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EDITORIAL | July 2013
Bad boys and
good jokes
Das erste Wörterbuch,
das Sie klicken
und blättern können.
Mick Jagger began his rise to fame as the lead
singer of the Rolling Stones in the early 1960s.
A white English boy singing black American
rhythm and blues, he was a meteor of the rockmusic
scene who many thought would crash
Inez Sharp, editor-in-chief
and burn. Fifty years on, Jagger and the Rolling Stones are still making music —
this year, they have been on tour in Britain and the US. And, unlike other badboy
rock stars such as Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Brian Jones, Jagger is still
going strong. As he prepares to celebrate his 70th birthday on 26 July, Spotlight
looks at what has made Mick Jagger into a legend. Start reading on page 22.
Grin and laugh out loud as you read our language feature on jokes. Humour
is central to the English-speaking world, so we have examined verbal forms
ranging from wordplay to riddles. Dagmar Taylor and Stephanie Shellabear explain
the one-liner and the punch line on pages 16–21. And on page 26, Amy
Argetsinger tells us why the US president tells great jokes — about himself.
True adventure travel is what our feature on Namibia offers this month.
Deputy editor Claudine Weber-Hof explores the vast open spaces of southern
Namibia, visiting forbidden desert zones, diamond beaches and lost towns.
Her journey begins on page 28. If you want to discover more about her adventure,
you’ll find a fabulous video of the trip at www.spotlight-online.de/namibia
i.sharp@spotlight-verlag.de
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CONTENTS | July 2013
Mick Jagger turns 70
Happy birthday, Mick! Find out what has made this
Rolling Stone such a spectacular rock ’n’ roll legend.
22 28
A Namibian road trip
Go on a camping adventure to Namibia’s south to see
Fish River Canyon and the forbidden diamond zone.
6 People
Names and faces from around the world
8 A Day in My Life
An animal carer in Australia
10 World View
What’s news and what’s hot
13 Britain Today
Colin Beaven on a king in a car park
40 History
The Hundred Years War
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
14 Food
Craig Zeleznik cooks for dogs
26 I Ask Myself
Amy Argetsinger on President Obama’s jokes
36 Around Oz
Peter Flynn on new names for kids
38 Debate
Should abortion be made legal in Ireland?
People in Dublin have their say
67 American Life
Ginger Kuenzel on a lake monster
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
Winemaker Klaus Peter Keller on the good life
in New York City and missing a football match
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PEOPLE | Names and Faces
The writer
Who exactly is…
Taiye
Selasi?
The author of this year’s big
debut novel was born in London
and grew up in Boston
with her parents and twin sister,
Yetsa. Taiye Selasi now lives in
Rome. Her mother comes from Ni -
geria, and her father is from Ghana.
Without this mix of cultures, Selasi
couldn’t have written Ghana Must
Go (see the review on page 47). The
book deals with themes of abandonment,
identity and reconciliation.
Critics say Selasi’s writing is very poetic
and that a new literary star has
been born.
Who exactly is Taiye Selasi,
though? “I am an obsessive traveller,
a lover of almost all forms of creative
expression — music, painting, film,
dance, literature,” she told The Globe
and Mail. “I am a little bit of a nerd,
so I study everything I love too
much... I am African.”
abandonment [E(bÄndEnmEnt] Verlassenwerden
humble [(hVmb&l]
bescheiden
nerd [n§:d] ifml.
Freak
outrageous [aUt(reIdZEs] unmöglich, unverschämt
rape [reIp]
Vergewaltigung
reconciliation [)rekEnsIli(eIS&n] Versöhnung
released: be ~ [ri(li:st] in die Kinos kommen (➝ p. 61)
sophisticated [sE(fIstIkeItId] intellektuell, gebildet
speak out [)spi:k (aUt]
sich zu Wort melden
star [stA:]
in der Hauptrolle zeigen
upset [)Vp(set]
bestürzt
yoga retreat [(jEUgE ri)tri:t] etwa: Yoga-Urlaub
The 33-year-old studied politics
and international relations at two famous
universities: Yale and Oxford.
In a 2005 essay, she created the term
“Afropolitan” to describe sophisticated,
Westernized Africans. Author
Toni Morrison met Selasi at a dinner
party that year and motivated her to
begin writing fiction. The result was
a short story called “The Sex Lives
of African Girls”, which was published
in 2011.
Selasi then had the idea for a
novel while at a yoga retreat in Sweden.
She “escaped” from the retreat to
start her manuscript. After writing
100 pages, she was accepted by a bigname
agent, and she signed a twobook
deal with the US publisher
Penguin. Ghana Must Go has already
been translated into 15 languages, so
readers all over the world will be waiting
for Selasi’s next novel.
In the news
Justin Trudeau has been a famous
figure in Canadian politics ever since
he was born in 1971. That’s because his
father, Pierre Trudeau, was prime minister
from 1968 to 1979 and again from
1980 to 1984. Now, Justin has been
elected the leader of his father’s Liberal
Party, which
hopes to defeat the
Conservatives in
the next election.
Maclean’s says that
his style is similar
to that of his father:
“both outrageous
and humble”.
The movie The Wolverine, starring
Australian actor Hugh Jackman,
will be released in Germany on 25 July.
The super-hero character he plays is
wildly popular, but Fox Studios were
still very surprised when promotional
posters for the
film were stolen
from places all
over the United
States. The Age reports
that the
posters show a
stylized silhouette
of Wolverine, and
about half of them
had to be replaced.
Many women feel unsafe in India, especially
after the horrific rapes in the
capital, New Delhi. Indian badminton
star Saina Nehwal spoke out about
the situation when she travelled to the
city to play in a championship. NDTV
reported that Nehwal did not want to
walk through the city alone. “I am very
sad and upset with what is happening
in Delhi,” she said. “Something must
be done immediately to stop this.”
Nehwal won a bronze medal at the
2012 London Olympics.
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Out of the ordinary
Brett Archibald was on a surfing trip in the Indian Ocean when
he fell off the boat, and nobody noticed he was missing until the
next morning. Alone in the ocean without even a life jacket, he
didn’t give up. The South African had to tread water for more than
27 hours as he waited for help to come. Many boats in the area
joined in the search, and a group of Australian surfers finally found
him. “I figured I just had to remain calm,” Archibald told Surfing Life.
On the show Britain’s Got Talent,
people usually sing or dance.
The audience was surprised this
season when a 14-year-old boy
with cerebral palsy appeared
onstage using a walker. Soon,
Jack Carroll was making
everyone laugh. Carroll’s standup
comedy routine makes fun of
his limitations. “In comedy, a lot
of times your weaknesses are
your strengths,” he explains.
And he has learned that humour
can help people feel comfortable
with his disability.
Jack’s great strength:
a fine sense of humour
The newcomer
• Name: Caroline Shaw
• Age: 30
• Occupation: musician
• Honours: This year, she became the youngest
person ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for music, for
her a cappella piece Partita for 8 Voices.
• Background: Born in North Carolina and now based
in New York City, Shaw began playing the violin at
the age of two and started writing music when she
was about ten.
• Whatʼs next: finishing her graduate degree in
composition at Princeton University
Fotos: Bulls Press/Mirrorpix; dpa/picture-alliance; Getty Images; Laif
After working at London’s Stansted Airport for seven years,
Chris Holmes decided it was time to focus on his small
cake-making business. He gave up
his job in the sweetest way possible:
with a letter written in icing
on a cake. He signed the letter
“Mr Cake” and said: “If you en -
joy this cake, you can order
more at www.mrcake.co.uk ”
Holmes told the Daily Mail
that he gave the sugary gift
to his managers, and that
he hopes “it left a nice taste
in their mouths”.
Britain’s Got Talent
[)brIt&nz )gQt (tÄlEnt]
cerebral palsy [)serEbrEl (pO:lzi]
disability [)dIsE(bIlEti]
figure [(fIgE] N. Am. ifml.
graduate degree
[(grÄdZuEt di)gri:]
icing [(aIsIN]
life jacket [(laIf )dZÄkIt]
season [(si:z&n]
tread water [)tred (wO:tE]
walker [(wO:kE]
britisches Pendant zur
Casting-Show
„Das Supertalent”
zerebrale Kinderlähmung
Behinderung
denken
Universitätsabschluss
Zuckerguss;
hier: Zuckerschrift
Rettungsweste
Staffel
sich durch Wassertreten
über Wasser halten
Gehhilfe
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A DAY IN MY LIFE | Australia
Possums: active, playful animals
struments in it and put it in the autoclave,
which sterilizes everything. I then
do all my reception duties and help
customers with things like flea control.
I also give them advice on worming
and when they can bring their dog in
to be checked by our vet.
Helping
animals in
need
A feathered
friend in
Tara Goulter’s
care
Die australische Tierarzthelferin kümmert
sich in ihrer Freizeit um wilde Tiere – eine
teure, aber auch erfüllende Aufgabe, wie
JULIE COLLINS erfahren hat.
When someone from the public
brings in an injured animal, the first
thing I do is take it out back and assess
it. More often than not, it will come
home with me that night for care. For
example, if a cat attacks a bird or a possum,
we need to give the injured animal an anti-venom
injection, because cats have a lot of bacteria in their teeth
and their claws. Then we want to watch the animal and
make sure it recovers.
When I finish work at the clinic, I pick Eryn up, and
we go home and have dinner. After I’ve bathed Eryn, she
goes to bed. I then go downstairs and check on all the
cages again, cleaning them, changing the water and feeding
everybody.
The baby possums do like to have a bit of time playing,
so I take them out of their cages and let them into the
house. They can learn to climb on my curtain rods, on the
lounge chairs, on the kitchen table, on all my benches and
on me. By this time, it is about midnight. I’ll make that
last cup of coffee and clean a few more cages before I take
a shower and go to bed.
My name is Tara Goulter, and I’m 27 years old.
I’m a wildlife carer, vet nurse and mum to Eryn,
who is two years old.
My day usually starts at about 6 a.m. I get Eryn out of
bed — or she gets me out of bed — and we do the regular
routine with the animals. Generally, I have about 20 animals
in care at any particular time. These can range from
possums to birds and reptiles. I hope that I can start taking
kangaroos at the end of this year.
Every morning, we clean the cages and give the animals
their morning feed. Then I get ready to go to my day job
as a vet nurse — so Eryn goes to a friend’s and I go to
work. When I get there, I set up for the surgery if any is
scheduled. That means I pack a kit with all the surgical in-
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anti-venom [)Änti (venEm]
assess [E(ses]
autoclave [(O:tEUkleIv]
claws [klO:z]
curtain rod [(k§:t&n )rQd]
flea [fli:]
lounge chair [(laUndZ )tSeE]
more often than not [mO: )Qf&n DEn (nQt]
pick up [)pIk (Vp]
recover [ri(kVvE]
set up [)set (Vp]
surgery [(s§:dZEri]
vet [vet]
vet nurse [(vet )n§:s]
worming [(w§:mIN]
Gegengift
untersuchen
Dampfsterilisator
Krallen
Vorhangstange
Floh
Klubsessel
meistens
abholen
sich erholen
vorbereiten
Operation
Tierarzt, -ärztin
Tierarzthelfer(in)
Entwurmen

INFO TO GO
Feeding time for the young possums in care
For me, animal care is a long-term commitment. The
length of time that I have the different animals in care
varies. A bird generally takes only four to eight weeks, depending
on how bad its injuries are — or how young it is
when it comes into care.
We call a baby possum that comes into care a “pinky”
— that’s an animal with no fur. They’re in my care for
about six to eight months. Afterwards, we release them. A
hard release is when you let the animal out of the cage and
simply say “good luck”. We don’t do that. What we usually
do is take them to a release site which we have handpicked.
These are places on 20–30 (8–12 ha) acres of land
out in the bush. We put the animals into a big cage on a
trailer there for about a week. We still feed them during
that time. Then we open a trapdoor, and the animal can
come and go as it pleases for the next week or two.
I love my work as a wildlife carer. It is a volunteer position,
so it actually costs me a lot of money to do it. I’m very
passionate about animals, so I work as a vet nurse as well
as a dog trainer to bring in the money that I spend on wild
animals.
possum
Possums (Opossum) are a kind of marsupial that live in
trees. About 70 types of possum live in Australia and
Asia. Some of them have “prehensile” [pri(hensaI&l]
tails, meaning that the animals use them to hold on to
things. The phrase “play possum” means to pretend to
be asleep or dead when threatened — a behaviour associated
with the opossum, a marsupial from the Western
Hemisphere. Playing possum can also mean to
pretend not to know something. Try using this phrase
in the following sentences:
a) I asked him why his report was late, but he ______
possum.
b) Don’t _____ possum with me. I saw you hide your
brother’s toy.
clinic
In the text, Tara Goulter says that she works as a veterinary
nurse at a clinic. In English, the word clinic
refers to a small medical building or hospital department
where patients are treated, but do not stay
overnight. In German, Klinik can also mean a large hospital.
The adjective “clinical” appears often in the scientific
media to describe studies done with patients,
such as “clinical trials”. Used in a figurative sense, the
word describes something that is very efficient and
has no warmth, for example: “Her apartment is too
tidy. I find it a bit clinical.”
wildlife
Wildlife is a noun that means “wild animals”. However,
if you add a space in the middle of the word to make it
into two words — “wild life” — the meaning is completely
different.
Read the sentences below and decide whether wildlife
and wild life have been used correctly:
Meeting
with her
patients
a) Tom leads a really wildlife. He went to three different
parties last week.
b) The animals in this region are protected. Please do
not feed the wild life.
c) I am a big fan of wildlife photography.
d) When I was younger, I joined the circus. It didn’t pay
well, but I really enjoyed living such a wild life.
Fotos: Julie Collins
commitment [kE(mItmEnt] Verpflichtung
fur [f§:]
Fell
hand-pick [)hÄnd (pIk] selbst aussuchen
trailer [(treIlE] Anhänger (➝ p. 61)
trapdoor [)trÄp(dO:] Klapptür
volunteer [)vQlEn(tIE] ehrenamtlich
Answers
possum: a) played; b) play; wildlife: sentence (a) is incorrect;
sentence (b) is incorrect; sentence (c) is correct; sentence (d) is correct
marsupial [mA:(su:piEl]
trial [(traIEl]
Beuteltier
Versuch
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WORLD VIEW | News in Brief
A lot like flying:
the Gatekeeper at
Cedar Point
It’s a good month to...
UNITED STATES Did you ever dream of
becoming a pilot? If so, Cedar Point, an amusement park
in Ohio, has the ride for you.
With the Gatekeeper, a new roller coaster on beautiful
Lake Erie, you can experience some of the excitement of
stunt flying. What makes it so great, reports Popular Science,
is the design: the seats are attached to steel arms that
look like the wings of a plane.
The ride begins with the roller coaster racing up a big
slope. Then it speeds down a 164-foot (50-meter) drop
ride a
roller coaster
known as the “tallest upside-down dive of any coaster.”
Next is a fast half loop plus roll, a classic stunt-pilot maneuver.
After two more high-speed stunts come “the keyholes”:
just as riders think they are going to hit the towers
blocking their path, the coaster rotates through 90 degrees,
allowing passengers to pass through slim openings in the
steel-and-concrete structures.
Too frightening? Don’t worry: the excitement is over
in two minutes and 40 seconds. For more information, see
www.cedarpoint.com
adolescence [)ÄdE(les&ns]
cedar [US (si:d&r]
fairy tale [(feEri teI&l]
fertility [f§:(tIlEti]
half loop [US (hÄf )lu:p]
roller coaster [US (roUl&r )koUst&r]
Jugendzeit
Märchen
Fruchtbarkeit
Halbkreis
Achterbahn
rotate [US (roUteIt]
steel-and-concrete structures
[US )sti:&l End (kA:nkri:t )strVktS&rz]
tie in with sth. [)taI (In wID]
upside-down dive
[)VpsaId )daUn (daIv]
sich drehen
Stahl-Beton-Gerüst
an etw. anknüpfen
Abfahrt kopfüber
Living in Wonderland
SINGAPORE Singapore needs more people. Of
the 5.3 million living in the city state, many are ageing, and birth
rates are falling, too. The authorities want Snow White to help.
Fairy tales are central to a new publicity campaign the government
has introduced to convince people to start families — only
the classic stories have been rewritten to include sex and marriage.
Appearing online and in printed form, the 15 tales have one central
message: women should not wait too long to have children.
The moral of the story of Alice, who was having a really good
time as a single girl in Wonderland, is that “the extended adolescence
of twenty-somethings today has a biological cost for women”.
As The Guardian reports, the end of the story warns: “After 40, [fertility]
drops 95 per cent.”
The students
of the
university who
created the new
tales looked for
“an interesting
way to connect
with young adults”. “Fairy tales are very accessible,
as almost everyone grew up with a fairy tale
or two,” said Chan Luo Er, 23-year-old project
manager. “Our little poem on a woman’s declining
fertility as she ages ties in quite nicely with the
Golden Goose.”
Singapore says:
have kids soon
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Another reason
to dance
IRELAND People who suffer from
Parkinson’s disease (PD) often have trouble keeping
their balance and walking steadily. It has long been
known that sport can help, but research now
says that Irish set dancing may be even more
helpful for those with PD than physical therapy.
This kind of dance involves lively steps and
lots of changes of direction, movements that
are usually difficult for people who have PD.
Surprisingly, patients seem to be more mobile
and to have better balance when they dance
than when they walk. It is thought that the
strong rhythm of Irish music may give signals
to the brain that help the patients to move.
According to the BBC, the connection between
PD and Irish dancing was first made by
an Italian doctor. Daniele Volpe was playing in
Let the
music play:
dancing for
your health
a band in County Clare, in the west of Ireland, when he
noticed a man with Parkinson’s symptoms in the crowd.
He was shocked when the man put down his cane and
began dancing.
When Volpe returned to Venice, he started a study
with 24 PD patients. Those who did Irish set dancing
made greater improvements than a control group that
received physical therapy. The University of Limerick is
currently doing further research on the topic.
Diesel made from bacteria?
BRITAIN Diesel made from bacteria could be our future. Although
it is still 10 years from mass production, scientists in England are busy
making the first samples of it right now.
Professor John Love of the University of Exeter has found a way to use
E. coli to make fuel for use in combustion engines. Unlike other biofuels, it
does not need to be combined with oil to work.
“The best biofuel you could have would be exactly like the fossil fuels we
have, but produced through biological means,” Love told US News & World
Report. Diesel made from E. coli gives off carbon dioxide, but since the bacteria
also use the gas in the fuel-making process, this would mean net-zero
emissions.
If the carbon originates in a biological process, Love explained, it goes
around in a circle. “The [global warming] problem we’re facing now is [that]
we’re taking fossilized carbon from the mineral realm ... and putting it back
into the biological cycle. That’s why we’re getting an increase in emissions.”
A new use for an old enemy: scientists are producing diesel from E. coli
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balance: keep one’s ~ [(bÄlEns]
cane [keIn]
carbon dioxide [)kA:bEn )daI(QksaId]
combustion engine [kEm(bVstSEn )endZIn]
fossilized carbon [)fQs&laIzd (kA:bEn]
means [mi:nz]
mineral realm [(mIn&rEl )relm]
net-zero emission [)net )zIErEU i(mIS&n]
originate in sth. [E(rIdZEneIt In]
physical therapy [)fIzIk&l (TerEpi]
set dancing [(set )dA:nsIN]
steadily [(stedIli]
das Gleichgewicht halten
(Spazier-, Geh-)Stock
Kohlendioxid
Verbrennungsmotor
fossiler Kohlenstoff
Mittel, Weg
Reich der Mineralien
Nullemission
aus etw. entstehen
Physiotherapie
schneller, von rhythmischen
Steppschritten begleiteter Tanz
ununterbrochen
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11

