Arts and Media

Reported questions

She asked him why he wanted to be a foreign correspondent.

She wanted to know what parts of the world he was interested in.

She asked if he spoke any foreign languages. She wanted to know where he’d gone to university, and if

he’d taken any further qualifications. She also wanted to know what articles he’d written. She asked him what qualities a journalist needed to be a

foreign correspondent . She asked if he was physically fit.

Reported questions

They asked me if I was good at reporting. They asked me if I was able to write notes quickly. They asked me what time I usually started work. They asked me if I enjoyed working as a reporter. They asked me what I did if people didn’t answer my questions. They asked me how much time I spent travelling abroad. They asked me if I felt afraid in a crisis. They asked me what problems I had when I was reporting.

Reading

1. He said that he had become interested in his teens and had seen journalism as a good way of getting out into the world.

2. He said that his first job had been a stringer for the BBC in Ethiopia and then he had been offered a job with the World Service.

3. He said that it had happened when they had been covering Kosovo. They had been in a village on the boarder with Macedonia doing a story about a hospital.

4. He said that he had been paid by the piece provided/filed. 5. He advised young reporters/correspondents not to be

daunted and shy and to have chutzpah and integrity.

Reading

What qualities does a foreign correspondent need to have?

Where was Rageh Omar trained? Why did he decide to be a journalist? Where was he born? When did he first go to Ethiopia? How was he paid? What experience showed him that journalism was an

important job?

Translation

When I saw for myself the damage that had been caused, that really brought home to me the scale of the disaster.

We need to get an accurate estimate of what the new building will cost.

All this information can be conveyed in a simple diagram.

We will be covering the game live on Saturday afternoon.

Translation

People travel far and wide today. No one doubted that the president was a man of the

highest integrity. My search began after reading a piece in the Daily

Mirror. It's not fair the way my sister is always singled out for

special treatment. He’s having a really tough time at the moment.

Translation

He's only been here two months and already he's managed to wangle his way into the biggest property company in London.

Several journalists witnessed the incident in which eight people were injured.

She was not at all daunted by the size of the problem.

In her latest dispatch our war correspondent reported an increase in fighting.