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EDITORIAL | August 2013
Read any good
books lately?
Every summer before the holidays, I stand in
front of my overloaded bookshelves and consider
this question: should I take an old
favourite read with me, or should I try something
new and different? This year, Spotlight
Inez Sharp, editor-in-chief
has answered the questions for me. When I pack my hand luggage this summer,
one of Paul Cleave’s novels will be in there along with my beach hat and sunglasses.
The New Zealand author writes dark tales of crime and suspense, spiced
up with good humour and salty language. This month, he talks to us about his
writing career and the authors he likes to read. “Crime time” begins on page 14.
Dublin in summer. Dublin is one of the top 20 city destinations for German
tourists and is popular with other nations, too, for its hospitality and beautiful
historic buildings. Toby Skingsley, who visited the Irish capital, was charmed
by its Georgian architecture and captivated by its musical residents — and by
the quality of the local Guinness. “Discovering Dublin” starts on page 30.
Lawrence of Arabia is a name familiar to many people. But what did this
clever and brave Englishman really stand for? In our history column this month,
we explore the life and work of T. E. Lawrence — a man who singlehandedly
tried to shape the future of the Arab world and paid a high price for doing so.
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CONTENTS | August 2013
Who’s afraid of Islam?
The Western view of Islam as a unified whole is
extremely harmful, says a bestselling author.
24 30
Discovering Dublin
Toby Skingsley visits Ireland’s capital city to enjoy
select museums, “trad” music and the Guinness tour.
6 People
Names and faces from around the world
8 A Day in My Life
A manager at a software firm in Scotland
10 World View
What’s news and what’s hot
40 History
Lawrence of Arabia, desert legend
42 Press Gallery
A look at the English-language media
44 Arts
Films, apps, books, culture and a short story
13 Britain Today
Colin Beaven on pub names
22 Food
Kettle crisps — made in Britain
28 I Ask Myself
Amy Argetsinger on Angelina Jolie
36 Around Oz
Peter Flynn on a time of transition
38 Debate
Are citizen’s arrests a good idea?
People in Canada have their say
66 The Lighter Side
Jokes and cartoons
67 American Life
Ginger Kuenzel on a summertime problem
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
Model Luisa Hartema on why and where
she needs English
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Summer crime
New Zealand crime writer Paul Cleave talks about the
art of dark humour and gives his summer reading tips.
37
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Ken Taylor answers your questions
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Using the word “make”
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PEOPLE | Names and Faces
The painter
Who exactly is…
Robert
Bateman?
For more than 70 years, the artist
Robert Bateman has been
painting wildlife — wolves,
dolphins, birds and buffalo. His work
is realistic and detailed. Critics often
call it kitschy, but the public loves it.
It is estimated that one million of his
prints are in circulation. Maclean’s
calls him Canada’s most popular living
artist.
Bateman was born in Toronto in
1930. When he was 12 years old, he
painted an elk from a photograph in
National Geographic. After studying
geography, he travelled around Africa
and Asia and had the chance to see
wild animals in real life instead of on
the pages of a magazine.
He taught geography and art to
high-school students for 20 years, before
focusing exclusively on his painting.
Through his art, Bateman
appreciate sth. [E(pri:SieIt]
become extinct [bi)kVm Ik(stINkt]
gloomy [(glu:mi]
great outdoors: the ~ [)greIt )aUt(dO:z]
in for: be ~ sth. [(In fE]
lizard [(lIzEd]
mankind [mÄn(kaInd]
nickname [(nIkneIm]
pay attention to sth. [)peI E(tenS&n tE]
role model [(rEUl )mQd&l]
wildlife [(waI&ldlaIf]
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reminds people of the beauty of nature
and of the importance of protecting
it. He believes that the
relationship between young people
and the great outdoors is too small
today and that this urgently needs to
be changed. “If people have no contact
with nature, not only nature but
mankind is in for a very gloomy future,”
he says on his website. “I have
no doubt in my mind the world
would be a better place if everybody
knew about nature, appreciated it ...
and paid attention to it.”
Earlier this year, the Robert Bateman
Centre opened its doors in the
city of Victoria, the capital of British
Columbia. It is home to a permanent
exhibition of Bateman’s paintings and
is also an education centre. About
3,000 people visited it on the first
weekend.
etw. (hoch)schätzen
aussterben
düster
die freie Natur
etw. zu erwarten haben
Eidechse, Echse
die Menschheit
Spitzname
auf etw. achten
Vorbild
wilde Tiere
In the news
Alice Walker, the influential author
of The Color Purple, is a role model for
many people. But is she a bad mother?
Her daughter, Rebecca, has criticized
Walker’s “fanatical feminism” and said
that their relationship was poisonous.
Alice prefers not to talk about her family
life. Speaking to
The Globe and Mail,
however, she said
that true motherhood
means “accepting
that everything
needs to be
cared for, not just
your own child”.
Jim Morrison, lead singer of The
Doors, died in 1971. His nickname was
“The Lizard King”. Scientists have now
honoured the singer in a special way:
by naming one of the biggest lizards
in history after him. The lizard grew to
be six feet long, scientists say. It became
extinct some
40 million years
ago. Jason Head
told the BBC that
he listened to Morrison’s
music while
researching the
lizard and decided
to name it Barbaturex
morrisoni.
Like many girls, Lisa Fernandez’s
daughter loves playing with her Barbie
doll. Fernandez became concerned,
however, when her daughter said she
thought Mummy would be more beautiful
if she wore clothes like the doll.
The radio presenter from Perth, therefore,
tried wearing
Barbie outfits in
public. “People
were horrified,”
she
told The
Sydney
Morning
Herald. “They
said: ‘I wouldn’t
want my child
playing with a
doll like that.’”

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Out of the ordinary
Agent Moran: it’s not
like in the films
London’s bicycle couriers don’t have an easy life. No one knows that
better than Steve Hamilton. He cycles between 85 and 100 miles
(135 to 160 kilometres) every day, making 20 to 30 deliveries. The
job is dangerous — nine couriers have been killed on London’s
streets — and it is impossible to get life insurance. But Hamilton
told the BBC that he likes the “adventure” of racing around the city,
cycling between buses and taxis. The Institute of Couriers honoured
him as the 2012 courier of the year. “I just love what I’m doing so
far,” he said. “It’s absolute fun!”
Although Daphne Selfe has worked as a model all her life, she
became really successful only when she was 70. Now 85, she has
been on the pages of Vogue magazine and is the world’s oldest supermodel.
Selfe believes that her long grey hair helped her stand
out from the crowd and become
well known. She told The Independent
that she hopes to live to
100, and she does not seem to
have any plans for retirement. “If
... prancing about in funny outfits
is going to amuse people, I’ll keep
on doing it,” she said.
Selfe: ageless beauty
assassinate sb. [E(sÄsIneIt]
audition [O:(dIS&n]
Daphne [(dÄfni]
entrepreneur [)QntrEprE(n§:]
genocide [(dZenEsaId]
Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows [)hÄri (pQtE End DE
)deTli (hÄlEUz]
Hertfordshire [(hA:tfEdSE]
initially [I(nIS&li]
leisure time [(leZE taIm]
messaging [(mesIdZIN]
prance about [)prA:ns E(baUt]
released: be ~ [ri(li:st]
siblings [(sIblINz]
stand out [)stÄnd (aUt]
torture sb. [(tO:tSE]
American Lindsay Moran studied
at Harvard, then worked as a teacher of
English literature. But from 1998 to
2003, she had a more exciting career,
working for the CIA. Moran recently
spoke to The Telegraph about her experiences,
saying that the James Bond
stereotypes are false. “You’re not going
out assassinating people and torturing
them,” she said. “You’re trying to make
friends with people.” Moran believes
that women are better able to do that
than men: “The CIA’s biggest secret is
that the best guys are women.”
jmdn. ermorden
Vorsprechen, Probespiel
Unternehmer(in)
Völkermord
Harry Potter und die
Heiligtümer des Todes
anfangs
Freizeit
SMS
umherstolzieren
in die Kinos kommen
Geschwister
sich abheben, hervorstechen
jmdn. foltern
Texts by RITA FORBES
The newcomer
• Name: Ashish Thakkar
• Age: 32 on 5 August
• Occupation: entrepreneur
• Founded: The Mara Group
• Background: Thakkar was born in the UK to African
parents. His family moved to Rwanda just before
the genocide in 1994, and then escaped to Uganda.
• In the news for: Starting “Mara Online”, which
provides free phone calls and messaging services to
people in Africa.
• Fortune: around $200 million, according to Forbes
• What’s next: Thakkar wants to help small
businesses in Africa succeed.
Happy birthday!
The red-headed actor Rupert Grint will be 25 years old
on 24 August. Grint began playing Ron Weasley in the
Harry Potter series when he was just 11. He grew up with
his parents and four younger siblings in Hertfordshire,
north of London. At school, he performed in several plays.
A big fan of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books,
he was excited to hear about an open casting
call for the films. He made his own audition
video, which included a rap song with
the line: “Hello, there! My name’s Rupert
Grint. I hope you like this and
don’t think I stink!”
Grint got the part and was busy
with Harry Potter for the next 10
years. He has said that he was initially
“quite surprised” to learn that
he would be paid for acting in the
films. Imagine how he felt when he
earned $30 million for his work in the
two-part Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows, released in 2010 and 2011.
He has appeared in several films since
then, including Into the White, a Second
World War drama. Grint told the Daily Mail
that he likes his new freedom: “I can afford
to choose my acting roles carefully, and I’m
able to enjoy my leisure time.”

A DAY IN MY LIFE | Scotland
Working as a
team: a good
group dynamic is
the key
Office life:
caffeine and
crisps
Ideas man:
Fergus Bruce,
operations
man ager of
Viasoft
Keeping
creativity
alive
Der Betriebsleiter einer schottischen Software-Firma stellt
unter Beweis, dass eine Tätigkeit im technologischen Bereich
Kreativität nicht ausschließen muss. Von COLM FLYNN
My name is
Fergus Bruce.
I’m 31 years old,
and I work in Glasgow. I’m originally
from a beautiful island called Lewis off the
west coast of Scotland. The people there still speak
the Gaelic language. It’s one of the few places in Scotland
where Gaelic is still spoken.
I’m the operations manager of a small software company
in Glasgow called Viasoft Ltd. It’s part of a larger
group of companies that specialize in CGI visualization.
If you watch the news on TV and they show, for example,
a hospital — not yet built — in a 3D visualization, that’s
what we create.
I try to get up at 8.45 in the morning. When I arrive
at the office, the first thing I do is check my e-mails. Then
I take a look at what our development team is doing.
This is the group of people who develop the software we
produce.
I refer to my office as the “blue mind cube”. It’s a cool
space where I can focus my thoughts. Often, when I’m
feeling a little stressed, I’ll put on a latex horse’s head and
wear that for an hour. I find it helps me think around
problems that I wasn’t able to solve before I put it on.
CGI (computer-generated imagery)
visualization [)si: )dZi: )aI )vIZuElaI(zeIS&n]
cube [kju:b]
3-D Visualisierung
Würfel; hier: Büro
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INFO TO GO
Fotos: Colm Flynn; iStockphoto
There’s a Mexican restaurant around the corner from
work. I like their burritos, so I often go there for lunch. If
we have the time, we’ll go out as a group and exchange the
banter of the day.
Most of our meetings are in the afternoon. The people
working for our company are very creative, which means
they’re able to generate a lot of ideas and discuss things in
great depth, but often without sticking to the meeting
agenda. A positive thing about working for a small technology
company is that your voice is likely to be heard.
Most of the time, I enjoy my job, but I think it’s rare
to meet someone who’s entirely happy with what he or she
does. It’s difficult to stay motivated if you’re doing the
same sort of thing over and over again. I try to keep my
finger on the pulse of activities in terms of what I can be
doing to improve my day.
When a deadline comes, it can be very stressful. If I’m
delivering for a client, I could be up until four or five in the
morning; but thankfully, that’s not very often. I generally
leave the office between half past five and seven o’clock.
I take the train home. It’s a very short journey. I get
to walk through the park on the way home, which fills me
with intense joy. I live in a sandstone tenement building
from the Victorian era on the south side of the city, near
Scotland’s national football stadium, Hampden Park.
When I get home, having stared at a computer screen
all day, it’s quite easy just to slump in front of the television
and watch rubbish — although I try to do that as little as
possible. I like to get out and exercise, take a walk or go to
the gym.
I stay up far too late, normally until after midnight,
which is directly related to my nearly missing the train
every morning. If only I went to bed a little earlier, I’d be
happier and get more work done. But I find it difficult to
shut my mind down in the evening. Often, I lie awake
wondering at the complexity of being, and that’s a problem
which is rather difficult to solve. I’ll normally take a
little look on the internet and read some news or watch
something online that helps me get to sleep.
banter [(bÄntE]
burrito [bE(ri:tEU]
deliver [di(lIvE]
entirely [In(taIEli]
exercise [(eksEsaIz]
generate [(dZenEreIt]
get to do sth. [)get tE (du:] ifml.
gym [dZIm]
in terms of... [In (t§:mz Ev]
likely [(laIkli]
slump [slVmp]
stick to sth. [(stIk tE]
tenement building
[(tenEmEnt )bIldIN]
Geplänkel
gefüllter Tortillafladen
hier: einen Auftrag erledigen
voll und ganz
Sport machen
entwickeln
die Möglichkeit haben, etw. zu tun
(➝ p. 61)
Fitness-Studio
bezüglich...
wahrscheinlich
sich fallen lassen
sich an etw. halten
Wohnhaus
Answers
keep a finger on the pulse of things: both sentences are correct;
rubbish: a) rubbished; b) rubbish; c) rubbish
Lewis
Lewis is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, an island
which belongs to an archipelago called the Outer Heb -
rides [(hebrEdi:z] off the west coast of Scotland.
Lewis’s population of 18,500 relies on fishing, some
light industry and tourism. Visitors can reach the island
of stone cottages and majestic coastal views by boat
from the popular Scottish resort town of Ullapool. The
trip takes about three hours.
keep a finger on the pulse of things
If you keep your finger on the pulse of something, you
try to stay aware of the latest developments. For example,
a news organization may claim to have its finger
on the pulse of global events — in other words, it is
constantly checking on developments around the
world to remain in touch with what is going on. The expression
brings to mind the image of a doctor placing
a finger on a patient’s pulse to find out how fast that
person’s heart is beating.
In which of the following sentences is this expression
used correctly — in (a), (b) or both?
a) Brian likes to keep his finger on the pulse of the IT
world. He knows all the latest developments.
b) I try to keep my finger on the pulse of popular
culture. That’s why I know what happened to
Angelina Jolie recently.
rubbish
Putting out the rubbish [(rVbIS] means removing the
waste material from your household bins and placing
it outside to be collected. Figuratively, “rubbish”, a
chiefly British word, can be used to describe something
that is useless or absurd: “Have you seen the
latest Star Trek film? My mum loved it, but my dad
thought it was rubbish.” The word can also be used as
an adjective (“She is rubbish at science”) and informally
as a verb (“My boss rubbished the idea of getting a software
update”). Try using “rubbish” in the following
sentences:
a) Agnes _________ my plans to move to California.
She said I’d never find a job there.
b) These shoes are _________. They are falling apart
already.
c) Do I really have to take the _________
out again this week?
bin [bIn]
claim [kleIm]
resort town [ri(zO:t taUn]
Mülleimer
behaupten
Urlaubsort

WORLD VIEW | News in Brief
Inspiring city:
Melbourne
attracts writers
It’s a good month to...
AUSTRALIA Australia is celebrating good
writing this month. The Melbourne Writers Festival, held
from 22 August to 1 September, brings readers and writers
together from around the world.
The festival began in 1986 and has grown steadily since
then. More than 350 writers will be in Melbourne this
year, taking part in panel discussions and interviews, reading
from their books and leading workshops. Thousands
of people will go to watch, listen and exchange ideas.
In addition, the Schools’ Program, from 26 to 29 August,
encourages children to read and write.
enjoy books
Melbourne is the perfect place for all of this to happen:
it is recognized as a UNESCO City of Literature. According
to the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas
in Melbourne, almost a third of Australian writers live
in that city, and nearly 100,000 people there write as a
hobby.
Festival director Lisa Dempster spoke to The Age last
year about the importance of books to the city. “I have a
great passion for Melbourne as a city of literature,” she
said. “I want to activate its citizens to see themselves as citizens
of literature.”
Entzündung
Podiums-
Bandscheibenvorfall
Wirbelsäulenoperation
stetig, ununterbrochen
enorm
inflammation [)InflE(meIS&n]
panel [(pÄn&l]
slipped disc [)slIpt (dIsk]
spinal surgery [)spaIn&l (s§:dZEri]
steadily [(stedIli]
vast [vA:st]
Pills to cure back pain
BRITAIN A certain type of back pain may soon
be a thing of the past. Doctors in Britain are extremely excited about
recent news that antibiotics could cure chronic lower-back pain in
up to 40 per cent of sufferers.
“This is vast. We are talking about probably half of all spinal surgery
for back pain being replaced by taking antibiotics,” said Peter
Hamlyn of University College London Hospital. Hamlyn, one of the
top spinal surgeons in the UK, told The Guardian that the team behind
the development, which was recently announced in the European
Spine Journal, “deserve a Nobel Prize”.
Scientists have long known that bacteria cause certain kinds of
back problems; but these were thought to be the exception, not the
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rule. Working with patients in England, researchers from Denmark
have completed a ten-year study that shows how common a bacterial
cause can be.
They discovered that bacteria
found in teeth and hair, and usually
associated with acne, can make their
way into back injuries such as
slipped discs. The resulting infection
causes painful, small breaks in the
bones of the back, as well as
inflammation. The scientists
also showed that
antibiotics taken over
100 days can cure
such conditions,
allowing people to
avoid a stay in
hospital.
A new
medical
breakthrough
for the back

