Speaker 1: Welcome to Spotlight Advanced.
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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five, twenty eight million people will gather
Speaker 1: in Osaka, Japan. It will not be to watch the
Speaker 1: FIFA World Cup of Football. It will not be to
Speaker 1: watch the Olympic Games. It will not be a gathering
Speaker 1: of world leaders. Instead, all these people will travel to
Speaker 1: Osaka to see the World Exhibition.
Speaker 2: Today's spots site is on the World's Exhibition. The World's
Speaker 2: Exhibition is a gathering of many country It collects the
Speaker 2: best each country has to offer in one place. It
Speaker 2: pulls together building, design, technology, and culture. Then people come
Speaker 2: to see the exhibitions or shows. In this way, they
Speaker 2: get a small experience of the world's most important ideas.
Speaker 2: It is like traveling around the world in one place.
Speaker 1: Today it is easy to learn about the world. The
Speaker 1: Internet makes information faster to get than ever before. But
Speaker 1: things have not always been this way, and people have
Speaker 1: always wanted to learn about other parts of the world.
Speaker 2: In the year eighteen fifty one, there were few ways
Speaker 2: for people to communicate over large distances. New information spread
Speaker 2: through newspapers and books. The telegraph, a long distance's form
Speaker 2: of communication, was very new. Information moved slowly from place
Speaker 2: to place.
Speaker 1: For many people, the best place to learn anything was
Speaker 1: at the local market or fair. People would come from
Speaker 1: far away to meet at the market. People gathered in
Speaker 1: the market to buy and sell food, clothes, and other products.
Speaker 1: They also shared ideas and stories. So in the year
Speaker 1: eighteen fifty one, Prince Albert of England proposed a different
Speaker 1: kind of market. It would gather the whole world together.
Speaker 1: That year he held the First World Exhibition.
Speaker 2: Countries came to London, England and set up displays. These
Speaker 2: displays were a place to show art, design or culture.
Speaker 2: England built a new building just for the event. It
Speaker 2: was made of steel and glass. They called it the
Speaker 2: Crystal Palace. Many exhibits were new machines, but there were
Speaker 2: also clothes and art. It was the most important social
Speaker 2: events of its time. Over six million people visited the
Speaker 2: first Exhibition.
Speaker 1: Soon, other countries wanted to welcome the best designers and
Speaker 1: thinkers to their countries. They wanted to show the world
Speaker 1: what they could do. Most European countries have held exhibitions.
Speaker 1: France has held several, but the exhibition has gone all
Speaker 1: around the world. It has gone to Australia, Peru, Japan,
Speaker 1: and Chile. Large countries like the United States and Russia
Speaker 1: have held exhibitions, but smaller countries like Ireland, Haiti and
Speaker 1: Belgium have also held exhibitions.
Speaker 2: However, controlling and organizing WHILELD exhibitions was a problem, so
Speaker 2: in nineteen twenty eight, different governments created an organization to
Speaker 2: manage the world exhibitions. It was called the Bureau International
Speaker 2: des Exposision or BIE. The BIE is now responsible for
Speaker 2: managing where and when the world's exhibitions.
Speaker 3: Are held today.
Speaker 1: The BIE authorizes two kinds of world exhibitions. These are
Speaker 1: called specialized expos and world expos. World expos are closer
Speaker 1: to the presentations of the earliest world exhibitions. Specialized expos
Speaker 1: have special themes. World expos are larger, they show off
Speaker 1: more general ideas, and world expos only happen every five years.
Speaker 2: A world exhibition improves many sites that it visits. Often
Speaker 2: famous buildings remain after the exhibition finishes. The Eiffel Tower
Speaker 2: in Paris and the Space needle in Seattle are two examples.
Speaker 2: Cities such as Lisbon, Chicago, and Vancouver have made the
Speaker 2: buildings from their World Exhibition into public places. Many supporters
Speaker 2: of the World Exhibitions see them as a chance to
Speaker 2: renew their city.
