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Andy Warhol’s
early work:
much more
than poster art
Learning
English abroad:
how to choose
the right course
LONDON’S
TOP PLACES
Food of the
future: when
science meets
gastronomy

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EDITORIAL | April 2013
The message is
clear and simple
Sprache
verbindet
The Spotlight team is delighted to present a
brand-new cover with a brand-new message:
Einfach Englisch! We are fortunate to have
many countries from which to select material
Inez Sharp, editor-in-chief
for this magazine. English is spoken by millions
of people worldwide, and the cultures of Britain, the US, Canada, Australia
and other English-speaking countries are diverse and exciting. With this diversity
comes the challenge of choosing the best topics for you to enjoy — while
at the same time improving your English. The result, we hope, is a varied
insight into the English-speaking world in accessible English. Our special thanks
for this inspired design go to our layout team, Vor-Zeichen.
You’ll enjoy reading Spotlight even more once you have taken an Englishlanguage
course abroad. There are thousands of schools worldwide offering
language lessons. But which one should you choose? We’ve taken the hard work
out of the selection process by giving you essential guidelines in our language
feature “Take a break — take an English course”. It begins on page 14.
We love London in the springtime — and we’re sure you will as well, once
you’ve taken a look at our special eight-page travel story. I visited London earlier
this year to search out the top ten places worth seeing in the British capital in
2013. You’ll find all the hottest shops, restaurants and galleries as well as the best
views of London on pages 28–35. Have fun.
Einfach lesen
Erste Schritte in die neue Sprache
Ein Lesevergnügen für Jung und Alt
Einfache, kurze Texte für Anfänger
Es muy fácil, ¿verdad?
Einfach Spanisch lesen
comprender
libro
_
_
C’est vraiment facile
Einfach Französisch lesen
ciel
nuit fleur
dormir
avec
facile
È proprio facile
Einfach Italienisch lesen
rouge
con
preguntar
moi
rojo lengua
parlare
bella
amour
lingua
bonito
rosso
llevar abuela
jardin
amor
pouvoir caldo stella mio
fácil froid belle trouver capire amore
facile
noche almorzar
libro notte ciao
_
_
i.sharp@spotlight-verlag.de
London: looking
towards the future
It’s quite easy
Einfach Englisch lesen
Titelfoto: Mauritius; Foto Editorial: Getty Images
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language
sister
pupil
easy
understand
yes
speak
Großes Gewinnspiel
und das gesamte Programm unter
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CONTENTS | April 2013
London’s Top 10
Museums and galleries, shops and restaurants, buildings
and districts — what’s hot in London this year.
28 14
Learn English abroad
Want to shake up your English? Then why not take
a course in an English-speaking country?
6 People
Names and faces from around the world
8 A Day in My Life
A Native American dancer from Alaska
10 World View
What’s news and what’s hot
13 Britain Today
Colin Beaven on delivering bad news
22 Food
The art of molecular gastronomy
40 History
The beginnings of Bollywood
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 the sweet season
26 I Ask Myself
Amy Argetsinger on Hillary Clinton
36 Around Oz
Peter Flynn on going grey Down Under
38 Debate
Should Scotland be independent of the UK?
People in Edinburgh have their say
68 Feedback & Impressum
Your letters to Spotlight — and our responses
69 Next Month
What’s coming next month in Spotlight
70 My Life in English
Actor Götz Otto on Steven Spielberg, the word
“flabbergasted” and why he loves Sydney
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PEOPLE | Names and Faces
The blogger
Who exactly is…
Maria
Popova?
Iwant to build a new framework for
what information matters.” Maria
Popova told The New York Times
that many things on the Web are beneath
people’s intelligence — like
“what Paris Hilton ate for breakfast”.
More than a million people visit
Popova’s blog at www.brainpickings.org
each month to find out what she
thinks matters. There, they find
thought-provoking quotations, songs,
videos and excerpts from books. Topics
range from science and love to the creative
process. Paola Antonelli, a curator
at the Museum of Modern Art who is
also a friend of Popova, tried to explain
Popova’s popularity. “What Maria has
is the DNA of millions of people,” she
said. “She tunes in to what would
make other people dream or inspire
them in a way that is quite unique.”
beneath [bi(ni:T]
cleansed [klenzd]
deem [di:m]
draft [drA:ft]
entrust [In(trVst]
framework [(freImw§:k]
matter [(mÄtE]
offensive [E(fensIv]
thought-provoking [(TO:t prE)vEUkIN]
tune in to sth. [)tju:n (In tE]
tweet [twi:t]
unique [ju(ni:k]
Popova consumes and produces
information at an impressive rate,
reading 12 to 15 books a week and
tweeting every 15 minutes throughout
the day. Originally from Bulgaria,
she studied communication at the
University of Pennsylvania and now
lives in New York. She calculates that
she spends more than 450 hours a
month working on the site. Although
it has no advertising, she is able to live
on contributions from her readers.
One of the most popular posts on
brainpickings is titled “Five Manifestos
for the Creative Life”. It includes
these words from German
designer Catharina Bruns: “Work on
what you love. You are responsible for
the talent that has been entrusted to
you.” — words that Maria Popova
seems to take very much to heart.
unter(halb)
bereinigt
als etw. erachten
entwerfen
anvertrauen; hier: geben
Rahmen
wichtig sein
beleidigend, verletzend
zum Nachdenken anregend
sich auf etw. einstellen
hier: twittern
einzigartig, besonders
In the news
It seems that the
fashion industry is
ready to forgive
John Galliano.
The British fashion
designer lost his
job at Christian
Dior in 2011, after he was filmed making
anti-Semitic comments in a Paris
cafe. Galliano has since been treated
for alcoholism and has apologized
publicly for his behaviour. Vogue reports
that Galliano spent three weeks
working at Oscar de la Renta’s New
York studio early this year.
Dustin Hoffman
thinks that Hollywood
films should
show less gun violence.
The American
actor, whose career
covers 50 years, told
NPR that he has held
a gun on screen only a handful of
times. Actors who are against guns
have a more difficult time finding
work, he said, because so many films
include violence. And yet, “a gun is
rarely used in film in a way that feels
like in life. It’s simplified, basically, into
being a cartoon experience.”
Six years ago, Clare Foges was driving
an ice-cream van in the English
town of Guildford. Today, the 31-yearold
is a speech-writer for the British
prime minister. The Daily Mail reports
that Foges drafted David Cameron’s
recent speech promising a referendum
on Britain’s membership in the
European Union. Foges has strong
views on what makes a good speech.
She has criticized language that is
“cleansed of... anything colourful, anything
impulsive, anything that might
be deemed offensive to anyone”.
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Out of the ordinary
Clifford Boyson and his three siblings were separated 65 years
ago, when they were put into different foster homes in Chicago.
Now, Boyson has finally been reunited with his sister, Betty
Billadeau. He had tried for years to find her. In the end, his landlord’s
seven-year-old son, Eddie, searched Facebook and found Betty.
“Clifford did not have any family, and family’s important,” Eddie told
The Huffington Post.
Fotos: Action Press; dpa/picture alliance; Gamma/Rapho; Getty Images; Redux/laif
At long last:
Clifford Boyson
meets his sister
Today, 37-year-old Francis Smith is a post-doctoral student and
a talented musician who plays the piano and violin. When he was
born, though, doctors thought he might never be able to speak or
hear. Because of Treacher Collins syndrome, a rare condition that
affects the bones in the face, Smith was born with no ears. A special
hearing aid has helped change his life. “It is a miracle to me that I
can even hear music, much less play music,” he told the CBC. He is
working on a book about his experiences.
Many artists in Australia are finding their work in unexpected places
because businesses take images from the internet and use them
without permission. Harmony Nicholas, a photographer from
Adelaide, told The Sydney Morning Herald that several of her images
have appeared on T-shirts without her permission. Nicholas
says she can’t afford to pay for a lawyer and, like many artists, she
now thinks carefully before putting her work online. “We’re being
screwed left, right and centre, purely because we have our images
out there,” she said.
affect [E(fekt]
ambassador [Äm(bÄsEdE]
condition [kEn(dIS&n]
curly-haired [(k§:li heEd]
foster home [(fQstE )hEUm]
Great Depression [)greIt di(preS&n]
hearing aid [(hIErIN eId]
landlord [(lÄndlO:d]
left, right and centre
[)left )raIt End (sentE]
miracle [(mIrEk&l]
screw [skru:] ifml.
siblings [(sIblINz]
take off [teIk (Qf]
beeinträchtigen
Botschafter(in)
hier: Krankheit
lockenköpfig
Pflegeheim
(Welt)Wirtschaftskrise nach
dem Börsenkrach 1929
Hörgerät
Vermieter
überall, wohin man schaut
Wunder
abzocken, bescheißen
Geschwister
richtig losgehen
Texts by RITA FORBES
The newcomer
• Known as: Wizkid
• Real name: Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun
• Age: 22
• Nationality: Nigerian
• Occupation: pop singer-songwriter
• Background: Began singing in church when he was
11. Released debut album, Super Star, in 2011.
Signed to Akon’s record label, Konvict, in 2012.
• The BBC says: He is one of Nigeria’s hottest
musicians.
• Awards: the 2012 BET (Black Entertainment
Television) award for Best International Act: Africa
• Watch for: his second album, which he recently
recorded in London.
Happy birthday!
Shirley Temple was one of the most popular stars of the
1930s. Americans loved the curly-haired little girl who sang
and danced her way through the Great Depression.
Born in 1928, Temple began taking dancing lessons at
the age of three. She was discovered at dance school and
made 11 short films in 1933 alone. But her
career took off in 1934 with the musical
film Stand Up and Cheer. One of her
biggest hits was Heidi in 1937.
In 1950, at the age of 22, Temple retired
from film and married Charles Black,
with whom she had two children. In
the 1970s, Shirley Temple Black was
the US ambassador to Ghana.
From 1989 to 1992, she served as
ambassador to Czechoslovakia.
Today, the star lives quietly in California.
But the world is still interested in
her. Recently, a Twitter account was
started in the name of Shirley Temple,
and news sources reported excitedly on
what she had to say. In fact, the account
was a fake. Even so, many people will be
wishing Shirley Temple Black a happy
birthday when she turns 85 on 23 April.

A DAY IN MY LIFE | United States
Dancers at the Alaska
Native Heritage Center
Dance
as a way
of life
Die alaskische Tanzpädagogin hält die Tanztraditionen nordamerikanischer
Urvölker am Leben und versucht dabei zu ihren eigenen Wurzeln zurückzufinden.
LORI TOBIAS hat mit ihr gesprochen.
My name is Marcella
McIntyre, but my
traditional name is
Wahts’muu. It means “one
who never listens,” or “no
ears.” I’m 32 years old,
and I am Tsimshian,
Haida, Yup’ik, which
are native North
American peoples. I
also have family
from Scotland and
Germany. I was
born and raised in
Metlakatla, about
15 miles south of the
Ketchikan, a small
city in Alaska’s southeast.
Metlakatla is the only
federally recognized reservation
in the state. It’s closer to
Seattle, Washington, than to where I
live and work now — which is in
Anchorage, the biggest city in Alaska.
Protecting her heritage:
Marcella McIntyre
My days start at about 6:30 a.m., when I get up and
take a shower. Sometimes, my mother watches my daughter,
so I may drop her off there and then drive to work. If
time allows, I grab a cup of coffee on the way to the Alaska
Native Heritage Center. My job title is Education Specialist
for Dance. I supervise the Alaska Native Heritage
dancers as well as contracting dance groups in the Anchorage
area to perform here at certain times of the year.
Our mornings begin with a meeting with all our
staff. We also do some stretches to help us wake up and get
ready for the day. After the staff meeting, I join our dancers.
We put together our set list, as we have four performances
and also give two dance lessons during the day. Then we
Anchorage [(ÄNkErIdZ]
drop sb. off [drA:p (O:f] hier: jmdn. hinbringen
grab [grÄb]
schnell besorgen
heritage [(herEtIdZ] kulturelles Erbe
people [(pi:p&l]
Volk
staff [stÄf] Mitarbeiter (➝ p. 61)
stretches: do ~ [(stretSIz] Dehnübungen machen
supervise [(su:p&rvaIz] hier: betreuen
watch sb. [wA:tS]
auf jmdn. aufpassen

INFO TO GO
Fotos: ANHC; Corbis; Getty Images
get ready for our first performance. When that is over, we
relieve the staff so that they can take their morning break.
I make sure all of our dancers are where they need to
be. Sometimes, I go for a walk around Lake Tiuluna,
where we have our traditional village sites, to see if guests
have questions. I do that also to make sure that at 11 a.m.
we will have the dancers at our Yup’ik-Cup’ik Site, which
is named after peoples of southwest Alaska. That’s where
we give lessons for a half an hour to any guests who want
to learn to dance.
At 12 o’clock, we have our second half-hour performance.
If we are fully staffed, we sometimes get to eat lunch
during that time. Then we have our third half-hour performance.
We have dance lessons at 3 p.m. for a half hour,
and at 4 p.m., there’s a 45-minute performance in which
we show dances from all of the cultures in the state of
Alaska. After that, we pack up, close the center, and go
home.
I usually go home at five o’clock, depending on how
long it takes to get the guests out the door so we can close
the building. Then I drive home and rest for a little bit.
We have dinner at about 6:30 or 7 p.m. The different
foods that we have for dinner are chicken, pork, salmon
and halibut. Most of my family doesn’t eat red meat, but
my daughter loves beef — as much as she can get. After
dinner, we usually settle down for the evening.
I have a strong need to learn my language and more
about my culture. I was fortunate to grow up with the
Tsimshian language, which was taught in the elementary
schools. But then our language teacher retired. As we got
older, a lot of my generation found that we had to go back
to Canada, where our people originally come from, to
learn it. I’m not fluent yet, but I practice my language
every day with my daughter, who is 11 years old. Our conversations
are fairly short, such as practicing simple questions.
At about 9:30 p.m., we go to bed, and then the next
day starts.
agreement [E(gri:mEnt]
contract an alliance
[kEn)trÄkt En E(laIEns]
elementary school
[)elI(mentEri sku:l]
fairly [(ferli]
ferry [(feri]
floatplane [(floUtpleIn]
fortunate: be ~ [(fO:rtSEnEt]
halibut [(hÄlIbEt]
legally binding [)li:g&li (baIndIN]
pork [pO:rk]
relieve [ri(li:v]
rest [rest]
salmon [(sÄmEn]
settle down [)set&l (daUn]
Vertrag, Abkommen
eine Verbindung schließen
Grundschule
relativ
Fähre
Wasserflugzeug
Glück haben
Heilbutt
rechtsverbindlich
Schweinefleisch
entlasten, ablösen
sich ausruhen
Lachs
sich hinsetzen und
zur Ruhe kommen
Tsimshian
Marcella McIntyre talks about her people, the
Tsimshian: “Our people are from British Columbia,
Canada,” she told writer Lori Tobias. “We’ve been in
Alaska since 1887. Eight hundred of our people migrated
here following a missionary by the name of
William Duncan. He brought us here for religious freedom
and to get land of our own. In our little community
of 1,200 people on Annette Island in Metlakatla,
we have seven traditional
dance troupes.
The island is about
25 x 20 miles (40 x 32
km) in size, and the
only way to get there
is by floatplane or
ferry. If the weather
turns bad, you’re
stuck there.”
A man in a
traditional Tsimshian
dance costume
contracting
A contract is a legally binding agreement, and the word
can also be used as a verb. You can contract somebody
to do something, as Marcella does: she explains that she
contracts dance groups. In other words, the dance
group contracts to perform, or is contracted to perform,
for her center. The verb is also seen more formally
in the expressions to contract an alliance or to contract
a marriage. In business today, you often hear about
companies “outsourcing”, or contracting out, work such
as cleaning or bookkeeping to another company.
Use the word “contract” in the correct form:
a) The company was _______ to produce a new logo.
b) I think we should ________ ________ the catering.
set list
The word “set” has many meanings. When Marcella
McIntyre uses the term “set list”, she means the choice
and order of dances to be performed. The main, general
meaning of “set” is a group of things that belong
together. So we can talk about a set of knives or plates,
keys or tools. Dancers and musicians use “set” to talk
about a series of songs or dances in a performance. The
word is also used to mean the number of times a
dancer repeats an exercise or sequence:
a) My brother gave me a set of very sharp ________ for
Christmas. Isn’t that supposed to bring bad luck?
b) I do four sets of shoulder ________ every morning.
Answers
contracting: a) contracted; b) contract out; set list: (a) knives; (b) exercises
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WORLD VIEW | News in Brief
President Obama helps
out at the egg roll
It’s a good month to visit...
Washington, DC
UNITED STATES On April 1, President
Obama and his family welcome thousands of guests to the
White House Easter Egg Roll. For the main event, children
use wooden spoons to roll brightly colored eggs down
a hill, hoping to be the first to reach the bottom with the
egg still intact.
The tradition began 135 years ago in 1878. Before that,
children rolled hard-boiled eggs on the grounds of the
Capitol on Easter Monday. To protect the grass from damage,
though, a law was passed to stop the egg-rolling. Pres-
ident Rutherford B. Hayes, who had eight children of his
own, decided to allow the game to continue at his home,
the White House.
The egg roll has changed a little since then. Last year,
35,000 people enjoyed live music, dance workshops, cooking
demonstrations, and storytelling at the event. Costumed
characters such as Bugs Bunny, the Cat in the Hat,
and Snoopy also attended. But it’s still all about Easter
eggs: the White House provided 19,000 hard-boiled eggs
for the egg roll, an egg hunt, and egg-dyeing activities.
blessings [(blesINz]
Cat in the Hat
[)kÄt In DE (hÄt]
concierge [koUn(sje&rZ]
dirt floor [(d§:t flO:r]
egg-dyeing [(eg )daIIN]
hier: Gutes
Kinderbuchfigur von Dr. Seuss
Portier
roher Lehmboden
Eierfärb-
Jean Kabre in
Washington, DC
fund-raiser [(fVnd )reIz&r]
hard-boiled [)hA:rd (bOI&ld]
Ivory Coast [)aIvEri (koUst]
siblings [(sIblINz]
tuition [tu(IS&n]
well [wel]
Spendenaktion
hartgekocht
Elfenbeinküste
Geschwister
Schulgeld
Brunnen
The kindness of strangers
UNITED STATES Jean Kabre is from Tintilou, a poor village in Bur -
kina Faso in West Africa. When he grew up, he slept on a dirt floor with his four siblings and
drank bad water from poorly made wells. At age 13, wearing flip-flops, his very first
shoes, he left for the Ivory Coast. There, he trained as a butler and later left for the US.
Today, Kabre is a concierge in an office building at 101 Constitution Avenue in Washington,
DC. What sounds like the happy end of a story was, for him, just the beginning. When
workers in the building learned that Kabre was supporting people back in Burkina Faso, they
wanted to help. A former senator organized a fund-raiser, collecting $14,000 for food and
school tuition. Someone else hired an engineer in Burkina Faso to repair the well in Tintilou.
The villagers reported back: they were no longer getting ill from the well, and children
did not have to walk miles to find water to drink anymore. “I can’t explain the blessings that
come to me from 101 Constitution,” Kabre told The Washington Post. “Sometimes I say, ‘Who
am I? What did I do to deserve this?’”
Fotos: Getty Images; Pete Souza
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Not so alone in Australia
AUSTRALIA Do Aborigines have a connection
to the Indian subcontinent? Experts in DNA research
have discovered that they do.
Humans are thought to have lived in Australia for
about 40,000 years, with the first settlers arriving from
New Guinea, which was joined to Australia at that time.
Scientists have long thought that these people remained
isolated from the rest of the world until the 18th century,
when the Europeans arrived.
However, when a research team led by an American expert
at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig examined
DNA from Aborigines, it found a surprisingly recent connection
to India.
“We have a pretty clear signal from looking at a large
number of genetic markers from all across the genome that
genetic marker [dZE)netIk (mA:kE]
genome [(dZi:nEUm]
microlith [(maIkrEUlIT]
New Guinea [)nju: (gIni]
eindeutig identifizierbarer
DNA-Abschnitt
Erbgut
steinzeitlicher Kleinstgegenstand
aus spaltbarem
Feuerstein u. ä.
Aboriginal Australia:
scientists are now
finding out more
there was contact between India and Australia somewhere
around 4,000 to 5,000 years ago,” Professor Mark Stone -
king told the BBC. “Our results show that there were indeed
people who made a genetic contribution to
Australians from India.”
These findings raise new questions. How were people
from India able to reach Australia? What else might they
have brought with them, besides their genetic material?
Small stone tools, called microliths, and the dingo also appeared
in Australia at about the same time as the Indian
immigrants, leading the researchers to speculate that perhaps
they all arrived together.
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British
So lernen Sie die Briten verstehen – ihre Sprache,
ihre Kultur und ihre Eigenheiten.
Prinzessin Catherines
offizieller Titel ist: Her Royal
Highness The Duchess of ...
a) Cambridge.
b) Cornwall.
c) Cumberland.
1 2
Was ist kein Fußballverein?
a) Aston Villa
b) Cardiff City
c) Old Albanians
3
Die Autobahn M25, die
ringförmig um London herum
führt, nennt man auch ...
a) London Orbital.
b) London Round.
c) London Circle.
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WORLD VIEW | News in Brief
Let the animals live
BOTSWANA How do Africans make money from the beauty
of their continent? With tourism, of course. Some people visit countries
like Botswana to see the wild animals of the Kalahari Desert and the Okavango
Delta. Others fly in to kill the animals, turning lions, giraffes and
elephants into hunting trophies.
No more, though. Botswana, a country in southern
Africa, has made an important decision: President Ian
Khama announced that the threat to the country’s wild animals
is so great that, starting in 2014, big-game hunting
must stop. Zambia, just north of Botswana, recently
banned hunting lions and leopards for similar reasons.
In Botswana, special licences will be given to those
who must hunt to survive. For visitors, though, big-game
hunting zones will be changed into “photographic zones”.
“The ideal scenario would be that it has a similar effect
to the ban on whaling 20 years ago,” Adrian Hiel of the
International Fund for Animal Welfare told the BBC. “It
has now been proved that whale watching is more sustainable
and profitable than hunting and killing the animals.”
For more information on visiting Botswana, see
www.botswanatourism.co.bw
Hunting: bad for Africa?
about to: be ~ do sth. [E(baUt tE] im Begriff sein, etw. zu tun (➝ p. 61)
auction off [)O:kS&n (Qf]
versteigern
bake sale [(beIk )seI&l]
Kuchenverkauf
ban [bÄn]
verbieten
big-game hunting [bIg )geIm (hVntIN] Großwildjagd
cower [(kaUE]
kauern, sich ducken
cupid [(kju:pId]
Amor
International Fund for Animal Welfare Internationaler Tierschutzfond
[IntE)nÄS&nEl )fVnd fE (ÄnIm&l )welfeE]
leopard [(lepEd]
owl [aUl]
Eule
Ronald McDonald [)rQn&ld mEk(dQn&ld] Maskottchen der Fast-Food-Kette
McDonald’s in Gestalt eines Clowns
scatter [(skÄtE]
zerstreuen
scholarship [(skQlESIp]
Stipendium
school board [(sku:l bO:d] N. Am.
etwa: (örtliche) Schulbehörde
sustainable [sE(steInEb&l]
nachhaltig, umweltverträglich
whaling [(weI&lIN]
Walfang
Keep the art or take
the money?
CANADA Traditionally, schools earn extra money
by holding bake sales or car washes. The English Montreal School
Board is trying something a bit bigger. Next month, it will auction
off more than 50 works of art. The sale is expected to bring nearly
two million dollars. It is
thought that one painting,
A Quebec Village by
A. Y. Jackson, will sell for
as much as Can$ 700,000.
From the 1930s to the
1960s, parents, former
WHAT’S HOT
Bad statues
BRITAIN It sounds extremely
frightening: a statue comes
to life and begins to attack people.
As the Daily Mail reports, it’s also the
latest trend in photography. People
pose next to sculptures in a way
that makes it look as if they’re being
eaten by a lion or carried off by a
bear.
Even “nice” statues can look
threatening in a photo. For example,
statues of Ronald McDonald
usually have one hand raised in a
friendly greeting. When a young
man cowers in front of the statue,
however, it looks as if the smiling
clown is about to hit him. In the
photo below, cupid appears ready
to punch a man in the face.
The statue-attack photos follow
trends such as “owling”, which is imitating
an owl’s wide-eyed face for
the camera. The Huffington Post
calls the latest trend “idiotic” — but
at least it makes a walk in a sculpture
garden a bit more exciting.
Don’t hit me!
When statues
attack people
students and even artists gave objects of art to schools. The collection
held in Montreal includes works by some of Canada’s most famous
artists. The art can currently be seen in various schools, as
well as at the school-board office.
Some say the collection should remain where it is. “To
simply scatter it to the four winds ... is a scandal,” Julien
Feldman, head of the school board, told CBC News. However,
it has become increasingly expensive to insure the art,
and the money raised will be used for scholarships. Curator
Angelo Komatsoulis called the sale “an important win for
our children and for our community”.
Fotos: Action Press; Corbis
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By RITA FORBES and CLAUDINE WEBER-HOF