WORLD VIEW | News in Brief
A new look at a dark time
SOUTH AFRICA A new video game that will soon be available
will allow players to navigate a dark part of South Africa’s history:
the prison on Robben Island.
Starting in the 1600s, the island near Cape
Town was used as a jail and a hospital for people
on the fringes of society. Most famously, Nelson
Mandela was imprisoned there for 18 years (see
Spotlight 6/13, page 40). The prison was closed in
the 1990s and is now a museum. Thousands of
tourists visit Mandela’s cell each year.
The African Sun Times reports that an educational
game is being designed to help people understand
what life was like for prisoners on the
island. It includes elements such as hunger strikes
and smuggled messages.
The game is part of a multimedia project
called Mandela 27, which has received about
€200,000 in funding from the European Union.
Named after the total of 27 years which Nelson
Mandela spent in prison, the project aims to show
connections between events in South Africa and
Europe during Mandela’s years of imprisonment.
Now the topic of a video game:
the prison on Robben Island
annually [(ÄnjuEli]
charge [tSA:dZ]
computation arts [)kQmpju(teIS&n )A:ts]
fabric [(fÄbrIk]
fibre [(faIbE]
flat tire [US )flÄt (taI&r]
fringe [frIndZ]
funding [(fVndIN]
garments [(gA:mEnts]
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navigate [(nÄvIgeIt]
plaster [US (plÄst&r]
shell [Sel]
snail [sneI&l]
Snail attack
It will be on the market in early 2014, 20 years
after apartheid ended.
im Jahr
aufladen
computerbasierte Kunst und Design
Stoff, Gewebe
Faser
Platten, Reifenpanne
Rand
finanzielle Mittel
Bekleidung
etw. loswerden
hier: durchstreifen
Gips
hier: Gehäuse
Schnecke
UNITED STATES It sounds like something
from a horror film: snails the size of rats invade a community and
eat through the walls of houses. In Florida, it is really happening.
More than 117,000 giant African land snails have been caught in
the Miami area since 2011.
The Week reports that
these snails can grow up
to eight inches (20 cm) in
length, live for nine
years, and lay more than
1,000 eggs annually.
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Not a welcome
sight in Florida
WHAT’S HOT
Smart clothes
CANADA Many of us already
have smartphones. Now
smart clothing is on its way.
Imagine using your “smart”
T-shirt to charge your smartphone.
A professor in Montreal has developed
computerized fabric that can
obtain energy from the body of the
person wearing it.
Johanna Berzowska, who
teaches computation arts at Concordia
University, calls her project
“Karma Chameleon”. Clothing made
from the special fabric can change
its shape and colour. “We won’t see
such garments in stores for another
20 or 30 years, but the practical and
creative possibilities are exciting,”
Berzowska said.
The Daily Mail explains that this
is not the first time smart fabrics
have been researched. Typically,
electronic components have simply
been attached to fabrics. Ber -
zowka’s research is different in that
it allows the electronics to be included
in the fibres themselves.
Can you give me a charge, please?
The snails are a problem for many reasons. They damage the
natural environment, eating many different kinds of plant. They get
calcium for their shells by eating building materials, such as plaster,
which is found in numerous homes. Their shells are hard enough to
cause a flat tire if drivers run over them on the highway.
The snails also carry disease that could be given
to humans.
This is the second time that African land snails
have invaded Florida. In the 1960s, three snails were
brought in from Hawaii. Soon there were 17,000 and it
took ten years to get rid of them.
By RITA FORBES and CLAUDINE WEBER-HOF
Fotos: Action Press, Ronald Borshan; Corbis; Ullstein

We think
of him as a
“ bad king
”
Britain Today | COLIN BEAVEN
What shall we do
with King Richard?
Über Nacht wurde aus einem vermeintlichen Scheusal ein Held.
Das Gezanke um seine Gebeine ist eine einzige Farce.
Foto: Alamy
Generally speaking, we know
where our kings and queens
are buried. Basically, they’re
either in Westminster Abbey or at
Windsor Castle in St George’s
Chapel. There are one or two exceptions,
and if you go back more than a
thousand years, it starts to get complicated.
But that’s more or less it.
For a long time, though, one king
was missing. No one knew where
Richard III was. He died in 1485, the
last English ruler to be killed in battle.
He was followed by his rival,
Henry VII, the first Tudor king.
Henry’s famous son was Henry VIII
— the man who had six wives.
So there was great excitement earlier
this year when archaeologists confirmed
that Richard had been found.
He was buried underneath a car park
in Leicester, in a part of the city
where, 500 years earlier, a church had
stood. The skeleton found on the
very first day of the dig turned out to
be Richard’s.
In Britain, we tend to think of
him as a bad king, a monster who
would stop at nothing to get to the
after all [)A:ftE (O:l]
claim [kleIm]
dig [dIg]
disrespectful [)dIsri(spektf&l]
duke [dju:k]
keen [ki:n] UK
Leicester [(lestE]
lobby [(lQbi]
nuclear power station [)nju:kliE (paUE )steIS&n]
nuclear waste storage facility
[)nju:kliE )weIst (stO:rIdZ fE)sIlEti]
pressing [(presIN]
rival [(raIv&l]
stop at nothing [)stQp Et (nVTIN]
story: it’s a different ~ [(stO:ri]
tomb [tu:m]
waste incinerator [(weIst In)sInEreItE]
throne, and who cheerfully murdered
anyone who stood in his way.
Some say that this negative image
of Richard is all wrong. They blame
William Shakespeare, whose play
about him was, they claim, propaganda
to please Queen Elizabeth I.
Henry VII was her grandfather.
In fact, Richard seems to have become
rather popular now that his
skeleton has been discovered. Suddenly,
everyone wants him. They
want him in Leicester, because that’s
where they found him. Others are
lobbying to have him buried in York;
Richard’s father had the title Duke of
York. Or should he be taken to London,
so that Westminster Abbey can
add him to its collection?
It’s ironic that everyone’s so keen
to bury a dead king. It’s a different
story when it comes to finding somewhere
to bury more pressing things,
like the waste from our nuclear power
stations. After all these years, we still
can’t find a home for it. If we were
clever, we’d bury Richard and the nuclear
waste together, and use his name
to make it sound more acceptable.
immerhin
behaupten
Grabung
respektlos
Herzog
darauf aus
sich einsetzen (für)
Atomkraftwerk
Atommüll-Endlagerstätte
dringlich
Rivale, Rivalin, Gegenspieler(in)
vor nichts zurückschrecken
es ist ganz was anderes
Grab
Müllverbrennungsanlage
After all, schools and hospitals often
take their names from earlier kings
and queens. You can have King Edward’s
School and Queen Mary’s
Hospital, so why not King Richard’s
Nuclear Waste Storage Facility?
It might even be a good idea to
decentralize all our kings and queens.
Perhaps it’s the only way people will
agree to have new projects built near
their homes — a waste incinerator
next to the tomb of Henry VII, or a
crematorium on top of the tomb of
Queen Mary.
Mary, who was Elizabeth I’s sister,
probably wouldn’t mind; she liked
burning people. In fact, she had them
burned while they were still alive.
All these plans require money,
though, and the cheapest thing to do
would be to put Richard back where
they found him and call it the King
Richard III Car Park.
What? How can you name a place
where you can park after a king? Isn’t
that disrespectful?
Don’t forget that all the places you
can’t park are already named after a
king. The streets are full of signs saying
No Par King.
Colin Beaven is a freelance writer who lives
and works in Southampton on the south
coast of England.
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13

FOOD | United States
Cooking for canines:
chef Craig Zeleznik
A dog’s
dinner
Ein Küchenchef aus Florida hat sich zur Aufgabe
gemacht, vierbeinigen Feinschmeckern
eine Gaumenfreude zu bereiten.
Von BARBARA HILLER
At first sight, Craig Zeleznik is like any other chef:
He wears a white uniform, and he values highquality
ingredients. His customers, however, have
names like Sassy, Humphrey, and Spot. They also have
more legs than your typical gourmet, and a lot more hair.
Zeleznik doesn’t cook for humans; he cooks for dogs.
Based in Florida, he and his team at Chef K9’s Doggy
Bistro & Bakery prepare thousands of pounds of dog food
each month. Spotlight spoke to Zeleznik about his work,
his clients, and his culinary creations.
For the dogs:
cooked food
fit their breed specification, or dogs with special medical
needs. For them, we prepare custom-formulated diets.
The most common medical problems we deal with are
food allergies, followed by obesity and orthopedic issues
— these two are often related.
Spotlight: Do you taste all the foods you cook?
Zeleznik: Oh, yes, absolutely. We taste-test the individual
ingredients and also the final mix. The fact that we are
able to eat the food that we prepare is something we’ve
capitalized on in the past. Lots of dog-food companies
out there say that their dog foods are good and healthy,
so I have openly challenged most of their representatives
to eat a bowl of their food. I have yet to find one who
will. I would be happy to eat a bowl of ours. On that
note, we make apple-cinnamon dog biscuits here,
Spotlight: What kinds of dog food do you make at Chef
K9’s?
Craig Zeleznik: We design and cook both breed-specific
diets and diets for individual dogs. Nutritional needs
differ strongly between breeds. For example, if you feed
Labradors soy in any form, they often get belly rashes,
hot spots, redness, and itchy skin. But if you feed it to
shih-tzus, they do very well. That’s because shih-tzus are
originally from China, where soy is a native crop. For
an average dog of this breed, we prepare a mixture of
pork, chicken, rice, barley, carrots, beets, broccoli,
squash, and soybeans with oil, bran flakes, and cheese.
The exact mix of our breed-specific diet varies according
to whether the dog is male or female, a puppy, adolescent,
adult or geriatric, a working dog, or pregnant or
lactating. Then, there are always some dogs that don’t
adolescent [)ÄdE(les&nt]
barley [(bA:rli]
beet [bi:t]
belly rash [(beli )rÄS]
bowl [boUl]
bran flakes [(brÄn )fleIks]
breed [bri:d]
capitalize on sth. [(kÄpEt&laIz )A:n]
challenge sb. [(tSÄlIndZ]
cinnamon [(sInEmEn]
crop [krA:p]
custom-formulated
[)kVstEm (fO:rmjEleItEd]
diet [(daIEt]
geriatric [)dZeri(ÄtrIk]
hot spot [(hA:t spA:t]
issue [(ISu:]
itchy [(ItSi]
lactating [(lÄkteItIN]
nutritional need [nu)trIS&nEl (ni:d]
obesity [oU(bi:sEti]
on that note [)A:n (DÄt )noUt]
pork [pO:rk]
pregnant [(pregnEnt]
puppy [(pVpi]
squash [skwA:S]
Junghund
Gerste
rote Bete
Ausschlag am Bauch
Schüssel
Getreideflocken
Rasse
von etw. profitieren
hier: jmdn. auffordern
Zimt
Kulturpflanze
individuell zubereitet
hier: Nahrung
hier: alter Hund
Überhitzung
Problem
juckend
säugend
Nährstoffbedarf
Fettleibigkeit
in diesem Sinne
Schweinefleisch
hier: trächtig
Welpe
Kürbis
Fotos: C. Zeleznik; iStockphoto
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You might like them, too:
dog biscuits so good that
even people eat them
and when they’re fresh and hot, my staff and I generally
take a few, put some cream cheese on top, and eat them
ourselves.
Spotlight: How is your dog food different to human food?
Zeleznik: Large amounts of salts and seasonings are what
make human food dangerous for dogs. The main difference
is that we don’t mix sauces like ketchup into our
dog food or add garlic and oils. This means that it tastes
a bit boring to us humans. Also, once a diet is put together
and is working well for the dog, we don’t change
the ingredients. That’s to make sure the individual dog
gets a regular supply of the proper nutrients. We vary
the cooking methods a bit, though, so that the taste and
texture aren’t always the same.
Spotlight: Is all your dog food cooked?
Zeleznik: Yes. Vegetables or grains are necessary to balance
a diet, but if you give them to dogs raw, they generally
won’t eat them. The same ingredient cooked just right
blends in well with the rest of the food.
Spotlight: Why did you start the Chef K9’s business?
Zeleznik: I started out as a professional chef for humans.
After cooking at the invitation-only James Beard House
in New York City, which is the culinary equivalent of
earning an Oscar, I realized I had hit my peak. I was
also tired of all the stress. At that time, I was already
cooking for some dogs of friends and family, so I knew
there was a need for Chef K9’s — especially with all the
pet-food recalls out there. I began working with a canine
nutritionist and started the company with my sister.
The atmosphere here is relaxed, my dog comes to
work with me every day, and our employees sometimes
bring their dogs, too. If stress ever does start to build
up, we just go and roll around on the floor with the
dogs. It really helps.
Spotlight: And what’s one of the stranger things that has
happened to you during your time as a chef for dogs?
Zeleznik: Several years ago, a client had us build a custom
diet for his little dog Zoe, who needed about eight to ten
PET-FOOD RECALLS
Craig Zeleznik says that when he founded his business, people
were becoming sceptical of large pet-food companies because
a number of them had had to recall their products. In the US,
the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) is in charge of enforcing
and keeping records of pet-food recalls. Their list from
March 2007 to October 2012 has 1,162 entries and includes cat,
dog, fish, horse, and reptile foods. One of the largest such recalls
in US history happened in 2007. After nine cats died during
routine taste trials at the Canadian company Menu Foods, and
five more deaths were reported by consumers, Menu Foods
contacted the FDA and started a recall. Soon, other companies
had to recall their pet foods, too — more than 100 brands were
affected. The FDA found that wheat gluten used in these foods
was tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical.
affect [E(fekt]
brand [brÄnd]
charge: be in ~ of sth.
[tSA:rdZ]
enforce sth. [In(fO:rs]
FDA [)ef )di: (eI] US
recall [ri(kO:l]
taint [teInt]
taste trial [(teIst )traIEl]
betreffen
Marke
verantwortlich für etw. sein
etw. durchführen
Lebensmittelüberwachungs- und
Arzneimittelzulassungsbehörde
aus dem Handel nehmen; Rückruf
verunreinigen
Geschmackstest
pounds (three to four kilos) of food each month. In month
two, he ordered 30 pounds. In month three, when he ordered
45 pounds, I knew I had to speak to him and find
out what was going on. It turned out the man had been
put on a strict diet by his doctor. He was buying prepackaged
food online, and it tasted awful. One day, when he
was feeding our food to his dog, he decided to try it. He
really enjoyed it. As we say at Chef K9’s: every dog is
unique — and their owners even more so.
High hopes:
this dog expects
a good meal
balance [(bÄlEns]
blend in well [)blend In (wel]
canine nutritionist
[)keInaIn nu(trIS&nIst]
cream cheese [)kri:m (tSi:z]
even more so [)i:v&n (mO:r soU]
garlic [(gA:rlIk]
grain [greIn]
hit one’s peak [)hIt wVnz (pi:k]
nutrients [(nu:triEnts]
prepackaged [)pri:(pÄkIdZd]
seasoning [(si:z&nIN]
texture [(tekstS&r]
unique [ju(ni:k]
Ausgewogenheit schaffen in
gut passen
Ernährungswissenschaftler(in)
für Hunde
Frischkäse
erst recht
Knoblauch
(Getreide)Korn
seinen Höhepunkt erreichen
Nährstoffe
abgepackt
Würzmittel
Konsistenz
einzigartig
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15

LANGUAGE | Jokes
Laugh
learn
and
Think you can’t have
fun while learning
English? Think again!
Möchten Sie Spaß haben und dabei Ihre Englischkenntnisse
spielend leicht aufpeppen? STEPHANIE SHELLABEAR und DAGMAR TAYLOR
zeigen, wie’s geht.
They say that laughter is the best medicine. It’s also an excellent teacher:
telling jokes is a fun way to learn new words and phrases. Read on to find
out all about the types of jokes that have enjoyed a long tradition in the
English language. Once you lose yourself in the examples, you may even forget
that you are trying to master a foreign language. The more you laugh,
the more your language learning will happen on its own. So why did the
chicken cross the road? To get to the other side — to speak English!
“The funniest thing about comedy is that you
never know why people laugh. I know what makes
them laugh — but trying to get your hands on the
why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub
of water.”
W. C. Fields (1880–1946), US comedian
eel [i:&l]
pick [pIk]
tub [tVb]
Aal
nehmen
Bottich, Kübel
16
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Riddles
Humour plays an important role in the English-speaking
world, and the riddle is a typical style of joke: a simple
question is asked, but the answer is twisted to achieve a
humorous effect. The punchline is often a play on words
— a pun — which links two concepts that seem to be unconnected.
Here are some examples:
Q: Knock, knock!
A: Who’s there?
Q: A cow goes.
A: A cow goes who?
Q: No, a cow goes moo!
Q: What do you get if you drop a white hat into the Red Sea?
A: A wet hat, of course!
Q: How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: One, but the light bulb has to wan to change.
Opening lines
An “opening line” joke always follows a similar sequence: “An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman...” This type of
joke is especially popular in Ireland and the UK. If the joke is being told by an English person, the punchline is usually
based on the Irishman being stupid and the Scotsman being mean. The Englishman, naturally, always has good luck.
An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman go into a pub. Each orders
a pint of Guinness. Just as the barman hands them their beers, a fly
lands in each of the pints. The Englishman looks disgusted and demands
a fresh pint. The Irishman picks out the fly, shrugs his shoulders and
drinks a large mouthful. The Scotsman reaches into the glass, pinches
the fly between his fingers, shakes it and shouts: “Spit it out! Spit it out!”
A bar joke is often a simple joke.
It always begins with: “A man —
or a horse, a fish, a bear and so
on — walks into a bar, and...” The
listener might expect a longer
story. However, the punchline is
usually revealed quickly. The outcome
is always a funny surprise.
A man walks into a bar, and who should he see there but the artist Van Gogh? He shouts over to him,
“Hey, Van Gogh! Do you want a pint?” Van Gogh replies, “No thanks, I’ve got one ear!”
(“Ear” sounds the same as “’ere”, which is short for “here”.)
Wordplay
Jokes that involve wordplay or puns are popular with speakers of English. Some jokes use similarities
in pronunciation to play with words:
How do you know when it’s raining cats and dogs?
When you step in a poodle. (“Poodle” [(pu:d&l] sounds like “puddle” (Pfütze).)
Fotos: Fuse; iStockphoto
demand [di(mA:nd]
disgusted [dIs(gVstId]
go [gEU] ifml.
light bulb [(laIt bVlb]
mean [mi:n]
outcome [(aUtkVm]
pinch [pIntS]
pint [paInt] UK
punchline [(pVntSlaIn]
reveal [ri(vi:&l]
shrug one’s shoulders [)SrVg wVnz (SEUldEz]
spit [spIt]
twisted [twIstId]
verlangen
angeekelt
hier: machen
Glühbirne
geizig
Ende, Ausgang
quetschen
hier: Glas
Pointe
enthüllen
mit den Achseln zucken
spucken
verdreht
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LANGUAGE | Jokes
Other jokes play with words that are pronounced the same way:
If one sheep is called a ewe [ju:], what are two sheep called? W.
(A “ewe” is a female sheep; “w” is pronounced “double ‘u’”.)
Then there are jokes that are built around the meanings of words:
Why do cows have bells?
Because their horns don’t work. (Here, a horn can mean Horn or Hupe.)
American comedienne Gayle Tufts lives in Berlin and entertains
German audiences both on TV and on the stage
with a special mixture of Deutsch and English, “Dinglish”.
Spotlight asked her what she likes best about humour.
“I love really harmless jokes,” Tufts said, “anything that
has to do with ‘a horse walks into a bar...’, so there’s nothing
to harm anyone. I also like jokes that are absurd... I
once heard a lovely joke from a British colleague: ‘What
do you call a sheep without legs? A cloud.’ It’s delightful:
I like anything that a six-year-old would ‘get’ and that
Keeping it light:
international star
Gayle Tufts
doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings. I love what jokes can start,
like a belly laugh — you know, when you can’t stop laughing
about something completely stupid. You see that with
kids. Somebody tells a joke, and they just fall about. You’ve
no idea what makes it so funny for them, but they are simply
falling down laughing.”
Fun with taboos
Politics, religion, sex: topics like these are considered taboo.
We often try to avoid talking about them in the company
of people we don’t know very well. However, taboos play a
huge role in English humour. Take the recent scandal created
by the discovery of horsemeat in ready-made foods
that were supposed to contain beef: immediately, jokes
about eating horses began to circulate. The same happened
when former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher died.
Read on — but don’t say we didn’t warn you!
My doctor told
me to watch
what I eat — so
I went out and
bought tickets
for the Grand
National.
I told my friend I had a
hot date with an Italian
stallion. It sounds a lot
better than saying that
I’m sitting at home alone,
eating a ready-made
lasagne.
What does it say on the Iron Lady’s gravestone? “Rust in peace” (instead of “rest in peace”).
Comedy
In the days of silent film, actors like
Charlie Chaplin had only to trip and
fall to make the audience laugh.
Language-free comedy is easy for
everyone to understand. When comedians
appear on stage before an audience,
however, the demands on them
are different. People who tell jokes
on stage have to know quite a bit
about their listeners’ backgrounds and
lifestyles for the humour to succeed.
Stand-up comedy, which is dependent
on the spoken language, has long
been part of the culture in Englishspeaking
countries. And yet one of the
most popular stand-up comedians in
the UK these days is from Germany:
belly laugh [)beli (lA:f]
circulate [(s§:kjuleIt]
delightful [di(laItf&l]
fall about [)fO:l E(baUt] UK ifml.
get [get] ifml.
Grand National
[)grÄnd (nÄS&nEl] UK
ready-made food
[redi )meId (fu:d] UK
rest [rest]
rust [rVst]
stallion [(stÄljEn]
trip and fall [)trIp End (fO:l]
watch [wQtS]
herzhaftes Lachen
im Umlauf sein
köstlich
hier: sich kaputtlachen
kapieren
bedeutendes Pferdehindernisrennen
Fertiggericht
ruhen
rosten
Hengst
stolpern
achtgeben auf;
auch: beobachten
continued on page 21
Fotos: Getty Images; iStockphoto; Tom Wagner; PR
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Fun with clichés:
Henning Wehn’s
popular humour
Henning Wehn, a star
on Britain’s stand-up
comedy scene, uses
humour to bridge the
cultural divide. Tickets
to see the selfappointed
“German
Comedy Ambassador
to Great Britain” sell
out quickly.
Wehn has created
a niche for himself by
using a popular
cliché. On stage, he
becomes a character
whom his audience will immediately recognize: a Briton’s
idea of a typical German. He can take up the theme of
British culture, contrast it to life in Germany and laughingly
conclude that Germans have it better: things work
in Germany, Germany is modern, Germans don’t take
pride in telling everyone about their personal failures. So
you tell me: who really won the war? This strategy works
because Wehn’s audiences don’t take themselves too seriously
and clearly enjoy humour that breaks cultural
taboos. Spotlight asked Henning Wehn about his work.
Spotlight: Many British comedians focus on personal failures
when they tell jokes on stage. Would you say that
this is one of the main elements of British stand-up
comedy?
Henning Wehn: I would say it’s the biggest cultural difference
between Britain and Germany: the whole concept
of self-deprecation — the idea that you can laugh off a
failure. For example, something goes wrong, something
that I did; then I say that with an element of pride. It
makes for good entertainment. But is self-deprecation a
core element of British stand-up comedy? I don’t know.
Since it’s so typical of this country, I would say that it’s
certainly mirrored in stand-up comedy.
Spotlight: Is there a kind of stand-up comedy that will work
anywhere, regardless of the country?
Wehn: Well, the audience has to know what you’re talking
about — that’s what it boils down to. The more basic
the humour is, the better it travels. That’s why physical
humour, like what Mr Bean does, plays and sells worldwide.
It’s funny to watch, and it’s perfectly accessible.
Spotlight: What do you like about British audiences?
Wehn: There’s a great appreciation of having a laugh.
That’s very much part of the culture. What I really like
about the British stand-up scene is the ubiquity of comedy.
Go to any hamlet, and they’ll have a monthly comedy
show. The result is that the people at the top of the
scene are incredibly good because they get so much
stage time. What’s also great about the British stand-up
comedy scene is that a lot of the best challengers are
from, say, Australia, Canada or America. They go to live
in London to hone
their skills. I real ly
like the diversity and
the fact that people
from different social
classes are doing
stand-up comedy in
the UK.
Are you joking?
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• For more on the comedians interviewed in this article, see www.gayle-tufts.de and www.henningwehn.de
• You can also listen to parts of the interview with Gayle Tufts on Spotlight Audio.
• For more on self-deprecation in American humour, see I Ask Myself on page 26 of this magazine.
Botschafter(in)
Gefallen, Wertschätzung
auf etw. hinauslaufen
hier: Konkurrent(in)
schlussfolgern
Kern-, Schlüssel-
Vielfalt
Kluft
ambassador [Äm(bÄsEdE]
appreciation [E)pri:Si(eIS&n]
boil down to sth. [)bOI&l (daUn tE]
challenger [(tSÄlIndZE]
conclude [kEn(klu:d]
core [kO:]
diversity [daI(v§:sEti]
divide [dI(vaId]
hamlet [(hÄmlEt]
hone [hEUn]
mirror [(mIrE]
self-appointed [)self E(pOIntId]
self-deprecation
[)self deprE(keIS&n]
tongue-twister [(tVN )twIstE]
ubiquity [ju(bIkwEti]
Dörfchen, Nest
feilen an, verbessern, verfeinern
widerspiegeln
selbsternannt
Selbstironie
Zungenbrecher
Allgegenwart
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MUSIC | Birthday
Mick Jagger
70
A rock legend turns
Das einstige Enfant terrible der Rockmusik wird 70: Zur Feier der Stunde präsentiert
CHRISTINE MADDEN zehn Dinge, die aus Mick Jagger eine Legende machten.
Time is still on his side: for Mick Jagger, the year 2013 has meant going on tour
When Mick Jagger appeared on the TV programme
Late Show with David Letterman last
year, he delighted his audience with the following
list: “the top 10 things I, Mick Jagger, have learned
after 50 years of rock ’n’ roll”.
On 26 July, Mick Jagger will be celebrating his 70th
birthday. His career with the Rolling Stones covers most
of his lifetime — and indeed most of ours. It made him
not only an international rock superstar, but also defined
popular music and band culture as we know it.
How did this happen to an otherwise unremarkable
middle-class boy born in Dartford, Kent, just south of
London? A big birthday is a time for reflection, and in our
own celebration of Jagger’s 70th, we’d like to present a
retro spective list, too: the 10 things that have helped make
Mick Jagger a rock legend.
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1. His band, the Rolling Stones
Without the Rolling Stones, there would be no Mick Jagger.
There would be a Michael Philip Jagger, born in 1943
to a physical education teacher and an Australian-born
housewife. His father inspired him to be athletic and do
his training and exercise — which later helped him to
dance on stage like no one else. His youth was just an average,
post-war English childhood, except for one important
thing: from early on, he was crazy about American blues
music. When he left the house, he walked around with
two or three albums under his arm like fashion accessories.
exercise [(eksEsaIz]
physical education teacher
[)fIzIk&l edju(keIS&n )ti:tSE]
post-war [)pEUst (wO:]
Sport machen
Sportlehrer(in)
Nachkriegs-
Fotos: The Rolling Stones/EMI; Getty Images; Interfoto

