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Tape script of Listening Comprehension British People
The British are the people who live in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. They are reserved in their manners and in the way they dress and speak. They are famous for their politeness and for their sense of humour. British people have a strong sense of humour which sometimes foreigners cannot understand very well. Britain is a country of mixed cultures. London is the capital city and has the largest non-white population of any European city and people speak over 250 languages there. In Britain, the main language is English (British English). The English language comes from the Germanic family of languages, however over fifty per cent of the English vocabulary is derived from Latin. In Britain, every part of the country has its own way of speaking English. People in Yorkshire sound very different to people in London and it is difficult to believe that people from Birmingham speak the same language as those in Cornwall. Most people in Britain can guess where someone comes from by the way they speak, either by their accent or by the words they use. People in Wales speak a completely different language. About 25% of the people there still speak in their native Celtic tongue called Welsh. “Shwmae?” in Welsh means “How are you?”. In some regions of Scotland, some people use Gaelic as their first language (particularly in the Highlands and the Western Isles). All over Scotland, the accent is very strong, some words are different but in general it is not too difficult to understand.
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The story Mary Seacole was born in 1805 in Kingston, Jamaica. Her mother was Jamaican and her father was Scottish. Her mother ran a boarding house for invalid soldiers and was also an expert in herbal remedies, which she used to treat the soldiers. When her mother died, Mary took over the boarding house and the care of the sick soldiers. In 1850 there was a serious outbreak of cholera in Jamaica. Mary worked night and day to help the victims and created her own herbal medicine for the disease. She also believed that clean conditions, fresh air and good food were important in fighting the disease, ideas which most doctors thought were ridiculous. She saved the lives of thousands of people. The war When the Crimean War started, Jamaican troops were sent to fight, and stories soon started to reach Kingston about the terrible conditions that they were suffering, and how badly they needed nursing care. So Mary travelled to London in 1854 and presented herself at the War Office as a volunteer nurse. But they refused her. She went to all the military and nursing organisations but not one of them wanted her services. So Mary decided to go to the Crimea independently. She opened a boarding house there to earn the money to finance her nursing work. She regularly went out onto the battlefields to feed and care for the fallen soldiers, often putting her own life in danger. The soldiers loved her and called her ‘the black nightingale’. The fame When the war finished Mary came back to London as a famous figure - well known and well loved by the British people, but completely bankrupt as a result of her work. Some of the officers and soldiers who knew her raised money for her, but she still had financial problems. So Mary once again decided to do something herself. She wrote her autobiography called ‘The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands’. This was the only book she ever wrote, but it was very successful and generated enough money to allow her to live the rest of her life in comfort, dividing her time between Jamaica and London. She died in 1881 and was buried in London, but as the years passed, her story was forgotten outside of her native Jamaica.
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