{"id":2297,"date":"2015-02-01T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/?p=656"},"modified":"2015-02-01T00:00:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T00:00:49","slug":"esb-gave-julie-hesmondhalgh-a-taste-for-performing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/esb-gave-julie-hesmondhalgh-a-taste-for-performing\/","title":{"rendered":"ESB gave Julie Hesmondhalgh a &#8220;taste for performing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-657\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/web\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Julie_Hesmondhalgh_1200_625_s_c1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-657 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/web\/app\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Julie_Hesmondhalgh_1200_625_s_c1-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julie Hesmondhalgh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>English Speaking Board (International) Ltd. was\u00a0delighted to see actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, better known as Hayley Cropper from Coronation Street, talking about ESB in the UK&#8217;s national media.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I was at primary school, I was put into the ESB exams, which were all about enunciating with confidence and clarity. I had to prepare a short speech on someone I admired, so I chose Michael Caine; I was eight. I passed with distinction and got a real taste for performing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/you\/article-2908674\/Hayley-Actress-Julie-Hesmondhalgh-life-Corrie.html#ixzz3PHLV7n5P%20\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/you\/article-2908674\/Hayley-Actress-Julie-Hesmondhalgh-life-Corrie.html#ixzz3PHLV7n5P%20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Speaking Board (International) Ltd. was\u00a0delighted to see actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, better known as Hayley Cropper from Coronation Street, talking about ESB in the UK&#8217;s national media. &nbsp; &nbsp; She said, When I was at primary school, I was put into the ESB exams, which were all about enunciating with confidence and clarity. I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,7,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learning","category-oracy","category-social-mobility","category-speech","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esbuk.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}