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BBC Learning English 

Video Words in the News  

20  March  2013 

Culture shock for Amazon student  

Transcript: 

From the  rainforest  to the concrete jungle … 

New York is where the son of the traditional chief of an  indigenous community  

in Brazil has come to study. His dream is to speak English well and become a 

documentary film - maker. 

It is a far cry from the village in the Amazon where Nilson Tuwe Huni Kui' s 

people live.  

Tuwe carries the  responsibility  of making his people's culture a nd problems 

known to the world. 

Vocabulary: 

rainforest  

a tropical area where it rains a lot and there are lots of trees 

concrete jungle  

city with many buildings 

indigenous community  

group of people who come from a particular area, and lived there before any 

other people 

a far cry from 

extremely different from 

responsibility  

obligation, duty  

Exercise: 

Use one of the words or phrases below to complete e ach of these sentences from 

news report s.   

Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence 

correctly.  

rainforest  / concrete jungle / indigenous community  / a far cry from / 

responsibility  

1.  Primary schoolteacher Antonio Clima was with his class of 11 - year- olds 

when the building starting shaking, bricks came loose, and a piece of the 

roof ledge collapsed. "I was very calm as I felt it was my  __________  to be 

strong for the children, but they were screaming and crying. It's all been 

too much for them." 

2.  Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has approved a law giving __________ 

the  right to be consulted about development on their lands.  

3.  Once a mainly desert outpost, Mecca's Grand Mosque is now encircled by a 

__________  made up of high- rise apartment blocks and five- star hotels.  

4.  The further you drive up winding roads, the worse your mobile phone signal 

gets. It's hard to spot a telephone tower anywhere, but for miles on end you 

can see emerald green paddy fields peppering the hills. It is peacefully quiet 

-  __________ the hustle and bustle of Jakarta. 

5.  More than 60% of Liberia's virgin __________  has been granted to logging 

companies since Nobel Prize winning President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, came 

to power in 2006, according to a Global Witness report. It says the majority 

of these have been unregulated private contracts . 

Answers: 

1.   Primary schoolteacher Antonio Clima was with his class of 11 -year-olds when the 

building starting shaking, bricks came loose, and a piece of the roof ledge 

collapsed. "I was very calm as I felt it was my responsibility  to be strong for  

the children, but they were screaming and crying. It's all been too much for 

them." 

2.  Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has approved a law giving  indigenous 

communities the right to be consulted about development on their lands.  

3.   Once a mainly desert outpost, Mecca's Grand Mosque is now encircled by a 

concrete jungle  made up of high-rise apartment blocks and five-star hotels.  

4.   The furth er you drive up winding roads, the worse your mobile phone signal gets. 

It's hard to spot a telephone tower anywhere, but for miles on end you can see 

emerald green paddy fields peppering the hills. It is peacefully quiet - a far cry 

from  the hustle and bu stle of Jakarta. 

5.    More than 60% of Liberia's virgin rainforest  has been granted to logging 

companies since Nobel Prize winning President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, came to 

power in 2006, according to a Global Witness report. It says the majority of 

these have been unregulated p rivate contracts .