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EDITORIAL | May 2014
The funny thing
about language
Titelfoto: action press; Fotos Editorial: Hemera, iStock
For many German-speakers, comedian Otto
Waalkes is the personification of humour. Start
telling one of his jokes: “Peter, Paul and Mary
are walking through the prairie…”, for example,
and many Germans will not only complete
Inez Sharp, editor-in-chief
the joke, but have at least a dozen others perfectly memorized to tell you. So
when Waalkes agreed to answer an extended version of our column “My Life
in English”, we decided, just for once, to give the column some extra space.
Find out all about Otto Waalkes’s life in English on pages 24–27.
How many words do you need to know to speak English well? And
where do you check to make sure you have understood and used a new word
correctly? We answer these two important questions in our language feature.
Beginning on page 14, language editor Joanna Westcombe looks at core vocabulary
and how modern dictionaries — particularly the online versions —
help to make learning new words fun and effective.
Today, Glasgow is Scotland’s capital of cool, but back in the 1970s, it
was a city in a slump. It’s main industry, shipbuilding, which had provided thousands
of jobs, was dying, and there seemed to be nothing to replace it. Over
the past few decades, however, the city has been given an imaginative
makeover. Today, museums, parks and cafes — all with a unique flair — welcome
visitors from around the world. Spotlight author Toby Skingsley takes you
on a tour through Scotland’s biggest city, starting on page 30.
i.sharp@spotlight-verlag.de
Glasgow: historical
culture in a new light
A creative-writing class was
asked to write a short essay
containing the following elements:
religion, royalty, sex
and mystery. The prize-winning
essay read: “‘My God!’ said
the queen. ‘I’m pregnant.’”
A creative-writing class was
asked to write a short essay
containing the following elements:
religion, royalty, sex
and mystery. The prize-winning
essay read: “‘My God!’ said
the queen. ‘I’m pregnant.’”
A creative-writing class was
asked to write a short essay
containing the following elements:
religion, royalty, sex
and mystery. The prize-winning
essay read: “‘My God!’ said
the queen. ‘I’m pregnant.’”
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CONTENTS | May 2014
Otto Waalkes in English
The comedian who makes you laugh until you cry
can do it in English, too. An exclusive interview.
24 30
Going to Glasgow
Toby Skingsley takes us to Scotland’s most exciting
city, a “dear green place” where art meets industry.
6 People
Names and faces from around the world
8 A Day in My Life
A firefighter in Los Angeles
10 World View
What’s news and what’s hot
13 Britain Today
Colin Beaven on income inequality
22 Food
Animal-friendly ways of producing meat
40 History
Finding Anglo-Saxon treasures 75 years ago
42 Press Gallery
A look at the English-language media
44 Arts
Films, apps, books, culture and a short story
66 The Lighter Side
Jokes and cartoons
67 American Life
Ginger Kuenzel on small-town politics
28 I Ask Myself
Amy Argetsinger on the passing of a great actor
36 Around Oz
Peter Flynn on fairness for Aborigines
38 Debate
Is pop culture trying too hard to be sexy?
People in Norwich, England, have their say
68 Feedback & Impressum
Your letters to Spotlight — and our responses
69 Next Month
What’s coming next month in Spotlight
70 Humour Special
A look at the differences in humour between
German- and English-speaking cultures
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37
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The language you need to talk about tea
52 Travel Talk
Travelling by coach
53 Language Cards
Pull out and practise
55 Everyday English
Words and phrases for going to the dentist
57 The Grammar Page
Using the future perfect tense
58 Peggy’s Place: The Soap
The latest from a London pub
59 English at Work
Ken Taylor answers your questions
60 Spoken English
Ways to change the topic of a conversation
61 Word Builder
A focus on the words in Spotlight
62 Perfectionists Only!
Nuances of English
63 Crossword
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PEOPLE | Names and Faces
The actress
Who exactly is…
Leah Remini?
For years, Leah Remini has been
best known for her role as the
outspoken Carrie Heffernan,
playing opposite Kevin
James on the TV show
The King of Queens.
Last summer, however,
people started
talking about her
for a different reason:
she had very
publicly left the
Church of Scientology,
after
being a member
for more
than 30 years.
In a recent
interview with
the social news
website Buzz-
Feed, Remini
explained that
she had grown
up in Scientology,
even living
in one of the
compounds of
the church as a
child. When
she was 13,
her mother
moved the
family out of the compound and into
Hollywood, but they remained active
in the church.
Remini began acting as a teenager
and got her big break — the role of
Carrie Heffernan — in 1998, when
she was 28 years old. The show was a
huge success: it ran for eight years
and often had more than ten million
viewers.
In 2003, Remini married Angelo
Pagán, an actor and producer. One
year later, they had a daughter, Sofia.
Remini told BuzzFeed that her
daughter was her biggest motivation
in leaving Scientology last year: “She
was getting to the age where the acclimation
to the church would have
to start.” And the actress had become
disillusioned with the church: “They
say they’re loving, caring, nonjudgemental
people, but secretly, they
were judging the world for not believing
what they believed.”
Leaving the church meant leaving
behind many old friends, but Remini’s
family seems to be supporting
her through the process.
So what’s next? The actress has a
role in the comedy series The Exes,
about a group of divorced friends, and
she is writing her memoirs — which
are sure to be an interesting read.
acclimation [)ÄklI(meIS&n] N. Am.
Anpassung
affection [E(fekS&n]
Zuneigung
appealing [E(pi:&lIN]
ansprechend, reizvoll
break [breIk]
hier: Durchbruch
compound [(kQmpaUnd]
Gelände, Niederlassung
factual [(fÄktSuEl]
Realityheroine
[(herEUIn]
Heldin
horse-drawn carriage [)hO:s drO:n (kÄrIdZ] Pferdekutsche
irreverence [I(rev&rEns]
Respektlosigkeit, Sarkasmus
mayor [meE]
Bürgermeister(in)
non-judgemental [)nQn dZVdZ(ment&l] unvoreingenommen
pissed off [pIst (Qf] N. Am. vulg.
sauer, angepisst
replica [(replIkE]
Nachbildung
rub [rVb] reiben (➝ p. 61)
season [(si:z&n]
hier: Staffel
In the news
When Jeremy Clarkson’s show
about cars started its new season early
this year, more than five million people
in Britain were watching. The Guinness
Book of World Records says Top
Gear is the most widely viewed factual
TV show in the world — it runs in 214
countries and territories. Last year, the
BBC reported that
the show has a
large following in
Iran, saying that
Clarkson’s irreverence
and “colourful”
style make an
appealing contrast
to other Iranian TV
shows.
Shakespeare’s fictional character
Juliet is real to many people. In
Verona, a statue of the heroine stands
in the courtyard of what is known as
“Juliet’s house”. The Telegraph reports
that almost 250,000 tourists visit the
house each year, and many of them
rub the statue’s right breast,
hoping for luck in love.
With so many people
giving it their affection,
however, the statue is
showing signs of damage.
So the city has moved
it to a museum — but
promises to put a
replica in its place.
In his latest action film, Non-Stop,
Liam Neeson fights bad guys on
board an aeroplane. In real life, Neeson
recently fought against someone
closer to home: Bill de Blasio, the
mayor of New York City. De Blasio
wanted to stop horse-drawn carriages
from running in the city. On The Daily
Show, Neeson said he was “a little bit
pissed off” about this. The actor, who
lives in New York, knows several carriage
drivers. “These guys treat their
horses like their children,” he said.
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Out of the ordinary
When he was given a school project
about outer space, four-year-old
Lucas Whiteley from West Yorkshire
decided to ask for help from the
experts. So he and his father sent
three questions about stars, the moon
and space travel to NASA. As the Daily
Mail reports, a research engineer
named Ted Garbeff surprised Lucas by Lucas: space magic
responding with a ten-minute video. “It’s really a lot of fun being
an engineer,” Garbeff said in the video, after answering Lucas’s
questions. “You get to play with great toys all day, and most importantly,
you get to learn about the world.”
Originally from New Zealand, Natalie Sisson has had no home
for the past four years by choice. The New Zealand Herald explains
that Sisson works online — blogging, marketing digital products and
providing coaching through Skype — and that she has no permanent
address. Last year, Sisson spent time in 15 different countries.
“People think that I’m either crazy, a little bit strange, or they think
it sounds fantastic,” she said. Her blog and book, both called The
Suitcase Entrepreneur, aim to help other people enjoy a similar
lifestyle as a “digital nomad”.
The newcomer
• Name: Andrew Mupuya
• Age: 21
• From: Uganda
• Occupation: businessman
• What he’s done: He started making
and selling paper bags while still at
school. Today, he owns a company
that employs 16 people and produces
20,000 paper bags a week.
• Why it matters: Old plastic
bags are an environmental problem
in Uganda. They block drainage
systems and collect along the road.
• What he’s going to do: Mupuya
now wants to expand his business and
supply environmentally friendly paper
bags across Africa. “My vision is to
have a cleaner Africa by eradicating
use of plastic bags and [putting more]
emphasis on paper recycling,” he
told the BBC.
Fotos: action press; Dana Press; laif; Getty Images; PR
freiwillig
Beratung
entschlossen
hier: Turmspringer(in)
Abwasser-
(gänzlich) abschaffen
Ehrlichkeit
Weltraum
Feinheit
Machover: sound of the city
by choice [baI (tSOIs]
coaching [(kEUtSIN]
determined [di(t§:mInd]
diver [(daIvE]
drainage [(dreInIdZ]
eradicate [I(rÄdIkeIt]
honesty [(QnEsti]
outer space [)aUtE (speIs]
subtlety [(sVt&lti]
What does a city sound like?
American Tod Machover
is good at finding out. He has
composed symphonies for
Toronto, Edinburgh and, most
recently, Perth. Machover creates
the music by asking people
to send him recordings
that they feel represent their
city. Thousands of West Australians
helped with the piece
Between the Desert and the
Deep Blue Sea: A Symphony
for Perth. “I think that the ability
to listen to the world, to
hear the beauty, complexity
and subtlety of what is already
around us, will make each of
our lives richer,” Machover
told The Australian.
Texts by RITA FORBES
Happy birthday!
One of Britain’s star athletes is growing up. On 21 May,
the diver Tom Daley will celebrate his 20th birthday.
Daley became world famous when he competed in
the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Just 14 years old, he was the
youngest British Olympic athlete at the games. Four
years later, in the London Olympics, he won a bronze
medal.
Daley recently began working with a new coach in
preparation for the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
this August, and he is determined to win
gold at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. “I’ve got a gold
medal in every other major event except for
that one,” he told The Guardian. “That’s the one
I need to get.”
In 2012, Daley wrote an autobiography called
My Life. Last December, he opened up about
his personal life in a new way by putting
a video on YouTube. In the video, he
talked about difficulties in his personal
life, including his father’s death from
cancer. Then he told his fans that he
was in a relationship that made him
very happy — with a man. “Honesty
is something that I really do
believe in,” he said. “My friends
and family are always there
to support me. And I hope
you guys will be, too.”

A DAY IN MY LIFE | United States
Keeping
Los Angeles safe
Vom Putzen der Station bis zum Leben retten – für einen Feuerwehrmann gibt es immer etwas
zu tun. TALITHA LINEHAN berichtet.
Justin Furtado
at the
firehouse
My name is Justin
Furtado, and I’m
34 years old. I’m
a firefighter / paramedic with
the South Pasadena Fire Department,
which covers an
area of about three and a half
square miles — roughly nine
square kilometers. We also
work with firefighters from
12 other cities in Los Angeles
and on major disasters such
as forest fires and earthquakes
in the state of California.
A typical shift lasts 48
hours, and there are usually
seven guys on a shift — five
firefighters, a captain, and a
battalion chief. When we’re
on a shift, we eat and sleep at
the station. We get up at
7 a.m., drink coffee, and
watch the morning news. At
7:30, we have a morning meeting. That’s when the captain
lets us know the plan for the day. We always have a daily
schedule, although that gets interrupted whenever a call
comes in.
After the meeting, we take the time to clean the station.
Each of us is given a certain task. For example, my task is
to clean the bathroom. Another person takes care of the
floors, so he will do the mopping and vacuuming. Then
we check our equipment to make sure it’s ready for the
day. If there’s time, some of us will work out for an hour
before breakfast, which is always at 9:30. We all chip in
for food, to make sure that we have a well-stocked kitchen.
Usually, we cook up something like eggs or oatmeal.
captain [(kÄptEn]
fire department
[(faI&r di)pA:rtmEnt] N. Am.
firefighter [(faI&rfaIt&r]
mop [mA:p]
oatmeal [(oUtmi:&l]
paramedic [)pÄrE(medIk]
vacuum [(vÄkjuEm]
well-stocked [)wel (stA:kt]
work out [w§:k (aUt]
Ready to respond:
firefighters work
hard to save lives
hier: Hauptmann, -frau
Feuerwehr
Feuerwehrmann, -frau
feucht wischen
Haferbrei
Rettungssanitäter(in)
staubsaugen
gut bestückt.
trainieren

Fotos: J. Simpson; Corbis; F1 Online; Thinkstock
At 10, we start our workday. We might be going out
to schools to do fire drills, visiting businesses to check
that they’re operating safely, or inspecting fire hydrants.
And we’re always doing training. Today, we had a class
on forcible entry. We learned how to open doors with
our tools while creating minimal damage. At noon, we
have lunch, and some of the guys take a nap afterwards.
Then we return to the scheduled routine between 1 and
4 p.m.
When a call comes in, we drop everything. We get an
average of five to six calls a day. Our most common call is
a medical emergency. We also get a lot of accidents, because
the 110 freeway is nearby. Our goal is to be out the
door in 60 seconds. The first thing we do is check the map
so we know what route we’re taking. If it’s a fire or an accident,
we put on full protective gear.
When we get to the scene, we look at the situation and
then prioritize. So we might be focusing on patient care,
or putting out a fire, or breaking down a door. We do
whatever needs to be done, but saving lives always comes
first. We see all kinds of trauma on the job — people getting
hit by cars, falling off roofs, drowning in pools. When
I’m working, I’m desensitized to it because I’m focused on
what I can do to help.
When we arrive back at the station, we get our equipment
ready for the next call and then return to the schedule.
Dinner is at 5, and the cooking responsibility is passed
from person to person. A lot of us enjoy cooking, so we
eat very well here. After dinner, we play cards to decide
who does the dishes. Then some of us work out again, or
read, or watch TV. I’m preparing for the engineer’s exam,
so I study for that.
At 10, guys start getting ready for bed. Calls come in
during the night, so our sleep is often interrupted. Sometimes,
we’re up three to four times a night. When that happens,
the next day is rough, but you get used to it. My
passion is firefighting, and it’s all part of the job.
alert [E(l§:t]
desensitize [di:(sensEtaIz]
do the dishes [)dU DE (dISIz]
drop [drA:p]
drown [draUn]
fire drill [(faI&r drIl]
forcible entry [)fO:rsEb&l (entri]
freeway [(fri:weI] N. Am.
prioritize [praI(O:rItaIz]
protective gear [prE(tektIv gI&r]
Answers: chip in: a) chip in; b) chipping in; c) chipped in
roof: a) hit the roof; b) gone through the roof
wach, ausgeschlafen
desensibilisieren
abspülen
hier: alles stehen- und
liegenlassen (➝ p. 61)
ertrinken
Feuerwehrübung
gewaltsamer Zutritt
(gebührenfreie) Autobahn,
auch: Schnellstraße
Prioritäten setzen
Schutzausrüstung,
Schutzkleidung
INFO TO GO
chip in
In the text, Justin Furtado says, “We all chip in for food.”
The expression “chip in” means “to contribute.” In this
case, Furtado is saying that he and his colleagues all
give some money towards the cost of breakfast and
other meals in the kitchen. Since the firefighters always
eat together, “chipping in” is a fair way of sharing the
shopping costs.
Try using “chip in” in the following sentences.
a) Tom still needs to __________ for Tina’s birthday gift.
b) We have a routine of __________ for ice cream at the
office in summer.
c) On my niece’s last birthday, I __________ for a new
bike for her.
take a nap
In English, a “nap” is a short sleep that you have or
“take” during the day. Napping is normally considered
a good thing — except, perhaps, if you are caught
“napping on the job.” If this has happened, it means
you should have reacted to something that required
your attention, but instead, you overlooked it — as if
you’d been asleep. As described in the text, the firefighters
take a nap after lunch, as part of their schedule,
to make sure that they are alert afterwards and can
respond effectively to emergencies. In their case, it’s
OK to be caught napping on the job.
roof
Everyone knows the word “roof”: it means the top covering
of a building. What’s fun about the word is how it
is used in various idiomatic expressions. For example,
when the price of something, such as fuel, rises very
quickly, people say: “The price has gone through the
roof.” If you saw someone suddenly become very
angry about something, you can say that he or she “hit
the roof”: “When she heard about the changes at the
office, she hit the roof.” Complete the following sentences,
using the correct expression with “roof.”
a) If you forget to buy milk again, Mom is going to
_______________.
b) Have you seen what coffee costs now? The price
has _______________.
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WORLD VIEW | News in Brief
History in motion:
a vintage aeroplane
at Duxford’s show
It’s a good month...
for an air show
BRITAIN Duxford is an exciting destination
for both aeroplane fans and history buffs this month. On
24 and 25 May, an air show will take place in this small
English village close to Cambridge to commemorate the
70th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy.
The aircraft to be seen in the skies include fighter,
bomber and transport planes, and the event will be held
at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, which is worth a
visit at any time of the year. Located on an airfield used in
both world wars, the museum has more than 200 aircraft.
This year, a number of special events and exhibits give
visitors the chance to learn about the Normandy landings
in the Second World War. About 13,000 British, US and
Canadian troops parachuted behind enemy lines as part
of the invasion on 6 June 1944, with 4,000 more storming
the French coast in gliders.
Tickets for the D-Day Anniversary Air Show cost
£25.50 for adults and £18.15 for children. Admission to
the museum is included. For further information, see
www.iwm.org.uk/exhibitions/iwm-duxford/air-shows
airfield [(eEfi:&ld]
air show [(eE SEU]
Amur falcon [E(mUE )fO:lkEn]
breeding pair [(bri:dIN peE]
buff [bVf] ifml.
chief minister [)tSi:f (mInIstE]
commemorate [kE(memEreIt]
Flugplatz
Flugschau
Amurfalke
Brutpaar
hier: Fan
Ministerpräsident(in)
etw. gedenken
On a wing and a prayer
INDIA May is the month of love for Amur falcons.
Breeding pairs produce up to four eggs between now and late
June, then raise their young and leave Siberia to fly to insect-rich
Africa. The 20,000-kilometre journey is not an easy one: it includes
a stop in Nagaland, where roasted falcon is a speciality.
In this state in north-east India, some 150,000 of the birds have
typically died in mass trappings each year. The Guardian says the
problem may now have been solved: last year, in a surprise proconservation
decision, Nagaland introduced a no-hunting policy,
with fines imposed on anyone caught killing the birds. Several villages
joined in the effort, concerned they might otherwise lose state
financial support — a threat made by Nagaland’s chief minister after
D-Day [(di: deI]
fine [faIn]
glider [(glaIdE]
parachute [(pÄrESu:t]
pro-conservation
[prEU )kQnsE(veIS&n]
trapping [(trÄpIN]
Tag der alliierten Landung in der Normandie
Geldstrafe
Segelflugzeug
mit dem Fallschirm abspringen
für den Natur-, Tierschutz
Falle
media reports of bird massacres. “It is
our duty to protect these wonderful
birds while they are passing through
Nagaland,” Neiphiu Rio told the press.
The result has been good: several
wildlife organizations reported no Falco
amurensis killings in 2013. As a result, says
The Telegraph of Calcutta, Nagaland has
been nominated for the India Biodiversity
Awards. Winners will be announced on 22 May.
For the Amur falcon, migration
is now less dangerous
Fotos: Alamy; PR
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Quiet, please
UNITED STATES For many people, a good
meal isn’t complete without stimulating conversation. But for
those who would like to focus on their food, a restaurant in New
York City has an interesting idea. At Eat, in the popular Brooklyn
neighborhood of Greenpoint, you can enjoy your dining experience
in complete silence.
Chef Nicholas Nauman borrowed the idea from Buddhist
monks in India. During a visit to the city of Bodh Gaya, he saw
them eating breakfast without saying a word. He thought New
Yorkers might benefit from a similar experience, especially since
restaurants in the city are often very loud. What’s more, a quiet
atmosphere places the focus on the cooking. “It’s just an opportunity
to enjoy food in a way that you might not have otherwise,”
Nauman told The New York Daily News. “There’s such a
strong energy in the room.”
Interested? The silent dinners take place on the first Sunday
of each month. The menu is fixed in advance, so you don’t have
to worry about trying to order the meal without speaking. For
more information, see http://eatgreenpoint.com
The beauty of silence: Buddhist monks show the way
dine [daIn]
eager: be ~ to do sth. [US (i:g&r]
hearken back to sth. [US )hA:rkEn (bÄk tE]
mount [maUnt]
speisen, essen
auf etw. erpicht sein,
etw. tun wollen
auf etw. zurückgehen
Reittier
neighborhood [US (neIb&rhUd]
ornery [US O:rnEri] N. Am. ifml.
stimulating [US (stImjEleItIN]
wide-open spaces
[US )waId )oUpEn (speIsIz]
Gegend, Viertel
störrisch
anregend
weites flaches Land,
riesige Weiten
Seeing Texas in style
UNITED STATES “Ships of the desert”
are back in service. Camels are being used to take visitors
on tours of the wide-open spaces of Texas, a mode of
transportation that hearkens back to the days of the
Wild West.
