Sensations English
LEVEL A2

Shadowing the newsreader

Listen to the newsreader read out each line and then practise saying it. Record your own voice line by line and submit your voiceover.

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An atomic bomb hit Hiroshima 80 years ago.

On 6th August, people remembered this day.

There was another bomb 3 days later.

It hit Nagasaki on 9th August.

150,000 people died in both cities.

Later, another 100,000 people died from the dangerous radiation.

It gave people lifelong health problems.

For some people, the atomic bombs were a good thing.

World War Two ended days later, on 15th August.

For other people, the atomic bombs were a war crime.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are important history.

They made people afraid of nuclear war.

80 years later, people in Hiroshima put lights on the river.

Each lantern has a message.

One message is from Jasmine Smith.

She's a musician from Hawaii.

It tells young people to fix the world.

The mayor of Hiroshima is Kazumi Matsui.

He asked countries to stop making atomic bombs.

He wants young people to understand their dangers.

Polish student Jakub Dziadkiewicz agrees with this message.

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