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PROGRAMMANUS
PRODUCENT: CHRISTINE DEMSTEADER
PROJEKTLEDARE: ANNA ODENHALL
BESTÄLLNINGSNUMMER: 68510462706
NEWSREEL 6/2016
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Presenter:
You’re listening to Newsreel. I’m Christine Demsteader. Coming up in
today’s programme:
• Female soccer stars in the US say unequal pay is just not fair
• Harry Potter author JK Rowling was told to take a writing course to get a
new book published
• And there were fights in more than 50 cities on the same day. Friendly
pillow fights, that is. Find out more later in the show.
• Soccer stars sue
Presenter:
Five members of the US women’s soccer team have filed a complaint
because they do not earn as much as their male counterparts in the national
team.
They are suing the US Soccer Federation for discrimination.
They say they earn four times less than the men despite being more
successful and generating more money. The US women’s soccer team won
the World Cup in 2015.
unequal pay
ojämlika löner
writing course
skrivkurs
pillow fights
kuddkrig
to file a complaint
att lämna in ett klagomål
male counterparts
manliga motsvarigheter
to sue
att stämma
to earn
att tjäna
Goalkeeper Hope Solo has played at a national level since the year 2000.
Listen to what she said in an interview on the Today show in America.
Hope Solo:
We continue to be told we should be grateful just to have the opportunity to
play professional soccer and to get paid for doing it and in this day and age
it’s about equality – it’s about equal rights, it’s about equal pay.
Presenter:
According to Solo and other players, women’s football is more popular
among spectators and, in the US last year, more people watched women’s
games than men’s games.
grateful
tacksam
in this day and age
nuförtiden
equality
jämlikhet
spectators
åskådare
• Teenager treks the Poles
Presenter:
An adventurous teenager from Melbourne, Australia, is attempting to
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become the youngest person to cross the North Pole, the South Pole and
Greenland.
Jade Hameister, who is 14 years old, says she wants to "inspire young
women around the world to be more active and chase their dreams.”
chase their dreams
jaga sina drömmar
Listen to what she told the Australian newspaper Herald Sun.
Jade:
My journey over the next couple of years will cover a total of around 2,000
kilometres on skis in some of the world’s most extreme and beautiful places.
It’s going to be really hard but it will be a great adventure. It wouldn’t be
amazing if it was easy.
Presenter:
Jade’s dad is joining her on the expeditions. She is documenting her
experience on Instagram and a film crew are following their journey.
• JK Rowling’s rejection letters
Presenter:
Now, JK Rowling – the author of the Harry Potter books - has revealed she
hasn’t always been successful as a writer.
After the famous Harry Potter books, she wrote another novel under a
pseudonym – Robert Galbraith - and sent it to publishers without revealing
her true identity.
But some publishers sent back rejection letters and JK Rowling has now put
photos of them on Twitter.
One publisher even advised her to take a writing course.
Rowling says she wants the letters to inspire other writers to keep trying.
Even the Harry Potter books were rejected at first. But they went on to be
one of the biggest successes in children’s literature and over 400 million
copies of the books have been sold.
revealed
avslöjade
novel
roman
pseudonym
ett författarnamn som är
påhittat
publishers
bokförlag
rejection letters
refuseringsbrev
advised
rådde
• Feathery fights in 50 cities
Presenter:
And finally, over 50 cities around the world arranged a public pillow fight
on the first Saturday in April.
Listen to these pillow fighters in the US.
Pillow fighters:
Pillow fights are something that we all grew up with and we all remember
jumping on the bed and, you know, whacking each other really hard.
Hit hard and hit fast.
I wait all year for this because I get to hit people will soft objects really hard
occasionally.
to whack
att slå
soft
mjuk
occasionally
ibland
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The great thing is after you have used all that energy you can actually just
take your pillow and go to sleep.
Presenter:
International pillow fight day started back in 2005 by two Canadian
students as a way to have fun and relax. The rules are you can only use soft
pillows and you’re not allowed to hit anyone else who is not armed with a
pillow too.
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rules
regler
to hit
att slå
not armed with
inte beväpnade med
That’s all from Newsreel for today. Don’t forget to test yourself on what
you’ve learned from today’s programme. The quiz and questions are as
usual on the Newsreel pages of ur.se – or have a look at our Facebook page –
it’s UR Engelska. Until next time, I’m Christine Demsteader, thanks for
listening.
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