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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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This is the US army base in Bagram, Afghanistan.

Now, after 20 years, it is closing.

The soldiers are leaving.

The army is sending equipment to the USA.

But they are leaving things too.

There are doors, TVs and phones.

But other people can't use them.

The army is breaking them.

Now, people are interested in the broken objects.

Big companies are looking around Bagram.

They can choose first.

Many objects have metal in them.

They can sell the metal.

Small businesses want to make money too.

Some people are unhappy.

They think it's wrong to waste everything.

It was like a city, with busy streets.

It had swimming pools, cinemas and restaurants.

There was a prison too.

Lots of Afghan people worked in Bagram.

Now they are worried about the future.

They will have no jobs.

The governor of Bagram is worried about it too.

Lalah Shrin Raoufi: "I am not optimistic with the US forces withdrawal at this crucial time, as a resident of Bagram.

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