Such nice boys: an early
portrait of the band
The band was originally
formed by the talented
guitarist and
musician Brian Jones,
who died in 1969. With
their many hits, the
Rolling Stones scandalized
the older generation
and excited the younger one. With songs like “Satisfaction”,
“Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and “Sympathy for the Devil”,
the band became a symbol of the 1960s.
2. Keith Richards, Jagger’s song-writing partner
Jagger was eight years old when he first met Keith Richards
in the school playground. They would not meet again until
1961, when Jagger and Richards were at Dartford railway
station waiting for the same train. Jagger, as usual, was carrying
a couple of blues albums. The conversation about
music which started that day has never stopped. Even now,
Richards wrote in his
autobiography, chats
between them “very
quickly fall into piano,
guitar, songs — and
the magic returns”.
Their long association
has produced hits that
have received both
popular and critical
praise.
Live on stage:
Jagger and Richards at
a Paris club last year
3. The 1960s
When Jagger and the Stones came on the scene, The
Beatles were already changing popular music. Bands imitating
them sprang up everywhere, and their music challenged
a conservative society in which young people felt
stifled. So when the Stones released the Jagger / Richards
song “Satisfaction” in 1965, it felt like an anthem.
At first, the Establishment tried to stamp out the new
music. In 1967, when the Stones sang “Let’s Spend the
Night Together” on America’s Ed Sullivan Show, they had
to change the words to “let’s spend some time together”.
Jagger rolled his eyes in protest whenever he had to sing
the new, “clean” lyric.
anthem [(ÄnTEm]
scandalize sb. [(skÄnd&laIz]
stamp sth. out [)stÄmp (aUt]
stifled: feel ~ [(staIf&ld]
Establishment: the ~ [I(stÄblISmEnt]
Jones’s Stones:
Brian Jones
(left) started
the band
Hymne
jmdn. schockieren
etw. ausmerzen
hier: sich eingeengt fühlen
Schicht der Einflussreichen
und Etablierten
23

MUSIC | Birthday
Sixties’ girlfriend:
Marianne Faithfull
With model Jerry Hall
and one of their four
children in 1990
4. Image
When the Stones started up, they
did so — like everyone else in
music — in the shadow of The
Beatles. Had Mick become a Beatles
clone, he might have had his day
in the sun, finished his degree at
the London School of Economics
(LSE) and enjoyed a comfortable,
middle-class career. Instead, Andrew
Loog Oldham, the Stones’s
brash young manager, styled Jagger
into a dirty, dangerous front man.
“Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?” one
newspaper headline shouted. A rock legend was born —
and Mick never did finish his degree at the LSE.
5. The drugs
With the explosion of the new youth culture of the 1960s,
drug use became widespread, especially in “swinging London”.
Rock stars such as the Stones, who had money and
connections, were right in the thick of it.
The most scandalous event connected with this subculture
was the drug bust in 1967 at Richards’s home,
Redlands, for which Jagger and Richards were both jailed.
The event also produced a story about Jagger’s girlfriend
Marianne Faithfull. Reports said she was found in a compromising
position with Jagger and a Mars bar — a fiction
that became legend. Jagger’s biographer Philip Norman
has recently shown that the drug raid was part of a secret
operation staged by Britain’s MI5 and the American FBI
to discredit the Rolling Stones.
Married in 1971:
Bianca and Mick Jagger
6. A love of celebrity
Jagger’s fame brought
him into the company
of celebrities, and he
discovered that he liked
it — very much. He be -
gan to be seen with the
world’s beautiful people:
he was friends with
Beatle John Lennon, got
tips on art from collector
Charles Saatchi and
once stayed at Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion when all
the hotels in Chicago were fully booked. Politicians even
paid tribute to him. Prime Minister Tony Blair went up
to him at a dinner party, reports Jagger’s biographer, Philip
Norman, and said: “I want to say how much you’ve always
meant to me.”
7. The women
Today, it would be called sex addiction. Even as a teenager,
before he started playing with a band, Jagger was addicted
to women — and he had no trouble finding enough of
them to support his habit. He had relationships with
Chrissie Shrimpton, the sister of model Jean Shrimpton;
singer and actress Marianne Faithfull; former model, now
human-rights advocate Bianca Pérez-Mora Macias; and
American model Jerry Hall. Jagger is currently seeing US
fashion designer L’Wren Scott.
During Jagger’s many long-term relationships, he had
numerous affairs on the side. His name has been linked to
brash [brÄS]
bust [bVst]
compromising
[(kQmprEmaIzIN]
discredit sb. [dIs(kredIt]
drug raid [(drVg )reId]
habit [(hÄbIt]
frech, dreist
Razzia
kompromittierend
jmdn. in Verruf bringen
Drogenrazzia
hier: Sucht
human-rights advocate
[)hju:mEn (raIts )ÄdvEkEt]
L’Wren [lE(ren]
mansion [(mÄnS&n]
Mars bar [(mA:z )bA:]
MI5 [)em aI (faIv] UK
thick: to be in the ~ of it [TIk]
Menschenrechtler(in)
Villa
Marsriegel
britischer Geheimdienst
mittendrin sein
Fotos: Getty Images; Interfoto
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women such as model and singer Carla Bruni, who went
on to marry Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president of
France; movie star Angelina Jolie; Margaret Trudeau, long
married to the former Canadian prime minister Pierre
Trudeau; and models Sophie Dahl and Uschi Obermaier.
Marsha Hunt, an actress with whom Jagger had a long
affair while officially in a relationship with Faithfull, recently
put a selection of his love letters up for auction.
They sold for more than £185,000.
Jagger’s many relationships resulted in seven children.
He is known to be a caring dad whose children are very
fond of him. The star also has four grandchildren.
8. Brand Jagger
On stage, Jagger is larger than life. He struts and dances,
using his own “Jagger dialect”, which is loosely based on
the Southern accent of his American blues heroes. Possibly
the best-known element of “brand Jagger” is his famous
full lips, which inspired the Rolling Stones’ logo. In 1970,
Royal College of Art student John Pasche created the instantly
recognizable lips-and-tongue motif, a job for which
he was paid £50 at the time. Pasche sold the original blackand-white
drawings of the logo in 2008 to London’s Victoria
and Albert Museum for more than £50,000.
9. Control freak
Biographer Norman refers to Jagger’s carefully choreographed
posturing as the “tyranny of cool”. In fact, without
this often criticized element to his character,
the Rolling Stones might well have
disappeared — like so many other
rock groups. Jagger made good use
of his LSE training, taking over the
management of the band and using
his charm to manage his business
dealings. In his autobiography, Keith
Richards says: “I realised that Mick
had got all of the strings in his hands
and he didn’t want to let go of a single
one... Mick had fallen in love with power
while I was being... artistic.”
Born of the blues: the Rolling Stones’ sound
Mick Jagger by Philip Norman is published
by Ecco, ISBN 978-0-06-194485-7, €13.99.
See also the Rolling Stones documentary
Crossfire Hurricane, directed by Brett Morgen
and released by Eagle Vision/Edel.
10. Enigmatic aura
“Talking to Jagger is like trying to grasp mercury,” writes
journalist Louise Gannon in the Mail on Sunday’s magazine
Live. The rock legend has shown himself to be both
kind and cruel, but he never drops the cool he uses to
guard himself. His contradictory nature leads people to
have “such a weird opinion of him”, Faithfull told The
Guardian. “Behind the stage persona, there’s a fabulous,
intelligent, cultivated, kind man. Mick is very complex.”
Like the queen, Jagger often avoids commenting to the
press, keeping himself and his private life out of the public
eye. In 2003, the queen knighted Jagger. Many people —
including some of his fellow Stones — thought that Jagger,
as a former rebel, should not have accepted the honour.
Love him or hate him, Jagger turned the Rolling Stones
into an empire. Even now, as he turns 70, he is still what
many consider to be an original rock star — often imitated
but never duplicated.
Strong
images
helped to
sell albums
contradictory [)kQntrE(dIktEri] widersprüchlich
enigmatic [)enIg(mÄtIk]
hintergründig, rätselhaft
fabulous [(fÄbjUlEs]
wunderbar
fond: be ~ of sb. [fQnd]
jmdn. gernhaben
grasp [grA:sp] packen, anfassen (➝ p. 61)
instantly [(InstEntli]
auf Anhieb
knight [naIt]
zum Ritter schlagen
larger than life [)lA:dZE DEn (laIf] überlebensgroß
mercury [(m§:kju&ri]
Quecksilber
posturing [(pQstSErIN]
Selbstdarstellung
strings [strINz]
Strippen
strut [strVt]
stolzieren
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AMY ARGETSINGER | I Ask Myself
When are jokes just
good politics?
Es ist sehr erfrischend, wenn der mächtigste Mann der
Welt über sich selbst lachen kann!
Earlier this year, President
Obama undertook one of the
yearly duties of his office: he
put on a tuxedo and went to a fine
old Washington hotel, where he
dined at a banquet with the journalists
who cover the White House.
Then he went up to the podium
— and told jokes. More than that: the
leader of the free world performed a
20-minute comedy routine. He made
fun of the stories his opponents have
tried to spread about him: “These
days, I look in the mirror, and I have
to admit I’m not the strapping young
Muslim socialist that I used to be.”
Obama got some of his biggest
laughs when he displayed silly photos
of himself doctored to look as if he
had bangs — an attempt to make
himself look like the first lady, whose
new haircut has been wildly popular.
“I thought this looked pretty good,”
he joked.
Does this seem strange to Europeans:
the president of the US doing
stand-up comedy? It seemed unusual
to the Chinese: millions of them
watched Obama’s speech on the internet,
even though it was so full of
bangs [bÄNz] N. Am.
bring down the house
[)brIN daUn DE (haUs]
campaign ad [kÄm(peIn )Äd]
cover sth. [(kVv&r]
doctor sth. [(dA:kt&r]
frankly [(frÄNkli]
humble [(hVmb&l]
oratorical [)O:rE(tO:rIk&l]
routine [)ru:(ti:n]
scoff [skA:f]
score points [)skO:r (pOInts]
slay: sth. ~s sb. [sleI] ifml.
strapping [(strÄpIN]
tuxedo [tVk(si:doU] N. Am.
insider references that it would have
been very hard to understand, even
when translated. But to them, it was
fascinating to see a national leader
making fun of his own failures and
joking about his rivals. That would
never happen in China.
Yet it’s quite a normal thing here
— not just during the White House
Correspondents’ Association dinner,
but at a few other events each year,
too, where the president is expected
not to convince the crowd of his policy
choices, but simply to entertain.
Ronald Reagan
was perhaps the best
at this, thanks to his
years in Hollywood.
But the truth is,
they’re all good at it. I
watched George W.
Bush bring down the
house as many times
as Obama. The jokes
may not leave you
dying with laughter as
you read them on the
printed page; it’s the
way they’re told that
Ponyfrisur
stürmischen Beifall ernten
Obama and Joe Biden, the vice president
Wahlplakat
über etw. Bericht erstatten
hier: etw. bearbeiten,
manipulieren
offen gestanden
bescheiden
rednerisch
hier: Programm
spotten
punkten
sich wegen etw. tot lachen
stramm
Smoking
“
We like it
when our
presidents
tell jokes
”
slays you. The same oratorical gifts
that help politicians win debates also
help them to do comedy. And we
may be more ready to laugh when the
most powerful man in the world is
telling the jokes.
Why do presidents do this? Well,
there are opportunities, with humor,
to score points. Obama noted that
he’s been described as not doing
enough to win Congress over to his
side. Some critics had asked, “Why
don’t you get a drink with Mitch Mc-
Connell?” — a powerful Republican
senator. “Really?” scoffed Obama.
“Why don’t you get a drink with
Mitch McConnell?” The room exploded
with laughter, in recognition
of the senator’s general unpopularity.
Obama also made fun of a Republican
businessman who spent
$100 million on negative campaign
ads. “[He] would have been better off
offering me $100 million to drop out
of the race,” the president joked. “I
probably wouldn’t have taken it —
but I’d have thought about it.”
Presidents know that these comic
speeches can make them more popular
if told just right. That means not
just telling jokes about one’s enemies,
but about oneself. That night with
the White House correspondents,
Obama got a big laugh when he
made fun of his relationship with reporters
and his own reputation for
having a big ego: “My job is to be
president; your job is to keep me
humble. Frankly, I think I’m doing
my job better.” It’s hard not to like
someone who can laugh at himself.
Amy Argetsinger is a co-author of “The Reliable
Source,” a column in The Washington
Post about personalities.
Foto: Pete Souza/ The White House
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TRAVEL | Africa
Under Namibian
Machen Sie sich startbereit für ein Camping-Abenteuer

Wide-open spaces:
Namibia’s landscapes inspire
a feeling of freedom
skies
durch den bezaubernd schönen Süden Namibias. Von CLAUDINE WEBER-HOF
Watch a video from the trip at
www.spotlight-online.de/namibia
Alle Fotos: David John Weber
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TRAVEL | Africa
One of the cheetahs at
Bagatelle guest farm
DAY 1
WINDHOEK — GPS S 22.5611 E 17.0824
I search the roads and riverbeds from above, looking for signs of life.
But before I see any springbok or giraffe, the plane lands, delivering
me and my photographer to Windhoek, Namibia’s capital city. That
is where our road trip begins.
The plan is to explore the country’s beautiful south. First, we’ll go
to Fish River Canyon, close to the South African border, then, it’s west
to the Atlantic and the forbidden diamond zone. The way back passes
through the great mountains of the interior. In total, we’ll be driving
3,200 kilometres, mostly on gravel roads. The idea is to stay close to
nature, so we plan to camp at guest farms along the way.
Now all we need are some wheels: a man from Asco Car Hire meets
us at the airport and drives us into Windhoek. There, we are given a
big 4 x 4 truck with tents on the roof. The Toyota’s two fuel tanks hold
150 litres of diesel, essential for staying mobile between petrol stations.
After all, distances in this sparsely populated land can be immense.
All the camping equipment we’ll need comes with the truck and is
packed in the back: fridge, table, chairs, grill, gas cooker, pans, plates,
cups and utensils. My photographer jangles the keys. It’s time to go.
Namibia’s endless
gravel roads
gravel road [(grÄv&l rEUd]
jangle sth. [(dZÄNg&l]
sparsely populated [)spA:sli (pQpjuleItId]
(unbefestigte) Schotterstraße
mit etw. klimpern
dünn besiedelt
Heaven on earth: a view of the Tiras Mountains from Koiimasis Ranch

A bright green oasis in the desert: Cañon Lodge near Fish River Canyon; right: Julieta Geraldo, who manages the lodge
EVENING WITH OSCAR
DAAN VILJOEN CAMP — GPS S 22.5253 E 16.9714
After a stop in Windhoek to buy food and firewood, we’re
ready to camp. It’s late in the day when we arrive at Daan
Viljoen, a game park just outside the city. Parking at reception,
we get out of the truck to take a look at the place:
each of the campsites has a full outdoor kitchen as well as
easy access to washrooms and showers. Children are playing
on the grass, shouting to each other in English and
Afrikaans. Nearby is a herd of blue wildebeest. The animals
begin to move away as the campers light cooking fires
for the evening braai.
I still need to pay for our campsite, so I go into the reception
hall. There, I am greeted by a warthog. The large
animal is lying on a colonial-style sofa like a Labrador.
“Do you want to meet Oscar?” asks the girl at the till.
She tells me the story of how he was raised in a house with
dogs, and that all the animals were able to sleep in the
owner’s bed. Oscar is a year old now and too big for that.
During the day, he explores the park. At night, he returns
to his sofa. I touch Oscar’s shoulder, and he smiles in the
Zen way of pigs and dogs. It’s as if he’s saying: “Welcome
to Africa.”
DAY 3
MARIENTAL — GPS S 24.6241 E 17.9608
The B1 is a fine paved road, but the drive south is long
and hot. High points are just small dots on the map. One
is Mariental, a farm community with a terrific supermarket
and Hardap Dam, a hydrological highlight. The other,
Keetmanshoop, has more than one petrol station.
Along the way, we camp in the Kalahari at a farm
called Bagatelle. There, in the desert, we see wild giraffe,
meerkat, more kudu than I can count and three cheetah
that are part of a conservation project. The following
night, our roof tents go up on Brukkaros Crater, the only
mountain in a spectacularly flat place. On the horizon, we
can even see the curvature of the earth.
By 10 the next morning, we’re on the road again and
seeing the first signs for South Africa. The border area is
where we’ll find Fish River Canyon — second, as far as
canyons go, only to the Grand Canyon in size. At a place
called Seeheim, we stop the truck and let some air out of
our tyres. That’s important for driving safely on the gravel
roads. Leaving the bigger road means that there will be no
shops or petrol stations for miles. Every road sign will be
a welcome sight. It’s not long before one appears, saying
braai [(brVI] S. Afr.
cheetah [(tSi:tE]
conservation [)kQnsE(veIS&n]
game park [(geIm pA:k]
kudu [(ku:du:]
Grillfest
Gepard
Naturschutz
Wildpark
eine Antilopenart
meerkat [(mIEkÄt]
paved [peIvd]
till [tIl]
warthog [(wO:thQg]
wildebeest [(vIldEbi:st]
Erdmännchen
geteert
Kasse
Warzenschwein
Gnu
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31

