Chào các thính giả yêu mến của chương trình Học Tiếng Anh qua các chủ đề của chương trình học tiếng anh cùng Radiome. Mình là Diệu Hoa.
Chủ đề nghe Tiếng Anh của chúng ta ngày hôm nay có tựa đề là: Improving Life in Rural Vietnam có nghĩa là cải thiện cuộc sống ở nông thôn Việt Nam. 
Vì bài nghe khá dài nên mình sẽ tách làm hai phần để các bạn dễ dàng theo dõi hơn nhé!
Các bạn cùng chú ý lắng nghe với tiết tấu chậm rãi của chương trình Spotlight nhé. Note lại những từ bạn nghe chưa rõ và xem lại ở bản text để làm phong phú thêm vốn từ vựng của mình nhé!
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Welcome to Spotlight. I’m Robin Basselin.     
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And I’m Ryan Geertsma. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live.          
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Nguyen The Dong had a problem. He is a farmer in the country of Vietnam. He owns many animals - 100 pigs, 100 baby ducks, and even a large buffalo. Dong’s problem was too much animal waste. It smelled. It was dirty. And it created living conditions that were bad for human health. Dong did not know what to do with all the animal waste.          
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Nguyen Thi Huong also had problem. Like Dong, Huong is from Vietnam. But her problem was different. Huong cooks meals for her family. She explained her problem to Alertnet news.
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“Cooking was a difficult and dangerous job for me. The room where I cooked was smoky. Black particles would come out of the stove. They came from the wood I burned as fuel. The black ash would make me cough. I expelled air from my lungs the whole day. The black ash would also cause pain in my eyes.”

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Dong and Huong had two very different problems. However, they found the same solution – a biogas system. Today’s Spotlight is on the award winning Vietnam Biogas Program.          
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Seventy percent of people in Vietnam live away from cities.  They live in rural areas. Like Dong, most of these people earn money by caring for farm animals like pigs. Other common jobs are crop farming and fishing. For many of these farmers and fishermen, animal and plant waste is still a problem.         
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And like Huong, many women and children cook meals using traditional cooking fuels. They suffer the same health concerns. They also spend many hours collecting wood and other materials to burn. This process takes time and also uses a lot of natural resources.         
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But a biogas system can solve all of these problems! It can turn animal or plant waste into valuable resources - such as cooking fuel, electricity and plant food. It works like this:
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First, an expert must build a system of pipes and tanks. This biogas system contains and manages the decaying process of animal or plant waste.   
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To use the biogas system, a farmer must move animal waste into a pipe with water. Experts can also build pipes to carry human waste from homes. These pipes bring the waste to a tank buried in the ground. This tank is called a bio-digester. Air cannot enter this tank.  In this contained environment, natural bacteria decays the waste material.
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As the waste decays in the bio-digester, it produces two things - biogas and slurry. The biogas rises to the top of the tank. The pressure from the gas pushes the liquid slurry into another tank. Now people can use both the biogas and the slurry.          
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The slurry is full of rich nutrients.  Farmers can add it to soil to help produce healthy crops. The biogas is a form of fuel. Another set of pipes carries the biogas from the bio-digester to people’s homes. They can use this gas as fuel for cooking or producing electricity. Dong explained to Alertnet how biogas helps his family.          
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“I feed the bio-digester with animal waste every day. The decaying process produces clean gas for cooking in our kitchen. I also use this gas for light during the night. And I use the gas to boil water for washing or bathing during winter.”          
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A biogas system produces many valuable resources.  But it also makes living conditions much cleaner. Containing waste and the decaying process is better for human health.          
Phần 1 của bài nghe hôm nay tạm dừng ở đây. Các bạn chú ý và theo dõi phần 2 ở những bài học tiếp sau nhé! Cảm ơn các bạn.