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An Irish mystery solved
IRELAND When a disease called potato blight spread from the
US to Europe in the 1840s, one result was the Irish potato famine. About a
million people died between 1846 and 1851, and another two million were
forced to leave Ireland.
Scientists have now identified the exact strain of the
pathogen that caused the famine. They found it in dried
leaves that had been kept in museums in England and
Germany since the 19th century.
Potato blight is still a problem around the world
today. It had been thought that the modern strain of
Phytophthora infestans, known as US-1, was responsible
for the famine in Ireland. But when the researchers
analysed the DNA they found in the
leaves, they discovered something else: a strain that
they’ve named HERB-1. They believe that it is
now extinct.
Scientist Kentaro Yoshida told the BBC that
the research is not just about history. “These
findings will greatly help us to understand the
dynamics of emerging pathogens,” he said.
beverage [(bevErIdZ]
caffeinated [(kÄfIneItId]
dietary supplement
[US )daIEteri (sVplImEnt]
emerging [i(m§:dZIN]
extinct: be ~ [Ik(stINkt]
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
[)fu:d End (drVg EdmInI)streIS&n]
pathogen [(pÄTEdZEn]
potato blight [pE(teItEU )blaIt]
potato famine [pE(teItEU )fÄmIn]
strain [streIn]
waffle [US (wA:f&l]
Getränk
koffeinhaltig
Nahrungsergänzungsmittel
The potato:
an important
food
neu entstehend
hier: nicht mehr existieren
US-Bundesbehörde für Lebensmittel- und
Arzneimittelsicherheit
(Krankheits)Erreger
Kartoffelfäule
Große Hungersnot
hier: Erregerstamm
Monster
in a can?
UNITED STATES
Americans love energy drinks. They spent
$8.6 billion (€6.6 billion) on beverages such
as Red Bull and Monster last year, and now
the market is expanding to include caffeinated
candy — and even waffles.
Too much caffeine, however,
can cause anxiety, headaches, and
even heart attacks. In the US, the
law limits how much caffeine soft
drinks may contain. Because most
energy drinks are considered to be
“dietary supplements,” however, the
rules are not considered relevant to
them.
The Economist reports that the laws
governing caffeine may be about to
change. The US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) has announced that it is investigating
the health risks of energy
drinks. Consumers may well wonder if Starbucks
will be next. After all, a large cup of
coffee from the chain contains at least
twice as much caffeine as a can of Monster.
How much
caffeine
should you
drink?
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WORLD VIEW | News in Brief
Little China
LESOTHO The Kingdom of Lesotho, which is located within
South Africa, is a mountainous land about the size of Belgium. Known for
poverty and a high rate of HIV/AIDS, this nation of two million is now in
the news because of a strange invasion — of Chinese shopkeepers.
As The Christian Science Monitor reports, thousands of people from the
province of Fujian have arrived in Lesotho — many illegally — to open
shops. The Chinese sell a huge variety of things, including food, clothing,
manufactured goods and mobile-phone airtime. Their businesses can be
found all over the country, from the capital city of Maseru to very small
villages that are located high up in the mountains.
Some in Lesotho are happy about
being able to get cheap goods. One
local told Think Africa Press: “If there
were no Chinese in Teyateyaneng [a
town of 75,000 close to the capital],
where would I buy?”
Others are less enthusiastic about
the presence of outsiders and dislike the
fact that the Chinese have such a good
trading network in Africa that they can
be so successful so far from home.
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At home in Africa: Chinese
business people are doing well
Gesprächszeit
hier: zum Liebhaben
Rückenflosse
vom Aussterben bedroht
Schwingelgras
Kreuzung
Vieh
(Kopf)Kissen
Armut
Roggen
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Ladenbesitzer(in)
Schlafsack
WHAT’S HOT
Soft sharks
UNITED STATES
Want to see your kid being eaten by
a shark? Of course not — unless the
big fish is the unusual sleeping bag
designed by artist Kendra Phillips.
Phillips told www.treehugger.com,
a website that follows trends in product
design, that she created the
sleeping bag “in an effort to make
sharks — a very misunderstood animal
that also happens to be one of
my favorites — more cuddly.”
Many kinds of shark are among
the world’s most endangered animals.
Because of deadly attacks on
swimmers, though, they are also
among the most hated and feared.
Phillips hopes that the sleeping
bag will give sharks a bit of positive
attention, and children a naturefriendly
way to have fun. The dorsal
fin can be taken off the shark’s body
and used as a pillow.
For more information, go to
www.mychumbuddies.com and
www.kendora.blogspot.de
Save me!
No, don’t
save me!
“Super grass” to the rescue
BRITAIN The Guardian reports that 2012 was
recorded as being the wettest year ever in England. More than 8,000
buildings were damaged by flooding, and £600 million worth of
food was lost. Experts worldwide agree that flooding is one of the
biggest effects of climate
change, but how can it be
brought under control?
Scientists in the UK may
have found a way to help.
They have developed a natural
hybrid of rye and fescue
grass that reduces by half
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the volume of water running off fields. The roots of the new plant
grow deeper than traditional types of grass, creating more pores in
the earth — and the extra pores help the earth hold on to water.
After tests made in fields in Devon for two years, the results have
recently been published in Scientific Reports.
Kit Macleod, a hydrologist who worked on the project,
said that in addition to reducing the volume of
water running off the fields, the grass also provides
good food for livestock. Since nearly 70 per cent of the
world’s farmland is planted with grass, the innovation
is welcome news — in more ways than one.
By RITA FORBES and CLAUDINE WEBER-HOF
Fotos: iStockphoto; laif; PR

Britain Today | COLIN BEAVEN
Foto: Alamy
How do
pubs get their
“ names?
”
Pubs are great places to meet your
friends and enjoy yourself.
There’s nothing better than a
chance to put the world to rights over
a few beers.
So how do you choose a pub?
There are so many, though not as
many as there were: lots have closed.
But there are still enough to make it
hard to remember the arrangements
you made when you planned your
night out. “Where did we say we
would meet? Was it The Dog and
Duck or The Lion and Lamb? Well,
we can always start at one and all go
on to the other.”
You can see how quickly people
get the idea of going on a pub crawl
— a traditional journey from pub to
pub, with pauses to drink in each of
them. What starts as a walk soon becomes
a crawl.
Do people still do this? Up to a
point, yes, though the British now
buy much of their booze in shops,
where it’s cheaper — so much so that
the government has thought of introducing
a minimum price for alcohol.
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Wildschwein
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eigentlich: „Gekrieche“
dragon [(drÄgEn]
Drache
lamb [lÄm]
No. 10 Downing Street
Amtswohnung des britischen Premierministers
[)nVmbE )ten (daUnIN stri:t]
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sober [(sEUbE] nüchtern (➝ p. 61)
swan [swQn]
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world: put the ~ to rights [w§:ld] die Welt in Ordnung bringen
Last night at the pub
Still, a recent film has
meant fresh interest in the idea
of an old-fashioned pub crawl. If
you feel the need to see how it works,
watch The World’s End, which has just
come to British cinemas (showing in
Germany from 12 September).
The name of the film is taken
from the name of the pub where the
drinkers plan to finish the evening.
How do pubs get their names?
Many of them clearly want to sound
patriotic, such as The Prince of Wales.
Others seem purely zoological. They
have names like The Swan, The
Cuckoo, The Otter or The Fox.
In fact, a pub crawl can easily start
to sound like a trip round a safari
park. You can start at The White
Horse, move to The Black Bull, then
walk over to The Blue Boar, call in at
Eine Kneipentour in Groß britannien kann sich
schnell in eine Safarireise verwandeln.
The Red Lion and finish up at The
Green Dragon.
This is all a bit colourful. There
are even pubs and bars called The
Chameleon, though how they know
what colour to paint the sign outside
I’m really not sure. But the idea is that
all these pubs are named after animals
you see when you walk through the
countryside, even if some are the sort
you can see only when you’ve drunk
a lot of beer.
Is any of this important? Well, pub
crawls are clearly the time when politicians
think up new laws. If we’re lucky,
the laws that reach parliament are the
ones they dream up in The White
Horse, where they’re all sober — like
the idea of a minimum price for alcohol.
It’s when we get Green Dragon
laws — the ones that seemed a good
idea at the end of a long evening’s
drinking — that we’re in trouble.
When the Cabinet meets at No.
10 Downing Street, these are no doubt
the sort of comments one hears:
“We’ve come up with a plan to
improve the economy, Mr Cameron.”
“I see. So you spent last night at
The Green Dragon.”
“How did you guess?”
“That’s where all our reforms seem
to come from — schools, the police,
the health service. What finally led to
the breakthrough?”
“Well, I got chatting to a pink
elephant.”
Perhaps we need to relax. Even if
the government does bring in some
of its crazier ideas, it won’t be the end
of the world. And if it is, there are
pubs called The World’s End —
probably the best place to go in the
circumstances.
Colin Beaven is a freelance writer who lives
and works in Southampton on the south
coast of England.
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LANGUAGE | Detective Fiction
Crime time
in New Zealand
Wer ist Opfer, wer ist Täter? In den spannenden Krimis von
Paul Cleave stößt jeder an seine Grenzen – auch der Leser.
BARBARA HILLER sprach mit dem neuseeländischen
Erfolgsautor über seine Schaffensweise sowie die deutschen Krimileser.
What are you reading this summer? Whether you’re
heading for the beach or planning to soak up the
sunshine in your own backyard, a good book is
the perfect companion. If you haven’t picked one yet and
would like to practise your English at the same time, why
not try a crime novel from the other side of the world?
Paul Cleave is a bestselling, prizewinning New Zealand
crime writer whose six books have so far been translated
into 12 languages. You may know them already: his first
book The Cleaner (Der siebte Tod) sold 300,000 copies in
Germany alone. The story is about Joe, who works as a
cleaner for the police department by day and kills people
both by day and by night. He’ll be reappearing as a main
character in Cleave’s seventh book, Joe Victim (Opferzeit),
which comes out in English on 3 September (and in German
on 14 October) this year.
copy [(kQpi] Exemplar (➝ p. 61)
head for [(hed fE] sich aufmachen nach / zu,
gehen / fahren nach / zu
pick [pIk]
auswählen
soak up [)sEUk (Vp] aufsaugen
Fotos: laif; LOOK
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How did you become a writer?
I decided I wanted to be a writer when I was still at school,
but that’s like deciding to be a fireman or an astronaut.
Then, when I was 19, a friend of mine asked me what I’d
do if I could do anything. I said I’d like to be a writer. She
asked me why I didn’t try. Weirdly enough, I just needed
someone to point that out. So, I sat down and wrote a real -
ly terrible novel about this kid who couldn’t die. That was
step one; and then came step two. About seven or eight
steps later, I started writing novels that got published. And
suddenly, the first book became an international bestseller,
and I was a full-time writer.
So what did you do in the meantime, before you
started earning money with your writing?
First, I worked in retail, and when I was 21, I bought a
house. The property boom struck a few years later. I’d just
left my job, and suddenly my house had gone up in value
by a lot of money. So I renovated it, sold it, bought another
house, renovated it, sold it... I did that four times
over a period of ten years or so, until the writing took over
and I didn’t need to work on houses any more.
Your books are very popular in Germany. Why do
you think your books sell so well there?
Ah, it’s the dark humour. It’s really dark and morbid in
my books. I think Germans love that. They just get it. I
wouldn’t say it’s a typically Kiwi sense of humour — that’s
more self-deprecating. I think, too, that the location of the
books, Christchurch, is quite exotic for European readers.
It’s a cool setting.
Paul Cleave:
master of darkness
In this exclusive interview, Barbara Hiller speaks to
Paul Cleave about his life, his writing and his favourite
reading. If you’re looking for a chilling read for a hot summer’s
day, if you want to get your blood pumping as you
relax on your deckchair, turn to pages 18 and 21, where
you will find a review of Cleave’s third book, Cemetery
Lake (Die Toten schweigen nicht), as well as of books by
three of his favourite writers, as reviewed by members of
Spotlight’s editorial team.
In what way does New Zealand influence the stories
you write?
It influences them only in the sense that I know how a
character can get from A to B, and which route he will
take. This means that I can set a scene, and you can picture
it. I can describe something, and you’ll be right there, because
I know what it looks like. Apart from that, you could
pick up any one of my stories and move it to another part
of the world. We sold the movie rights for the first book,
The Cleaner, in 2011, and it looks as if it will be set somewhere
in Europe. There are no plans to set it in Christ -
church, even though the city is the most often recurring
character in all the novels.
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abkühlend; hier auch: schaurig
Liegestuhl
verstehen, kapieren
Spitzname für Neuseeländer
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(zur Hand) nehmen
sich etw. vorstellen
auf etw. hinweisen
Immobilienboom
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weirdly enough [)wIEdli E(nVf]
wiederkehrend
Einzelhandel
selbstironisch
spielen
den Handlungsrahmen
abstecken
hier: ausbrechen
die Überhand gewinnen
sonderbarerweise
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LANGUAGE | Detective Fiction
A CLOSER LOOK
On 4 September 2010, an earthquake with a magnitude
of 7.1 hit Christchurch and the surrounding
area. No direct deaths were recorded, mostly because
it happened at 4.30 a.m. when nobody was out on the
streets. The second big earthquake, however, struck
at noon on 22 February 2011. Its magnitude was
lower, at 6.3, but because its epicentre was closer to
the city, the tremors were more violent, and 181 people
were killed. Christchurch still suffers aftershocks
today, and the repair work, especially the rebuilding
of the heavily damaged city centre, will continue for
many years to come.
not the Kiwi sales that pay my mortgage, the food in my
fridge and my travel.” The good thing is that I can get away
with more. For example, Collecting Cooper (Die Totensammler)
starts with Theodore Tate coming out of jail for
things that he did in Cemetery Lake (Die Toten schweigen
nicht) — he has a drink-driving conviction. In The Laughterhouse
(Das Haus des Todes), he’s trying to get back into
the police force. But because of his conviction, that’s not
realistic. So, people in New Zealand will go: “Uh! That’s
not going to happen.” But people in France, Germany,
Turkey, Russia or wherever, they won’t even
blink an eye.
How does the Christchurch in your books compare
to the real city?
I have my own version of Christchurch. My books are set
only in its dark places. This is because the city is seen from
the perspective of characters whose view of the world is
very bleak. Also, in my version, the earthquakes in
Christchurch did not happen, and I’m not planning ever
to include them. My books share a timeline, and the way
this is set, I’d have to wait for at least another year before
I could make it work. Probably five out of ten people overseas
don’t know about the earthquakes anyway. They just
didn’t happen in their circle of reality.
Could you tell us more about your main detective
character, Theodore Tate?
Tate is a guy who’s always trying to do the right thing, but
will do wrong things to get there. He has his own version
of what the law should be, which is probably my own version
and that of most of us: that bad people shouldn’t be
able to get away with bad things, even if this is not necessarily
the way the justice system works. Tate’s the kind of
man who gets the guy who did it.
What do people in New Zealand think about your
books?
The sad reality is that my books don’t sell well in New
Zealand, though I learned the other day that they are very
popular in prisons there, which is quite creepy. When I
get crap from New Zealand reviewers, I think, “Well, it’s
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How do you do your research?
I don’t. The only thing I’ve ever done is to look up things
like schizophrenia or guns on Wikipedia, to answer questions
like: “What kind of gun could do this?” I would say
my combined research for the six books that have been
published so far was an hour and a half.
In your books, the same characters keep appearing
and disappearing. Is it hard to keep track of them all?
Oh, absolutely! The Cleaner came out in 2006, but I wrote
it 13 years ago, and at that stage, I didn’t know what was
going to follow. As I was writing the next books, the
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Nachbeben
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Verurteilung
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davonkommen
hier: schlechte Kritiken
bekommen
hier: sagen
jmdn. im Auge behalten
nachschlagen, nachschauen
(Erdbeben)Stärke
Hypothek
im Ausland
Polizei
damals, zu der Zeit
kürzlich
Zeitschiene
Beben
Fotos: Getty Images; plainpicture