TRAVEL | Africa
“Welcome to Ai-Ais National Park”. The next
sign has no words at all, just — “!” — and we
soon know why: numerous small bumps in the
gravel cause the truck to vibrate, a road condition
that Namibians call “corrugated”. Minutes
later, the ride is smooth again.
Outside, two ostriches push their way under
a bush to get out of the sun. Miles of desert go
by, and another message appears: “Recently resettled
animals. Drive slowly.” From the truck,
I can see zebra, springbok and Namibia’s national
animal, the oryx. I’ve been told there are
leopards out there, too, and that giraffes are
being brought in from a famous place in the
country’s north: Etosha National Park.
As our truck rounds a curve in the road, tall
red rocks rise into view.
Next come the palms and
pools of Cañon Lodge.
Once a ranch, the hotel
among the big boulders is
a popular base for visit -
ors. From here, it’s easy
to take a drive out to Fish
River Canyon and to see
the fascinating plants and animals of the area’s
desert biome, the beautiful Nama Karoo.
Fish River Canyon: a magnificent sight
Explaining the plants and animals: guide Penda Shilongo
A CLOSER LOOK
An oryx (Oryx gazella) is a type of large antelope. Also called a
gemsbok in southern Africa, it has an especially beautiful appearance,
with black and white markings on its face, and long, straight
horns. Oryx are well adapted to living in the desert: despite immense
heat, they can exist for long periods with very little water.
DAY 6
FISH RIVER CANYON — GPS S 27.5891 E 17.6147
The next morning, Penda Shilongo, a guide at Cañon Lodge, offers
to drive us to Fish River Canyon. On the way there, we pass hills that
look like Aztec pyramids. One is called Mirror Mountain. Penda says
the soldiers of South West Africa sent light signals from its heights at
the end of the bloody war against the Herero and Nama peoples. They
could get messages to the colonial capital of Windhoek — 500 kilometres
away as the crow flies — in a matter of hours.
It’s not long before we reach Fish River Canyon. Unlike the Grand
Canyon in the US, which was created by the Colorado River, this great
gorge was born of an ancient tectonic event: the supercontinent of
Gondwana split up into several land masses, causing the bedrock here
to break apart. The Fish River then flowed in and helped to form the
canyon’s current dimensions: 160 kilometres long, 27 kilometres wide
and 550 metres deep. Its wild interior attracts extreme athletes like
Ryan Sandes, the South African who won last year’s 90-kilometre ultramarathon
in the canyon in a record time of just under seven hours.
as the crow flies [Ez DE (krEU )flaIz] in Luftlinie (➝ p. 61)
bedrock [(bedrQk]
Felssohle
biome [(baIEUm]
Ökosystem
boulder [(bEUldE]
Felsen, Felsbrocken
bump [bVmp]
Unebenheit
corrugated [(kQrEgeItId]
wellig
gorge [gO:dZ]
Schlucht
leopard [(lepEd]
lodge [lQdZ]
Hütte; hier: Hotel
ostrich [(QstrItS]
Strauß
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A CLOSER LOOK
DAY 7
ORANGE RIVER — GPS S 28.3252 E 17.3775
Since leaving Fish River Canyon, we’ve crossed miles of
desert. So when we see the Orange River, it comes as a
shock. The broad line of water is made even more surprising
by the green of trees and tall grasses on its banks.
Namibia owes its famous red dunes and fine diamonds
to this river. Over millions of years, the Orange washed
sand from the Kalahari Desert out to sea. In the course of
time, it landed on the beaches, from where the wind carried
it inland to form the Namib Desert. Diamonds arrived
in the same way, but they remained on the beaches.
Leaving the Orange River, we return to the desert.
Soon, we drive past Rosh Pinah, a military-style settlement
named after a mining concern. Then comes the township
of Tutungeni. With its metal shacks and Hip-Hop Bar, it
looks less tidy, but a bit friendlier. Signs for a zinc company
fly by, as do the dark hills of the Sperrgebiet, the “forbidden
zone”. An important diamond-mining area, it was highly
prized by the colony of German South West Africa. To
Berlin’s chagrin, the Union of South Africa, part of the
British Empire, took it over after the First World War.
Since 1920, De Beers has controlled the forbidden
zone. The mining giant formed a partnership with the state
called Namdeb in 1994. Ten years later, the Sperrgebiet was
declared a national park — but in name only. In reality,
it’s still in the hands of De Beers. To visit, you have to send
a copy of your passport to a tour company in the city of
Lüderitz and pay a fee. Some 100 kilometres wide and 300
kilometres long, the zone is as big as Belgium and filled
with fascinating things to see. And what could be more
exciting than visiting a place that is “forbidden”?
The Orange River is one of the longest rivers in Africa.
From its source high up in the mountains of Lesotho,
it flows 2,100 kilometres to the Atlantic Ocean, forming
part of the border between Namibia and South
Africa on the way. Named after the Dutch royal house
of Orange, the river was the northern limit of British
influence in southern Africa during the 19th century.
AFTERNOON BY THE SEA
LÜDERITZ — GPS S 26.6498 E 15.1522
Lüderitz is Little Germany. Sights in the seaside city include
the Church of the Rock with it fine stained-glass
windows, one of which Kaiser Wilhelm sent as a gift. Elegant
and filled with antiques,
the Goerke House is another
highlight: around 1910, it was
the home of a diamond executive.
Such monuments to the
colony that lasted from 1884 to
1915 add a touch of class to
Lüderitz’s workaday identity,
which is that of a small port and
fishing town.
We go to Ritzi’s restaurant
and order fish. Out on the terrace,
a group of Canadians returns
from a boat tour. They
take a table and entertain us
with stories from the sea.
Elegant Goerke House:
a monument to German style
bank [bÄNk]
chagrin [(SÄgrIn]
Dutch [dVtS]
executive [(IgzekjUtIv]
metal shack
[)met&l (SÄk]
Orange [(QrIndZ]
Ufer
Ärger
niederländisch
Geschäftsführer(in), Manager(in)
Wellblechbaracke
Oranier
owe sth. to sth. [(EU tE]
prize [praIz]
stained-glass window
[)steInd glA:s (wIndEU]
township [(taUnSIp]
workaday [(w§:kEdeI]
etw. einer Sache zu verdanken haben
schätzen, würdigen
Buntglasfenster
abseits gelegene
Wohnsiedlung
alltäglich
Little Lüderitz:
view from the
Church of the Rock

TRAVEL | Africa
Forbidden zone: at the gate;
Pomona’s schoolhouse
DAY 9
FORBIDDEN ZONE — GPS S 26.7428 E 15.3321
We stay the night on Shark Island, an ocean peninsula
close to town. Early the next morning, we meet Ramon
Druker, our Sperrgebiet guide. Together, we drive through
Lüderitz city centre, passing numerous community
churches and sleeping shops. At the city limits, we see the
graders — loud, massive machines that work constantly
to clear sand dunes from the road.
From there, it’s a short drive to the forbidden zone.
When we arrive at the gate, Ramon disappears into a
shack. As we wait for him to return, we inspect the signs
posted for visitors. The strict language warns against taking
anything — like diamonds — out of the area. A story I’d
heard springs to mind, and when Ramon returns, I tell it.
In the 1950s, a De Beers geologist hid a secret cache
of diamonds in the forbidden zone. He then went to South
Africa to hire a pilot and fly back in. Under cover of night,
they landed on an empty beach and recovered the diamonds.
As they were trying to make their getaway, though,
they had a problem with the plane and couldn’t take off.
The next morning, security guards working for De Beers
found them and placed them under arrest.
Ramon has heard this story, too. It seems the geologist
could show that they had landed on a part of the beach
just outside the forbidden zone. That’s how he and the
pilot avoided going to prison. More diamond lore flows
from Ramon as we drive along the gravel roads in the zone,
passing hills streaked with strange-looking deposits of light
blue marble. Then, a sight even more bizarre meets our
eyes: it’s the ghost town of Pomona.
August Stauch, a railway inspector, started the diamond
rush to the German South West in 1908. He expanded
his mining operations to this remote location from
a place called Kolmanskop, much closer to Lüderitz. So
why did he choose somewhere so far out in the desert?
There were simply so many valuable stones in this area that
you could pluck them right up off of the sand. Between
1912 and 1914, Pomona produced a million carats. At the
time, it was the richest diamond mine in the world.
Ramon says we can get out of the truck and explore.
Stepping over a strange plant called a Bushman’s candle, I
walk up to an empty house and enter it. In one room, an
orange sand dune is pushing against a blue wall. Leading
to another room is a door with a fine brass handle. I try it,
and find that the soft curve fits perfectly in my hand.
Walking through the rest of the house, I enjoy what decor
can be found: stencilled flowers, art-nouveau patterns and
the word Wohnzimmer painted above a lintel. Some windows
still have glass in them. A few of them face the wild
Atlantic, a couple of kilometres away.
Pomona is named after a Roman goddess of plenty, but
settlers here had to wait for supplies to arrive by boat.
What a bittersweet sight the Atlantic would have been.
The ocean reminded miners that there was a civilized
world out there, away from all this sand and heat.
art-nouveau [)A:t nu:(vEU]
brass handle [)brA:s (hÄnd&l]
Bushman’s candle
[)bUSmEnz (kÄnd&l]
cache [kÄS]
deposit [di(pQzIt]
face sth. [feIs]
getaway [(getE)weI]
grader [(greIdE]
lintel [(lInt&l]
lore [lO:]
marble [(mA:b&l]
peninsula [pE(nInsjUlE]
pluck [plVk]
recover [ri(kVvE]
remote [ri(mEUt]
spring to mind [)sprIN tE (maInd]
stencilled [(stens&ld]
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Jugendstil
Messinggriff, -türklinke
Dickstängel (ein Storchschnabelgewächs)
geheimes Lager
Lagerstätte
in Richtung von etw. schauen
Flucht
Straßenplanierer
Türsturz
hier: Erzählgut, Geschichte
Marmor
Halbinsel
hier: auflesen
wiederfinden; hier: holen
abgelegen
in den Sinn kommen
mit Schablone gemalt
The dunes take over
a house in Pomona

Kopfzeile fett | KOPFZEILE FETT
MIDDAY GHOSTS
POMONA — GPS S 27.1935 E 15.3021
We meet up with Ramon at the old schoolhouse to share
a lunch of schnitzel and noodle salad. As we eat, he pulls
out some black-and-white photos. One shows a housekeeper
in a long dress; another is of men in formal suits.
Despite the remote location, Pomonans lived in style.
Afterwards, we drive on. The dunes seem to shrink
until no sand is left at all. Ramon says all of it has been removed
and sifted for diamonds. Now, only bedrock remains,
and even that has been gone over with a fine-tooth
comb. The mining frenzy started on this bit of land late
in 1908, when Stauch saw the dunes in the moonlight.
They sparkled with stones, so he called the place “Fairytale
Valley”. It looks less magical now — except for the unicorn:
a one-horned oryx stands guard as we examine some
old diamond sieves, then disappears in the rear-view mirror
as we drive away. When we reach the beach, we see Bogenfels,
a rock arch that is a famous landmark on the coast.
If you go...
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Asco Car Hire offers great service and terrific trucks;
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also takes care of airport transfers and has a camping
supply shop on-site; tel. (00264) 61-377 200.
info@ascocarhire.com. http://ascocarhire.com
Stay at Cañon Lodge near Fish River Canyon; tel.
(00264) 61-230 066. www.gondwana-collection.com
Watch a video of the trip and get more travel details
at www.spotlight-online.de/namibia
More information
See www.namibiatourism.com.na
DAY 10
KOIIMASIS RANCH — GPS S 25.9130 E 16.2678
Wild horses dance in the distance. Right in front of our
truck is the herd’s stallion. He seems pleased that we’ve
made it to Koiimasis Ranch. Many people visit the farm
in the Tiras Mountains for riding holidays. But we’re here
to relax. I’ve also heard that the farmer will sell us oryx
steaks, which turns out to be true. As we check in, Anke
Izko, one of the owners, hands us a packet of marinated
meat. Her farm, with its grand mountain views, seems like
heaven on earth to me. “You won’t get rich on a farm like
this, but you do have a rich life,” she says. Tonight, with a
couple of steaks on the grill, I plan to enjoy just that.
Karte: Nic Murphy
arch [A:tS]
fairy tale [(feEri teI&l]
fine-tooth comb: go over sth.
with a ~ [)faIn (tu:T kEUm]
frenzy [(frenzi]
landmark
[(lÄndmA:k]
Bogen
Märchen
etw. mit äußerster
Sorgfalt durchsuchen
Wahn, Fieber
Sehenswürdigkeit
rear-view mirror [)rIE vju: (mIrE]
shrink [SrINk]
sieve [sIv]
sift [sIft]
sparkle [(spA:k&l]
stallion [(stÄljEn]
unicorn [(ju:nIkO:n]
Rückspiegel
schrumpfen
Sieb
(durch)sieben
glitzern
Hengst
Einhorn
Meet the boss: the stallion
at Koiimasis Ranch
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PETER FLYNN | Around Oz
The new kids’ names
“
Gone are
some of the
classic old
favourites
”
Die Hitliste der beliebtesten Vornamen unterliegt
auf dem fünften Kontinent
starken Schwankungen.
Die Gründe hierfür sind alles
andere als offensichtlich.
What do the most
popular babies’ names tell
you about a country’s identity? In
Australia, where Jack and Charlotte
have topped the charts for the past
few years, you might think that we remain
traditional and conservative.
There is no David, Peter or
Michael among the latest top 50
names chosen for baby boys in Australia.
For baby girls, there is no
Susan, Karen or Jennifer. For that
matter, there is no Mark, Julie or
Paul, not to mention Sharon or John.
Those were “baby boomer” names;
today, they are almost unwanted.
Between us, my young-adult kids
and I know only one person under
the age of 25 who is called Peter. At
my local sports club, though, where
most people are over 50, I know a
dozen. My surname, Flynn (ranked
41st today), is more likely to be used
for a baby boy’s first name than anything
from the 1960s.
For Generation X (1966–76), the
classic favourites were David, Andrew,
Michelle and Lisa. For Generation
Y (1977–94), they were Daniel,
Matthew, Sarah and Jessica, names
recycled from the earliest pages of
literature.
A colleague at work has just called
his first son James, one of the few
names that have remained popular
for more than 50 years. William is
another classic that will survive
through Generation Z
(1995–2012). Along with
John, it was Australia’s most
popular boys’ name in the first
half of the 20th century. Today,
William is ranked no. 2, but
John has gone. It is totally out of
favour.
In its place is Jack, which went
from no. 75 in the early 1980s to no.
8 in the 1990s. It’s been number one
for the past seven years. Now, some
may argue that Jack is really just a derivative
of John, but others say it’s
been a separate name for centuries.
After Jack and William, the most
popular boys’ names are Noah, Ethan
and Oliver. Then come Thomas,
Cooper, James, Lucas, Lachlan and
Liam. Jacob and Joshua are moving
down the list, while Mason, Riley,
Max, Alexander and even Xavier are
on the way up. Charles has made a
big comeback, from being just inside
the top 100 in the 1960s to no. 19
today.
The feminine version, Charlotte,
has come from absolutely nowhere to
baby boomers [(beIbi )bu:mEz]
Charlotte [(SA:lEt]
Chloe [(klEUi]
credit [(kredIt]
derivative [di(rIvEtIv]
drive [draIv]
for that matter [fE (DÄt )mÄtE]
likely [(laIkli]
not to mention... [)nQt tE (menS&n]
ranked... [rÄNkt]
rationale [)rÄSE(nA:l]
stock market [(stQk )mA:kIt]
hold the number-one spot for baby
girls over the past five years. Remarkably,
the only two girls’ names from
the 1960s to stay in today’s top 50 are
Emily, at no. 6, and Elizabeth, at
no. 47. Even the most popular names
from the 1990s, Sarah and Jessica,
were thrown out with the Gen Y
bathwater (see Perfectionists Only!,
page 62). Today, the top 10 names for
baby girls include Ruby, Olivia, Chloe,
Sophie, Amelia, Isabella, Mia and Ava.
Nobody really knows why names
come in and go out of fashion. We
seem to follow the same sort of herd
mentality that drives the stock market,
often without any rationale. I
shall, however, give Johnny Depp all
the credit for bringing Jack back into
favour through his character, Captain
Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the
Caribbean films.
The only Charlotte I had ever
heard of was the 19th-century author
Charlotte Brontë. But then wiser
friends told me Charlotte is a character
in the television series Sex and the
City. My God! What were those
mothers thinking?
die Nachkriegsgeneration
Anerkennung
Kurzform; abgeleitete Form
antreiben
übrigens auch
wahrscheinlich
von ... ganz zu schweigen
auf Platz...
Grund
Börse
Peter Flynn is a public-relations consultant and social commentator who lives in Perth,
Western Australia.
Foto: iStockphoto
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DEBATE | Ireland
In Dublin:
protesters for and
against abortion
Which life
to save?
Derzeit wird in Irland heftig diskutiert, ob
Abtreibung legalisiert werden soll.
When a 31-year-old dentist died in an Irish hospital
last year, it made headlines around the world.
So why is she suddenly at the heart of a debate
that has long troubled Ireland?
Indian-born Savita Halappanavar was 17 weeks pregnant
when she began to suffer from terrible back pain.
Doctors told her she was having a miscarriage. Halappanavar
requested an abortion, but her doctors refused to
do this. They explained that because the baby’s heart was
still beating and the mother’s life was not yet at risk, they
were not legally allowed to terminate the pregnancy.
After three days, Halappanavar became ill with sepsis.
With her life now clearly in danger, her doctors terminated
the pregnancy, but it was too late. Halappanavar’s condition
worsened, and she died of organ failure. In April, an
inquest delivered the verdict that her death was due to
medical misadventure.
The scandal that resulted from Halappanavar’s death
reopened the bitter debate on abortion in Ireland. Despite
five referendums on the subject since 1983, abortion is still
illegal in the republic. A Supreme Court ruling in 1992
allows for the termination of a pregnancy if a woman’s life
is in danger — a provision that includes the threat of suicide.
But there is still no clear legislation on the court ruling.
That leaves doctors unsure of when they can legally
perform an abortion.
In response to Halappanavar’s death, the government
has published the “Protection of Life during Pregnancy
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Bill 2013”. This bill, which could be passed into law soon,
seeks to clarify the legal situation. The new law will make
little real difference to most women seeking abortions,
however, because the vast majority are not in danger of
losing their lives due to pregnancy.
The Irish Family Planning Association says that more
than 4,000 women travel from Ireland to the UK for abortions
each year. As the new law would allow abortions in
Ireland only when “there is a real and substantial risk to the
life, as distinct from the health, of a woman”, it is unlikely
that the numbers seeking abortion abroad will decrease.
Pro-life campaigners and the Roman Catholic Church
claim that the new law would directly target the lives of
unborn children, is morally unacceptable and could lead
to abortion on demand. On the other side of the debate,
pro-choice groups are disappointed that the government
hasn’t gone further towards legalizing abortion. Despite
the new law, abortion will continue to be a divisive issue
in Irish politics and society.
abortion [E(bO:S&n]
bill [bIl]
campaigner [kÄm(peInE]
claim [kleIm]
distinct [dI(stINkt]
divisive [dI(vaIsIv]
Family Planning Association
[)fÄmli (plÄnIN EsEUsi)eIS&n]
inquest [(INkwest]
misadventure [)mIsEd(ventSE]
miscarriage [mIs(kÄrIdZ]
on demand [)Qn di(mA:nd]
pass [pA:s]
pregnant [(pregnEnt]
pro-choice group
[)prEU (tSOIs )gru:p]
provision [prE(vIZ&n]
ruling: court ~ [(ru:lIN]
seek [si:k]
sepsis [(sepsIs]
substantial [sEb(stÄnS&l]
Supreme Court [su)pri:m (kO:t]
terminate [(t§:mIneIt]
unlikely [Vn(laIkli]
vast [vA:st]
verdict [(v§:dIkt]
Abtreibung
Gesetz(esvorlage)
Aktivist(in)
behaupten, die Meinung
vertreten
entfernt
kontrovers
etwa: irisches Pendant zum
Bundesverband Pro Familia
(gerichtliche) Untersuchung
Unglücksfall, Missgeschick
Fehlgeburt
auf Bestellung
verabschieden
schwanger
Abtreibungsbefürworter
Verfügung
Gerichtsentscheid
versuchen; durchführen lassen
Blutvergiftung
erheblich
Oberster Gerichtshof
abbrechen, beenden
unwahrscheinlich
überwiegend
Urteil(sspruch)
Fotos: Corbis; O. Keogh

