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2025 April 06 BBC One minute World News – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

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Interactive Transcript & Highlights for Dictation

1.This is BBC News, the headlines

2.The Israeli military has admitted it made mistakes in its initial of the killings of 15 emergency in Gaza last month

3.Troops had opened fire on a convoy of emergency vehicles responding to a call near Raffa on the 23rd of March

4. Foreign Secretary David Lammy has the detention of two Labour MPs during an official visit to Israel

5.Israeli media report that Yuan Yang and Abtas Ammohamed were refused entry because the authorities in Tel Aviv believed they intended to spread hateful rhetoric

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Key Vocabulary (CEFR B2)

britain's

A2

A A2-level word commonly used in this context.

Example:

"Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy has"

condemned

A2

To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.

Example:

"condemned the detention of two Labour"

department

B2

A part, portion, or subdivision.

Example:

"who's been heading President Trump's Department"

account

A2

A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.

Example:

"made mistakes in its initial account"

workers

A2

A person who performs labor for a living, especially manual labor.

Example:

"workers in Gaza last month."

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Video Difficulty Analysis & Stats

Category
news-&-politics
CEFR Level
B2
Duration
65
Total Words
137
Total Sentences
23
Average Sentence Length
6 words

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