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: Plastic Bag Art có nghĩa là nghệ thuật từ túi nilon.  
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 Joshua Leo.
Voice 2
And I’m Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live.
Voice 1 
The Gare Saint Lazare in Paris, France is one of the busiest train stations in Europe. It is usually full of people. But in May, 2012 something different filled the middle of the station. People entering the station were shocked. Hanging from the ceiling was a huge piece of art. It was nearly 20 metres tall! And it was made of colourful plastic bags. The art piece used more than 25,000 plastic bags.

Voice 2 
Pascale Marthine Tayou is an artist from Cameroon. He designed this huge art piece made of plastic bags. Tayou wanted to get the attention of people entering the train station. He wanted people to think about using plastic bags. The plastic bags represented waste. Tayou thinks people buy and throw away too many things. Many people agree with him. Instead of throwing plastic bags away they try to find ways to reuse them. Today’s Spotlight is on making something useful and beautiful with old plastic bags.
Voice 1 
Plastic is made from natural gases and petroleum - a thick oil that people remove from the earth. In the 1960s, scientists discovered how to make very light and thin bags from plastic. Plastic bags are strong and light. They can safely contain things that are wet or dirty. Plastic seemed like a good material to carry everything from meat and fruit to cloth and paper. By the 1980s, people all over the world were using plastic bags.
Voice 2 
People used these plastic bags once and then threw them away. Using plastic bags this way causes many problems. Factories that produce plastic use a lot of resources and energy. But the largest problem with plastic bags is what happens after people throw them away.
Voice 1
Traditionally, people carried things in bags made of natural materials. They would wrap things in leaves from trees. Or people used cloth or even long grass to make containers. When these containers became old, people could throw them away. The natural materials would break down into the soil. Grass and leaves do not cause waste and pollution. But plastic does not break down into soil. A plastic bag will not break down for hundreds of years!
Voice 2 
As people produce more plastic, this has become a large problem around the world. People use so many plastic bags that they pollute the environment. Plastic bags block pipes where water should flow. They cover areas of land and sea. They look dirty. Sometimes they carry dangerous germs and bacteria from human waste. But more than that, they are dangerous to birds and animals. Sometimes animals try to eat them. But plastic does not break down in the stomach of an animal either. Animals that eat plastic usually die.
Voice 1 
People are trying to find solutions for this problem of too many plastic bags. In some countries shops do not give people plastic bags for free. Shoppers now have to pay extra money to buy a plastic bag. Other governments have tried to solve the problem by banning plastic bags. For example, in 2012 the Environmental Agency in Cameroon tried to stop stores from using plastic bags. But this ban did not work. It was too difficult for the government to control. People continue to use plastic bags in Cameroon and in most other countries around the world.
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.