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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Spotlight Advanced.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm Roger Bassik and I'm Marina Sante. Spots Light uses

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<v Speaker 2>a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for

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<v Speaker 2>people to understand no matter where in the world they live.

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<v Speaker 1>In twenty twenty five, twenty eight million people will gather

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<v Speaker 1>in Osaka, Japan. It will not be to watch the

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<v Speaker 1>FIFA World Cup of Football. It will not be to

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<v Speaker 1>watch the Olympic Games. It will not be a gathering

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<v Speaker 1>of world leaders. Instead, all these people will travel to

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<v Speaker 1>Osaka to see the World Exhibition.

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<v Speaker 2>Today's spots site is on the World's Exhibition. The World's

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<v Speaker 2>Exhibition is a gathering of many country It collects the

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<v Speaker 2>best each country has to offer in one place. It

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<v Speaker 2>pulls together building, design, technology, and culture. Then people come

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<v Speaker 2>to see the exhibitions or shows. In this way, they

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<v Speaker 2>get a small experience of the world's most important ideas.

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<v Speaker 2>It is like traveling around the world in one place.

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<v Speaker 1>Today it is easy to learn about the world. The

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<v Speaker 1>Internet makes information faster to get than ever before. But

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<v Speaker 1>things have not always been this way, and people have

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<v Speaker 1>always wanted to learn about other parts of the world.

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<v Speaker 2>In the year eighteen fifty one, there were few ways

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<v Speaker 2>for people to communicate over large distances. New information spread

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<v Speaker 2>through newspapers and books. The telegraph, a long distance's form

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<v Speaker 2>of communication, was very new. Information moved slowly from place

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<v Speaker 2>to place.

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<v Speaker 1>For many people, the best place to learn anything was

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<v Speaker 1>at the local market or fair. People would come from

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<v Speaker 1>far away to meet at the market. People gathered in

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<v Speaker 1>the market to buy and sell food, clothes, and other products.

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<v Speaker 1>They also shared ideas and stories. So in the year

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<v Speaker 1>eighteen fifty one, Prince Albert of England proposed a different

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<v Speaker 1>kind of market. It would gather the whole world together.

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<v Speaker 1>That year he held the First World Exhibition.

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<v Speaker 2>Countries came to London, England and set up displays. These

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<v Speaker 2>displays were a place to show art, design or culture.

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<v Speaker 2>England built a new building just for the event. It

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<v Speaker 2>was made of steel and glass. They called it the

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<v Speaker 2>Crystal Palace. Many exhibits were new machines, but there were

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<v Speaker 2>also clothes and art. It was the most important social

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<v Speaker 2>events of its time. Over six million people visited the

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<v Speaker 2>first Exhibition.

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<v Speaker 1>Soon, other countries wanted to welcome the best designers and

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<v Speaker 1>thinkers to their countries. They wanted to show the world

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<v Speaker 1>what they could do. Most European countries have held exhibitions.

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<v Speaker 1>France has held several, but the exhibition has gone all

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<v Speaker 1>around the world. It has gone to Australia, Peru, Japan,

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<v Speaker 1>and Chile. Large countries like the United States and Russia

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<v Speaker 1>have held exhibitions, but smaller countries like Ireland, Haiti and

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<v Speaker 1>Belgium have also held exhibitions.

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<v Speaker 2>However, controlling and organizing WHILELD exhibitions was a problem, so

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<v Speaker 2>in nineteen twenty eight, different governments created an organization to

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<v Speaker 2>manage the world exhibitions. It was called the Bureau International

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<v Speaker 2>des Exposision or BIE. The BIE is now responsible for

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<v Speaker 2>managing where and when the world's exhibitions.

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<v Speaker 3>Are held today.

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<v Speaker 1>The BIE authorizes two kinds of world exhibitions. These are

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<v Speaker 1>called specialized expos and world expos. World expos are closer

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<v Speaker 1>to the presentations of the earliest world exhibitions. Specialized expos

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<v Speaker 1>have special themes. World expos are larger, they show off

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<v Speaker 1>more general ideas, and world expos only happen every five years.

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<v Speaker 2>A world exhibition improves many sites that it visits. Often

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<v Speaker 2>famous buildings remain after the exhibition finishes. The Eiffel Tower

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<v Speaker 2>in Paris and the Space needle in Seattle are two examples.

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<v Speaker 2>Cities such as Lisbon, Chicago, and Vancouver have made the

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<v Speaker 2>buildings from their World Exhibition into public places. Many supporters

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<v Speaker 2>of the World Exhibitions see them as a chance to

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<v Speaker 2>renew their city.