Guide Jason Mayfield says the threeday
treks offered by the Texas Camel
Corps are gaining in popularity, thanks,
in part, to the mounts’ lovely personalities.
When asked how that could be —
the animals are known for being rather
ornery — he offered a shining example:
Butter.
“There’s nobody that I would rather
go hiking or camping with,” Mayfield
told National Public Radio of the camel
he had raised from a newborn. “Butter
never complains, is always eager to go,
is always happy to see new places, new
faces — and that’s what makes it exciting
for me.”
These are not the first camels to
work in the Big Bend region, which is
on the Mexican border. Ancient camels lived in this part
of West Texas 10,000 years ago. In the 1850s, the original
US Camel Corps moved supplies to soldiers in the
area. Those camels lost their jobs when the railroad took
over around the end of the 19th century.
Comeback for camels:
taking tourists
to see the sights
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WORLD VIEW | News in Brief
Why we stop working
AUSTRALIA John Gray’s bestselling book about relationships
taught us that men are from Mars and women are from Venus.
Now, a researcher in Melbourne has uncovered yet another difference
between the sexes.
Diana Warren conducted an eight-year study of retirement trends
and found that men and women have different reasons for deciding
when to retire. Men typically base this decision on their financial
well-being and their health. Poor health makes a man three times more
likely to retire. Women usually retire to take care of loved ones, or because
they want to spend
When should we retire?
The decision varies a lot
BRITAIN Wild
winds, heavy rains, towering
waves, dramatic floods: Britain
has experienced a lot of extreme
weather recently. For example,
last December may have
been the stormiest December
for more than 40 years — and
the country’s storm chasers
couldn’t be happier.
There are about 300 storm
chasers in Britain. Paul Knightaddicted
to sth.: be ~ [E(dIktId tE]
anchor [(ÄNkE]
batfish [(bÄtfIS]
chaser [(tSeIsE]
conduct [kEn(dVkt]
footage [(fUtIdZ]
octopus [(QktEpEs]
off you go [(Qf ju )gEU]
poor health [pO: (helT]
predator [(predEtE]
reef dweller [(ri:f )dwelE]
thunderstorm [(TVndEstO:m]
towering [(taUErIN]
well-being [)wel (bi:IN]
Waves
hit southern
England
more time with their families.
Among unmarried
women, Warren learned,
finances are the most important
factor.
More Australians are
retiring at a later age, according
to The Sydney
Morning Herald. About a
fifth of couples now plan
to continue working until
at least the age of 70.
nach etw. süchtig sein
verankern
Fledermausfisch
Jäger(in)
durchführen, leiten
Filmmaterial
Tintenfisch
los geht’s
schlechter Gesundheitszustand
Raubfisch
Riffbewohner
Gewitter
gewaltig, turmhoch
Wohlergehen
Stormy weather
WHAT’S HOT
The room
aquatic
TANZANIA When an
elegant hotel adds an extra room,
it’s hardly the stuff of big international
headlines — except when that
space is located four metres below
the waters of the Indian Ocean.
One attraction of the “underwater
room” at Manta Resort on Pemba
Island is its isolation — a sure thing
anchored 250 metres away from the
east coast of Africa. Its big glass windows
are another attraction: when
the sun goes down over the Zanzibar
Archipelago, underwater spots
light up, giving guests the opportunity
to see octopus and other reef
dwellers, such as the clever batfish,
which a reporter from The Telegraph
observed using the room’s walls to
hide from predators.
Just above the underwater bedroom,
at sea level, is a stylish lounge
that guests can use for reading and
relaxing. Another level up is a
wooden terrace for watching the
stars or lying in the sun.
Life at sea:
stylish
and fun
ley, head of the Tornado and Storm Research Organization, explained
that modern technology has made storm chasing easier.
“Now, with fast mobile internet, you can see where a thunderstorm
is, look at your GPS [Global Positioning System], and off you go,” he
told The Guardian. The hope is to witness beautiful displays of nature’s
power, everything from violent thunderstorms to tornados.
Anyone who gets a good photograph or some video footage hopes
to see it used in the newspapers or on television.
Ian Michaelwaite, a storm chaser who helps to run a weather research
company, has a theory about the growing popularity of the
hobby: “I think, as a country, we are fascinated by the weather.
I would say we are addicted to it.”
Fotos: PR; Reuters; Wavebreak Media
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By RITA FORBES and CLAUDINE WEBER-HOF

Britain Today | COLIN BEAVEN
Foto: Corbis
For some years now, we’ve been
hearing a lot about Britain’s
economic problems, so better
news recently has certainly been welcome.
Inflation’s down: it’s about
2 per cent. Unemployment’s down: it’s
about 7 per cent. Everything seems to
have gone down. By the summer, this
might even be true of the floodwater
from last winter’s endless rainfall.
When things improve, there are
winners and losers, of course — even
if that’s not the way the government
sees it. “We’re all in this together,”
George Osborne keeps saying.
As chancellor of the exchequer
since 2010, he’s had the job of trying
to sort out our economic crisis, so
good news about the economy is no
doubt music to his ears. But it doesn’t
put an end to old debates about social
inequality. Britain is still a land of
many qualities and many inequalities,
it seems.
Danny Dorling, professor of geography
at the University of Oxford,
billion [(bIljEn]
chancellor of the exchequer
[)tSA:nsElE Ev Di Iks(tSekE] UK
debts [dets]
generate money [)dZenEreIt (mVni]
inequality [)Ini(kwQlEti]
in turn [In (t§:n]
matter [(mÄtE]
no matter what [nEU )mÄtE (wQt]
racetrack [(reIstrÄk]
recategorize [)ri:(kÄtIgEraIz]
social welfare system [)sEUS&l (welfeE )sIstEm]
sort sth. out [sO:t (aUt]
source [sO:s]
squeeze [skwi:zd]
university fee [)ju:nI(v§:sEti )fi:]
vicious [(vISEs]
vicious circle [)vISEs (s§:k&l]
“
We’re all
in this
together
”
A land of inequalities
Trotz besserer Wirtschaftslage scheint die soziale Ungleichheit
immer weiter zuzunehmen. Ein Teufelskreis?
certainly thinks so. He’s found
plenty of evidence that inequality
in Britain is actually on the increase.
Does it matter? Different political
parties have different views about
this. The Labour Party has often
talked about the need for social justice.
Part of the reason why it brought
in higher university fees in 2006 was
to generate money that could be used
to help students from poorer families.
Meanwhile, the Conservative
Party tends to worry that when you
aim for equality, the standards you
achieve are lower. The Conservativeled
coalition brought in even higher
university fees than Labour did.
With large debts now the norm
and an economy in trouble, families
that aren’t poor suddenly feel a lot
poorer if they have children at university.
They’re the “squeezed middle
class”, as the media call them.
Feeling poorer doesn’t mean you
are poor. Spectacular evidence of inequality
was shown on a recent BBC
radio programme. It reported that
some of the poorest in Britain are hungry
because they can’t afford to eat.
Milliarde
Finanzminister(in)
Schulden
Einnahmen erzielen
Ungleichheit
wiederum
hier: eine Rolle spielen, wichtig sein
egal, was
Rennstrecke
neu einstufen
Sozialhilfesystem
etw. in Ordnung bringen,
etw. aus der Welt schaffen
Quelle, Ursprung
ausquetschen
Studiengebühr
bösartig
Teufelskreis
Colin Beaven is a freelance writer who lives and works in Southampton on the south coast of England.
What is the source of this story?
Bishops and other religious leaders
who tell us their churches have to
step in more and more with gifts of
food, and who think a rich country
like Britain should do better.
The bishops blame the government’s
latest changes to the social
welfare system. For example, some
people who don’t work because of ill
health have been recategorized;
they’ve now been told they should
work, and they receive less money.
Others who get government help
with their rent are now given less if
their homes have empty bedrooms.
The hope is that this will make them
move to a smaller home, which in
turn will make room for those who
need a larger place to live.
The piece about the bishops was
followed immediately by a report
about Bernie Ecclestone (shown
below), who, at the age of 83, was in
court because of a business dispute.
He still controls Formula One motor
racing more or less and, we’re told, is
worth about two and a half billion
pounds.
The danger with reforms of the
welfare system is that you create a
vicious circle, where life gets worse
and worse, no matter what you do.
Motor racing is also a vicious
circle, in a way. You
drive round in a
circle for hours
and have to be
vicious to win.
Apart from
that, though,
life on welfare
payments and on
the racetrack could
hardly be more
different.
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LANGUAGE | Vocabulary
The words you need
— and where to find them
Wörterbücher haben eine lange Geschichte und, was Lernende betrifft, eine neue Zukunft.
JOANNA WESTCOMBE berichtet, wo man das passende Wort findet.
What does “affair” mean? What’s another word for
“bad”? Is “chat” a better word than “conversation”?
As a language learner, you’ll
probably have lots of your own questions
about English — and they almost certainly
won’t come in alphabetical order.
To find the answers, a good place to
look is in a dictionary, especially one of
the new generation of online learner’s
dictionaries that make the most of the latest technology.
These can help you to find the words you really
need and to learn how to use them. We talk
to Michael Rundell of Macmillan Dictionaries
about the words that go into this
kind of dictionary and what you as a
learner can get out of them. We
start, though, by looking at the history
of the English dictionary.
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dictionary
a book that lists the words of a language in alphabetical
order and gives their meaning...
The above definition of the word from the Oxford Dictionary
of English is a very short description of possibly
the longest book on your bookshelf, a book that has had
an extraordinary journey in the English-speaking world.
The first major dictionary of English, the Dictionary of
the English Language, was published in 1755. It had
taken Dr Samuel Johnson (1709–84) eight years to
write. It contained 40,000 headwords, each with carefully
defined meanings, as well as a huge collection of
literary quotations. This dictionary became the authority
on the English language for more than150 years.
Johnson’s original work
Years of work: James Murray
preparing his version
In 1878, the Scottish
linguist James Murray
(1837–1915) was
invited to Oxford to
begin work on a dictionary
to replace Johnson’s
— a project planned to start the following year and
take 10 years to complete. Murray asked the public for
help with quotations to be included in the dictionary,
and he soon had his own red post box outside his house.
Five years after starting work on this New English
Dictionary, however, Murray and his colleagues had got
as far as “ant”. The editors came to realize that a language
is not just what is found in historical documents. Old
words develop new meanings, and new words are constantly
entering the language. The linguists continued
their work until 1928, when the dictionary was first
published in its complete form, many years after Murray’s
death. Updates were issued until 1933, when the
work was published in 12 volumes and given the name
it still has today — the Oxford English Dictionary.
It wasn’t until 1989 that a second edition of the Oxford
English Dictionary was published. Behind this edition,
however, was a team consisting not just of lexicographers,
but of computer programmers. In 1992, a dictionary
weighing 70 kilos and with a shelf length of more than a
metre could be bought on a CD-ROM.
The digital revolution has marked a turning point.
Dr Johnson worked alone for years to become an authority
on how English should be used. Today, you and other
native and non-native speakers from around the world
can add examples and comments to www.leo.org and
other online dictionary sites and be involved in the making
of English dictionaries that show how words are used.
Nowadays, of course, the Oxford English Dictionary
is not the only dictionary of English. There are bilingual
and monolingual dictionaries, dictionaries for native
speakers and for learners, schoolchildren, students and
adults. There are dictionaries that deal with specific topics
such as idioms, collocations, quotations or topic
areas such as business and law. There are paper dictionaries,
electronic dictionaries and online dictionaries like
the Macmillan English Dictionary, from which the definition
below is taken.
dictionary
a reference resource which provides information about
words and their meanings, uses, and pronunciations.
A dictionary may be published as a printed book, or as a
digital product such as a website or app, and it may be
monolingual, bilingual, or multilingual.
Fotos: Alamy; iStock; Mauritius
ant [Änt]
bilingual [baI(lINgwEl]
headword [(hedw§:d]
quotation [kwEU(teIS&n]
volume [(vQlju:m]
Ameise
zweisprachig
Schlagwort
Zitat
Band
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LANGUAGE | Vocabulary
Words for learners
If you want to understand more of what you read or listen
to in English, and improve both your speaking and writing
abilities, many language experts would say that vocabulary
is more important than grammar. In other words, you
would probably gain more from taking a dictionary or
phrase book on holiday with you than a grammar book.
But simply looking at a new noun or verb and its translation
a few times will neither help you to remember it, nor
to use it correctly. To learn a word properly, you need to
ask some important questions about it:
Can I
spell and say
this word?
Does this word
have other
meanings that I
need to know?
What other
words can I
use with it?
Can I use this word
in every situation,
or does it have a
better synonym?
And the key question:
Is this word
important enough
to be worth
learning at all?
What grammar do
I need when I want
to use this word in
a sentence?
The answers to all of these questions can be found in one place — a good learner’s dictionary.
Michael Rundell (right) has been in the dictionary business for more than
30 years. He is editor-in-chief of Macmillan Dictionaries.
Spotlight interviewed Rundell about the words learners need.
What is the basic difference between a learner’s
dictionary and other dictionaries?
There are important differences between a learner’s dictionary
and the standard dictionaries that are designed for
native speakers of a language, or standard bilingual dictionaries.
Standard dictionaries basically tell you what
things mean, and perhaps give you one example of their
usage. What you see in a learner’s dictionary is not just
what words mean, but how they combine with each other,
which is terribly important. Knowing what a word like
“decision” means is only the start. You need to know what
to do with it — you arrive at decisions, make decisions
and so on. A common verb like “remember” has different
grammar patterns which go with different meanings: you
can remember doing something, or you can remember to
do something; and the change in the grammar fundamentally
affects the meaning. That’s the information you don’t
get in a standard dictionary.
Where do
the words in
a learner’s
dictionary
come from?
For those who create dictionaries, technology has had a huge
impact behind the scenes. Certainly, the biggest change in
the past 25 years or so is in the use of corpora. The first
corpus-based English learner’s dictionary came out in 1987.
It was created using a body of seven million words. The corpus
we use at Macmillan today contains 1.6 bn words.
bn = billion [(bIljEn]
editor-in-chief
[)edItE In (tSi:f]
grammar pattern [(grÄmE )pÄt&n]
impact [(ImpÄkt]
Milliarde
Chefredakteur(in)
grammatische
Erscheinungsform
Auswirkungen, Einfluss
Fotos: iStock
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corpus
(pl. corpora): newspapers, broadcasts, novels, conversations,
business and the law — texts from all
these areas and many more, from British, American,
world English and learner English — form a corpus,
a collection of texts from written and spoken language
making up millions of words stored on a computer.
Dictionary writers and language researchers
analyse corpora to find out how people use English
when they communicate with each other: how frequently
particular words are used, what their most
important meanings are and how they combine with
other words.
Kern-
hier: Merkmal
hier: Kennzeichnungssystem
nachschlagen
core [kO:]
feature [(fi:tSE]
grading system [(greIdIN )sIstEm]
look up [lUk (Vp]
core vocabulary
Although English speakers have about a million
words to choose from, corpus research shows that
people use just 7,500 of them most of the time.
Around 93 per cent of most spoken or written communication
consists of words from that core set —
the most frequently used words in the language —
and these are the words learners really need to know.
How are the words in the dictionary selected?
We select on the basis of frequency. There are hundreds of
thousands of words in English, but some are very rare and
may not be known even by native speakers. A learner’s dictionary
focuses on the vocabulary that is used most frequently
and that will be of greatest value for learners.
What words are used to explain the words in the
dictionary?
A feature of learner’s dictionaries is that they try to keep
the definitions as simple as possible. They have what is
known as a “controlled defining vocabulary” — typically
around 2,000–2,500 words that are used to write the
definitions.
How does your dictionary help learners with the
words they need?
Let’s say I want to look up the word “smart”, because I
want to know more about its different meanings. The first
thing you see is that the word is in red, not black like many
of the other entries. This is because “smart”
is part of what we call core vocabulary.
You’ll see that “smart” has two red stars
next to it. We have a three-star grading
system for these red words. Those with
three stars are the 2,500 most frequently
used words in English — the words you
absolutely have to know. Two-star
words like “smart” are the next most
common, between the 2,500 and
5,000 most frequently used words.
One-star words are still important,
but less frequent.
Entries for these 7,500 red words
are generally longer than the others,
and they give much more information
about different meanings of
the word, with several authentic
example sentences shown for each.
How do you choose your example sentences?
Our aim is to show how words are used in authentic English.
Corpus data can show us how a word is used in speech
and writing, so we can see what the common patterns are.
In the dictionary, we show these through examples that
are taken from real texts in the corpus.
What other help does
a learner’s
dictionary give?
Under some entries, you
may find information
boxes. So at “advice”, the
Macmillan dictionary
gives a list of verbs that
go with “advice” and
types of adjective that
modify it — common
collocations. We also
have “Get it right”
boxes. These are based
on research into a corpus of texts produced by
learners and focus on common
types of error.
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LANGUAGE | Vocabulary
Macmillan is phasing out printed dictionaries.
What are the reasons behind this?
We are beginning the process of moving all our dictionary
resources from paper to online. Our main dictionary for
advanced learners is now primarily available online. Most
of our other books are still in print, but in three or four
years’ time, they may no longer be available.
The writer and philosopher Umberto Eco recently said:
“The book is like the spoon, the hammer and the wheel.
Once invented, it cannot be improved.” But for once, I
disagree with Professor Eco. For dictionaries and other reference
material at least, the online medium is ideal. You
read a novel from cover to cover, but you consult a dictionary
typically only when you need to know something,
while you are doing something else. These days, many of
us use online resources like Wikipedia rather than an encyclopedia,
and the same is becoming true of maps. Essentially,
reference material of all kinds is moving online
quite rapidly because of the great benefits it has for writers,
developers and above all users.
Does being online make it easier to keep up with
changes in the language?
Absolutely! In the past, when you had to wait for a new
edition of a dictionary, an enormous amount of language
change would have taken place. Online dictionaries can
update at regular intervals. We do this about four times a
year at Macmillan, and one of the first places we look is at
our Open Dictionary, to see whether there is material that
deserves to be promoted to form part of the main dictionary.
The Open Dictionary is an example of crowd-sourcing
on our site, where we ask people to tell us about words
that are not yet in our dictionary. One of the nice things
about it is that people send us words from places such as
India, Hong Kong and Singapore that are genuinely used
in those parts of the English-speaking world, but may not
be known elsewhere.
benefit [(benIfIt]
brainy [(breIni]
broaden [(brO:d&n]
crowd-sourcing
[(kraUd )sO:sIN]
Vorteil, Nutzen
gescheit, aufgeweckt
sich erweitern
Crowdsourcing (Auslagerung interner
Aufgaben an eine Gruppe freiwilliger User)
What are the advantages to learners of all that
digital space?
There are unbelievable advantages for learners. One is
audio. It means that as well as seeing how the word is pronounced,
you can click on a button to hear what the word
sounds like, either in British or American English. It also
means that you can click on any word in an entry — say
in one of the example sentences — to open up the entry
for the word you’ve clicked on. In the case of “smart” and
many other words, you’ll find a box on the right that
shows all the words and phrases in which “smart” appears.
In addition, under each entry, we have a thesaurus
linked to each separate meaning of a word or phrase. You
click on the little “T” button to get a list of synonyms or
related words. If you look at the thesaurus entry for
“smart”, meaning “intelligent”, you’ll get a list of words
with similar meanings, including things like “wise”,
“brainy” and “nobody’s fool”. If you look up “oak” (the
tree), you’ll find all the other types of tree listed in the dictionary.
This way of searching is much more efficient than
having to look in two separate printed books.
Another advantage of endless space is that we no longer
have to remove words. We do tweak some of the entries,
though, for example, to indicate that they are no longer
current. We did that recently with “video recorder”. Dictionary
users can still look the word up, but we can change
the definition to indicate that this is no longer a current
technology.
There is much more than a dictionary on your site.
What else do you offer learners and teachers?
The whole idea of what a dictionary is has broadened
greatly from just giving information about words and their
meanings. Moving online makes it possible for us to explore
the bigger picture of how the language is changing,
and how people use it.
for once [fE (wVns]
genuinely [(dZenjuInli]
keep up with sth. [ki:p (Vp wID]
move online
[mu:v )Qn(laIn]
nobody’s fool: be ~
[)nEUbEdiz (fu:l]
oak [EUk]
phase sth. out [feIz (aUt]
tweak sth. [twi:k] ifml.
ausnahmsweise einmal
wirklich
mit etw. Schritt halten,
auf dem Laufenden bleiben
hier: die Entscheidung,
online zu gehen
nicht auf den Kopf gefallen
sein, sich nichts vormachen
lassen
Eiche
etw. aus dem Programm
nehmen
kleine Veränderungen
vornehmen, optimieren
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So we can offer all sorts of additional material on the
site. We have a language blog with four or five posts a week
and an archive on different aspects of language and language
learning, with material to help students, as well as
ideas and lesson plans for teachers. Our weekly “buzzwords”
column looks in detail at new words coming into
the language. We also have language games that are both
fun and genuinely useful for learners.
One thing we want to do is to bring all our dictionary
resources together, so that if you look up a word you’re interested
in and that word is also in our collocations dictionary,
you can go straight to the entry in that dictionary.
