Looting in Haiti

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Earlier today, CNN's crews witnessed the looting of a store in Port Au Prince

Young man, many of them, armed two boxes of candles and saw them on the street.

The video we're gonna be showing you is very graphic.

Young people perhaps shouldn't see this video.

During the course of this looting, others climbed on the roof of the building. Things got very very ugly and they began pelting people with concrete blocks and rocks. The boy was struck in the head. Anderson Cooper tried to drag him away from the crowd.

Once again a warning. The video may be very difficult to watch. It's very graphic.

You maybe want your kids to leave the room, if there are kids there. We will show you the video. Here is what happen.

Anderson tells us the boy was led away by other people.

We don't know what happen.

Graphic adj.

1. Vividly or clearly described

2. Sexually explicit

Pelt. v

1. to strike repeatedly

2. to throw missiles at a person.

3. to strike or assail with or as if with blows or missiles .

Examples: pelted each other with snowballs

Keys in speaking.

In this video, the anchor stressed almost every verb. (If there is "be" verb, he stressed the adjective). After I deliberately stressed all the verbs, it becomes easy to reproduce the sound track of this video.

Human's ear only needs to perceive some keys like verbs, nouns and adjectives to understand what is going on. Therefore, skilled English speakers stressed on what they're trying to convey. Without stressing the keys, you're doing the dictating. With stressing, you're talking!

The advice gained here is trying to stress your keys slowly and loudly and go through the necessary but unimportant parts of the sentence lightly and fast.

Check with the essence of communication - be concise while clear. In this way, it's logical to spend more time (long duration) on key points but less on the trivials (short duration).