Audacity_Upset+or+Anger+News

=Reading News 2=

This is the second practice by using Audacity. I was required to select a piece of news that makes me upset, or invokes anger in me. I will be required to expressing the appropriate emotions in my voice.

In this task, I am choosing this news:

**Brazil mudslides survivors angry at lack of help**
First recording:

media type="file" key="test.mp3" width="240" height="20"

From this first recording, I found that my intonation is not very clear and does not show the upset voice.

Second recording:

media type="file" key="sad news.mp3" width="240" height="20"

In this second recording, I can hear small improvement. Even so, I am still having several mistakes in pronunciation and intonation.

This is the text of the upset or sad news.

**Brazil mudslides survivors angry at lack of help**
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil: Survivors of mudslides that killed more than 500 people are growing frustrated, saying Brazil’s government has fallen short in rescuing victims still stranded on remote hillsides and finding the bodies of the dead.

Low-hanging rain clouds prevented the helicopters from flying in, however, and the military promised it would try again Saturday. Survivors did what they could.

The poorer citizens who live here year-round make do with flimsier houses, built of thin brick and wood, with little or no foundation, on denuded land. The surges of mud and water struck rich and poor alike, but most of the dead have been found in impoverished neighborhoods.

At the main shelter for those left homeless, volunteers took names of those who wandered in and tacked up lists on the walls. Survivors crowded around the lists, hoping to spot the name of a loved one.

Margareta Wahlstrom, the United Nations’ assistant secretary-general for disaster risk reduction, said Brazil should have been better prepared. Wahlstrom said the government should have had an early warning and emergency escape system in place.

Source: [|arabnews.com]