And we’ll just keep adding useful material. Specialized
areas such as medicine, the law and engineering are also
something that we want to explore.
For more information see: www.macmillandictionary.com
Learn smart
The English language is a living, growing thing,
and today’s dictionaries live and grow with it. Modern
technology is allowing a new generation of learner’s dictionaries
to help you focus on the high-frequency words
that you really need in order to read, listen to, write and
speak English.
Remember, though: learning is often most successful
when you are interested, motivated or having fun. Just because
a word isn’t in the top 7,500 most frequently used
words in the language doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t
learn it — especially if it helps you to do the things you
want to do, such as getting a better job, reading books by
your favourite author in English or going on a sailing holiday.
You need these words as well. Make the most of smart
dictionaries, however, and you can be part of a new generation
of smart learners, too.
adapt [E(dÄpt]
benchmark [(bentSmA:k]
buzzword [(bVzw§:d] ifml.
collaborative [kE(lÄbErEtIv]
comfort zone
[(kVmfEt )zEUn]
bearbeiten
bewerten, einstufen
Modewort
gemeinschaftlich
Bereich, in dem man sich
sicher fühlt
flash card [(flÄS kA:d]
graded [(greIdId]
rude [ru:d]
subscribe [sEb(skraIb]
widget [(wIdZIt] ifml.
Lernkarte
hier: an Ihr Niveau angepasst
vulgär
abonnieren
hier etwa:
(comp.) Minianwendung
Working with words
In the interview, Michael Rundell explains how a good learner’s
dictionary can help you build a solid foundation for your learning
by working on your core vocabulary. Here are some practical
things you can do both on- and offline that focus on building
your vocabulary wisely and efficiently.
• Turn to page 61. We choose the words in Spotlight ’s word
boxes to help you understand our articles. Many of these
words are not used very frequently, though. The Word Builder
(page 61) takes words from these boxes that are used frequently
and gives them a closer look. It’s like a mini learner’s
dictionary, with definitions, examples, notes and exercises.
• Work with vocabulary cards. Getting better at something
requires regular, mechanical practice. Using a card system
to test yourself can build your vocabulary. You can buy
packs of cards or write your own, and there are plenty of interactive
flash cards available on the internet and as apps.
Try the British Council’s My WordBook 2.
• Read at your level. Graded readers are specially written or
adapted for different levels of English. We recommend one
every month on page 47. Reading with a controlled vocabulary
input helps you improve your English step by step.
• Leave your comfort zone. If you find yourself using the
same words (for example, “good” or “very”) when you speak
or write, look in a learner’s dictionary for alternatives. You’ll
soon notice that fluent speakers use these phrases, too, and
then it’s just a short step to using them yourself.
• Add a widget. If you often use an online dictionary, a
search box in your browser or on your web page can help
you to access it quickly. Find one from Macmillan at
www.spotlight-online.de Longman offers a daily dictionary
picture widget at www.ldoceonline.com
• Try it for size. Shakespeare used 30,000 words, and you
need about 8,000 to understand a serious newspaper. At
http://my.vocabularysize.com you can take a test to find
out how many words and word families you know.
• Have fun with texts. Copy and paste a text into the Oxford
3000’s text checker to see how many words in it are
within the top 3,000 of the language.
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/oxford3000
• Benchmark your learning. You can subscribe free of
charge to the pilot version of English Vocabulary Profile, a
major collaborative research project that shows the vocabulary
learners know at levels A2 to C2. Type in a word, and
you’ll find out which of its meanings are known by learners
at each level. Examples are taken both from dictionaries and
from authentic learner writing. www.englishprofile.org
• Go native. Lovers of English around the world build communities
on many internet sites to explore words and wordmaking,
from standard dictionary sites such as Collins’s to
the crowd-sourced (“written by you” and often very rude)
Urban Dictionary. Another site, Wordnik looks fantastic and
includes many bizarre and beautiful words.
See:
www.collinsdictionary.com
www.urbandictionary.com
www.wordnik.com
Tips
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FOOD | In-Vitro Meat
Chef Richard McGeown cooks the first cultured-beef burger
Frankenfood”, “schmeat” and “zombie flesh” are just
some of the terms used to describe a new type of
food: in-vitro meat. Animal tissue grown in a laboratory,
in-vitro (or cultured) meat is being developed by scientists
as a healthy, sustainable food for the future. Although
the technology is still in its early stages, supporters see it as
a solution to potential global food shortages and as an alternative
to farming and killing millions of animals.
Meat is part of human evolution. But the idea of producing
artificial meat is nothing new. Science fiction has
speculated about it since the early 20th century; the British
politician Winston Churchill talked about it in the 1930s;
and early space research explored options for feeding astronauts.
However, in August last year, Maastricht University
moved the technology one giant step forward when it
presented the world’s first in-vitro “cultured-beef” burger
in London to the international media. “The cultured-beef
burger represents a crucial first step in finding a sustainable
alternative to meat production that’s more ethical and environmentally
friendly,” said a spokesperson.
According to the UN, the current world population of
7.2 billion is projected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050. The
UN Food and Agriculture Organization predicts that in
this time, global meat demand will rise by more than two
thirds. However, 70 per cent of all agricultural land —
that’s around a third of the earth’s surface — is already used
for raising livestock. Roughly half the world’s cereal production
is fed to animals, and livestock raised for meat
The future
of meat
JULIAN EARWAKER untersucht, ob im
Labor hergestelltes künstliches Fleisch
eine gesunde, ethische und umweltfreundliche
Alternative zur globalen
Fleischproduktion ist.
accounts for 18 per cent of worldwide greenhousegas
emissions. “Certainly, if cultured meat and in-vitro
meat technology is going to do the work of addressing
environmental issues on a large scale, it needs to be
produced and consumed on a large scale,” says Dr
Neil Stephens from Cardiff University, who is one of
the UK’s leading researchers into in-vitro meat.
At the moment, that looks unlikely. In-vitro meat
production is expensive and takes time. To grow cultured
beef, scientists take muscle stem cells from a live
cow and grow them in a laboratory, using a special
medium in a controlled environment. The muscle
cells grow into tiny strands of meat. Around 20,000
strands were needed to make the first 140g cultured-beef
burger, at a cost of around €250,000. “Our burger is made
from muscle cells taken from a cow,” said Professor Mark
Post, who led the team of scientists producing the burger.
“We haven’t changed them in any way. For it to succeed, it
has to look, feel and hopefully taste like the real thing.”
account for sth. [E(kaUnt fE] etw. ausmachen
address sth. [E(dres]
etw. ansprechen, angehen
animal tissue [(ÄnIm&l )tISu:] tierisches Gewebe
artificial [)A:tI(fIS&l]
künstlich
billion [(bIljEn]
Milliarde
cereal [(sIEriEl]
Getreide
crucial [(kru:S&l] entscheidend (➝ p. 61)
demand [di(mA:nd]
Bedarf, Nachfrage
food shortage [(fu:d )SO:tIdZ] Nahrungsmittelknappheit
Frankenfood
Wortschöpfung aus
[(frÄNkEnfu:d] ifml.
„Frankenstein” und „food”
greenhouse [(gri:nhaUs] Treibhaus
in-vitro meat [In (vi:trEU mi:t] In-vitro-Fleisch,
kultiviertes Fleisch
livestock [(laIvstQk]
Vieh
project [prE(dZekt]
hier: vorhersagen
scale: on a large ~ [skeI&l] in großem Maßstab
space research [(speIs ri)s§:tS] Weltraumforschung
spokesperson [(spEUks)p§:s&n] Sprecher(in)
stem cell [(stem sel]
Stammzelle
strand [strÄnd]
(Muskel-, Gewebe-)Strang
surface [(s§:fIs]
Oberfläche
sustainable [sE(steInEb&l] nachhaltig
Fotos: D. Parry/PA Wire
22
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The cultured-beef burger contained saffron and beetroot
juice to colour the grey protein, together with salt, egg
powder and breadcrumbs for coating. Both of the official
tasters were impressed. “I miss the fat..., but the general
bite feels like a hamburger,” said Josh Schonwald, a food
author from Chicago. Hanni Rützler, an Austrian food researcher,
remarked on the “intense taste” and told the BBC
that “the consistency is perfect... This is meat to me.” In future,
say scientists, the taste can be improved
by introducing fat, blood and
even bone to the in-vitro meat process.
English rock band The Smiths famously
sang that “Meat is Murder”, but
in-vitro meat involves painlessly collecting
muscle cells from a living cow. The
research has been given support from
unexpected quarters, including the animal
rights organization PETA (People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
and the World Wildlife Fund. Perhaps
the biggest challenge is convincing a
sceptical public to get over the “yuck”
factor of artificially produced meat and fears of GM. (Invitro
meat technology involves no genetic modification).
The global market for meat, fish and poultry is expected
to reach $639 million by the end of 2015. Beef
exports are reaching record heights. Subsidies keep prices
artificially low and meat widely available. With 100 kilograms
of vegetable protein needed to produce every
15 kilograms of meat, however, that is likely to change.
According to the journal Environmental Science & Technology,
compared with traditional meat production, invitro
meat causes only four per cent of the greenhouse emissions
and uses just one per cent of the land, and around
half of the total energy. It is also disease-free, healthy meat
with none of the problems of animal welfare, waste and
pollution. Maastricht University believes that cultured beef
could be in production within 10 to 20 years. Without
large-scale investment, however,
Dr Stephens says that looks
highly optimistic. He estimates
that only 20 to 40 scientists
worldwide are currently active
in cultured-meat
research. He also points
out that technical, legal
and social issues may
stand in the way of expanding
in-vitro meat
production.
The Next Nature
Foundation, based in the
Netherlands, thinks that
in-vitro technology can
bring “entirely new food experiences and eating habits” involving
colourful, tasty “magic meatballs”, “knitted meat”
from thin strands of protein, and “meat fruit”, combining
in-vitro meat with real fruit. Frankenfood? Schmeat? Zombie
flesh? Perhaps. But the idea of commercially produced
in-vitro meat is certainly alive and kicking.
Mark Post: daddy of the cultured-beef burger
Cultured
meat: good
for animals
and for the
environment
A CLOSER LOOK
animal welfare [)ÄnIm&l (welfeE]
beetroot [(bi:tru:t] UK
breadcrumbs [(bredkrVmz]
coating [(kEUtIN]
fancy-schmancy
[)fÄnsi (SmÄnsi] ifml.
knit [nIt]
poultry [(pEUltri]
saffron [(sÄfrEn]
shortlist [(SO:tlIst]
subsidies [(sVbsEdiz]
tissue [(tISu:]
yuck [jVk] ifml.
In the laboratory:
no animals to be seen here
The Oxford Dictionaries’ 2013 Word of the Year
shortlist included the word schmeat, an informal
noun meaning a form of meat produced synthetically
from biological tissue. It is believed to originate
from a combination of “synthetic” and “meat”, and is
influenced by the use of “schm” as a negative exclamation.
Take, for example, “fancy-schmancy”: “Some
of the gourmet food you get in fancy-schmancy
places just tastes strange to me.”
Tierschutz
rote Beete
Semmelbrösel
hier: Panade
schickimicki
stricken
Geflügel
Safran
engere Auswahlliste
Subventionen
Gewebe
igitt
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Otto Waalkes
The comedian’s many
funny faces
exclusive
Seit Jahrzehnten bringt Otto die deutschsprachige
Welt zum Lachen – oft auf Englisch. Was ist für ihn das
Besondere an der englischen Sprache?

My Life in English | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What makes English important to you as a comedian?
English is the world language. If it’s your
aim to make as many people as possible laugh, you’ll always
need it. I’m also learning Chinese and Russian and
Spanish and French, so soon, the whole world will laugh
and never stop. This is my five-year plan.
“
Hänsel
and Gretel
in West
Virginia...
”
When was your first English lesson, and
what can you remember about it?
My first English lesson must have
been the day I bought my first
T-shirt, because then I had to say
“T-shirt”.
Who is your favourite English-language
author, actor or musician and why?
Among others, I cherish Sting; he has covered a few of
my songs, too. Or was it the other way round? I can’t
remember...
Which song could you sing at least a few lines of in
English?
All of them! I am very good with the lyrics of “Funeral
for a Friend” by Elton John, “Moby Dick” by Led
Zeppelin, and I also sing Pink Floyd’s “One of These
Days” a lot.
What is your favourite food from the English-speaking
world?
Well, I’ve been on a seafood diet: I see food, and I eat it.
friends over the years. But this interview
is quite hilarious as well.
Have you ever worked in an Englishspeaking
environment? If so, what was it like?
As you may know, I gave some tiny American creatures
a voice. When you’re doing voice-over, you always
work together with the original film companies.
And — between us — Sid from the Ice Age movies, for
example, did not do a good job of learning German. My
little furry friend is quite thick-witted and lazy, you
know. I lent him my voice so he could make the German
kids laugh, too.
Which is your favourite city in the English-speaking
world and why?
That would be Ottawa. It’s basically a shortened form of
my name!
What special tip would you give a friend who was going
to visit this city?
$2.50.
Cool friends:
Otto with
Sid from
Ice Age
I am
the
“ viper...
”
Which person from the English-speaking world (living or
dead) would you most like to meet and why?
Living or dead? Then I’d like to meet all the dead ones.
At least they cannot harm you.
If you could be anywhere in the English-speaking world
right now, where would it be?
Buckingham Palace, maybe. I hear Her Majesty has
some good tea.
What was your best or funniest experience in English?
Well, doing the voice-over for Sid from the Ice Age movie
was so much fun. He and I have become really good
Fotos: action press; dpa/picture alliance
between us [bi)twi:n (Vs]
cherish [(tSerIS]
furry [(f§:ri]
hilarious [hI(leEriEs]
lyrics [(lIrIks]
thick-witted [)TIk (wItId]
tip [tIp]
voice-over [(vOIs )EUvE]
unter uns gesagt
(wert)schätzen
pelzig
wahnsinnig komisch
Songtext
begriffsstutzig
Ratschlag; Trinkgeld
Off-Stimme; hier: Synchronisierung
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | My Life in English
“
Dip dip
in the wiz, wiz,
wiz...
”
Which person from the English-speaking
world would you choose to be stuck with
on a desert island and why?
Desert, huh? I’ll take Mr Jim Beam and
Sir Jack Daniels, then.
How do you practise your English?
By doing interviews in English only. That’s good
practice.
Otto – Der Film:
a special Bible
reading
OTTO WAALKES
Actor and comedian Otto Gerhard Waalkes was born on
22 July 1948 in Emden, Germany. He attended an all-boys high
school, and at around the age of 12 began appearing on stage
in small venues with his band, The Rustlers, playing cover versions
of Beatles’ songs. His comic routine developed, in part,
out of things that went wrong when he was on stage. In 1972,
he brought out the LP Otto. It established him as one of the
most popular comedians in the German-speaking world. Since
then, he has issued 18 more albums, starred in nine films and
invented an elephant-like cartoon character called Ottifant.
He regularly goes on tour.
What is your favourite English phrase and why?
Tea break, because it’s such a beautiful expression.
It sounds so much nicer than nuclear war, intoxication
or mass murder, doesn’t it?
Which phrase do you use most when you talk in
English?
“May I have your phone number, Miss?”
Which English word was the hardest for you to learn
to pronounce?
I never really pronounce “pronounce” correctly.
It’s unpronounceable. I really have to
work on my “pronounce” pronunciation.
Thank God this interview
is in writing.
What would be your motto in
English?
My motto? Stop using the letter “m”.
Otto and family:
the Ottifanten relatives
If you suddenly found yourself with a free afternoon in
London or New York, what would you do?
Look for someone nice to go home with.
Is there anything in your home that’s from the Englishspeaking
world?
Yes, indeed: my English breakfast tea and my T-shirt, of
course.
Do you think that humour translates into other languages
well — for example, from German into English?
That’s funny! In German, this question is a joke. It’s not
always easy to translate humour. Whenever people don’t
laugh at one of my jokes, I guess it’s because I told it in
the wrong language.
What do you say to the cliché in the English-speaking
world that Germans aren’t funny, or that Germans don’t
have a good sense of humour?
Germans are not funny? I guess that is the reason why in
Germany we have professionals to make people laugh,
like me! We tell jokes and even get paid for it. It’s like:
most Germans are bad pilots, too. They ask others to fly
them around.
What projects are you currently working on?
I am on tour right now. I play the guitar, I make
children laugh, I paint, sleep, eat and brush my teeth
afterwards. And then I start all over again.
You are famous for certain iconic comedy gags. Are
there any that you wish you had never done, or wish
that people would just forget?
People do forget. That’s why I keep playing these gags
over and over again. I hope they will always forget, so I
can keep doing this and make them laugh for the rest
of my life.
kultig
Rausch, Vergiftung
Atom-
Veranstaltungsort
iconic [aI(kQnIk]
intoxication [In)tQksI(keIS&n]
nuclear [(nju:kliE]
venue [(venju:]
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TOUR DATES: OTTO – GEBOREN UM ZU BLÖDELN!
Thursday 1 May Hamburg Laeiszhalle
Saturday 3 May Dortmund Konzerthaus
Sunday 4 May Dortmund Konzerthaus
Tuesday 6 May Münster Münsterlandhalle
Thursday 8 May Bochum Ruhr Congress
Friday 9 May Düsseldorf Philipshalle
Sunday 11 May Mannheim Rosengarten
Tuesday 13 May Zurich Kongresshaus
Wednesday 14 May Zurich Kongresshaus
Friday 16 May Munich Circus Krone
Saturday 17 May Munich Circus Krone
Sunday 18 May Munich Circus Krone
“
Peter, Paul
and Mary are
walking through
the prairie...
”
Monday 19 May Nuremberg
Meistersingerhalle
Wednesday 21 May Ulm Ratiopharm
Arena Neu-Ulm
Thursday 22 May Suhl Congress
Centrum Suhl
Friday 23 May Zwickau Stadthalle
Sunday 25 May Dresden Messe
Tuesday 27 May Hof Freiheitshalle
Wednesday 28 May Heilbronn Festhalle
Harmonie
Thursday 29 May Kempten Big Box
Saturday 31 May Berlin Tempodrom
Sunday 1 June Berlin Tempodrom
King of
German comedy:
Otto in 2013
Fotos: action press; Caro; Cinetext

AMY ARGETSINGER | I Ask Myself
A lesson in loss
Er hatte alles und er hat alles weggeworfen. AMY ARGETSINGER
über Philip Seymour Hoffmans Drogentod und was man daraus
lernen kann.
Idon’t remember Philip Seymour
Hoffman being our greatest living
actor last week,” my husband said
to me, a day or two after Philip Seymour
Hoffman died.
He is often cynical that way, and
here, his cynicism was caused by the
waves of media praise and grieving
for the actor, who was suddenly on
the covers of magazines that never
put him there in life. But I soon realized
my husband was not alone.
Many other Americans scoffed at the
public mourning for Hoffman. He
was a drug abuser, they said, who
chose cheap highs over his family and
children and carelessly chased his
own death — not a man to praise.
I understand their anger. But
there is so much to pity in the death
of Philip Seymour Hoffman, and
there is so much to learn. No, Hoffman
was not on a lot of magazine
covers before he died. He had won an
Oscar for Capote (2005) and appeared
in big-budget Hollywood thrillers,
but was never a big movie star in the
style of Brad Pitt. He was a complex
character actor with an
un-pretty face and a degree
from a famous
acting school. He was
better known to the
well-educated crowd that
likes to go to art-house
theaters and the Broadway
stage than to most
multiplex-going Middle
Americans.
In other words,
he was a refined,
well-educated, mature
man who just
happened to have
a terrible heroin
addiction.
In the US, we generally have two
ideas of what an addict looks like:
either a lower-class loser, whose sad
life and prospects have led him or her
to find comfort in drugs; or a wild,
thrill-seeking young jet-setter with
more money than sense. We are not
surprised by the many deaths, nor by
the overdoses in a rock star’s penthouse
hotel.
Philip Seymour Hoffman had a
fantastic career and also a family —
his long-time girlfriend and their
three young children. He was not
known as a socialite or party animal.
And while he had been open about
his struggles in the past with addiction,
he also seemed like someone
well in control. After abusing drugs
and alcohol during college, he went
to rehab at age 22 and remained
sober for a remarkable 23 years.
I first became aware of his addiction
issues a year ago, when Hoffman
announced that he was entering
rehab again: prescription drugs
had led him to
start using harder
stuff again, including
heroin. According
to the
actor, he had
An actors’ actor:
Philip Seymour
Hoffman
“
He showed
us just how
complex addiction
can be
”
addiction [E(dIkS&n]
art-house theater
[)A:rt haUs (Ti:Et&r]
comfort [(kVmf&rt]
grieving [(gri:vIN]
mature [mE(tU&r]
mourning [(mO:rnIN]
multiplex-going
[(mVltIpleks )goUIN]
prescription [pri(skrIpS&n]
prospect [(prA:spekt]
refined [ri(faInd]
rehab [(ri:hÄb] ifml.
scoff at sb./sth. [(skA:f Et]
self-aware [)self E(we&r]
sober [(soUb&r]
socialite [(soUSElaIt]
succumb [sE(kVm]
thrill-seeking [(TrIl )si:kIN]
been using drugs only for about a
week when he realized it was a serious
problem and checked himself into a
rehab center. It struck me at the time
as remarkably self-aware. On the edge
of self-destruction, he stepped back,
resisted his impulses, and got the help
he needed — a lesson for addicts
everywhere.