chronology got mixed up in a few places. I was able to
make a few corrections when America signed me up. I
went through the books and found, for example, that in
one of them, a guy is 40 years old and in the other 35,
while his son is six months old in the one and a year old
in the other. It was a nightmare! But now, every story is
what it is, and I don’t think people are too concerned.
Who are your favourite crime writers?
Lee Child and John Connolly are two of my favourites,
and when you have a favourite author, you love all his or
her books. I recently reread R. J. Ellory’s Bad Signs, and I
was so drained from reading it, I felt like I
needed to take up
drinking or
something. It’s very intense, and
R. J. has no mercy on his characters. God, it’s a good book.
Of your books, do you have a favourite?
For a long time, it was Blood Men (Der Tod in mir), even
though it didn’t sell so well. Everyone else’s favourite is The
Cleaner. I’d write a new book and would think it was really
good, like The Laughterhouse (Das Haus des Todes), and people
would say: “It’s a good book, but I still love The Cleaner.”
People love Joe, the main character in The Cleaner. It’s “Joe,
Joe, Joe”, and “When’s Joe coming back?”
What do you do when you’re not writing?
Writing is more or less all I do. I travel a lot — that’s part
of it. When I’m at home, I just write, go to the gym, write,
go over to a friend’s house and play some Xbox, come
home, write. It’s become my life.
As a writer, do you find time to read?
Reading’s really, really important. I think for anyone who
wants to start writing, you’ve got to read and read and read
and read, especially in your genre. I used to try to read a
couple of books a week. Now, I just don’t have time. But
I still read as much as I can.
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gym [dZIm]
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mercy [(m§:si]
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nightmare [(naItmeE]
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work out [)w§:k (aUt]
bewundern
kaputt gehen
Zeitgenosse
erschöpft
daran glauben, dass...
die Möglichkeit haben, etw.
zu tun (➝ p. 61)
Fitnesscenter
überhaupt erst
Gnade
durcheinander geraten
Alptraum
jmdn. unter Vertrag nehmen
mit etw. anfangen
funktionieren, klappen
You’ve met a few of your favourite authors personally,
haven’t you?
Oh, yes. The coolest thing about being a writer is that you
get to meet your favourite writers. And the next coolest is
becoming friends with them. Like John Connolly. He’s
gone from being an idol who I wanted to be like, to being
a contemporary, to being a friend. He’s been to
Christchurch, and he took me round Dublin when I was
there. I’ve met Lee Child, and R. J. Ellory, too. It’s amazing
to be friends with these guys who I admire so much.
What else do you enjoy about being
a published writer?
My friends have been so great to me over
the years, and especially in the beginning,
before I was published. Now, I finally get
to help them out, too. For example, one
of my best friends got married in Boston
last year, and another friend couldn’t afford
to go. I paid for him. I took him
to New York for a couple of days,
and then to Boston for the wedding,
and then we went to the
Niagara Falls. Five or six years
ago, when I didn’t have a job or
money and nothing was really
working out, my computer
broke down. It was this friend
who went and bought me a
new one, because he had
faith that the writing was
going to work out for me.
In a way, my friends
are the ones who got
me published in the
first place.

LANGUAGE | Detective Fiction
In October, Paul Cleave
will be touring
Germany with his new
book. See his website
and Facebook page for
more information:
paulcleave.co.nz
and facebook.com
/PaulCleave
As you read in the interview
on pages 15–17,
Paul Cleave is a fan of
crime writers Lee Child, John Connolly and R. J. Ellory.
Here, Spotlight staff review a recent book by each of these
authors, as well as Cleave’s third book, Cemetery Lake.
Cemetery Lake
If you like crime stories that are dark,
bloody and macabre, then Paul Cleave’s
third novel should be on your holiday
reading list. Cemetery Lake is the
first book by Cleave that features the private
detective Theodore Tate. The former
police detective has been asked to investigate
the death of a man who died two
years earlier. The story begins with the
exhumation of a corpse in a Christchurch
cemetery. As the gravediggers do their grisly work, three bodies float
to the surface of the nearby cemetery lake, and Tate suddenly becomes
involved in a complex and violent investigation.
Tate is already a troubled man. His young daughter was killed
by a drink-driver — an accident that also left his wife in a kind of
waking coma — and we discover that it is Tate’s behaviour after this
tragedy that led to his departure from the police force. Misery, loneliness
and guilt are his companions, as he works feverishly to discover
the truth about the bodies in the cemetery lake.
There is not much to like about Theodore Tate. He won’t help
the police, even though he has some vital clues concerning the bodies.
He also has no problem using violence to get the information
he needs or stealing evidence from a corpse. And as the story progresses,
he begins to drink, until he becomes exactly like the worthless
drunk who took his daughter’s life. The reader follows Tate’s
story from page to page in horrified fascination, hoping that the
detective will find the murderer before the search kills him. There
is little relief from pain. Even the attactive city of Christchurch is
described as a bleak and depressing place.
Cemetery Lake is a brutal tale of what can happen to an ordinary
man pushed to the edge of sanity by events he can’t control. The
second and third stories featuring Tate are Collecting Cooper and
The Laughterhouse.
Inez Sharp
Cemetery Lake, Paul Cleave, Arrow, ISBN 978-0-09-953673-4
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A Wanted Man
How can you talk for a minute without using
the letter “A”? Lee Child’s main character Jack
Reacher knows. A huge, ex-military policeman,
a thinker and doer with a dry sense of humour,
Reacher has no home and nothing in his
pocket except a toothbrush and a bank card.
The highways and open spaces of the
American Midwest are the setting for the 17th
Jack Reacher thriller, A Wanted Man. How
many miles of road does the story cover, how
many hours of driving? Ask Jack Reacher. He’d
know. At the beginning of A Wanted Man, he waits at the side of a
road somewhere in Nebraska, “just a guy, hitching rides”, trying to
get to Virginia to find a woman who sounded nice on the phone. His
nose is broken, his face is a mess: “You should have seen the other
guy.” After 93 minutes, a car stops, and he’s driven into his favourite
sort of trouble — a carjacking, some potential bad guys, attractive
female government agents and lots of borrowed hardware: guns.
He knows how to smart-talk the truth out of shop assistants and
ten-year-old girls. He knows his American history and the populations
of its major cities. He knows how to get a motel room for an
hour. He understands how minds and organizations work. He can
get a 911 operator to put him through to the FBI, and the head of a
criminal gang to put down his gun.
Lee Child’s writing, like Reacher, is always patient, always controlled.
He describes precisely the spaces that his hero has to negotiate,
the distances and coordinates he has to calculate. There is
violence and death, but it is described objectively, and relatively
bloodlessly. The characters are as full as they need to be, the dialogues
as long as necessary. There is some humour. Short chapters
end in short lines like: “It wasn’t empty” and “He turned the lights
on”, leaving you no choice but to turn the page and read on. Child
uses repetition, which pulls you along from one sentence to the
next. A Wanted Man is an enjoyable, easy-to-read thriller.
And how do you talk for a minute without using the letter “A”?
Just start counting, one, two, three — slowly and thoughtfully, just
as Reacher would.
Jo Westcombe
A Wanted Man, Lee Child, Random House,
ISBN 978-0-593-06572-3
911 operator Notruf-Telefonist(in)
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smart-talk: ~ sth. out of sb. etw. mit schlauen Sprüchen
[(smA:t )tO:k]
aus jmdm. herauskriegen
surface [(s§:fIs]
Oberfläche
vital [(vaIt&l]
wichtig, entscheidend
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Bad Signs
Born under an unlucky star, the half-brothers Clay and Digger grow
up in state institutions where they experience abuse and violence.
As teenagers, they dream of freedom. Their opportunity comes
when they are kidnapped by a death-row escapee on his way to be
hanged. He takes them on a bloody, brutal killing spree. As hostages,
the two brothers take two very different journeys, both fateful and
irreversible.
R. J. Ellory’s Bad Signs is set in
rural California and Texas around the
beginning of the 1960s. It is the sort of
“slow-motion thriller” for which the author
— who actually lives in England —
has become famous. It focuses on nine
tragic days in the lives of two young
brothers and a scared teenage girl. It is
also the psychological study of a young
man on a dark and downward path.
Ellory’s victims are not faceless characters:
before they meet their violent deaths, we get to know them
closely. The interweaving of shocking plot layers with the personal
stories of a handful of people makes this book horribly fascinating.
The human drama in Bad Signs will please not only fans of crime
fiction, but also those interested in epic stories of injustice, violence,
and not least hope and love.
Timea Thomas
Bad Signs, R. J. Ellory, Orion Publishing Group,
ISBN 978-1-4091-1859-6
abuse [E(bju:s]
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damnation [dÄm(neIS&n]
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[)deT )rEU I)skeI(pi:]
(death row
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dull [dVl]
eternal [I(t§:n&l]
fateful [(feItf&l]
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hermit [(h§:mIt]
hostage [(hQstIdZ]
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killing spree [(kIlIN )spri:]
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NYPD [)en )waI )pi: (di:]
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predictable [pri(dIktEb&l]
pretty [(prIti] ifml.
rabbi [(rÄbaI]
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reincarnation [)ri:)InkA:(neIS&n]
rewarding [ri(wO:dIN]
rural [(rUErEl]
Missbrauch
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zum Tode verurteilter Sträfling
auf der Flucht
Todestrakt)
widmen
öde
ewig
verhängnisvoll
Augenblick
Verschmelzung
grausig
Einsiedler(in)
Geisel
Verflechtung
unumkehrbar
Tötungsorgie
liebenswert, sympathisch
New Yorker Polizei(dienst)
Erzählstrang
vorhersehbar
ziemlich
Erlösung
Wiedergeburt
bereichernd
ländlich
The Wrath of Angels
Deep in the Great North Woods, in the US state
of Maine, lies the wreckage of an aeroplane. On
board are a bag full of money and a list of names
— the names of people who have sold their souls
to the devil. Protecting the plane from those
who would like to find the list are a ghostly little
girl and a dark and dangerous hermit.
The Wrath of Angels is the eleventh book in John Connolly’s
Charlie Parker series. Don’t worry if you’re new to Parker’s world.
Connolly gives just enough backstory for readers to understand it.
In Parker, Dublin-born Connolly has created an ideal anti-hero for
the 21st century. An ex-NYPD cop with a tragic past, Parker works as
a private detective based in Portland, Maine. He specializes in cases
of a supernatural nature, and works on both sides of the law.
As he races to find the missing plane, Parker once again finds
himself at the centre of the eternal struggle between good and evil.
Supported by two likeable assassins and a New York rabbi, Parker
has to deal with fallen angels in the form of a scarred woman and
her son — who turns out to be the reincarnation of one of Parker’s
worst enemies. Another threat comes from the violent serial killer
“the Collector”, who has dedicated his life to murdering just the kind
of people whose names are on that list.
The Wrath of Angels is not a simple story, but Connolly pulls the
many threads together and maintains the tension all the way to its
terrifying finale. Though the Parker series has its roots in detective
fiction, the books have always been a fusion of horror, mystery and
thriller. Perhaps that’s as much a warning as a recommendation —
The Wrath of Angels can get pretty gruesome in places.
One of the writer’s great strengths is his ability to create fully
formed, believable characters. This, along with the horrific aspects
of the story and the Maine setting, reminded me of Stephen King at
his finest. In Parker’s shadowy world of lost souls and heartless cruelty,
there are also flashes of comedy, love and friendship.
If you are a fan of horror and stories of the supernatural, I’m
sure you’ll find The Wrath of Angels a highly entertaining, rewarding
read. The prose flows smoothly and often reaches the heights of
great literature. For a book that deals with the well-worn themes
of redemption and damnation, there’s not one dull or
predictable moment.
Owen Connors
The Wrath of Angels, John Connolly,
Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978-1-4447-5645-6
All books reviewed are available at:
scarred [skA:d]
slow-motion thriller
[)slEU )mEUS&n (TrIlE]
supernatural [)su:pE(nÄtS&rEl]
tension [(tenS&n]
thread [Tred]
turn out to be sth. [)t§:n (aUt tE )bi:]
well-worn [)wel (wO:n]
wrath [rQT]
wreckage [(rekIdZ]
durch Narben entstellt
Thriller, in dem die Handlung
in Zeitlupe voranschreitet
übernatürlich
Spannung
hier: Handlungsstrang
sich als etw. entpuppen
abgedroschen
Zorn
Wrack
8|13 Spotlight
21