It is
never good
to bring
bad news
“
”
Britain Today | COLIN BEAVEN
A short word
for a big subject
Wie überbringt man eine Todesnachricht, und wie reagiert man darauf?
Beschönigende Umschreibungen helfen nicht immer.
Foto: Comstock
It’s not a thing one often talks
about, but how do you break the
news that someone has died? This
simple word seems much too short.
It’s too unfeeling, almost heartless.
So we look for an alternative and
say that someone has “passed away”.
It seems less shocking, less abrupt.
But not everyone likes this phrase. It
tries to mask the reality, and isn’t that
a bit dishonest? Why feel embarrassed
about using the word “died”?
I faced this question recently
when I had to tell friends and family
that my mother had died, having
reached the majestic age of 91. How
was I to put it? And what were they
to say in reply? Something simple?
“I’m so sorry to hear about your loss.”
Or something formal? “Sincere condolences
on your bereavement.”
I don’t think my mother was impressed
by flowery language that
doesn’t mean much. Her great love
was the language Shakespeare used in
his plays and sonnets. He was under
no illusions about life and death. You
only have to read what Jaques says
about the so-called seven ages of man
in As You Like It to find an uncomfortably
realistic summary.
bereavement [bi(ri:vmEnt]
break the news [)breIk DE (nju:z]
civil service [)sIv&l (s§:vIs]
Egypt [(i:dZIpt]
face sth. [feIs]
feel embarrassed [)fi:&l Im(bÄrEst]
mask [mA:sk]
oblivion [E(blIviEn]
put [pUt]
ring sb. up [rIN (Vp]
seven ages of man [)sev&n )eIdZIz Ev (mÄn]
showcase [(SEUkeIs]
sincere condolences [sIn)sIE kEn(dEUlEnsIz]
village hall [)vIlIdZ (hO:l]
Mum’s long life certainly had
room for the maximum number of
ages. The first was a country childhood
in the village where her father
was the postman. The second was the
teenage years spent, whenever possible,
at dances in the local village hall.
Then came her time in the Waaf,
the women’s version of the Air Force.
War broke out between Britain and
Germany two days after her 18th
birthday.
Number 4 was the time she spent
raising her family. Then, from the
mid-1960s to the mid-80s, she lived
in London and worked for the civil
service.
Sometimes, things looked bad in
the 1970s. For a short time, Britain
even had a three-day working week;
there wasn’t enough electricity for
more, because the miners were on
strike. Mum would shake her head
over Christmas dinner each year and
say, “It’s the last one. There’ll be nothing
worth having next year.” You were
over-pessimistic, Mother.
Age number 6 was a long retirement
with lots of time for pleasures
such as poetry, music and travel. The
seventh age was illness. Jaques has
Verlust
Neuigkeiten überbringen
öffentlicher Dienst
Ägypten
sich mit etw. konfrontiert sehen
sich genieren, schämen
verschleiern
Vergessenheit
ausdrücken
jmdn. anrufen
sieben Lebensstationen eines Menschen
präsentieren
(mein) aufrichtiges Beileid
Gemeindesaal
very harsh words to say about that
one. He calls it “second childishness
and mere oblivion”.
Among my mother’s great pleasures
was the phone. She liked to talk
for hours when you rang her up. So
it was like a final goodbye when I told
the telephone company that Mum no
longer needed them.
Of course, a recorded voice always
greets you with a list of numbers to
choose from. But a telephone company
likes to go further. It wants to
showcase what phones can do these
days. The recording asked me to say,
in my own words,
what my call was all
about. Wow, a machine
that understands
everything!
“I’m ringing to
tell you that my
mother has died,” I
said. There was
quite a long pause.
“Sorry,” the machine
answered. “Is this call about a
bereavement?”
“Yes,” I replied. But I can’t have
spoken very clearly, because there was
another long pause. Finally, the machine
lost its patience.
“YES OR NO. IS THIS CALL
ABOUT A BEREAVEMENT?”
So much for flowery language to
stop you seeming heartless.
What did Shakespeare have to say
on the subject? Mum’s favourite play
was Anthony and Cleopatra, and as the
queen of Egypt remarks, “it is never
good to bring bad news”.
Colin Beaven is a freelance writer who lives
and works in Southampton on the south
coast of England.
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13

LANGUAGE | Language Schools
Take a break —
take an English course
Sie möchten im Ausland einen Englischkurs besuchen, hätten aber gerne etwas Hilfe bei der
Suche? JOANNA WESTCOMBE zeigt Ihnen im Interview mit einem Experten und anhand von
Erfahrungsberichten, worauf Sie bei der Kurswahl achten sollten.
So, you’re considering a language course abroad. Congratulations!
The language school market has continued
to develop since our last article on this topic
in Spotlight 4/07, bringing higher standards generally and
a wider range of courses. But with accommodation and
insurance, flights and food, this type of intercultural adventure
is not cheap, and you may still be asking yourself
questions like “Where should I go?” “How should I choose
a school and a course?” and “How can I get the most out
of it?”
Huan Japes [)hju:En (dZeIps]
To help answer such questions, we interview Huan
Japes, of the language teaching association English UK,
about the procedures in place — known as accreditation
— in Britain and Northern Ireland to guarantee that students
get value for money and a “tip-top learning experience”.
Young people and adults also tell us their reasons
for taking courses in various parts of the English-speaking
world. They talk about their time there, and give recommendations,
so that you, too, can choose the right school
in the right place and have the most rewarding time.
rewarding [ri(wO:dIN]
bereichernd
Fotos: Getty Images; Engslish UK
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Spotlight 4|13

Spotlight talked to Huan
Japes, Deputy Chief Executive
of English UK,
about quality standards
in UK language schools.
What does accreditation mean, and why is it
important?
Accreditation is key to maintaining the quality of schools.
Accreditation UK runs inspections, and schools have to
pass their inspection in order to be accredited by them and
be eligible for English UK membership. Criteria are based
on management, resources and premises, teaching and
learning — including observing teachers — and student
welfare. All these give students both quality of experience
and quality of learning outcomes.
Why should you choose an accredited school?
If you choose an Accreditation UK member, you’ll know
that the school you are attending has met the standards of
the scheme. This is particularly important for younger
learners in terms of welfare, but you can also be sure that
because of our teaching and learning criteria, you’ll be getting
quality of education while in the UK.
What is the best way to go about finding a school
that is right for you, your son or daughter?
On the English UK website, we have an advanced search
function that helps you put together the components of
your stay. We recommend all our members equally, but
there are differences. A key one is location. Would you prefer
to be in London or Bath or a seaside town, or in one
of our schools in the north of England or Scotland? What
might also be important is the size of school: smaller institutes
can be best for some people, but a school from a
large chain may offer better resources or a wider range of
programmes over and above general English courses.
ENGLISH UK AND ACCREDITATION UK
English UK is the world’s leading language teaching association,
with over 450 members. A UK registered charity, English
UK’s objectives are to advance the education of international
students in the English language and to ensure that the UK remains
the number-one quality English language teaching destination.
Members are private language schools, educational
trusts and charities, and language centres in further and higher
education institutes. Accreditation by the British Council —
under the Accreditation UK scheme — is a requirement of
membership. The scheme is managed by the British Council in
partnership with English UK. For further information, visit
www.englishuk.com, www. britishcouncil.org/accreditation
Beyond size and location, what other things need to
be considered?
On our schools’ summer programmes, for example, you
can expect a range of sports activities and properly supervised
adventure activities. Some schools offer structured
lessons in the morning, with, say, golf or music in the afternoon.
Such a balanced programme of learning and
leisure allows you to carry on learning through the
medium of another activity.
What sort of accommodation choices are there?
There are lots of options, including residential schools and
homestays, depending on the age of the student and the
amount of care and supervision that he or she will need.
Host families are selected carefully as part of our criteria.
Important factors are, of course, how easy it is to get to
the school, the general living environment and its cleanliness,
but families should also be friendly and work with
students to help them improve their English.
If there’s a problem, where can people get help?
If you are unhappy or want financial compensation, you
should go to the school first. If the problem is not resolved,
come to us. We have emergency procedures in place — if
a school closes, then we can pay the students’
accommodation for the rest of their stay and offer them a
free place at another member school.
Why should someone choose to study in the UK?
The main thing is the long-standing quality of our schools.
Secondly, if you choose an accredited school, you can be
sure you’ll get a tip-top learning experience. The UK offers
so much choice and variety, as well as diversity of educational
experience. Whether you want weekend entertainment
or sport, smaller cities, seaside towns in the south,
schools in Scotland, we just have so much to offer.
advance [Ed(vA:ns]
balanced [(bÄlEnst]
cleanliness [(klenlinEs]
destination [)destI(neIS&n]
diversity [daI(v§:sEti]
eligible [(elIdZEb&l]
homestay [(hEUmsteI]
host family [)hEUst (fÄmli]
in terms of [In (t§:mz Ev]
leisure [(leZE]
maintain [meIn(teIn]
outcome [(aUtkVm]
premises [(premIsIz]
residential school
[)rezI(denS&l sku:l]
run [rVn]
scheme [ski:m] UK
supervised [(su:pEvaIzd]
trust [trVst]
welfare [(welfeE]
verbessern
ausgewogen
Sauberkeit
Zielort, Reiseziel
Vielfalt
qualifiziert, geeignet
Unterkunft in einem Privathaushalt
Gastfamilie
in Sachen
hier: Freizeitaktivitäten
(aufrecht) erhalten
Resultat, Erfolg
Räumlichkeiten
Schule mit Übernachtungsmöglichkeit
durchführen
Programm
beaufsichtigt
Stiftung
Wohl; hier: Rundumbetreuung
und -versorgung
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LANGUAGE | Language Schools
What and where?
If you are thinking about doing a course abroad, there are
two main sets of questions that you need to ask yourself,
relating to learning and location.
Learning
• Do I want to learn for my work or my free time?
• What is my level of English now, and what level do I
want to reach?
• Do I want to take an examination or get a qualification?
If so, which one?
• How many weeks can I take for the course?
• How many hours a day do I want to spend in the
classroom?
Location
• How far do I want to travel?
• Have I looked at all the regions in my country of
choice?
• Do I want to be in a big city, a town, by the sea or in
the countryside?
• Will my choice of location affect the cost of the course?
Edinburgh: the right
choice for Michaela B.
While you might be able to
change your course once
you are there, it is important
to think carefully
about the location beforehand.
London, for example,
is an incredibly
popular destination with
some excellent schools and
obvious attractions such as
museums, shopping streets
and nightlife, but is also a very expensive place to live. You
may have to travel for up to an hour to get to your school,
which can be very tiring and makes it more difficult to
spend time with other students outside lessons.
Waltraud P., a 62-year-old retired teacher from Vöcklabruck,
Upper Austria, who has attended many different
schools abroad, recommends choosing a smaller town.
After all, you will have free time to get to know a place,
and can always join a trip to a bigger city for an evening
or at the weekend. She chose Cork in Ireland for her most
recent course. “I wanted a reason to stay there and get to
know it better. I got the idea years before when it was the
cultural capital of Europe, and I had read a lot about it.”
For Michaela B., 42, from Annaberg-Bucholz, the lively
international student life and the culture and beauty of
Scotland made Edinburgh the perfect choice for her twomonth
learning break from work.
affect sth. [E(fekt]
after all [)A:ftE (O:l]
cater for sth. [(keItE fE] UK
sich auf etw. auswirken
immerhin
etw. bedienen, auf etw. eingehen
THE LANGUAGE INDUSTRY
Language courses abroad are good for your English, but they
are also very good for local economies. Visiting students not
only pay schools for teaching, they pay for local families to
look after them, and they spend money on drinks and sandwiches,
bus and train tickets, sightseeing and entertainment.
More than half of international students paying to study at
British universities have taken shorter language and examination
courses in the country beforehand, according to English
UK. Add to this the positive attitude towards a country felt by
many language-course students, and you have a very important
export.
What do you want to learn?
Gone are the days when schools offered one basic course
programme, and when business students were something
exotic. Nowadays, different courses cater for many different
needs and language levels. The following is a guide to
the main types.
In general courses for young people or for adults, you’ll
work on reading, writing, listening and speaking to help
you survive in English-speaking environments. You will
probably have a self-study programme in addition to 20
hours of classroom time. Adult vacation courses also usually
mean about 20 hours of lessons a week, but more free
time to enjoy social, sporting and cultural activities.
Summer camps for young learners up to the age of 18
offer a whole programme of classroom and leisure activities
to keep children and teenagers busy and happy. Parents
can be sure that their children are practising English and
are being well looked after from morning till night.
The expression “English plus” is often used to describe
courses where, in addition to lessons, you can learn other
things, such as cookery, golf or painting. Sometimes, they
involve a work placement.
Business English courses help you perform better in
work situations such as meetings or on the telephone.
Often, students also choose a one-to-one module, which
can be ideal if you need help for an upcoming business
trip or a presentation. More and more schools now offer
courses for special purposes — the specialist language
and skills needed for areas such as law, medicine or
tourism.
Intensive exam courses prepare you for internationally
recognized examinations such as the Cambridge examinations
and the IELTS test.
The above main categories should help you narrow
down your search; in many cases, you will be able to put
modules together to create your perfect course.
Edinburgh [(edInbErE]
narrow down [)nÄrEU (daUn]
work placement [(w§:k )pleIsmEnt] UK
eingrenzen, verfeinern
Praktikum
Fotos: Alamy; privat
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Where do you want to learn?
The usual choice for a short language course is a language
school. Especially in student cities like Cambridge, Edinburgh
and Boston, USA, and in British seaside towns,
these are often found in converted old houses and other
historic buildings. Some privately owned smaller schools
may concentrate on particular courses. The one that 16-
year-old Pamina (see page 18) visited in Broadstairs, on
England’s Kent coast, specializes in school groups.
Summer camps for young people are often held in independent
boarding schools during the holidays of their
own pupils. Along with the advantage of on-site accommodation,
such schools usually have swimming pools,
other good sporting facilities and parkland — plenty of
safe space for getting lots of fresh air and exercise.
Colleges and universities also offer language courses,
again with the benefits of being able to live on-site and use
college facilities.
As Waltraud P. suggests: “Talk to people who have done
courses. I’ve had good experiences after hearing a lot of
positive things about a particular school. It was through
recommendations that I discovered one chain of schools,
and I’ve attended them in three different towns.” Checking
that a school is accredited and having a good feeling about
it, perhaps via recommendations, by looking at the website
or calling them, are the first steps to choosing your course.
Host family or hotel?
For Christian and Thomas (see page 18), who visit Malta
not just to refresh their English, but to relax and enjoy
their independence, a hotel makes sense. For Uta (see page
21), too, who was going to stay with family friends after
her course in Chicago, staying in a hostel gave her the freedom
to explore the city on her own.
A language course abroad is not just about what you
learn in the classroom. You can do that where you live. It
is all about immersing yourself in the culture of a place.
For Michaela B., living with a family or in an apartment
with other foreign students is a must — “at least as valuable
as the course itself”. An accredited school will have
standards in place for its accommodation. This may not
be luxurious, but it should be clean, and you will be able
to have showers or a bath and wash your clothes. Perhaps
you will get on so well with your hosts that you enjoy long
evening discussions with them. But if your hostess is more
interested in telling you her life story, as Waltraud P. experienced
on her last course, then at least you will get some
extra listening practice!
Julian Steffens (right) and
Marek Rada in Torbay, 2011
Julian Steffens, 17, from
Dießen in Bavaria, has
visited Paignton in Devon
twice for two weeks.
My father’s English teacher
told him about a school, but
when I looked on the internet, the
students there seemed quite old, so I went to our local
travel agents, and they helped me find a school with
younger students.
The first time was a course for young learners, with
a full afternoon programme in the group. The next
year, I did a standard course with my brother, and we
had more free time in the afternoon to do the things
we wanted to do.
I had great experiences. The first time, I shared a
room with a boy from the Czech Republic, Marek,
and the second time, I was with my brother. Both
families were very nice. Each day started with everyone
having breakfast together, and they cooked international
food, just the same as we eat at home. Both my
parents and my teachers could see that my English had
improved, and they were really happy that I had such
a great time. I think they are really proud of me that I
chose the school and everything.
To other young people, I’d recommend visiting the
school’s Facebook page or website when you are looking
for a course. There you’ll find lots of comments
and can get an idea of the place. And try to go with
someone you know. Even if you stay in separate host
families (which is a good idea), you will still have
someone to talk to and do things with, and it doesn’t
stop you making new friends.
benefit [(benIfIt]
boarding school [(bO:dIN sku:l]
Devon [(dev&n]
facility [fE(sIlEti]
hostel [(hQst&l]
immerse oneself [I(m§:s wVn)self]
on-site [)Qn (saIt]
Paignton [(peIntEn]
travel agent [(trÄv&l )eIdZEnt]
Vorteil
Internat
Anlage; auch: Angebot
Herberge, Wohnheim
komplett eintauchen
am Standort, vor Ort
Reisebüro
Blackpool: seaside flair
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LANGUAGE | Language Schools
Christian Baumann, left, and
Thomas Hummler in Valletta
Broadstairs:
a great place to stay
Christian Baumann, 46,
and Thomas Hummler, 44,
who work for MTU in
Munich, have been to Malta
three times for a two-week
English course.
Pamina Noack, aged 16,
from a village near Nuremberg,
spent a week last
April in Broadstairs on the
Kent coast of England.
Several year eight and nine
pupils from my Gymnasium go to
a language school in Broadstairs every
year. The building is really modern, and our teachers
are young and have a cool way of teaching. We learn
a lot of different things, but most importantly, how to
talk and behave in English society.
On the first day, we had a test. We got our results
the next day. Because my level is quite good, the people
in my group were mostly older than me. They were all
from Europe, but not all from Germany, so the only way
to communicate was in English. But I think that’s good.
My friend and I each had our own room in our
host family’s house. It was only two minutes’ walk
from the beach. They were a really nice older couple
whose children had moved out. We had breakfast and
dinner together, and our host dad cooked really delicious
things for us. The couple always took time to
talk to us and to answer our questions.
I think my English got better in this week, because
we talked a lot of English in our family and at school.
My English teacher noticed, too.
I would like to stay longer than only one week to
learn even more. I would definitely stay by the sea
again, because it was so beautiful.
Wi-Fi [(waI faI]
WLAN
Take a trip: there’s lots
to see and do in Malta
We’ve taken general courses at a
school in Sliema — a city not far from
the capital, Valletta — with four classroom
hours in the morning. The teachers are all very motivated
and funny. We often work in smaller groups
within the class — not with Germans.
A lot of students come
to Malta for two or three
months. They are usually
between 20 and 55 years
old. They are mostly from
Western Europe, with
about 30 per cent from the
rest of the world — South
Korea, Japan, Russia, Argentina
and Brazil. We’ve
found some of these students
quite difficult to understand,
and smaller
groups (there are usually
about 12 of us in small
classrooms) would be better. The equipment isn’t really
good, except for the air conditioning in the classrooms!
Wi-Fi is available in the entrance.
Malta is good value for money. The sea is still
warm in October/November. The Maltese, who have
English as their second language, are very friendly. In
our free time, we take trips round the island by bus
— the bus ticket costs only €2.20 a day. We’ve done a
beginners’ diving course that we booked through the
school, and boat trips to Gozo.
The full package costs around €1,150. If you book
early, you can get a discount. The best seasons to go
are spring and autumn.
Valletta, the capital of Malta
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Uta Hille, 44, from Berlin, did a general English course for one week in Chicago,
before visiting friends and relations in the Midwest.
This was the first station on my three-week tour, and I
thought it could be helpful in improving my English. I
had a wonderful time: from Chicago, I visited family
and friends in Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas. It was the
best vacation I ever had.
The classroom hours were from 9 a.m. to 2.30 p.m.
with an hour’s self-study. I had two teachers. They were
from the US and from New Zealand and didn’t speak
German. They were great: patient, friendly, interested in
our stories and very helpful. There were six students in
my group: myself and another German, two Asian students
and two from Spain. It was a good group, and we
were forced to talk English to
each other, but the Asian accent
was really hard for my ears.
Because I was going to visit
family and friends later in the trip,
I stayed in a simple youth hostel. Next
time, I might choose to stay with a host family, so I can
see how people really live. When you are abroad, you
can go out and talk to people: on the corner, in a bookshop,
in the park, wherever. Conversation is the key, I
think. If you are on the road without your dictionary,
you need to use your head.
Uta Hille at
the Grand
Canyon
in 2012
Making the most of it
Having invested in a course, it’s worth getting as much as
possible out of it. Here are our tips.
Before you go
Read about the school and the area you will be visiting —
it’ll be one less thing that feels “foreign” when you get
there. On your first day, you will probably have to “show
what you know” in a test to be put in the right group. So,
before you go, start thinking in English for at least ten minutes
a day (see Spotlight 4/12, pp. 14–21). Good schools
will have learning materials online to help you warm up.
When you are there
Leaving a routine, colleagues, family and friends, sitting
in a classroom for several hours a day, dealing with public
transport and being given different food can all be a challenge.
Try to see these as part of the learning experience.
Here’s how:
• Try lots of new things Being away from your familiar
environment gives you the freedom to experiment. Try
Scottish dancing, act in a play or jog on the beach every
morning. Speak as little German as possible. If there are
German-speakers in your
class, arrange to speak German
only at certain times
of day.
• Go on trips Take tours
offered by the school for afternoon
tea, to a beach or a
castle. Keep looking and
listening, and you’ll have
something to talk about in
class the next day and an
experience to remember
when you get home.
do sth. about sth. [du: E(baUt]
etw. gegen etw. unternehmen
• Talk, talk, talk Ask lots of questions in and out of the
classroom. If you don’t understand the answer, say so.
• Be honest and take the initiative If you have problems
with your group, your teacher or your accommodation,
tell the school as soon as possible. They should do
something about it. You can’t learn if you feel unhappy.
• Take responsibility for your learning Make sure you
take notes in class, and find time to review and organize
them daily. Study with others from the course, and test
yourself. Don’t leave this until you get home.
A short course with long-term rewards
By taking a few weeks away from your family, school or
job to improve your language skills, you are giving yourself
a wonderful present. If you follow our tips and if you immerse
yourself as much as possible in the language and culture,
this present should, we hope, give you long-term
learning benefits, as well as rich and happy memories.
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FOOD | Molecular Cooking
Science in the kitchen
Mit der Molekularküche kann man kinderleicht attraktive Gerichte und Getränke zaubern.
BARBARA HILLER zeigt, wie’s geht.
Food plus chemistry — does
it sound unhealthy? It doesn’t
have to be. For several years,
professional cooks all over the
world have been looking at the
chemical properties of food to create
surprising new dishes, like top
chef Ferran Adrià’s apple caviar.
Now, so-called molecular gastronomy
is becoming more and more
popular with amateur cooks.
In its most simple form, the
“molecular” part of a recipe can be
a technique or a trick to use when
preparing a completely familiar
dish. Legend has it that the French
chemist Hervé This, one of the pioneers
in this field, became interested in the chemistry of
food when he tried to make a soufflé: the recipe suggested
adding the eggs two-by-two, but This decided to be efficient
and add them all at once. The result was a culinary
disaster. Surprised, he tried again. This time, he followed
the recipe and was rewarded with success. But why?
An explanation was called for, so This set out to explore
the difference between the two methods from a chemical
point of view. Today, he is one of France’s most famous
food chemists and an inspiration to chefs far and wide, including
Heston Blumenthal in Britain. Using one of This’s
tricks, Blumenthal presented a very easy way of making
Looking to the future: chef
Heston Blumenthal
accessible [Ek(sesEb&l] zugänglich
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algae [(ÄldZi:]
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curaçao [(kjUErEsEU] Orangenlikör
dish [dIS] Gericht, Speise
entrepreneur [)QntrEprE(n§:] Unternehmer(in)
far and wide [)fA: End (waId] weit und breit (➝ p. 61)
foam [fEUm] Schaum
gel [dZel]
gelling agent [)dZelIN (eIdZEnt] Geliermittel
get hold of sth. [get (hEUld Ev] etw. auftreiben
recipe [(resEpi] Rezept
set out [set (aUt] sich dranmachen
supplement [(sVplImEnt] Ergänzungsmittel
texture [(tekstSE] Konsistenz
vinegar [(vInIgE] Essig
chocolate mousse — or Chocolate Chantilly — on the
BBC’s TV show Full on Food. He used only chocolate and
water. To try it yourself, see the recipe on the opposite page.
So far, so good. Now let’s take a look at the more spectacular
side of molecular gastronomy. What should you
do to turn blue curaçao into small drops of gel to make an
artistic-looking cocktail? What should you do to decorate
your next dinner with a tasty foam? For amateur cooks, it
can be hard to get hold of the ingredients needed for these
creations. To make molecular cooking more accessible,
Canadian entrepreneurs Jerome de Champlain and
Jonathan Coutu founded the company Molecule-R in
2009. “We offer affordable, all-inclusive kits which take
anyone by the hand down the fun and exciting road of
molecular gastronomy,” de Champlain told Spotlight. One
kit, for example, focuses on cocktails and includes tools,
chemicals and a DVD with recipes.
When asked whether there are any health concerns
connected to the substances, de Champlain answers with
confidence. “You already consume all the natural food additives
we use every day. There are no consumption restrictions
or risks of any kind related to them.” Examples are
calcium lactate, a supplement often added to orange juice,
and agar, a natural gelling agent extracted from algae. The
second of these is a key ingredient in de Champlain’s personal
favourite: balsamic vinegar pearls.
“Basically, this is balsamic vinegar in the shape of small
caviar pearls that melt in the mouth. It can be served on a
salad or with olive oil and bread. It takes five minutes to
prepare, tastes very good and looks amazing,” he says. And
how do the substances alter the taste of food in molecular
cooking? “When used properly, they do not. They change
the texture and appearance, but the taste remains the
Try this at home: a
food-science kit
Fotos: Hemera; iStockphoto; laif; Photodisc
22
Spotlight 4|13