Instead, Hoffman became a lesson
for all of us non-addicts everywhere
on just how complicated addiction
can be. Sure, some fans are angry
with him. How can a man who had
everything just throw it all away? But
that’s the lesson. Hoffman had it all,
plus a healthy awareness of his problem,
plus the desire to get well, and
still he succumbed — because that’s
addiction for you. All the self-control
and resources in the world can still
lose the battle against this disease.
How much worse must it be for those
who don’t have such control?
Sucht
Programmkino
Trost
Trauer
reif
Trauern
Multiplex-Kinos besuchend
hier: verschreibungspflichtig
Perspektive
kultiviert
Entziehungskur
sich über jmdn./etw. verächtlich
äußern
bewusst
nüchtern; hier: clean
Gesellschaftslöwe
nicht standhalten
erlebnishungrig
Amy Argetsinger is a co-author of “The Reliable Source,”
a column in The Washington Post about personalities.
Foto: Corbis
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TRAVELOGS | Scotland
Glasgow,
where art meets industry
Where travel is celebrated:
the extraordinary Riverside Museum
with the tall ship Glenlee
Glasgow ist eine lebendige Stadt, die für jeden
etwas zu bieten hat: Kunst, Tradition, Kultur,
modische Boutiquen, Nachtleben. Ein Bericht
von TOBY SKINGSLEY

One of the bridges
over the River Clyde
Green space: next to the
Kelvingrove Art Gallery
Fotos: A1PIX/YPT; Alamy; F1online
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TRAVELOGS | Scotland
Red stone, green trees:
Glasgow’s spring colours
Has Glasgow reinvented itself? Many would say it
has: today, it is widely seen as Scotland’s most
vibrant city. With this September’s referendum on
Scottish independence from the UK making the headlines,
I was curious to discover more about Scotland’s largest city.
Scotland was an independent country until 1707, when
it was united with England and Wales and governed from
London. Today, Scotland is still a part of Great Britain, but
it has managed to keep its identity distinct. Known as creative
and hard-working, the Scottish people can be proud
of their achievements in the arts. Writers Robert Burns and
Sir Walter Scott and architects Charles Rennie Mackintosh
and Alexander Thomson are admired by many around the
world. Fewer people, however, know of Scotland’s achievements
in industry. Scottish engineers and inventors were
very important to the Industrial Revolution.
Glas cu — which, in Celtic, means “dear green place”
— was founded by the miracle-working Saint Kentigern in
AD 543. Glasgow’s position on the River Clyde, close to
Scotland’s west coast, was ideal for trade. Starting in the
1700s, the import of tobacco, sugar and cotton from
North America and the West Indies brought great wealth.
Soon, Glasgow was manufacturing its own goods, too. By
the 1800s, it was filled with cotton mills, steelworks and
shipyards. In those days, Glasgow made an estimated
20 per cent of the world’s ships and a quarter of its locomotives.
It was the British Empire’s second city.
When these industries fell on hard times, so, too, did
Glasgow. In the mid-20th century, it became known as a
tough city with high unemployment. But recent investment
and a focus on service industries have given it new
life. Glasgow still has a reputation for being the working
heart of the country, but it is a vibrant centre of the arts as
well. This combination gives it an attractive mix of style
and grit, something visitors will be able to enjoy during
this summer’s Commonwealth Games.
admire [Ed(maIE]
arts [A:ts]
cotton mill [(kQt&n mIl]
curious [(kjUEriEs]
distinct [dI(stINkt]
goods [gUdz]
grit [grIt]
miracle-working [(mIrEk&l )w§:kIN]
bewundern
Künste
Baumwollfabrik
neugierig
eigen, eigenständig
Waren
Zähigkeit, Biss
wundertätig
reinvent oneself
[)ri:In(vent wVn)self]
reputation [)repju(teIS&n]
shipyard [(SIpjA:d]
steelworks [(sti:&lw§:ks]
vibrant [(vaIbrEnt]
West Indies [west (Indiz]
sich ein neues Image geben
Ruf, Ansehen
Schiffswerft
Stahlwerk
dynamisch, pulsierend
Westindische Inseln,
Karibische Inseln
Day one
10.30 a.m.
The first word I can think of is “energy”. Cars and buses
fill busy Renfield Street, as city workers and shoppers fight
for space. Grand Victorian buildings stand next to modern
office blocks. Buildings of sandstone in tones of dark red
and honey contrast with grey neoclassical facades.
I walk over to George Square, a showcase of Victorian
architecture with the imposing City Chambers, opened in
1888 by Queen Victoria herself. Before it stand some of
Scotland’s leading figures — in statue form, at least. I walk
up to James Watt, one of the most important engineers in
12.15 p.m.
I want to discover
more about Glasgow’s
industrial past, so I
catch the bus to the
Riverside Museum. On
the River Clyde in an
area once full of shipimposing
[Im(pEUzIN]
showcase [(SEUkeIs]
steam engine [(sti:m )endZIn]
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eindrucksvoll
Vorzeigeobjekt
Dampfmaschine
history. Born just west of Glasgow in 1736, his improvements
to the steam engine were important to the Industrial
Revolution. The unit of electrical
power, the watt, is
named after him.
The great hall of the
Kelvingrove gallery
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Busy Buchanan Street
and The Horseshoe
pub
yards, the museum of transport is
known for its overall design as well
as for its exhibits. Architect Zaha
Hadid created the huge, curved silver
warehouse that houses the museum.
The unusual zigzagged facades
have become a favourite of photographers
since it was opened in 2011. I’m
not the only visitor to stop and admire
the building before going inside.
The museum’s huge size is perfect for
the exhibits. There are original locomotives
built in the city, double-decker buses and historic
Glasgow trams. There’s also a fascinating exhibition, showing
models of ships built on the Clyde. It’s a great place to
visit to get an impression of Glasgow’s role in Scotland’s
engineering past.
2.30 p.m.
Not far from the Riverside Museum is the trendy West
End. I walk along Byres Road, full of young people, small
bookshops and vintage-clothes shops. I continue down
Great Western Road and go into Timorous Beasties, a delightful
store with a selection of original textiles and wallpapers.
There are curtains with psychedelic designs, chairs
covered in detailed fabrics and cushions with patterns of
birds, insects and thistles — the flower of Scotland.
Next, I head to nearby Kelvingrove Art Gallery and
Museum. Inside the red sandstone building are 22 themed
galleries covering topics as varied as European art, dinosaurs,
ancient Egypt and Scottish history. I start with
an exhibition on Scottish innovators and inventors. I read
more about James Watt and learn about James Goodfellow,
too, the man who invented the PIN system for
banking in the 1960s. Then there’s Charles Macintosh,
who invented the “mac”, a waterproof raincoat, in 1823.
I enter a section on a group of artists called the Glasgow
Boys. Active from the late 19th century, the colourful
realism of their paintings was a move away from the historical,
idealized scenes typical of the times. The group
caused a sensation, bringing a more European style to
Scottish art, which then also influenced future movements.
I could spend the rest of the day here, but I decide to take
the underground back to get a bite to eat.
Trendy cafes:
fun dining in
the West End
6 p.m.
In the late 1700s,
when King George
III lost Britain’s American colonies, the tobacco
trade went into decline. The rich area of Glasgow
called Merchant City was forced to change with the times:
the tobacco lords left, but their houses and warehouses remained.
Big indoor markets moved in, only to be replaced
with lively cafes, independent boutiques and artists’ studios.
One of these historical market areas is Merchant Square,
today a covered courtyard full of bars and restaurants.
“Merchant Square, where it never rains.” The sign on
the door makes me smile as I shake the water from my
umbrella. I sit on the terrace at Arisaig restaurant and order
Scottish haddock, chips and mushy peas. Afterwards I try
Cranachan, a delicious dessert made with oats, raspberries,
cream and whisky.
While waiting for my bill, someone asks a guest next
to me for the time. “Time you got a watch, pal,” he replies,
laughing. Here, finally, was some of the Glaswegian humour
I’d read about.
8 p.m.
I finish my day in The Horseshoe pub in Drury Street, a
Glasgow institution for more than 100 years. No sooner
does my pint arrive than a guest starts
chatting to me. We talk about football,
and he gives me tips on Glasgow’s legendary
nightlife. It’s been a long day, and
the pint has given me a peaceful, sleepy
feeling. I don’t think I’ll make it out to
the clubs tonight.
Historic sight:
Tolbooth Steeple
from 1627
cause a sensation
[)kO:z E sen(seIS&n]
courtyard [(kO:tjA:d]
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TRAVELOGS | Scotland
Day two
9.30 a.m.
Yesterday’s visit to
Kelvingrove has inspired
me to learn
more about Glasgow’s arts scene.
So I head to SWG3, a gallery and studio in the West
End. There, I meet 31-year-old painter Calum Matheson,
a graduate from the Glasgow School of Art. As several recent
winners of Britain’s Turner Prize come from Glasgow
or have a strong link to the city, its reputation in the art
world has grown enormously in the past few years.
“There’s a real bohemian aspect to the city that artists
are attracted to,” Matheson tells me. A Glasgow native
himself, he knows artists who have come to the city and
stayed. “There are plenty of old warehouses with cheap
rents for artists to work in, and because Glasgow is quite
small, it’s a great place to network.”
It’s fascinating that the warehouse space and grit of
Glasgow’s industrial past are now contributing to its artistic
present. With well-known bands like Franz Ferdinand,
Chvrches and Travis coming from the city, I wonder if
these factors have played a role in the vibrant music and
nightlife scene here as well.
11.30 a.m.
The Necropolis:
visit for the views
My next stop will take me into the world of Sir William
Burrell, whose life demonstrated the relationship between
industry and art. Born in Glasgow in 1861, Burrell
took over the family shipping business with his brother
and used his wealth to become an art collector. Much of
his 8,000-item collection is on display at the Burrell Collection.
I take the 10-minute train ride from Glasgow Central
to Pollokshaws West station. From there, it’s a 15-minute
walk to the Burrell Collection through the beautiful Pollok
Country Park. William Burrell believed a country setting
would be best for the exhibits, which led to the museum’s
location and design. The interior is filled with natural
light, so that visitors can see the wonderful details of the
works of art. I admire tapestries and rugs, stained glass and
ceramics, and walk under an original medieval archwaybuilt
into the museum’s walls. In one area, large windows
bring the park’s landscape into the exhibition. It’s like
being able to view fine art while taking a walk in the
woods.
2 p.m.
“How are you doing, Toby?” the receptionist asks. I’d simply
gone back to my hotel for a quick rest, but we chat like old
friends. He not only makes me feel welcome; he also recommends
that I go to some special places in the afternoon.
Leaving the hotel, I walk along Renfield Street and notice
the grid system of streets characteristic of Glasgow’s
centre. The layout reminds me a bit of a US city — something
that moviemakers use to their advantage. Glasgow
recently served as a double for San Francisco in the film
Cloud Atlas (2012) with Tom Hanks, and for Philadelphia
in World War Z (2013), starring Brad Pitt.
3 p.m.
I head east past some wonderful street art in Merchant City
and eat lunch at Mono in King’s Court. Located in Glasgow’s
arty East End, Mono is a vegan cafe, microbrewery
and independent music store in one. I order a falafel and
red onion sandwich with a home-brewed ginger beer, and
look around Monorail, the record shop at the back of the
cafe. At night, Mono transforms into a live music venue.
4.30 p.m.
One of the receptionist’s tips isn’t far from Mono. I walk
uphill along the High Street and arrive at Glasgow Cathedral.
This magnificent church, started in the 12th century,
stands near the site where Glasgow was founded. My destination,
however, lies behind it.
The Necropolis is a huge Victorian cemetery on a hill
and contains the beautiful graves of wealthy Glaswegians.
I reach the tall tombstones at the summit and take in one
of the best views of the city. I look out across Glasgow,
over the Clyde Valley and surrounding hills. It has been a
short visit, but I’ve learned a lot about the city, this “dear
green place” that has managed to reinvent itself while still
keeping in touch with its past.
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Buntglas
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arty [(A:ti] ifml.
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venue [(venju:]
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pseudokünstlerisch,
auf Künstler machend
Friedhof
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prunkvoll
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Kuppe, Gipfel
Grabstein
Veranstaltungsort, Treffpunkt
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Getting there
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as well, Glasgow is about an hour away by bus or train.
It is also possible to take a ferry to various points in Britain. For further
information, see www.dfdsseaways.de
Where to stay
Grasshoppers Hotel with double rooms from £65 (around €80).
87 Union Street; tel. (0044) 141-222 2666. www.grasshoppersglasgow.com
Where to eat and drink
Arisaig restaurant, 1 Merchant Square; tel. (0044) 141-553 1010.
http://arisaigrestaurant.co.uk
The Horseshoe bar, 17–19 Drury Street; tel. (0044) 141-248 6368.
www.thehorseshoebarglasgow.co.uk
Mono Cafe Bar, 12 King’s Court; tel. (0044) 141-553 2400.
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Riverside Museum, 100 Pointhouse Place.
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Burrell Collection, 2060 Pollokshaws Road.
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PETER FLYNN | Around Oz
Time to close the gap
Der neue australische Premierminister, Tony Abbott,
will die sozialen Unterschiede zwischen Aborigines und
Weißen bis spätestens 2031 beseitigt haben.
During a recent holiday in my
home town south of Sydney, I
bumped into some old classmates,
including a few of the Aboriginal
kids who had gone to my school.
There was little visual or statistical
difference between the indigenous and
non-indigenous members of my age
group. Some were blue-collar workers,
A good start: Aboriginal preschoolers
some professionals and some selfemployed.
Some were fit and healthy,
and some tired and overweight.
Two indigenous former classmates
had done especially well. John
had become a fisherman, like his father,
but also owned the local fishand-chip
shop and several more boats.
Wendy had left school to work as a
secretary in a local law firm, but after
studying part-time by correspondence,
she is now a lawyer herself.
How lucky my little country town
was compared to most parts of Australia.
Six years after then prime
minister Kevin Rudd promised to
“close the gap” between indigenous
and non-indigenous Australians, little
has changed.
New PM Tony Abbott has taken
personal responsibility for the programmes
that aim to remove Aboriginal
disadvantage by no later than
2031 — and the challenges are huge.
There has been almost no improvement
in Aboriginal life expectancy,
which is 10 years below that of white
people, and employment rates for
Aborigines have gone backwards.
Simply getting kids to go to school
is a problem, especially in remote
communities, where just 30 per cent
of 14-year-old Aborigines meet the
minimum national standard for reading.
(In the cities, it’s 80 per cent.)
There seems to be broad agreement
across Australia for some
“tough love” to get young indigenous
people either to stay in school or find
a job. Many argue that the socialwelfare
rules actually encourage these
kids to leave school and then collect
unemployment money.
The government employs school
attendance officers in lots of indigenous
communities to go from door to
door to make sure kids are heading
for the classroom. Parents can have
welfare benefits stopped if their kids
are repeatedly missing from class.
“It’s hard to be literate and numerate
without attending school; it’s
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jmdn. zufällig treffen
im Fernstudium
Klassenkamerad(in)
hier: kassieren
hier: gewähren
sich in Richtung ... bewegen
hier: Aborigine-
zeitweilig, unterbrochen
Rechtsanwaltskanzlei
Mitte
Berufstätige(r) (mit qualifizierter Ausbildung)
abgelegen
Sozialhilfe
Politik der Anregung zur Selbsthilfe durch
Sozialkürzungen
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be literate and numerate
[bi )lIt&rEt End (nju:mErEt]
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law firm [(lO: f§:m]
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social welfare [)sEUS&l (welfeE]
tough love [tVf (lVv] N. Am.
“
Australia’s
native people
are still disadvantaged
”
Peter Flynn is a public-relations consultant and social commentator who lives in Perth, Western Australia.
hard to find work without a basic education;
and it’s hard to live well
without a job,” Abbott said while presenting
his first “Closing the Gap” report.
More importantly, he spoke
about a “hardness of the heart” towards
Aborigines on the part of most
Australians: “For two centuries —
with exceptions, of course — Australians
have collectively failed to show
to Aboriginal people the personal generosity
and warmth of welcome that
we have habitually extended to the
stranger in our midst.”
The PM has spent a lot of time in
Aboriginal communities, both as a
former minister and as a private citizen.
Later this year, he intends to
spend at least a week in Aboriginal
communities in the Northern Territory,
with a very public spotlight on
Aboriginal policy. “After 226 years of
intermittent interest at most, why
shouldn’t Aboriginal people finally
have the prime minister’s undivided
attention for seven days?” he asked.
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DEBATE | Britain
Over-the-top pop
Steht Sex in der Popkultur heutzutage zu sehr im Vordergrund? Und sollten für Musikvideos
Altersbeschränkungen und strengere Kontrollen eingeführt werden?
When pop star Miley Cyrus appeared naked in the
video for her single “Wrecking Ball” and then
twerked with Robin Thicke at the MTV awards
in September 2013, it was too much for some people.
Singer Annie Lennox wrote on Facebook that she was
deeply concerned about “the recent spate of overtly sexualized
performances and videos”. Fellow artist Sinead
O’Connor warned 21-year-old Cyrus about being valued
for her sex appeal rather than her musical talent. With performances
by Rihanna, Beyoncé and many others featuring
plenty of naked flesh, are music videos, and pop music
in general, becoming overly sexualized?
ing their meaning. Parents said that overly sexual pop acts
were teaching girls that they would be “judged on their
looks, not their achievements or personality”. Parents with
sons worried that watching explicit music videos made
boys believe that women are “too sexually available” and
should have “unrealistic porn-star-style body shapes”.
Many young people learn about sex and relationships
through the media. A study by the British Board of Film
Classification (BBFC) found that parents are particularly
concerned about films and videos presenting unsuitable
behaviour as normal. In the US, a Rasmussen Report survey
showed that 71 per cent of adults believe popular culture
encourages sexual activity among young people.
Not everyone agrees. Singer Jessie J recently told The
Independent newspaper that highly sexual pop-music videos
are probably a passing trend and that the music industry is
going through a period of change. Index on Censorship
warns that giving X-ratings for music videos could make
them more attractive and that society needs to address the
main issues of racism and sexism in popular culture.
With explicit material becoming more widely available
online, a special report published by the National Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) stated
that culture has become more “pornified” and “sexualized”.
It found that although many young people understand
how the media works, “even when they recognize that the
images they see are not realistic portrayals of ‘real’ life, they
still say that these images make them feel inadequate and
pressurized”.
In an interview with a Boston radio station, pop star
Britney Spears admitted that she still felt a pressure to appear
sexy in her videos. The 32-year-old mother of two
said: “A lot of sex goes into what I do.” She would prefer
a return to pop music’s less explicit “old days”.
Too sexy? Pop singer Rihanna performing on stage
Siobhan Freegard, founder of the parenting website
Netmums, told the BBC that things have “gone too far”
and that it is “toxic to tell young kids [that] casual sex and
violence are something to aspire to”. In a survey of Netmums’
members, 82 per cent said that their children had
repeated sexual lyrics or dance movements without know-
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gelegentlich, locker
hier: (sexuell) eindeutig
Songtext(e)
übermäßig
offenkundig; hier: allzu freizügig
Erziehungs-, Eltern-
unter Druck gesetzt
Flut, Welle
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hier: schädlich
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betonend tanzen
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Julian Earwaker asked people in Norwich, England:
Is pop culture overly sexualized?
Kim Sauro, 25,
carer
Listen to Kim, Michael, Adam and Heather
Michael Howes, 35,
designer
Adam Smith, 20,
model
Heather Cornwell, 18,
retail worker
Sarah King, 37,
shop manager
Jonny Reeve, 18,
doorman
David Knowles, 35,
supervisor
Judi Daykin, 54,
actor
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HISTORY | 75 Years Ago
Anglo-Saxon treasures
Vor 75 Jahren wurde ein sensationeller Fund in dem englischen Ort Sutton Hoo gemacht:
ein König mit Schatz und Schiff, der Rätsel aufgibt. Von MIKE PILEWSKI
For 1,300 years, the ship rested inside the hill, its only
passenger a sleeping king, its cargo his treasure.
When the burial site at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England,
was finally opened in the spring of 1939 — 75 years
ago this month — it revealed some of the most significant
historic artefacts ever to be found in Britain.
The wooden ship, 27 metres long with pointed ends,
had dissolved completely in the acidic soil. All that was
left was an imprint, punctuated with a regular pattern of
the iron rivets that had held the ship together. At its centre
was a burial chamber. The body inside — even the
bones — had been reduced to traces of phosphate
in the soil. The objects that had
been buried with it remained, however:
clothes, weapons, jewellery, armour,
drinking horns and cups, coins
and other luxury goods, many
made of gold or silver, and all
decorated exquisitely. The most
remarkable find, though, was
an iron helmet.
The helmet would have
covered the wearer’s entire
head and face, leaving only
the eyes free to look out. On
the outside, one sees metal
eyebrows, a nose, a moustache
and a mouth, all connected by
a crest rising to the top of the
helmet. Some see this combination
of shapes as representing
a bird or dragon flying
upwards. Bronze panels on
the helmet’s other surfaces
show battle scenes and ornamental
animals.
Rare find: the iron helmet
The helmet was damaged centuries ago, when the
weight of the soil above caused the burial chamber to collapse.