Olive Keogh asked people in Dublin, Ireland:
Should abortion be legalized in Ireland?
Listen to Gaetano, Suzanne, Aoife and E. J.
Gaetano Forte, 56,
car salesman
Suzanne Mahon, 29,
charity worker
Aoife Cannon, 43,
environmental
educationalist
E. J. Nolan, 30, engineer
Ian Darragh, 18,
on a gap year
Breda McCarthy, 77,
retired
Clara Owens, 18,
science student
Anthony Neville, 68,
mature student
Aoife [(i:fE]
environmental educationalist
[In)vaI&rEn)ment&l )edju(keIS&nElIst]
gap year [(gÄp jIE] UK
Umweltpädagoge,
-pädagogin
Zeit zwischen Schulabschluss
und Universitätsstudium
mature student [mE)tSUE (stju:d&nt]
rape [reIp]
sacred [(seIkrId]
upbringing [(Vp)brININ]
vulnerable [(vVlnErEb&l]
etwa: Seniorenstudent(in)
Vergewaltigung
heilig
Erziehung
schutzlos
7|13 Spotlight
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HISTORY | 560 Years Ago
The Hundred Years War
Der mehr als 100 Jahre währende Konflikt zwischen England und Frankreich ließ England zur
Großmacht aufsteigen. Von MIKE PILEWSKI
Edward III, wearing red:
during (left) and after the
Battle of Crécy in 1346
Modern readers may find it hard to imagine a war
between two countries — England and France
— that could last 116 years. But the Hundred
Years War, from 1337 to 1453, really happened. It continued
from generation to generation, through the reigns of
five English kings and five French kings, though it was interrupted
periodically as barons fought to take power from
monarchs who were weak, underage or insane. The constant
state of war led to the first standing armies and saw
the rise of England as one of the strongest powers in Europe
— but also the rise of a national spirit in France that
put an end to its rival’s ambitions on the continent.
The story begins in 1328, with the death of Charles IV,
a 33-year-old French king and the last of the Capetian
dynasty. Charles had no sons or nephews, so the throne
passed to 35-year-old Philip VI of the House of Valois.
There were, however, other relatives interested in wearing
the crown. Among them was 15-year-old Edward III,
who had only just become king of England. In 1337, to
cut short Edward’s ambitions, Philip took away Guyenne,
a French territory on the Atlantic coast that had been administered
by English kings. Edward angrily restated his
claim to the French throne, and the situation escalated.
In June 1340, a French fleet sailed across the Channel
to invade England, but Edward’s seamen boarded and captured
all the French ships in two days of hand-to-hand
combat. With the Channel under their control, the English
were able to invade northern France, winning a major land
battle at Crécy in 1346. Other factors were far more
devastating. In 1348, the Black
Death killed nearly half of the
French population; and civil
order broke down as marauders
roamed the countryside.
By 1356, France was
nearly at an end. In the Battle
of Poitiers, Edward’s son, Edward,
the Black Prince, captured
Philip’s son, the French
King John II, forcing John’s
son, Charles V, to agree to humiliating
conditions for
France. The English still didn’t
release John, so Charles resumed
fighting the English, reversing their successes until
both he and Edward III died around 1380.
For the next 30 years, neither side had an advantage.
The English throne was held by Richard II, a boy of 10,
while the French throne was occupied by an 11-year-old,
Charles VI. In England, a long period of power struggles
began that were later dramatized in Shakespeare’s Richard
II, Henry IV (Part 1), Henry IV (Part 2) and Henry V.
Richard’s uncle, the duke of Lancaster, governed for
him — disastrously — leading to economic collapse and
the Peasants’ Revolt. After 20 years, the duke’s son deposed
Richard and took the throne as Henry IV.
administer [Ed(mInIstE]
Capetian [kE(pi:S&n]
depose [di(pEUz]
devastating [(devEsteItIN]
duke [dju:k]
hand-to-hand combat
[)hÄnd tE )hÄnd (kQmbÄt]
humiliating [hju(mIlieItIN]
insane [In(seIn]
marauder [mE(rO:dE]
Peasants’ Revolt [)pez&nts ri(vEUlt]
periodically [)pIEri(QdIk&li]
Poitiers [(pwA:tieI]
reign [reIn]
resume: ~ doing sth. [ri(zju:m]
roam [rEUm]
underage [)VndEr(eIdZ]
Valois [(vÄlwA:]
verwalten
aus dem Königshaus Capet
stürzen
vernichtend
Herzog
Handgefecht
erniedrigend
wahnsinnig
Plünderer, Plünderin
Bauernaufstand
von Zeit zu Zeit
Herrschaft
etw. erneut tun
durchstreifen
minderjährig
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Joan of Arc: inspiring the
troops at Orléans in 1429
The French king was to stay on the throne for 40 years,
but in name only; he was insane. A decades-long power
struggle among his uncles culminated in the duke of Burgundy
killing the duke of Orléans in 1407. This started a
civil war between the supporters of each duke, the Burgundians
and the Armagnacs.
The confusion in France was a welcome opportunity
for England. Ascending the throne in 1413, Henry V
aimed to conquer France systematically by taking over
French fortresses, stationing troops in them permanently,
and collecting taxes from the occupied lands.
In 1419, Henry formed an alliance with the Burgundians,
and the following year, he married the daughter of
Charles VI. It was agreed that Henry would be regent of
France and heir to the French throne. Under this agreement,
his eight-month-old baby, Henry VI, was declared
king of France when Henry V died in 1422.
The Burgundians and the English took more and more
territory from the Armagnacs in southern France, who
were loyal to the king’s son, the future Charles VII. For
the Armagnacs, the only real hope came in the form of a
16-year-old peasant girl named Joan
of Arc, who had heard voices telling
her to assist in the war. She persuaded
a local garrison captain to allow her
to see Charles.
Joan claimed that the voices she
heard were those of saints. Charles
had her questioned by theologians for
three weeks before allowing her to
lead men into battle. Her arrival at
the besieged city of Orléans on 4 May
1429, where a battle had already begun, inspired the Armagnacs
to fight harder. They reclaimed one fort, then another,
then another, until the city was liberated.
Joan inspired French townspeople not to accept the English
as their rulers, and with popular support, the Armagnacs
continued to fight. In 1435, the Burgundians reunited with
them. By 1453, they had together pushed the English almost
completely out of France. Nevertheless, Edward III’s
teenage dream persisted: until 1801, every English monarch
also claimed to be ruler of France.
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conquer [(kQNkE]
culminate [(kVlmIneIt]
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belagert
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fortress [(fO:trEs]
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Festung
Erbe
andauern
zurücknehmen
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PRESS GALLERY | Comment
Poor country, rich
companies: copper
mining in Zambia
Tax the corporations
Jeder sollte seinen Beitrag zur Gesellschaft leisten und Steuern zahlen.
Doch immer mehr Unternehmen drücken sich vor dieser Verantwortung.
Strong demand will drive another decade of high
prices for Africa’s natural resources. Foreign investment
is on the rise. But so too are avarice and corruption,
on such a scale that instead of enjoying significant
investment in healthcare, education and agriculture, Africa
is again being plundered.
That is the view of the annual Africa Progress Report,
... produced by a panel of luminaries led by the former
UN secretary-general Kofi Annan. Large-scale tax avoidance
and evasion, financial transfers, offshore registered
companies and secret mining deals cost Africa £25bn a
year, twice as much as it receives in aid. ...
The cost in lost revenues to the DRC [Democratic Republic
of Congo] is calculated at $1.3bn — equivalent to
its health and education budgets combined. Multiple offshore
vehicles were deployed to conceal the secretive
deals...
[I]n the four years to 2009, half-a-million copper mine
workers in Zambia paid a higher rate of tax than the major
multinational mining firms that were harvesting billions
of dollars in profits. How can this be right? And why has
such behaviour become acceptable?
The examples are everywhere. In 2011, Google paid
just £6m in corporation tax on revenues of £2.5bn in the
UK. ... [The company] puts practically nothing back into
the country[:] ... Nothing to help maintain the physical
infrastructure of a country where it does business. Nothing
to help subsidise the cultural riches that make this country
an attractive place to live and work. Nothing to help pay
for the judicial, legal and police institutions that make the
country a safe and civil place to do business.
But Google is not alone. ... Last year, a Tax Justice Network
(TJN) report revealed that the global super-rich have
hidden £13tn of wealth offshore. ...
The international tax system is a century old and needs
radical redesign, not repair. TJN proposes a unitary tax system
of transnational corporations, “to tax them according
to where their genuine economic activity is, rather than
where their tax advisers pretend it is”. ... We also need to
create a new moral consensus that says those companies and
individuals who pocket obscene amounts of wealth without
paying their civic dues should be denied our custom and
treated instead as the freeloading pariahs they are.
© Guardian News & Media 2013
Gier
hier: freundlich
verschleiern, verheimlichen
Kupfer
Körperschaftssteuer
hier: Kundschaft
einsetzen
Hinterziehung
schnorrend
Justiz-
in großem Stil
avarice [(ÄvErIs]
civil [(sIv&l]
conceal [kEn(si:&l]
copper [(kQpE]
corporation tax [)kO:pE(reIS&n tÄks] UK
custom [(kVstEm]
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evasion [i(veIZ&n]
freeloading [)fri:(lEUdIN]
judicial [dZu(dIS&l]
large-scale [)lA:dZ (skeI&l]
luminary [(lumInEri]
pariah [pE(raIE]
pay one’s civic dues
[)peI wVnz )sIvIk (dju:z]
reveal [ri(vi:&l]
revenue [(revEnju:]
scale [skeI&l]
subsidize [(sVbsIdaIz]
tn UK = trillion [(trIljEn]
unitary [(ju:nItEri]
vehicle [(vi:Ik&l]
Berühmtheit
Außenseiter(in)
seinen Beitrag zur Gesellschaft leisten
enthüllen
Einnahme(n)
Ausmaß
subventionieren
Billion(en)
einheitlich
hier: Hilfsmittel
Fotos: Getty Images; Laif
42 Spotlight 7|13

INFO TO GO
offshore
Both an adjective and an adverb, the word offshore
has a natural feel to it: it is used to refer to something
that is located at sea, some distance away from the
shore or coastline of the mainland. A boat might drop
its anchor offshore and remain still out at sea. Engineers
work on offshore oil or gas platforms, extracting
these natural resources from the seabed.
“Offshore registered companies” in the article on
the opposite page means that the companies are re -
gistered abroad, away from the countries in which
they were founded. The reason for this is that the
companies can make monetary savings, because certain
costs or taxes are lower abroad, or because certain
regulations are less stringent there.
Which one of these two uses of “offshore”
is correct?
a) He keeps all his money in an offshore account.
b) We are planning to travel offshore this summer.
IN THE HEADLINES
Listen to more news
items in Replay
An ounce of prevention The Economist
There’s an old English saying: “An ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure.” This means that a small action
taken at the right time is better than the much larger action
that will be necessary if one waits too long.
The Economist compared the Chinese government’s
response to two disease outbreaks: SARS in 2002–03 and
H7N9 bird flu in 2013. When SARS appeared, the government
was slow to act and 800 people died. This year, the
government acted quickly, and in three months, only 17
people died. Shanghai has several emergency plans in
place if a deadly disease starts to spread.
ounce [aUns]
Unze
Answer: a) is correct
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| Drama
Life with Maisie:
Onata Aprile in a
haunting role
A child’s view
Based on the 1897 novel of the same name by the
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parents (Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan) fight
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The story is told from Maisie’s perspective. Onata
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| Thriller
In The Call, Jordan Turner (Halle Berry) works for the Los Angeles
police taking emergency calls. She’s a professional: she
knows which calls to take seriously and how to calm people
down when they are frightened — until she makes a mistake
and a girl is kidnapped and dies. Jordan moves to a less stressful
job in the call centre, but finds herself
under pressure again when another kidnapped
girl, Casey (Abigail Breslin), calls
from the boot of a car. Director Brad
Anderson keeps the excitement going in
this tightly plotted, entertaining version
of modern girl power. Starts 11 July.
Under pressure: Halle Berry as Jordan
the movie. Camerawork and editing show her view of life,
with long scenes to reflect the way a child waits for things
to happen and shorter shots filled with childish energy.
Moore and Coogan give delicate performances as egoists
trying to keep things together for themselves and their
daughter, while Alexander Skarsgård and Joanna Vanderham
are excellent as much younger partners trying to keep
the peace. Comparisons to Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) will
certainly be made, but what makes this film different is
the way it asks us to be children again, sharing joys and
sorrows as we learn to deal with the world. Starts 11 July.
| Documentary
Fruit: a passion
for Bill Pullman
In 2008, Canadian journalist Adam Leith
Gollner published his first book, The Fruit
Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure,
Commerce and Obsession, a story packed
with interesting facts. Fellow Canadian
Yung Chang has now turned The Fruit
Hunters into a film. Chang looks at the
world of fruit with lots of juicy background
on rare pears, the best mangoes
and unusual bananas. A bonus is the appearance
of American actor Bill Pullman, who is trying to create
an orchard close to his home in Hollywood. This quirky film will
have you reaching for the fruit bowl. Available from 16 July.
affections [E(fekS&nz]
boot [bu:t] UK
custody [(kVstEdi]
delicate [(delIkEt]
editing [(edItIN]
fruit bowl [(fru:t )bEUl]
haunting [(hO:ntIN]
Liebe, Zuneigung
Kofferraum
Sorgerecht
feinfühlig
Schnitt, Filmbearbeitung
Obstschale
tief bewegend
heroine [(herEUIn]
juicy [(dZu:si]
orchard [(O:tSEd]
pear [peE]
quirky [(kw§:ki]
sorrow [(sQrEU]
tightly plotted [)taItli (plQtId]
Heldin
saftig; auch: reizvoll
Obstgarten
Birne
schrullig
Sorge, Kummer
mit einer eng verdichteten Handlung
Fotos: PR
44 Spotlight 7|13

| Theatre
| Interviews
Curtains up for drama on your tablet computer or TV! Theatre
fans can now watch full productions of plays using the app
Digital Theatre, created in partnership with a number of
British theatre companies. Currently around 20 plays are available
to watch, including Arthur Miller’s All My Sons and Shakespeare’s
Macbeth performed by, among others, the Royal
Shakespeare Company and the Young Vic. Download the free
app, then look through the list of productions. The trailer option
gives a good first impression of each play. Once you’ve
chosen, say, King Lear, you can download either a highdefinition
version for €14.49 or a standard version for €11.99.
Digital Theatre is available through iTunes for the iPad, and for
Samsung Smart TV at www.digitaltheatre.com
Alec Baldwin: his interviews are fascinating and fun
Many of us know American actor Alec Baldwin from films such
as It’s Complicated (2009) and TV series such as 30 Rock. Baldwin
also hosts a podcast called Here’s the Thing in which
he interviews a variety of people, from young actor Lena Dunham
to New York prison administrator Martin Horn. Baldwin
asks interesting questions and allows each guest the time to
answer in detail. Every free weekly show comes with a transcript
that can be found on the website of radio station WNYC
www.wnyc.org/shows/heresthething which hosts the podcasts.
Download Here’s the Thing at iTunes, and for a special
treat, listen to Alec Baldwin chatting to singer Billy Joel. It’s
good fun to hear these two men from Long Island, NY, talking
about music. Joel even plays many of his songs live.
| Exhibition
Pick a play, any play: Digital Theatre makes it easy
The Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein celebrates
a great, but often overlooked American architect with
an exhibition entitled Louis Kahn — The Power
of Architecture. Exhibits range from architectural
models, original drawings, photographs and film (including
some taken by Kahn’s son) to watercolours and
sketches made by Kahn (1901–74) while he was travelling.
Divided into seven sections with titles such as
“City”, “Science” and “Landscape”, the exhibition docu -
ments the full extent of Kahn’s interests and inspirations,
and the way they combined to create both private buildings
and great public places, such as synagogues, churches
and memorials. Interviews with the great architects of
today, including Frank Gehry and Renzo Piano, complete
the picture of a fascinating and highly creative man.
For more information, see www.design-museum.de
Kahn’s National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Verwalter(in)
Vorhang auf
Ausstellungsstück
hochauflösend, HD-
moderieren; hosten
administrator [Ed(mInIstreItE]
curtains up [)k§:t&nz (Vp]
exhibit [Ig(zIbIt]
high definition [)haI )defE(nIS&n]
host [hEUst]
It’s Complicated
[)Its (kQmplIkeItId]
sketch [sketS]
treat [tri:t]
watercolour [(wO:tE)kVlE]
Wenn Liebe so einfach wäre
Skizze
Vergnügen, Ohrenschmaus
Aquarell(bild)
Reviews by EVE LUCAS
7|13 Spotlight
45

ARTS | Short Story and Books
Nan’s clothes
Ein bisschen Mut zur modischen Veränderung bringt Farbe in den grauen Berufsalltag.
VANESSA CLARK erzählt.
Ithought I saw my grandmother outside a nightclub last
night. I thought it for only half a second because, of
course, it couldn’t have been my grandmother. That
would be absurd: not only because my grandmother never
went to a nightclub in all of her 87 years — but
because she died five years ago.
Nan, as I called her, was my favourite person
in the whole world. When I was growing
up, whenever there was stress at home or Mum
didn’t have any time for me, I used to go round
to Nan’s house, and she would always manage
to cheer me up. She was such a character, so
full of life and energy. She wore the brightest
clothes, and she had a collection
of hats of which the
late Queen Mother
would have been
proud — red hats, orange
hats, woolly hats,
hats with feathers and
even one that looked
like a bird’s nest.
One day — I must
have been about six or
seven years old — I made
her a tiny bird at school and
gave it to her. I said it was to
live in her bird’s-nest hat. I’m
not sure if I meant it seriously,
but she loved it. She put it
straight on to her hat and wore
it to town the very next day.
Nan had a way of making
everything fun. Her laugh was infectious.
When she was happy, she
threw her hands up and laughed
until there were tears in her eyes. You
couldn’t be sad or in a bad mood when
Nan was around.
After the funeral, no one wanted her clothes — her
collection of crazy, flowery dresses and bright cardigans
and all the hats. No one else in our family wears clothes
like that. I certainly don’t. I work in a solicitors’ office
where everyone dresses very conservatively. It’s all grey
suits. I’m just a
junior legal
assistant
there, but I
try my best to
look smart. To
be honest, it’s
rather boring,
but Mr Gilbert
is pleased with
me. He says
I’m punctual,
reliable and dependable,
and
those are the characteristics they like
at Eden & Gilbert Solicitors: being
reliable — and boring. I’ve been
with them for six years now, and I
wonder if I’ll ever get a promotion.
I feel invisible sometimes. Anyway,
Nan’s bird’s-nest hat certainly
wouldn’t be suitable at
Eden & Gilbert.
So I took Nan’s clothes and
put them in a big black plastic
bag all the way at the back of
my wardrobe. I put them
away and completely forgot
about them. There they
stayed until I was doing
the spring cleaning in my
flat just a few weeks ago. That’s when
I found the bag and realized that maybe the time
had come to do something about Nan’s clothes. But what?
cardigan [(kA:dIgEn]
cheer sb. up [)tSIE (Vp]
dependable [di(pendEb&l]
funeral [(fju:n&rEl]
infectious [In(fekSEs]
invisible [In(vIzEb&l]
(Strick)Jacke
jmdn. aufmuntern
zuverlässig
Beerdigung
ansteckend
unsichtbar
junior legal assistant
[)dZu:niE (li:g&l E)sIstEnt]
late [leIt]
punctual [(pVNktSuEl]
solicitor [sE(lIsItE]
woolly [(wUli]
Rechtsanwaltsgehilfe, -gehilfin
verstorben
pünktlich
Anwalt, Anwältin
Woll-
Fotos: Alamy; iStockphoto; Purestock
46 Spotlight 7|13

