Chào các thính giả yêu mến của chương trình Học Tiếng Anh qua các chủ đề của chương trình học tiếng anh cùng Radiome. Mình là Diệu Hoa.
Chủ đề nghe Tiếng Anh của chúng ta ngày hôm nay có tựa đề là: Having Good Conversations: có những buổi nói chuyện thú vị. 
Vì bài nghe khá dài nên mình sẽ tách làm hai phần để các bạn dễ dàng theo dõi hơn nhé!
Các bạn cùng chú ý lắng nghe với tiết tấu chậm rãi của chương trình Spotlight nhé. Note lại những từ bạn nghe chưa rõ và xem lại ở bản text để làm phong phú thêm vốn từ vựng của mình nhé!

Voice 1  
Welcome to Spotlight. I’m Liz Waid.
Voice 2  
And I’m Colin Lowther. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand - no matter where in the world they live.
Voice 3  
“When was the last time that you had a great conversation?”
Voice 1  
This question was from the thinker and poet John O’Donohue from Ireland. Anyone can have a conversation. It is just two people talking to each other. But what is a great conversation? He asked this question on the public radio program On Being. He continued, describing the kind of conversation he was asking about.
Voice 3  
“When was the last time that you had a great conversation? A conversation in which you heard yourself saying things that you did not know that you knew? That you received from somebody words that found places within you that you thought were lost. When you had a sense of an event of a conversation that brought the two of you to a different place. When did you last have a conversation that continued to sing in your mind for weeks afterwards? I have had some of them recently, and it is just amazing. As we would say at home, they are food and drink for the soul.”
Voice 1  
Have you ever had this kind of conversation? Some people think that conversations can change the world. But the world itself is also changing. People spend less time talking to each other and more time using technology to communicate. And this affects the way that we have conversations. Is it still important to spend time in face- to- face conversation with each other? What are some ways to do that? Today’s Spotlight is on having good conversations.
Voice 2  
A conversation is a way of talking to another person. It is an exchange of ideas. By exchanging ideas, it creates new ideas. Like John O’Donohue says, it brings people into a new place together. Another writer, Thomas Zeldin, describes conversation this way:
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“Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they do not just exchange facts. They change them and reshape them. They see different meanings in them and engage in new ways of thought.”

Voice 1  
In the past, there were no televisions, video games or mobile phones. People spent time talking in person. In many cultures, it was important to be able to have a good conversation. This showed that a person was friendly and intelligent. It was also a sign that he or she cared about and respected other people. And it was a way for people to share ideas - and create new ones together.
Voice 2  
But technology has changed the way that people have conversations. In some ways, the internet has made people more connected. A person can very easily talk to someone else across the world! And more and more people use mobile phones to communicate. They often text each other instead of talking. It is easy and quick.
Voice 1  
But this easy and quick method affects a person’s ability to think about problems in a complex and deep way. Instead, he feels he needs to share many things quickly - maybe just because he can. Sherry Turkle is an expert in technology and communication. In a TED talk, she explained:
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“We use technology to define ourselves. We share our thoughts and feelings as we are having them. We used to think, “I have a feeling; I want to make a call.” Now our first reaction is, “I want to have a feeling; I need to send a text.”
Phần 1 của bài nghe hôm nay tạm dừng ở đây. Các bạn chú ý và theo dõi phần 2 ở những bài học tiếp sau nhé! Cảm ơn các bạn.