No. When I was little, we lived in a village in the country.
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So how long have you lived here?
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We've lived here for eight years.
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Do you live in a house or an apartment?
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We've got an apartment in Sun Street. It's on the top floor.
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Lucky you! We're on the ground floor.
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Where do you live?
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In that new apartment block in Park Road. We've been there since August.
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Listen 5 times
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Newspapers
Newspapers
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Hold the front page!
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Two thousand years ago
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There were no newspapres.
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When something important happened, people told each other about it.
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News travelled slowly.
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Sometimes it was weeks before people heard about a battle or the death of a king.
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More than thousand years ago
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The Chinese government wrote news on silk.
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It was news about what the government was doing.
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It did not tell people about other things that were happening.
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Four hundred years ago
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The first newspaper apperared in Germany.
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It was printed every week. It took a long time to print all the copies.
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Two hundred years ago
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The new printing presses could print much more quickly and newsparers were sold on the streets every day.
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Now We have newspapers in the morning and in the evening every day of the week and millions of papers are sold all over the world.
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Some newspapers have lots of pages and sometimes there is a separater magazine inside it, too.
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Reporters go to the scene of a news story and find out what happened.
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They write about it and photographers take pictures.
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The editor reads the repoters' work and decides what will be in the paper.
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If there are mistakes, the editor will change some words.
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Sometimes an editor says,"Hold the front page!"
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This means a story is very good and will appear on the front page instead of something else.
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It is very exciting for the reporter who wrote it.
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The stort on the next page was written by a young reporter. It is front page news!
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Blackdown Daily News
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Lucky to be alive!
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Joe Carver, rescued yesterday from the Blackdown Hills
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A father and daughter saved the life of an injured climber yerterday.
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"Their quick actions prevented a terrible disaster," said Bill Day of the Search and Rescue Team.
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Jenny Brown found the phone that saved the climber's life.
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Jenny Brown and her father were walking in the Blackdown Hills yesteterday.
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They found rock climber, Joe Carver, lying at the bottom of Blackdown Cliff.
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Jenny said, "We haven't got a mobile phone, so we couldn't call anyone. The man was unconscious and he had bad injuries."
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While her father was putting a blanket over the man, Jenny noticed a mobile phone under his body.
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When she pulled it from under him, she realised it was connected to the Search and Rescue Team.
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Team leader Bill Day said, "Joe Carver phoned us but then he suddenly stopped speaking. We didn't know where he was. We waited for a long time. Then we heard Jenny's voice."
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The rescue helicopter went straight to the cliffs and picked up the climber.
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Pilot Fred Hall said, "I have been in the rescue them for twenty years and Joe Carver is the Luckiest man I know. Snow was starting to fall and he almost died of cold."
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Last night Joe Carver was recovering in hospital.
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He said, "I have climbed mountains since 2001. I have never fallen before but I won't climb alone next time."
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Blackdown Cliff where Joe Caver fell
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The Search and Rescue Team helicopter picked up the injured man