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<v Speaker 1>The World Exhibition is also the first place many technologies appeared.

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<v Speaker 1>These technologies include the telephone, television, the sewing machine, computer technology,

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<v Speaker 1>and atomic energy. At the nineteen seventy World Exhibition, there

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<v Speaker 1>were even rocks from the moon.

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<v Speaker 2>Eric Larsen wrote about Chicago's eighteen ninety three World Exhibition

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<v Speaker 2>in his book The Devil in the White City. It

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<v Speaker 2>was called the White City because so many of the

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<v Speaker 2>exposition's buildings were painted white. He wrote about a new

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<v Speaker 2>ride called a Ferris wheel.

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<v Speaker 3>George W. Ferris invented the wheel just for the exhibition.

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<v Speaker 3>It was an answer to France's Eiffel Tower. The wheel

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<v Speaker 3>required amazing engineering. It was supported by two one hundred

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<v Speaker 3>forty foot steel towers and connected by a forty five

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<v Speaker 3>foot center bar. This was the largest single piece of

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<v Speaker 3>steel made at the time. The wheel was two hundred

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<v Speaker 3>and fifty feet across. It had thirty six cabins that

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<v Speaker 3>held six riders each The ferris wheel carried almost one

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<v Speaker 3>and a half million people during the exhibition.

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<v Speaker 1>As time went on, the aim of holding a World

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<v Speaker 1>Exhibition became less about showing the latest technology or design.

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<v Speaker 1>It became more about solving global problems. In two thousand

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<v Speaker 1>and eight, the new Bie President thought water was an

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<v Speaker 1>important international subject.

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<v Speaker 4>He said, World exhibitions are educational and fun events. They

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<v Speaker 4>show great creativity and imagination. These global problems are very important,

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<v Speaker 4>especially clean water. They create a duty in the countries

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<v Speaker 4>of the world. These countries need to share at the

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<v Speaker 4>fair their best experiences in solving the problems people of

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<v Speaker 4>this planet face.

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<v Speaker 2>Other problems that exhibitions examined have included city planning, caring

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<v Speaker 2>for the oceans, and how people live in their homes.

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<v Speaker 2>The twenty twenty five World Exhibition is in Osaka, Japan.

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<v Speaker 2>It will examine how to design a better society. This

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<v Speaker 2>includes ways to connect, save and empower lives. Different weeks

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<v Speaker 2>of the exhibition will focus on special issues as well.

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<v Speaker 2>These include solving world hunger, eliminating discrimination, and preserving diverse

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<v Speaker 2>life on Earth.

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<v Speaker 1>Today, some people believe that the World Exhibitions are no

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<v Speaker 1>longer necessary. Information can move quickly around the world. It

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<v Speaker 1>costs a lot of money to hold a World Exhibition,

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<v Speaker 1>and there are many smaller global gatherings for people in

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<v Speaker 1>different areas, such as medicine, design, sports or food.

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<v Speaker 2>However, many people argue that the World Exhibition still has value.

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<v Speaker 2>These people believe that World exhibitions are about more than

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<v Speaker 2>receiving information. These exhibitions are about gathering the people of

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<v Speaker 2>the world together. These show the problems that people can

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<v Speaker 2>solve when they work together. Dmitri Ka Kansas is the

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<v Speaker 2>Secretary General the BIE. He spoke of the twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 2>du Bai Exhibition.

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<v Speaker 5>He said, more than ever, the world is asking for

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<v Speaker 5>what the expos stand for. It asks for new ideas,

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<v Speaker 5>a desire for unity and positive thinking for the future.

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<v Speaker 5>This World's Expo was a place to meet and connect.

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<v Speaker 5>It has encouraged positive change. It has strengthened the will

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<v Speaker 5>to make the world of tomorrow more caring than it

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<v Speaker 5>is today. It is this message of firm positive belief

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<v Speaker 5>that Expo Dubai twenty twenty has given to the world.

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<v Speaker 5>This message is that by coming together and sharing ideas,

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<v Speaker 5>we can build a better future.

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<v Speaker 1>Our gatherings like the World Exhibition important. Why or why

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<v Speaker 2>This program revised a previous program called World's Fares bringing

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<v Speaker 2>Cultures together. Writer Dan Christman revised the current program. The

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<v Speaker 2>producer was Dan Christman. The voices you heard were from

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<v Speaker 2>is called the World Exhibition Bringing People Together.

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