English Rewind - People and Places: Words and politics

📻 Politicians love powerful words. In this archive episode of People and Places we explore the importance of moving words in a political campaign. You will hear two politicians, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. What one word do they use again and again? Learn more while you improve your English vocabulary knowledge AND practise your English listening. Do you have a favourite English accent? Tell us in the comments 👇👇👇
Useful vocabulary:
✔️ candidate - someone who wants to be the chosen person in an election
✔️ slogan - popular phrase or sentence used repeatedly by politicians
✔️ proven track record - past experience which shows you can do a particular job
✔️ our time has come - we will now get what we have waited for
✔️ moving words - words that produce strong feelings in the listener
✔️ The Democrats - one of the big political parties in the USA
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English Rewind is a collection of programmes from the BBC Learning English archive. This episode of People and Places was first published on the BBC Learning English website in March 2008.
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Thanks for watching! What do you have a proven track record in? 🤔

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Thanks for letting me know that while hosting a speech we should depend on these powerful words to build public's trust

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very useful news sharing and vocabulary teaching

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Hi, there.😊 I'd say their speeches were strong and convincing enough to get people's support. Very impressive！Thanks a lot.🌹🥀

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Just about the best place on YT, to learn/improve English

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Thanks a lot

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You should post video with English subtitles please

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Miss Catherine...

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President of Egypt has said to our "you are my eyes light"

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Disappointed to find no English subtitles