CHOCOLATE CHANTILLY FOR TWO
Molecular
cooking
tip
Ingredients: 50 ml water, 100 g chocolate
Break the chocolate into pieces and add to a pot along
with the water. Heat and stir until the chocolate has
melted. Pour the mixture into a bowl, and place the bowl
in an ice bath — that is, a larger bowl with water and ice
in it. Now, beat the mixture until it’s fluffy. If you overbeat
and it turns crumbly, don’t worry. Simply put it back
into the pot, reheat it and start again. Enjoy!
Sprachen lernen
– einfach
beim Lesen!
same.” In the case of the famous apple caviar, this means that it looks like caviar,
has a gelatinous texture, but tastes like apples.
Like the salty foam on top of a regular margarita, the molecular element
will often add a final touch to — rather than form the basis of — a meal or
drink. According to de Champlain, a foam takes only 60 seconds to prepare,
and he proudly claims that Molecule-R’s “step-by-step DVD is a great help.
The premeasured sachets of additives make it impossible to fail.”
He also says that, in his opinion, molecular gastronomy is just the thing
for impressing dinner-party guests. If you like artistic cocktails, he recommends
the “spherification” technique, which allows you to turn any drink into “a small
sphere that will burst in the mouth”. To get an idea of what he means, imagine
an uncooked egg yolk — liquid on the inside, but held together by a thin
membrane. Now, exchange the egg yolk for your favourite cocktail — a mojito,
for example. If you follow Molecule-R’s recipe, you’ll even have a leaf of mint
floating around inside the sphere.
Apart from marketing the kits to amateur cooks in Canada, the US, the
UK, France, Spain, Germany and Australia, Molecule-R also caters to professional
customers. As de Champlain explains: “Most of them buy one of our
kits as their first encounter with molecular gastronomy and then continue with
our products for professionals. There are also many culinary schools that offer
the kits to their students.”
All of this means de Champlain is a busy man. He does have time for one
last question, though: what is this avant-garde form of cooking — science or art?
“Molecular gastronomy is a powerful tool that helps culinary artists to make
dishes as spectacular and creative as they can be, and it is based on science,” he
says. “So, it’s a bit of both.”
artistic [A:(tIstIk] kunstvoll hergestellt
bowl [bEUl] Schüssel
burst [b§:st] platzen
cater to sb. [(keItE tE] auf die Bedürfnisse von jmdm. eingehen
claim [kleIm] behaupten
crumbly [(krVmbli] bröckelig
egg yolk [(eg jEUk] Eidotter
encounter [In(kaUntE] Begegnung
final touch: add a ~ to sth. [)faIn&l (tVtS] etw. den letzten Schliff geben
float [flEUt] schwimmen, treiben
fluffy [(flVfi] schaumig
liquid [(lIkwId] flüssig
mint [mInt] Minze
mojito [mEU(hi:tEU] Cocktail aus hellem kubanischem Rum,
Limettensaft, Minze, Rohrzucker und
Sodawasser
sachet [(sÄSeI] UK Tütchen
sphere [sfIE] Kugel
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SOCIETY | Art
The real
Andy
Warhol
From Silverpoint to Silver
Screen, Andy Warhol: The 1950s Drawings
edited by Daniel Blau. One of many “new” Warhol drawings
Andy Warhol ist vor allem
für seine Pop-Art-Werke
bekannt. Kürzlich entdeckte
frühe Zeichnungen
erinnern jedoch eher an die
expressionistischen Selbstbildnisse
Egon Schieles und
lassen einen vielseitigen,
begnadeten und sensiblen
Künstler erkennen.
MARK BROWN berichtet.
When the gallerist Daniel Blau met the gatekeeper
of the Andy Warhol Foundation in New York
City and asked if there was any more of the
artist’s unseen work that could be had, he was not hugely
optimistic. He could not believe his eyes, therefore, when
forgotten and unpublished early drawings were brought
out that had been locked away for more than 20 years.
“It was unbelievable, ... just unbelievable,” Blau says.
“The Warhol Foundation storage [at Crozier Fine Arts, an
art shipping and storage company,] is like a hospital — a
huge bare room with these metal trestle tables in the middle
and big metal doors. So you sit there and wait for what
comes. They bring them in and open them up, and I just
gasped... Wow! I never expected anything like that to be
still there.
“It was like someone opened a trunk of your favorite
toys that you’d kept aside as a child, and they were put in
storage when you went to school and you’d never seen
them since. And then someone comes along 30 years later
and says, ‘Do you remember this?’ And it’s, wow! ‘Do I
remember!’”
The 300 drawings from the 1950s, which are being
published for the first time, are a revelation. They show
another side to Warhol (1928–87), an artist mostly known
for his pop-art screen prints, his soup cans, car crashes,
Marilyns, and so on. “Here,” says Blau, “we see a skilled
and sensitive draughtsman producing images that are more
Egon Schiele than pop art.” To Blau, the drawings tell us
quite a bit about Warhol’s working practices and influences:
“You see where he comes from. They show that he
is an incredible draughtsman.”
The works have been published in a new book edited
by Blau, and they were exhibited in January and February
at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk,
Denmark. Two more shows are planned. Afterwards, the
drawings will be available to buy, helping to feed the great
demand for Warhol’s works of collectors who have the
money to afford them. Warhols attract big money — in
draughtsman [(drÄftsmEn] Zeichner
foundation [faUn(deIS&n] Stiftung
gasp [gÄsp] nach Luft schnappen (➝ p. 61)
gatekeeper [(geIt)ki:p&r] Pförtner(in)
revelation [)revE(leIS&n] Offenbarung
screen print [(skri:n prInt]
shipping [(SIpIN]
storage [(stO:rIdZ]
trestle table [(tres&l )teIb&l]
trunk [trVNk]
Siebdruck
Spedition
hier: Speicher
auf Böcke gestellter Tisch
Koffer, Truhe
24 Spotlight 4|13

Fotos: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc/Hirmer Verlag; Getty Images
2008, the artist’s painting Eight Elvises was bought for
$100 million. At last November’s big New York sales, his
1962 Statue of Liberty sold for $39 million. His works are
among the most traded of any artist.
While the 1950s drawings may add a new dimension
to the Warhol market, artistically, they are also likely to
have their own stories. Blau says: “I’m still going through
all of this and discovering one after the other. It is quite a
nice undertaking, fascinating.”
Some of the stories are clearer than others. For example,
there are drawings of a young junkie injecting himself
with drugs. These works relate to a spoken-word LP cover
Warhol illustrated in 1951 — The Nation’s Nightmare —
which was a CBS Radio investigation into drugs. Another,
of a lounging girl, became the cover of an album, Blue
Lights, by the American jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell.
Warhol also drew directly
from photographs, including
one of a flag-waving crowd greeting
Prince Philip when he visited
the US in the mid-1950s. Another
is from a 1911 Lewis Hine
photograph of coal-mining
breaker boys, who literally broke
coal. They possibly reflect
Warhol’s background: his father
was a coal miner in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
There are drawings that can
be linked to the artist’s later
works, too: two hands holding
pistols bring to mind his 1964
silk screen of the great American
actor James Cagney, for example.
A drawing dating from 1958,
Face Repeated Eight Times, reflects
Warhol’s obsession with
repetition — 100 Soup Cans,
Eight Elvises, and so on.
assumption [E(sVmpS&n]
catalogue raisonné
[)kÄt&lO:g )reIz&n(eI]
clench one’s hands
[klentS wVnz (hÄndz]
deplete [di(pli:t]
draw from sb. / sth. [(drO: frEm]
estate [I(steIt]
exhaustion [Ig(zO:stSEn]
foreseeably [)fO:r(si:Ebli]
literally [(lItErEli]
lounge [laUndZ]
mediator [(mi:dieIt&r]
oeuvre [(UvrE]
stage [steIdZ]
untouched [Vn(tVtSt]
Annahme
(wissenschaftlich erstelltes)
Werksverzeichnis
die Hände zu Fäusten ballen
sich erschöpfen, leeren
hier: sich von jmdm. / etw.
inspirieren lassen
Nachlass
Erschöpfung
in absehbarer Zeit
buchstäblich
herumliegen, faulenzen
hier: Vermittler(in)
(Gesamt)Werk
inszenieren, veranstalten
unangetastet
Blau’s favorites include a deptiction of a serious-looking
girl, which dates from 1954, and another from 1951,
when Warhol would have only been 22 or 23, of a boy
clenching his hands. Blau, who has galleries in London
and Munich, has a long-standing connection with the
foundation. He organized his first Warhol show in 1995,
eight years after the artist’s death, when it was nearly impossible
to find buyers, he said.
The gallerist says there is a widely held assumption that
Warhol’s output was enormous, and that there is an almost
endless supply of his works. But that is not the case. When
the first part of the artist’s catalogue raisonné came out in
2002, it became clear just how limited his oeuvre is. In his
book, Blau writes: “The supply of available paintings in
the estate has been depleting for some time and is foreseeably
reaching a point of exhaustion.”
That led Blau to Warhol’s
Warhol: a man
with many
artistic facets
drawings, and he staged a show in
1997 called Physiological Diagrams.
Another, in 2004, showed
Warhol’s 1950s drawings based on
the street photography of Edward
Wallowitch, while in 2008, Blau
opened an exhibition of drawings
called Andy Warhol Stereo Types.
In 2011, Blau approached Vincent
Fremont, who acts as mediator
between the Andy Warhol
Foundation and art dealers, asking
if there was anything else in the
depleted stores from which a
meaningful show could be put on.
The drawings that Fremont
brought out, which had been sitting
untouched since they were
archived in 1990, were a surprise
both to the foundation and to
Blau.
© Guardian News & Media 2013
The book From Silverpoint to Silver Screen, Andy Warhol:
The 1950s Drawings, edited by Daniel Blau, is available
from Hirmer Publishers, ISBN 978-3-7774-5341-5.
To see the Warhol drawings, check with the following
museums for information about the shows that are
planned for 2013:
• Teylers Museum · www.teylersmuseum.eu
May 31–September 1 (changes are possible)
Spaarne 16, Haarlem, the Netherlands
• Staatliche Graphische Sammlung
in the Pinakothek der Moderne · www.sgsm.eu
September 15–November 15 (changes are possible)
Katharina-von-Bora-Straße 10, Munich, Germany
4|13 Spotlight
25