FOOD | Snacks
Nice
and
crisp
Kartoffelchips
werden weltweit
oft und gern
genascht.
Knabberzeug
der besonderen
Art hat JULIAN
EARWAKER in
Ostengland
gekostet.
Chris Barnard is hard
at work in his
kitchen, mixing a
variety of powders like an
ancient alchemist. It isn’t
gold he’s after, however,
but flavour. Barnard, 67, is
head chef at Britain’s gourmet crisp company, Kettle
Foods, near Norwich in the east of England. Barnard is
passionate about his goal to produce the perfect taste for
Kettle Chips. “We want a good-tasting potato crisp without
additives,” he says. “So my chef’s skills are useful, because
essentially, in terms of putting dried powders
together, what I am doing is making a dish.”
Potato crisps are one of the world’s best-loved snack
foods, and the global crisp market is worth more than
€13 billion. The US is the biggest consumer. UK snacklovers,
however, eat some 300,000 tonnes of crisps every
year — that’s around 260 billion crisps.
According to legend, the very first potato crisps were
created in 1853 in Saratoga Springs, New York. Frustrated
by a customer who rejected his fries for being too thick and
tasteless, chef George Crum reacted by cooking extra thin
slices of potato. Much to Crum’s surprise, the customer was
delighted, and “Saratoga Chips” were added to the menu.
Proudly sold under the slogan
“Absolutely Nothing Artificial”,
Kettle Chips are actually an American
invention. In 1982, businessman
Cameron Healy was holidaying
in Hawaii when he tasted
fresh potato chips being hand-fried
in a metal drum by the beach. He
took the idea back home to Oregon
and started cooking potato
slices by hand in small batches.
Kettle Foods still uses the same
recipe today.
Gourmet gold: crisps have never tasted this good
Chris Barnard: king of the crisp-makers
What makes a
great crisp? “A good
potato,” answers
Barnard, “plus the
fact that you process
it correctly. You’ve got
to slice it right; you’ve
got to fry it correctly, for the right amount of time, to get
the right colour. It’s all about the base product: all I’m
doing is improving that experience.”
The process begins in the rich earth of East Anglia,
where Kettle Chips sources 90 per cent of its potatoes:
1,000 tonnes of them every week. The potatoes arrive in
large wooden boxes and are quality checked, sorted and
washed ready for production. Their specific gravity and
starch content are essential, explains Barnard.
After being washed, the potatoes are sliced with their
skins on and then transported along giant tubes to the
cooking area. Here, they are hand-fried in stainless-steel
vats of sunflower oil. An operative keeps the crisps moving
to prevent them from sticking together. Fresh from
the boiling oil, the warm, unflavoured crisp tastes, as the
advertising says, deliciously simple. “Simple is always
best,” says Barnard. “And that’s really what it’s all about
with our food.”
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batch [bÄtS]
billion [(bIljEn]
delighted [di(laItId]
dish [dIS]
drum [drVm]
in terms of... [)In (t§:mz Ev]
Norwich [(nQrIdZ]
operative [(QpErEtIv]
slice [slaIs]
source [sO:s]
specific gravity [spE)sIfIk (grÄvEti]
stainless steel [)steInlEs (sti:&l]
starch content [(stA:tS )kQntent]
vat [vÄt]
Zusatzstoffe
künstlich, synthetisch
Charge, Menge
Milliarde(n)
hoch erfreut
Speise, Gericht
Tonne
was...angeht
(Fabrik)Arbeiter(in)
Scheibe; in Scheiben schneiden
beziehen
spezifisches Gewicht
Edelstahl
Stärkegehalt
Bottich
Fotos: Alamy; Dorling Kindersley; iStockphoto; Kettle Foods
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Essential: you’ll
need good potatoes
Special conveyor belts shake off excess oil and move
the crisps along for drying, seasoning, weighing and packaging.
At every step, they are inspected technologically and
by human eye to check for any pieces of poor quality,
which are removed. These are collected in huge drums and
end up as food for lucky local pigs.
It took half a century for crisps to be produced commercially,
and it wasn’t until the 1950s that Irish crisp
manufacturer Tayto produced the world’s first flavoured
crisps: cheese and onion, and salt and vinegar. When Kettle
Chips brought hand-cooking to the UK in the late
1980s, Barnard was running his own restaurant in the
lovely landscape of the Norfolk Broads. Cameron Healy
came by for a meal, and the two men got talking. The rest,
as they say, is history.
Barnard gets all the seasonings for Kettle Chips from
raw natural ingredients, which are “atomized” and dried
into powder form. Over a period of more than 20 years
with Kettle Foods, he has personally invented the flavours
that have made the company one of the UK’s “Top 100
Grocery Brands” as well as being voted one of Britain’s
“Cool Brands”. Traditional US flavours such as salsa with
mesquite, New York Cheddar and Jalapeno Jack have been
“anglicized” for the UK market. But Kettle is not afraid to
innovate: in Continental Europe, where paprika is king,
it has achieved great success with new flavours such as sea
salt and cracked black pepper. Barnard also created the
concept of seasonal favourites such as blue Stilton and port
(winter), and mozzarella and pesto (summer); and he produces
recipes for a range of dips to match the crisps.
Each new seasoning can take up to 12 months to perfect.
“One of my proudest moments was the creation of
our sea salt and balsamic vinegar,” says Barnard. “I sourced
the balsamic directly from Modena in Italy to deliver those
lovely warm, rich notes, instead of the sharp taste you
get from traditional salt and vinegar crisps. I’ve designed
thousands of flavours over the years. Innovation takes a lot
CRISPS OR CHIPS?
In the UK and Ireland, potato crisps
are a thinly sliced deep-fried snack
product sold cold in bags, while chips
are thickly-sliced potatoes served
hot. French fries are a thinner version
of chips. In the US, crisps are known
as “chips” and chips are called
“French fries” or simply “fries”. In
Australia, parts of South Africa, New
Zealand, India and the West Indies,
both forms of potato product are
called chips. In both Australia and
New Zealand, a distinction is sometimes
made between hot chips (fried
potatoes) and potato chips (crisps).
In Germany, chips are Pommes or
Fritten, and crisps are Chips.
of working at — very, very rarely do you get it right first
time round.”
Crisps are not the healthiest of food, he admits, although
the sunflower oil used by Kettle Chips means that
their cholesterol content is very low. “We are a snack product,
and yes, we are a fried product,” says Barnard. “But
we do not use artificial flavourings. This is not about
chemistry. It’s all about food. From our point of view, if
you are going to snack, why not snack well?”
www.kettlefoods.co.uk
BLUE STILTON CHEESE LEMON JUICE CREAM CHEESE
atomized [(ÄtEmaIzd]
blue Stilton [)blu: (stIltEn]
brand [brÄnd]
conveyor belt [kEn(veIE belt]
cracked [krÄkt]
end up as [)end (Vp Ez]
grocery [(grEUsEri]
Jalapeno Jack
[hÄlE)peInjEU (dZÄk]
mesquite [me(ski:t]
note [nEUt]
paprika [(pÄprIkE]
port [pO:t]
run [rVn]
salsa [(sÄlsE]
seasoning [(si:z&nIN]
vinegar [(vInIgE]
(zu Pulver) fein zerstäubt
englischer Blauschimmelkäse
Marke
Förderband
grobschrotig
schließlich dienen als
Lebensmittel
Schnittkäse mit scharfen
Chilistückchen
Rauchgeschmack nach
Mesquite-Holzspänen
Geschmacksnote
Pulverpaprika
Portwein
betreiben
scharfe Soße
Würzen
Essig
Make a great dip:
all you need are
these ingredients
SALT AND PEPPER SOUR CREAM SPRING ONION
8|13 Spotlight 23

SOCIETY | World Cultures
Examining
Islamo
phobia
Warum werfen wir mehr als
eine Milliarde Menschen mit
unterschiedlichen Lebensauffassungen
in einen Topf?
MOHSIN HAMID geht der
Sache auf den Grund.
24 Spotlight 8|13
Protesters in
New York City:
after the attacks
of 9/11, many
Americans began
to see Muslims
as the enemy
In 2007, six years after the terrorist attacks of 11 September
2001, I was travelling through Europe and North
America. I had just published a novel, The Reluctant
Fundamentalist, and I was surprised by the large number
of interviewers and of audience members at
question-and-answer sessions who spoke of Islam as a
monolithic thing. It was as if Islam referred to a selfcontained
and clearly defined world — a sort of Microsoft
Windows, obviously different from and incompatible with
the Apple OS X-like operating system of “the West”.
I remember one reading in Germany in particular.
Again and again, people asked questions relating to how
“we Europeans” see things, in contrast to how “you Muslims”
do. At one point, I became so frustrated that I pulled
my British passport out of my jacket and started waving
it around my head. “While it’s true the UK hasn’t yet
joined the eurozone,” I said, “I hope we can all agree that
the country is in fact in Europe.”
Six years on, a film inspired by the novel is appearing
on screens around the world, and I am pleased to report
that this sort of question is a little rarer now than it was in
2007. This represents progress; but it is not very much
progress, for the sense of Islam as a monolith hangs on, in
places both expected and unexpected.
monolithic [)mQnE(lITIk]
self-contained [)self kEn(teInd]
wave sth. around [)weIv E(raUnd]
monumental, gigantisch
in sich geschlossen
mit etw. herumwedeln
Fotos: age fotostock/Avenue Images; dpa/picture alliance; Visum

Recently, I was told by a well-travelled
friend in London that while Muslims can be
aggressive, they are united by a sense of deep
hospitality. I replied that I remembered being
in Riyadh airport, standing in line, when a
Saudi immigration officer threw the passport
of a Pakistani labourer right into his face. If
that was hospitality, I wasn’t sure we had the
same definition.
Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia has
racist characteristics. Most Muslims do not
“choose” Islam in the way that they choose to
become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the
way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay
or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people
of any faith, are born into their religion.
They then develop their own relationship
with it, their own individual view of life, their
own microreligion, so to speak.
There are more than a billion variations of lived belief
among people who define themselves as Muslim — one for
each human being — just as there are among those who describe
themselves as Christian, or Buddhist or Hindu. Islamophobia
represents a refusal to recognize these variations
or to see individual humanities, a desire to paint members
of a perceived group with the same brush. In that sense, it
is indeed like racism. It credits Muslims with too much and
too little agency: too much agency in choosing their
religion, and too little in choosing what to make of it.
Islamophobia can be found proudly raising its head in
militaristic American think tanks, xenophobic European
political parties and even in atheistic discourse, where
somehow “Islam” can be characterized as “more bad” than
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in Pakistan in 1971, Mohsin Hamid lived in the US as a
child for several years. He later studied at Princeton University
under famous writers such as Toni Morrison. After studying
law at Harvard, he worked in New York City before
publishing his first novel, Moth Smoke, in 2000. His second
book, The Reluctant Fundamentalist of 2007, was a bestseller
and has now been made into a film. His most recent
novel is this year’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.
religion generally — in the
way one might say that a
mugger is bad, but a black
mugger is worse, because black people are held to be more
innately violent. Islamophobia shows up repeatedly in
public debate, such as over the planned Islamic cultural
centre in downtown Manhattan — the so-called “Ground
Zero mosque” — or the ban on minarets in Switzerland.
And it shows up in private interactions as well.
In my early twenties, I remember being seated next to
a pretty Frenchwoman at a friend’s birthday dinner in
Manila. Shortly after we were introduced, she announced
to the table: “I’d never marry a Muslim man.” “It’s a little
soon for us to be discussing marriage,” I joked. I was annoyed
— perhaps even disappointed, I realize now, since
I still remember the incident almost two decades later. In
the cosmopolitan bit of pre-9/11 America where I then
lived, local norms of politeness meant that I’d never before
heard such a remark, however widely held the woman’s
perspective might have been.
agency [(eIdZEnsi]
atheistic [)eITi(IstIk]
brush: paint with
the same ~ [brVS]
cosmopolitan bit
[)kQzmE(pQlItEn )bIt]
credit sb. with sth. [(kredIt wID]
discourse [(dIskO:s]
hospitality [)hQspI(tÄlEti]
innately [)I(neItli]
mosque [mQsk]
mugger [(mVgE]
perceived [pE(si:vd]
think tank [(TINk tÄNk]
xenophobic [)zenE(fEUbIk]
Mohsin Hamid’s new
film and latest book
Handlungsfähigkeit
über einen Kamm scheren
weltbürgerlicher Teil
jmdm. etw. zuschreiben
Diskussion
Gastfreundschaft
von Haus aus
Moschee
Straßenräuber
wahrgenommen, bestimmt
Expertenkommission
ausländerfeindlich
8|13 Spotlight
25

SOCIETY | World Cultures
Islamophobia, in all its forms, tries to minimize the importance
of the individual and maximize the importance
of the group. Yet our instinctive position ought to be one
of suspicion towards such endeavours, for individuals are
undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are expressions
of opinion.
We ought to look more closely at the supposed monolith
to which we apply the word “Islam”. It is said that Muslims
believe in female genital mutilation, the surgical removal of
all or part of a girl’s clitoris. Yet I have never, in my 41 years,
had a conversation with anyone who described himself as
Muslim and believed this practice to be anything other than
an inhuman abomination. Until I first read about it in a
newspaper, probably in my twenties, I would have thought
it impossible that such a ritual could even exist.
Similarly, many millions of Muslims apparently believe
that women should play no role in politics; but many millions
more have had no problem electing women prime
ministers in Muslim-majority countries such as Pakistan
and Bangladesh. Indeed, the recent Pakistani elections witnessed
a record 448 women running for seats in the national
and provincial assemblies.
abomination [E(bQmI(neIS&n]
apply [E(plaI]
assembly [E(sembli]
dedicate [(dedIkeIt]
endeavour [In(devE]
mutilation [)mju:tI(leIS&n]
run for [(rVn fE]
unified [(ju:nIfaId]
witness [(wItnEs]
Gräueltat
benutzen
Versammlung
hier: in den Dienst stellen von
Bemühung, Unterfangen
Verstümmelung
kandidieren für
gemeinsam
miterleben
A “holy war”:
some think that
Islam is battling
the West
Two of my great-grandparents sent all their daughters
to university. One of them, my grandmother, was the
chairperson of the All Pakistan Women’s Association and
dedicated her life to expanding women’s rights in the
country. Among those belonging to the same line are
women who do not work and who refuse to meet men
who are not their blood relatives. I have female relatives
my age who cover their heads, others who wear miniskirts,
some who are university professors or run businesses,
others who choose rarely to leave their homes. I
think that if you were to ask them their religion, all would
say “Islam”. But if you were to use that term to define their
politics, careers or social values, you would struggle to find
a unified concept.
Karachi, Pakistan:
McDonald’s next to
the symbol of Allah
26

