How learning to read changes lives ⏲️ 6 Minute English

Learning to read and write can change people's lives. Phil and Beth discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.👇👇👇

❓❓❓ When is International Literacy Day? Is it:

a) the 8th of March
b) the 8th of June or
c) the 8th of September?

Listen to the programme to hear the answer.
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Vocabulary:
✔️illiterate - unable to read or write
✔️numeracy - the ability to understand basic maths, count, add up etc.
✔️signature - your name written in your own characteristic handwriting style, usually to show that something has been written or agreed by you
✔️cheat - trick or deceive someone in order to take their money or valuables
✔️take (something) for granted - assume that (something) is true without checking up or finding out about it
✔️thick - (informal) stupid, unintelligent

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VOCABULARY FORM VIDEO How learning to read changes lives ⏲ 6 Minute English

1.struggle with: to try very hard to do something when it is difficult or when there are a lot of problems
2.knock on: causing other events to happen one after another in a series
=> a knock-on effect 
3.take it for granted: to believe something to be it
4.illiterate: unable to read or write
5.numeracy: the ability to understand basic maths, count, add up etc.
6.signatur: your name written in your own characteristic handwriting style, usually to show that something has been written or agreed by you
7.cheat: trick or deceive someone in order to take their money or valuables
8.take (something) for granted: assume that (something) is true without checking up or finding out about it
9.thick: (informal) stupid, unintelligent


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My aunt had once shared me her deep story of being illiterate in the contryside. Most of the adults were never taught or had a privilege to be illerate because of the conflicted area and undeserved community. She was falling in love with the boy who was caring and supportive for her. After three years, she was proposed by a love letter however she was unable reading therefore she did not response anything about the message. Thus, her boyfriend assumed that she refused him badly. After three years, she tried to learn and read and then she knew the main purpose of the letter..

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I spend a lot of my free time Reading: every morning I read the newspaper and, in the evening I read book in my own language and in english. It's a wonderful way to relax and keep informed!

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Since I started learning English, I've been reading two English novels (the first one is *A Terrible Kindness* by Jo Browning Wroe and the second one is *Paper Palace* (you probably have heard about both novels for sure) Nobody has obliged me to read both of these novels. I just wanted to find something which is based on my preferences and to learn some English as well. And of course, I won't stop here. In Romanian schools, our teachers give us a huge list of novels which is mandatory to read everything on that list. But the most upsetting thing is that nearly half of the country's population cannot read or write. Even if the government has promised to people in every election that the literacy rate will grow in the future and education and research will be a priority, few measures have been implemented in recent years.

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