AMY ARGETSINGER | I Ask Myself
What will Hillary
Clinton do next?
Hillary Clinton gehört heute zu den umstrittensten Figuren der
amerikanischen Gegenwartsgeschichte.
“
People
who hated her
20 years ago now
respect her
”
Hillary Clinton: a
respected figure
Only four more years until our
next presidential election,
and many people are predicting
that Hillary Clinton will win. Of
course, they thought that the last
time, too.
Don’t ask me: I’m always wrong
about Hillary Clinton. I never
thought she could be elected to political
office at all. When Bill Clinton
was elected president in 1992, she almost
immediately became the most
controversial first lady since Eleanor
Roosevelt. She was a high-powered
lawyer rather than a housewife like
Blutgerinnsel
hier: etwas Kantiges, Hartes
Spitzenkandidat(in)
renommiert, erfolgreich, Top-
Praktikant(in)
dienstjüngere(r) Senator(in)
blood clot [(blVd )klA:t]
edge [edZ]
front-runner [)frVnt (rVn&r]
high-powered [)haI (paU&rd]
intern [(Int§:n]
junior senator
[)dZu:nj&r (senEt&r]
know one’s place
[)noU wVnz (pleIs]
predecessor [(predEses&r]
run for [(rVn f&r]
secretary of state
[)sekrEteri Ev (steIt] US
snap back [)snÄp (bÄk]
soar [sO:r]
step down [step (daUn]
swamped [swA:mpt]
ultimately [(VltImEtli]
26 Spotlight 4|13
her predecessors, and she also had a
complicated personality, a certain
edge about her. “I apparently remind
some people of their mother-in-law
or their boss or something,” she once
famously said.
Over the years, voters began to like
her, and near the end of her husband’s
presidency, she decided to go into politics
for herself, running for the Senate
in 2000. I didn’t think she would win.
My theory about Hillary was that the
public started to like her only when
they felt sorry for her — after Bill’s catastrophic
sex scandal involving a
young White House intern. Once
Hillary made a comeback as a strong,
independent woman, no longer the
wife everyone felt sorry for, they would
dislike her again, I thought.
I was wrong. She won her Senate
race, easily. Perhaps, though, she
began to understand that it’s a difficult
thing to be a woman who intimidates
people. She tried her best to
behave like any other junior senator
in her first couple of years on the job.
With her name, she could have demanded
power
immediately, but
she moved slowly,
taking time to
learn the job and
show that she
knew her place. It
was smart. Voters
grew to respect
her more.
When she first
ran for president,
in 2008, she was
the front-runner,
more popular
than any of the
men in the race,
wissen, wo man hingehört
Vorgänger(in)
kandidieren
Außenminister(in)
sich scharfzüngig zur Wehr setzen
in die Höhe schnellen
zurücktreten
überwältigt
letztlich
and certainly better known. She lost,
though, after an unusually close battle
for the Democratic nomination. To
this day, it’s hard to say whether she
was simply swamped by the charisma
of newcomer Barack Obama, a candidate
with whom she shared almost
every position; or whether voters just
didn’t like her enough.
Ultimately, of course, Obama
won the general election — with the
Clintons campaigning for him.
Obama named Hillary as his secretary
of state because, he said, she was
already known on the world stage.
Once again, she went to work in a
lesser role; and once again, her standing
grew because of it. She traveled
more than any other secretary of state
in history. Her popularity soared.
Even people I know who hated her
20 years ago — because of that
“mother-in-law” quality of hers —
now respect her.
She stepped down from the job
after four years to rest and, many say,
to prepare a run for president in 2016.
She clearly needs rest. She was sick in
January, diagnosed with a blood clot.
Yet in her final big appearance, she
seemed stronger than ever. At a hearing
about the deadly terrorist attack
on American diplomats in Libya, she
snapped back at senators who accused
her of hiding the facts. It was a powerful
performance. Her supporters
were extremely happy — while critics
claimed she seemed shrill and out of
control. Twenty years on, it seems as
if the nation is still deciding what it
thinks about Hillary Clinton.
Amy Argetsinger is a co-author of “The Reliable
Source,” a column in The Washington
Post about personalities.
Foto: P. Souza/The White House

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The heart of London:
where the past meets the future
TRAVEL | London
London’s
Top 10
In der britischen Hauptstadt gibt es gerade 2013 viel Neues
zu entdecken. Machen Sie mit Spotlight-Chefredakteurin
INEZ SHARP eine Tour durch die pulsierende Metropole und
erkunden Sie die zehn Top-Attraktionen des Jahres.
London is a place of reinvention and tradition. Over the past several years,
three spectacular structures have been built there that are symbols of the
city’s international outlook: the London Eye dating from 2000, the
Gherkin from ten years ago and the Shard, which was finished just last year. At
the same time, celebrations and events in the capital are presented with a very
British flair, as seen at last year’s royal jubilee and the Olympic Games. Yet it is
not just the famous buildings or big events that make the city worth visiting.
Every week, somewhere in the metropolis, there is something new or unusual
to enjoy.
So why not visit London with Spotlight to discover ten of the best things to
do in 2013? You might decide to rocket into the London skies with a visit to
the Shard, or explore the city’s exciting new district at King’s Cross. Whatever
you choose, you’ll be sure to make some great discoveries of your own along
the way.
A CLOSER LOOK
The part of London’s East End that was home to the 2012 Olympic Games
is now called Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Its green spaces will become
public parks, which will open in stages starting in July. Some of the
Olympic buildings will stay as they are: the Velodrome, for example, will
be used as a location for big cycling events. The Aquatics Centre, with its
famous curved roof, is being redesigned and will open as a public swimming
pool in 2014. The future of the Olympic stadium, though, is undecided.
West Ham, a London football club, has considered using the
stadium as its home ground. At the time of writing, though, no final decision
had been made.
Foto: Franz Marc Frei
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in die Höhe schießen
Thronjubiläum
Stadion mit erhöhter Radrennbahn
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TRAVEL | London
1
A piece of London’s sky:
the Shard
“Where’s the Shard?” I ask a man in an orange
building-worker’s jacket as I walk out of London Bridge
Tube station. He grins and points to the sky behind us.
There, rising for what seems like miles into the clear, blue
heavens, is London’s newest skyscraper. At 310 metres, the
glittering, slender Shard is the tallest building in western
Europe, and will soon house offices, flats, restaurants and
a hotel. The last time I visited (see Spotlight 5/12, pp. 14
and 21), it was still protected by a construction fence. Architect
Renzo Piano, the builders and a fox called Romeo
— more about him later — were the only ones able to
enjoy the panorama of London from a viewing platform
244 metres above the ground.
Now, the platforms, known together as “The View
from the Shard”, are open to the public. In just a minute,
I will have the kind of perspective of London previously
possible only from a plane.
I collect my pre-booked ticket in the elegant lobby of
the building and walk into an almost empty lift. The cheerful
young Londoner operating it is happy to chat about
technical details. The ride up to level 68, where the viewing
galleries begin, takes 60 seconds, she tells me — and yes,
on a clear day, you can see for more than 60 kilometres.
The Shard:
London as
you have
never seen it
before
I think I am prepared for what’s to come, but when I
step on to the first glass-enclosed viewing platform, the
sight takes my breath away. Directly below, a greenish
River Thames makes its way past a tiny Tower of London
and then under Tower Bridge, which seems no bigger than
a child’s toy. To one side, the cupola of St Paul’s Cathedral
looks like a creamy miniature meringue. In another direction,
I can see the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, rising
up through a ring of thin cloud.
I know London quite well, but from this height, the
geography can be a bit confusing. I am grateful for the free
viewfinders that allow me to take a closer look at the city
and identify individual buildings. Next, I walk up to the
second level, where, high above me, the glass walls are
open to the sky. From here, I get an even better sense of
how far up I am.
On the way down, I ask one of the lift assistants about
Romeo. It seems that in 2011, a little fox had found his
way up to the 72nd floor of the building and started living
there, surviving on bits of food left by builders. Named
Romeo by staff, he was later caught by a pest-control expert,
warned about the dangers of hanging around in high
buildings and released in south London.
Tube: London Bridge.
See www.theviewfromtheshard.com
2
Will and Kate’s new home:
Kensington Palace
To me, there is something homely about this
place. The asymmetrical brick palace in Kensington Gardens
was once a large, privately owned home. In 1689, it was
bought by King William III and redesigned as a royal residence
by London architect Sir Christopher Wren. In fact,
Wren simply added parts to the building. Queen Anne lived
here next, and she built the lovely Orangery. Then came
King George I, who decided to renovate — but not rebuild.
He replaced parts of the old structure with new state rooms.
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Cosy for Kate and William: Kensington Palace
Now Prince William, who grew up here, has chosen
Kensington Palace as the place that he and his wife, Kate,
will call home once the royal baby has arrived. They plan
to move in later this year.
The section of Kensington Palace that is open to the
public has just been renovated. The rooms have been decorated
to tell the stories of the many royal dramas that have
played out here. I visit the apartments of Queen Mary II,
who was King William’s wife. The great wooden stairwell
is filled with trunks and bags, a reference to William’s
arrival from Holland in 1688 to overthrow James II, his
father-in-law.
This playful way of explaining history continues in the
rooms of Queen Victoria, who was born in the palace and
lived there until she became sovereign in 1837. Her apartments
are decorated as if she had only just left. Toys, drawings
and clothing, including her surprisingly simple and
petite wedding dress, are among the personal things on show.
Relaxing with a cup of tea in the Orangery, now a
restaurant, I think of William and Kate, and the inevitable
paparazzi, and hope that this will be a happy home for
them.
Tube: High Street Kensington.
See www.hrp.org.uk/KensingtonPalace
3
Multicultural cuisine: Ottolenghi
In quiet Motcomb Street in Belgravia, tiny Ottolenghi
at number 13 hardly stands out. Step
inside, though, and the colours and aromas will transport
you to food heaven. On a long counter are numerous
dishes filled with
colourful Levantine
cooking. Green beans
with mint, coriander
and chilli are displayed
next to a plate of carrotand-pear
salad. Golden
bacon-and-egg pies
make a lovely addition,
and there are jewelcoloured
fruit tartlets
for afterwards.
Ottolenghi:
sweet treats
For the past few years, Israeli-born chef Yotam Ottolenghi
has been a star of London’s highly competitive
food scene. I start to eat my lunch and can taste why. There
is a wonderful mix of spicy and sweet dishes. I order
chicken with rose water and an extra serving of delicious,
freshly baked bread.
It is not just London that Ottolenghi has conquered.
He is the star of a television series on Britain’s Channel 4,
called Ottolenghi’s Mediterranean Feast in which, in his
own words, he wants to “demystify the cooking of the
southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean”. His
cookery books are selling like hot cakes across Europe.
There is a no-booking policy for lunch, so if you want
to try some of the best food that multicultural London has
to offer, visit any of the city’s four Ottolenghi restaurants.
The prices are such that you won’t have to cry into your
coconut panna cotta.
Tube for Belgravia location: Knightsbridge.
See www.ottolenghi.co.uk
The Levant meets London: the Ottolenghi shop in Belgravia
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TRAVEL | London
Travel in style: the London Transport Museum
4
32 Spotlight 4|13
One-stop travel:
the London Transport Museum
“My name’s Bert,” says the friendly gentleman
in the white shirt and breeches standing outside London’s
first-ever bus. “I’m your conductor, and it’ll be one shilling
for the trip from Paddington to Bank.” I haven’t got a
shilling, but Bert isn’t really going to make me pay. Instead,
we take our seats inside the bus, and he tells us more about
London’s early public-transport system.
Bert is one of the actors employed to tell visitors about
the exhibits at the London Transport Museum at Covent
Garden. Since the London Underground is celebrating its
150-year anniversary this year (see Spotlight 1/13, p. 40),
the museum is putting on a special show. The
exhibits are in an immense iron-and-glass
building that was once part of the famous
local flower market, so there is plenty of room
for the many buses and trains shown on its
three floors.
After the imaginary bus ride with Bert, I
visit the section of the museum dedicated to
the Tube. There, I board one of the early trains
and take a seat. I feel claustrophobic sitting
there in the dark narrow carriage, which
would also have been filled with smoke from
the engine. The next exhibit is much nicer: it
shows a 1930s living room, the kind of home Londoners
would have enjoyed when the expansion of the Tube allowed
them to live comfortably in the suburbs and travel
into the city to work.
Later, in the museum cafe, I read up on the events that
have been organized to celebrate the big anniversary. These
include a late-night party at the museum in May and walking
tours of the original Tube line in June.
Tube: Covent Garden.
See www.ltmuseum.co.uk
Liberty:
shopping on
many levels
5
Free to shop: Liberty
Liberty on Regent Street was founded in 1875
by Arthur Lasenby Liberty as a place that sold
exotic silks imported from Asia. Today, this lovely emporium
offers other luxury goods, too, including clothing,
beautiful things for the home, perfumes, jewellery and
much more.
Pushing open the heavy wooden shop doors and stepping
into its perfumed rooms to see the bright scarves and
elegant stationery has become a ritual of mine when I visit
London.
I enjoy an hour or two of retail therapy — including a
visit to the small selection of fantastic avant-garde furniture
— and leave happy with a metre of Liberty fabric. As
I go, I remember a quote by the art critic John Ruskin,
one of the first customers at Liberty: “Quality is never an
accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”
Tube: Oxford Circus.
See www.liberty.co.uk
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Fotos: Alamy; D. Auckland/Fotohaus; Avenue Images;
Franz Marc Frei; Getty Images; Vario Images;
6
Streets of London:
the Rock ’n’ Roll walk
This July, rock star Mick Jagger will celebrate
his 70th birthday. If he is feeling his age, I recommend
that he go along on the Rock ’n’ Roll tour by London
Walks. The shabby streets and buildings around Shaftesbury
Avenue, where the
Rolling Stones, David
Bowie and the Beatles
made history, seem not
to have changed since
the 1960s. The funny,
informative commentary
from our guide,
Adam, brings this great
musical past to life.
The tour begins at
the Dominion Theatre
in the West End, on the
corner of Tottenham
Court Road and Oxford
Street. This is where, in
1957, the first major
rock-and-roll concert in
London took place. The
band was Billy Haley &
His Comets. Adam tells
us that fans loved the
music, but they were
disappointed by Haley’s
Collector’s corner: vinyl oldies at
Reckless Records
tubby, middle-aged
appearance.
This was not a problem
for the friendly,
slender Fab Four, nor
for the group that were
their sexy, dangerous
competitors, the Rolling
Stones. Both bands performed
and recorded
their music close by, in
the area around Denmark
Street. “This,” says
Adam outside a former
jazz club on Great Newport Street, “is where a chance
meeting between John Lennon, Paul McCartney and the
Rolling Stones led to the recording of the Stones’s first hit
in 1963: ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’, which was a Lennon-
McCartney composition.”
The two-hour tour ends at the Reckless Records shop
in Berwick Street, where the photo on the cover of the
Oasis album (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? was taken.
I take a picture of the street for my son. He’ll be pleased.
Tube: Tottenham Court Road.
See www.walks.com
7
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State of the art:
the Saatchi Gallery
King’s Road, which begins at Sloane Square,
is a trendy shopping mile. Every chic shop and restaurant
can be found in this busy part of Chelsea. That’s why it is
easy to miss the Saatchi Gallery. One of London’s best
spaces for modern art, it is hidden behind the shops at the
top end of the King’s Road, close to Sloane Square Tube
station. The gallery itself is large and airy. The building,
dating from 1801, was once a military school, and its plain,
white rooms are large and well proportioned. The rather
dark photos and installations by young Russian artists that
I saw there created a provocative contrast to the elegant
gallery and the material wealth on the King’s Road beyond.
The carefully organized exhibition and friendly staff —
as well as the lovely restaurant — are the reasons why the
Saatchi Gallery was named as one of the most visited museums
in London in 2011.
Tube: Sloane Square.
See www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk
hier: zufällig
hier: Gegenspieler
Spitzname der Beatles
schlicht, einfach
heruntergekommen
rundlich
See it now: the
Saatchi Gallery
Saatchi:
art in our time
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TRAVEL | London
King’s Cross reinvented: the new station forecourt
8
34 Spotlight 4|13
From red light to highlight:
King’s Cross
As a student in the 1980s, I lived close to
King’s Cross station. Back then, the area was known for
its seediness. With heavy traffic, dirty canals and the grim
facades of its twin stations, St Pancras and King’s Cross,
this was not a place to be caught walking around after
dark. It always makes me think of the grim atmosphere in
the 1955 film The Ladykillers. Now the area is in the middle
of a massive, 25-year regeneration programme. It is
worth going there in 2013 to see how old London is being
reinterpreted for the next generation of Londoners.
I join a free morning tour that begins at the offices of
the King’s Cross Visitor Centre on Granary Square, close
to the station. During the next 90 minutes, I discover that
the area was a major port where grain and coal were loaded
from trains into boats and then shipped across Britain. I
also learn that in the next few years, 200 new flats will be
built here. Around 1865, what was probably London’s first
indoor gym, the German Gymnasium, was built in this
area, too. It was established by the exercise promoter and
cartographer Ernst Ravenstein.
As I leave the tour, I see a young man hanging out his
washing on the deck of a canal boat, while close by, a huge
crane lifts a block of concrete up to the skeleton of a new
building.
Tube: King’s Cross.
See www.kingscross.co.uk/kings-cross-visitor-centre
9
Meals on wheels:
food trucks
Mobile street-food vendors are very popular in
London right now. In the US, food trucks have been
around for quite a while. Now, vehicles selling excellent
gourmet foods are touring the British capital, too. The
trucks travel to different locations and do not always follow
a strict timetable. The best way to taste their offerings
is to visit one of the food markets where the trucks tend
to make their stops.
I choose the Real Food
Market behind the Royal
Festival Hall on London’s
South Bank. It’s a wet and
windy day, and by the
time I reach the market,
I’m freezing. So I begin
with a cheese, mushroom
and egg galette, freshly
The real thing: good food
made in the blue Citroën
truck that is Crêperie
Nicolas. Warmed, but looking for something sweet to
round off my lunch, I discover the macaroons of On Cafe.
The lychee and raspberry version is simply perfect. I can
see why Time Out magazine named these the best macaroons
in London. I make a note of the website so that I
can place an order for more from home.
Tube for the Real Food Market: Waterloo.
See www.realfoodfestival.co.uk
The Real Food Market: something for everyone
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Cabin fever: great views
from the London Eye
10
Cabin with a view:
the London Eye
You might not want to take to the
London skies twice in one visit, but if the Shard
is too tall for you, the London Eye offers another
way of viewing the capital.
A large glass cabin gives me the sensation of
being on a very safe and high-tech Ferris wheel. I
can see why children love the Eye. The location is
more central than the Shard, so I can look directly
across the Thames to Westminster in the golden
light of evening. I hear the bells of Big Ben, and
lamps are glittering across at me from the Houses
of Parliament. I have the feeling that, if I look
carefully, I’ll be able to see Prime Minister David
Cameron at a meeting there.
Back down on the ground, I ask about taking
afternoon tea in a cabin of the London Eye. I have
heard that this can be organized. It is possible, I
am told — as is dinner. But the cost would be
more than £500. Perhaps I’ll just bring some
sandwiches with me next time.
Tube: Waterloo.
See www.londoneye.com
Later that evening, as I walk along the South Bank, the city around me
is pulsating with life. Samuel Johnson was right: “When a man is tired
of London, he is tired of life.”
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PETER FLYNN | Around Oz
Lining up at the cliff
Der demographische Wandel hat auch für die australische
Bevölkerung weitreichende Folgen.
“
The grey
generation is
getting greyer
and bigger
”
It seems that I am ageing in good
company. The government’s latest
Intergenerational Report — a demographic
study of Australia’s population
made every few years —
confirms that the grey generation is
getting uncontrollably greyer and
bigger.
Yes, that’s true of lots of Western
nations, where there has been plenty
of discussion in the past decade about
how the younger generations will
have to help us old baby boomers
through our final years. The hippy
generation is, probably rightly,
thought of as becoming the most selfish
on the planet.
In response to Australia’s first Intergenerational
Report, in 2002, the
government introduced a cash baby
bonus (see Spotlight 3/12, pp.
38–39): “Have one for mum, one for
dad and one for the country.”
One commentator described our
latest population profile as Australia
hitting a demographic brick wall.
Well, I don’t think we can climb over
this wall, knock it down or go around
it; I prefer the image of Australia going
over a demographic cliff. We can hope
that young people will be at the bottom
with a safety net (hey, don’t depend
on it), but I suspect that for us
oldies, this free fall won’t be all bad.
For a start, we will get to meet lots
of pretty young doctors and nurses. I
know, because in recent times, I’ve
had every medical test and procedure
possible — including putting cameras
in places where the sun never
shines — for a man who will turn 60
next year. Fortunately, they can’t find
anything wrong with me, or at least
nothing that is going to kill me anytime
soon.
I will have to cut back on my
spending, though. What I read tells
me that an average person in his late
40s has twice as much spending
power as a person over 65. That spells
trouble for a society built on consumerism.
That brand-new fourwheel-drive
car I got last year —
specifically to allow me to drive on
beaches to go fishing — might well be
the first and last that I own in my life.
I wouldn’t recommend investing
in companies that design and build
backyard swimming pools either.
Right now, there are at least a million
homes in Australia with their own
swimming pool, but the numbers are
drying up. The baby boomers are
leading a revolution in smaller homes
with very little grass or garden. The
younger generation are following.
Lots of other luxury spending will
also take a hit over the next ten years
as the asset-rich, but cash-poor, over-
65s swell in numbers, especially compared
to the number of “big
spenders” in their mid to late 40s.
Ten years ago, there was still a balance
in the growth of those two groups,
but those 65 and over are now lining
up at the clifftop like lemmings.
I’m not ready to join in the queue,
because I’m planning next year’s 60th
birthday celebration. The closest I’m
getting to the cliff is when a helicopter
takes friends and me into the
gorges of the Kimberley to catch (and
then release) wild barramundi.
Hopefully, that will help compensate
for the lack of spending by my
older sister, a retired schoolteacher,
who turned 65 last month.
More and more Australians are over 65 years of age
Peter Flynn is a public-relations consultant and social commentator
who lives in Perth, Western Australia.
asset-rich [(Äset rItS]
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baby bonus [(beIbi )bEUnEs] Steuerrückerstattung anlässlich
der Geburt eines Kindes
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barramundi [)bÄrE(mVndi] barschartiger Fisch
brick wall: hit a ~ [brIk (wO:l] an seine Grenzen stoßen
(brick wall
Ziegelmauer, Backsteinmauer)
cliff [klIf]
Klippe
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four-wheel-drive [)fO: wi:&l (draIv] mit Allradantrieb
gorge [gO:dZ]
Schlucht
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the Kimberley [DE (kImbEli] Region in Nordwestaustralien
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DEBATE | Scotland
An independent Scotland?
Die Schotten stehen kurz vor der Entscheidung, sich von England loszulösen. Was spricht für
und was gegen eine Unabhängigkeit? Die Meinungen sind geteilt.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) is finally having
its day in the sun. Since the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary
election, the SNP had ruled as a minority
administration. However, when the party won an overall
majority in the Scottish parliament two years ago, gaining
— in their case — a phenomenal 69 out of 129 seats, it
received a clear mandate to hold a referendum on its
defining issue: whether Scotland should leave the United
Kingdom.
Scotland’s union
with England dates
back to 1603, when
Queen Elizabeth I of
England died childless.
Her cousin, King James
VI of Scotland, was
crowned James I of
England, thus unifying
the two crowns. Full
political union, however,
came only with
the Acts of Union of
1706 and 1707. In the
18th and 19th centuries,
Scotland’s economy
thrived thanks to access to British colonies and being
a major centre of the Industrial Revolution.
Not everyone favoured the idea of staying in the
Union, however. After a failed attempt in 1979, supporters
of devolution for Scotland later won a majority vote in a
referendum in 1997. This led to the creation of the
Scottish Parliament in 1999. The parliament is able to
make decisions on matters such as health, education, local
government and justice. The UK government retains control
over trade, defence and economic matters.
In October 2012, British prime minister David
Cameron and Scotland’s first minister Alex Salmond
signed the Edinburgh Agreement, which states that the
referendum on Scottish independence must take place in
autumn 2014. The question on the ballot will be: “Do you
agree that Scotland should be an independent country?”
The “yes” campaign is backed not only by the SNP, but
also by the Scottish Green Party, the Scottish Socialist
Party and independent members of the Scottish parliament.
The “no” campaign is supported by the Labour
party, the Conservatives
and the Liberal Demo -
crats and headed by Alistair
Darling, who was
the UK’s chancellor of
the exchequer during
the bank collapse in
2008.
One of the big arguments
in favour of independence
is that Scotland
would gain control
over all of its taxes and
laws, as well as the
North Sea oil and gas
fields, resources which
the “yes” campaign believes
would keep an independent Scotland financially secure.
The “no” campaign says that Scotland would be
economically, politically and socially stronger by remaining
part of the UK.
Several opinion polls conducted during 2012 put support
for independence at around a third, with those against
it just above 50 per cent. Many voters are still undecided,
as the status of the currency and EU membership for an
independent Scotland are still not clear. While the SNP
enjoys a significant majority in the Scottish parliament, its
biggest challenge will be translating this into a vote for
independence.
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[)tSA:nsElE Ev Di Iks(tSekE]
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currency [(kVrEnsi]
Vereinigungsgesetz
Vereinbarung
Versuch
unterstützen
Wahl, Abstimmung
Schatzkanzler(in)
durchführen
Währung
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[)deI In DE (sVn]
devolution [)di:vE(lu:S&n]
Edinburgh [(edInbErE]
opinion poll [E(pInjEn pEUl]
retain [ri(teIn]
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endlich von anderen
wahrgenommen werden
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vom Vereinigten Königreich
Meinungsumfrage
weiterhin behalten
aufblühen
vereinigen
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Listen to Martin, Christine, Lisa and Michael
Olaf Furniss asked people in Edinburgh, Scotland:
Would Scotland be better off outside the United Kingdom?
Martin Coull, 47,
concert promoter
Christine Rodgers, 65,
pensioner
Lisa Moffat, 39,
master’s student
Michael Lambert, 24,
event organizer
Simon McLean, 50,
social-care manager
Olga Engelund, 38,
photographer
Aisha Khan, 33,
housing officer
Klive Smith, 36,
music teacher
benefit [(benIfIt]
better off [)betE (Qf]
bound to: be ~ do sth.
[(baUnd tE]
gloomy [(glu:mi]
profitieren
besser dran
etw. bestimmt tun werden
düster
housing officer [(haUzIN )QfIsE]
pursue [pE(sju:]
social-care manager
[)sEUS&l (keE )mÄnIdZE]
struggle [(strVg&l]
Mitarbeiter(in) des Wohnungsamtes
verfolgen
etwa: Sozialarbeiter(in)
sich abmühen
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HISTORY | 100 Years Ago
The two fathers
of Indian cinema
MIKE PILEWSKI blickt auf die Anfänge der indischen
Filmindustrie vor einem Jahrhundert zurück.
The largest film industry in the world is not in Hollywood,
but in Asia. India produces more films than
any other country — more than 1,000 feature films
per year. Most of the money earned by today’s Indian cinema
comes from films in southern Indian languages such
as Telugu and Tamil. Best known, however, are the Hindilanguage
films of “Bollywood” — in which the “B” stands
for “Bombay”, the former name of Mumbai.
Mumbai is the birthplace of Indian cinema, which is
now a century old. Two film-makers, both from near
Mumbai and each with his own story to tell, are separately
considered to be “the father of Indian cinema”.
The first, Ram Chandra Gopal Torne, was born in a
coastal village on 13 April 1890. When he was about 10
years old, he left school and went to work for an electrical
company in Mumbai. After a while, he began experimenting
with film. Hollywood productions gave him the idea
of making a film with a story based on mythology. The
subject he chose was a popular Indian play, Pundalik.
“He bought a Williamson camera from Kolkata-based
Bourne and Shepherd Company for 1,000 rupees,” Torne’s
son Anil told The Times of India. “However, nobody knew
how to operate it. So the company sent one [man named]
Johnson to help my father and provided the raw film stock.
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1913: a scene from
Raja Harishchandra
“The play was shot in Mumbai... The story
was conveyed through gestures and subtitles. By
this time, my father had exhausted all his
money. He again approached the Bourne and
Shepherd Company, which agreed to process
the film in exchange for the Williamson camera.
The film was shipped to London, where a
negative and positive were developed,” Anil
Torne said.
Pundlik-Pundlik, or Shree Pundalik, as the
22-minute film was called, was shown for two
weeks at Mumbai’s Coronation Cinematograph,
starting on 18 May 1912.
Whether Torne’s film should count as the
first Indian film is unclear. It did have a script,
written by Torne and two Indian colleagues.
However, “Pundlik missed out on the honour
because it was a shooting of a popular Marathi
play, the cameraman ... was a British national,
and because the film was processed in London,”
says Anil Torne.
More commonly, therefore, the honour of
making the first Indian film is given to Dhundiraj
Govind Phalke, whose Raja Harishchandra played in
the same cinema as Shree Pundalik a year later.
The son of a Sanskrit scholar, Phalke was born in the
Indian state of Maharashtra on 30 April 1870. As a young
man, he studied art and became a photographer. However,
an outbreak of the bubonic plague, which killed his wife
and children, ended his career. For a time, Phalke went
approach [E(prEUtS]
bubonic plague [bju)bQnIk (pleIg]
cinematograph
[)sInE(mÄtEgrA:f]
convey [kEn(veI]
coronation [)kQrE(neIS&n]
exhaust [Ig(zO:st]
feature film [(fi:tSE fIlm]
film stock [(fIlm stQk]
gesture [(dZestSE]
Marathi [mE(rA:ti]
miss out on sth. [)mIs (aUt Qn]
national [(nÄS&nEl]
process [(prEUses]
scholar [(skQlE]
shoot [Su:t]
subtitles [(sVb)taIt&lz]
kontaktieren
Beulenpest
früher Filmprojektor;
hier: Lichtspielhaus
übertragen; hier: erzählen
Krönung
ausschöpfen
Spielfilm
Filmmaterial
Geste
Hauptsprache im westindischen
Staat Maharashtra
bei etw. zu kurz kommen
Staatsbürger(in)
entwickeln
Gelehrte(r)
drehen
Untertitel