Speaker 1: The World Exhibition is also the first place many technologies appeared.
Speaker 1: These technologies include the telephone, television, the sewing machine, computer technology,
Speaker 1: and atomic energy. At the nineteen seventy World Exhibition, there
Speaker 1: were even rocks from the moon.
Speaker 2: Eric Larsen wrote about Chicago's eighteen ninety three World Exhibition
Speaker 2: in his book The Devil in the White City. It
Speaker 2: was called the White City because so many of the
Speaker 2: exposition's buildings were painted white. He wrote about a new
Speaker 2: ride called a Ferris wheel.
Speaker 3: George W. Ferris invented the wheel just for the exhibition.
Speaker 3: It was an answer to France's Eiffel Tower. The wheel
Speaker 3: required amazing engineering. It was supported by two one hundred
Speaker 3: forty foot steel towers and connected by a forty five
Speaker 3: foot center bar. This was the largest single piece of
Speaker 3: steel made at the time. The wheel was two hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty feet across. It had thirty six cabins that
Speaker 3: held six riders each The ferris wheel carried almost one
Speaker 3: and a half million people during the exhibition.
Speaker 1: As time went on, the aim of holding a World
Speaker 1: Exhibition became less about showing the latest technology or design.
Speaker 1: It became more about solving global problems. In two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight, the new Bie President thought water was an
Speaker 1: important international subject.
Speaker 4: He said, World exhibitions are educational and fun events. They
Speaker 4: show great creativity and imagination. These global problems are very important,
Speaker 4: especially clean water. They create a duty in the countries
Speaker 4: of the world. These countries need to share at the
Speaker 4: fair their best experiences in solving the problems people of
Speaker 4: this planet face.
Speaker 2: Other problems that exhibitions examined have included city planning, caring
Speaker 2: for the oceans, and how people live in their homes.
Speaker 2: The twenty twenty five World Exhibition is in Osaka, Japan.
Speaker 2: It will examine how to design a better society. This
Speaker 2: includes ways to connect, save and empower lives. Different weeks
Speaker 2: of the exhibition will focus on special issues as well.
Speaker 2: These include solving world hunger, eliminating discrimination, and preserving diverse
Speaker 2: life on Earth.
Speaker 1: Today, some people believe that the World Exhibitions are no
Speaker 1: longer necessary. Information can move quickly around the world. It
Speaker 1: costs a lot of money to hold a World Exhibition,
Speaker 1: and there are many smaller global gatherings for people in
Speaker 1: different areas, such as medicine, design, sports or food.
Speaker 2: However, many people argue that the World Exhibition still has value.
Speaker 2: These people believe that World exhibitions are about more than
Speaker 2: receiving information. These exhibitions are about gathering the people of
Speaker 2: the world together. These show the problems that people can
Speaker 2: solve when they work together. Dmitri Ka Kansas is the
Speaker 2: Secretary General the BIE. He spoke of the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: du Bai Exhibition.
Speaker 5: He said, more than ever, the world is asking for
Speaker 5: what the expos stand for. It asks for new ideas,
Speaker 5: a desire for unity and positive thinking for the future.
Speaker 5: This World's Expo was a place to meet and connect.
Speaker 5: It has encouraged positive change. It has strengthened the will
Speaker 5: to make the world of tomorrow more caring than it
Speaker 5: is today. It is this message of firm positive belief
Speaker 5: that Expo Dubai twenty twenty has given to the world.
Speaker 5: This message is that by coming together and sharing ideas,
Speaker 5: we can build a better future.
Speaker 1: Our gatherings like the World Exhibition important. Why or why
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Speaker 2: This program revised a previous program called World's Fares bringing
Speaker 2: Cultures together. Writer Dan Christman revised the current program. The
Speaker 2: producer was Dan Christman. The voices you heard were from
Speaker 2: the United States and the United Kingdom. All quotes were
Speaker 2: adapted for this program and voiced by Spotslight. This program
Speaker 2: is called the World Exhibition Bringing People Together.
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