me, uh,
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with ideas sometimes. Um,
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and as a family sometimes we sit around and I talk about the next video and my
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kids give me ideas,
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but I don't actually talk about my YouTube channel with my coworkers very much
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at all, once in a while if they ask. But, uh,
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not a whole lot. A solo English. Oh, high solo English TV. Welcome again.
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It's good to see you. Hi Bob.
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How do you think 24 hours news 24 hour news channels have changed how we watch
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the news. So I personally don't watch 24 hour news,
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but I do find it nice that we have a couple of stations on our television that
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have 24 hour news. So, um, I'm not sure how it's changed things,
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but I certainly do enjoy that there are channels where I can get the news
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whenever I want it, but mostly, um,
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I just watch news or I read news on the internet if I in that moment wants to
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know what's happening. Uh, let's see here. Sade says, Hey Bob,
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what about broadcasting news or channels meeting debate that they have guests,
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do you have specific words refer to those programs?
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So I'm not sure what you're referring to,
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but I think maybe you're talking about when there is an election coming up,
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they will report on the election and there will be debates between the people
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who are running for president or prime minister and those kinds of things.
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Kenzo, next question. Kenzo says, hi Bob.
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That's my first time here. Hi Kenzo. Um,
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do you think podcasts could replace newspapers too? I think so.
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I think that podcasts that talk about the news and report on the news could do
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that for sure. Next question. Lily from Vietnam.
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What is the difference between a newspaper and a magazine?
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I don't have a magazine here, Lily. Um,
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but a newspaper is printed on what we call newspaper newsprint.
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So it's this big format of paper.
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A magazine is actually more like a colorful small book.
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I wish I had one with me. Uh, newspapers usually come out every day.
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Magazines usually come out every month.
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So that would be the difference between those two.
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A Nazir from India. Hi sir, I'm a regular listener of your videos.
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I off, I listened to them while I'm working. My question, you often say,
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I'm losing track. What does that mean? Um,
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so I'm trying to do a lesson about the news,
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but if there was another thought in my head and I start thinking about that I'm
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losing track of what I'm supposed to be doing because I'm thinking about
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something else. So sometimes I'm distracted.
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I have other things that I have to do after the live stream and while I'm trying
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to do the live stream,
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I start thinking about those other things so I lose track of what I'm doing.
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Um, it doesn't happen too often,
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but it does happen once in awhile. Let's see here.
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And Nobrey how often do people around you?
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Coral with each other over the political news. Thank you for your lessons. Well,
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first of all, you're, you're welcome and not for the lessons. Um,
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people argue they don't coral or get angry too often.
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Canadians in general are quite reserved. We're quite, um,
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polite to each other. Um,
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but people do definitely watch the news and form opinions,
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political opinions about the government and how things should be run.
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And then they do definitely, uh,
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talk about it and argue about it once in a while. Uh, let's see here.
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Next question is from Agora pina high. When you watch TV news,
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there is a line at the bottom of the screen with some news moving very quickly
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on it. Some kinds of subtitles. How, what do you call this in English? So yes,
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if you look here, this is a TV. There's we,
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I just call this the ticker. I'm a news ticker.
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This is not the same as what this person is saying. These are just,
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um, titles of other news stories. Um,
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so there's often a little string of newspaper titles or sorry,
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news titles going along the bottom. So I would call it a news ticker.
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I don't know what the official name is for it, but that's,
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that's what I would call it. Hey, let's move on.
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Any kind of news that's covering a certain story is called news coverage.
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So this is news coverage of an election.
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So they're talking about an event that's happening and this is news coverage of
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that event. If there was a large, um, let's see,
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uh, a large demonstration downtown,
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if there was a protest where people were angry about something,
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there would be news coverage of that event.
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That means that the news reporters are at that event and they are reporting on
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it while it happens. So we would call that news coverage.
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This happens a lot when there is an election when there is a strike.
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So right now in Canada there are a couple of unions that are on strike.
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That's when the workers don't go to work because they are angry.
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So there will be news coverage of that event. Okay.
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That means that they are actively reporting on that event. Um,
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we talked about this a little bit earlier.
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There is now something called fake news. Fake news is, um,
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something that has started to happen in the last five or 10 years. Um,
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a lot on social media. Fake news, uh,
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is when someone creates a news story that is not true. Okay.
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And so this is fake news. Um, it's a problem,
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especially during elections.
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There is a lot of fake news when there is an election coming up in Canada.
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So we have to really be careful about where you get your news and what you read.
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Uh, let me have a drink of water here.
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Thank you to the 547 people that are watching. That is awesome.
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I'm always shocked at that number. I'm going to cough for a sec.
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So just a minute. [inaudible] or clear my throat. It wasn't really a cough.
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So a cough is when you like make that sound,
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but sometimes you just need to clear your throat. Um,
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we also have, um, I don't want to ruffle any feathers.
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I don't want to upset anyone.
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But in Canada we have what's called freedom of the press.
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So the news is created by the press.
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When you have freedom of the press,
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it means that your government allows your news sources and your reporters to for
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the most part report freely. Okay.
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I know not every country in the world has freedom of the press.