Fotos: Corbus; Redux/laif
Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual
analysis. Few people of any faith live their lives as literalist
interpretations of scripture. Many people have little
or no knowledge of scripture at all. Many others who have
more knowledge choose to interpret what they know in
ways that are convenient, or that fit their own moral sense
of what is good. Still others view their religion as a kind
of self-accepted ethnicity, but live lives without any sense
of faith.
When the Pakistani Taliban were filmed beating a
young woman in Swat as punishment for her “amoral” behaviour,
there was such a strong feeling of revulsion in Pakistan
that the army started a military campaign to retake
the region. As my parents’ driver told me, “They say they
beat her because of Islam. This isn’t Islam. Islam says to do
good things. So how can this be Islam?” He offered no
complex hermeneutics to support his position. His Islamic
moral compass was not textual; it was internal, his own
sense of right and wrong.
I often hear it said, at readings or talks from Lahore to
Louisiana, that The Reluctant Fundamentalist is about a
man who becomes an Islamic fundamentalist. I’m not sure
what that term means exactly, but I have a reasonable idea
about the sentences and paragraphs that are actually in the
book. Changez, the main character, is a Pakistani student
at Princeton. When he gets his dream job at a high-paying
valuation firm in New York, he exclaims, “Thank you,
God!” And that’s it. Other than that common figure
of speech, there’s
no resal evidence
that Changez is
religious.
He doesn’t
quote from scripture.
He never
Muslims praying in New York City
asks himself
about heaven or
hell or the divine.
He drinks.
He has sex out of
marriage. His beliefs
could be
those of a secular
humanist. And yet he calls himself a Muslim and is angry
with US foreign policy and grows a beard — and that
seems to be enough. Changez may well be an agnostic or
even an atheist.
Yet he is somehow read by many people as a character
who is an Islamic fundamentalist. Why? The novel carefully
separates the politics of self-identification from any
underlying religious faith or spirituality. It sets out to show
that the former can exist in the absence of the latter. Yet
we tend to read the world otherwise, to imagine religious
operating systems like computer software, where perhaps
none exist.
Near Ground Zero:
the Islamic Community
Center in New York
In so doing, it is we who create the monolith. If we
look at religion as practised in the world outside, we see
multiplicity. It is from inside us that the need to unify
arises. A dozen years after 2001, we are perhaps getting
better at resisting this impulse. But we still have a long,
long way to go.
© Guardian News & Media 2013
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das Göttliche
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ausrufen
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hermeneutics
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[)h§:mE(nju:tIks]
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secular [(sekjUlE]
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AMY ARGETSINGER | I Ask Myself
How do we see
Angelina Jolie now?
Nach ihrer Brustamputation hat sich das Bild Angelina Jolies in der
amerikanischen Öffentlichkeit stark verändert.
“
She is a
fascinating
and
polarizing
figure
”
The big stories in the US this
spring included White House
scandals, a terrible tornado that
killed dozens of people in Oklahoma...
and Angelina Jolie’s mastectomy.
The actress had both of her breasts
surgically removed because of a gene
mutation that put her at very high
risk of breast cancer. It’s hard to explain
exactly why
Jolie’s announcement
was such big
news. If it had
been any other actress,
or any other
part of Jolie’s body,
there would have
been much less
discussion.
There has never
been a star like Angelina
Jolie. She
was launched onto
Angelina Jolie:
making hard decisions
the scene 15 years
ago, a powerfully
sexual wild-child
Council on Foreign Relations Rat für auswärtige
[)kaUns&l A:n )fO:rEn ri(leIS&nz] US Beziehungen
drag [drÄg] zerren, tragen (➝ p. 61)
hereditary [hE(redEteri]
erblich bedingt,
vererbbar
inescapable [)InI(skeIpEb&l] unvermeidlich
mastectomy [mÄ(stektEmi] Brustamputation
ordeal [O:r(di:&l]
Leidensweg, Strapazen
promote [prE(moUt]
hier: ins Rollen bringen
public persona
Persönlichkeit in der
[)pVblIk )p&r(soUnE]
Öffentlichkeit
reconstructive surgery
wiederaufbauende
[ri:kEn)strVktIv (s§:dZEri]
Chirurgie
role model [(roUl )mA:d&l]
Vorbild
seek [si:k]
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spotlight [(spA:tlaIt]
Scheinwerferlicht
telling [(telIN]
hier: aufschlussreich
under wraps: keep sth. ~
etw. verheimlichen
[)Vnd&r (rÄps]
vial [(vaI&l]
Phiole, Fläschchen
starlet who made a show of wearing a
vial of her husband’s blood around
her neck. But she was talented, too,
winning an Oscar at 24. And even
before the world was shocked by her
relationship with married actor Brad
Pitt, she had slowly begun to transform
her public persona.
She became a humanitarian, traveling
the world to call attention to
suffering in conflict zones and taking
part in meetings at the Council on
Foreign Relations and the United
Nations. She also became a mother,
adopting three children from Cambodia,
Ethiopia, and Vietnam, and
having three more kids with Pitt, to
whom she is now engaged.
She is a fascinating and polarizing
figure — but does she throw herself
into high-profile causes to glorify herself,
or is she determined to use her
Hollywood wealth and inescapable
fame for the good of others? Are all
these children serving as human accessories
for one of the world’s most
photographed wom -
en? Or is she simply a
mom lucky enough to
afford six children,
trying to lead a normal
life as if the spotlight
weren’t there?
Similar debates
broke out when Jolie
told the world about
her medical condition.
She explained
that she announced
her surgery because
she wanted to help
make other women
aware of the risks of
hereditary cancer, the
possibility of genetic
testing, and the life-saving potential
of preventive surgery. Yet many people
remained suspicious of her motives.
Must all stars drag their
personal problems into the public?
Was Jolie simply seeking publicity?
Well, Angelina Jolie hardly needs
the publicity. It could be argued that
one of the most watched women in
the world had no choice but to go
public with such major surgery at
some point — so why not try to
make something good out of it?
Perhaps she didn’t really have to
go public: remarkably, Jolie managed
to keep her three months of surgeries
under wraps. But I assume she had
the same emotional response to her
ordeal as the non-famous breastcancer
survivors I know: a desire to
talk, to find solidarity, and to help
other women.
Others complained that Jolie was
not a useful role model: not all
women can afford the expensive testing
or the presumably high-quality
reconstructive surgery she had. Well,
that’s not really her fault, is it? By raising
these issues, however, she is at
least promoting a discussion of the
complex medical costs.
For me, the most telling thing
came in the way Jolie made the news
public. She announced it in an essay
for The New York Times that she wrote
herself. She did not give an interview
to the paper; nor did she agree to be
interviewed by anyone else in the
days that followed. It was her story,
and she had already told it the way
she wanted to.
Amy Argetsinger is a co-author of “The Reliable
Source,” a column in The Washington
Post about personalities.
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TRAVEL | Ireland
The city lights up at night:
a view of the Ha’penny
Bridge over the River Liffey
Foto: laif
admire [Ed(maIE]
bewundern
buzz [bVz]
lebendig sein, pulsieren
Easter Rising [)i:stE (raIzIN] Aufstand militanter irischer
Republikaner
Georgian [(dZO:dZEn] Architekturstil, der zwischen 1720
und 1840 in englischsprachigen
Ländern zu finden war
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layout [(leIaUt]
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pour [pO:]
strömen
tidal pool [)taId&l (pu:l] Flutmulde
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Discovering
Dublin
Machen Sie mit TOBY SKINGSLEY einen Spaziergang durch die
irische Hauptstadt und entdecken Sie neben ungewöhnlichen Orten
viele historische und moderne Wahrzeichen.
Night has fallen on Dublin, but the city is still
buzzing. The lanes south of the River Liffey are
alive with laughter, and Irish melodies pour out of
colourful pubs on to the streets, so welcoming that I’d stop
to listen if I didn’t have a hotel to find.
Dubliners may know how to have a good time, but
their city’s history has been no partying matter. Its past has
been dominated by invaders. The Vikings are said to have
created the first permanent settlement here in the ninth
century at the dark tidal pool where the River Poddle and
River Liffey met. It was called dubh linn, Irish for “black
pool”. The Vikings remained until the Norman invasion
of Ireland, which began in 1169. In 1171, King Henry II
arrived in Dublin to establish English rule.
By the 17th century, Britain had complete control of
Ireland. The British disliked Dublin’s medieval layout and
built broad streets, big squares and fine Georgian homes.
By the 18th century, Dublin was the second-largest city in
the British Empire and very rich. But with few rights under
the Protestant British, most Catholics lived in poverty.
Dublin’s status suffered greatly in 1801, when Britain
closed the Irish parliament and governed the land from
London. Increased poverty, awful living conditions and
growing bitterness led to rebellion in the city, including
the 1916 Easter Rising. This failed, but after further fighting,
26 counties of Ireland achieved independence in
1922, forming today’s republic.
This past has undoubtedly shaped the city’s present.
Today, Dublin is filled with beautiful architecture, from
churches founded by the Vikings to the grand buildings
of the British. History, combined with Ireland’s love of language,
is reflected in its literary heritage and a music scene
admired by people around the world. Visitors can’t miss
the city’s welcoming pubs and warm, friendly people who
always seem ready for a chat.
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TRAVEL | Ireland
DAY ONE
10 a.m.
It’s a sunny morning, and I’m ready to get out into the
city. I head for O’Connell Street, Dublin’s main boulevard.
Roughly 50 metres across, it is one of Europe’s widest —
an enormous space filled with grand neoclassical facades
and impressive statues, including one of Daniel O’Connell
himself. Known as the “Liberator”, the 19th-century political
leader fought for Roman Catholic rights, including
the right to hold public office.
O’Connell Street is, however, dominated by a 21stcentury
creation. Completed in 2003, the Spire is a huge
steel needle pointing 120 metres into the air. It’s certainly
unusual, and I can’t take my eyes off it: its simple, futuristic
design forms a striking contrast to the surrounding buildings
and monuments. To the Spire’s right, I notice the
statue of Dublin author James Joyce. I wonder what he
would have thought of this modern addition.
Sign of the times:
the tall, steel
Spire of Dublin
Georgian flair: inside the Dublin Writers Museum
11 a.m.
This meeting with Joyce inspires my first stop — at the
Dublin Writers Museum. With literary greats like Oscar
Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett and
William Butler Yeats, Dublin has made an enormous contribution
to world literature. But instead of a huge building,
I find a small museum inside a pretty, 18th-century
Georgian house. It is fascinating, and I spend an hour
looking at the information and exhibits, which include a
first edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker.
12.30 p.m.
Sunshine has been replaced by grey cloud. Feeling raindrops
on my skin, I take shelter under the pillared portico
of the General Post Office (GPO) on O’Connell Street.
In 1916, Patrick Pearse, James Connolly and other leaders
of the Easter Rising made the building their headquarters
and tried to declare independence before its doors. The rising
failed and was actually unpopular with many Dubliners,
but public support increased when the British
executed 14 of the rebels in Dublin’s Kilmainham Gaol.
The prison was closed in 1924, but still offers fascinating
tours today.
I enter the GPO and find a beautiful, open hall with
dark wooden post boxes and a high, decorated ceiling. It’s
strange to see people queuing for stamps in a building of
such significance, but I do discover a tribute to its past —
a small museum with a section on the uprising.
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hold public office
[)hEUld )pVblIk (QfIs]
Kilmainham Gaol
[kIl)meInEm (dZeI&l]
pillared portico
[)pIlEd (pO:tIkEU]
point [pOInt]
spire [(spaIE]
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Ausstellungsstück
sich begeben zu
ein öffentliches Amt bekleiden
Gefängnis im Dubliner Stadtteil
Kilmainham
Säulenhalle
zeigen; hier: ragen
Turm, Spitze, Säule
Schutz suchen
Aufstand
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Temple Bar: a district
loved for its nightlife
1.30 p.m.
If there were a prize for changeable weather, Dublin would
probably win it. With the sun out once more, I walk along
the Liffey to the shining white Ha’penny Bridge. Built in
1816, the footbridge gets its name from the halfpenny
people had to pay to use it. Nowadays, it’s free, and I cross
through its cast-iron arches. On the other side, I wander
into Temple Bar, the Dublin district so well known for its
nightlife. There I find tidy cobbled
lanes, colourful cafes, small galleries
and bookshops. Bouquets of flowers
hang from pub windows, making
them look all the more welcoming.
Time for a pint, I think to myself.
3 p.m.
After a beer and a beef pie, I take the
short walk to Trinity College. With
grand buildings and broad lawns,
Ireland’s most famous university is
one of Dublin’s quietest places. It is
also home to two major attractions.
At Trinity: the Long Room
and the Book of Kells
The first is the Long
Room, a 65-metre-long
library hall containing
200,000 of Trinity’s oldest
works. Endless rows of
wooden bookshelves
reach up over an upper
gallery to the barrelvaulted
ceiling. Built in
the 18th century, it’s one
of the loveliest libraries
I’ve ever seen.
Trinity’s second attraction
is the Book of Kells.
Probably written by
Celtic monks around
AD 800, the Latin manuscript of the four Gospels contains
beautiful illustrations. Today, it is in four volumes,
two of which are on show. Expecting a fragile, faded book,
I find instead a colourful work of art. Decorating the text
— or even filling whole pages — are playful drawings of
people, animals and mythical creatures. The book shows
the influence of Christianity on life in Ireland and has been
an inspiration for many artists and authors.
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faded [(feIdId]
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Gospel [(gQsp&l]
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pint [paInt] UK
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volume [(vQlju:m]
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Gusseisen
gepflasterte Gasse
verblasst
Fischhändler(in)
brüchig
Evangelium
Rasen
hier: Glas Bier
Band
5 p.m.
From Trinity, I head down Grafton Street, Dublin’s main
shopping mile, and pass the statue of Molly Malone.
Legend describes her as a beautiful girl who lived in 17thcentury
Dublin and died tragically young. Other
versions of the legend say she was a fishmonger
who worked at night as a prostitute. Some doubt
that she existed at all. Whatever the truth, she survives
today in the city’s unofficial anthem: “Molly
Malone” has been performed by U2, Sinead
O’Connor and The Dubliners. As I walk
back to my hotel, I realize that I’m singing
quietly to myself.
Molly Malone:
a Dubliner with
a tragic story

TRAVEL | Ireland
DAY TWO
New and old: the modern Samuel
Beckett Bridge; the traditions of
Guinness and good music in the pub
10.30 a.m.
The next morning, having already seen some of Dublin’s
major attractions, I’m looking for something a bit unusual.
So I visit The Little Museum of Dublin on St Stephen’s
Green. This wonderful museum is covered from floor to
ceiling with 20th-century Dublin memorabilia. There are
political campaign posters, old photos and letters, historic
household objects, and tickets to famous Dublin events.
There is even the podium used by John F. Kennedy on his
visit to Dublin in 1963. Each of their stories is explained
by our guide. I talk to a friendly museum assistant, who
tells me that many of the artefacts were given to the collection
by the public. I leave, feeling I have found a real
gem — a people’s history of modern Dublin.
12.30 p.m.
The area around St Stephen’s Green is Dublin’s Georgian
highlight. I walk along Merrion Row and see some wellpreserved
brown-brick buildings, complete with the roofs
and sash windows typical of the 18th-century style. I fall
in love with the brightly coloured doors — deep yellows,
bright reds and brilliant blues.
My next stop is Merrion Square, smaller than St
Stephen’s, but with Georgian terraces that seem more complete.
My favourite, however, is Fitzwilliam Square. Here,
Time for a pint at The Oliver St John Gogarty pub
I spend some time admiring a beautiful terrace covered in
a thick layer of red-and-green ivy. I finish my Georgian
tour north of the Liffey in Henrietta Street. Built in the
1720s, this cobbled road is home to some of Dublin’s oldest
Georgian houses.
3 p.m.
After lunch, I walk along Thomas Street into The Liberties,
one of Dublin’s oldest surviving districts. There is a familiar
aroma of Guinness in the air, so I know I’m getting
close to my next stop. In 1759, Arthur Guinness signed a
9,000-year lease on an old brewery at St James’s Gate.
Today, the creamy stout is sold in more than 150 countries
around the world.
Brauerei
Backstein-
Juwel
Efeu
Pachtvertrag
Erinnerungsstücke
erhalten
Schiebefenster
dunkles Bier
Häuserreihe
brewery [(bru:Eri]
brown-brick [)braUn (brIk]
gem [dZem]
ivy [(aIvi]
lease [li:s]
memorabilia [)memErE(bIliE]
preserved [pri(z§:vd]
sash window [)sÄS (wIndEU]
stout [staUt]
terrace [(terEs] UK
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IF YOU GO...
I pass brown and grey stone warehouses as I head towards
the Guinness Storehouse, a seven-floor museum that
explains all about “the black stuff”. Here, I meet Fergal
Murray, Guinness Master Brewer. Fergal is not only responsible
for the beer’s quality; he also travels the world
to talk about this symbol of Ireland. “Guinness is an Irish
iconic brand,” Fergal tells me, “and the Irish community
all over the world latch on to it because it is a part of
home.” Few Guinness fans doubt where the beer tastes
best. “Many people have stories about the best Guinness
they’ve had and how it can’t be as good as in Dublin,” Fergal
explains. “They are probably all true. But if you went
to Tuscany for a Chianti, it would also probably be the
best you’ve had, even though it isn’t necessarily different.”
7.30 p.m.
I consider this over a beer in The Oliver St John Gogarty
pub in Temple Bar, where two “trad” musicians — one
with a fiddle, the other with a guitar — have started the
Traditional Irish Musical Pub Crawl. I smile at the clever
words of songs like “Johnny Jump Up”. The musicians explain
the story behind each tune and talk about traditional
instruments like the bodhrán, a kind of Irish drum. I learn
that music in a pub is called a
“session”. At an “open session”,
anyone can come along and
play. And “jigs” and “reels”
refer to different rhythms of
song. We visit two other pubs,
and by the end, I feel I’ve
really learned something.
I talk to a few others in
the tour group, and an hour
later, we’re all in another pub
for more music. I’m leaving
tomorrow, but I won’t let that
ruin my evening. Let the
party begin!
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Learning English in Stuttgart
Living English in Dublin
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Getting there and around
Aer Lingus offers direct flights to Dublin from several
German cities. See www.aerlingus.com
Dublin’s city centre is very walkable. See the sights on the
Hop on Hop Off Dublin Bus Tour. www.dublinsightseeing.ie
Where to stay
The Brooks Hotel, with double rooms from €110. Drury
Street; tel. (00353) 1-670 4000. www.brookshotel.ie
Where to eat
The Pepper Pot cafe, South William Street; tel. (00353) 1-
707 1610. www.thepepperpot.ie
For lunch, try Munchies, with several locations around
Dublin; tel. (00353) 1-613 7707. www.munchies.ie
Sights
Dublin Castle. www.dublincastle.ie
Chester Beatty Library. www.cbl.ie
The National Museum. www.museum.ie
Marsh’s Library. www.marshlibrary.ie
Leinster House, Custom House and the Four Courts.
www.visitdublin.com
Music and events
For Irish music, go to O’Donoghue’s, 15 Merrion Row; tel.
(00353) 1-660 7194. www.odonoghues.ie
The Dublin Fringe Festival takes place in September; tel.
(00353) 1-670 6106. www.fringefest.com
The Temple Bar TradFest celebrates Irish music in January;
tel. (00353) 1-703 0709; www.templebartrad.com
More information
See www.ireland.com
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Geige
Kult-
an etw. hängen
Kneipentour
traditionell, Folklore-
Melodie
Toskana
Lagerhaus
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Tuscany [(tVskEni]
warehouse [(weEhaUs]
Escorted Excursions
Stout & Synonyms
Whiskey & Words
Dublin Days
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PETER FLYNN | Around Oz
A time of transition
Die Anhebung des Mindestlohns könnte Australiens
Wirtschaft ankurbeln – oder zum Erliegen bringen.
“
It’s strange
to be arguing
about a small
pay rise
”
The minimum wage in Australia
was increased last month by 2.6
per cent to A$ 16.40 (€11.70)
per hour. The mixed reactions to this
underscore how confused everyone is
about where the country is going.
Some employer groups complained
that the increase would be
deadly to many small and mediumsized
businesses. Others, though, said
an extra A$ 15 a week in the hands of
cleaners, shop assistants and waiters
would encourage spending and be
good for the economy.
Nothing to build upon? The Australian
economy may be coming to a halt
The trade unions had wanted a
30-dollar-a-week pay rise for Australia’s
1.5 million low-paid workers.
Earlier this year, however, Britain’s
Low Pay Commission reported that
Australia clearly had the highest minimum
wage anywhere, with the possible
exception of France if calculated
according to local buying power.
At almost A$ 32,500 (€23,200) a
year, the guaranteed minimum is
more than double what low-paid
workers get in the United States. It’s
also half of the average Australian
salary. Half the workforce in this
country earns more than A$ 65,000,
and many workers earn much more
than that.
This is the dilemma for many Australians
who, for the past six months,
have been repeatedly told that the
country and the economy are “in
transition”. Hundreds of billions of
dollars of mining projects have been
put on hold. We are told by some that
the boom is over and by others that
this is a transition from a phase of
mining-related development to one of
production using natural resources.
Chinese demand for iron ore is
falling, along with the price of iron
ore, coal and almost every other mineral
on the planet. Lower commodity
prices will force some mines out of
business, while others will have to
postpone operations for years.
Some argue that this is another
transition — from exporting iron ore
and coal to exporting natural gas, the
production of which is likely to
double in the coming years. Future
processing of liquefied natural gas,
though, will be done offshore on
floating production platforms. The
world’s biggest gas producers say it is
just too expensive to do business in
Australia.
The Ford Motor Company announced
recently that it would stop
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making cars here after more than 90
years of production. Manufacturing
generally is in rapid decline, and unemployment
is starting to rise. After
23 years of growth, economic commentators
are using the “R” word.
Perhaps they should say we are in a
transition to recession.
Government budgets are in tatters
everywhere, with deficits likely to
continue for years. The Reserve Bank
here is so worried that it has cut interest
rates to a 50-year low of 2.5 per
cent. Shoppers are simply not spending
money, and retailers say they can’t
compete with online shopping, especially
from overseas. The elephant in
the room is the federal election in
mid-September, at which the Labor
government will clearly be voted out.
It is strange, then, that we should
be having such a discussion about a
small wage rise for the lowest-paid.
Maybe they are part of the transition,
too, depending on what you believe:
that a pay rise will either kill the
economy or assist a consumer-led
recovery.
Rohstoff
Problem, worüber keiner reden will
zerfetzt sein; hier: heruntergekommen
sein
Eisenerz
Flüssiggas
Erdgas
vor der Küste
Verarbeitung
hier: Förderung
auf Eis legen
Notenbank
der Einzelhandel
Gewerkschaft
unterstreichen
Peter Flynn is a public-relations consultant and social commentator who lives in Perth,
Western Australia.
Foto: Getty Images
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DEBATE | Canada
The right to arrest
In Kanada sorgt ein neues Gesetz für Kontroverse: Soll es einfachen Bürgern erlaubt sein,
vermeintliche Verbrecher „festzunehmen“?
In Canada, a new law allows normal citizens to arrest
people they believe have committed a crime. An earlier
law allowed citizen’s arrests only when a criminal was
caught red-handed. Now, arrests can be made within a
“reasonable” amount of time after a crime has been committed.
The law applies only when police are not on the
scene to make the arrest.
The change in the law comes after an occurrence in
Toronto’s Chinatown in 2009. In May of that year, the
owner of the Lucky Moose store, David Chen, recognized
a man he had previously seen stealing from his shop. With
two employees, Chen followed the man down the street,
caught him and tied him up.
As Chen and his employees pushed the man
into a van to await the police, people on the street
thought the man was being kidnapped. They also
called the police, who then arrested Chen for assault.
Many Canadians believed Chen was right to
defend his property in this way, and 18 months
later, he was acquitted in court.
Soon, public support for a change in the law
began to grow. Those in favour said that when police
protection is not available, the law should be
on the side of those protecting themselves and their
property. People against the change were worried
that a more relaxed law could lead to vigilantism,
put citizens into dangerous situations and allow
false accusations to be made against others.
In March, the new law (known as the Lucky
Moose Bill) received royal assent. An important
condition is that a person making a citizen’s arrest
has to call the police as soon as possible once the
arrest has been made. If not, such an arrest could
be illegal.
The law also includes a list of factors to help a
court decide whether the force used when making
the arrest was excessive. Critics think that the new law is
not clear enough in its limits and will lead to subjective
interpretation in court.
The case of another Toronto businessman has led to
further debate on the subject. In August 2011, restaurant
owner Naveen Polapady threw masala spice powder into
the face of Manuel Belo and then attacked him with a
stick, which led to Belo needing hospital treatment. Polapady,
called the “Spice Man” by the Canadian media, said
that some days earlier, goods had been stolen from his van
by Belo. However, CCTV footage later showed that it was
a case of mistaken identity, and that another individual
was responsible for the crime.
accusation [)Äkju(zeIS&n]
acquit sb. [E(kwIt]
apply [E(plaI]
assault [E(sO:lt]
bill [bIl]
catch sb. red-handed
[)kÄtS )red (hÄndId]
CCTV footage
[)si: )si: )ti: (vi: )fUtIdZ]
commit a crime [kE)mIt E (kraIm]
Anschuldigung
jmdn. freisprechen
hier: gelten; walten lassen
Körperverletzung
Gesetz
jmdn. auf frischer Tat
ertappen
Bildmaterial einer
Überwachungskamera
eine Straftat begehen
masala spice powder
[mE)sA:lE (spaIs )paUdE]
mistaken identity
[mI)steIkEn aI(dentEti]
moose [mu:s]
royal assent [)rOIEl E(sent]
tie sb. up [)taI (Vp]
vigilantism [)vIdZI(lÄnt)IzEm]
Masala-Gewürzpulver
(indisches Gewürz)
Personenverwechslung
Elch
königliche Genehmigung zu
einem vom Parlament
verabschiedeten Gesetz
jmdn. festbinden
Selbstjustiz
Fotos: Olaf Furniss; Jannica Honey; iStockphoto
38 Spotlight 8|13

