The document contains questions asked of a foreign correspondent and a reporter. The foreign correspondent was asked about their qualifications, languages spoken, countries of interest, fitness level and qualities needed for the job. The reporter was asked about their reporting skills, note-taking ability, work schedule, enjoyment of the job, and how they handled unanswered questions or problems while reporting.

1. Arts and Media

2. Reported questions
 She asked him why he wanted to be a foreign
correspondent.
 She wanted to know what parts of the world he was
interested in.
 She asked if he spoke any foreign languages.
 She wanted to know where he’d gone to university,
and if he’d taken any further qualifications.
 She also wanted to know what articles he’d written.
 She asked him what qualities a journalist needed to
be a foreign correspondent .
 She asked if he was physically fit.

3. Reported questions
 They asked me if I was good at reporting.
 They asked me if I was able to write notes quickly.
 They asked me what time I usually started work.
 They asked me if I enjoyed working as a reporter.
 They asked me what I did if people didn’t answer my questions.
 They asked me how much time I spent travelling abroad.
 They asked me if I felt afraid in a crisis.
 They asked me what problems I had when I was reporting.

4. Reading
 1. He said that he had become interested in his teens and had
seen journalism as a good way of getting out into the world.
 2. He said that his first job had been a stringer for the BBC in
Ethiopia and then he had been offered a job with the World
Service.
 3. He said that it had happened when they had been covering
Kosovo. They had been in a village on the boarder with
Macedonia doing a story about a hospital.
 4. He said that he had been paid by the piece provided/filed.
 5. He advised young reporters/correspondents not to be
daunted and shy and to have chutzpah and integrity.

5. Reading
 What qualities does a foreign correspondent need to
have?
 Where was Rageh Omar trained?
 Why did he decide to be a journalist?
 Where was he born?
 When did he first go to Ethiopia?
 How was he paid?
 What experience showed him that journalism was an
important job?

6. Translation
 When I saw for myself the damage that had been
caused, that really brought home to me the scale of
the disaster.
 We need to get an accurate estimate of what the
new building will cost.
 All this information can be conveyed in a simple
diagram.
 We will be covering the game live on Saturday
afternoon.

7. Translation
 People travel far and wide today.
 No one doubted that the president was a man of the
highest integrity.
 My search began after reading a piece in the Daily
Mirror.
 It's not fair the way my sister is always singled out for
special treatment.
 He’s having a really tough time at the moment.

8. Translation
 He's only been here two months and already he's
managed to wangle his way into the biggest
property company in London.
 Several journalists witnessed the incident in which
eight people were injured.
 She was not at all daunted by the size of the
problem.
 In her latest dispatch our war correspondent reported
an increase in fighting.