First? Pundlik-
Pundlik, or Shree
Pundalik (1912)
into the printing business, specializing
in lithography and operating his
own printing press. A dispute with
his partners, however, ended his involvement
there as well.
A film called The Life of Christ
gave Phalke the idea that he could
make his own full-length film.
Phalke chose as his subject an ancient
Hindu king, Harishchandra,
who gives his whole kingdom to a
wise man in order to fulfil an earlier
promise. When the wise man, Vishwamitra,
insists that a sum of money
be paid as well, the king sells himself,
his wife and son into servitude. After
a period of suffering, in which the
king and his wife are prepared to
make even more sacrifices, several gods appear, along with
Vishwamitra, and offer them a place in heaven.
Phalke’s 40-minute film, Raja Harishchandra, was made
with an all-male cast; it’s said that no woman was willing
to play the part of the queen. The delicate-looking man,
Salunke, who took on that role played both the male god
Rama and his female consort Situ a few years later in another
film by Phalke. Like the rest of the cast, Salunke was
not a professional actor; he had been
a cook in a restaurant.
Although the cast and crew numbered
more than 500 people, the film
was a low-budget, family production.
Phalke’s second wife fed everyone
with her cooking and washed all their
clothes and costumes.
A hundred years ago this month,
on 21 April 1913, the film was first
shown at the Olympia Theatre in
Mumbai to newspaper editors and
prominent members of local society.
The first general showing was two
weeks later, at the Coronation Cinematograph
on 3 May.
From these humble beginnings,
Indian cinema developed into the
giant it is today, the child not of one father, but two.
cast [kA:st]
consort [(kQnsO:t]
delicate [(delIkEt]
humble [(hVmb&l]
sacrifices: make ~ [(sÄkrIfaIsIz]
servitude [(s§:vItju:d]
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zart
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PRESS GALLERY | Comment
As long as it takes
Now for the hard part:
a Malian soldier guards
a checkpoint in Gao
Der militärische Konflikt in Mali könnte für den britischen Premier zur Feuerprobe auf dem
internationalen Parkett werden.
Inevitably, the French involvement [in Mali] has grown
from an operation that was supposed to last only weeks
to a commitment to remain as long as it takes. In a
phrase that could have come only from a French military
source, they are now going to winkle out the militants
“with a snail fork” if necessary. For all the ... triumphalism,
they know that the hard part is just about to begin. ...
Enter David Cameron, hot on the tail of [a] mission
to replicate in Mali the international response that appears
to be working in Somalia. ... Mr Cameron flew in [to
Tripoli] from Algiers to conscript two very different north
African regimes into the same fight. ...
To keep militants from exploiting the vast terrain of
ungoverned space in the Sahel and north Africa requires
not only an effective Africa-led support mission in Mali
of over 3,300 troops, which is still months away. It also requires
security co-operation between Egypt, Libya, Algeria
and Tunisia — three of whom are in the chaotic, crisisstrewn
throes of revolution. ...
The revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt created deep divisions
among former partners. Regional interest in their
outcome is intense, with Saudi Arabia and the United
Arab Emirates struggling with opposition movements of
their own. Mr Cameron bestrides the regional tumult in
north Africa with increasing difficulty, as Britain is at once
a military supplier to the Gulf states and a supporter of
the fledg[l]ing Islamist rulers of the Arab spring. ...
[D]oubt must remain ... about whether the cure will
outlast the disease.
© Guardian News & Media 2013
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[(kraIsIs )stru:n]
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fledgling [(fledZlIN]
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einberufen; hier: einspannen
krisengebeutelt
ausnutzen
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wiederholen
Schnecke
weit
herausholen
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INFO TO GO
throes
To be in the throes of something is, loosely speaking,
to be in the middle of it. But the word “throes” means
much more than that. It is used in connection with
painful, difficult and emotional situations. If you love
someone very much, for example, you are in the
throes of passion. If you are dying a painful death,
you are experiencing your death throes. And if a long
and difficult struggle has reached the point where the
end is in sight, that process is in its final throes. You’ll
be happy to see it end — whether that end is good or
bad.
loosely speaking [)lu:sli (spi:kIN]
point out [)pOInt (aUt]
sneeze [sni:z]
tissue [(tISu:]
grob gesagt
aufzeigen
niesen
(Papier)Taschentuch
IN THE HEADLINES
Nothing to sneeze at Maclean’s
This headline appeared above an article about antiviral tissues
made by Kleenex. The company claims that if you
sneeze into the new tissues, you will be better protected
than if you use standard tissues, because you won’t carry
viruses around on your hands. The article, however,
points out that the price — 12 times that of standard tissues
— is “nothing to sneeze at”, a fixed expression meaning
“not trivial”. The article also mentions a 1998 study
that found using antiviral tissues to be only slightly more
effective than washing one’s hands.
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nirgendwo shoppen.
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ARTS | What’s New
| Thriller
A man in
trouble: Mark
Wahlberg in
Broken City
Dark days in NYC
In Broken City, Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) plays a
private detective who was once a New York cop, but
who left the police after a shooting incident. Times are
tough, and he’s happy to take on a new client: New York
Mayor Hostetler (Russell Crowe). Hostetler calls him up
with the offer of some well-paid work, which involves following
the mayor’s wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) to discover
with whom she’s having an affair. The mayor is in the final
phases of a hard-fought re-election campaign and wants
to make sure he has all the information he needs to avoid
a fiasco. This, at least, is what he tells Taggart.
delicate [(delIkEt]
demand [di(mA:nd]
elderly [(eldEli]
fragile [(frÄdZaI&l]
greed [gri:d]
| Social drama
British film-maker Sally Potter has always been interested in
the female point of view. Her new film, Ginger & Rosa, confirms
this with its portrayal of a young girl living in London
whose parents’ marriage breaks down around the time of the
1960s’ Cuban Missile Crisis. Some of
the US stars struggle with an English
accent, and Ginger’s friendship
with Rosa gets a little lost. But Potter’s
direction of the younger actors,
in particular Elle Fanning as
Ginger, brings together private and
public fears in a delicate portrait of
Englert and Fanning
in Ginger & Rosa
what it means to be young in a fra -
gile world. Starts 11 April.
fein, zart
verlangen nach, erfordern
alt
empfindlich, zerbrechlich
Gier
Of course, it’s all a lot more complicated. In a film that
takes place almost completely at night, director Allen
Hughes presents New York as a city in which greed and
corruption are a way of life for the powerful, who need
money to maintain their position. Crowe is good as a man
who believes that anything goes when it comes to staying
on top. But it’s Wahlberg’s performance that stands out.
As an individual who comes to believe that moral comfort
is more important than material comfort, his role demands
subtlety and a gentle touch. The ending provides no surprises,
but the way there is entertaining. Starts 18 April.
| Classic TV
In November 1973, the BBC began showing
a TV comedy series called Last of the
Summer Wine. It followed the lives of
three elderly men living in the town of
Holmfirth in West Yorkshire. The easy humour
plays on the adventures of the three,
who are essentially enjoying a second
youth. Will the wild but lovable Compo persuade
the fearsome Nora Batty to have sex
him? Can the ex-army corporal Foggy tidy
incident [(InsIdEnt]
mayor [meE]
play on sth. [(pleI Qn]
stand out [stÄnd (aUt]
subtlety [(sVt&lti]
Vorfall
Bürgermeister(in)
sich etw. zunutze machen
sich (von anderen) abheben
Fingerspitzengefühl
Best of the
summer wine
up his friends by getting them jobs that come with uniforms?
Last of the Summer Wine was shown until 2010, making it the
world’s longest-running sitcom. Series 3 to 8 are considered
among the best. Available from Amazon.de.
Fotos: Fox Film; Universal; Yoko Ono/Schirn Kunsthalle
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| Travel
| Stories
If you are planning to visit London this year (see pages 28–35)
or simply enjoy discovering the history of the British capital,
London — A City Through Time should be the app of
your choice. There are nine options for exploring London, including
a timeline, a function that allows you to browse locations
by map, a My London section in which a mix of famous
and ordinary Londoners describe their favourite places, and
three audio tours that can be followed live as you walk the
city’s streets. The app combines general historical information
with thousands of images and articles on less well-known aspects
of London and rare clips of old films, such as Queen Victoria’s
funeral in 1901. Created by Pan Macmillan, Heuristic
Media and the Museum of London, the app is both a guide to
and an illustrated compendium of the city. Versions for iPhone
(€5.99) and iPad (€12.99) are available from iTunes.
London —
A City
Through
Time:
making
history
modern
If you love old westerns, the opening music — the galloping finale
of the William Tell overture — will get you in the mood for
a classic cowboysand-Indians
story.
This month’s podcast,
Old Time
Radio Westerns,
is a collection
of vintage
radio shows. The
podcast offers
Best of the West: Old Time Radio
shows featuring
the Lone Ranger,
Hopalong Cassidy
and Roy Rogers,
to name a few.
Each podcast provides
around 30
minutes of gunshot,
cool cowboy talk and gravel-voiced narration. You don’t
need to listen to the mumbled introduction, just go straight to
the action. You’ll find the podcasts at Old Time Radio Westerns
in iTunes.
| Exhibition
For a long time, the work of Japanese peace artist and
musician Yoko Ono existed in the shadow of her marriage
to John Lennon of the Beatles — although Ono
was an artist long before she met Lennon. For decades,
only real fans of avant-garde art knew and appreciated
her work. On the occasion of her 80th birthday on 18 February,
the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt went some way
towards bringing Ono to the attention of a wider audience
by dedicating a solo exhibition to her work.
The retrospective Half-a-Wind Show, which runs
until 12 May, highlights 60 years of creativity, with
particular emphasis on the 1960s and 70s, when Ono’s
exploration of concept, performance and environmental
art influenced many German artists. Featuring some of
Ono’s experimental films, drawings, installations and
musical work, the show also includes a new piece by the
artist, called Moving Mountains. For tickets and details
go to www.schirn.de
Yoko Ono:
breaking
all the rules
of art
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browse [braUz]
compendium [kEm(pendiEm]
dedicate [(dedIkeIt]
finale [fI(nA:li]
zu schätzen wissen
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kurze Übersicht
widmen
funeral [(fju:n&rEl]
gravel-voiced [(grÄv&l )vOIst]
mumbled [(mVmb&ld]
narration [nE(reIS&n]
vintage [(vIntIdZ]
Begräbnis
mit einer Reibeisenstimme
gemurmelt
Erzählung
alt, klassisch
Reviews by EVE LUCAS
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ARTS | Short Story and Books
Safety first
In einer Kurzgeschichte von JESSIE OPAL lernt eine junge Frau, wie verheerend es sein
kann, sich von Vorurteilen leiten zu lassen.
Sally stepped resolutely onto the train. The night before,
she’d watched a program on television called
“Strategies for Safety and Survival.” The presenter
had interviewed experts, victims, and even criminals about
everything from robbery and assault to carjacking. Then
he had presented the most important things to remember
to stay safe. The first strategy was: “Don’t look like a victim.”
Sally’s body language was designed to tell the world
loud and clear that she wasn’t one to be messed with.
Rule number two: “Be aware of your surroundings.”
Sally looked around. It was crowded in the train. There
were two empty seats nearby, one next to a middle-aged
businessman in a suit and one next to a teenager who
looked like a punk. Sally slid primly into the seat next to
the businessman.
She stole quick glances at the boy across the aisle. He
looked as if he belonged in a freak show, with his skin-
tight pants, black leather jacket, and heavy boots. And that
wasn’t the worst of it. His face was decorated with metal.
Shiny silver rings were stuck in his eyebrows, nose, and
lips. He had a big hole in one ear — she could probably
poke two fingers through it. Half of his head was shaved,
and his hair was rainbow-colored. The boy shifted in his
seat and turned to look straight at Sally, who blushed and
quickly looked to the floor.
Why had she been staring? She should have known
better. Now she had drawn his attention. He might belong
to a gang, or maybe he was on drugs. Who was to say that
he wouldn’t follow her off the train, and then...
She remembered the television presenter’s third survival
strategy: “Trust your instincts.” She would phone her
neighbor, Mr. Hinkle; that’s what she’d do. He would
come and pick her up at the station. Better safe than sorry,
Sally thought.
Several people got off at the next stop. The punk kid
stayed in his seat, though, looking out the window. At
least the businessman next to her hadn’t gotten off either
and left her alone. He seemed like someone you could depend
on: middle class, respectable, decent. Sometimes,
you just had to rely on the kindness of strangers, and this
man had a good look about him. Sally began to relax, forgetting
survival strategy number four: “Don’t let your
guard down.”
When the train stopped again, a plump man in his forties
ran in through the door and sank into the seat across
from Sally. She just had time to see the wild look in his
eyes and to wonder what it meant, before another man appeared
who was waving a liquor bottle and began raving.
“I’m going to smash your skull in!” he shouted at the
plump man. “I’m going to kill you!” Sally believed him,
and it looked as if the other man did, too. He was as white
aisle [aI&l]
assault [E(sO:lt]
better safe than sorry
[)bet&r )seIf DEn (sA:ri]
blush [blVS]
carjacking [(kA:rdZÄkIN]
decent [(di:s&nt]
draw [drO:]
guard: not to let one’s ~ down
[gA:rd]
liquor [(lIk&r]
mess with sb. [(mes wIT]
Gang
tätlicher Angriff
Vorsicht ist besser als Nachsicht
rot werden
Autodiebstahl
anständig
hier: auf sich lenken/ziehen
ständig auf der Hut sein
alkoholisches Getränk
mit jmdm. herumspielen
pick sb. up [pIk (Vp]
plump [plVmp]
poke [poUk]
primly [(prImli]
rave [reIv]
resolutely [(rezElu:tli]
robbery [(rA:bEri]
skull [skVl]
slide [slaId]
smash [smÄS]
steal quick glances
[)sti:&l kwIk (glÄnsEz]
jmdn. abholen
dicklich
stecken
steif, affektiert
rasen, toben
entschlossen
Raubüberfall, Einbruch
Schädel
gleiten
(ein)schlagen
verstohlen schauen
Fotos: Alamy; Corbis
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Short Story
as a sheet, and he seemed to shrink right before her eyes.
She looked at her neighbor, the respectable businessman,
and was shocked to see that he intended to do absolutely
nothing. His features were neutral, and he looked calmly
— determinedly — straight ahead. He was not going to
get involved.
A string of angry obscenities rang in her ears, words
that would have made her get up and leave a movie theater.
This was no movie, though, and there was nowhere for her
to go. A strong smell of alcohol accompanied each word.
Sally began to feel woozy.
The plump man had still not said a single word. He,
too, had seen that her neighbor would be no source of
help. Now he looked at Sally with searching, pleading eyes.
She looked back at the man in desperation. What else had
the experts recommended on the show? Stay away from
dark areas... Run if you see a gun... Always lock your
doors... None of those seemed appropriate for this strange
situation.
“Are you all right, ma’am?” a soft voice asked. Completely
bewildered, Sally saw that the punk kid had gotten
out of his seat and was standing next to the violent man,
who had stopped his shouting for the moment. “Are you
all right?” the boy repeated gently. She nodded helplessly,
unable to find her voice. “Why don’t you go over there to
that empty seat,” the kid suggested. He looked at the man
and his bottle of whiskey. “Would you mind letting the
lady through? I don’t think she’s feeling well.”
The man scowled at the thin boy, but moved back a
step to allow Sally to walk along the aisle and fall into the
empty seat. The boy continued talking in a reasonable
tone. “I don’t think there’s any need to smash anybody’s
skull in,” he said. “Why don’t we...?”
Sally screamed as the bottle hit the boy’s head.
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appropriate [E)proUpriEt]
bewildered [bi(wIld&rd]
comfort [(kVmf&rt]
Gurkha [(g§:kE]
obscenity [Eb(senEti]
off [O:f]
pleading [(pli:dIN]
angebracht
verwirrt
Trost
nepalesischer Soldat
Kraftausdruck
vor
flehend, bittend
scowl [skaUl]
set: be ~ [set]
sheet: white as a ~ [Si:t]
shrink [SrINk]
sting [stIN]
string [strIN]
woozy [(wu:zi] ifml.
finster starren
spielen
kreidebleich
schrumpfen
Stachel
Reihe
benebelt
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LANGUAGE | Vocabulary
In the living room
Also called the lounge or the sitting room, this is the room in most homes where we relax.
ANNA HOCHSIEDER presents language to talk about the living room.
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4
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15
16
2
3
5
6
17
9
13
10
8
11
12
7
1. chandelier [)SÄndE(lIE]
2. wall unit
3. curtains, drapes (N. Am.) [dreIps]
4. bay window [beI (wIndEU]
5. net curtains
6. bookcase
7. wall-to-wall carpeting
8. settee (UK) [se(ti:], sofa, couch
9. table lamp
10. coffee table
11. rug [rVg]
12. footstool
13. armchair
14. dado rail [(deIdEU reI&l]
15. wallpaper
16. mantelpiece [(mÄnt&lpi:s],
mantel
17. fireplace
A complete makeover
My husband and I decorated and furnished our living
room — which we call the lounge — more than 35 years
ago, and we have not changed anything since. So now,
we’ve decided it’s time to give it a complete makeover.
The three-piece suite is very old, and the room is much
too cluttered. We’re going to tear out the wall-to-wall
carpeting and put in parquet flooring instead. We’re
going to strip the wallpaper and then just paint the ceiling
and walls — maybe in two contrasting colours.
We’re going to get rid of the net curtains and put up
blinds instead. We also want to throw out the wall unit
along with our old television and install a wall-mounted
plasma TV. We hope to sell some of our antiques and
would like to buy just one or two designer items — a
recliner maybe, and a floor lamp. To make the room
look bigger, we’re planning to hang a mirror above the
fireplace. I can’t wait to see what it’ll all look like in a
few months’ time!
Illustration: Bernhard Förth
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Try these exercises to practise talking about your living room.
1. Cross out the word in each line that does not
belong to the group.
a) hall | living room | lounge | sitting room
b) armchair | couch | settee | sofa
c) blinds | mantelpiece | curtains | drapes
d) carpeting | ceiling | parquet | rug
2. Find the words on the opposite page that complete the definitions below.
a) If you _______________ a room, you put furniture in it.
b) If you _______________ a room, you put paint or wallpaper on the walls.
c) A(n) _______________ is an armchair with a back that can be moved into a more comfortable position.
d) A(n) _______________ is a large, decorative light that is often made of glass or crystal.
e) A(n) _______________ is a shelf above a fireplace.
f) _______________ furniture is old, usually of high quality and worth a lot of money.
3. Match each expression on the left to the expression on the right that has a similar meaning.
a) get rid of something
b) strip something
c) put something up
d) put something in
a ➯
b ➯
c ➯
d ➯
1. install something
2. hang something
3. throw something out
4. tear something off
4. Complete the following sentences with words from the opposite page.
My parents’ house is awfully (a) _______________, but mine is the opposite, with hardly any furniture in it. The walls of my
parents’ house are covered with patterned (b) _______________, while mine are just painted white. My parents have wallto-wall
carpeting in all the rooms, while I have parquet floors and just a (c) _______________ under the coffee table. My
parents have a large (d) _______________ for their TV and books, but I don’t even have a bookcase. I would love to give my
parents’ house a complete makeover.
Take a closer look at the verbs used in the text on the
opposite page. Apart from the “going to” future, which
verbs can you find in the text that refer to future plans
and intentions? Try to find them yourself first before
checking the answers below.
Tips
Answers
1. a) hall (Diele); b) armchair; c) mantelpiece (blinds: Jalousien); d) ceiling
(parquet [(pA:keI])
2. a) furnish [(f§:nIS]; b) decorate (UK); c) recliner; d) chandelier;
e) mantelpiece, mantel; f) Antique
3. a–3; b–4 (tear off [teE (Qf]: herunterreißen); c–2; d–1
4. a) cluttered (vollgestopft mit Gegenständen); b) wallpaper (patterned:
gemustert); c) rug; d) wall unit (Schrankwand; bookcase: Bücherregal;
makeover: Umstyling, Verschönerung)
want to, hope to, would like to, plan to, can’t wait to
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LANGUAGE | Travel Talk
Blogging about
your trip
A travel blog can help you stay connected
with family and friends. RITA FORBES
tells you how it works.
Becoming a blogger
Hi, Joyce! You’re just the person I need. I’m going
to set up a blog for my trip to Australia.
That’s great, Andrew! It’s a wonderful way to
develop your writing skills.
So what’s your advice? How do I start?
Well, first you need a domain name, of course. It
should be catchy. And you need a platform. I use
WordPress, but there are others.
OK. I’ll take a look at that. Can you recommend
any good travel blogs for me to read?
Sure. I’ll e-mail you some links.
A few weeks later
Hi, Andrew! How’s the blogging going?
So far, so good. I’ve set everything up, but I won’t
write my first post until just before I leave.
Did you decide to moderate comments?
Yes. I want to keep spammers and trolls off my
blog. I’m really enjoying this. I’ve been reading
about SEO and everything, and I’m planning to put
new content up at least twice a week.
The more you blog, the faster you’ll find your own
style and niche. Watch out for blogorrhoea, though.
The first post
To my family, friends and fellow bloggers: Hello —
and goodbye! I’m sitting at the airport, ready to
board my flight to Sydney. You won’t see me for at
least six months, but I hope this blog will help us
all keep in touch. I plan to post photos, journal entries
and anecdotes from my travels. Please leave
lots of comments!
Hi, Andrew! It’s great to be the first to comment
on your new blog. I’m excited about seeing Australia
through your eyes. Have fun! Joyce
entry [(entri]
set up [set (Vp]
watch out for [)wQtS (aUt fE]
Eintrag
hier: anlegen
auf etw. achtgeben
• A blog is a personal website on which people write
about their lives or other things that are important to
them. The word “blog” is short for “weblog”. A person
who blogs is called a “blogger”.
• If you develop your skills or talents, you make them
better by practising them.
• The domain name is unique (einmalig). It identifies
your website, and it is what people type in the address
bar (Adressleiste) of their internet browser to
visit your site. For example, Spotlight ’s domain name
is www.spotlight-online.de
• If something is catchy, it is easily remembered because
it “catches” people’s attention.
• A blogging platform is the software and programming
behind what you see on your website. Many
platforms are free. WordPress, Blogger and Blogspot
are some of the most popular platforms.
• A post is a new addition on a blog. It can be a piece of
writing, a photograph or a video, for example.
• If you moderate comments on your blog, you read
first what someone has written to you and then decide
if you want everybody else to see it.
• Spammers post unwanted things online or spread
unwanted things through e-mail.
• On the internet, trolls are people who like to start
arguments by leaving comments that will make
others angry.
• SEO is short for “search engine optimization”, a way
of making your website address show up (auftauchen)
in a search engine (like Google).
• Here, the uncountable noun content means anything
that is on a website for people to read, watch or use.
• Your niche [ni:S] is the special area in which you feel
most comfortable. Travel bloggers might find their
niche in writing about food, architecture or city trips,
for example.
• Blogorrhoea comes from the word “diarrhoea”
[)daIE(rIE] (Durchfall). If someone posts lots of
content that isn’t interesting or worth reading,
he or she can be said to have blogorrhoea.
• To keep in touch means to have continuous contact
with someone.
• Anecdotes are short stories about things someone
has experienced. They are often funny.
Tips
Fotos: iStockphoto
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Cards | LANGUAGE
retrophile
NEW WORDS
The older I get, the more of a retrophile
I become.
GLOBAL ENGLISH
What might a non-British speaker of
English say?
British speaker: “A crocodile passed me in the
street this morning — all dressed in green.”
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(IN)FORMAL ENGLISH
Rewrite this formal invitation as a
personal note or e-mail:
We request the pleasure of your company at a
reception we are giving for Dr Leslie Smith.
RSVP.
TRANSLATION
Translate:
1. Paul ist der beste Gitarrenspieler unserer Schule.
2. Er ist der bekannteste DJ von ganz Berlin.
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PRONUNCIATION
IDIOM MAGIC
Read aloud the words marked in bold:
Where’s the entrance?
Your ideas entrance me.
Ching Yee Smithback
He’s an invalid.
His wound still hurts.
Your ticket is invalid.
She wound it around
her wrist.
one’s sea legs
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FALSE FRIENDS
half / halb
Translate the following sentences:
1. The film starts at half eight.
2. Ich hole dich um halb acht ab.
GRAMMAR
Complete these sentences with
“far” or “a long way”:
1. I live ________ from the centre of town.
2. It’s not ________ from the centre of town.
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LANGUAGE | Cards
GLOBAL ENGLISH
Non-British speaker: “A line of schoolchildren
walking in pairs passed me in the street this
morning — all dressed in green.”
This informal, metaphorical use of the word
“crocodile” is not known outside Britain.
NEW WORDS
A retrophile is someone who longs for the things
and the ways of the past. He or she might refer to
the “good old days”, believing that life was
simpler, culture was taken more seriously, etc.
when viewed in retrospect (rückblickend).
A retrophile is the English equivalent of German
Nostalgiker. The related abstract noun is
“retrophilia”.
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TRANSLATION
1. Paul is the best guitar player in our school.
2. He is the best-known DJ in all (of) / in the
whole of Berlin.
German-speaking learners of English tend auto -
matically to translate a genitive, or “von [+ noun
phrase]” accompanying a noun phrase +
superlative, with “of”. The correct translation is,
however, “in”.
(IN)FORMAL ENGLISH
We’d like to invite you to a party we’re having
for Dr Leslie Smith.
Please let us know whether you’ll be able to
come.
RSVP (from French: répondez s’il vous plaît)
corresponds to German u. A. w. g. (um Antwort
wird gebeten).
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IDIOM MAGIC
PRONUNCIATION
When you find or get your sea legs, you are able
to keep your balance and not feel seasick on
board a moving ship.
[(entrEns]
[(InvEli:d]
[In(trA:ns]
[In(vÄlId]
“I think I’ll stay in my cabin until I’ve found my
sea legs.”
[wu:nd]
[waUnd]
These are examples of heteronyms: words that are
spelled alike but have different meanings and are
also pronounced differently.
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GRAMMAR
1. I live a long way from the centre of town.
2. It’s not far from the centre of town.
The word “far” is unusual in affirmative (positiv;
Aussage-) sentences, unless it is accompanied by
“too” or “so”. Otherwise, “a long way” is typically
used. “Far” is entirely natural, however, in
questions and negated (verneint) sentences.
FALSE FRIENDS
1. Der Film beginnt um halb neun.
2. I’ll pick you up at half seven.
In informal British English, “half [+ the hour]”
means that particular hour plus 30 minutes.
German halb, however, means that particular
hour minus 30 minutes. This use of “half”
is not familiar to North Americans.
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Spring cleaning
Listen to dialogues 1 and 4
This month, DAGMAR TAYLOR looks at
the words and phrases people use to talk
about cleaning their homes.
Everyday English | LANGUAGE
Fotos: Dorling Kindersley; iStockphoto; Zoonar
1. Where to start
It’s Saturday morning. Mandy and Lynne decide to
spring-clean the flat they share.
Mandy: (arriving home) I’m back! I think I’ve got
everything.
Lynne: Did you get scouring sponges and Brillo
pads?
Mandy: Yes. And two pairs of rubber gloves. The only
thing I couldn’t find was elbow grease.
Lynne: Don’t worry. There’s plenty of grease on the
back of the cooker. Where are we going to
start? This place is filthy!
Mandy: In the kitchen. Do you want to clean the
cooker or the fridge?
Lynne: I’ll do the fridge. I’ll have to defrost the freezer
compartment first. What should we do with
all the food inside?
Mandy: Well, I’m sure most of it’s mouldy or past its
use-by date, so we should probably throw it
away.
• A scouring sponge [(skaUErIN spVndZ] has rough
material on one side. It is used to clean things by
rubbing dirty areas hard.
• Brillo pad [(brIlEU pÄd] is a trade name for a
scouring pad made from steel wool impregnated
(durchtränkt) with soap. Brillo pads are used for cleaning
very dirty metal surfaces.
• Mandy is joking. Elbow grease (ifml.) means hard
physical work, especially when cleaning something.
• The appliance (Haushaltsgerät) used for cooking is
called a cooker (N. Am.: stove [stEUv]). The top of the
cooker with the hot plates is the “hob”, and the part
where food is baked is called an “oven” [(Vv&n].
• Something that is filthy [(fIlTi] is extremely dirty.
• To talk about jobs in the home, you can use phrases
like wash the dishes and clean the oven, but in conversation
the verb do is often used instead.
• A use-by date is normally found on packaged food.
After the use-by date, the food should not be eaten.
defrost [)di:(frQst]
grease [gri:s]
mouldy [(mEUldi]
abtauen
Fett
schimmelig
Tips
2. Ugh!
Mandy and Lynne are still cleaning the kitchen.
Lynne: Oh, my God! This oven-cleaner stuff is amazing!
All the gunk is coming straight off. You
don’t even have to scrub it with a brush.
Look!
Mandy: Ugh! That’s revolting! I can’t believe we’ve
been baking our food in there.
Lynne: How’s the fridge?
Mandy: Well, you were right about all the food being
off. I even found a piece of cheese with about
seven different types of mould on it. At least,
I think it was cheese.
Lynne: You didn’t throw it out, did you? Mouldy
cheese is good.
Mandy: Yeah, but not when the mould is all furry.
You know what I’m going to do next? The
curtains — I think they used to be white.
Lynne: Good idea. I’ll help you take them down.
• A word you can use to describe a sticky (klebrig)
or dirty, unpleasant substance is gunk (ifml.).
“Gunge” [gVndZ] is the same as gunk.
• If you scrub something with a brush or a scouring
sponge, you rub it hard to clean it.
• Ugh [Ux] is the way to write the sound that people
make when they think that something is disgusting
(ekelhaft).
• Revolting can be used to describe things that are
very bad, unpleasant or ugly.
• If food is off, it is no longer fresh enough to eat.
• When you throw something away you no longer
want, you can throw it out.
• In spoken English, you’ll often hear people begin a
question with You know...? instead of
“Do you know...?”
• When Mandy says the curtains
used to be white, she means
they were white in the past, but
not any more.
furry [(f§:ri] pelzig, pelzartig (➝ p. 61)
Tips
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LANGUAGE | Everyday English
3. Time and devotion 4. All clean!
Mandy and Lynne are in the kitchen, discussing how
to clean windows.
Mandy and Lynne have nearly finished the spring
cleaning.
EXERCISES
Mandy: I’ve looked on the internet to see how to clean
cruddy windows. You know what it says?
“Washing windows is one of those jobs that
takes time and devotion.” (giggles)
Lynne: Devotion? I think you might be on your own
there.
Mandy: How difficult can it be? We need a bucket of
soapy water, a cloth and one of those
squeegee things. It also says on the website:
“put alcohol in the water” — but not wine!
Lynne: (laughs) As if we would waste wine on windows!
Do we have the type of alcohol they
mean?
Mandy: I don’t think so. But I remember my mum
putting vinegar in the water. I’m sure that’s
just as good.
Lynne: OK, let’s give it a go.
• Another informal word for “dirty” is cruddy. It can
also mean bad or of low quality.
• When Lynne says you might be on your own, she is
telling Mandy that she doesn’t intend to help her. She
is joking.
• A squeegee [(skwi:dZi:] is a tool with a rubber edge
[edZ] (Kante, Rand; hier: Lippe) and a handle (Griff), used
for removing water from smooth areas.
• If you give something a go, you make an attempt
(Versuch) to do something.
cloth [klQT]
devotion [di(vEUS&n]
vinegar [(vInIgE]
Tuch
Hingabe
Essig
1. Add the missing word.
a) What am I going to do _____ all the food inside?
b) You didn’t throw it _____, did you?
c) I think you might be _____ your own there.
d) That was Jimmy _____ the phone.
Tips
Lynne: That was Jimmy on the phone. He said a
bunch of people are meeting up tonight in
The Red Lion and asked if we’re going, too.
Mandy: Oh, OK. What time is it now?
Lynne: Six o’clock. Hey! Look how spick and span
everything is! We just have to hoover and
then mop the floors, right?
Mandy: And hang up the curtains. I’m really tired,
though. I feel so grimy after cleaning all day.
Lynne: Look! Why don’t we do the floors, and then
you have a nice relaxing bath, while I hang
up the curtains. And then we’ll go out.
Mandy: That sounds good. Oh, wait! I can’t have a
bath. I’ve just cleaned it!
• By bunch of people (ifml.), Jimmy means a large
number of people.
• More than 600 pubs in Britain are called The Red Lion.
The name stands for a typical British pub.
• Another way of saying that a room or home is tidy
and clean is to say it is spick and span.
• If you clean a floor or a carpet with a vacuum cleaner
(Staubsauger), you “vacuum” or hoover it. Hoover is
the trade name of a vacuum cleaner, but it became a
synonym for both the device and the activity.
• Mop means to clean with water and a long object on a
stick that has a soft end (a mop).
• If something is grimy [(graImi], it is covered in dirt.
• When you have a bath (N. Am.: take a bath) you wash
your whole body by sitting or lying in water.
3. Replace the words in bold with those used in
the scenes.
a) I’ll clean the fridge. ____________
b) You didn’t throw it away, did you? ____________
c) OK, let’s try it. ____________
d) Look how spotless everything is! ____________
Tips
2. What did they say?
a) This place is f _ _ _ _ _!
b) Ugh! That’s r _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _!
c) I’ve looked up how to clean c _ _ _ _ _ windows.
d) I feel so g _ _ _ _ after cleaning all day.
4. Form words from the scenes.
a) c r u s o surfaces with a sponge. ______
b) b u r c s the oven with a brush. ______
c) Clean windows using a g e e q u s e e. ______
d) Wash the floors with a o m p. ______
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Answers: 1. a) with; b) out / away; c) on; d) on
2. a) filthy; b) revolting; c) cruddy; d) grimy
3. a) do; b) out; c) give it a go; d) spick and span
4. a) Scour; b) Scrub; c) squeegee; d) mop