Short Story
I couldn’t bear to throw them all away. I wanted to
keep something to remember her by. So I selected a couple
of things — her old red handbag and a pink-and-purple
scarf, which she used to tie over her hair in the rain — and
put them back in my wardrobe. I gave the rest to a
second-hand clothes sale at our local hospital. It was the
hospital where she died, actually, so that was nice. Anyway,
I was happy with that decision, and I didn’t think any
more about it. At least, I didn’t think any more about it
until I was coming home late last night in a taxi.
As we went past the nightclub in Garrett Street (don’t
ask me the name of the club, I don’t go to places like that),
I saw my Nan. Or, as I quickly realized, I saw her dress,
and her bird’s-nest hat — with my bird on top. The clothes
were on a rather tall and elegant girl of about 20. She must
have cut the dress, as it was now very short. She was wearing
it with black tights, very high, black ankle boots and
a cardigan on top, along with lots of dark eye make-up
and bright red lipstick. The hat was sitting on the back of
her head, with her hair sticking up all round it. She looked
full of style and energy. I had to smile. What would Nan
have thought? I think she’d have loved it. She’d have
thrown her hands up and laughed until there were tears in
her eyes. I felt as if Nan were there with me, enjoying the
sight of her crazy, old clothes being given new life by a
younger generation. And to think — in a way, I had designed
that hat.
Then a thought came into my head. If those girls can
do it, why can’t I? Not the total “fashion” look — that
would be too much. But perhaps a pink-and-purple scarf
would add a touch of character to my black work suit, or
a red handbag? Eden & Gilbert couldn’t mind that, could
they? Maybe it was time I made myself a little bit more
visible.
Novel
Ghana Must Go is the
first novel by Ghanaian
writer Taiye Selasi (see People,
page 6), and already, it
has an aura of authority in
the way it brings together
the stories of Fola and
Kweku, African immigrants
to America, and their four
American-born children. We are all defined by relationships to
parents, to siblings, to tradition and to memory. Selasi’s theme
shows how those relationships survive when circumstances
change, moving back and forth in time and place from Accra
to Lagos, Boston and New York. The story takes the reader into
different Western and African cultures, all seen through the
eyes of individuals looking for home. Like people all over the
world, they find that family is a good place to start. Penguin
Press HC, ISBN 978-1-59420-449-4, €13.95.
Easy reader
Last Exit Waterloo Bridge is
a collection of four crime stories.
The story of the title centres
around a mysterious man known
only as Marco. We soon find out
that, as a child, Marco was witness
to a tragic and violent event that
killed his parents and sister. Now an
adult, he is a professional killer and,
so it seems, on a mission in London. In the city’s Soho district,
a weapons dealer makes a clumsy attempt to set Marco up, putting
the mission in danger. Why is Marco in London? Is there a
connection to his childhood trauma? And what will happen to
Marco if the police catch him? These stories have plenty of
unexpected twists and turns that will keep you turning the
pages. They also come with comprehension and translation exercises
for you to do. Level A2, Compact Verlag, ISBN 978-3-
8174-7733-3, €7.99.
ankle boots [(ÄNk&l )bu:ts]
attempt [E(tempt]
bear [beE]
circumstances [(s§:kEmstÄnsIz]
clumsy [(klVmzi]
comprehension [)kQmprI(henS&n]
Stiefeletten
Versuch
ertragen
Umstände, Situation
ungeschickt, plump
Verständnisset
sb. up [)set (Vp]
siblings [(sIblINz]
stick up [)stIk (Vp]
tights [taIts] UK
twists and turns [)twIsts End (t§:nz]
witness [(wItnEs]
jmdn. hereinlegen
Geschwister
nach oben stehen
(Fein)Strumpfhose
Irrungen und Wirrungen
Zeuge, Zeugin
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7|13 Spotlight
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LANGUAGE | Vocabulary
Summer fruits
It’s the season for apricots, berries and cherries. ANNA HOCHSIEDER presents words to talk
about summer fruits.
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1. strawberry
6. redcurrant [)red(kVrEnt]
11. peach
16. watermelon
2. raspberry [(rA:zbEri]
7. blackcurrant [)blÄk(kVrEnt]
12. apricot
17. cantaloupe
3. blackberry
8. elderberry [(eldE)beri]
13. plum [plVm]
[(kÄntElu:p]
4. blueberry
5. gooseberry [(gUzbEri]
9. cherry
10. grape
14. damson [(dÄmz&n]
15. nectarine
18. honeydew melon
[)hVnidju: (melEn]
A secret recipe
Here’s my secret recipe for a simple but delicious summer
fruit salad.
You can use any summer fruits you like — whatever’s
in season. Locally grown fruits such as strawberries are
best, of course, but I also like to include grapes, peaches
and melon. Make sure the fruit is ripe, but not too soft.
First, wash and dry the fruit. Remove the stones from
the peaches and the pips from the grapes –— or buy
seedless grapes. You can also peel the peaches if you
want to, but personally, I prefer to eat them with their
skin. Don’t remove the stalks and leaves from the berries
until you’ve washed them, or they’ll lose too much juice.
You then cut the strawberries in half and the melon and
other large fruits into bite-sized chunks and put everything
in a large bowl.
Now, here’s the secret! I don’t use sugar to sweeten
my fruit salad. Instead, I make a dressing by mixing
honey, lemon or lime juice and very finely chopped
ginger. Then I toss the fruit with the dressing and leave
it to cool in the fridge for an hour or so.
As I said, it’s my secret recipe, so don’t give it to anyone
else, OK?
Illustration: Bernhard Förth
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Practice
Now try the exercises below to practise talking about summer fruits.
1. Which fruit is it? Find the answers on the opposite page.
a) It’s a light green or purple fruit that is often used for making wine. _______________
b) It’s a small, pinkish-red, soft and very sweet fruit that grows on a bush. _______________
c) It’s a very small, round, green fruit with quite a sour taste. _______________
d) It’s a melon with a green striped skin and orange flesh. _______________
e) It’s a bit smaller than a lemon, with green skin, and produces a sour juice. _______________
2. Match the sentence halves.
a) In British English, pips are the seeds...
b) A stone (called a “pit” in American English) is...
c) A berry is usually defined as...
d) Tomatoes are actually...
a ➯
b ➯
c ➯
d ➯
1. the large, hard centre found in some fruits.
2. a small fruit without a stone.
3. a fruit, not a vegetable, because they have seeds.
4. found in fruits such as grapes, apples and lemons.
3. Cross out one fruit in each line that does not belong in the category.
a) stone fruits: cantaloupe | cherry | nectarine | plum
b) berries: apricot | blueberry | grape | redcurrant
c) fruits that grow on trees: blackberry | damson | elderberry | lime
4. Complete the sentences (a–f) with words from the opposite page.
a) In Britain, strawberries are usually in _______________ in May and June.
b) Imported fruit has often been picked before it is _______________, so it doesn’t
taste as sweet.
c) Buying _______________ grown fruit is better for the environment because it
doesn’t have to be transported long distances.
d) Don’t peel fruits such as apples or peaches, because their _______________ is rich
in vitamins.
e) Melon is easier to eat if you cut the flesh into _______________ chunks.
f) Can you give me your _______________ for fruit salad?
The noun “fruit” is countable
as well as uncountable. If
you are referring to fruit as a
type of food, it is
uncountable:
• You should eat lots of
fruit.
• I always have a piece of
fruit for lunch.
If you are referring to particular
types of fruit, the noun
is often used countably:
• Strawberries and
raspberries are typical
summer fruits.
Remember that the “i” in
“fruit” is silent: [fru:t]
Tips
5. Can you guess the correct answer?
A fruit machine is:
a) something you put seeds in to grow a fruit tree.
b) something you put fruits in to make juice.
c) something you put money in, in the hope of making more money.
Answers
1. a) grape; b) raspberry; c) gooseberry;
d) cantaloupe; e) lime (Limone)
2. a–4; b–1; c–2; d–3
3. a) cantaloupe; b) apricot; c) blackberry
4. a) season; b) ripe (pick: pflücken);
c) locally; d) skin (peel [pi:&l]: schälen);
e) bite-sized (mundgerecht; chunk:
Stück(chen)); f) recipe [(resEpi]
5. c) (Glücksspielautomat)
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LANGUAGE | Travel Talk
Fishing
RITA FORBES gives you the words you
need to go fishing — and to tell some good
fishing stories.
Talking fishing
So, is this the new rod you told me about?
That’s right. I had a great catch yesterday. You
know, we haven’t been fishing together for a long
time. How about a weekend in Derbyshire?
Great! I’ve got a couple of new flies I’d like to try
out. Could Jeremy come, too? We got him some
tackle for his birthday.
Why not? We started fishing with Dad when we
were about his age, didn’t we?
Then let’s get a couple of rod licences and go.
Getting started
The weather’s perfect, isn’t it? Let’s just hope the
fish are biting.
Is your hook baited, Jeremy? Go ahead and cast
now, just as we practised at home. ... Well done!
I think I’ve got one, Dad!
Hey, you’re right! Keep the line taut...
And reel him in!
Wow! Look at that! He’s big enough to keep. Not
bad for a first catch.
At the pub
What a day!
Yeah. I think Jeremy’s hooked on fishing now.
Well, it’s in the family, isn’t it? Remember when we
were kids?
Yeah, and Dad used to tell us those stories about
the giant catfish. We fell for it hook, line and
sinker!
catfish [(kÄtfIS]
rod [rQd]
taut [tO:t]
Seewolf
Rute
stramm, straff
• The word catch can be both a verb and a noun.
• The county (Grafschaft) of Derbyshire in central England
is popular for trout [traUt] (Forelle) fishing.
• Flies are artificial [)A:tI(fIS&l] (künstlich) bait (Köder),
often made from feathers and animal hair. They are
meant to look like insects or other things that fish like
to eat. Although you can buy flies that are ready to
use, many anglers like to make their own.
• The equipment used for fishing is known as tackle.
• In the UK, you need a rod licence to fish legally. The
cost depends on the kind of fish you want to catch
and the length of time you need. A one-day licence
starts at £3.75, and a licence for the season costs up to
£72. Children under 12 can fish without a licence.
Once you have your rod licence, you still need permission
to fish in a river or lake.
• Fish here is the plural form. If they are biting, it is
easy to catch them.
• A hook is a curved piece of metal attached to the end
of the fishing line. It catches in the fish’s mouth.
• If the hook is baited, it has something attached to it
that will attract (anlocken) a fish.
• To cast means to use a swinging motion to throw the
fishing line into the water.
• Reel him in means to bring the fish out of the water
by turning the reel (Angelrolle) on the rod.
• It is usually legal to keep fish of a certain size if you
want to eat them. Smaller fish must be put back in the
water. Many anglers practise “catch and release”,
mean ing that they fish for sport and don’t keep any
of their fish.
• If you’re hooked on something, you want to do it
again and again.
• Fishermen are known for telling stories — not always
true — about the fish they’ve caught or about “the
one that got away”.
• To fall for something hook, line
and sinker (Senkgewicht) is a play
on words meaning to believe
completely in something
that is not true — like a
fish when it swallows
a bait.
Tips
Fotos: Alamy; iStockphoto
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Cards | LANGUAGE
amazeballs
NEW WORDS
This tiramisu is the best I’ve ever eaten.
It’s absolutely amazeballs.
GLOBAL ENGLISH
What would a speaker of British
English say?
Canadian: “We must talk to the local First Nations
and Inuit representatives.”
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(IN)FORMAL ENGLISH
Make these colloquial responses sound
more formal:
1. I’ve never seen such a thing before.
— Me neither.
TRANSLATION
Translate:
1. Das Zimmer kostet €50 die Woche.
2. So verbrauchst du ca. 200 Kalorien die Stunde.
2. I absolutely love south Indian food. — Me, too.
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PRONUNCIATION
IDIOM MAGIC
Read the following words aloud:
This bag is made of fine cloth.
Ching Yee Smithback
Remember to bring warm clothing.
She buys all her clothes second-hand.
in tune / out of tune
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FALSE FRIENDS
billion / Billion
Translate the following sentences:
1. Billions of people live on less than two dollars
a day.
2. In welchem Jahr überstiegen die Gesamtschulden
der USA eine Billion Dollar?
GRAMMAR
Complete the following sentences:
1. Charlie is taller _____ me.
2. I earn more money _____ him.
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LANGUAGE | Cards
GLOBAL ENGLISH
British speaker: “We must talk to the local
American Indian and Eskimo representatives.”
The traditional British term “Red Indian” is oldfashioned
and offensive (beleidigend) today.
In US English, the most common term is “Native
American”. The word “Eskimo”, still widely used in
British and US English, is politically incorrect in
Canada.
NEW WORDS
This new synonym of “amazing”, “fantastic”,
“brilliant”, “phenomenal”, etc. originated in
Hollywood and has spread via YouTube, Twitter
and other social media. Many bloggers and usage
experts are unhappy with the word, but that has
only made it even more popular.
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TRANSLATION
1. The room costs €50 a week.
2. That way, you(’ll) burn about 200 calories
an hour.
“A(n)”, not “the”, is used in measure phrases of
this kind — including those in which the definite
article is not found in German; for example,
“a month” (im Monat). “Per” can also be used
instead of “a”, especially in writing.
(IN)FORMAL ENGLISH
1. Nor have I. / Neither have I. / I haven’t
either.
2. So do I. / I do, too.
Short answers (without a verb) with accusative
pronouns are normal in informal, but not formal
usage.
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IDIOM MAGIC
A musical instrument can be in tune or out of
tune (richtig / falsch gestimmt), as can a singing
voice.
“Well, your guitar is in tune now, but you’re
singing out of tune.”
PRONUNCIATION
[klQT] [(klEUDIN] [klEUDz]
The [Dz] of “clothes” is not an easy pair of sounds
to pronounce. Learners of English often have
problems with the [D] sound and fail to produce
the [z], or they add an extra sound: [klEUDIz].
In fast, natural speech, native speakers often
drop the [D] sound altogether: [klEUz].
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GRAMMAR
1. Charlie is taller than me / I am.
2. I earn more money than him / he does.
“As” is used only in “comparisons of equality”:
“He earns as much money as me / I do.”
FALSE FRIENDS
1. Milliarden von Menschen leben von weniger als
zwei Dollar am Tag.
2. In what year did the total US debt exceed
a trillion dollars?
A German Billion is a million million, whereas an
English billion is a thousand million. (See English
at Work, Spotlight 3/13.)
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Listen to dialogues 2 and 4
A day at the races
This month, DAGMAR TAYLOR looks at the
words and phrases people use when they are
talking about horse races.
Everyday English | LANGUAGE
1. The races
Louise and her husband, Charlie, have arrived at the
racecourse. They are watching the horses warming
up in the parade ring.
Louise: Have you got the racecard?
Charlie: Yes, here it is.
Louise: Let’s have a look. Which horse do you like the
sound of?
Charlie: Mmm! Apple Turnover sounds nice.
Louise: I know you’re hungry, but try to focus for five
minutes! How are you supposed to pick a
winner? I’ve never done this before.
Charlie: You have to look for a shiny coat, bright eyes,
forward-pointing ears and an alert manner.
Like that one, there.
Louise: But what about all the information on the
racecard?
Charlie: Have a look at the race forecast. Look! There
it is, over there. That tells you what the odds
on each horse will be, and whom they think
will win.
2. The bet
Louise and Charlie decide to place a bet.
Charlie: Shall we have a little flutter, then?
Louise: Sure. What do we have to do?
Charlie: I’d rather place a bet with the Tote than with
a bookie — all the profits go back into horse
racing.
Louise: OK. Whatever you say.
Charlie: Let’s put £5 each way on Zippy.
Louise: £5’s the stake, right? And what are the odds?
Charlie: They’re eight to one. And “each way” means
that we put a fiver on the horse to win and
another fiver on the horse to be placed second
or third. The odds for that are lower, probably
only two to one.
Louise: OK. A tenner, then. Shall we say a fiver each?
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• A place where horses race, including the track and
the buildings around it, is called the racecourse
(N. Am.: racetrack).
• Racegoers (UK), the people who go to the races, can
view the horses in the parade ring before a race starts.
• The racecard is a list of all the horse races at an
event. It provides information about the horses, or
“runners”, and their riders.
• The names of racehorses, such as Apple Turnover
(Apfeltasche), often sound interesting or amusing,
because all horses that are registered with the British
Horseracing Authority must have different names.
• Supposed to means be expected to do or be something.
Here, Louise means: “How is it possible to...?”
• The hair that covers an animal’s body is called its coat.
• In betting, the odds show how much money people
will receive if they win a bet. If a horse has odds of
four to one (4–1) and wins, the “better” receives four
times the amount of money that he or she bet.
alert [E(l§:t] wach, aufmerksam (➝ p. 61)
pick [pIk] aussuchen
Tips
• When you have a flutter (UK, ifml.), you place a
small bet on something.
• The Tote is a system of betting on horses in which
the total amount of money that is bet on each race is
divided among the people who bet on the winners.
• A person whose job it is to take bets on the results of
horse races and then pay out money to people
who win, is a “bookmaker”, or bookie (ifml.).
• One type of bet you can place in the UK
is each way. This means you win if
your horse comes first, and
also if it comes second or
third.
• The stake is the money you
risk losing when you place a
bet.
• A fiver is an informal word for five
pounds.
• If a horse is placed, it is one of the first
three horses to reach the finish.
• A tenner is ten pounds.
Tips

LANGUAGE | Everyday English
3. And they’re off! 4. The winnings
The race begins. Louise and Charlie
listen to the commentary.
Commentator: They’re off! Apple Turnover has made
a strong start, with Nelly’s Revenge close behind, followed
by Ravioli and Zippy. Cornflake Boy is at the
back, Zippy and Lucky Charm are just ahead. Ravioli
and Zippy are in the middle of the field and Nelly’s
Revenge has just passed Apple Turnover. Cornflake
Boy is coming up fast from behind, passing Nelly’s Revenge
and Ravioli. And just watch Zippy go! He’s
flying up on the inside! Zippy draws level with Nelly’s
Revenge, with a furlong left to go. He eases up to the
line... What an incredible finish! It’s Zippy first, Nelly’s
Revenge second, Apple Turnover third, Ravioli beats
Cornflake Boy to finish fourth, with Lucky Charm
coming in last.
• A commentary is a spoken description of a sports
event.
• When the horses leave their starting places, or “stalls”,
the commentator says: They’re off!
• The field is all the horses taking part in the race.
• Here, flying means moving very quickly.
• The inside is the side of the track that is nearest to the
centre of the course.
• If an animal or vehicle draws level with another, it
moves into a position beside it. Another expression
used in racing is: “to be neck and neck”.
• A furlong (≈ 200 metres) is a unit of distance used in
horse racing. There are eight furlongs to a mile.
• To come in first / third / last describes the position
of a horse or person at the finish of a race.
Tips
Louise and Charlie’s horse has won the race.
Charlie: I can’t believe we backed a winner!
Louise: What a fluke! That’s beginner’s luck for you.
Charlie: Well, we were certain to win with a horse
called Zippy.
Louise: How much have we won?
Charlie: Hang on! Let’s work it out. It won’t be that
much... The odds were eight to one, so that’s
eight times five... That’s £40. And we get the
£5 stake back. So that’s £45.
Louise: Is that all?
Charlie: I thought you said you knew what “each way”
meant. We’ve got the place bet, too, remember?
The odds there were two to one, so that’s
£10 plus the £5 stake back.
Louise: So we’ve won 50 quid? Thanks, Zippy!
Charlie: Champagne for two, then?
• To back a horse (or a winner), is to bet money on a
horse.
• A fluke (ifml.) is a lucky thing that happens by
chance, not as a result of planning or skill.
• Beginner’s luck is good luck or unexpected success
when you do something for the first time.
• If something is described as zippy or “nippy”, it is able
to move very quickly: “She bought herself a zippy
little car for driving around town.”
• To work something out is another way of saying
“calculate something”.
• Times means “multiplied by”.
• British people often say quid (ifml.) rather than
“pound”.
Tips
ease up to sth. [)i:z (Vp tE]
sich langsam einer Sache nähern
hang on [hÄN (Qn] ifml.
warte mal
EXERCISES
1. What do the following words in bold refer to
in the dialogues?
a) I’ve never done this before. ________________________
b) They’re eight to one. ______________________________
c) They’re off! _______________________________________
d) Hang on! Let’s work it out. _________________________
3. What do we call someone...
a) who goes to horse races? _______________
b) who takes bets on races? _______________
c) who describes the race as it happens? ____________
d) who (or an animal or team that) wins something?
_____________
2. Add the missing word.
a) Have a look ______ the race forecast.
b) Let’s put £5 each way ______ Zippy.
c) ...with Lucky Charm coming ______ last.
d) And we get the £5 stake ______.
4. What did they say?
a) Have you got the r _ _ _ _ _ _ _?
b) Shall we have a little f _ _ _ _ _ _?
c) Zippy draws level now, with a f _ _ _ _ _ _ left to go.
d) What a f _ _ _ _!
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Answers: 1. a) bet on a horse race; b) the odds; c) the horses; d) the amount they have won; 2. a) at; b) on; c) in; d) back
3. a) racegoer; b) bookmaker / bookie; c) commentator; d) winner; 4. a) racecard; b) flutter; c) furlong; d) fluke