Olaf Furniss asked people in Toronto, Canada:
Are citizen’s arrests a good idea?
Listen to Ruth, Stuart, Jean and Karina
Ruth Kendrick, 38,
IT manager
Stuart Douglas, 46,
farmer
Jean Sinclar, 32,
scientist
Karina Lapierre, 39,
artist
Tamara Orlowski, 44,
marketing manager
Paul Richards, 28,
bookshop manager
Dustin Jackson, 26,
mechanic
Keeley Eaton, 24,
teacher
benefit [(benIfIt]
cautious [(kO:SEs]
citizen participation
[)sItIzEn pA:)tIsI(peIS&n]
common sense [)kQmEn (sens]
Vorteil
vorsichtig
Bürgerbeteiligung
gesunder Menschenverstand
dire [(daIE]
miscarriage of justice
[mIs)kÄrIdZ Ev (dZVstIs]
take down [)teIk (daUn]
vigilance [(vIdZElEns]
schlimm, schwerwiegend
Fehlurteil, Justizirrtum
aufschreiben, notieren
Wachsamkeit
8|13 Spotlight
39

HISTORY | 125 Years Ago
T. E. Lawrence as portrayed in
film (left) and during the First
World War (right and below)
Lawrence of Arabia
Der spätere britische Offizier, Archäologe und Geheimagent
kam vor 125 Jahren auf die Welt. MIKE PILEWSKI erinnert an sein
legendäres Leben.
The name itself is legend: Lawrence of Arabia. What
sounds like a fictional character, however, was a real
person: an Englishman in Arab robes, an expert on
Middle Eastern culture, a guerrilla leader and a brilliant
tactician. T. E. Lawrence was born 125 years ago this
month, on 15 August 1888.
Lawrence’s father, Thomas Chapman, had been a
wealthy landowner in Ireland, but he left his wife for Sarah
Lawrence, the governess of his four daughters. Calling
themselves “Mr and Mrs Lawrence”, the couple moved to
wherever people would not recognize them — to Scotland,
France, southern England and the Isle of Wight. During
this time, in the 1880s and 90s, “the Lawrences” had six
children, one of whom was Thomas Edward Lawrence.
The family finally settled in Oxford, where young
“T. E.” went to school and studied history at university.
His thesis on crusader castles in France, Syria and Palestine
earned him first-class honours. From 1911 to 1914, T. E.
Lawrence participated in two archaeological expeditions
on the edge of the Ottoman Empire, using the opportunity
to learn the local language and culture. His exploration
of the eastern Sinai, for the purpose of drawing a
map from Gaza to Aqaba, suddenly became important
when the Ottomans allied themselves with Germany in
the First World War.
Lawrence was immediately hired by the British War
Office and given the task of drawing a map of Sinai. He
did much more than that, however. By December 1914,
he was working for British military intelligence, sharing
his knowledge of the Ottoman Empire. The British, ope -
rating from Egypt, were having little success in battling
the Ottomans. But on a 1916 mission to Arabia, Lawrence
learned that there were other paths to victory. The emir of
Mecca and the emir’s son Faysal, who commanded a small
army, had been leading a revolt against Ottoman rule.
40 Spotlight 8|13
Lawrence convinced the
British to support the Arabs
with guns and gold.
On the Arabian peninsula,
Lawrence helped to organize
Faysal’s army and
coordinate its activities with
British military headquarters
in Cairo. By blowing up
bridges and sabotaging
trains, Lawrence and the
Arab fighters kept Ottoman
troops busy and made it impossible for reinforcements to
arrive. The man the Arabs admiringly called “Emir Dynamite”
kept the local sheikhs on his side, promising them
they would receive financial and other rewards.
In July 1917, Lawrence’s guerrillas took the city of
Aqaba, and by December, they were steadily moving
north. Lawrence, aged 29, was given the rank of lieutenant
colonel and the Distinguished Service Order. He pressed
on towards Damascus, which he and his army reached in
October 1918.
blow up [)blEU (Vp]
crusader [kru:(seIdE]
Distinguished Service Order
[dI)stINgwISt (s§:vIs )O:dE]
intelligence [In(telIdZEns]
lieutenant colonel
[lef)tenEnt (k§:n&l]
Ottoman [(QtEmEn]
peninsula [pE(nInsjUlE]
press on [)pres (Qn]
robe [rEUb]
thesis [(Ti:sIs]
in die Luft jagen
Kreuzritter
britische Kriegsauszeichnung
Spionagedienst
Oberstleutnant
osmanisch, Osmane
Halbinsel
weiterziehen
Gewand
Abschlussarbeit
Fotos: Bridgeman; dpa/picture alliance

Victory came at a high price. During months of fighting,
Lawrence had been wounded, captured and tortured;
he had suffered from illness, hunger and extreme weather
conditions. In Damascus, the Arabs for whom he had been
fighting argued amongst themselves instead of uniting in
victory. Lawrence had had enough. He returned to England
to receive a medal from King George V, but he politely
refused the honour. The king said Lawrence had left
him “holding the box in my hand”.
Lawrence attended the peace conference the following
year, wearing Arab robes. He opposed the plan to turn
Syria and Lebanon into a French mandate and argued in
favour of a unified Arab state, but to no avail.
Returning to Oxford to write his memoirs, Lawrence
found he was already becoming famous. An American
journalist had been holding lectures in London about
“Lawrence in Arabia”, showing photos of him in his robes.
Finally, in 1922, Lawrence published his ten-volume
memoirs, titled The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, in a limited
print run. Hoping to find material for another book, he
enlisted in the Royal Air Force (RAF) under an assumed
name, John Hume Ross. Journalists found him there after
only a few months, however, and he was forced to leave.
Lawrence then enlisted as a private in the Royal Tank
Corps, this time using a name that he later decided to keep
as his own: T. E. Shaw. The pseudonym was inspired by
Lawrence’s friendship with George Bernard Shaw. The
dramatist advised Lawrence to create a shorter edition of
The Seven Pillars, called Revolt in the Desert, which became
very popular. Shaw also helped him to rejoin the RAF.
T. E. Shaw retired in 1935, hoping to write more
books and add to his motorcycle collection. But only two
months later, he died as the result of a motorbike accident,
having swerved to avoid two boys on bicycles.
In life, T. E. Lawrence was an extraordinary figure; but
in death, he became a legend. His adventures were made
into the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia, with Peter O’Toole
in the title role.
assumed name [E)sju:md (neIm]
corps [kO:]
enlist [In(lIst]
limited print run
[)lImItId (prInt rVn]
pillar [(pIlE]
Deckname, Pseudonym
Einheit
beitreten, sich melden
begrenzte Auflage
Säule
private [(praIvEt]
pseudonym [(sju:dEnIm]
swerve to avoid [)sw§:v tE E(vOId]
to no avail [tE )nEU E(veI&l]
-volume [(vQlju:m]
wisdom [(wIzdEm]
Gefreite(r)
ausweichen
vergebens
hier: -bändig
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PRESS GALLERY | Comment
One big database: the
NSA offices in Maryland
Land
of the
free?
Trotz vieler gegensätz licher
Anzeichen würden sich die
allerwenigsten Amerikaner als
Bürger eines Überwachungs -
staats sehen.
The revelation that a secret order, issued by the secret
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, requires
one of the largest telecoms providers in the US to
provide a daily diet of millions of US phone records to the
FBI, poses Americans with a major civil liberties challenge.
Under the terms of the order, everything about every call
made during a three month period — excepting only the
calls’ actual contents
— is offered
up to the bureau
and the NSA on a
No Big Brother:
protesters in Washington
gargantuan routine
basis.
It seems improbable
that the
order ... is the
only one of its
kind. So the assumption
has to
be that this is the new normality of American state surveillance.
... Few Americans believe that they live in a police
state; indeed many would be outraged at the
suggestion. Yet the everyday fact that the police have the
right to monitor the communications of all its citizens —
in secret — is a classic hallmark of a state that fears freedom
as well as cham pioning it. ...
Ever since 9/11, the US has allowed the war on terror
to frame a new domestic authoritarianism that is strikingly
at odds with America’s passionate sense of its own freedom.
[These] revelations have stunned millions of Americans
whose justified outrage against 9/11 surely never led them
to expect such routine and unrestrained surveillance on
such a massive scale. ... [T]his is an existential challenge
to American freedom. That it has been so relentlessly prosecuted
by [Barack Obama,] a leader who once promised
to stand up against such authority, makes the challenge
more pressing, not less.
© Guardian News & Media 2013
bureau [(bjUErEU]
challenge [(tSÄlIndZ]
champion sth. [(tSÄmpjEn]
civil liberties [)sIv&l (lIbEtiz]
diet [(daIEt]
Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court
[)fQrEn In)telIdZEns
sE(veIlEns )kO:t]
frame [freIm]
gargantuan
[gA:(gÄntjuEn]
hallmark: to be a ~ of sth.
[(hO:lmA:k]
issue [(ISu:]
Behörde; hier: das FBI
hier: Problem
für etw. eintreten;
hier: etw. verteidigen
Freiheitsrechte
hier: Portion, Dosis
Bundesgericht zur Regelung
der Überwachungsaktionen
der US-amerikanischen
Auslandsgeheimdienste
gestalten
gewaltig
hier: ein Merkmal / Anzeichen
für etw. sein
erlassen, erteilen
NSA (National Security Agency)
[)en es (eI]
order [(O:dE]
outraged [(aUtreIdZd]
pose sb. with sth. [(pEUz wID]
pressing [(presIN]
prosecute [(prQsIkju:t]
relentlessly [ri(lentlEsli]
revelation [)revE(leIS&n]
scale: on a massive ~ [skeI&l]
strikingly at odds with
[)straIkINli Et (Qdz wID]
stun [stVn]
surveillance [sE(veIlEns]
terms: under the ~ of [t§:mz]
unrestrained [)Vnri(streInd]
hier: (gerichtl.) Beschluss
empört
jmdn. vor etw. stellen
dringend
hier: durchführen
unaufhörlich, ständig
Enthüllung
im gewaltigen Stil
deutlich im Widerspruch
stehen zu
vor den Kopf stoßen
Überwachung, Kontrolle
gemäß
uneingeschränkt
Fotos: Getty Images
42 Spotlight 8|13

INFO TO GO
monitor
The article reports that the police have the right to
monitor US citizens’ communications. In other
words, the police are permitted to observe and check
the progress of these communications. We read that
the police do their monitoring “in secret”; things can
also be monitored “carefully”, “strictly”, “systematic -
ally” or “continuously” — to name just a few of the alternative
adverbs.
A monitor, apart from being a television or computer
screen, is the name for a piece of equipment
that checks and displays things such as heart rate,
temperature, levels of radiation, etc. The noun can
also refer to a person whose job it is to check that
something is being done properly; for example, that
an election is being carried out correctly.
attorney general [E)t§:ni (dZen&rEl] N. Am.
carry out [)kÄri (aUt]
gambling addiction [(gÄmblIN E)dIkS&n]
radiation [)reIdi(eIS&n]
Justizminister(in)
durchführen
Spielsucht
UV-Strahlung
IN THE HEADLINES
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items in Replay
Playing our cards right Maclean’s
The idiom used in this headline compares life to a game
of cards. Both offer a limited number of opportunities,
which should be used well. “If I play my cards right, I could
get that promotion.” In an opinion article for the Canadian
weekly news magazine Maclean’s, former Ontario Attorney
General Michael Bryant describes how more and more
casinos are being built in Canada. Bryant, once an alcoholic,
sees this negatively, saying that most people “have
no idea how harmful casinos are” to society. However, he
also says the trend can’t be stopped. He argues that casinos
should at least be used to study gambling addiction
and to help those who suffer from it. That way, the earnings
of such institutions would not be profits from people’s
misery, but an investment in a better society.
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ARTS | What’s New
| Drama
Young and crazy:
how far will they
go to get rich?
Generation bling
| Thriller
Trance is the new film by Slumdog
Millionaire (2008) director Danny
Boyle. A group of thieves steal a
painting from a London auction
house. Simon (James McAvoy), the
group’s “inside man”, is hit on the
head and can’t remember where he
put the painting. So the group hires
hypnotist Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson)
to help get back Simon’s memory.
Boyle’s exploration of what the mind can do when it wants to
hide something strange is made with colourful style. This
clever and surprisingly thoughtful film starts on 8 August.
Sofia Coppola has made a name for herself directing
films about confused young women (Marie Antoinette,
The Virgin Suicides). Her most recent movie,
The Bling Ring, takes this to new levels. It is a story about
young adults living around Los Angeles and their obsessive
fascination with people-watching — on reality TV, the social
media and celebrity gossip websites.
Marc (Israel Broussard) is a young man with confidence
problems. When he joins a new school, he’s happy
to make friends with pretty Rebecca (Katie Chang) and
sexy Chloe (Claire Julien). Going to wild parties and taking
drugs become a way of life. Then he and Rebecca steal
a car and find that crime can also be fun. Joined by Nicki
(Emma Watson) and Sam (Taissa Farmiga), the group
starts to break into the homes of Hollywood celebrities
such as Paris Hilton and Orlando Bloom, to “shop” for expensive
bling: sunglasses, jewellery, shoes and bags.
Based on a series of robberies that took place in Hollywood
in 2008 and 2009, Coppola’s film is careful not to
pass judgement. There’s no need. Performed by excellent
young actors, this disturbing story on the latest variety of
a “lost generation” speaks for itself. Starts 15 August.
| Drama
Bringing Salman Rushdie’s award-winning novel Midnight’s
Children (1981) to the screen was never going to be simple.
The plot is set in the political troubles following India’s independence
in 1947. Much of the action focuses
on Saleem, a boy born on 15 August,
the day of independence, but it weaves its
way through the lives of many others involved
in the political maelstrom. The film
is held together by Rushdie as the narrator.
The Times of India called it “a love letter”
to the country, and this is how the
violent, colourful and unruly story feels.
On sale from 19 August.
bling [blIN] ifml.
Chloe [(klEUi]
confidence [(kQnfIdEns]
disturbing [dI(st§:bIN]
gossip [(gQsIp]
maelstrom [(meI&lstrQm]
narrator [nE(reItE]
Klunker, Modeaccessoires
Selbstvertrauen
aufwühlend
Klatsch
Sog, Turbulenzen
Erzähler(in)
obsessive [Eb(sesIv]
pass judgement [)pA:s (dZVdZmEnt]
plot [plQt]
robbery [(rQbEri]
set: is ~ [set]
unruly [Vn(ru:li]
weave [wi:v]
zwanghaft
urteilen
Handlung
Raub
spielen
unbändig, wild
sich verweben
Fotos: PR
44 Spotlight 8|13