The Grammar Page | LANGUAGE
Present perfect simple:
recent events
Every month in this section, ADRIAN DOFF uses notes on a short
dialogue to present and explain a key point of grammar.
Diane and Peter want to pay the bill in a restaurant.
Diane: How much is it?
Peter: £63.50. Don’t worry. I’ll pay for it with my credit
card... Oh, no!
Diane: What?
Peter: I’ve lost 1 my wallet. It’s gone 2 .
Diane: Have you checked 3 your pockets?
Peter: Yes. I’ve looked everywhere. It’s definitely not
there. Someone’s stolen 4 it.
Diane: Are you sure?
Peter: Quite sure. I know I had 5 it when we came 5 in.
Maybe the waiter stole 5 it.
Diane: Don’t be silly. Waiters don’t steal wallets.
Peter: I’m going to ask him anyway. Waiter!
Diane: Er, Peter... What’s that? On the table.
Peter: What? Oh, yes. Oh, that’s OK then. I haven’t
lost 6 it after all. What a relief.
Waiter: Yes, sir? Can I help you?
Peter: Er, yes. Two more coffees, please — and a large
brandy...
1 I’ve lost is the present perfect simple form of the verb
lose. It’s formed with have / has + past participle. Peter
uses the present perfect to talk about a recent event.
(= It has just happened.) He’s not interested in when it
happened.
2 It’s gone = It has gone. With the present perfect simple,
there is always a connection with the present: I’ve lost it =
I don’t have it now.
3 This is a present perfect simple question.
4 This is another example of the present perfect simple.
Stolen is the past participle of steal.
5 Peter is thinking about a specific time in the past (when
they came in), so he changes to the past simple tense.
6 This is the present perfect simple negative. Again, there is
a connection with the present: I haven’t lost it = It’s here
(now).
Remember!
To talk about recent events connected to the present,
we can use just with the present perfect simple:
• He’s just woken up. (= Now he’s awake.)
The time phrases already and yet are also often used
with the present perfect:
• Have you already had lunch?
• I haven’t seen Mark yet today.
In US English, the past simple, not the present perfect,
is commonly used with just, already and yet to talk
about recent events:
• He just woke up.
• Did you have lunch already?
• I didn’t see Mark yet today.
Beyond the basics
To talk about events that happened at a specific time in
the past, even if they happened only a moment ago or
a minute ago, the past simple is used:
• She was here a moment ago.
• I saw him a minute ago.
In the media, the present perfect is often used to report
the news:
• The queen has opened a new hospital in Newcastle
upon Tyne.
The past simple is used to give the details of the
event, which took place in the past:
• She met doctors and nurses and went on a tour of
the new buildings.
EXERCISE
Complete the sentences below with verbs from the list in the present perfect simple.
break | go | leave | pass | pay | stop
c) It’s only 9.30. ________ she _________ to bed already?
d) Oh, dear! I think I ________ my glasses.
a) Look. It ________ snowing. Let’s go out.
e) We need to go. ________ you ________ the bill?
b) Oh, no! I think I ________ my keys in the car.
f) Guess what! I ________ my driving test.
Answers: a) It has (It’s) stopped; b) I’ve left; c) Has she gone; d) I’ve broken; e) Have you paid; f) I’ve passed
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LANGUAGE | The Soap
Helen
Phil
Peggy
A man walks
into a bar…
Join us at Peggy’s Place — Spotlight’s very
own London pub — where this month,
everyone is trying to be funny. By INEZ SHARP
George
Eddy
Sean
Jane
FOCUS
George: I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much.
I swear I’ve strained my tummy muscles.
Helen: Well, they haven’t seen much other exercise recently.
George: Are you calling me fat, nurse Helen?
Helen: I am, and you are, but that’s OK. Danny is seriously
funny. Sean, your dad’s a real one-man show.
Sean: I know. He always had the whole family in stitches.
In fact, I used to avoid bringing my girlfriends home,
because after an evening with my pa, they stopped
thinking I was funny.
Phil: We’re really going to miss him. You know, I had my
doubts about having him as a house guest, but when
he leaves next week, I’ll be very sorry to see him go.
George: So Danny’s going back to Dublin?
Sean: Yes. My Aunty Coleen’s going to give him a place
to stay and see if she can find him a job.
Helen: But he’ll need some money, won’t he?
Peggy: Phil and I are going to give Danny a little help.
Phil: Actually, it’s not much. It won’t last for very long...
George: ...you know what we should do? We should have
a joke-telling contest. You could put it up on your
website and have a couple of posters, and then on Friday,
anyone who wants to can pay, I don’t know, five
pounds to tell a joke. Danny, Sean and Phil can be on
the jury and at the end of the evening, the person who
has told the best joke will get a free bottle of whisky.
And the money we’ve collected is given to Danny.
Peggy: That’s a brilliant idea, George.
Phil: Is it legal? I mean it’s not like your dad’s a registered
charity, Sean.
George: I can’t see the problem. Everyone knows the
money’s going to Danny.
Helen: Don’t you think your dad would be embarrassed?
Sean: I’d have to ask him. Most likely, though, he’d be
touched — and he’ll probably be the one telling the
best jokes.
Peggy: I’m useless at telling jokes. The only one I can re-
Collecting money through humour is popular in Britain. So
it’s no surprise that George thinks of a joke-telling contest
to raise money for Danny. Jokes are often about Scotsmen
being careful with money or Irishmen not being very clever
(and bad at football). A typical joke might start like this: “An
Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar...”
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“ ”
He’ll be the one telling the best jokes
member is: “I took part in the suntanning Olympics
— I just got Bronze.”
George: That’s a Tim Vine joke from last year.
Phil: I’ve got a better one. An artist and his model are kissing
on the sofa, when they hear someone open the
front door. “Oh, no! It’s my wife,” shouts the artist.
“Quick! Get your clothes off!”
Helen: I’ve got one. Patient: “Doctor, doctor, look I’m
covered in spots — like cherries on a cake.” Doctor:
“Oh, you must have an analogy.”
Sean: That might be a bit academic, Helen. Here’s one
for George. What’s the difference between a Scotsman
and a coconut?
George: Yeah, yeah, I know: you can get a drink out of a
coconut. Ha, ha! If we’re taking that route, I have a
nice joke for you, Sean. What do you call an Irishman
in the final of the World Cup? The referee!
Peggy: Maybe we should limit it to one type of joke, like
riddles. You seem to know a lot of them.
George: You mean like: what do you call a donkey with
three legs? A wonky.
Phil: That could get really boring after a while — although
we’ll make more money if the jokes are shorter.
George: Good thinking.
Helen: Or just end up having a really short evening.
analogy [E(nÄlEdZi]
Ähnlichkeit; klingt wie
„an allergy”
bronze [brQnz]
Bronze; auch: Sonnenbräune
charity [(tSÄrEti]
Wohlfahrtsorganisation
donkey [(dQNki]
Esel
embarrassed: be ~ [Im(bÄrEst] sich genieren
exercise [(eksEsaIz]
sportliche Betätigung
likely [(laIkli]
wahrscheinlich
referee [)refE(ri:]
Schiedsrichter(in)
riddle [(rId&l]
Rätsel
stitches: have sb. in ~ [(stItSIz] ifml. bei jmdm. Lachanfälle auslösen
strain [streIn]
anstrengen
suntanning [(sVntÄnIN]
Sonnenbad
Tim Vine [tIm (vaIn]
für Wortspiele berühmter
britischer Stand-up-Comedian
tummy muscles [(tVmi )mVs&lz] ifml. Bauchmuskeln
wonky [(wQNki] ifml.
Wortspiel mit „wonky“
= wackelig
Have a look at all the characters from Peggy’s Place at
www.spotlight-online.de/peggy