The Grammar Page | LANGUAGE
Present perfect continuous
and simple: recent activities
ADRIAN DOFF uses notes on a short dialogue to present and
explain a key point of grammar.
It’s late afternoon. Lynn has come home from work. Her
husband, Andy, has just arrived, too.
Lynn: There you are! I’ve been trying 1 to reach you all
day. Why weren’t you at work?
Andy: Oh, I decided to take the day off.
Lynn: Really? What have you been doing? 2
Andy: I’ve been shopping. 3 I’ve been buying 3 some summer
clothes. See, I’ve bought 4 three shirts, a pair of
trousers, some shoes, shorts...
Lynn: How much did all that cost?
Andy: Oh, not much. I’ve bought 4 you a present, too —
well, for both of us really. Look! Go on, open it! I
hope you like it.
Lynn: A hotel reservation? We can’t afford that!
Andy: I know, but we’ve both been working so hard
recently 5 that I thought it would do us good to
relax.
Lynn: Well, yes. I’ve been working very hard. But you
haven’t been working 6 at all. You’ve just spent the
whole day shopping. 7
1 I’ve been trying is the present perfect continuous
form of the verb try. For this tense, we need have / has +
been + -ing. It can be used to talk about a recent activity:
Lynn’s been working today, and trying to phone Andy.
2 This is a present perfect continuous question. Here, the
subject and auxiliary verb [O:g(zIliEri )v§:b] (Hilfsverb) are
changed round.
3 These are further examples of the present perfect continuous
— activities that Andy has been doing all day.
4 To talk about individual completed actions, we use the
present perfect simple.
5 The adverb recently is often used with the present perfect
continuous. (See “Beyond the basics” below.)
6 This is the negative form of the present perfect contin -
uous: haven’t / hasn’t been + -ing.
7 Another way of talking about recent activities is by using
the verb spend (time) + -ing. Lynn could also say:
“You’ve been shopping all day.”
Remember!
There are two slightly different uses of the present
perfect continuous.
1. to talk about recent activities (which may or may
not still be going on):
• I’ve been working a lot recently (so I’m tired).
2. with “for” or “since” to talk about activities that
started in the past and are still going on:
• I’ve been working since 6.30 a.m. (= I’m still working.)
Beyond the basics
Time adverbs
Expressions that refer to a particular time in the past
(such as “five minutes ago”; “yesterday”) cannot be
used with the present perfect tense; but the indefinite
time adverbs recently and lately are often used with
the present perfect:
• I’ve been going out a lot recently.
• I haven’t been sleeping very well lately.
EXERCISE
Fill the gaps below with verbs from the list in the present perfect continuous or simple form.
buy | drink | go | sit | sleep | tidy up | use | wash
e) Look! I’ve ____________ some cheesecake to eat with
a) I’ve spent the morning ____________ my room.
our coffee.
b) No wonder she’s got a headache. She’s been
f) Someone has been ____________ my laptop.
____________ in front of the computer all day.
g) Your blood pressure’s high. Have you been _________
c) Who’s been ____________ in my bed?
a lot of coffee lately?
d) We’ve been ____________ jogging a lot recently.
h) I’ve ___________ all your shirts. Shall I iron them, too?
Answers: a) tidying up; b) sitting; c) sleeping; d) going; e) bought; f) using; g) drinking; h) washed
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LANGUAGE | The Soap
Helen
Phil
Peggy
It’s holiday time!
Join us at Peggy’s Place — Spotlight ’s very
own London pub. By INEZ SHARP
George
Sean
FOCUS
George: I thought you were on holiday this week.
Peggy: No, we’re not leaving until Friday. Two weeks on
Ibiza — it’s going to be fantastic.
Helen: Who’s going to Ibiza?
Peggy: Hello, Helen! I’m taking Jane and Simone there.
We all need a break after Simone’s little encounter with
the police.
George: What happened exactly?
Peggy: They caught her with some boys doing graffiti.
Helen: But your granddaughter’s only nine and below the
age of criminal responsibility. They won’t take action.
Peggy: No, but it all gave us a nasty shock.
George: We certainly hope it gave Simone a nasty shock.
Peggy: Oh, she’s a chip off the old block. Jane was always
in trouble as a teenager.
Helen: What she needs is a stable home environment and
lots of positive role models.
Peggy: My thinking exactly. I want to have some quiet
time with Simone on Ibiza...
George: ...and Jane can be her positive role model.
Peggy: Ha, ha! Very funny! No, I’m going to try to be her
role model, and when we get back here, we’ll get a better
routine going for Simone. Hello, Jane!
Jane: Hi, Mum! No more routine for us. Not for the next
two weeks, anyway. I’ve been checking out the clubbing
scene on Ibiza, and it looks hot.
Helen: Doesn’t sound much like the holiday that Peggy’s
got planned.
Peggy: Er... You hungry, Jane? We’ve got a nice chicken
pie on the menu.
Jane: No. No food for me today. It’s one of my fasting days.
George: Fasting? Is that a good idea?
Jane: It is if you are on the 5:2.
Helen: Oh, no! Not another person on this stupid diet.
Jane: Mock it all you like, but I say it’s working, and the
science behind it makes a lot of sense.
Helen: And what science would that be?
Jane: OK, I’m not quite sure, but all the great world religions
say that fasting is good for the body, and the
When Peggy makes the sound er [§:], she is signalling that
she wants to change the subject quickly. Sounds that we
make such as “er...”, which show emotion, but otherwise
have no grammatical meaning, are called interjections.
Other interjections that are common in English are oops,
used when you make a small mistake, eh? to signal that you
have not understood something and ooh!, which is used
when something is particularly wonderful or lovely.
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Eddy
“ ”
I’ve been checking out the clubbing scene
Jane
geezer who wrote the 5:2 book, says it makes you thinner
and more cheerful.
George: But it can’t be good not to eat anything at all.
Helen: That’s not how it works. The concept is that you
eat very little for two days of the week, and normally
for the rest of the time.
George: Sounds really simple. I could do that.
Peggy: I can’t believe you haven’t heard about it: the book’s
called The Fast Diet. It’s everywhere.
George: Come to think of it, we might be selling it. The
name rings a bell.
Helen: If I had a penny for every faddish diet book... Personally,
I still think eating normally and getting enough
exercise is the key.
Jane: It’s never worked for me, and now I need to get into
a bikini for the holiday.
Helen: You won’t lose much last minute with this diet.
Jane: Actually, I’ve lost half a stone so far.
George: I thought you were looking a bit peaky.
Peggy: George is right. You don’t want to be too thin.
Jane: I just want to be a good role model for Simone. If
I’m depressed and out of shape, it’s not good for her.
She needs a mum who looks really good and knows
how to party.
Helen: Happy holidays, Peggy!
action: take ~ (against sb.)
[(ÄkS&n]
check out [)tSek (aUt]
chip off the old block: a ~
[)tSIp Qf Di )EUld (blQk] ifml.
clubbing scene [(klVbIN )si:n] ifml.
encounter [In(kaUntE]
exercise [(eksEsaIz]
faddish [(fÄdIS]
geezer [(gi:zE] ifml.
mock sth. [mQk]
nasty [(nA:sti]
peaky [(pi:ki] UK
ring a bell [)rIN E (bel] ifml.
role model [(rEUl )mQd&l]
stone [stEUn] UK
think: come to ~ of it… [TINk]
work [w§:k]
(gegen jmdn.) strafrechtlich
vorgehen
unter die Lupe nehmen
hier: ganz wie die Mutter
Szeneleben, Disco-Landschaft
(Zusammen)Treffen
Sport, Bewegung
trendig
hier: Typ
sich über etw. lustig machen
böse
blass, abgemagert
einem bekannt vorkommen
Vorbild
6,35 kg
wenn ich es mir recht überlege...
hier: funktionieren
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English at Work | LANGUAGE
Dear Ken: “I’m good” — can I
be “bad”, too?
Dear Ken
Greetings in English can sound strange to foreigners. People
say “How do you do?” and answer “How do you do?”
Is it actually possible to answer “Fine, thank you” and then
reply with “And how are you?”
Furthermore, in the US, it’s common to answer “I’m good”
although we’ve always been taught to say the adverbial
form “I’m fine”. If people can say “I’m good”, can they
also answer “I’m bad”?
Thanks so much
Ari G.
Send your questions
about business English
by e-mail with “Dear
Ken” in the subject line to
language@spotlight-verlag.de.
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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 Ari
I agree that greetings in English can be a little confusing.
Here are a few things you might bear in mind.
Greetings are not just a way of saying “hello”. The form of
the greeting you choose shows the level of formality you
expect in the relationship. If you choose the formal greeting
“How do you do?”, it is likely that you have never met
the person you are greeting before. “How are you?” is less
formal and indicates you have had some form of contact
already. For a first meeting, I usually say “Nice to meet
you”. It sounds friendly, but businesslike. And for followup
meetings, I simply add “again”; I say “Nice to meet you
again” or “Nice to see you again”.
You can, of course, break the convention and answer
“How do you do?” by saying “Fine, thank you, and you?”
Just remember that when you do this, you are lowering
the level of formality that your business partner chose for
his or her greeting. Here’s a tip if you do not want to be so
formal. Answer in the way your partner expects with
“How do you do?”, but then add another, less formal
greeting: “Nice to meet you.”
In the US, it’s perfectly acceptable to use “good” instead
of “well” (or “fine”) in this situation. But don’t say “I’m
bad”. This sounds as if you are evil rather than ill. Anyway,
people don’t want to hear about your upset stomach or your
headache. Greetings are simply conventions for saying
“hello” in an appropriate way, not a request for a person’s
health report.
Regards
Ken
appropriate [E(prEUpriEt]
face sth. [feIs]
grab [grÄb]
likely [(laIkli]
outline [(aUtlaIn]
upset stomach [)Vpset (stVmEk]
angemessen, passend
auf etw. zukommen
hier: erregen, fesseln
wahrscheinlich
umreißen, kurz darstellen
Magenverstimmung
Dear Ken
How do I start a presentation to an international audience?
I usually say something like, “Good morning, ladies and
gentlemen. I’m very happy to be here today and to have
this opportunity of speaking to you about...”
Is this OK?
Leo P.
Dear Leo
At the start of a presentation, you want to focus the audience
on yourself and your subject. You want to let them
know something interesting is going to happen. You want
them to feel motivated to listen to you. The start you suggest
is perfectly correct linguistically. But people have
heard something similar hundreds of times, so they are not
really stimulated to listen carefully.
I always start my presentations with a sentence that is not
a cliché. Here are three ways to do this.
A rhetorical question engages your audience:
• What are the three key issues facing our department in
the next financial year?
Have a clearly defined goal to which your audience can
relate:
• The aim of these 30 minutes is to outline the key issues
facing our department in the next financial year.
Tell your audience what it can get out of listening to you:
• By the end of this presentation, you will have a clearer
picture of the key issues our department is facing in the
next financial year.
You can then greet the audience — but only after you have
grabbed their attention. Why not try it out for yourself?
All the best
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
You would!
This month, ADRIAN DOFF looks at the way
the word “would” is used in spoken English.
“Would” in conditional sentences
• I would pay for the drinks if I had enough money.
• We would have won the match if we’d had a
full team.
Uses of “would”
Most people learn how to use “would” in conditional sentences
(see above). In these examples, “would” is used to
talk about something unreal or unlikely (unwahrscheinlich)
— we are just imagining the situation.
But “would” can also be used in many other ways. Let’s look
at some that are common in spoken English.
Softening
“Would” is often used to make a request or an offer sound
less direct and more polite. This is sometimes called “softening”.
Compare the following pairs of examples:
• Help me with these bags, please.
(This sounds like a command.)
• Would you help me with these bags, please?
(This sounds more polite.)
• Take a seat! (Your boss might say this when he calls
you into his office.)
• Would you like to take a seat? (You might say this to
somebody on the train.)
To sound more polite, longer phrases with “would” can be
used:
• Would you mind helping me with the washing?
• Would it be OK if I borrow / borrowed your car?
“Would” can also be used as a question tag. This makes a
command sound less direct — more like a question:
• Just hold this a minute, would you?
• Wait a minute, would you? There’s someone at the
door.
“Would” can be used in a similar way to give advice. Compare
these sentences:
• Don’t worry about it.
• I wouldn’t worry about it (if I were you).
The second example sounds softer and less direct.
It’s typical
“Would” also means it’s typical or what we expect, as in this
dialogue about a dishwasher that has broken down:
• The service engineer said it’s better to buy a new one.
— Well, of course, he would say that.
(We expect him to say it.)
With this meaning, the word “would” is always stressed.
A question tag can also be added at the end:
• She complained to the manager.
— Yes, well, she would, wouldn’t she?
(= That’s typical of her.)
Excuses
“Would” is also stressed when it is used to make excuses:
• Well, I would pay for the drinks, but I’ve left my wallet
at home. (= Sorry, I can’t pay.)
• Look, I would stop and chat, but I’m in a big hurry.
(= I can’t stop.)
Here, “would” has a conditional meaning like the examples
in the box at the top of the page. In this case, though, it is
followed by “but” instead of “if”.
Common expressions with “would”
“Would” is used in many common expressions. Again, it
“softens” what we say, as in the following examples:
• Do you think they’re going out together?
— No, I wouldn’t say so. (= I don’t think so.)
• Another glass of wine?
— Well, I wouldn’t say no. (= Yes, please!)
Some expressions with “would” express stronger
feelings, however:
• Shall we go to Ibiza for our holidays?
— No, thanks. I’d rather die!
• Do you like that orange dress?
— No. I wouldn’t be seen dead in it. (= I don’t like it at
all.)
Correct one mistake in each example (a–f).
a) Is it going to rain? — No, I wouldn’t say.
b) Do you like another biscuit? — Yes, please.
c) Keep an eye on the baby, wouldn’t you?
d) Would you mind to turn the music down, please?
e) I would to invite her, but there’s not enough room
in the car.
f) • Sorry, I’ve eaten all the chocolate.
— You would, would you?
Answers
a) ...say so; b) Would you like...; c) ...would you?; d) Would you mind turning...;
e) I would invite her...; f) ...wouldn’t you?
EXERCISE
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Word Builder | LANGUAGE
Build your vocabulary
JOANNA WESTCOMBE presents useful words and phrases from this issue of Spotlight and their
collocations. The words may also have other meanings that are not listed here.
shore [SO:] noun p. 67
trailer [(treIlE] noun p. 9
land along the edge of the sea, a lake, etc.
Ufer
The fisherman managed to swim to the shore.
If you anchor your boat offshore, you are not far from
the land. (For another use of “offshore”, see pages 42–43.)
grasp [grA:sp] verb p. 25
a container with wheels that can be pulled by
a vehicle
Anhänger
On Saturdays, he does the shopping with his
bike and trailer.
In US English, a trailer is also a type of caravan or
mobile home.
take and hold sth. firmly
packen, anfassen
The tiny baby grasped my little finger and just
didn’t let go.
See the extra notes below on how to use this word.
released: be ~ [ri(li:st] verb p. 6
make a film available to be seen
in die Kinos kommen
“The Great Gatsby” was released in May.
The verb release is commonly used in the passive form
in this context.
alert [E(l§:t] adjective p. 55
paying attention, ready to react
wach, aufmerksam
as the crow flies phrase p. 32
[Ez DE (krEU )flaIz]
The mother bear woke suddenly, fully alert
and smelling danger.
The noun alert means a warning of a dangerous situation;
for example, a bomb / fire alert.
in a straight line
in Luftlinie
I live only two miles away from my work, as
the crow flies, but the journey takes ages.
How to use the verb grasp
It’s also a short, straight distance from the word crow to
German Krähe.
Foto: Monkey Business
Grasping is a movement — you can grasp (hold of) a
thing, or a person by the hand, wrist or arm. You
might also grasp at something, such as the string of a
balloon that is floating (treiben) away, without being
able to catch it.
In a figurative sense, to grasp at straws
means to try to find anything at all that may
help in a difficult situation.
To grasp also means to understand. A
person may quickly grasp the meaning of
something or may be unable to or fail to
grasp this. Grasp can mean to take advantage
of something: grasp the chance while
you can! In British English, dealing with
difficult problems can be called
grasping the nettle (Nessel) — but
be warned: only do this figuratively!
Complete the following sentences with words
from this page in their correct form.
a) The first of Chaplin’s films, The Kid, was __________
in 1921.
b) She __________ her son by the wrist and pulled him
away from the large dog.
c) The beach is a mile away, as the __________ flies.
d) A safe cyclist is always __________ and keeps his eyes
and ears open.
e) Is it safe to leave our __________ full of luggage in
the car park?
f) The government has failed to __________ the
seriousness of the situation.
g) Our holiday home is on the __________ of Lake Como.
OVER TO YOU!
Answers: a) released; b) grasped;
c) crow; d) alert; e) trailer; f) grasp; g) shore (shores)
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LANGUAGE | Perfectionists Only!
WILL O’RYAN explains developments in the English language and examines some of
the finer points of grammar.
Gravy? Gravy!
When Indian and Pakistani women
were hired to work in an employee
cafeteria at Heathrow Airport in the
1970s, problems arose. Both the
women and the baggage handlers
they served complained that the other
party was rude. A professor of socio -
linguistics helped the staff to understand
the reason. When diners
ordered meat, the Englishwomen
who had previously worked in the
cafeteria had asked “Gravy?” (Fleisch -
soße), as a short form of “Would you
like gravy?”, using rising intonation.
When the new women said “Gravy”,
using the falling intonation of their
native culture, diners
thought they
were not being offered
a choice.
Back to the roots
German and English sayings that are
similar often go back to a common
source, typically the Bible or some ancient
fable. The common saying
“throw out the baby with the bath -
water”, however, is a translation of the
German das Kind mit dem Bade ausschütten,
which first appeared in print
in German in 1512. In the mid 19th
century, a Scottish historian used it in
an article on the slave trade, explaining:
“The Germans say, ‘You must
empty-out the bathing-tub, but not
the baby along with it.’” The saying
became popular in the 20th century,
probably due to the influence of
George Bernard Shaw. The first of
many times he
used it was in
1911, in his play
Getting
Married,
as “empty
the baby out
with the bath”.
Negation-indifference
Grammar
When you add negation to an affirmative (positive) statement, its truthvalue
is reversed. In other words, “X is Y” and “X is not Y” cannot both be
true. This is a simple question of logic. But beware: negation in language
can sometimes differ from the negation of the logician. There are a number
of constructions in English that could be called “negation-indifferent”.
Let us start by looking at a group of words known as “vulgar minimizers”:
a) Michael doesn’t know diddly-squat about nuclear physics.
Susan didn’t contribute jack shit to our emergency fund.
So far, the words in bold above seem to act in the same way as other normal
minimizers such as “a drop”, meaning a minimal amount of alcohol,
and “a penny” (a minimal amount of money) in (b):
b) Tommy didn’t drink a drop last night.
She’s been out of work for two years and doesn’t have a penny.
Minimizers normally appear only when negation is present. One cannot
say “Tommy drank a drop” or “She still has a penny” with the same meaning.
But vulgar minimizers are different in this regard, as we see in the examples
of (c):
c) Michael knows diddly-squat about nuclear physics.
Susan contributed jack shit to our emergency fund.
The peculiar thing is that the examples of (a) and those of (c) mean precisely
the same thing. Semantically, it simply doesn’t matter whether negation
is present or not. In fact, many of these vulgar minimizers appear
more typically without negation. Dictionaries have a hard time with such
words, sometimes translating them as “nothing” and at other times as
“anything (usually with negative)”, for example. Syntactically, “diddlysquat”
and “jack shit” behave like “anything” in (a) and like “nothing” in (c).
This can be seen in their interplay with structures that are sensitive to the
distinction between affirmative and negative clauses:
d) Michael knows diddly-squat about nuclear physics, doesn’t he?
Michael doesn’t know diddly-squat about nuclear physics, does he?
Susan didn’t contribute jack shit and neither did I.
Susan contributed jack shit and I did, too.
Here are some other vulgar minimizers in common use today: “beans”,
“bugger all”, “fuck all”, “jack”, “piss all”. Many of them are more typical of
North American than of British English. Vulgar minimizers are not the only
negation-indifferent structures in English. In both of the following idioms,
the negation should be required, logically speaking, but in actual usage, it
is completely irrelevant whether or not it is present — it has no effect on
the meaning:
e) That’ll teach you (not) to play with fire. (Lass dir das eine Lehre sein,...)
I couldn’t / could (US ironic) care less whether you agree with me.
Complete these synonymous sentences with a standard tag question:
1. Jonathan doesn’t know squat about our problems, _________ he?
2. Jonathan knows bugger all about our problems, _________ he?
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Answers: 1. does; 2. doesn’t