| Food
| Global affairs
What’s for dinner this evening? If you’re short of ideas,
AllRecipes suggests lots of inspiring meals. The app offers
six main options. The “ingredients” option, for example, allows
you to choose a meal using what you already have in the fridge,
while the “time” option provides ideas for fast — and slow —
meals. If you like your food cooked in a certain way, go to the
option “method” and browse through recipes that are prepared
in this way. The 44,000 recipes include vegetarian and vegan
dishes, as well as some for people on a low-calorie diet. You
need to be online to use AllRecipes, but the simple layout and
step-by-step approach to preparing meals means that you can
shop, plan, cook and improve your
English at the
same time.
Available for
Apple and Android
tab lets
and phones,
the app is free.
Every year, millions of
people leave their homes
and go in search of a new
and — hopefully — better
life in another country.
What is the impact of this
mass movement of individuals?
Is it simply a
brain drain for the societies
left behind, or do the
migrants learn skills and
earn money that will benefit
their families at
Challenging: global topics
home? These questions
were considered recently in one of the Global Development
Podcasts created by The Guardian newspaper. The
podcasts, which cover topics such as migration, housing and
family planning at a global level, are panel discussions — sometimes
live — with experts from around the world. The presentations
are dynamic and often controversial. Each free podcast
in iTunes comes with a transcript that can be found on The
Guardian website: www.guardian.co.uk
What’s for lunch: AllRecipes has great ideas in English
| Exhibition
Anish
Kapoor’s
work: a man
of our time
Indian-born sculptor Anish Kapoor is recognized as one of Britain’s top
artists. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1990, was awarded
the Turner Prize in 1991 and produced a giant work of sculpture for the London
Olympics. Using a wide variety of natural and man-made materials such
as wax, steel, stone and concrete, Kapoor’s art draws attention to the physical
aspects of objects, while playing with abstract concepts such as space and
time, or chaos and perfection. Some of his most famous works and some new
pieces are on show until 24 November at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau. This
is a rare chance to experience Kapoor’s unique vision of art as an essential reflection
of the modern, material world. For details, go to www.gropiusbau.de
approach [E(prEUtS]
benefit [(benIfIt]
brain drain [(breIn dreIn]
browse through
[(braUz Tru:]
concrete [(kQNkri:t]
dish [dIS]
draw attention to
[)drO: E(tenS&n tE]
Vorgehensweise, Methode
nutzen
Abwanderung hochqualifizierter
Arbeitskräfte
durchsuchen
Beton
Speise, Gericht
die Aufmerksamkeit
lenken auf
impact [(ImpÄkt]
panel discussion
[(pÄn&l dI)skVS&n]
recipe [(resEpi]
recognize [(rekEgnaIz]
sculptor [(skVlptE]
short of ideas: be ~
[)SO:t Ev aI(dIEz]
unique [ju(ni:k]
Venice [(venIs]
Wirkung, Folge
Podiumsdiskussion
(Koch)Rezept
anerkennen
Bildhauer(in)
keine Ideen haben
einzigartig, besonders
Venedig
Reviews by EVE LUCAS
8|13 Spotlight
45