English at Work | LANGUAGE
Dear Ken: What are all
these abbreviations?
Dear Ken
I work in a hotel with lots of international guests. When
people write e-mails to us, they often end them with just
their first name. Sometimes they address my colleagues and
me with our first names, even though we don’t know them
personally. When I reply to such e-mails, I sign off the way
the guests did, but this is not common in Germany.
When guests arrive and I don’t know them well, I address
them by their surnames, even if I have addressed them in
e-mails by their first names. Do you think this is the right
thing to do?
Thank you very much in advance for your reply.
Regards
Ute H.
Dear Ute
Thanks for your mail and the question about first or last
names. I understand your dilemma. Many native English
speakers use first names in e-mails without thinking about
it. They sometimes forget that it is often useful for the
recipient to know the family name.
I agree with your approach:
• Use first names in e-mails when you have no choice because
you do not know the last name.
• Use titles and last names, such as “Mr Taylor”, “Ms
Smith”, whenever possible.
• Use titles and last names when you greet guests face-toface
at reception.
In the service industry, it is important to treat your customers
in a friendly but businesslike way. Almost certainly,
this is what your customers expect — even if they have
used first names in their e-mails. In any case, when guests
arrive at the reception desk, they may not know that you
are the person to whom they wrote.
If your customers prefer to be called by their first names,
they can always suggest that.
Regards
Ken
abbreviation [E)bri:vi(eIS&n]
address [E(dres]
approach [E(prEUtS]
recipient [ri(sIpiEnt]
service industry [(s§:vIs )IndEstri]
sign off [)saIn (Qf]
Abkürzung
anreden
Vorgehensweise
Empfänger(in)
Dienstleistungsgewerbe
unterschreiben
Send your questions
about business English
by e-mail with “Dear
Ken” in the subject line to
language@spotlight-verlag.de.
Each month, I answer two questions
Spotlight readers have sent in. If one of
them is your question, you’ll receive a
copy of my book: Fifty Ways to Improve
Your Business English. So don’t forget
to add your mailing address!
Dear Ken
I receive a lot of e-mails in English from legal departments.
Some of the people who write to me use abbreviations
such as cf., e.g., et al., etc., i.e., viz. and vs.
What do these actually mean? Is it acceptable to use them?
Best wishes
Paula D.
Dear Paula
We need to be very careful when using abbreviations in
e-mails. Many of our readers will not know what they
mean, especially if English is not their first language. I try
to avoid using abbreviations in my correspondence and
write out in full the word or phrase they stand for.
All the abbreviations you mention are short forms of Latin
phrases. The only two in your list that I might use are e.g.,
short for Latin exempli gratia, which means “for example”,
and etc., which is short for “et cetera”, meaning “and so
on”.
The others you mention are:
cf. — confer = compare
et al. — et alii = and others
i.e. — id est = that is to say
viz. — more formally written out as “videlicet”, means “in
other words”
vs — versus means “against” or “as opposed to”
I hope this helps. Abbreviations should be used only when
you are sure the reader understands them.
BR (a new abbreviation I see in e-mails) is short for
“Best regards”
Ken
Ken Taylor is the director of Taylor Consultancy Ltd, an international
communication-skills consultancy in London. He regularly
runs seminars in Germany.
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LANGUAGE | Spoken English
60
It’s about time!
This month, ADRIAN DOFF looks at
the way we use the word “time” in spoken
English.
Periods of time
There are many expressions in spoken English that include
the word “time”. You can talk about a period of time, for
example, using the preposition for:
• We’ve known each other for a long time.
• We haven’t been in contact for quite some time.
(= a long time)
• For a time, I was involved in politics, but then I lost interest
in it. (= a certain amount of time)
You can spend time doing something:
• He spends too much time sitting in front of the TV.
It can take time to do something (= the time needed):
• It’s about 500 km away. It’ll take a long time to get there.
It’s time
Compare these remarks:
• Come on! It’s time to leave.
This means “we should leave now”.
• Come on! It’s time we left.
This is more urgent: the people are probably already late.
It means “we should have left before now”.
You can also say it’s about time or it’s high time + past
simple tense:
• You’re nearly 30. It’s high time you got a job.
• She’s been in the company for more than 10 years. It’s
about time she was promoted.
Other expressions with time
There are other common verbs that are used with “time”:
waste time (= use time badly):
• Don’t waste time talking. Just get down to work.
save time:
• Why don’t you travel by plane? It’ll save you a lot of
time. (= It will take less time.)
find the time to do something:
• I’d love to learn Italian, but I never seem to find the
time. (= I never have enough time.)
pass the time (when it’s going too slowly):
• I like to read on long train journeys. It helps pass the
time. (= The time goes faster.)
kill time (when it’s going much too slowly):
• I went to the duty-free shop at the airport just to kill
time. (= while I was waiting for the flight)
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take one’s time (= not hurrying):
• You can take your time. We don’t have to leave for another
hour.
Free time or spare time is what people have when they’re
not busy. Some people have too much of it:
• Jane’s a student. So she’s got lots of spare time.
• Since my father retired, he’s got time on his hands.
He doesn’t know what to do with himself.
Points of time
Often when we talk about time, we mean a point of time
or a time when we need to do something.
Notice the difference between on time and in time.
On time means “at the correct time” or “punctually”:
• The trains are nearly always on time. (= not late)
To make this stronger, you can say right on time or bang
on time:
• The concert started bang on time at 8 p.m.
In time means “early enough” (to do something). You can
also say in good time or in plenty of time (= early):
• If we leave now, we’ll be in good time for the concert.
(= We’ll arrive before it starts.)
Or you can say just in time (= not at all early):
• We drove for three hours without a break and got to
the wedding just in time. (= just before it started)
Choose the correct option for each sentence.
a) They never get their work done. They take /
waste so much time chatting.
b) I always watch the films on long flights. It helps to
pass / save the time.
c) It’s time you start / started earning some money.
d) They’ve got time in / on their hands. They could
easily help.
e) It’s high / big time she had a holiday.
f) I had to run, but I got to the class just in / on time
for the start of the lesson.
g) Is it true that Swiss trains always run in / on time?
Answers: a) waste; b) pass; c) started; d) on; e) high; f) in; g) on
EXERCISE
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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.
staff [stA:f] noun p. 8
trunk [trVNk] noun p. 67
the people who work for a company, organization, etc.
main vertical part of a tree
Mitarbeiter
(Baum)Stamm
The manager was very satisfied with his
staff’s work.
Look at that cyclist’s legs! They’re the size
of tree trunks.
See further notes below on how to use this word.
The trunk of a tree is protected by bark (Baumrinde).
furry [(f§:ri] adjective p. 55
gasp [gA:sp] verb p. 24
covered with (something that looks like) fur
breathe in suddenly, in surprise, shock, pain, etc.
pelzig, pelzartig
nach Luft schnappen
I found a furry toy of my daughter’s today.
I hadn’t seen it since we moved house.
He gasped as he stepped into the
freezing water.
Your tongue may also feel furry if you have a dry mouth
or are ill.
If you gasp for air / breath, you have to make an effort
to breathe.
about to: be ~ do sth. [E(baUt tE] phrase p. 12
far and wide [)fA: End (waId] phrase p. 22
to be going to do something very soon
im Begriff sein, etw. zu tun
a large area
weit und breit
Not now. We’re just about to start dinner.
This phrase can also be used when talking about things:
the film is about to start.
People come from far and wide to see these
spectacular views.
Don’t confuse this phrase with far and away (bei weitem).
Foto: Polka Dot
How to use the noun staff
Are the staff happy? Or is the staff happy? This noun
takes a singular or plural verb. Both are correct.
Staff or members of staff can be all the people who
work for a company or organization, for example,
junior or senior staff, full-time or part-time staff,
administrative staff, nursing staff or teaching
staff. Staff may be described as competent, motivated,
qualified and skilled:
The clinic has a highly qualified staff of 150.
Everyone who is not one of the heads can be staff:
The staff are quite happy with the management.
Staff can also refer to the people who work in a place,
in contrast to other people there:
Pupils and staff of Sunrise School gave a concert for
the staff and residents of Sunset Care Home.
The word can also be used in phrases like staff
entrance, staff restaurant, staff toilet.
Complete the following sentences with words
from this page in their correct form.
a) When he told me the news, I just _____________.
I couldn’t believe it.
b) I was just _____________ to start eating when there
was a knock on the door.
c) The _____________ of Robin Hood’s famous oak tree
is ten metres round.
d) This is important news, so we must send an e-mail
to all _____________.
e) I hope that people _____________ will soon hear
about this special place.
f) Lots of small, _____________ animals live on the farm.
g) You’ll find the _____________ entrance at the back of
the building.
OVER TO YOU!
Answers: a) gasped; b) about; c) trunk; d) staff;
e) far and wide; f) furry; g) staff
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LANGUAGE | Perfectionists Only!
Every month, WILL O’RYAN
explains developments in
the English language and
examines some of the finer
points of grammar.
A dash of clarity?
One function of the comma is to hinder
confusion in complex sentences.
In a sentence that appeared recently
in The New York Times, however, the
commas did just the opposite:
“Mazarine Pingeot, the daughter of
François Mitterrand, the former
French president, and his longtime
mistress, has published a diary.” Was
Ms Pingeot not only Mitterrand’s
daughter but also his longtime mistress
(and possibly president herself)?
Fans of correct punctuation believe
the em dash (—) should have replaced
certain commas, but the only
clear solution seems to be to rephrase
the sentence: “Mazarine Pingeot, the
daughter of former French president
François Mitterrand and his longtime
mistress, has published a diary.”
Back to the roots
The adjective “nonplussed”, as in “She
looked completely nonplussed at his
bizarre question”, goes back to Latin
non plus (“not more”). The original
noun referred to a state in which
nothing more could be said or done.
The British English definition is still
to “be so surprised or confused that
one doesn’t know how to react”. But
in North American usage, the word
has developed the opposite meaning:
nicht verwirrt, unbeeindruckt; for example,
“I thought he would be
surprised, but he was trying
to appear nonplussed.” The
“non-” here was probably assumed
to be a normal negative
prefix, modifying the adjective
“plussed”, which
does not, in
fact, exist.
Grammar
Two types of phrasal verb
Let’s begin by considering the following example sentences:
a) She called on an old friend today.
She called up an old friend today.
The verbs “call on” and “call up” seem to be structurally identical, but there
are ways in which they differ in their syntactic behaviour: “Call on” is a
prepositional verb (other examples: “talk about”, “jump off”, “throw at”),
whereas “call on” is a verb + particle combination (other examples: “bring
up”, “take off”, “hand in”), also known as a phrasal verb.
Firstly, with a prepositional verb, the noun or pronoun object can be placed
only after the preposition:
b) She called on an old friend today.
She called on him today.
In a verb + particle structure, the object can also come between the verb
and the particle. When this object is a pronoun, however, the only possible
order would be as shown below:
c) She called (up) an old friend (up) this morning.
She called him up.
In formal style, “preposition + noun phrase” can be placed at the front in
questions and relative clauses, whereas “particle + noun phrase” cannot:
d) On whom did she call this morning?
Who did she call up?
The preposition of a prepositional verb can normally be repeated in a coordinated
phrase, whereas a particle cannot:
e) Did she call on the director or on one of his deputies?
Did she call up the director or up one of his deputies?
An adverb can generally stand between verb and preposition but not between
verb and particle:
f) She calls regularly on old acquaintances.
She (regularly) calls up old acquaintances (regularly).
Finally, a further contrast can be found in the stress placement. In our examples
(though this is not an absolute rule), the verb carries the main
stress in the prepositional verb, whereas in the phrasal verb, it is the
particle:
g) Who did she call on the other day?
Who did she call up the other day?
Rewrite the sentences below, replacing the objects in bold with
a personal pronoun.
1. She brought up her children to be respectful towards others.
2. If you tell on your brother, he’ll be really angry with you.
Answers: 1. She brought them up... 2. If you tell on him,...
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11
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9 10
12 13
14 15 16 17
19 20 21
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22 23
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Kitchen science
Across
1. To make something.
3. Whether.
4. To exist.
5. Put in something extra: “We have ______ some
spices to the tomato sauce.”
7. The way sea water tastes, because of the
minerals it contains.
9. Making food ready to eat.
12. Inexpensive; referring to something people can
easily pay for.
14. To change something.
17. That thing.
19. Sets of instructions for making things to eat.
20. A negative answer.
22. Not to succeed.
24. People who have been invited.
Down
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2. In addition.
3. The idea to do something, or the act of having
such an idea.
4. However.
5. The way something looks.
6. To find out what a new place or a new situation
is like; to investigate.
8. The yellow part of 13 down.
10. Neither a solid nor a liquid, but something in
between.
11. A combination of two things.
13. An object produced by a hen.
15. Opposite of “bottom”.
16. Actions that have a chance of going wrong.
18. A word for expressing the future.
21. Belonging to.
23. A word of comparison.
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”
John Cage (1912–92), American composer
Little Johnny
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Sweet dreams
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Online
I really love eBay. I sold my homing pigeon eight times last
month.
beagle [(bi:g&l]
building site [(bIldIN saIt]
homing pigeon [(hEUmIN )pIdZEn]
mind your manners
[)maInd jE (mÄnEz]
wheelbarrow [(wi:&l)bÄrEU]
PEANUTS
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Brieftaube
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The older man brings the wheelbarrow over to the younger
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Love and marriage
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Wife: “I’m sorry. I didn’t know it was a secret.”
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American Life | GINGER KUENZEL
Foto: Hemera
“
Rick
Bartlett makes
the syrup, but
he can’t do it
alone
”
Spring is coming — and how
sweet it is! Here in the Adirondack
Mountains of New York
State, it’s sugaring season, the time of
year when we make maple syrup.
When temperatures are still freezing
at night, but become warmer during
the day, the sap starts to flow more
freely up the trunk of the maple tree.
Shortly before this happens, the
sugar-makers, who watch the weather
very closely, bore holes in the trees for
spouts, known as “taps.” A bucket is
then hung on each tap, ready for the
sap to drip slowly into it.
Here in our town, there are no
commercial sugar-makers. However,
for generations, one family has been
putting taps on the maples in its
woods, producing up to 24 gallons
(about 91 liters) of maple syrup to
share with friends and relations. In recent
years, Rick Bartlett has been
looking after the process. But of
course, he can’t do it alone.
Rick puts in about 1,200 taps
each year, and all of the buckets have
to be checked daily, so whoever has
time helps out whenever possible. We
walk through the woods, emptying
Adirondack [)ÄdE(rA:ndÄk]
all-terrain vehicle [)O:l tE)reIn (vi:Ek&l] Quad (motorradähnliches Fahrzeug mit 4 Rädern)
amber [(Ämb&r]
Bernstein
bowl [boUl]
Schüssel, Schale
degree [di(gri:]
Grad
drip [drIp]
tröpfeln
evaporation [i)vÄpE(reIS&n]
Verdampfungs-
Iroquois [(IrEkwOI]
jug [dZVg]
Gefäß, große Plastikflasche
maple syrup [)meIp&l (sIrEp]
Ahornsirup
roast [roUst]
braten
sap [sÄp]
Pflanzensaft
spout [spaUt]
Ausgussrohr
sugar shack [(SUg&r )SÄk] N. Am. (Holz)Hütte im Wald
trunk [trVNk] (Baum)Stamm (➝ p. 61)
How sweet it is!
Im Frühling beginnt in den Adirondack Mountains
im US-Bundesstaat New York die Ahornsirupsaison.
Diese hat eine lange Tradition.
the small sap buckets into our larger
buckets. After a while, someone
comes by on an all-terrain vehicle
(ATV) with huge plastic containers
into which we empty our buckets.
While we search for other sap
buckets, the ATV takes the containers
to the sugar shack, where the liquid
is boiled in large vats over a wood fire.
The sap in the buckets is clear and
watery. Only when nearly all the
water has boiled away does the sap
become the thick, amber-colored
maple syrup that we know.
It takes about 40 gallons of sap to
make just one gallon of syrup. Rick
knows when the sap has boiled long
enough by measuring its temperature,
which has to be seven degrees
Fahrenheit above the boiling point of
water as measured at that place on
that day. The syrup is then filtered
and filled into plastic jugs, ready to
be used on pancakes, for example.
Rick explained to me that the
holes made each year for the taps do
no damage to the trees. He also said
that trees are ready for the taps when
they are 30 to 40 years of age, and
they can continue to be used in this
way for up to 70 years. A tree usually
produces between nine and 13 gallons
of sap each season.
The Native Americans were probably
the first to produce maple syrup.
A legend tells us that Chief Woksis, an
Iroquois, threw his tomahawk into a
maple tree one day in early spring. The
next day, he removed it and went off
to hunt. His wife, passing by the tree,
noticed the clear substance dripping
out. She liked the slightly sweet taste
and used the syrup in her cooking.
When Chief Woksis returned
from the hunt, he enjoyed the sweetness
of his dinner. Whether or not
this old story is true, we do know that
the Native Americans made maple
syrup by placing hot rocks in the sap
to help speed up the evaporation
process.
Maple syrup production has
changed a lot since then. Commercial
producers use efficient modern
equipment to make it. Here in town,
though, we do things the traditional
way. Part of the fun is warming up at
the sugar shack after hours
of walking through
the woods with our
buckets.
We like to
gather around a
campfire and roast
sausages covered
in maple
syrup. Then
we put snow
in a bowl
and pour
maple syrup
over it. How
sweet it is!
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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Götz Otto
Diesen Monat spricht der berühmte
Schauspieler über seine Erfahrungen mit der
englischen Sprache und Kultur.
Seinen internationalen Durchbruch hatte er
1997 als James-Bond-Bösewicht; heute ist er
neben der großen Leinwand auch im
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As an actor, what makes English important to you?
Language in general is my most important tool.
Being able to communicate in different languages gives
me the opportunity to access different markets. And the
biggest market is obviously English-speaking.
When was your first English lesson, and what do you
remember about it?
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exciting.
Who is your favourite English-language author?
Jonathan Safran Foer. I just loved Extremely Loud and
Incredibly Close. It is a very touching novel, and I was
deeply impressed by Foer’s ability to connect the German
and the American traumata emotionally.
Which song could you sing at least a few lines of
in English?
“Swanee River”. Ha ha!
What is your favourite food from the English-speaking
world?
There’s nothing wrong with a good, tasty T-bone steak!
Which person from the English-speaking world would
you most like to meet?
The American director David Fincher. I simply love his
films, like Fight Club and The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button. They are intelligent, disturbing and surprising,
with new perspectives.
Which is your favourite city in the English-speaking
world?
Probably Sydney. It is a vibrant metropolis on an interesting
continent where there is plenty to discover. And
my sister lives there. I don’t get to see her that often.
What special tip would you give a friend who was going
to visit this city?
Visit the Chinese Garden of Friendship in Darling Harbour.
Enjoy the silence and calm.
What was your funniest experience in English?
When I finished filming on Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg
came up to me and told me that I’d be wrapped.
My English was not very good at the time, and I didn’t
know that when a scene is finished, directors say it’s
“wrapped”. I answered totally confused: “No, I swear I
didn’t rape anybody...” This was not funny at the time,
and he stared at me for at least a minute before we were
able to resolve the situation.
What is your favourite English word?
Flabbergasted, because it just sounds funny.
Which phrase or expression do you use most when you
talk in English?
That’s not my cup of tea.
What do you do to improve your English?
When I learn a new word, I write it down. And every
once in a while, I check on that list.
What would be your motto in English?
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
(Oscar Wilde)
access [(Äkses]
cup of tea: that’s not my ~
[)kVp Ev (ti:] ifml.
disturbing [dI(st§:bIN]
flabbergasted [(flÄbEgA:stId]
rape [reIp]
“Swanee River” [)swQni (rIvE]
tasty [(teIsti]
vibrant [(vaIbrEnt]
einen Zugang bekommen zu
das ist nicht mein Ding
aufwühlend
(völlig) entgeistert, verblüfft
vergewaltigen
Hymne von Florida (von Stephen
Foster komponiert)
lecker
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ENGLISCH LEICHT GEMACHT!
Writing
Saying no
to an
invitation
Vocabulary
for the things
you use in the
bathroom
Grammar
Prepositions
and time