Parts of the decoration are missing. Even so, it is still
a most unusual find: only four complete helmets from that
time are known to exist. The style is similar to that of the
late Roman period, but no Roman wore the helmet; the
wearer must have been an Anglo-Saxon — one of the first
people ever to speak English.
Could the early Middle Ages really have been this advanced?
Before the discovery at Sutton Hoo, extremely little
had been known about the period between the
Romans’ departure in AD 410 and the first
Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 600s. During
these “Dark Ages”, the Angles, Saxons
and Jutes, arriving from what is
now northern Germany and Denmark,
settled in Britain. Their conflicts
with the Celtic Britons
spawned the legend of King
Arthur — a story first written
down centuries later. The neartotal
lack of documents and
artefacts, except for some
weapons and handmade pottery,
meant that this period
must have been one of decline
and chaos, historians thought.
Roman-style craftsmanship
could hardly have existed in
such an environment.
Sutton Hoo changed all
that. The artefacts in the
buried ship are evidence of
an organized, advanced culture,
one in which the early
Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were
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(Niet)Nagel
Boden
hervorbringen
Spur
Fotos: British Museum; Mauritius Images
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The ship had left a perfect imprint
starting to be consolidated. Coins found among
the treasure were made sometime between 595
and 640, leading historians to speculate that the
body inside the ship had been that of King Rædwald,
who ruled from about 599 to his death in
624 or 625. Rædwald was the first East Anglian
king to become a Christian. As such, he may
have been the last king to have been given this
kind of burial.
Historians see a connection to the Old English
epic poem Beowulf, which begins with the
funeral of a king in a ship. The story takes place in southern
Sweden and Denmark during the time of the Anglo-
Saxon migration to England.
The burial mound containing the ship was only one of
several at Sutton Hoo. The area was long known to be an
archaeological site. The smaller mounds had, in fact, been
plundered over the centuries. Grave-robbers dug into the
main mound in the 16th century, but they did not find
the treasure, which was deep inside.
Interest in the site returned during the 19th century,
and a small viewing platform was built. In 1926, a retired
military officer, Frank Pretty, and his wife, Edith, bought
the property. After Frank died several years later, Edith
took an interest in what was under the ground and hired
Basil Brown, a self-taught archaeologist, to excavate the
site. Starting with the smaller mounds, Brown discovered
three burial sites that had already been visited by graverobbers.
In one of them, he found iron ship rivets and a
burial chamber containing fragments of metal and glass
objects.
archaeological site
[A:kiE)lQdZIk&l (saIt]
burial mound [(beriEl maUnd]
consolidate [kEn(sQlIdeIt]
excavate [(ekskEveIt]
plaster cast [)plA:stE (kA:st]
plunder [(plVndE]
self-taught [)self (tO:t]
Ausgrabungsstätte
Grabhügel
sich festigen
ausgraben
Gipsabdruck
plündern
autodidaktisch
Above: a replica of
the ship at the
Sutton Hoo exhibition
centre (left)
In May 1939,
Brown and three
of Pretty’s staff
started digging
into the largest
mound. On the
third day of their
excavations, they
found an iron rivet. Hours later, they found more, still in
their original positions. After several weeks of careful work,
they reached the burial chamber.
The Ipswich Museum, the British Museum, the Science
Museum in London and the Office of Works felt
that the discovery was too big to leave to amateurs. They
sent in a team of archaeologists, led by Charles Phillips,
and had the artefacts brought to London.
A newspaper report caught the attention of the village
of Sutton. The treasure, said the village, belonged to Edith
Pretty, because it was her land. Pretty, however, said the
find should be shared by everyone and made it a gift to
the nation.
From 1965 to 1971, a team from the British Museum
revisited the site and made a plaster cast of the imprint of
the ship in the ground. However, a third expedition from
1983 to 1992, led by Martin Carver of the University of
York, brought the most complete findings of all. The entire
site was examined, with relations being found to prehistoric
and Roman settlements. A large part of the area was
left untouched for future archaeologists to study, using
even better methods.
In 2001, the National Trust — the organization that
manages many of Britain’s historic sites — built a visitors’
centre there. All this year, the organization is celebrating
the 75th anniversary of the 1939 excavation with lectures
and a “1930s living history experience”. The artefacts
found 75 years ago are divided between the British Museum,
the Ipswich Museum and the visitors’ centre.
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PRESS GALLERY | Comment
What is the military for?
Wie sinnvoll ist es, eine teure und für die moderne Kriegsführung ausgerüstete Armee zu
unterhalten, wenn diese hauptsächlich für friedliche Zwecke eingesetzt wird?
For at least a century not a year has passed in which
British soldiers have not been off fighting somewhere
in the world. ...
Our writers suggest that ... 2015 could be the first year
with no British shots fired in anger. Officers call this “a
strategic pause”. Certainly, the prospect of it should
prompt discussion about the purposes of our armed forces.
The nations of Europe spend close to €200 bn annually
on defence and keep one and a half million men and
women under arms, with another four million in reserve,
and paramilitary forces. What are they for? They are not
for colonial control. They are not
(after the end of the cold war)
for defence against
the Warsaw
Pact. They
Providing
support to
troops: Britain’s
Royal
Logistic Corps
are not (after Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, and in spite of
Mali and the Central African Republic) for major interventions
outside Europe...
They are not (given the nature of asymmetrical conflict)
for fighting “terrorism”. ...
They are clearly of value ... as general-purpose forces
in emergencies such as major floods, fires, earthquakes, or
nuclear accidents, and as providers of contingents for UN
peacekeeping operations, including technical back-up for
less well-equipped troop donors.
Yet are these useful functions best met by forces that
have been expensively trained for combat against other sophisticated
armies or for use in insurgencies? Arguably,
many of their skills are redundant and much of their
equipment irrelevant. That goes especially for British and
French nuclear weapons. ...
Is the 21st century, in general, so unpredictably dangerous
that we need to maintain state of the art militaries
on the basis that if we let the skills, traditions and supporting
industries die it will be impossible to revive them? Or
do we need to start thinking about our military establishment
less in terms of firepower and more in terms of a fire
brigade, with war somewhere in the middle, rather than
right at the top, of the list of duties?
© Guardian News & Media 2014
unter Umständen
Streitkräfte
Unterstützung, Reserve-
Milliarde
annähernd
Kampf
Geldgeber(in)
Feuerwehr
(militärische) Schlagkraft
allgemein
angesichts
Aufstand
hinsichtlich
zu etw. anregen
Aussicht
unnötig, überflüssig
wieder zum Leben erwecken
hoch entwickelt,
gut ausgestattet
hochmodern
arguably [(A:gjuEbli]
armed forces [)A:md (fO:sIz]
back-up [(bÄk Vp]
bn = billion [(bIljEn]
close to [(klEUs tE]
combat [(kQmbÄt]
donor [(dEUnE]
fire brigade [(faIE brI)geId]
firepower [(faIE)paUE]
general-purpose
[)dZen&rEl (p§:pEs]
given [(gIv&n]
insurgency [In(s§:dZEnsi]
in terms of [In (t§:mz Ev]
prompt sth. [prQmpt]
prospect [(prQspekt]
redundant [ri(dVndEnt]
revive [ri(vaIv]
sophisticated [sE(fIstIkeItId]
state of the art [)steIt Ev Di (A:t]
Foto: Alamy
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INFO TO GO
not
The introductory sentence in this article looks a little
strange, since it contains two negative constructions.
Non-native speakers of English may have some difficulty
understanding what surely could have been
written in a simpler way. In fact, even native speakers
may have to stop and think for a moment. What is
the journalist saying? Reformulated, the sentence
could read: “British soldiers have been away fighting
somewhere in the world every year for the past century.”
Why make things sound so complicated? The
answer is style. English is such a rich language that it
allows many different possibilities for saying the
same thing. Journalists can choose to write about the
news in a way that states the simple facts, or in a way
that conveys a certain tone, such as one of importance.
In this case, a structure is used that simply
holds the reader’s attention.
convey [kEn(veI]
soil [sOI&l]
truffle-grower [(trVf&l )grEUE]
übermitteln, vermitteln
Boden
Trüffelbauer, -bäuerin
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items in Replay
IN THE HEADLINES The Guardian Weekly
When you open your refrigerator to find something to eat,
you may smell the food first to find out whether it is still
fresh. Food that doesn’t “pass the smell test” must be
thrown away; it’s not what it should be. When we talk
about other things not passing the smell test, we mean
that they are easily determined to be bad, fake or wrong.
This headline referred to an article about French trufflegrowers,
who are looking for a way to measure the smells
that make French truffles different from cheaper Chinese
truffles. “From the key components of the smell, we
should be able to determine the soil from where the truffle
comes,” Christian Ginies of France’s National Institute
of Agronomic Research told Reuters. Both varieties of
black truffle are very similar, but those from France sell
for €1,000 a kilo, while those from China cost only €30.
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| Comedy
A song in his heart:
James Corden is the
hopeful Paul Potts
Paul’s story
With American film-maker David Frankel (The
Devil Wears Prada) in the director’s chair, audiences
can expect a humorous look at the real-life
story of Paul Potts, the shy young man from Port Talbot,
Wales, who won Britain’s Got Talent in 2007.
We know that this fairy tale ended happily, so Frankel’s
main challenge in One Chance is to make it interesting.
He does this by showing Potts (James Corden) as the product
of a no-nonsense, working-class environment. Dad
Roland (Colm Meaney) wants his son to work with him
at the local steel mill, while loving Mum Yvonne (Julie
| Crime
The film 3 Days to Kill is the first movie for some time to
star Kevin Costner. Proving that late middle age can have interesting
moments, he plays Ethan Renner, a CIA spy who returns
to his home in Paris to
reconnect with his daughter Zoey:
Renner has a brain tumour, and time
is short. When the CIA approaches
him with the offer of new medicines
if he will do one last job involving
two international terrorists, “Dad”
and “bad” start to rhyme in more
ways than one. McG (Joseph McGinty
Nichol) directs. Starts 8 May.
Kevin Costner: back for more
Walters) thinks that Paul is a genius. Potts himself dreams
only of opera, but he is low on confidence.
It’s when he finds the true love of Julz (Alexandra
Roach) that he begins to believe in his wonderful voice
and a future that could take him away from life as a carphone
salesman. Frankel does a good job of combining
beautiful music with slightly obvious comedy. With coproducers
Harvey Weinstein and Simon Cowell involved,
One Chance is definitely a crowd-pleaser. But it’s also an
inspiring story about following your dreams, something
we can all relate to. Starts 22 May.
| Action
War and its
consequences
This fast-moving action film begins
when four US soldiers travel deep into
the mountains of Afghanistan to find a
dangerous Taliban leader. From then on,
everything goes badly wrong. Shepherds
discover the soldiers and inform
the Taliban, which leads to an ambush
and an impossible battle for survival.
Based on a true story, Lone Survivor
is an intense war movie featuring
strong performances from Mark Wahlberg, Emile Hirsch and
Taylor Kitsch. Written and directed by Peter Berg (Hancock, Battleship),
the film shows the terrible consequences of war and
raises challenging moral questions. Out on DVD on 8 May.
ambush [(ÄmbUS]
approach sb. [E(prEUtS]
crowd-pleaser: be a ~
[(kraUd )pli:zE] ifml.
fairy tale [(feEri teI&l]
genius [(dZi:niEs]
low on confidence: be ~
[)lEU Qn (kQnfIdEns]
Angriff aus dem Hinterhalt
an jmdn. herantreten
beim Publikum gut
ankommen
Märchen
Genie
kaum Selbstvertrauen haben
no-nonsense
[)nEU (nQnsEns]
reconnect with sb.
[)ri:kE(nekt w:ð]
rhyme [raIm]
salesman [(seI&lzmEn]
shepherd [(SepEd]
steel mill [(sti:&l mIl]
nüchtern
zu jmdm. wieder eine
Verbindung aufbauen
sich reimen
Verkäufer, Händler
(Schaf)Hirte
Stahlwerk
Fotos: Corbis; PR
44 Spotlight 5|14

| Reading
| General knowledge
Every month in the Arts section (p. 47), we recommend an easy
reader for you to enjoy. These stories have been specially written
or adapted for English learners. Every story is graded according
to the level of the language. But how do you know
what level is right for you? A good starting point is the How
Good Is Your English? app from Oxford Bookworms. Its
12 tests allow you to
find your level, using
chapters from different
books in the Oxford
Bookworms easy-reader
series. Once you have
tried a test, the free app
tells you which books
are available for your
level. Different publishers
have their own
names for the levels, but
the app is a good guide
for all easy readers. How
Good Is Your English? is
available from iTunes.
Your level of English:
find it here
James O’Brien is a
morning presenter
for the Londonbased
radio station
LBC. Every week, he
presents James
O’Brien’s Mystery
Hour, to
which listeners can
call in and ask any
question they want
to have answered.
O’Brien chooses the
Ask him: presenter James O’Brien
most interesting
suggestions, then invites listeners to phone in and offer an answer.
The result of this unusual format is a number of surprising
discussions. Do magnets work in space? Who invented
swimming? Or how do you explain colours to blind people?
These are just some of the questions that have been asked in
recent programmes, and while the answers may not be what
you expect, the show is always entertaining. What’s more, as
O’Brien promises, you will certainly be more knowledgeable at
the end of the show than you were at its start. James O’Brien’s
Mystery Hour is available free as a weekly podcast on iTunes.
| Music
With songs such as “The Young Ones” and “Move
It”, Cliff Richard became an icon of British rock
and roll in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He chose
to stay with melody and harmony, though, building
a career on tunes that include “We Don’t Talk Anymore”
and “The Millennium Prayer”. He became one
of the most famous members of the British entertainment
industry and was chosen to perform at Queen
Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee concert in 2012. With
more than 50 years of experience and 100 albums to his
name, Sir Cliff brings his “Still Reelin’ and A-Rockin’
Tour” to Germany in May, proving that music really has
made him — and kept him — a “young one”. For dates
of his shows, as well as concert times and tickets, check
www.cliffrichard.org
Still going
strong: Cliff
Richard is
on the road
adapt [E(dÄpt]
-based [beIst]
diamond jubilee
[)daIEmEnd (dZu:bIli:]
icon [(aIkQn]
tune [tju:n]
bearbeiten, anpassen
in ... ansässig, mit Sitz in...
hier: 60. Thronjubiläum
Idol
Melodie
Reviews by OWEN CONNORS and EVE LUCAS
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ARTS | Short Story and Books
The big grey man of Ben MacDhui
Ein junger Mann plant eine Wanderung auf einen der höchsten Berge Schottlands. Zuvor macht
er eine beunruhigende Bekannschaft. Von NIGEL MARSH
We’ve got one of those.”
I turned my head to see if the voice was talking
to me. I was sitting at a bus stop, waiting for the
bus that would take me to the foot of Ben MacDhui for a
day’s walk on one of Scotland’s
wildest mountains. I
hadn’t noticed the old man.
He pointed at the newspaper
I was reading.
“We’ve got one of
those,” he repeated.
I looked him up and
down: short, with a tough
appearance, a white beard.
“You’ve got one of
what?” I asked.
“One of those.”
He tapped the headline
in the newspaper: “New
sighting of yeti.”
“Up there, he is,” he
said, and he nodded towards
the mountains, still topped with snow, although the
summer was already here.
“Tell me more,” I said, trying hard not to smile.
“Saw him with my own eyes,” the old man went on.
“Thirty years ago, it was. A Sunday in the early spring. The
snow was still deep on the mountains.”
He turned his head and spat on to the road.
“Anyway,” he continued, “I was up there, and I’d got
myself a wee bit lost. The wind was getting up, and it was
just beginning to snow again. Then I heard it.”
“What, the yeti?” I said, eyes wide.
“Not the yeti — and anyway, we don’t call him that
round here. No, it was a groaning sound, someone in pain.
I followed the sound, and I found him.”
“You found the yeti?” I asked.
“No, not him. Just a man. Lying by a big rock. His eyes
were closed. Snow was settling on his clothes and face. I
leaned down and put my hand on his shoulder. His eyes
opened wide, and he screamed, trying to get away from
me, whimpering and waving his arms around. ‘Calm yourself
down,’ I said. ‘I’m here to help you, you fool.’”
The old man spat again and continued: “So he started
talking to himself. In Gaelic, it was: ‘Am Fear Liath Mòr’
— the big grey man, that means. Kept saying it. ‘Where’s
the trouble?’ I asked, looking for an injury. I touched his
leg, and he howled — broken. He wouldn’t be walking off
that mountain.”
“What did you do?” I asked the old man, beginning to
find the story interesting.
“Aye, what was I to do? The snow was coming down,
the wind was blowing. I tell you, I began to fear for both
me and him. I had flares in my rucksack, but there was no
point in sending one up in a blizzard. I couldn’t leave the
man there to die. So I decided to build a snow hole to keep
us safe for the night.”
“A snow hole? You’re joking,” I laughed.
The old man looked me up and down, from my new
boots to my new jacket.
“You haven’t spent a lot of time in the mountains,” he
said to me.
“You’re right,” I admitted. “Please, tell me more.”
“Well, anyway,” the old man continued, “I found a
good spot and started digging. It was tough work, and it
was dark when I’d finished, but there it was: an ice cave.
So I pulled the man in, lit a couple of candles and closed
up the entrance.”
The old man stopped for a moment, and then he
leaned towards me. “It was a wild night,” he said. “The
wind was howling like a hungry wolf until...”
The old man’s voice dropped, and I leaned closer.
“Until... in the wee small hours, as the wind dropped,
I heard something else out there in the icy dark. First, I
a wee bit [E (wi: bIt] Scot.
aye [aI] = yes
blizzard [(blIzEd]
cave [keIv]
flare [fleE]
Gaelic [(geIlIk]
groan [grEUn]
howl [haUl]
ein kleines bisschen
heftiger Schneesturm
Höhle
Leuchtsignal
Gälisch
stöhnen
(auf)heulen
look sb. up and down
[lUk )Vp End (daUn]
point at sth. [(pOInt Et]
sighting [(saItIN]
spit [spIt]
the wee small hours
[ðE (wi: smO:l )aUEz]
whimper [(wImpE]
jmdn. mustern, jmdn. taxieren
auf etw. zeigen
Sichtung, Sichten
spucken
die frühen Morgenstunden
wimmern
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Short Story
heard footsteps crunching on fresh snow; then a deepthroated
breathing, and a snuffling of something sniffing
the air, sniffing the ground, searching, hunting. Closer it
came. The man beside me, who I had thought asleep, began
to whimper again. ‘Am Fear Liath Mòr,’ he whispered. Then
there was a scuffle and a crack, and something squealed terribly
as it died. The wind began to moan again.”
The old man stopped and studied my face. “Well, the
morning came, and the sun was shining, so I sent up a
flare, and all we could do was wait. I left the man in the
snow hole until a helicopter from Dunmarne airbase saw
us. They were putting him on a stretcher, when he started
muttering in Gaelic again. The paramedic says to me: ‘So
you’ve been having fun with the big grey man, have you?
Tall as a house, all covered in hair, they say.’”
The old man blew his nose loudly. “Well,” he continued,
“after the helicopter left, I started down the mountain.
I went past the rock where I’d found him. And there
it was.”
“What, the big grey man?” I asked, surprised.
“No, it wasn’t the big grey man. It was the head of a
mountain hare, torn from its body. There it was, lying in a
patch of red snow. When I saw that, I started to run. I ran
down that mountain, and I didn’t stop until I reached
the village.”
The old man rubbed his beard.
“Maybe it was just a dog,” I said as I stood up. My bus
had arrived.
He grinned. “Maybe. — Anyway, enjoy your day on
the mountain.”
Novel
Pakistani writer Fatima
Bhutto’s debut novel The
Shadow of the Crescent
Moon takes place on
the morning of Eid, a big Muslim
celebration, in a city on
Pakistan’s north-western border
to Afghanistan. Three
brothers meet for breakfast before
they leave the house to
follow separate paths: paths
that represent different aspects
of Pakistan’s recent history, in particular, its decision to
support America in the fight against Islamic fundamentalism.
Bhutto is the granddaughter of former Pakistani Prime Minister
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, so she knows about complex situations. But
her simple language reflects on human beings, dealing with
history, tradition and the price
of progress. Penguin, €11.30.
Easy reader
The popular expression “revenge is
a dish best served cold” is the message
at the heart of the story
47 Ronin. Set in 18th-century
Japan, this is the true tale of a
group of Samurai fighters who decide
to take revenge on a lord who
has caused the death of one of their
comrades. Although they have no
master — ronin is the name for
samurai who have no leader — the
fighters organize a plan for revenge.
They then wait patiently for two years before they have
the chance to carry this out. All of the 47 ronin know that this
will mean death, but their honour is in question, and they have
no choice. Jennifer Bassett retells this dramatic story at easyreader
level stage one. The book comes with a list of words explained
in simple English, six pages of activities and a CD
version of the story. Oxford Bookworms, €11.37.
blow one’s nose
[)blEU wVnz (nEUz]
carry sth. out [)kÄri (aUt]
crunch [krVntS]
deep-throated [)di:p (TrEUtId]
moan [mEUn]
mountain hare
[(maUntIn )heE]
mutter [(mVtE]
paramedic [)pÄrE(medIk]
sich schnäuzen
etw. durchführen
knirschen
kehlig
jammern
Schneehase
murmeln
Sanitäter(in)
patch [pÄtS] Fleck (➝ p. 61)
revenge is a dish best Rache ist ein Gericht, das man am
served cold [ri)vendZ Iz E besten kalt serviert
)dIS best s§:vd (kEUld]
scuffle [(skVf&l]
raufen
sniff [snIf]
schnüffeln
snuffle [(snVf&l]
schnuppern
squeal [skwi:&l]
quieken, kreischen
stretcher [(stretSE]
Krankentrage
whisper [(wIspE]
flüstern
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LANGUAGE | Vocabulary
Time for tea
This month, ANNA HOCHSIEDER takes a closer look at the language you need to talk
about tea.