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I don't want to name names or accuse anyone of anything, but um,
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definitely it is a privilege and I appreciate living in a country where we have
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freedom of the press. It does help quite a bit, um,
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to get to the bottom and to find the real stories. Um,
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last thing,
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sometimes the news person or the reporter will interview someone.
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So this is the reporter. This is the TV journalist. Um,
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this is just some lady in the background who didn't know she was going to be on
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the news that day and this person is being interviewed. Okay.
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So they are, this person is reporting the news,
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there is news coverage of this event and she is interviewing this person here.
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So here we see someone who is being interviewed by a news reporter.
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Um, I'm going to do a few more questions and then we will wrap this up.
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Let's see here. Uh, Allen has a great one here.
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This is a great question. Ellen says,
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please tell us about some expressions related to the news.
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Like no news is good news. Thank you. So yes,
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we do have the saying no news is good news and that means, um,
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if you aren't hearing anything that's better than hearing bad news. Okay. Um,
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the other phrase I can tell you is that news travels fast.
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That's another English expression. Um, so when you say news travels fast,
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sometimes you tell someone something you'd know and they've already heard it
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from another person. So you could say, wow, news travels fast. Um,
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and then one other phrase I can think of is sometimes you have to tell someone
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some good news and some bad news. So we will say to someone,
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I have some good news and some bad news. Which news do you want to hear first?
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Um, so those are just a few phrases. Uh,
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Ellen that I can think of off the top of my head is, let's see here.
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Victor says, my grandpa made a big,
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Oh my grandpa made a big collection of old newspapers.
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It is so interesting to read old news. Do you collect newspapers?
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I don't collect them,
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but when I was a kid I lived in a very old house and my parents built a new
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house and we tore the old house down. Okay.
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So again, we had an old house.
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We built a new house when we tore the old house down.
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When we took it apart,
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we found old newspapers in the walls and it was really fun to read them.
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It was a really cool experience for me as a kid to read those old newspapers.
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A REO says happy Valentine's day and good evening. Thank you very much. Uh,
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are you, I hope you are having a good Valentine's day as well. Let's see here.
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Danielle has the next question.
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Is reading the news a good way to improve vocabulary? Thanks. Absolutely. Again,
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as I mentioned earlier, read the news in your own language,
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then read it in English and then watch it in English.
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It is a great way to learn new vocabulary. Absolutely. Uh,
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let's see here. Ramon has the next question.
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How's it going? What's your favorite app of news?
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I've recently read some news on BBC news, which really helps a lot. Um,
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can you recommend one or two apps you love? I don't use an app to read the news.
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I have an Android phone and if I swipe all the way in the one direction,
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I get the news from Google news.
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So I generally read Google news if I'm reading news on my phone.
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Let's see here. Um, SEFA has the next question.
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Greetings from Turkey.
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Canadians prefer to read news from the newspaper or from the internet.
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My friend Craig prefers to read the news from the newspaper.
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He reads the globe and mail every day.
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My mum prefers to watch the news on TV. So that's,
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I think it's, it's,
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it's a pretty mixed result when you start to think about how do people mostly
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watch the news? Let's see here. Um, Oh,
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Neary has the next question. Hi Bob.
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What do you think about the newspapers,
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which claim to be independent and unbiased,
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but their owners have many business size with government and other companies.
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So when a newspaper is biased,
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it means that instead of reporting the truth,
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they report the truth from their perspective so that they look good or their
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friends look good. Uh, what do I think about that? I don't like it.
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I think it happens in every country.
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I think even in Canada where I said we have freedom of the press,
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we still have reporting that is biased.
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I don't think you can avoid it because we are all humans and humans do things
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like that sometimes. Um, I'm just going to say a few last things here.
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Thank you again so much for watching. I hope you have a great Valentine's day.
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Two things.
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Please watch this video again tomorrow with English subtitles on.
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If there were parts that you did not understand,
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please go back on my channel and watch last Tuesday's video.
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I think you will really, really like it. I had a lot of fun making it.
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I bake cookies.
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If you want to see me bake cookies and learn English in the kitchen,
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go watch that video, this video.
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The audio will be available as a podcast in a couple hours. So look for that.
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And, uh, I'm Bob the Canadian and I'm teaching you English. Uh,
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if you're new here, don't forget to click the subscribe button. Uh,
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and give me a thumbs up and I hope you all have a great weekend. Uh,
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it's Valentine's day today,
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so I'm going to have a nice day at work and then I'm going to head out
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this evening. I with Jen,
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we're just going to go out for some coffee and spend the night on the town.
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So we're going to go to the city, maybe do a little bit of shopping,
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maybe walk around,
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although it's minus 15 Celsius right now outside that's a little bit cold.
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So, uh, let's see. Your arms here says today,
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Bob's face looks brighter than before. Yeah,
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I think the light is acting a little weird or my camera is. But anyways,
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thanks to Dave and Todd for helping in the chat.
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Thanks to all of you for being here. Uh, Dick shan't says poor night bought.
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Um, yeah, night bought, helps us know, uh, quite a bit.
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He's still saying that you can ask questions, but I'm done now. But anyways,
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have a good day. I'm going to push the button and we're going to end this.
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