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บทเรียน 13: Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
Comparatives and superlatives

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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

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We've created a personalised tour of the BBC just for you! Here's your chance to take a look around the old and new headquarters, learn some history, hear some comparatives and superlatives in action and practise what you've learned so far.

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As easy as B-B-C

One of the best

We have focused today on describing things that are one of the best (of several very good ones) and things that are as good as each other. However, there are some other uses of comparatives and superlatives which we will look at now. Maybe you have noticed some of them already! Watch our video guide one more time before we focus on them.

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Hello and welcome to Broadcasting House. My name is John Escolme, the BBC's History Manager, and today I'm taking you on a tour of a very special building, Broadcasting House, the BBC's newest and the BBC's oldest building. Come along with me.

Well here we inside Old Broadcasting House and an area we keep some of our treasures and one of the most historic items is an old microphone. Well these are three microphones , three very important microphones,  and larger than today's microphones but very important because this is the first microphone that broadcast the voice of the monarch to the world in 1932 – King George the Fifth's words were first heard through these microphones.

So now we're in New Broadcasting House and we're in one of the busiest places in the building – we're in the newsroom.  The newsroom is the largest in Europe, it's also bigger than the old one because all the journalists are working together to share stories and it's busier because there's so much activity going on here. Let's move on.

So this is one of the many radio studios you'd find in New Broadcasting House. As you can see it contains all the latest technology so we can broadcast across the world – BBC World Service programmes – or programmes from BBC Learning English – and it's much smaller than an old radio studio. Years ago we'd be using big reels of tape to record just a few minutes of programmes.

"This is London"

Well, we've even more exciting things to show you so come this way.

This of course is a TV studio and here we have some of the TV cameras that we use for World Service news bulletins, these are much smaller than they used to be. In the 1950s and 60s they were much bigger. And here is where our newsreader would sit, put on his or her best smile and deliver the news, good or bad.

OK, we've got one more thing to show you, follow me.

Well, we're nearly out of time but before we go let me introduce you to one of the most famous things in this building. From the television programme Doctor Who, yes, it's a dalek!

Now, although we have a lot of famous people coming through this building, this dalek gets more attention than anything else. The dalek was designed in 1963 – this isn't an original – in fact this is the version for the 21st century in gleaming, glittering, gold fibreglass.

Well that's the end of the tour. Thanks for joining me and I hope it's been as informative as you had hoped. Come again soon and bye for now.

All (of) the best

When John shows us a radio studio, he says "it contains all the latest technology". What does this mean? Well, it simply means that every single piece of modern technology is available in this studio - it has everything! In this case, we can say it is the most advanced studio in the world, not one of the most advanced.

Here are some more examples using 'all':

  • Broadcasting House contains all of the BBC's most popular services.
  • All the best programmes are made in its studios.

Note that after 'all' using 'of' is optional. It does not change the meaning.

Even better

In the video, John promises there are "even more exciting things" to see in the TV studios.  In this example, we use even for emphasis. For instance, we might say:

  • The original Broadcasting House was one of the BBC's most important centres, but New Broadcasting House is even more important than before.
  • The Beatles were one of Britain's most famous bands when they played at Broadcasting House in 1963. However, they got even more popular later that year.

Not as simple as you think

In Activity 1, we looked at using as...as to describe two things that are similar or the same. For example:

  • Paul McCartney is as old as my grandfather! They were both born in 1939.

However, if we say...:

  • Paul McCartney is NOT as old as my grandfather...

...how does the meaning change? Does it mean Paul McCartney is older or the grandfather is older?

If you said 'the grandfather', then well done! You are right.

When we say 'Old Broadcasting House was not as modern as New Broadcasting House', we mean 'New Broadcasting House is newer than the old building'.

Was that a lot to think about? If so, please take the time to check through the sessions again or look at the grammar reference for more examples and explanations.

To do

How carefully did you listen to John Escolme in the video guide? This activity will find out! Watch the video again and decide if these sentences are correct or incorrect.

Did John say that?

7 Questions

Decide which of these sentences from the video are correct or incorrect

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x / y

End of Session 3

Did you enjoy learning more about the home of the BBC? We certainly hope so! In Session 4, we will hear from some people who describe changes to buildings and places in their hometowns. Then, it will be your chance to share your descriptions of changes where you live with us!

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Session Vocabulary

  • treasures
    collection of valuable things

    journalists
    people whose job is to report the news for a newspaper, magazine, radio or television programme

    bulletins
    short news broadcast

    gleaming
    shiny, clean, and looking in a good condition

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