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1. electric kettle
2. mug
3. tea cosy
4. tea caddy (UK)
5. tea leaves
6. tea strainer
7. biscuit tin [(bIskIt]
(US cookie tin)
8. sugar bowl [bEUl]
(with sugar cubes)
9. teapot
10. tea tray
11. teaspoon
12. saucer [(sO:sE]
13. teacup
14. milk jug [(mIlk dZVg]
15. lemon press /
lemon-squeezer (UK)
16. teabag
17. tea infuser
The perfect cuppa
Preparing tea is a serious business, and there is a lot of
disagreement about how to make the perfect cup of
black tea. The Royal Society of Chemistry has studied
the art of tea-making from a scientific perspective. Here
is what the chemists suggest.
Use loose-leaf Assam tea, soft water, fresh cold milk
and white sugar. Boil the water. Warm a ceramic teapot
containing a little water in a microwave oven. When the
kettle is boiling, drain the water from the preheated pot.
Place one teaspoonful of tea per cup in the pot.
Pour boiling water on to the tea leaves. Stir, then
leave to brew for three minutes. Pour milk into a mug
or cup. Strain the tea into the cup. Add sugar to taste.
Let the tea cool off slightly before drinking.
How do you like your tea? Do you take it with milk
or lemon? How long do you let it steep? Do you have a
favourite blend? Mine is green tea flavoured with lemon
grass. In winter, I like herbal infusions with camomile,
mint or rooibos, and on a hot summer’s day, iced tea is
wonderfully refreshing. The possibilities are endless.
Illustration: Bernhard Förth
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Practice
Now try the exercises below to practise talking about tea.
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1. Find the things on the opposite page that you need for making tea and
that match the descriptions below.
a) It’s made of metal, and you use it to stir your tea after you’ve added milk and sugar. _______________
b) It’s a small round plate, and you place your teacup on it. _______________
c) It’s larger than a cup, and you drink tea, coffee or hot chocolate from it. _______________
d) It looks like something you wear on your head, but it is used to keep a teapot warm. _______________
e) It’s a small metal container with a lid, and you use it to keep tea leaves or tea bags in. _______________
f) You can put loose tea leaves in this if you don’t want them to move around in the pot. _______________
2. Complete the following instructions for making green tea with nine different verbs
from the text on the opposite page.
(a) B_______________ the water, then let it cool off a little. (b) W_______________ the teapot with a little boiling
water, then (c) d_______________ the water off. (d) P_______________ the tea leaves in the pot, or use a tea infuser.
(e) P_______________ the boiling water over the tea leaves. (f) S_______________ once or twice while the tea is brewing, or
move the infuser around a little. Let the tea (g) s_______________ for one to three minutes. Remove the infuser, or
(h) s_______________ the tea into the cups to avoid having tea leaves in your tea. (i) A_______________ sugar to taste.
3. Match the tea-making verbs on the left (a – d) to their definitions on the right (1 – 4).
a) If tea is brewing or steeping,
b) If you pour tea,
c) If you stir tea,
d) If you strain tea,
a ➯
b ➯
c ➯
d ➯
1. you move it around in the pot or cup, using a spoon.
2. you pour it through a strainer to separate the leaves from the liquid.
3. you let it flow out of the pot into a cup or mug.
4. the mixture of tea leaves and hot water is becoming ready to drink.
4. Complete the following quotation with a seven-letter expression from the opposite page.
“Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a _ _ _ _ _ _ _, doesn’t try it on.” (Billy Connolly, Scottish comedian)
Although coffee is drunk at least as much as tea these days, tea is still said to be a British
institution. Here are some British English words and phrases based on this topic.
• A cuppa is an informal word for a “cup of tea”: “Shall we have a cuppa?”
• To brew up means “to make a cup of tea”: “I’ll brew us up a nice cup of tea, shall I?”
• To put the kettle on is also often used in the sense of “to make a cup of tea”: “Put the kettle
on, would you? I’m thirsty.”
• Tea can also be a meal — either a light meal of sandwiches, cake and biscuits in the
afternoon, served with a cup of tea, or a larger, cooked, evening meal: “The children usually
have their tea at six.”
• A tea break is a short pause from work in the middle of the morning (also sometimes called
“elevenses”) or afternoon, when people have something small to eat and drink.
Tips
Answers
1. a) teaspoon; b) saucer;
c) mug; d) tea cosy;
e) tea caddy (lid: Deckel);
f) tea infuser
2. a) Boil; b) Warm; c) drain;
d) Place / Put; e) Pour;
f) Stir (brew: hier: ziehen);
g) steep (ziehen lassen);
h) strain (durchseihen);
i) Add
3. a–4; b–3; c–1; d–2
4. tea cosy
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LANGUAGE | Travel Talk
Travelling by coach
Journey in comfort and at little
expense with RITA FORBES.
Why not go by coach?
You know, I was just having a look online, and I
found a special offer on a coach trip to Liverpool.
All the way to Liverpool by coach? How long does
it take?
Well, longer than by train, of course — five or six
hours. But the fares are really cheap. And it looks
comfortable enough. There’s a toilet on the coach
and Wi-Fi and even power sockets so you can
charge your phone during the trip. And they make
a stop halfway there so you can stretch your legs
and get a bite to eat.
That doesn’t sound bad at all.
Where’s the departure gate?
Here we are: Victoria Coach Station. Which gate
do we leave from?
Hang on! Just let me check the tickets. Departure:
9 o’clock from gate 8.
Gate 8’s this way... There it is!
But shouldn’t the coach be here already? Excuse me!
We’re looking for the 9 a.m. coach to Liverpool.
Is this the right place?
Yes, it is. There’s been a small delay — traffic jam
on the motorway. But the coach should be here
any minute. You can just take a seat in the waiting
area.
Ah, OK. Thanks.
Welcome on board!
Good morning! May I see your tickets, please?
Yes, here you are.
Thank you. I’ll just put your luggage in the hold.
Is it marked with your name? All right, you can go
ahead and board now. Sit wherever you like.
This looks nice. Would you like the window seat?
If you don’t mind sitting next to the aisle.
Thanks for joining us today for our journey from
London to Liverpool. Can everyone hear me? We
want you to be as comfortable as possible. There are
snacks and drinks for sale here at the front, and we
have complimentary newspapers as well. Our first
stop will be in about two hours. Please keep your
seat belts fastened. OK, off we go!
• In British English, a coach is a bus that travels long
distances between cities. The word “bus” is used for
public transport within a town or city. Many different
privately operated companies offer coach services
in Britain. The largest is National Express
(www.nationalexpress.com). If you want to save
money, Megabus has some intercity tickets for as little
as £1 (www.megabus.com).
• The money that you pay for a journey is called a fare,
such as bus fare, taxi fare or airfare.
• If you walk around after sitting for a long time, you
stretch your legs.
• Get a bite to eat is a common expression that
means to eat a quick snack or a small meal.
• Victoria Coach Station is the largest coach station
in London. Here, the area from which a coach leaves is
called a gate. At other stations, the word “platform”
might be used instead.
• Departure is the time that a coach or other form of
transport leaves.
• In a traffic jam, there are too many vehicles on a
road, and they can move only slowly.
• A motorway (N. Am.: highway) is a road with several
lanes, designed so that people can drive fast.
• The luggage hold is the area below the bus where suitcases
can be stored during a journey. You can usually
take only one small bag with you on to the coach.
• To board a coach, bus or train means to “enter” it.
After you have boarded, you are “on board”.
• On a coach, train or aeroplane, the aisle [aI&l] is the
long, narrow space between the rows of seats, leading
from the front to the back.
• Something complimentary doesn’t cost anything.
• Seat belts keep people safely in their seats if the
vehicle stops suddenly or in case
of an accident.
charge [tSA:dZ]
go ahead [gEU E(hed]
hang on [hÄN (Qn] ifml.
here you are [(hIE ju )A:]
Off we go! [(Qf wi )gEU]
power socket [(paUE )sQkIt]
Wi-Fi [(waI faI]
hier: aufladen
fortfahren
Moment, warte(n Sie) mal
bitte schön
Los geht’s!
Steckdose
WLAN
Tips
Fotos: Alamy; iStock
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Cards | LANGUAGE
phub
NEW WORDS
We tried to have a family meal yesterday, but the
children just phubbed us.
GLOBAL ENGLISH
What would a speaker of British
English say?
North American: “That’s just my two cents’
worth. It’s your decision, though.”
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(IN)FORMAL ENGLISH
Make the following statements sound
less formal:
1. We then partook of a delicious meal.
2. Guests can partake in several different
activities.
Translate:
TRANSLATION
1. Das ist das erste Mal, dass ich dich so
unglücklich sehe.
2. Es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass ich diese
Frage stelle.
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PRONUNCIATION
IDIOM MAGIC
Read the following words aloud:
curable
disputable
Ching Yee Smithback
serviceable
transferable
have a memory like a sieve
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FALSE FRIENDS
tachometer / Tachometer
Translate the following sentences:
1. The tachometer [tÄ(kQmItE] was showing
4,000 rpm (revolutions per minute).
2. Laut Tachometer fuhren wir 145 km/h.
GRAMMAR
Complete these sentences with
“beside” or “besides”:
1. No one agreed me ________ my husband.
2. My wife sat ________ me in the front seat.
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LANGUAGE | Cards
GLOBAL ENGLISH
British speaker: “That’s just my opinion.
It’s your decision, though.”
An American offering an opinion may “put in his
or her two cents’ worth”. A British speaker may
also use the more old-fashioned expression “put
in one’s two penn’orth”.
NEW WORDS
Phub is a new verb blended (zusammengesetzt)
from “phone” and “snub”, which means to “ignore
somebody”. When you are more interested in
your phone than a conversation with someone,
you are phubbing that person.
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TRANSLATION
1. This is the first time (that) I’ve seen you so
unhappy.
2. This is not the first time (that) I’ve asked /
posed this question.
Whereas in German the second half of the
sentence is in the present tense, in English, the
present perfect is used.
(IN)FORMAL ENGLISH
1. We then ate / had a delicious meal.
2. Guests can join in several different activities.
Of these two prepositional verbs, “partake of” is
rarely used today. “Partake in”, however, is still
used quite frequently in the written form.
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IDIOM MAGIC
This expression can come as no surprise to speakers
of German (ein Gedächtnis wie ein Sieb haben).
“Memory” is sometimes replaced by “mind”.
“Joe’s already forgotten everything I said to him.
He’s got a memory like a sieve.”
[(kjUErEb&l]
[(s§:vIsEb&l]
PRONUNCIATION
[dI(spju:tEb&l]
[trÄns(f§:rEb&l]
When the suffix “-able” appears at the end of a
verb and forms an adjective, this does not
generally affect the stress pattern (Betonungsmuster)
of the root. Contrast this with the
German suffix -abel — as in rentabel, spendabel —
which carries the stress itself.
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GRAMMAR
1. No one agreed with me besides my husband.
2. My wife sat beside me in the front seat.
The preposition “beside” means “next to”, “at the
side of” (neben), whereas “besides” means “in
addition to” or “apart from” (außer). “Besides” is
also an adverb meaning “in addition” or “as well”
(außerdem).
FALSE FRIENDS
1. Der Drehzahlmesser zeigte 4.000 U/min.
2. According to the speedometer [spI(dQmItE],
we were doing 90 miles an hour.
Here, we are talking about instruments on the
dashboard (Armaturenbrett) of a car. In other
technical areas, however, German Tachometer
and English “tachometer” have the same
meaning.
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Listen to dialogues 3 and 4
Everyday English | LANGUAGE
At the dentist’s
This month, DAGMAR TAYLOR looks at the
words and phrases people use when they go
to the dentist.
1. Making an appointment
Boris is calling his dentist’s practice to make an
appointment.
Receptionist: Whitefields Dental Care and Implant
Centre. Tracy speaking. How can I help?
Boris: Hello! I’m calling to make an appointment for
a check-up.
Tracy: OK. Which dentist do you usually see?
Boris: Dr Qureshi.
Tracy: Dr Qureshi. Right. And would you give me
your name, please?
Boris: It’s Boris Tate.
Tracy: Thank you, Mr Tate. Let’s have a look. The next
available appointment would be on Monday,
16 June, at 10.30 a.m.
Boris: Sorry, mornings are really bad for me. Do you
have anything in the late afternoon or in the
evening?
Tracy: Would Friday the 27th at 5 p.m. work for you?
Boris: Yes, that would be much better. Thank you.
2. Arriving at the dentist’s
Boris has just arrived at the dental practice to
have his check-up.
Boris: Goodness! It’s pouring down out there.
Tracy: Has it just come on?
Boris: Yes. The moment I got out of the car.
Tracy: Typical, isn’t it? How can I help?
Boris: I’ve got an appointment at five o’clock. Tate’s
the name.
Tracy: Is your appointment with the hygienist or with
the dentist?
Boris: With Dr Qureshi.
Tracy: Ah, right. Dr Qureshi will be with you shortly,
Mr Tate. Please take a seat in the waiting
room.
Boris: Actually, I’ve just come from work, and I
haven’t had time to clean my teeth. Do you
have a toothbrush I could use?
Tracy: Yes, of course. You’ll find toothbrushes and
toothpaste in the men’s.
Boris: That’s great. Thanks.
Fotos: iStock; Monkey Business
• Dental means anything to do with teeth; for example,
“dental floss” (Zahnseide). Care is the process of
providing people with what they need in order to be
safe and healthy.
• To identify yourself on the phone, say your name followed
by the word speaking. In a less formal situation,
you can say “It’s…” and then your name.
• When you make an appointment, you make a formal
arrangement to meet or visit
someone at a particular time
on a particular day.
• A check-up is a medical or dental
examination to make sure you
are healthy.
• Here, see means “go to” or “have a
meeting with”.
• If you say that a specific date or time
works for you, you mean that it is
convenient (passend, günstig) or
suitable.
Tips
• By pouring down, Boris means it is “raining heavily”.
Especially in the UK, the weather is often mentioned
as a conversation starter.
• When someone talks about the rain starting, he or she
may ask if it has just come on.
• When Boris arrives, he lets the receptionist know who
he is by saying: Tate’s the name. “My name is Tate” is
also possible.
• A dental hygienist [(haIdZi:nIst] works in a dental
practice, cleaning people’s teeth and advising them
about how best to keep them clean.
• If someone says that a person will be with you
shortly, it means he or she “will see you soon” —
which could mean in five minutes or in twenty minutes.
• Take a seat is a friendly way of saying “sit down”.
• A polite way to say “toilet for men” is the men’s or
“the Gents”. The equivalent for women is “the Ladies”.
Goodness! [(gUdnEs] ifml.
Tips
Du meine Güte!
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LANGUAGE | Everyday English
3. In the chair 4. All done
Dr Qureshi is making conversation with Boris before
examining his teeth.
After examining Boris’s teeth, Dr Qureshi is advising
his patient about the necessary treatment.
Dr Qureshi: Hello there, Mr Tate! It’s been a while since
I last saw you.
Boris: Yes, I’m afraid so. It’s shocking how time flies.
Dr Qureshi: Mmm! (looks at the screen) Yes, it was in
2011.
Boris: Was it really? I didn’t realize it had been so long.
It’s nothing personal, honest.
Dr Qureshi: (laughs) Well, I hope not. Have you had
any problems? Any pain at all?
Boris: No, everything’s fine, really. Sometimes my
gums bleed a bit when I brush my teeth, but...
Dr Qureshi: Do you floss regularly?
Boris: Probably not as often as I should.
Dr Qureshi: OK, let’s have a look, shall we? Just lie back
for me, please.
Dr Qureshi: OK. You can rinse now. I’m afraid there’s
a small cavity in one of your molars.
Boris: Ah, OK.
Dr Qureshi: You also have quite a build-up of tartar.
You should make an appointment to see the hygienist
— she’ll give you a scale and polish.
Boris: Will I need a new appointment for the filling?
Dr Qureshi: No, we can do that now. Would you prefer
an amalgam filling or a white one? You’ll have
to pay for a white filling yourself. The NHS
classes them as a cosmetic treatment.
Boris: How much will it cost? And will it hurt?
Dr Qureshi: It’ll cost about £60. And it won’t hurt —
well, not much.
• Time flies is an expression that means time
seems to pass very quickly.
• To make sure someone is not offended (beleidigt,
verletzt) by your behaviour or what you have said,
you can say: It’s nothing personal.
• Honest(ly) can be used to emphasize (betonen) that
you are telling the truth.
• When at all is added to a question, it means “in any
way”.
• Your gums are the areas of flesh around the roots of
your teeth. If they bleed when you brush them, it can
be a sign of gum disease.
• You can say either brush my teeth or, in British English,
“clean my teeth”.
• When you talk about using dental floss, you can use
the verb floss.
Tips
• The dentist usually asks you to rinse your mouth
with water after examining or treating your teeth.
• Dentists call holes in your teeth cavities.
• Tartar [(tɑ:tE] is a hard substance that forms on your
teeth and can damage them.
• The procedure for removing tartar is known as a scale
and polish.
• The material used to fill a hole in your tooth is a filling.
• Amalgam [E(mÄlgEm] fillings — made with a mixture
of mercury (Quecksilber) and other metals — are still
common in the UK.
• The NHS (National Health Service) is the UK’s public
health service. It provides medical treatment and is
paid for from taxes.
cosmetic treatment
[kQz)metIk (tri:tmEnt]
molar [(mEUlE]
kosmetische Behandlung
Backenzahn
Tips
EXERCISES
1. Add the missing word.
a) Would Friday the 27th at 5 p.m. work _____ you?
b) Dr Qureshi will be _____ you shortly.
c) Do you feel any pain _____ all?
d) Will I need a new appointment _____ the filling?
2. True or false?
a) Boris would like an appointment for a check-up. _____
b) Boris’s appointment is with the hygienist. _____
c) Boris flosses regularly. _____
d) Boris is afraid of pain. _____
3. What did they say?
a) Which dentist do you usually s______?
b) It’s p______ down out there.
c) Sometimes my g ______ bleed a bit.
d) You can r______ now.
4. Underline the correct words.
a) Hello! Tracy speaking / talking.
b) Please sit down / take a seat in the waiting room.
c) Have you had any / some problems?
d) I’m afraid / sorry there’s a small cavity in one of
your teeth.
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Answers: 1. a) for; b) with; c) at; d) for; 2. a) true; b) false (Boris’s appointment is with the dentist, Dr Qureshi);
c) false; d) true; 3. a) see; b) pouring; c) gums; d) rinse; 4. a) speaking; b) take a seat; c) any; d) afraid

The Grammar Page | LANGUAGE
Using the
future perfect
ADRIAN DOFF presents and explains this key point of grammar
with notes on a short dialogue.
Mae’s brother is celebrating his birthday in a restaurant.
Mae and her partner, Phil, have been invited.
Mae: I’ll pick you up at 6.30. I’ll have finished 1 work by
then. The party starts at seven o’clock.
Phil: Yeah, but I won’t have finished 2 by 6.30. No way!
I’ve got a report to write. It has to be finished by
Wednesday.
Mae: How about seven? Will you have finished 3 by then?
Phil: I doubt it. Look, why don’t we go a bit later? You
could meet me at 8.30, and we could go to the party
around nine.
Mae: But it’s a dinner party. It’s in a restaurant. Everyone
will have eaten 4 by nine. We’ll miss the food.
Phil: Yes, but the party will still be going 5 on. It’ll probably
just be getting 5 interesting. All we’ll miss is the
boring part.
Mae: That’s what you think. You don’t know my brother’s
friends. They’ll want to go 6 home to bed by ten.
1 Mae uses the future perfect tense — will have + past
participle — to talk about things that will already be
finished at a particular time in the future.
2 This is the negative form of the future perfect tense:
won’t have + past participle.
3 This is a future perfect question.
(You will... Will you...?)
4 Here is another example of the future perfect. (They’ll eat
before nine, so by nine they will have eaten.)
5 Phil uses the future continuous tense — will be + -ing
— to talk about things that will happen at a particular
time in the future.
6 Here, Mae uses the future simple because she is making
a prediction (Vorhersage).
Beyond the basics
Remember!
Both the future perfect and future continuous tenses
are used to talk about a particular time in the future:
• By 7.30
...I’ll have come home from work.
...I’ll be having dinner.
• This time next year
...we’ll have moved to the US.
...we’ll be living in Miami.
1. Change the verbs in brackets into the future
perfect tense.
a) I’m looking forward to being 66. I _________________
(retire) by then.
b) Don’t ring them after 10.30. They ____________ (go)
to bed.
c) By 2020, my children ____________ (leave) school.
d) ____________ (you / have) a chance to read the report
by tomorrow morning?
e) Let’s buy her The Hobbit for her birthday. I’m sure she
____________ (not / read) it.
Notice how by is often used with the future perfect
tense:
• Will you have finished by seven o’clock?