Crossword | LANGUAGE
1 2 3 4
11
5 6 7 8
9 10
12 13 14
19
15
16 17 18
20 21 22
The words in this puzzle are taken from the article about Mick Jagger.
You may find it helpful to refer to the text on pages 22–25.
Competition!
Form a single word from the letters in the coloured squares.
Send that word on a postcard to: Redaktion Spotlight, Kennwort
“July Prize Puzzle”, Postfach 1565, 82144 Planegg, Deutsch land.
Ten winners will be chosen from the entries we receive by
15 July 2013. Each winner will be sent a copy
of Alan Sillitoe’s The Loneliness of the Longdistance
Runner by courtesy of Reclam.
The answer to our May puzzle was wildlife.
Congratulations to: Werner Pulletz (Berlin),
Anton Pfeilmeier (Bietigheim-Bissingen), Anja
Mellkowski (Hamburg), Edith Pilar-Percherz
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Karlheinz Arendt (Bremen), Holger Liebers
(Borna), Christine Lohs (Munich), Dorothea
Zwanger (Tübingen), Rita Brüning (Neustadt).
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Mike Pilewski
A Rolling Stone
Across
1. Future form of “to be”: “Mick Jagger ______
celebrate his 70th birthday this month.”
3. Gentle or nice to others.
5. It belongs to us. It’s ______.
7. A part of the body: “As a young man, Mick
Jagger always walked around with music
albums under his ______.”
9. One more time.
11. “What are you listening ______?”
13. Mick Jagger has seven of these.
15. A word representing an alternative.
16. At a later time than something else.
19. Happy and full of expectation.
20. Threatening.
22. To allow.
23. Belonging to.
Down
1. Past-tense form of “to be”.
2. A symbol: “The Rolling Stones’s ______ shows a
pair of lips with a tongue sticking out.”
4. To move one’s body in harmony with music.
6. A feeling of having everything one wants: “Mick
Jagger sang, ‘I can’t get no ______.’”
8. Myself.
10. Having the feeling that one constantly needs
something: “Some people are ______ to drugs;
Mick Jagger is ______ to women.”
11. A situation in which problems occur.
12. Got.
13. The qualities that a person displays (singular).
14. A negative word: “______ everyone
understands what he’s singing.”
17. A person who fights the established order.
18. Walks or dances in an overly proud way.
21. Therefore.
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“
There was a time when a fool
and his money were soon parted, but
now it happens to everybody.
”
Adlai Stevenson II (1900–65), American politician and diplomat
Maxims of the modern world
• If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that
you tried.
• A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
• Experience is something you don’t get until just after
you need it.
• No one listens until you make a mistake.
• Monday is an awful way to spend a seventh of your life.
© Bulls
Difficult word
“So what if you can’t spell ‘Armageddon’? It’s not the end of
the world.”
Armageddon [)A:mE(ged&n]
candy bar [(kÄndi )bA:] N. Am.
four to six [)fO: tE (sIks]
leftovers [(left)EUvEz]
lunch [lVntS]
parted: be ~ [(pA:tId]
PEANUTS
THE ARGYLE SWEATER
How old?
When Anne’s grandson asks her how old she is, she jokingly
replies: “I’m not sure.”
“Look in your underwear, Grandma,” he advises her. “Mine
says I’m four to six.”
Entscheidungsschlacht zwischen
Gut und Böse in der Bibel
Schokoriegel
Kleidergröße für Vier- bis
Sechsjährige
Essensreste
hier: Pausenbrot
getrennt werden
Hair
A man goes into a hairdresser’s together with a little boy. The
man gets his hair cut first and then says to the boy: “Now you
have your hair cut, while I go to the supermarket to do some
shopping.”
The boy has his hair cut, but the man does not return.
“I hope your dad hasn’t forgotten you,” says the hairdresser.
“That wasn’t my dad,” says the boy. “I just met that guy outside.
He said, ‘Let’s get a free haircut!’ and brought me in
here.”
Bad decision
“I ordered a book on the internet called How to Have Absolutely
Nothing to Do with Your Neighbours. Unfortunately, I
wasn’t at home when it was delivered.”
How come in movies...
...policemen always die on the day they retire?
...if there’s a fight at a wedding, the cake is always destroyed?
...every bomb has a clock with big, red numbers?
...you can see the Eiffel Tower from any room in Paris?
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American Life | GINGER KUENZEL
Foto: Walt Grishkot
“
His new
wife was left
to deal with the
monster on
her own
”
Monsters, vampires, and other
such creatures seem to be
making a real comeback
these days. Here, in our town, we
have a monster of our very own. Our
story begins more than 100 years ago,
in 1904, when two summer residents
were engaged in a friendly competition
to prove who was the more creative
prankster.
Harry Watrous, a well-known
artist and the president of the National
Academy of Design, owned a
fine home in town. Colonel William
Mann, the publisher of a New York
scandal sheet called Town Topics, had
a summer residence on an island close
to Watrous’s place. Both gentlemen
were enthusiastic trout fishermen,
competing year in and year out to see
who could land the biggest catch.
One fine summer day, Watrous
saw Mann pulling in what appeared
to be a 40-pound fish. But before
Watrous could get close enough to
take a better look, Mann raced off in
his boat.
capsize [(kÄpsaIz]
kentern
delight [di(laIt]
Freude, Entzücken
engaged: be ~ in sth. [In(geIdZd] in etw. verwickelt sein
fall for sth. (hook, line, and voll auf etw. hereinfallen
sinker) [(fO:l f&r] ifml.
fishy [(fISi] ifml.
verdächtig, faul (Wortspiel)
log [lO:g]
Baumstamm
pole [poUl]
Mast
pop up [)pA:p (Vp]
plötzlich auftauchen
prankster [(prÄNkst&r]
jmd., der anderen böse
Streiche spielt; Scherzkeks
(prank
(böser) Streich)
pulley [(pUli]
Flaschenzug
resident [(rezIdEnt]
hier: Gast, Urlauber
sea serpent [(si: )s§:pEnt]
Seeschlange
shore [SO:r] Ufer (➝ p. 61)
surface [(s§:fEs]
Oberfläche; auftauchen
trout [traUt]
Forelle
A midsummer monster
Seeungeheuer werden nicht nur in Schottland seit Jahrhunderten
vermutet. Auch an der amerikanischen Ostküste
wurde einst ein Artgenosse gesichtet.
The next week, Watrous visited
Mann’s home, where the enormous
trout was displayed on the wall.
After looking at it, however, Watrous
realized that there was something
“fishy” about the catch. The trout was
made of wood. He had fallen for
Mann’s prank — hook, line, and
sinker.
Watrous had too much pride to
let Mann have the last laugh, however,
and began to look for a way to
pay him back. That’s when he had the
idea of creating a lake monster out of
a log. He used glass telegraph-pole insulators
as eyes and, putting his artistic
talent to use, painted yellow and
black stripes on the body, as well as a
mouth, teeth, and ears. Watrous also
designed a clever pulley system to
control the monster from the shore.
Then he sank the beast into the water
and waited for just the right moment
to pull it to the surface.
That opportunity came when
Mann, accompanied by guests from
New York City, boarded his boat one
evening to travel to his house on the
island. When Mann’s boat got to the
right place, Watrous operated the
pulley so that the
monster’s head
popped up from
the deep. Everyone
in the boat
was frightened,
just as Watrous
had hoped. Despite
the excitement,
Mann and
his passengers
made it safely to
the island. One of
the guests, a journalist,
sent a story
to his newspaper
about the monster’s
existence. It didn’t take long before
headlines asking, “Is there a Sea
Serpent in Lake George?” were appearing
in the big newspapers. Over
the following weeks, reporters rushed
to the scene.
The trouble didn’t stop there: a
couple at a nearby hotel was surprised
during a romantic moonlight canoe
ride when the monster surfaced, causing
their boat to capsize. The husband
swam to shore, leaving his new
wife to deal with the monster on her
own. Fortunately, she made it to
shore, where she declared that she
now knew who the real monster was.
The publicity about the monster
was bad for the town’s tourist trade,
and under pressure from local hotel
owners, Watrous agreed to hide the
serpent. It remained hidden until the
1950s, when a visitor decided it
would make a great decorative piece
for her house in the Caribbean.
Many years later, the monster
made its way back to Lake George.
Today, “George” is displayed in his
own glass case in our community
center to the delight of visitors young
and old.
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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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | My Life in English
Klaus Peter
Keller
Der Winzer und Kellermeister aus
Rheinhessen erzählt, welche Rolle die
englische Sprache und Kultur in
seinem Leben spielen.
As a winegrower, what makes English important
to you?
It makes communication with colleagues in the wine
industry easier, and I also want to be able to talk to wine
lovers from all over the world. Wine is meant to be
enjoyed socially, and it can help build bridges between
people. For those reasons, a vintner should be able to
speak English.
When was your first English lesson?
In nursery school. We got a jelly baby for every correct
vocabulary word. That was a wonderful motivation. I’d
learn vocabulary for that even now.
What tip would you give a friend visiting New York City?
Drink a mature J. J. Prüm to good jazz at Café Carlyle.
Have you ever worked in an English-speaking
environment?
I worked in South Africa for one year as an apprentice at
the Clos Cabrière wine estate — a great experience in a
beautiful country.
When did you last use English?
At lunchtime. We have a student from Jakarta working
for us who is passionate about wine. She plans to found
her own winery in Indonesia.
Who is your favourite English-language author?
I love the wine books by Hugh Johnson and Jancis
Robinson. Both authors are full of passion and enthusiasm
for a good sip of Riesling or Pinot.
Which song can you sing at least a few lines of in
English?
“Happy Birthday”.
What is your favourite food from the English-speaking
world?
I love roast beef — preferably Irish Hereford.
Which person from the English-speaking world
(living or dead) would you most like to meet?
I would like to meet Queen Elizabeth II some day. In celebration
of her 60 years on the throne, we’re sending her
a very special wine from the famous Hipping vineyard in
Nierstein. Her coronation wine in 1953 was also from
the Hipping area, an excellent choice back then.
Which is your favourite city in the English-speaking
world?
I like London and New York very much because of the museums,
theatres, concerts and restaurants. For a few days, I
feel very comfortable in the city, but then I’m drawn back
to nature and the vineyards. I love life in the country.
What was your funniest experience in English?
I was in London with a friend to watch Manchester
United play Chelsea at Wembley Stadium. We had such
an intense discussion in a wine bar that we forgot to go
to the match.
Is there anything in your home from the Englishspeaking
world?
Yes: many items that I brought back from South Africa,
and bottles of Hill of Grace, an Australian wine.
What would be your motto in English?
From wine writer Hugh Johnson: “Wine drinkers are
good-looking, intelligent, sexy and healthy!” And a good
bottle of wine gets better when it is shared.
apprentice [E(prentIs]
back then [)bÄk (Den]
coronation [)kQrE(neIS&n]
found [faUnd]
item [(aItEm]
mature [mE(tSUE]
nursery school [(n§:s&ri sku:l]
sip [sIp]
socially [(sEUSEli]
vineyard [(vInjEd]
vintner [(vIntnE]
wine estate [(waIn I)steIt]
Auszubildende(r)
damals
Krönung(sfeier)
gründen
Ding, Gegenstand
ausgereift
Kindergarten
Schluck
in Gesellschaft
Weingut
Winzer(in)
Weingut
Foto: privat
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Welt im Juli?
VANESSA CLARK spürt die heißen
Storys für Sie auf.
Yee-haw!
Sport It’s time to put on your cowboy
boots, get on your horse and ride to Calgary,
Canada, for the Calgary Stampede, a rodeo
event that’s called “the greatest outdoor show
on earth”. The stampede began in 1912, and
it shows visitors the traditional cowboy way
of life.
530 years ago
1483
England Richard III was
crowned king of England in
July 1483. In 2012, old
bones were found under a
car park in Leicester, near
the place of Richard’s
death. DNA tests showed
that they are the bones of
King Richard. Read more
on page 13 of this month’s
Spotlight.
The Calgary Stampede Rodeo has the
world’s best rodeo riders and the finest animals.
Every afternoon, competitors show
their skills in the arena, and the week ends
with Showdown Sunday, “rodeo’s richest afternoon”,
with more than Can$ 1 million
(€764,000) in prize money.
Choirmaster
Malone
Music Gareth Malone wants everyone to
sing together. The 37-year-old Briton is famous
for his reality TV series The Choir and
Sing While You Work, where he brings groups
of people (for example, colleagues or neighbours)
together to sing in choirs. In March
this year, Malone was given an OBE by the
queen for his services to music.
His Military Wives Choir (the wives and
girlfriends of UK soldiers), which had the
number-one single “Wherever You Are” in
2011, will sing at a special concert at Leeds
Castle on 13 July.
Titel: iStockphoto; Fotos Doppelseite: Curtis Brown; Mike Ridewood; Illustrationen: Bernhard Förth
bone [bEUn]
choir [(kwaIE]
competitor [kEm(petItE]
crown [kraUn]
Leicester [(lestE]
OBE (Order of the
British Empire) [)EU bi (i:]
showdown [(SEUdaUn]
skills [skIlz]
Knochen, Gebein
Chor
Wettkämpfer(in)
krönen
britischer Verdienstorden
entscheidender Kampf zwischen zwei Gegnern
Können
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8 pictures | GREEN LIGHT
On the beach
STEPHANIE SHELLABEAR presents words for the things you need for
a day on the beach.
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8
2
7
3
4
6
5
Write the words next to the pictures.
1. deckchair
3. parasol
5. bodyboard
7. mask and snorkel
[(dektSeE]
2. beach towel
[(bi:tS )taUEl]
[(pÄrEsQl]
4. windbreak
[(wIndbreIk]
[(bQdibO:d]
6. lilo
[(laIlEU] UK
[)mA:sk End (snO:k&l]
8. cool bag
[(ku:l bÄg] UK
Put the letters in bold in the correct order to form words from the list.
a) I need to dry myself. Has anyone seen my c a b h e l t o e w? __________________________
b) There are sandwiches and fruit in the l o c o g a b. ____________________________________
c) Be careful when you sit down in the r d e h c a c i k. It’s very old. _______________________
d) Sand is blowing in my eyes. Can you help me put up the b w i k a d r e n?_______________
e) Look! That boy is having so much fun on his d r o d b b o a y. __________________________
f) My o i l l must have a hole in it. I can’t blow it up (aufblasen). ___________________________
In Britain, the beach is also called the seaside, especially if it is a beach where people go
for a day or for a holiday.
Tips
Answers: a) beach towel; b) cool bag; c) deckchair; d) windbreak; e) bodyboard; f) lilo
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GREEN LIGHT | Grammar elements
Plurals of nouns
STEPHANIE SHELLABEAR presents basic grammar.
Learn how to form the plurals of nouns.
If you want to talk about more than one of a particular thing, you normally add -s to the
singular form:
• I like your bike. How much do bikes like that cost?
• We have only one dog. Our neighbours have three dogs.
To words that end in -s / -sh / -ch / -x, you add -es to form the plural:
• I asked for four boxes, but there is only one box here.
• There are four churches in our town.
If a word ends in a consonant + -y, the ending changes to -ies in the plural form:
• Shall we ask the lady on the right for help, or the two ladies on the left?
• I tell my daughter a story every night. She loves listening to stories.
A few words that end in -f or -fe change in the plural to -ves:
• We have a lot of knives in the kitchen, but I can’t find the tomato knife.
• I like your new shelves, but I can’t reach the top shelf.
Some words have irregular plural forms:
child – children | fish – fish | foot – feet | man – men | mouse – mice | person – people
sheep – sheep | tooth – teeth | woman – women
...and some words are used only in the plural form:
(sun)glasses | jeans | pyjamas | scissors | shorts | trousers
Underline the correct plural form in the following sentences.
a) It was a beautiful day, and there were no cloud / clouds in the sky.
b) Ben looked at the shelfs / shelves in his living room and chose a book.
c) She watched her children / childs playing on the grass.
d) Who knew it would be so sunny? Now, where are my sunglass / sunglasses?
e) He went to the river to cool his feet / foots in the water.
f) I had a relaxing afternoon with my favourite people / persons.
Answers: a) clouds; b) shelves; c) children; d) sunglasses; e) feet; f) people
Fotos: iStockphoto
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Making plans
Donna and Andrew are talking about what to do for dinner.
By DAGMAR TAYLOR
Andrew: So, I was thinking, maybe we
could go out for dinner tonight.
Donna: Ooh! That would be lovely. Where
shall we go?
Andrew: I thought we could try that new
restaurant in Lynmouth.
Donna: Betty and Bob have been there, but
I’m afraid they weren’t impressed.
Andrew: Really? It looks so nice from the
outside.
Donna: I know, but they had to wait for ages
for their meal.
Andrew: Oh, no! I hate waiting. We’re not
going there.
Donna: How about The Wishbone? I love
the food there.
Andrew: Yeah, OK. I’ll reserve a table for
8 o’clock.
Donna: Fantastic!
The Greens | GREEN LIGHT
Listen to the dialogue at
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• When a person wants to talk about
an idea, he or she will often start by
saying: I was thinking...
• To make a suggestion (Vorschlag), you
can say: Maybe we could...
• If you like a suggestion that another
person has made, you can say:
That would be lovely.
• Another way of suggesting something
is to say: I thought we could...
• The food that is eaten at breakfast,
lunch or dinner is a meal.
• How about...? is also used to make
suggestions. It is followed by a noun or
the -ing form of the verb: “How about
going out for dinner later?”
• When you call a restaurant to make
sure there will be a table for you when
you arrive, you ask to reserve a table.
Tips
for ages [fE (eIdZIz]
I’m afraid [)aIm E(freId]
impressed [Im(prest]
Lynmouth [(lInmET]
eine Ewigkeit
leider
hier: begeistert
Donna
Complete the sentences below with
words from the dialogue.
a) Maybe we could go out for
_____________ tonight.
b) I thought we could try that new
_____________.
c) They had to wait for ages for
their _____________.
d) I’ll ______ a table for 8 o’clock.
Andrew
Answers
a) dinner; b) restaurant; c) meal; d) reserve

GREEN LIGHT | Get writing
Congratulating on success
VANESSA CLARK helps you to write letters, e-mails and more in English.
Here’s how to congratulate a person on his or her success.
Dear Simon
Congratulations on your exam results!
I’m very proud of you, because I know you
worked very hard for this success.
Now you can go to university and become an engineer. I’m sure
you’ll be very successful there, too.
But first, I think you should have a break from your studies —
and maybe enjoy a glass of champagne.
Well done!
With love from
Uncle Robert
champagne [)SÄm(peIn]
proud [praUd]
Champagner
stolz
results [ri(zVlts]
success [sEk(ses]
Ergebnis
Erfolg
Use
it!
Highlight the key words and phrases that you
would use if you wanted to write a card like
this yourself.
• Congratulations! and “Well done!”
are the standard phrases that you need
when writing a card like this.
• After “congratulations”, use the preposition
on: “Congratulations on your success!”
If you use a verb, it should be in the
-ing form; for example, “Congratulations
on passing your exams!”
• You can look to the future: Now you
can..., I’m sure you’ll... or “I know you
will...”
• With love from is often used by family
members or by close friends.
• This card can be used as a model (Vorlage)
for other situations, such as success at
work, finding a new job or winning a prize.
Tips
Fotos: Getty Images; iStockphoto
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Culture corner | GREEN LIGHT
I like…
the Proms
Jeden Monat stellt ein Redakteur etwas Besonderes aus der
englischsprachigen Welt vor. Diesen Monat präsentiert
Spotlight-Redakteurin JOANNA WESTCOMBE ein Lieblingsevent.
What they are
Every July to September, the Royal Albert Hall in London is home to the world’s biggest and
oldest classical music festival. Before the first “promenade concert” in 1895, the only way for
ordinary Londoners to hear classical music was in parks, where bands played. Since then, generations
of Proms’ audiences have enjoyed high-quality performances at low prices. Sir Henry
Wood conducted the Proms between 1889 and 1944, making English composers such as Elgar
and Vaughan Williams famous.
This year, there is everything from Bach to Zappa. Daniel Barenboim is conducting Wagner.
There are youth orchestras and family Proms. There is film music, jazz and the Malian blues
band Tinariwen. Every concert can be heard live at bbc.co.uk/proms
Why I like them
Watching some of the world’s best musicians are some of their youngest, most informal and
enthusiastic audiences. The Royal Albert Hall has about 4,000 seats, but the best way to experience
a Prom is by paying £5 to stand in the arena in front of the stage — called “promming”.
Part of the fun is sitting for one or two hours before the concert in the long queue. Prommers
are very friendly, as long as you don’t cough or leave your mobile phone on during the concert.
The last night
Millions of people watch “The Last Night
of the Proms” in parks around Britain, and
on TV around the world. The second half
of the concert gets very noisy
and patriotic, with lots of
flag-waving and everyone
singing along to tradition
al British tunes. On
7 September, Marin Alsop
will become the first
woman to conduct the last
night of the Proms.
audience [(O:diEns]
conduct [kEn(dVkt]
cough [kQf]
experience [Ik(spIEriEns]
flag-waving
[(flÄg )weIvIN]
informal [In(fO:m&l]
ordinary [(O:d&nEri]
performance
[pE(fO:mEns]
queue [kju:] UK
sing along [)sIN E(lQN]
stage [steIdZ]
tune [tju:n]
youth [ju:T]
Publikum
dirigieren
husten
erleben
Fahnenschwenken
locker, ungezwungen
gewöhnlich
Aufführung
Warteschlange
mitsingen
Bühne
Melodie, Lied
Jugend-
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GREEN LIGHT | Notes and numbers
Weight of food
When people talk about the weight
(Gewicht) of food in the UK,
the measurements (Maßeinheit)
used are kilograms and grams but
also pounds (lb) (Pfund) and
ounces (oz).
There are 16 ounces in a pound
(1 lb = 0.454 kg).
• Add the butter and 7 ounces
of sugar.
• I’d like a pound of cheese, please.
Your notes
Use this space for your own notes.
Write the following weights as you
would say them.
a) 2 lb _______________________________
two pound s
b) 1 oz _______________________________
c) 1 ½ lb ______________________________
d) 14 oz ______________________________
e) 1 lb 2 oz ____________________________
The baby
When talking about the weight of a baby,
people also use pounds and ounces:
• Their son weighed 8 lb 6 oz
when he was born.
Answers: b) one ounce [aUns]; c) one and a half pounds;
d) fourteen ounces; e) one pound two ounces
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