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บทเรียน 12: Moving and migration
Present perfect with 'for' and 'since'

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  1. 1Nice to meet you!
  2. 2What to wear
  3. 3Like this, like that
  4. 4The daily grind
  5. 5Christmas every day
  6. 6Great achievers
  7. 7The Titanic
  8. 8Travel
  9. 9The big wedding
  10. 10Sunny's job hunt
  11. 11The bucket list
  12. 12Moving and migration
  13. 13Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
  14. 14New Year, New Project
  15. 15From Handel to Hendrix
  16. 16What's the weather like?
  17. 17The Digital Revolution
  18. 18A detective story
  19. 19A place to live
  20. 20The Cult of Celebrity
  21. 21Welcome to your new job
  22. 22Beyond the planets
  23. 23Great expectations!
  24. 24Eco-tourism
  25. 25Moving house
  26. 26It must be love
  27. 27Job hunting success... and failure
  28. 28Speeding into the future
  29. 29Lost arts
  30. 30Tales of survival

บทเรียนย่อย 1

Have you ever moved home or from a building you loved? In 2012, the BBC World Service left its home at Bush House to move to a new building. In this session, you'll hear BBC staff remembering our emotional move and learn some useful vocabulary to talk about experiences like this.

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Fond recollections

How do you remember it?

In the video in Activity 1 we heard from current and former BBC staff remembering their time at Bush House. They used a lot of interesting and descriptive language in their recollections. We’ll look more closely at this language in a moment.

But first, can you tell if what they said was positive or negative? Listen to 5 of the speakers again and see what you think.

Listen to the audio and try the activity

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Yuri Goligorsky
Former BBC Russian Service
I loved this building. Every bit of it. I loved it from the very first moment I entered the building. The only thing I was unhappy about, were the carpets. They were worn out with a lot of holes. Very undignified. And I thought, my god, such a beautiful building, such a fantastic organisation, such awful carpets.

Giles Booth
Studio Manager, Bush House
I don’t know whether it’s just the physical building, the bricks and mortar of Bush House, or the fact that we have a sort of United Nations of broadcasting here. I think maybe it’s a bit of both. It’s not a bespoke broadcasting centre, and that’s part of its charm. It’s a rabbit warren of corridors and crazy modifications, and that’s part of what makes it special, I think.

Maya Samolov
Former BBC Yugoslav Service
I once heard Bush House in the Cold War years described as a place with various East Europeans and Russians walking down the corridors, smoking rank cigarettes, muttering to each other…

Julia Zapata
Former BBC Mundo Editor
I was saying to colleagues that where the marble floors were slightly dented that was my feet did that over the years. We’ve lived through so much change in this building and so much history that it’s going to be sad. And I hope she gets a proper send off, this building.

John McCarthy
Journalist held hostage in Lebanon for 5 years
To be able to tune in to something like the World Service and hear this stuff coming out at you and giving you a shape to the world around you is unbelievable. It’s like bringing colour into a dark room.

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So, most of what they said was positive. They all have happy memories of working at Bush House. But do you remember what Yuri, the first speaker, said about the carpets?

He said they were awful. Now we saw in Activity 1 that awful means something very bad. So the word awful usually has a negative meaning. Yuri also said that Bush House was a beautiful building. The word beautiful is often associated with positive things.

To do

There were some other words that the speakers used to talk about their time at Bush House. Can you decide if they are positive or negative?

Next

Now you’ve had a look at some vocabulary with positive and negative meanings. Some of these words were adjectives. But what if you want to use more than one adjective in front of a noun? What order should they go in? Listen to 6 Minute Vocabulary and you'll learn how to work it out.

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