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Moving and migration :12 واحد
Present perfect with 'for' and 'since'

انتخاب واحد

  1. 1 Nice to meet you!
  2. 2 What to wear
  3. 3 Like this, like that
  4. 4 The daily grind
  5. 5 Christmas every day
  6. 6 Great achievers
  7. 7 The Titanic
  8. 8 Travel
  9. 9 The big wedding
  10. 10 Sunny's job hunt
  11. 11 The bucket list
  12. 12 Moving and migration
  13. 13 Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
  14. 14 New Year, New Project
  15. 15 From Handel to Hendrix
  16. 16 What's the weather like?
  17. 17 The Digital Revolution
  18. 18 A detective story
  19. 19 A place to live
  20. 20 The Cult of Celebrity
  21. 21 Welcome to your new job
  22. 22 Beyond the planets
  23. 23 Great expectations!
  24. 24 Eco-tourism
  25. 25 Moving house
  26. 26 It must be love
  27. 27 Job hunting success... and failure
  28. 28 Speeding into the future
  29. 29 Lost arts
  30. 30 Tales of survival

جلسه 2

In this unit we've already heard from people talking about our emotional move to the BBC World Service's new home. In this session we'll be looking at the grammar you can use to talk about this kind of experience: the present perfect with the words for and since. We'll also hear from someone who has worked at the BBC since 1991!

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تمرین 2

How has the World Service changed?

"Whether you like it or not, you have to work with other colleagues"

In Session 1 there was a video with a few different people speaking about working at the BBC. One of them was Raymond Li, Editor of the Chinese Service at the BBC. He has worked at the BBC World Service for a long time - but how long exactly? Listen to him speak about his experience to find out.

Listen to the audio and try the activity

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Raymond Li
Chinese Service Editor

My name is Raymond Li. I'm the Chinese Editor at the BBC World Service.  I've worked for the BBC since 1991.

I think the major change we have seen so far since moving to Broadcasting House is about collaboration and integration with other BBC production units. In the past we were working in more like a silo. But nowadays we are in a very big, open office and we are sitting together with other colleagues. So, whether you like it or not, you have to work together with other colleagues.

BBC Chinese Service has stopped producing radio programmes. Since then we have been focusing on producing online content. I would say the internet has changed radio broadcasting tremendously, in terms of the skills requirement for the radio producers or broadcasting journalists. 

Download

Click here to download the audio (size: 1.71MB)

Did you get it? Raymond has worked at the BBC since 1991. So he's worked here for over 20 years!

To do

How much do you remember from the interview? Try this activity and answer the questions.

Questions about the Chinese Service

4 Questions

Read the questions and choose the correct answer

تبریک می گوییم
Excellent! آفرین! نمره شما Bad luck! :
x / y

Next

So, you've heard about someone who has worked at the BBC for quite a long time. And he used the present perfect with since to talk about the experience. Remember this is to talk about what has happened from a particular moment in time.

Next, it's time to hear from someone who joined the organisation more recently. Listen to Sourena in the next activity and you'll work out the link between Iran, fashion and the BBC!

دستور زبان این جلسه

  • The present perfect is often used to talk about situations that started in the past and are continuing now.

    We talk about how long using the words for and since.

    for = throughout (a period of time)

    They've been married for six months.

    since = from (an exact point in time) until now

    They've been married since March.

    We can also use present perfect + since + past simple.

    I haven't seen Tanya since we graduated.

    The present perfect is made with subject + have/has (positive) or haven't/hasn't (negative) + past participle.

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واژه های تازه این جلسه

  • editor
    a person who is in charge of and determines the final content of a publication (for example, magazine, newspaper, radio programme)

    collaboration
    working together with someone to produce something

    integration
    (here) combining to work with others in an organisation

    silo
    (here) a department that operates separately from the other parts of an organisation

    online content
    the text, video and audio content that make up the user experience on the internet, including text, images, sounds, videos, and animations

    radio broadcasting
    one-way wireless transmission over radio waves designed to reach a wide audience

    tremendously
    (here) in a big way

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