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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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Cuba's hip-hop dance company Datway made headlines in July 2021, going viral after the island got internet access.

However, as Datway became a hot topic online, North America was experiencing unusually high temperatures.

Areas of Western Europe had unusual flooding while Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos started their space tourism projects.

The postponed 2020 Olympics were held in August 2021 in Japan.

Unfortunately, spectators couldn't attend.

Tourists in Greece were excited to go on their first undersea museum dive.

It was also the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York.

People including the then president George W Bush gathered to remember the 2977 deaths.

September and October were all about freedom.

We saw the situation with Haitian refugees in Mexico.

Britney Spears was finally freed.

And Little Amal arrived in the UK from Syria, walking 2000 kilometres to remember child refugees.

The environment became the main focus in November.

World leaders met at COP26 in Scotland.

Many activists like Greta Thunberg protested, pushing governments to act fast.

As 2021 came to an end and despite Covid, we have progressed.

Korean teachers have now got robot assistants.

Barbados has become the world's newest republic and making gingerbread houses in Sweden has led to growing interest in architecture.

What will 2022 bring?

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