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: Selfies: Pictures of Yourself có nghĩa là Selfie những bức ảnh của chính bạn
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 1 
One night in 2002, the English language gained a new word. It is a word many people recognize today. But on that night, it was not common. It all began with an Australian man. On this night, the man drank too much alcohol. He fell over and hurt his face. He took a photograph of himself to show his injury. Then he put the picture on the internet. He wrote a comment describing the picture. At the end of the comment, he apologized for the poor quality of the picture. He wrote:
Voice 3 
“Sorry about the focus, it was a selfie”.
Voice 2 
Before this night, no one had ever used the word “selfie” on the internet before. But it quickly became a popular word. In 2013, the Oxford English Dictionary named it the word of the year. A selfie is a kind of photograph. It is when a person uses a camera to take a picture of himself or herself. But why are selfies so popular? Today’s Spotlight is on selfies.
Voice 1 
There are two common ways to take a selfie. The first is to take a picture of your reflection in a mirror. The second common way is to hold a camera in your hand and aim it at your face. You try to get a good picture, but it does not always happen. Many people use cameras in their mobile phones to take selfies. The cameras make it easy to see yourself as you take the photo.
Voice 2 
Many people may think that selfies are a new thing. But this is not true. People have been taking pictures of themselves since cameras were invented. One of the oldest selfies is from 1914, from Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaeyna. She was fourteen years old. At this time, cameras were very large and difficult to use. After taking the picture, Nikolaeyna sent it to a friend. The letter with it said:
Voice 4
“I took this picture of myself looking at the mirror. It was very difficult because my hands were shaking.”
Voice 1 
Today people have much better cameras. And it is much easier to take a selfie. So selfies are more and more common. Selfies are especially popular with young people like teenagers. Many teenagers take selfies and put them on social media websites like Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. But why are they so popular? Why do people like to share pictures of themselves?

Voice 2 
Dr. Pamela Rutledge is the director of the Media Research Center. She thinks selfies are just a natural part of communicating. She told the New York Times Newspaper:
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“We are designed to react to faces. We do not even know it. Our brains are able to process what we see very quickly, and we are more interested when we see faces. If you are looking at a whole page of photos, the ones you will notice are the close-ups and the selfies.”
Voice 1 
So, when a person shares a selfie on the internet, he or she knows that people will see it and react to it. Selfiesmake it easy and quick for people to share their lives with their friends.

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.