"Natural speed and American accent please"
Radio host: My next guest is Sarah Lee, who has come along today to tell us about a charity food festival
that’s going to take place next weekend in Saint Clement’s Field in Upper Clayton. Welcome to the
programme, Sarah.
Sarah Lee: Thank you. It’s great to be here.
Radio host: OK, Sarah, can you tell us a little bit about the festival? It’s a charity event, isn’t it?
Sarah Lee: Yes, that’s right. I work for a local charity called ‘Wish you were here’. We organise holidays
for children who might not otherwise have a chance to go away – families on low incomes or single parent
families with childminding problems. We’ve organised this festival to raise money for a week-long summer
camp in Cornwall for forty children. We hope to raise about five thousand pounds next weekend. This is
the first time we’ve organised such an event, but if it’s successful we’ll make it an annual event.
This might be best read in a British accent. It has British spellings, place names, money, and uses British figures of speech. And "Sarah Lee" is a rather famous name of a line of frozen cakes, pies and desserts in the US :-)