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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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Fifty-five million Americans travelled home for the US Thanksgiving holidays this year.

But many people don’t have a home, family or enough money.

Some organisations make lunch for them, like the Los Angeles Mission.

This is Micky Giblin’s 11th year at the Thanksgiving lunch.

Food prices in the USA went up 10.5 percent this year.

The number of homeless people went up 80 percent in 8 years.

The local government in LA is organising houses for homeless people.

Mayor Karen Bass wants to continue this.

People with a home can find a job.

Troy Vaughn was homeless.

The LA Mission helped him.

Now, Vaughn’s the president of the LA Mission.

He’s helping the homeless community.

The LA Mission cooked 1,500 Thanksgiving lunches.

Carlos Schmidt usually spends the holiday alone.

But he had lunch with other people this year.

He’s enjoying the day.

And he thanks the LA Mission for all its help.

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