(= at or before seven)
• Everyone will have eaten by nine o’clock.
(= at or before nine)
• I’ll have finished work by then.
(= at or before that time)
2. Choose the most suitable verb tense
from each option.
a) By next summer, he’ll be leaving / he’ll have left
home, and he’ll be working / he’ll have worked.
b) I hope I will be finding / will have found a job by
the end of the year.
c) I can’t meet you at 12. I’ll be having / I’ll have had
lunch with a client.
d) By 2020, they say the sea level will be rising /
will have risen by 4 cm.
Answers: 1. a) will (’ll) have retired; b) will (’ll) have gone; c) will have left;
d) Will you have had; e) won’t have read; 2. a) he’ll have left, he’ll be working;
b) will have found; c) I’ll be having; d) will have risen (sea level: Meeresspiegel )
EXERCISES
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LANGUAGE | The Soap
Helen
Phil
Peggy
Just a detail
Join us at Peggy’s Place — Spotlight ’s very
own London pub. By INEZ SHARP
George
Sean
FOCUS
Builder: So where exactly do you want this hatch, guv’nor?
Phil: Somewhere along here?
Builder: You don’t sound so sure. Want to ask the missus?
Phil: No, no. It’s actually right here. This is where I want
you to open the wall.
Builder: And how big is this hatch going to be?
Phil: Big enough for someone to stand behind and serve
coffee and sandwiches from.
Builder: So that would be?
Phil: How should I know? You’re the builder. You tell me.
Builder: Yeah, I’m the builder, not the bloody architect.
Now, if you’ll take my advice, you’ll talk to the missus
and stop wasting my time. Does she even know about
this? It’s her pub, isn’t it?
Sean: Yes, but I think Phil would like to surprise his wife.
Builder: And who would you be?
Sean: What business is that of yours?
Builder: Don’t get on your high horse, sonny. Just asking.
Phil: Look, I know for sure that my wife would like this
hatch built. She wants to start a sort of takeaway breakfast
service for people working round here.
Builder: You mean like McDonald’s has?
Sean: Not exactly. The way I see it...
Builder: Who’s the boss here? You or him?
Phil: Sean’s our chef, so we need to have him involved.
Builder: Bit young, ain’t he? Irish, too, by the sound of it.
Sean: You are...
Phil: Calm down, Sean. Why don’t you get Aamir to bring
us all a whisky, and we’ll talk this through?
Builder: I can’t drink while I’m working.
Phil: This one’s on the house.
Builder: In that case, I think I could make an exception.
Phil: And bring us a pencil and some paper, Sean.
Builder: Nice place. I bet it’s worth a bob or two.
Aamir: Whisky for the two gentlemen! Ah, Mr Sutton!
It’s nice to see you again. How’ve you been keeping?
Mr Sutton, the cockney (Urlondoner) builder, uses three informal
expressions to talk to or about people. He calls Phil
guv’nor [(gVvnE] (Chef). In the past, this word was used to
talk to a boss or someone of a higher social standing. Today,
it is usually used in a humorous way: Phil is not Mr Sutton’s
boss, but he will pay the bill. The missus [(mIsIz] (bessere
Hälfte) is a jokey (scherzhaft) way for a man to talk about his
or someone else’s wife. The word is usually used with the
article “the” and implies that the wife is the boss. When Mr
Sutton uses the word sonny [(sVni] (Söhnchen, Kleiner), he
is trying to make Sean feel inferior (minderwertig).
“ ”
Jane
Stop wasting my time!
Phil: Do you two know each other?
Aamir: Mr Sutton was kind enough to give me some work
as a plasterer when I first came to London.
Builder: And let me tell you, he was the best and hardestworking
person on the team.
Phil: So why did you give up the work, Aamir?
Builder: Turns out he’s allergic to something in the plaster,
ain’t he? Crying shame, really. So, you’re working here
now. Teaching them a thing or two, I bet.
Aamir: I wouldn’t say that. Are you doing some building
work on the pub, Mr Sutton?
Phil: Yeah, he’s making the hatch for the takeaway service.
Aamir: Will it be along the kitchen wall?
Phil: It’s the perfect spot for people to wait.
Builder: Let’s go and have a butcher’s.
Aamir: But, Mr Sutton...
Builder: We still need to decide exactly where.
Aamir: But there’s a problem with your plan.
Phil: You leave this to us, Aamir.
Builder: No, let’s hear what he has to say.
Aamir: This pub is a listed building. You can’t change the
exterior without consent from the planning authority.
Phil: How do you know?
Aamir: You have that newspaper article on the wall, the
framed one. It says this is a listed building.
Builder: Told you he was sharp.
Phil: Damn!
ain’t [eInt] ifml. = is, am, are not
bloody [(blVdi] UK ifml. verdammt
bob [bQb] UK ifml.
alter britischer Schilling
consent [kEn(sent]
Bewilligung, Genehmigung
crying shame [)kraIIN (SeIm] ein Jammer, eine wahre Schande
get on one’s high horse sich aufs hohe Ross setzen
[)get Qn wʌnz )haI (hO:s] ifml.
hatch [hÄtS]
Durchreiche, Halbtür
have a butcher’s (hook) einen Blick auf etw. werfen
[)hEv E (bUtSEz] UK
(rhyming slang = have a look)
listed building
denkmalgeschütztes Gebäude
[)lIstId (bIldIN] UK
on the house [)Qn DE (haUs] auf Kosten des Hauses
plasterer [(plA:stErE]
Gipsarbeiter(in), Verputzer(in)
sharp [SA:p]
hier: scharfsinnig
turn out [)t§:n (aUt]
sich herausstellen
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English at Work | LANGUAGE
Dear Ken: How can I prepare
for a press conference?
Dear Ken
My new job includes running press conferences in English
and taking part in them. Do you have any words of advice
on what I should think about in preparation for conferences
like this?
With best wishes
Henrik O.
Dear Henrik
Thanks for this interesting topic. Here are my ten simple
rules for successful press conferences:
1. Define clear roles for your conference team: choose the
conference leader and assign the responsibility for different
areas of competence to the individual team
members.
2. Agree on exactly what should be said at the start of the
conference. Think through the questions you might be
asked, and prepare answers to them. Identify questions
that might cause embarrassment or show your organization
in a bad light.
3. Allow enough time for each individual in the team to
thoroughly prepare his or her part in the process. Nonnative
speakers of English then have the chance to
identify the vocabulary they will need.
4. On the day of the event, enter the conference room
after all the journalists have arrived.
5. The conference leader should start by briefly giving the
reason for the press conference.
6. The members of the team should be introduced individually,
giving their names, roles in the organization
and the reason for their presence.
7. The conference leader should explain the procedure
and give the approximate timing for the conference.
8. Journalists should be asked to identify themselves and
their news organization before asking a question.
9. The conference leader should generally act as meeting
facilitator, passing questions to the appropriate team
member and rarely answering them personally.
10. At the end, the conference leader should thank the
journalists and conclude the conference.
If you have a clear idea of the procedure to follow and prepare
things well, you will feel more comfortable running
or taking part in a press conference in English.
Good luck!
Ken
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Dear Ken
Is “and / or” a valid grammatical construct that I could use
in a business e-mail? For example, can one write: “Please
send any information and / or reports you have on this
subject.”? And is vocalizing the word “slash” acceptable in
a meeting; for example: “I am so tired SLASH hungry.”?
Kind regards from Austria
Peter J.
Dear Peter
The “and / or” construct is valid. It is used to shorten a set
of alternatives. For example, you might say: “In this meeting,
we could decide when our sales conference should be
held and / or choose the venue.”
This means we could decide on dates for the conference,
or we could choose the venue, or we could do both.
I personally don’t use “and / or” in e-mails. I would also
never vocalize a slash when speaking, unless I am dictating
a website address, as in “www.spotlight-online.de SLASH
language”. You may hear it in informal situations, but in
my opinion, it is inappropriate in a business setting.
Regards “and / or” best wishes
Ken
appropriate [E(prEUpriEt]
entsprechend
approximate [E(prQksImEt] ungefähr
assign [E(saIn]
übertragen, zuweisen
briefly [(bri:fli]
kurz
embarrassment [Im(bÄrEsmEnt] Peinlichkeit, Verlegenheit
facilitator [fE(sIlEteItE]
Moderator(in), Leiter(in)
inappropriate [)InE(prEUpriEt] unangemessen
setting [(setIŋ]
Umfeld
slash [slÄS]
Schrägstrich
thoroughly [(TVrEli]
gründlich, sorgfältig
unless [En(les]
außer, es sei denn
valid [(vÄlId] gültig (➝ p. 61)
venue [(venju:]
Tagungs-, Veranstaltungsort
vocalize [(vEUkElaIz]
aussprechen
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LANGUAGE | Spoken English
60
By the way...
ADRIAN DOFF looks at ways to change the
topic in a conversation.
Read these two conversations:
Lisa: I spoke to Peter earlier. He’s going to come round
at about 7.30 with the tickets.
Tim: Oh, good! We can have supper together. Did you
go to the post office?
Lisa: I spoke to Peter earlier. He’s going to come round
at about 7.30 with the tickets.
Tim: Oh, good! We can have supper together. Oh, by
the way, did you go to the post office?
The first conversation sounds a little strange. Lisa and Tim
are talking about having supper with Peter, so why does
Tim suddenly ask about the post office?
The second conversation makes more sense. This time,
Tim makes it clear that he’s changing the subject. He has
suddenly thought about the post office.
We often switch from one topic to another in a conversation.
Let us look at some common ways to do this in
English.
Next topic, please
The word anyway helps to show that you want to finish
one topic and move on to a new one:
How was the traffic?
Awful. There were roadworks on the motorway. Anyway,
how are things with you?
(= We’ve talked enough about the traffic. Let’s move on to
the next topic.)
To switch to a different subject, you can use by the way,
as in the example above, or you can say incidentally (= I’m
just changing the subject for a moment.):
How was Alex’s birthday party?
Oh, it was great. Incidentally, he liked your present.
To change to a completely different topic, you could say
To change the subject... or Changing the subject...:
How’s your mother?
She’s still in hospital, but she’s feeling much better,
thanks. Anyway, to change the subject — how’s Ann
doing in her exams?
A similar topic
Often, one topic of conversation leads naturally to a similar
one. Here are some ways to signal this:
That reminds me
(Two people are talking about films they’ve seen.)
That reminds me. Do you want to come to the cinema
on Friday?
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Talking of...
(Two people are talking about skiing holidays.)
Oh, talking of skiing, did you read about the snowstorm
in Austria last week?
You might also hear Talking of which.... In this case, you
would not repeat “skiing”.
That’s a bit like...
Our flight was delayed. We were at the airport for hours.
That’s a bit like when we flew to Thailand last year. Our
flight was cancelled and we had to stay in a hotel.
(= We had a similar experience.)
Notice that ways to move to a similar topic often begin
with “That ...”: That’s like..., That’s the same as..., That
reminds me of....
Keeping to the same topic
Look at this conversation:
Lisa: I had a rather strange e-mail from Sophie yesterday
evening…
Carla: Oh, yes, your daughter. How’s she getting on at
university, by the way?
Lisa: Oh, she’s doing fine, working hard. Anyway, as I
was saying, she sent me this e-mail...
Here, Carla tries to change the subject, but Lisa wants to
continue talking about the e-mail. So she uses As I was
saying... to stay with the earlier topic.
Other expressions similar to this are To go back to what
we were talking about... or As I was saying earlier....
Underline the correct option from the words
in bold.
a) I love Italian food. — Me, too. Oh, talk / talking of
food, shall we have something to eat?
b) We must be at the cinema at 8 o’clock this evening.
Oh, incidental / incidentally, did you get some
money from the bank?
c) Anyway, as / how I was saying, I’m going to look
for a new job.
d) It sounds as if you had a good time in Spain.
Thanks for the postcard, on the way / by the way.
e) Scotland was beautiful, but it rained all the time.
— That’s a bit like / as when I went to Wales last
year. It rained non-stop for 10 days.
Answers: a) talking; b) incidentally; c) as; d) by the way; e) like
EXERCISE
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Word Builder | LANGUAGE
Build your vocabulary
JOANNA WESTCOMBE presents useful words and phrases from this issue of Spotlight and their
collocations. The words may also have other meanings that are not listed here.
patch [pÄtS] noun p. 47
unlike [)Vn(laIk] preposition p. 67
a small area that is different from the area around it
Fleck
different from, in contrast to
anders als, im Gegensatz zu
The cat was lying asleep on her favourite
chair in a patch of sunlight.
Unlike most of her friends, Paula had never
tried smoking.
See the extra notes below on how to use patch.
Don’t confuse unlike with unlikely = unwahrscheinlich.
drop [drQp] verb p. 9
rub [rVb] verb p. 6
stop doing sth. suddenly in order to do something else
alles stehen- und liegenlassen
press and move your hand over something repeatedly
reiben
OK everyone. Drop what you’re doing and come
with me. Someone needs our help.
Can you rub my shoulders for a while?
I feel as if I’m getting a headache.
Drop can just mean “not continue with”: “The newspaper
dropped the story.”
Ways of rubbing:
carefully, gently, hard, lightly...
crucial [(kru:S&l] adjective p. 22
valid [(vÄlId] adjective p. 59
extremely important
acceptable, accepted
entscheidend
gültig
Farmers have a crucial role to play in
protecting the natural environment.
There are some very valid reasons why we
should reject the offer.
Other synonyms: critical, essential, paramount, vital
The opposite is invalid [In(vÄlId].
Foto: iStock
How to use the word patch
The cat in the example above (who may well have a
white patch on her leg) has found a pleasant place to
sleep: in a patch of sunlight. She thinks this place belongs
to her, it’s her patch. Patches, though, can also
be areas to avoid, such as icy patches or patches of
fog when you’re driving; or they’re things you’d rather
not have, such as damp patches on your walls or ceiling,
or bald patches on your head.
In British English, a patch can also be a time in your life
— a difficult, sticky or tricky patch. You might say
an experience, a book or film was good in patches
(stellenweise), too.
The adjective is patchy. It is used to talk about
things that are incomplete, such as
knowledge, memories and performances;
and patchy rain falls
only in certain small areas.
Complete the following sentences with words
from this page in their correct form.
a) The dog’s been in here again. There’s a warm
__________ on the sofa.
b) He __________ his hands together to keep warm.
c) Winning this game is not just important — it’s
absolutely __________.
d) The computer says that the code isn’t __________.
Try again.
e) I cycle to work, __________ most people here,
who drive.
f) Mum! You can’t expect me to __________ everything
just like that.
g) Please drive carefully. The weather report said
there’ll be __________ of fog on the road.
OVER TO YOU!
Answers: a) patch; b) rubs / rubbed /
‘s rubbing; c) crucial; d) valid; e) unlike;
f) drop; g) patches
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LANGUAGE | Perfectionists Only!
WILL O’RYAN explains developments in the English language and
examines some of the finer points of grammar.
The new
“because”
Until recently, the English language
knew the subordinating conjunction
“because” and the composite preposition
“because of”, and that was the
end of the story. However, blogging,
text-messaging and the internet have
given us a new preposition: “because”.
In fact, it can be followed not only by
nouns and gerunds, but also adjectives;
for example: “I didn’t go to
work today because lazy.” It’s a type of
shorthand (Steno) and can be defined
as: “it has to do with the following”.
This “because” has a flavour of universality,
while also sounding somehow
ironic. It’s not just an explanation,
but also a comment — as if
you were rolling your eyes while making
a statement. It’s abrupt and modern
and is probably here to stay:
because evolution — because hip.
Back to the roots
The modern English word “meat”
comes from Old English mete, which
goes back to a Proto-Germanic root
mati, meaning “food”. This original
meaning has been retained (beibehalten)
in Swedish and Norwegian mat
and Danish mad. Around 1300, the
meaning was narrowed to “flesh used
as food”. We see a similar semantic
narrowing in the German word
Mett(wurst) (from Middle Low German).
The older, broader sense of
“meat” was evident in the word
“noonmeat” (for a midday meal),
which died out in the 1700s. It is
though, still present in a variant of
“noonmeat” that lives on in many
British English dialects: “nummit”, a
small mid-morning or
mid-afternoon meal
that is taken in the
fields by farmworkers.
Right dislocation
Say the following, using right dislocation:
Grammar
Last month, we looked at the phenomenon of left dislocation in spoken
English, where a fronted element outside the clause structure corresponds
to a pronoun within it, as in (a):
a) That woman over there, I know her from somewhere.
A structurally similar phenomenon exists in the opposite direction, known
as right dislocation:
b) I know her from somewhere, that woman over there.
Spoken German also knows right (and left) dislocation, of course:
Ich kenne sie von irgendwoher, die Frau dort drüben.
Die Frau dort drüben, ich kenne sie von irgendwoher.
The right-dislocated element is often referred to as a “tail”. More traditional
terms are “noun-phrase tag” and “amplificatory tag”. Most typically, tails
are complete noun phrases that refer back to the subject, an object or
complement. But they can also be prepositional phrases or non-tensed
clauses, as in (c):
c) I’ve been there twice before, to Cornwall.
I find that quite sad, so many people being afraid of losing their jobs.
Noun-phrase tails can be rather complex as well, as we see in (d):
d) It really shocked me, the level of ignorance they displayed.
I really admired her as a child, the woman who wrote that
wonderful book.
Right dislocation is also possible in questions and in tag questions, where
they can either precede or follow the question tag:
e) Do they both work in London, your friends’ daughters?
He plays the piano really well, my son, doesn’t he?
It’s not very easy to understand, is it, Canadian French?
When the tail refers to the subject of clauses in the way “X is Y”, it can consist
simply of a demonstrative pronoun, particularly in British English. In
even more informal speech, “is” could be added to the tail as well:
f) It’s a very expensive wine, that.
g) She’s a very pretty lady, Mary is.
More generally, other auxiliaries (Hilfsverb) are possible in informal speech,
and they agree (affirmative or negative) with the verb in the clause:
h) He likes a few beers after work, Frank does.
She’s never had more than a week’s holiday, Susan hasn’t.
1. Your father is a difficult man to work for.
2. Always forgetting people’s names really frustrates her.
Foto: iStock
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Answers: 1. He’s a difficult man to work for, your father (is). 2. It/That really frustrates her, always forgetting people’s names.

Crossword | LANGUAGE
The new meat
The words in this puzzle are taken from our article about growing meat in
laboratories. You may find it helpful to refer to the text on pages 22–23.
1 2 3 4
5 6 7
8 9 10
11
12
13 14
15 16
17 18
19 20 21
22 23
Mike Pilewski
Solution to puzzle 4/14:
ORGANIC
O P E N E D N E A R B Y
F E E
V P O P U L A R
N A M E R E R
O R O O M S M I S
T C K O E
I N G R E D I E N T S
A A S L A I
N T O S A L A D T
Y O U S E G G S
R A I N S E
A E O T W O
W I L D W H E N R
Across
1. Imagined what the future might be like.
5. Referring to the way that things have usually been done.
8. At or before: “The world population is expected to
reach 9.6 billion ______ 2050.”
9. To perform an action.
11. Generally: “This product is ______ available.”
12. Whether.
13. Animals raised and kept in order to be sold or eaten.
15. A neutral colour; the colour of the cultured meat before
it is turned red (UK spelling).
17. To point something ______ is to tell someone about it.
19. A person who knows a lot about food and cooking and
enjoys eating.
21. “______ to” means “must”: “It ______ to look real.”
22. “At the ______” means “now”.
23. Before any others.
Competition!
How to take part
Form a single word from the letters in the
coloured squares.
Send it on a postcard to:
Redaktion Spotlight, “May Prize Puzzle”,
Postfach 1565, 82144 Planegg, Deutsch land.
Ten winners will be chosen from the entries we receive by
19 May 2014. By courtesy of Reclam, each winner will be
sent a copy of English Expressions.
The answer to our March puzzle was confront.
Down
1. To use one’s eyes.
2. Without a doubt; definitely.
3. Was a leader of: “Professor Mark Post ______ the team of
scientists producing the burger.”
4. To be on one’s feet instead of sitting down.
6. Changed the way someone thought about something.
7. Just: “______ 20 to 40 scientists worldwide are currently
active in cultured-meat research.”
8. Continuous passive form of “to be”: “In-vitro meat is
______ developed as a healthy food for the future.”
10. An individual.
14. Double 10 down.
16. An increase in height or cost.
18. Referring to someone or something that is present or
nearby: “______ hamburger is made of in-vitro meat.”
20. To apply something with the aim of achieving a purpose.
Congratulations to:
Lore Farken (Schwerin)
Ines Heiduk (Haßfurt)
Anette Schneider (Flörsheim)
Elli Kloss (Brandenburg)
Ines Lelis (Dresden)
Ingeborg Henke (Munich)
Margret Müller (Jena)
Bernd Gössel (Bad Doberan)
Susanne Müncheberg (Berlin)
Ursula Hühnlein (Feldkirchen)
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“
In hotel rooms, I worry.
I can’t be the only guy
who sits on
the furniture naked.
”
Jonathan Katz
(born 1946), American comedian
© Bulls
THE ARGYLE SWEATER
Family fun
• I remember the time I was kidnapped. They sent back a
piece of my finger to my father, but he said he wanted
more proof.
• My parents asked me to hand out invitations for my
brother’s surprise birthday party. That’s when I realized
he was the favourite twin.