GREEN LIGHT | News
This month…
Was beschäftigt die englischsprachige Welt im April?
VANESSA CLARK spürt die heißen Storys für Sie auf.
Get ready for the future
125 years ago 1888
air-purifying
[)eE (pjUErIfaIIN]
audience [(O:diEns]
display [dI(spleI]
Edinburgh [(edInbErE]
hero [(hIErEU]
kilt [kIlt]
public [(pVblIk]
ripper [(rIpE]
scientist [(saIEntIst]
share [SeE]
silent [(saIlEnt]
stage [steIdZ]
tape [teIp]
London On 3 April 1888, a
woman’s body was found in the
Whitechapel area of London. It
was the first of 11 brutal murders
of women. The public believed
that the women were killed by an
unidentified man known as “Jack
the Ripper”.
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Publikum
Ausstellung
Held
Schottenrock
Öffentlichkeit
Schlitzer
Wissenschaftler(in)
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leise, lautlos
Bühne
Klebeband
Science and technology This month, the
world’s scientists, technologists, designers
and “futurists” are travelling to Scotland to
meet at the 25th Edinburgh International
Science Festival. The motto is “Get ready for
the future”, and the scientists will share their
ideas and their visions of the next 25 years.
At last year’s festival, there were dancing
robots, an experiment to give people nicer
dreams and a display of air-purifying kilts.
The themes of this year’s festival include future
food, future cities and future play. Hundreds
of events are planned for people of all
ages. Find out more at:
www.sciencefestival.co.uk
Silent comedy
Comedy April sees the start of a new tour
for comedian Sam Wills, better known as
“The Boy with Tape on His Face”.
Wills wears a tape over his mouth,
so that his comedy character can’t
speak. All his comedy is silent.
Wills trained for two years at
a circus school in his homeland of
New Zealand, so he’s a good
clown. He invites people from
the audience to come
on to the stage with
him, but he’s always
nice to his guests. “I
want them to leave
the stage as heroes,”
he says. Find him on
YouTube.
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In the bathroom
8 pictures | GREEN LIGHT
STEPHANIE SHELLABEAR presents words for the things we use in the bathroom.
1
8
2
7
3
4
Tips
Write the words next to
the pictures.
1. toothbrush [(tu:TbrVS]
2. toothpaste [(tu:TpeIst]
3. body lotion [(bQdi )lEUS&n]
4. moisturizer [(mOIstSEraIzE]
5. shampoo [SÄm(pu:]
6. conditioner [kEn(dIS&nE]
7. shower gel [(SaUE dZel]
8. dental floss [)dent&l (flQs]
Toiletries is the word we
use to talk about things that
are found in the bathroom,
such as soap and shampoo.
• Oh, no! I forgot to pack my
toiletries. Could I borrow
some toothpaste, please?
6
5
Complete the following sentences with the correct
words from the list (1–8).
a) Use a good-quality __________ __________ after showering if
you have dry skin.
b) My dentist says I should use __________ __________ after
brushing my teeth.
c) It is best to wash babies’ hair with a mild ___________.
d) Men’s __________ __________ often has a very strong smell.
e) You should put on __________ in the morning and before
you go to bed.
f) Some dentists say you should use an electric __________.
g) For people with sensitive teeth there are special types of
___________.
h) If you have very dry hair, try using ___________ after you
have washed it.
Answers: a) body lotion; b) dental floss (brush: putzen); c) shampoo; d) shower gel; e) moisturizer; f) toothbrush;
g) toothpaste (sensitive: empfindlich); h) conditioner
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GREEN LIGHT | Grammar elements
Prepositions of time
STEPHANIE SHELLABEAR presents basic grammar.
This month: how to say “when”, using prepositions.
The following prepositions are used to say “when” something happens: at, in and on.
at
This is used when talking about clock times and mealtimes:
• at eleven o’clock
• at lunchtime
It is also used for periods of a few days:
• at Christmas (Weihnachten), at Easter (Ostern)
• at the weekend
in
This is used when talking about months,
seasons (Jahreszeit) and years:
• in April
• in 2013
• in the spring
It is also used with parts of the day:
• in the morning
You will often hear it used to mean “at the
end of a period of time”:
• in ten minutes
• in three days
on
This is used when talking about a single day,
date or part of a single day:
• on Friday
• on 26 July
• on Friday evening
Tips
At, in and on can all be
used with “night”, but they
have different meanings:
• Our cat often leaves the
house at night.
(when it is night)
• I woke up in the night,
because I heard a bang.
(in the middle of the night)
• The party will take place on
Saturday night.
Complete the following sentences with “at”, “in” or “on”.
a) I started my own company _____ 1982.
b) The museum is closed only ___ Christmas Day and _____ New Year’s Day.
c) Can we talk about this _____ lunchtime? I’m really busy right now.
d) Please take a seat. The doctor will see you _____ five minutes.
e) Hurry up! Our bus leaves _____ five o’clock.
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Answers: a) in; b) on, on; c) at; d) in; e) at

The visit
The Greens | GREEN LIGHT
While Donna is visiting her son, Stephen, in London, she phones her husband,
Andrew. By DAGMAR TAYLOR
Donna: Andrew? It’s me, Donna. I just
wanted to let you know that I’ve arrived
safely.
Andrew: Oh, good. Was the train on time?
Donna: No. We were stuck at Newbury for
half an hour. Stephen was waiting at
Paddington Station for ages.
Andrew: Why didn’t you call him?
Donna: I did, but he was already on his way
to the station.
Andrew: So, what are you going to do to -
night?
Donna: Well, Paula just called. We’re going
to meet her at a restaurant at eight. She’s
bringing her new boyfriend.
Andrew: Oh, really? That’ll be interesting.
Can you call me later and let me know
what he’s like?
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• If you let someone know about
something, you tell that person about
a certain thing.
• A person or thing is on time if he, she
or it arrives at the planned time.
• When a train is stuck, or a car is stuck
in traffic, it is unable to move.
• When you say you are on your way, it
means that you have already begun
your journey to a certain place.
• To ask about someone’s plans for the
future, you can use the “going to”
form: what are you going to do
tonight?
• If you want to know about the person -
ality of a third person, you can ask:
what is he like? or what’s he like?
Tips
for ages [fE (eIdZIz] ifml.
seit einer Ewigkeit
Complete the sentences with the
correct form of the verbs in brackets.
a) I just wanted to let you know that I’ve
________ (arrive).
b) Stephen was ________ (wait) at
Paddington Station for ages.
c) So, what are you going to
________ (do) tonight?
d) We’re going to ________
(meet) Paula at a restaurant
at eight.
Donna
Andrew
Answers
a) arrived; b) waiting; c) do; d) meet

GREEN LIGHT | Get writing
Declining an
invitation
Dear Leslie
Thank you so much for the invitation to
your special party.
It was very kind of you to invite me.
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to come,
as I’ll be on holiday at that time.
VANESSA CLARK
helps you to write
letters, e-mails
and more in English.
Find out how
to say you can’t
come to a party or
an event.
I hope you all have a very enjoyable
and successful day, and I look
forward to hearing about it later.
Best wishes
Evelyn
enjoyable [In(dZOIEb&l]
invitation [)InvI(teIS&n]
look forward to sth.
[lUk (fO:wEd tE]
successful [sEk(sesf&l]
unfortunately
[Vn(fO:tSEnEtli]
angenehm
Einladung
sich auf etw. freuen
erfolgreich
leider
Use
it!
Highlight the key words
and phrases that you would use if you
wanted to write a card like this yourself.
• Events that might need a written reply (Antwort) include formal parties, weddings
(Hochzeit) and conferences. If you receive (erhalten) a written invitation, a written reply is
usually best.
• To show that you feel sad that you can’t go to the event, you can write Unfortunately,...
or “I’m sorry that...” or “I would love to come, but...”
• It’s polite (höflich) to give the reason (Grund) why you can’t come. Typical reasons are because
you’ll be on holiday, “on a business trip” or “at another event”. If you don’t want to
give an exact reason, you can just say that you’re “not free” or “busy”.
• Remember to wish the person “a good time” (for a party) or “a productive time”
(for a work event).
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Culture corner | GREEN LIGHT
I like… White Horse Hill
Jeden Monat stellt ein Team-Mitglied etwas Besonderes aus der
englischsprachigen Welt vor. Diesen Monat präsentiert
Spotlight-Autorin VANESSA CLARK eine Besonderheit aus
dem ländlichen Raum Englands.
What it is
White Horse Hill is just outside the village of
Uffington, near my home in Oxfordshire.
The name comes from the huge white figure
of a horse on the side of the hill. The figure
is 110 metres long and is made of chalk.
Experts have found that it is 3,000 years old
and was made in the Bronze Age. There are
several other chalk horses in the local area,
and other chalk figures elsewhere in England,
but the Uffington horse is the oldest.
Next to White Horse Hill, there is a smaller
hill with a flat top, called Dragon Hill. Local
legend says that this is the place where Saint
George killed the dragon.
Why I like it
It’s a great place to walk. The top of the hill
is the highest point in Oxfordshire, with fantastic
views — you can see six counties. It’s
also a popular place to fly kites and to do
hang-gliding. There’s always a lot of fresh
air at the top of the hill! When our children
were smaller, they enjoyed running around
in the wind.
about [E(baUt]
Bronze Age [(brQnz eIdZ]
chalk [tSO:k]
county [(kaUnti]
dragon [(drÄgEn]
flat [flÄt]
fly a kite [)flaI E (kaIt]
hang-gliding [(hÄN )glaIdIN]
huge [hju:dZ]
local [(lEUk&l]
local area [)lEUk&l (eEriE]
Saint [seInt]
view [vju:]
Fun
facts
There is a copy of the
Uffington white horse in
Mexico. It was painted on the side
of a mountain near the city of
Ciudad Juárez by a local architect
and his son. This horse is about a
kilometre long and took three
years to make.
etwa, circa
Bronzezeit
Kalkstein, Kreide
Grafschaft
Drache
flach
einen Drachen
steigen lassen
Drachenfliegen
riesig
ortsansässig
dortige Gegend
der/die Heilige
Sicht, Ausblick

GREEN LIGHT | Notes and numbers
“A” or “one”?
A can only be used at the
beginning of a number.
• 100 = a hundred / one hundred
A is not usually used with numbers between
1,100 and 1,999.
• 1,090 = a / one thousand and ninety
• 1,100 = one thousand one hundred
One is more formal and exact, and it is
sometimes used for emphasis (Betonung).
• Her house cost one million pounds!
Your notes
Use this space for your own notes.
Write down the following numbers
as you would read them.
a / one hundred
a) 100 _______________________________
b) 1,102 _______________________________
c) 1,998 _______________________________
d) 1,000,000 ___________________________
e) 1,001,000 ___________________________
One in a million
When you think someone or something is
very special or unusual, you can say that
he, she or it is one in a million.
• My daughter’s teacher is so kind and
funny. She’s one in a million.
Answers: b) one thousand one hundred and two; c) one
thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight; d) a / one million;
e) a / one million one thousand
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