Reporting the Courts - Man Stands Trial Over Hostel Blaze

Rosalie Watts
May 26, 2023

We're back with another entry in the Reporting the Courts series. This time, a young man stands trial for the alleged crime of starting a fire at a Spanish hostel.

This one is at 90 WPM. If you would prefer to go straight to the audio dictation, you can find that here on Soundcloud.

You can find a growing collection of Reporting the Courts posts on the LLTT Blog.  

Approximately 73% of the words in this dictation are in the NGSL Top 1,000 word list.

NGSL 1k words: a, address, all, an, and, argument, as, at, bad, bar, been, before, both, but, case, damage, down, family, few, fire, fixed, for, girl, had, have, he, here, his, hours, i, in, including, is, later, main, managed, many, members, more, music, my, name, no, of, old, people, place, prove, recording, result, room, said, sounded, stands, starting, state, staying, suffered, summer, the, this, to, today, told, total, turn, was, we, weeks, when, white, will, with, year, you

NGSL 2k words: accused, burn, burns, escape, guests, heavy, owner, refused, smoke, terrible, threatened, trial, unfortunately

NGSL 3k words: alarm, alcohol, counsel, injured, jury

NAWL words: audio, deliberately, lung

Supplemental words: five, seven, ten, thousand, three, twenty, two

Off-list: blaze, cctv, defendant, dock, downstairs, drunken, flames, footage, hostel, jones, natalie, ordeal, prosecution, sam, spanish

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