• When I was ten, my father told me never to talk to
strangers. We haven’t spoken since.
Goat in the hole
Two men are out walking in the countryside when they find
a big hole in the ground. “I wonder how deep that is,” says
one. He drops a rock into the darkness, but hears nothing.
“Let’s get that old barrel we just passed,” says the other.
“That’ll make a noise.” So the men roll the barrel up to the
hole and drop it in. Suddenly, a goat comes racing out of the
bushes straight at them. The men jump out of the way and
see the goat fall into the hole. A few moments later, they hear
a voice calling, “Shelley!… Shelley!… Shelley!” A farmer appears
and asks, “Have you seen a little white goat?” “It just
jumped into that hole,” the men tell him. “That’s impossible,”
says the farmer. “Shelley’s a very intelligent goat, and anyway,
she was tied to an old barrel.”
Back in town
A little old lady sits next to an old man on a bench in Miami.
The woman asks, “Are you new here?” The man replies, “Well,
I used to live here years ago.” “So where have you been?” asks
the woman. “I was in prison,” says the man, “for murdering
my wife.” “Really?” says the old lady. “So you’re single…”
Kind words
A husband is talking to his wife. “I made a huge mistake at
work today,” he says. “I’m lucky still to have a job. Sometimes,
I think I’m a complete idiot.” His wife replies, “Don’t worry,
darling. Lots of people feel like that. In fact, most of the people
we know think that you’re a complete idiot.”
barrel [(bÄrEl]
change [tSeIndZ]
goat [gEUt]
Fass
hier: Windel wechseln
Ziege
movement [(mu:vmEnt]
twin [twIn]
Satz (eines Musikstückes);
aber auch: Stuhlgang
Zwilling
PEANUTS
© Bulls
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“
You can’t
please all of the
people all of
the time
”
American Life | GINGER KUENZEL
A newcomer
to small-town politics
Auch in einer Kleinstadt ist Politik kompliziert. Als Stadtratsmitglied muss
man wissen, dass man es nie allen recht machen kann.
Foto: iStock
I’m now several months into my
new role as a member of the town
board, and I’ve learned a lot.
In January, right after I stepped
into the position, the town sent me
to our state capital of Albany for a
two-and-a-half-day conference called
“Training for new town officials.” My
plan was to do a lot of networking and
profit from the knowledge of others
attending the conference. They were
sure to have some of the same issues as
we do as a small town, I thought: how
to provide emergency services, upgrade
infrastructures, deal with so
many new state rules in times of reduced
budgets — and much more.
Silly me! The conference, as its
name clearly stated, was for new town
officials. None of us had any experience
to share. What’s more, we were
given so much information about
how to do our new jobs that we all
felt overwhelmed. Conversations during
the breaks were less about “How
are you handling emergency services?”
and more about “What have I
gotten myself into?”
You are probably asking, “How
difficult can it be to play the role of a
local official?” My answer: “Very!”
During the conference, we heard
lawyers and accountants talking
about topics from finances, planning,
and sewer law, to ethics, tax collection,
budgeting, cash management,
and more. Now, four months into my
time in office, I feel as if I am just
starting to understand what the job is
all about.
As a board, we’ve dealt with some
minor issues, such as whether to hold
the Fourth of July fireworks in July or
August. Yes, really. We’ve faced some
challenges, too, such as implementing
a state law that requires us to close
our town boat launch when no attendant
is on duty. Local fishermen, who
for generations have been used to taking
their boats out at any hour, are
not happy. As they say, you can please
some of the people all of the time and
all of the people some of the time,
but you can’t please all of the people
all of the time.
I’ve learned how to check the
clerk’s books, in which she records
not only tax collections, but also all
the licenses sold. I know now, for example,
who hasn’t paid his or her
taxes, who has bought a hunting license,
and the name of every licensed
dog in town. I’m not joking. I’ve
also attended a few court sessions,
presided over by our very colorful
town judge. But those are stories for
another day.
Perhaps one of the most difficult
learning experiences has been how to
work with my fellow board members.
I’m picking my battles carefully, and
like any good politician, I’m making
compromises. I hope this will lead to
my getting the other members’ support
on issues that are important to
me, like economic development and
environmental protection.
I know that changing some things
will take time. In addition, I’m still
viewed with some skepticism. After all,
I’m a Democrat in a Republican town,
and I haven’t lived here my entire life.
But I’ll be doing this for four years, so
I can afford to be patient. For now, I’ll
listen and learn. And unlike so many
politicians at the national and state
levels, I’m trying to keep my name out
of the headlines — except, of course,
those in Spotlight.
accountant [E(kaUnt&nt]
Steuerberater(in), Rechnungsführer(in)
attendant [E(tendEnt]
Bedienstete(r), Wärter(in)
boat launch [(boUt lO:ntS]
Bootsrampe
clerk’s books [(kl§:ks bUks]
Geschäftsbücher
court session [(kO:rt )seS&n]
Gerichtsverhandlung
entire [In(taI&r]
vollständig, ganz, gesamt
get oneself into sth. [get wVn)self (IntE] sich auf etw. einlassen
implement [(ImplIment]
umsetzen
official [E(fIS&l]
Beamte(r)
overwhelmed [)oUv&r(hwelmd]
überfordert
pick one’s battles [)pIk wVnz (bÄt&lz] strategisch handeln
preside over [pri(zaId )oUv&r]
den Vorsitz haben
sewer law [(su:&r lɑ:]
Abwasserrecht
Silly me! [)sIli (mi:]
Wie dumm von mir!
town board [)taUn (bO:rd] N. Am.
etwa: Stadtrat
unlike [)Vn(laIk] anders als, im Gegensatz zu (➝ p. 61)
Ginger Kuenzel is a freelance writer who lived in Munich for 20 years. She now calls a small town in upstate New York home.
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SPECIAL | Humour
No laughing matter
Comedy line-up:
from Otto Waalkes to
John Cleese
Chefredakteurin INEZ SHARP über die viel diskutierte Frage, ob es den deutschen Humor
überhaupt gibt und wie er sich vom britischen unterscheidet.
Reading the interview with Otto Waalkes (pages 24–
27), I began to think about the differences between
German and English humour. The cliché that Germans
don’t have a sense of humour has provided generations
of British comedians with a useful, if not very
imaginative, stereotype to poke fun at.
I have a personal interest in German and English humour.
As someone with an English father and a German
mother, I have made myself look at the topic from both
sides. Growing up in the UK, I hated the “Don’t mention
the war” scene from the TV series Fawlty Towers. What’s
so funny about John Cleese imitating Adolf Hitler? Or is
that just me being a humourless half-German? But when
I moved to Munich and made my German friends laugh,
they always praised my British sense of humour.
In his 2012 book, Keeping Up with the Germans: A History
of Anglo-German Encounters, Philip Oltermann compares
what he calls the “slippery, bendable qualities of
English” with the “suspension-bridge structure” of the
German language. That is true of a lot of jokes, of course.
Try translating this: “Police arrested two kids yesterday:
one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks.
They charged one — and let the other one off.”
Lots of my German friends are very funny, too, and
tell great jokes. And anyway, it’s not just about the lan-
battery acid [(bÄtri )ÄsId]
bendable [(bendEb&l]
bullshit [(bUlSIt] vulg.
charge [tSA:dZ]
erase [I(reIz]
fits: have sb. in ~ [fIts]
giggle [(gIg&l]
let off [let (Qf]
oxymoron [)Qksi(mO:rQn]
point [pOInt]
poke fun at sth. / sb.
[pEUk (fVn Et]
praise [preIz]
slippery [(slIpEri]
suspension-bridge structure
[sE(spenS&n brIdZ )strVktSE]
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Batteriesäure, Akkusäure
leicht zu verbiegen
Bockmist
aufladen; auch: anklagen
löschen, aufheben
bei jmdm. Lachanfälle provozieren
kichern
abfeuern; auch: jmdn. laufen lassen
Widerspruch in sich
hier: Standpunkt, Argument
sich über etw. / jmdn. lustig machen
loben, rühmen
schlüpfrig
Hängebrückenkonstruktion
guage, as British comedian Eddie Izzard has shown. Earlier
this year, Izzard arrived in Germany for his “Force Majeure”
tour. He performed in more or less fluent German.
What was his point? “It’s bullshit!” Izzard told The Irish
Times, referring to the idea that Germans don’t have a
sense of humour. “Comedy is about people, not countries.
All countries have humour, though not all people. The Tory
Party in England has no sense of humour, for example.”
Was he funny in German, though? The description of
the ageing human body looking like a “Wiesel mit Soße bedeckt”
had his Berlin audience in fits and works just as well
in English.
Oltermann says slapstick is an important element of
German comedy and might be one reason why the English
comedy routine “Dinner for One” is so popular in Germany.
I saw it when I first came to Germany in 1986 and
found it very unfunny. It’s interesting to think that my
English grandparents may have been giggling over “Dinner
for One” in the 1920s. Today, though, almost all Britons
will look confused if you ask them, poker-faced: “Same
procedure as last year?”
Erasing the borders that have kept German humour
out of the English-speaking world will
be a slow process. It helps when
German comedians like Michael
Mittermeier take up the challenge
of performing live in Britain.
During an appearance in London
in 2012, Mittermeier described
his show as a strange, exotic
beast being viewed on a safari.
“Don’t scare it,” he
told the audience. “It’s a
very rare species. It’s a
German comedian.”
He added that such a
thing was normally
not possible, that it
was “an oxymoron”.
Well, perhaps not for
much longer.
Comedy shouldn’t
have borders
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VANESSA CLARK spürt die heißen Storys für Sie auf.
Jack’s back!
Traditions Is it a man, or is it a tree? It’s
both. It’s a Jack in the Green — a man
dressed as a tree or a bush. This old English
tradition started in the 16th century to celebrate
May Day — the first of May.
Jack is often a loud, fun character. The
strict Victorians didn’t like him, and he disappeared
from most May Day celebrations
in the 19th century.
Now, some towns and villages
are bringing him back,
together with other May traditions
like morris dancing
and maypole dancing. In Hastings,
East Sussex, Jack even has
his own festival (1–5 May).
1914
USA The bus company now
called Greyhound Lines was
started in Hibbing, Minnesota,
in May 1914. Today, Greyhound
buses carry passengers to more
than 3,800 towns and cities in
the US, Canada and Mexico.
atmospheric [)ÄtmEs(ferIk]
celebrate [(selEbreIt]
disappear [)dIsE(pIE]
former [(fO:mE]
leader [(li:dE]
maypole [(meIpEUl]
morris dancing
[(mQrIs )dA:nsIN]
strict [strIkt]
writer’s block [)raItEz (blQk]
100
years ago
stimmungsvoll
feiern
verschwinden
früher, ehemalig
hier: Ministerpräsident(in)
Maibaum
dem Moriskentanz
ähnliche mittelalterliche
Tanzform
streng
Schreibblockade
Oh, Cecelia!
Books The Irish writer Cecelia
Ahern’s first book PS, I
Love You, about love after
death, was an international
bestseller and was made
into a film. Her latest
book, which comes out
in Germany this
month, is a ghost story
— Der Ghostwriter (English
title Herman Banks
and the Ghost Writer). It’s
an atmospheric story
about a writer who has
writer’s block. Strange
things start to happen...
Cecelia Ahern is the
daughter of the former
Irish leader Bertie Ahern.
She lives near
Dublin with her
husband and
their two young
children.
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Musical instruments
8 pictures | GREEN LIGHT
STEPHANIE SHELLABEAR presents words for musical instruments.
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Titel: Alamy; Fotos Doppelseite: Alamy; PR; Illustrationen: B. Förth
Write the words next
to the pictures.
1. piano [pi(ÄnEU]
2. guitar [gI(tA:]
3. violin and bow
[vaIE)lIn End (bEU]
4. recorder [ri(kO:dE]
5. trumpet [(trVmpIt]
6. flute [flu:t]
7. clarinet [)klÄrE(net]
8. trombone [trQm(bEUn]
Which instrument is it?
a) It’s an instrument with four strings. You play it with your
fingers and a bow. It’s a _____________________________.
b) It’s an instrument made of wood or plastic, often
played by schoolchildren. It’s a ______________________.
c) It looks a bit like a trumpet, but it’s much longer.
It’s a ___________________________________.
d) It’s a very large instrument and has lots of white and
black keys. It’s a ___________________________________.
e) It’s a long, silver instrument that you hold horizontally
to play. It’s a ___________________________________.
Instruments such as the guitar and the violin are known as string instruments (Saiteninstrument).
The clarinet, the flute and the recorder belong to the group of woodwind
instruments (Holzblasinstrument). Brass instruments (Blechblasinstrument) include the
trumpet, horn and trombone.
Tips
Answers: a) violin (string: Saite); b) recorder; c) trombone; d) piano (key: Taste); e) flute
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GREEN LIGHT | Grammar elements
“Have” and “have got”
STEPHANIE SHELLABEAR presents basic grammar.
This month, she describes the different forms of the verb “have”.
The verb “have” is used to say that something belongs to someone or that it is available
to someone. In spoken British English, “have got” is often used. There is no difference
in meaning, but have is more formal in British English, and have got is not normally
used in American English.
When you use “have got”, have and has usually become ’ve and ’s:
have
I have
you have
he / she / it has
we have
you have
they have
have got
I’ve got
you’ve got
he’s / she’s / it’s got
we’ve got
you’ve got
they’ve got
• You have wonderful children. They are
so polite.
• You’ve got wonderful children. They
are so polite.
• We have three pets: a cat, a hamster
and a goldfish.
• We’ve got three pets: a cat, a hamster
and a goldfish.
To form the negative of “have”, you need help from the verb “do” and the word “not”.
“Have got” needs only the added word “not”:
do not have
I don’t have
you don’t have
he/she/it doesn’t have
we don’t have
you don’t have
they don’t have
have not got
I haven’t got
you haven’t got
he / she / it hasn’t got
we haven’t got
you haven’t got
they haven’t got
• Mr Swales doesn’t have an assistant.
He does everything himself.
• Mr Swales hasn’t got an assistant.
He does everything himself.
• If you don’t have a ticket, you
can’t enter the building.
• If you haven’t got a ticket, you
can’t enter the building
Complete the sentences below by
underlining the correct words.
a) He doesn’t / don’t have a job.
b) I has / I’ve got a problem.
c) We hasn’t / haven’t got any plans for Saturday.
d) She’s / She got a bad cold.
e) Do / Does you have his phone number?
Answers: a) doesn’t; b) I’ve; c) haven’t; d) She’s; e) Do
In the past tense, we use only had:
• I had a bad cold last week.
(Not: I had got a bad cold
last week.)
Tips
Fotos: iStock
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Running to help
Donna is telling Andrew about a run he could do for charity.
By DAGMAR TAYLOR
Donna: Do you fancy doing a charity run?
Andrew: What, now?
Donna: No, not now. It’s next month. It’s
only 5K, and it’s to collect money for
cancer research.
Andrew: OK. I’ll tell you what: I’ll do it if
you do it.
Donna: Me? Are you mad?
Andrew: Why not? You’re pretty fit. And if
we go for a run together two or three
times a week starting now, it’ll be no
problem.
Donna: Do you think so?
Andrew: Absolutely!
Donna: Well... I do want to get into shape
for the wedding.
Andrew: There! That’s the spirit. Where do
we sign up?
Donna: I should have kept my mouth shut.
The Greens | GREEN LIGHT
• Do you fancy...? (UK ifml.) is one
way of asking someone if he or she
feels like (zu etw. Lust haben) doing
something. It is followed by the -ing
form: “Do you fancy going out?”
• People take part in a charity run to
collect money for a good cause (guter
Zweck). Many runs are either 5K (5 kilometres
long) or 10K.
• When the word pretty (ifml.) stands in
front of an adjective, it means “quite”.
• Absolutely is used to say that something
is completely true.
• When you eat healthily and do exercise
(trainieren) to become physically fit,
you get into shape.
• You sign up for something by adding
your name to a list.
Tips
Match the two halves of the
sentences.
Listen to the dialogue at
www.spotlight-online.de/products/green-light
a) It’s to collect money...
b) I’ll do it...
c) If we go for a run twice a week,...
d) I should have...
a ➯ 1. it’ll be no problem.
b ➯ 2. for cancer research.
c ➯ 3. kept my mouth shut.
d ➯ 4. if you do it.
Donna
Andrew
cancer research
[(kÄnsE ri)s§:tS]
charity [(tSÄrEti]
that’s the spirit
[(DÄts DE )spIrIt]
wedding [(wedIN]
Krebsforschung
wohltätige
Vereinigung
das ist genau die
richtige Einstellung
Hochzeit
Answers: a–2; b–4; c–1; d–3

GREEN LIGHT | Get writing
Please forward
VANESSA CLARK helps you to write letters, e-mails and more in English.
This month: how to ask someone to forward an e-mail.
E-mail for Ms Herringshaw
To:
Cc:
Subject:
info@wantageschool.co.uk
E-mail for Ms Herringshaw
Dear Wantage School Office
I don’t have a direct e-mail address for my daughter’s teacher, Ms Herringshaw.
I would be very grateful if you could forward this e-mail to her.
Best wishes
Hilary Mannion
Dear Ms Herringshaw
I hope this e-mail reaches you OK.
My daughter Rosie Mannion is in your year 8 English class. I have a question
about the book the children in your class are reading at the moment…
• If you can’t find a direct e-mail address for someone, you can send your message to
the main office (Hauptbüro, Zentrale) or an “info@...” address and ask them to forward it
to the right person.
• Women sometimes put the title Ms in front of their name when they don’t want to state
(angeben) whether they are married (Mrs) or single (usually Miss).
• When you make a request (Anfrage, Bitte), especially in a letter or in a formal situation, you
can say or write: I would be very grateful...
• You can end an e-mail to someone you don’t know very well with Best wishes,
“Kind regards” or “Best regards”.
reach sb. [ri:tS]
jmdn. erreichen
Use
it!
Highlight the key words and
phrases that you would use if you
needed to write an e-mail like this yourself.
Tips
Fotos: iStock; PhotoObjects.net
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I like…
the Mounties
Who they are
Mountie is the short form for Royal Canadian
Mounted Police (RCMP). The Mounties,
Canada’s national police force, used to be
called the North-West Mounted Police. This
early force was started in 1873 to patrol
Canada’s new western territories. The name
was changed to the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police in 1920. The Mounties are
famous for their red coats, Stetson hats —
and, of course, their beautiful black horses.
But those red uniforms are worn only on
special days, and most Mounties use cars,
not horses, to do their work.
Culture corner | GREEN LIGHT
Jeden Monat stellt ein Redakteur etwas Besonderes aus
der englischsprachigen Welt vor. Diesen Monat präsentiert
Business Spotlight-Redakteurin MARGARET DAVIS eine
Lieblingsinstitution.
Why I like them
Unlike people in many other countries,
Canadians are proud of their national police.
As a child, I wanted to be a Mountie, mainly
because I liked horses and dogs. In those
days, the Mounties patrolled the Far North
using dog sleds pulled by huskies. Today,
the dogs have been replaced by snowmobiles.
Recent scandals have hurt the Mounties’
image. Nobody’s perfect, not even our
men and women in red. Yet it’s still exciting
to see that familiar uniform and those lovely
horses, especially in places like Parliament
Hill in Ottawa, our nation’s capital.
Fun facts
The image of the red-coated Mountie has been used to promote Canada
since the 1880s. Mounties have been celebrated in movies and comics and
on the radio since the 1930s. In the 1990s, a TV series called Due South (German
title: Ein Mountie in Chicago) was an international success. The Mountie in
the show, played by Paul Gross, had a wolf-dog named Diefenbaker.
Probably only Canadians knew the dog was named after a former prime
minister, John George Diefenbaker (1895–1979).
celebrate [(selEbreIt]
dog sled [(dQg sled] N. Am.
familiar [fE(mIliE]
patrol [pE(trEUl]
police force [pE(li:s fO:s]
prime minister [)praIm (mInIstE]
promote sth. [prE(mEUt]
proud [praUd]
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
[)rOIEl kE)neIdiEn )maUntId pE(li:s]
success [sEk(ses]
unlike [)Vn(laIk]
western territories
[)westEn (terEtEriz]
feiern
Hundeschlitten
vertraut
patrouillieren
Polizei(truppe)
Premierminister(in)
für etw. werben
stolz
königliche kanadische berittene
Polizei
Erfolg
anders als, im Gegensatz zu
(Nord)West-Territorien
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GREEN LIGHT | Notes and numbers
Negative
numbers
A negative number is a number
less than zero. To show that the
number is negative, it has a minus
symbol (–) in front of it:
• –2, for example, is pronounced (aussprechen)
“minus two” or “negative two” (US)
You most often see negative numbers with
temperatures:
• –6 °C = “minus six degrees Celsius/centigrade”
or “six below zero”
Write these numbers as you would
say them.
minus twenty-five /
negative twenty-five
a) –25 __________________________________
__________________________________________
b) –4 __________________________________
__________________________________________
c) –32 °C _______________________________
__________________________________________
d) –108 _________________________________
__________________________________________
e) –1,075 _______________________________
__________________________________________
Your notes
Use this space for your own notes.
Fotos: iStock
Answers: b) minus four / negative four; c) minus thirty-two degrees Celsius / thirty-two degrees below (zero); d) minus one hundred
and eight / negative one hundred and eight; e) minus one thousand and seventy-five / negative one thousand and seventy-five
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