ARTS | Short Story and Books
Not your sister
Eine junge Frau fühlt sich schwach und verloren. Doch die Zuwendung, die sie bekommt,
könnte einen hohen Preis haben. CLARISSA ANN MASTIN erzählt.
Look at your watch during
the break. It’s after one
o’clock in the morning.
Pick up your notebook, jacket,
purse. Say: “I’m going to bed
now.” Try to sound apologetic and
matter-of-fact at the same time.
Don’t change your expression,
even as you see anger in
Theresa’s eyes. Watch the large
features of her face grow harder.
Wait as she pulls a sweet smile together.
Feel her fold you into an
iron embrace. Hear those words
again: “My dear sister.” Shiver.
Theresa is not your sister,
but everyone here calls you “sister.”
“This is your first seminar?
Oh, sister, how wonderful for
you!” they all say. They look at
you with smiles that never seem
to fade. Here, at the seminar
with them, you will finally understand
the meaning of life.
Here, you will find not only authentic
community, but peace and love.
Even with your streak of skepticism, you have to admit
that there’s something to these claims. It’s been only three
days, and you’ve already felt peace and joy — emotions
you didn’t ask for. With each passing day and night, you’ve
been given less time to sleep. The world outside is getting
hazier. You could almost believe that you’ve been wrong
about everything all your life — but only almost, because
in your emotion-drugged, love-bombed brain, alarm bells
are going off. Who are these people?
You met Theresa four months
ago. Her little house-church welcomed
you in when you were new
to the city. You were charmed by
how caring this small group of
people were to each other — and
to you as well.
A few alarm bells went off
even then. Questions about denomination
seemed to confuse
them. “We’re Christian,” they always
answered. On the phone
with a friend, you joked that you
hoped this wasn’t a cult. But you
didn’t listen to those alarm bells.
And here you are now.
Where are you exactly? It’s a
good question. You’re in the
woods. “Brother” Lewis drove.
You don’t have cell-phone reception.
You know this sounds like a
horror movie, but you don’t think
there’s any need to worry. There
are only a few more days until the
seminar is over, and then you’ll get
back in the car with Theresa and Lewis, and they will take
you home.
When you’re back home, and you’ve had a few full
nights of sleep, you’ll be able to think things over. You’ll
think then about the things you don’t know. To start with,
you don’t know what these people believe. When you ask
questions, they start muttering about “deep truths.” They
tell you to trust — and you want to. Why can’t you drop
this feeling that there’s something hiding underneath all
the love and acceptance?
charm sb. [tSA:rm]
claim [kleIm]
cult [kVlt]
denomination
[di)nA:mI(neIS&n]
drugged [drVgd]
fade [feId]
features [(fi:tS&rz]
go off [)goU (O:f]
hazy [(heIzi]
jmdn. verzaubern
Behauptung
Sekte
Konfession,
Religionszugehörigkeit
betäubt
schwächer werden, schwinden
hier: Gesichtszüge
losgehen
verschwommen
iron embrace: fold sb.
into an ~ [)aIEn Im(breIs]
matter-of-fact
[)mÄtEr Ev (fÄkt]
mutter [(mVt&r]
pick up [)pIk (Vp]
purse [p§:s] N. Am.
reception [ri(sepS&n]
shiver [(SIv&r]
streak [stri:k]
jmdn. fest umarmen
sachlich, bestimmt
murmeln
hier: nehmen
(Hand)Tasche
Empfang
(er)schaudern
Anflug
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Short Story
When Theresa finally lets go, walk carefully past the
rows of seated people. See the peace shining from their
faces. Some of them are first-timers like you. They’re not
asking questions, as Theresa has pointed out. Look down
at the floor. Keep walking until you get to the door.
Look over your shoulder as you walk down the path to
your cabin. See that no one is following you. Feel silly for
worrying. Feel paranoid. Crawl into bed. Don’t open your
eyes when Theresa comes in at three o’clock and lies down
in the bed next to yours. Wake up at five to see her standing
over you. “It’s time to go to morning prayer, sister.”
Think about spending an hour and a half praying in
that trance-inducing room. Think fast. Say: “Oh,
Theresa... I think I’m getting a cold. My throat hurts.”
Move over to give Theresa space to sit down next to
you. See the look of concern in her eyes. Remember when
you were sick and she called every day to check on you.
Tell her you’ll be fine, that you need a little more sleep.
And then freeze. Feel her fingers closing around your neck,
pressing into your skin. You remember this iron grip. She
won’t let go until she’s ready. Hear her strangely pitched
prayer voice fill the room.
“Oh, God above in heaven, my sister is weak. She is
not fighting against the Devil’s attack, oh, God. Teach my
sister to be strong against the flesh, oh, God in heaven.
Oh, God, teach her that she must not waste any of this
precious time at the seminar.”
Nod when Theresa asks if you feel better. Take a breath
as she releases your throat. Follow her to the prayer room
without saying a word.
Remember, it’s only a few more days until the seminar
is over. Be strong.
Thriller
John le Carré is best known for
thrillers that quietly pull back the
curtains to show the nasty secrets
behind international politics. His
latest novel, A Delicate
Truth, keeps things British in a
story that starts with Kit Probyn, a
senior Foreign Office official, taking
part in an undercover plan to
kidnap a jihadi arms dealer in Gibraltar. The operation seems
to go well. Probyn gets a nice final posting and retires. Three
years later, a trail of evidence and bodies indicates that things
actually went very wrong and somebody is covering it up.
Probyn starts asking himself — and his country — some uncomfortable
questions. Le Carré’s look at the new Britain and
its morality is both entertaining and sinister. Viking Adult,
ISBN 978-0-241-96516-0, €19.50.
Easy reader
Is there life after death? And if so,
what will it be like? In The Five
People You Meet in
Heaven, US writer Mitch Albom
describes the real life and the ima -
gined afterlife of a favorite uncle.
Eddie is an elderly widower who
thinks his life has been a failure. He
has disappointed his family and
loved ones and not made the most of his opportunities. When
Eddie dies in an accident, the author explores what could await
an ordinary man like him. The Five People You Meet in Heaven
is an examination of what counts in life and what Albom believes
will count in death: love and courage. The adaptation of
this novel is at the upper-intermediate level, and the book
includes exercises and a vocabulary list. Pearson Longman,
ISBN 978-1-4082-6387-7, €7.99.
cabin [(kÄbIn]
concern [kEn(s§:n]
cover sth. up [UK )kVvE (Vp]
crawl [krO:l]
elderly [(eld&rli]
Foreign Office [UK (fQrEn )QfIs]
freeze [fri:z]
grip [grIp]
let go [)let (goU]
nasty [UK (nA:sti]
Hütte
Besorgnis
vertuschen
kriechen
älter, betagt
britisches Außenministerium
erstarren
Griff
loslassen
übel, schlimm
point out [)pOInt (aUt]
precious [(preSEs]
senior [UK (si:niE]
sinister [UK (sInIstE]
strangely pitched
[)streIndZli (pItSt]
trail [treI&l]
trance-inducing [)trÄns In(du:sIN]
widower [(wIdoU&r]
betonen, hervorheben
kostbar
leitend
finster, düster und
bedrohlich
mit sonderbarer Tonhöhe
Spur
in Trance bringend
Witwer
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LANGUAGE | Vocabulary
Theatre
A trip to the theatre is always a special event. ANNA HOCHSIEDER presents words that are
used to talk about the experience.
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1. stage
2. curtain
3. set, scenery [(si:nEri]
4. actor (actress)
5. costume
6. spotlight
7. wings
8. box
9. usher [(VSE]
10. stalls [stO:lz], orchestra (US)
11. aisle [aI&l]
12. audience
13. programme
14. front row [)frVnt (rEU]
15. balcony
Critic’s tip
Following last year’s inspiring performance of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, which was unforgettably set in a
modern-day circus, the University Theatre Group has
now put together a charming production of Romeo and
Juliet. Imaginatively staged by director Gregory Pitt with
an all-student cast, this realization of the drama reveals
extraordinary acting skills in a classic production.
Bob Motherwell’s minimalist stage design ensures
that the audience’s attention is drawn fully to the actors
(in costumes beautifully designed by Camilla Borden)
and the story. The action takes place in a set consisting
of no more than a few walls and some greenery, and with
only a few flowers and swords as props.
On the opening night, the theatrical experience be -
gan before the curtain rose, when costumed ushers directed
us to our seats. What followed was entertainment
at its best. Amy Smith’s portrayal of Juliet was moving
and convincing, while Tony Gordon in the role of Juliet’s
nurse provided some welcome comic relief. Additional
tension was created by the onstage fighting, which
spilled over into the front row. The audience seemed
thoroughly to enjoy this outstanding performance.
Illustration: Bernhard Förth
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Practice
Now try the exercises below to practise talking about the theatre.
1. Match the theatrical words (a–f) to their definitions (1–6) below.
a) The stage...
b) The props...
c) The set...
d) The wings...
e) The curtain...
f) The stalls...
a ➯
b ➯
c ➯
d ➯
e ➯
f ➯
1. are the two sides of a stage from which the actors walk on.
2. is the raised part of a theatre where the actors perform.
3. is the heavy cloth that goes up when the performance begins.
4. are the seats on the lowest level of a theatre.
5. are the onstage objects used by the actors in a play.
6. is the scenery and furnishings on the stage.
2. Who’s who? Find the missing words on the opposite page.
a) The group of performers in a play or film are the _______________.
b) The person who tells actors and theatre staff what to do in a play is the _______________.
c) The people watching a play are the _______________.
d) A member of staff who shows the audience to their seats is an _______________.
e) Someone whose job is to write about stage productions is a theatre _______________.
Answers
1. a–2; b–5; c–6 (scenery:
Bühnenbild, Kulissen); d–1;
e–3 (cloth [klQT]: Stoff ); f–4
2. a) actors / cast; b) director;
c) audience; d) usher; e) critic
3. a) imaginatively; b) tension;
c) portrayal; d) comic relief
4. a) staged (aufführen, inszenieren);
b) directed; c) was set (fondly:
gern); d) were designed
(outstanding: außerordentlich);
e) portrayed
3. Complete the definitions below by filling in the missing letters in the following sentences.
You can find all the words in the text on the opposite page.
a) If a play is _ _ _ g _ n _ _ _ v _ ly staged, the director has put a lot of new and original ideas into the production.
b) If a theatre performance creates _ _ _ s _ _ n, the people in the audience feel nervous because they are watching
something exciting or frightening.
c) If an actor’s _ o _ _ _ ay _ _ of a character is convincing, this character appears like a real person to the audience.
d) If an actor or a character in a play provides c _ _ _ _ r _ _ _ _ _, he or she makes people laugh in an otherwise
serious play.
4. Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in the
list. You will need to use the passive in some cases.
design | direct | portray | set | stage
Last year, the University Theatre Group (a) _______________ another of
Shakespeare’s most popular plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Also
(b) _______________ by Gregory Pitt, the story (c) _______________ in a
modern-day circus. The production is fondly remembered for its imaginative
costumes, which (d) _______________ by Helena Thompson, and for the
outstanding performance of Tony Gordon, who (e) _______________ Puck
and received standing ovations for his brilliant acting.
You can leave out the definite article
when referring to the theatre as an art
form or a field of work:
• Are you interested in (the) theatre?
• He’s been working in (the) theatre
since he was 16.
You need the definite article when
referring to a particular theatre performance
or to the building where a
work is staged:
• We’re going to the theatre this
evening to see King Lear.
• They’re putting on a play by John
Osborne at the theatre in Henley.
Tips
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LANGUAGE | Travel Talk
A county fair
In the US, summertime means a visit to a
county fair. RITA FORBES takes you inside an
American tradition.
Arriving at the fair
I’ve never seen the county fair so crowded. Everyone
in town must be here.
This is obviously the place to be. What do you
want to do first?
I promised Karen I’d meet her at the exhibition
building. The judging is about to start, and she’s
hoping her quilt will win a blue ribbon.
Go ahead! I’ll take a look at the livestock. You can
come and find me when you’re done.
Food and drink
This is the hottest day we’ve had all summer.
Might be time for a snow cone.
Good idea! Should we get something deep-fried,
while we’re at it?
Well, the fair is only once a year. Let’s get a couple
of corn dogs and a funnel cake to share.
Decisions, decisions!
Bad news! The pig-calling contest is at the same
time as the square dance. We’ll have to pick one.
You know I love to dance with you, but I’ve been
practicing calling “sooey” for weeks. I might win
this year! I can see the trophy in our living room
now.
OK, OK! But after you’ve won, I’m going to beat
you at bumper cars.
about to: be ~ do sth. [E(baUt tE]
judging [(dZVdZIN]
pick sth. [pIk]
gleich beginnen, etw. zu tun
Bewertung
sich für etw. entscheiden
Fotos: Alamy; Dorling Kindersley
Tips
• A county fair is a yearly
event where people can play games
and win prizes for animals they have raised
(züchten) or things they have made. There is also entertainment,
such as rodeos and concerts. In the US,
the 50 states are divided into smaller areas called
“counties.” There are about 3,000 in total.
• If a location is popular or fashionable, you can say it
is the place to be (ifml.).
• At the exhibition building, you can look at things
people have made and brought to the fair to be
judged by experts. These things include handicrafts
(Handarbeit), artwork, and food.
• A quilt [kwIlt] is a kind of blanket, made by
sewing [soU] (nähen) together two pieces of fabric
(Stoff) with a layer [(leI&r] (Schicht) of stuffing (Füllmaterial,
Polsterung) between them. Quilts are often
colorful and decorative.
• The winner of a competition gets a blue ribbon
(blaues Band). A red ribbon is for second place, and a
yellow ribbon for third.
• People also bring livestock — farm animals like
cows, sheep, and pigs — to be judged at the fair.
• A snow cone is made from shaved ice (von einem
Block geschabte schneeartige Eissplitter) or crushed ice
with flavored syrup.
• Food that is deep-fried has been cooked in a deep pan
full of hot oil. The food is often covered with a batter
(Backteig) or breading (Panade) first. You can find many
types of deep-fried food at a county fair — everything
from vegetables to candy bars (Schokoriegel).
• The expression while we’re at it means: “If we’re
doing one thing, we might as well do the other, too.”
• It is common to eat food on a stick at a fair. Corn
dogs are hot dogs on a stick that have been coated
with a batter made from cornmeal (Maismehl) and
then deep-fried.
• A funnel cake is also fried in oil. It’s made by pouring
a thin batter in a circular pattern (Form, Muster) into
the oil, and it is usually covered with powdered sugar.
• In a pig-calling contest, people make loud, highpitched
noises to attract pigs. They often try to sound
like piglets (baby pigs), or shout the word sooey.
• A square dance is a traditional American country
dance, in which groups of four couples follow the
steps that a caller announces.
• Bumper cars are the small electric cars that people
drive around in an enclosed
(umzäunt) area, trying to run
into each other. A bumper is
the plastic or metal piece that is
fixed to the front or back of a car
to protect it.
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Cards | LANGUAGE
showroom(ing)
NEW WORDS
I’m going to showroom the latest smartphones
before I order one online.
GLOBAL ENGLISH
What would a speaker of British
English say?
North American: “I wrote the date on the first line:
4/10/2013.”
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(IN)FORMAL ENGLISH
Make these statements sound less
idiomatic:
1. You look like a million dollars tonight, Helen!
2. I feel like a million dollars today.
Translate:
TRANSLATION
1. Meine Schwester will sich scheiden lassen.
2. Meine Eltern haben sich letztes Jahr scheiden
lassen.
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PRONUNCIATION
IDIOM MAGIC
Read the following words aloud, paying
particular attention to the letter “v”:
invalid
invisible
Ching Yee Smithback
valley
virgin
victim
vodka
seed money
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FALSE FRIENDS
GRAMMAR
rump / Rumpf
Translate the following sentences:
1. I’ll cut you a piece of meat from the rump.
2. Das Einzige, was von der Leiche übrig blieb,
war der Rumpf.
Correct these wrongly formed sentences:
1. Instead of to go home after work, we went to a
bar.
2. I solved the problem, without to understand
how.
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LANGUAGE | Cards
GLOBAL ENGLISH
British speaker: “I wrote the date on the first line:
10/4/2013.”
In both cases, the date is the tenth of April. In
British English, the date is written in the same
order as in German: the day before the month.
North Americans place the month before the day,
as one can see in their name for the terrorist
attacks of 11 September 2001: “9/11”.
NEW WORDS
A showroom is a large space where objects that
are for sale are on display (ausgestellt sein) —
objects such as cars or furniture. If you
showroom something, you go to shops to look
at or test products and then buy them more
cheaply online. That makes you a showroomer.
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TRANSLATION
1. My sister wants to get divorced / get a
divorce.
2. My parents divorced / got divorced / got a
divorce last year.
Intransitive “divorce” can be used only with a plu -
ral subject, as in example (2), in other words, when
both partners are referred to in the sentence.
(IN)FORMAL ENGLISH
1. You look amazing / fantastic tonight, Helen!
2. I feel great / fantastic today.
In this idiomatic expression, “like a million dollars”
is used to mean “look or feel extremely good”.
Even in the UK, the word “dollars” is used here,
not pounds.
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IDIOM MAGIC
Seed money is money that is made available
to start a new project, in allusion to (in Anspielung
auf) seeds from which plants can grow.
In German, it is called Startkapital or Gründungskapital.
“Local corporations will provide seed money for a
new research centre outside the town.”
[(InvEli:d]
[(vÄli]
[(v§:dZIn]
PRONUNCIATION
[In(vIzEb&l]
[(vIktIm]
[(vQdkE]
Many native speakers of German replace the
sound [v] with [w] when they see the English
letter “v”. This is surprising, as the sound [w]
doesn’t exist in German. English “v” has the same
sound as German “w”, as in Wodka.
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GRAMMAR
1. Instead of going home after work, we went to a
bar.
2. I solved the problem, without understanding
how.
Subjectless clauses introduced by a preposition
always take an -ing form of the verb, not an
infinitive.
FALSE FRIENDS
1. Ich schneide dir ein Stück Fleisch aus der Hüfte.
2. The only thing left of the corpse was the
torso.
German Rumpf is the main part of the body
(without head, legs and arms). English “rump”
refers to the Hinterteil of an animal — or,
humorously, of a person.
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Having a baby
Listen to dialogues 3 and 4
This month, DAGMAR TAYLOR looks at the
words and phrases people use when they talk
about expecting a child.
Everyday English | LANGUAGE
Fotos: iStockphoto
1. The news
Katy has just found out that she will be having a
baby. She calls her parents, Audrey and Jeff.
Audrey: Hello?
Katy: Mum? It’s Katy.
Audrey: Hello, Katy, darling. How are you?
Katy: I’m fine, Mum. And you?
Audrey: We’re fine, love.
Katy: Mum, I’ve got some news...
Audrey: Ooh, what is it?
Katy: You and Dad are going to be grandparents.
Audrey: What? You mean you’re expecting? Oh, Katy,
that’s lovely! (calls to husband) Jeff, come here
quick! Katy is having a baby!
Jeff: What? Now?
Audrey: No, not now. (to Katy) When are you due?
Katy: I’m 12 weeks gone, so the baby should be
born at the end of January or the beginning
of February.
• Most people just say Hello? when they answer
the phone at home.
• Darling and love are things to call people you love. In
the UK, love (ifml.) is also used generally to address
(ansprechen) someone in a friendly way.
• Be careful when you use the word news — it’s
uncountable.
• When you want to make sure you have understood
correctly what someone has said, you can begin the
question with You mean...?
• Another way of saying that someone is pregnant
(schwanger) is to say that she is expecting
(a baby).
• To ask when the baby will be born, you can say:
“When is the baby due?” or “When are you due
(to give birth)?”
• You can also use gone (UK ifml.) to say or ask how
long a person has been pregnant: “How far gone are
you?”
• Be born is used only in the passive form. “Born” is the
past participle of the verb “bear” ((aus)tragen).
baby: have a ~ [(beIbi]
ein Baby bekommen
Tips
2. The nitty-gritty
Katy is talking to her dad, Jeff, on the phone.
Jeff: Well, that’s fantastic news, love. I’ll pass you
back to Mum now. I’m sure you’ll want to
talk to her about the... nitty-gritty.
Katy: Don’t you want to hear about my sore boobs
and my morning sickness?
Jeff: No, I don’t! Here’s your Mum.
Audrey: So how are you feeling? Any cravings yet?
Katy: I’m fine. Really I am.
Audrey: Lucky you! You probably aren’t showing yet,
are you?
Katy: No, it’s too early for “maternity fashion”.
Audrey: You’ll look lovely. Have you had a scan?
Katy: Yes, this morning. We even got a picture. I’m
afraid your grandchild looks like a peanut.
Audrey: We’ll love it no matter what it looks like!
• The most important or practical details of a
situation are known as the nitty-gritty (ifml.).
• If part of your body is sore, it hurts. Women’s breasts
are informally known as boobs.
• Morning sickness is the nausea [(nO:siE] (Übelkeit)
felt by many women in the early months of
pregnancy.
• Many pregnant women have cravings, a strong
desire (Wunsch, Verlangen) to eat certain foods.
• When the baby bump (Babybauch) can be seen, we
say a woman is showing.
• There are many word partnerships with maternity,
the state of being or becoming a mother: maternity
clothes, maternity hospital, maternity leave
(Mutterschaftsurlaub), etc.
• No matter what (who, where, etc.) is used to say that
something is always true, whatever the situation.
pass sb. back to sb.
[)pA:s (bÄk tE]
scan [skÄn]
jmdn. jmdm. wiedergeben
Ultraschalluntersuchung
Tips
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LANGUAGE | Everyday English
EXERCISES
3. Getting ready 4. Read all about it
Katy and her husband, Bill, are at home. Katy is looking
through a catalogue of products for babies.
Katy: I think we should get a bedside crib first, rather
than a cot.
Bill: What’s the difference?
Katy: The crib fits on the side of our bed. The baby
sleeps separately, but I don’t have to get up in the
night for feeds.
Bill: Let’s have a look. Have you decided which pram,
or buggy, or whatever it’s called, to get yet?
Katy: Pram. Yes, a colleague of mine said she’d sell me
hers. It’s still in great condition. She’s also got a
changing table and a car seat, although they say
you should buy those new...
Bill: Have you seen the price of these crib things? Ask
your colleague if she’s flogging one of those, too.
• A cot (US: crib) is a small bed with high sides for a
baby or small child.
• Here, a feed is a drink of milk. Katy is talking about
getting up in the night to breastfeed (stillen) her child.
• A pram (US: baby carriage) is a small covered bed on
four wheels for outdoor use.
• A buggy (US: stroller) is a folding seat on wheels in
which a child sits and is pushed along.
• In English, “a colleague of me” is incorrect. Instead, we
say: a colleague of mine.
• If something is in good or great condition, it doesn’t
look as if it has been used very much.
• A changing table is a piece of furniture on which a
baby is placed to have its nappy (UK) (Windel) changed.
• Flog (UK) is an informal word for “sell”.
1. What did they say? Fill in the missing letters.
a) When are you d _ _?
b) Have you had any c _ _ _ _ _ _ _ yet?
c) We should get a bedside crib first, rather than a c _ _.
d) I’ve just been reading about l _ _ _ _ _.
Tips
Bill is in the kitchen. Katy joins him.
Bill: You look a bit pale. Are you OK?
Katy: I’m fine. I’ve just been reading about labour,
contractions and complications.
Bill: Oh, dear! Sit down. I’ll make you a cup of tea.
Katy: I don’t know if I’ll be able to handle the pain.
Maybe I should have a caesarean — or an
epidural.
Bill: Isn’t that the thing they inject into your lower
back? I don’t like the sound of that.
Katy: Well, you’re not the one who has to give birth.
Bill: It’ll be fine. And you’re going to be a great mum.
Katy: Really?
Bill: Of course! Oh, the midwife called about the
antenatal classes. I told her you’d call back.
Tips
• The process of giving birth (entbinden) is known
as labour: “She was in labour for ten hours.”
• Contractions are the sudden and painful shortening
of the muscles around the womb [wu:m] (Gebärmutter)
before a woman gives birth.
• If you can handle something, you can accept and deal
with an unpleasant or difficult situation.
• A caesarean [sI(zeEriEn] or C-section (US: cesarean
[sI(zeriEn]) is an operation in which a baby is taken
out of a woman’s womb.
• Midwives help women give birth and support them in
the weeks after the birth.
• Antenatal classes [)Änti(neIt&l )klA:s] help parentsto-be
prepare for labour, birth and parenthood. Postnatal
classes are available to support new mothers.
Oh, dear! [)EU (dIE] Ach je!
pale [peI&l] blass (➝ p. 61)
3. Rearrange the letters to form words and
expressions from the scenes.
a) a a d e g n n p r r s t _______________
b) g i m n n o r c e i k n s s s _______________
c) a c g g h i n n a b e l t _______________
d) d e f i i m w _______________
2. What did they actually say?
a) You mean you’re pregnant? _______
b) Don’t you want to hear about my painful boobs? ____
c) Ask your colleague if she’s selling one of those, too.
_______
d) I don’t know if I’ll be able to deal with the pain. ______
4. Add the missing words from the scenes.
a) The baby should be born ______ the end of January.
b) I’ll pass you back ______ Mum now.
c) It’s still ______ great condition.
d) I don’t like the sound ______ that.
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Answers: 1. a) due; b) cravings; c) cot; d) labour; 2. a) expecting; b) sore; c) flogging; d) handle;
3. a) grandparents; b) morning sickness; c) changing table; d) midwife; 4. a) at; b) to; c) in; d) of

The Grammar Page | LANGUAGE
The past perfect simple
ADRIAN DOFF uses notes on a short dialogue to present and
explain a key point of grammar.
Clare is chatting to her
friend Fiona.
Clare: When you leave home to go on holiday, do you
ever get that funny feeling that you’ve forgotten
something? 1
Fiona: Yes, and I usually have forgotten something.
Clare: Same with me. It happened when I flew to London
last week. As soon as I got 2 into the car,
I knew I’d forgotten 3 something, but I couldn’t
think what it was. It was really strange.
Fiona: And had you? 4
Clare: Well, I couldn’t think what. Then, halfway to the
airport, I realized what it was. I’d left 5 the iron on.
I was in such a hurry that I hadn’t noticed. 6
Fiona: Oh, no! What did you do?
Clare: Well, there was only one thing I could do. I turned
round and went straight back home.
Fiona: That’s awful! Did you miss your flight?
Clare: No. The flight had been delayed 7 anyway, so in the
end, I had to wait another four hours at the airport.
Fiona: Hmm! You were lucky.
Clare: I suppose (denken, annehmen) you could say that.
1 When people tell stories about their lives, several tenses
are used. Clare is talking in general here (not about the
past), so she uses the present simple and present perfect
tenses.
2 Now Clare uses the past simple tense to tell the main
events of her story.
3 Clare uses the verb “know” with the past perfect simple
to “go back” from the events of her story to talk about an
earlier, background action. The past perfect is formed
with had (or ’d) + past participle.
4 To make a question, the subject and the verb “had” are
changed round.
5 This is another example of the use of the past perfect
simple to talk about an earlier event.
6 To form the negative, not (or n’t) is added after had.
7 This is the past perfect passive. It is formed with
had been + past participle. Instead, Clare could say:
“They had delayed the flight.” Again, she is talking about
an earlier event. The flight had been delayed even before
she got to the airport.
Remember!
1. The past perfect passive
The passive is always formed with be + past participle.
The past perfect passive is formed with the past perfect
of “be”: had been + past participle.
2. The short form: ’d
In speaking and informal writing, had is usually reduced
to ’d:
• I’d left the iron on. (= I had left)
Beyond the basics
The past perfect tense is often used after reporting
verbs (for example, said, told) and after verbs like
discovered, knew, noticed, realized and was sure:
• She called me and said she’d missed the train.
• I suddenly discovered that I’d lost my phone.
• I was sure I’d seen him somewhere before.
In all these examples, the speaker is talking about earlier
events.
EXERCISE
Complete the sentences below, using verbs from the box in the past perfect simple (active or passive).
cancel | change | clean | die | go | leave | wake up
d) She was 70 years old and living alone. Her husband
__________ the year before.
a) I didn’t recognize her at first, because she __________ e) It was Friday, so everyone __________ home early.
her hair colour.
f) I took him breakfast at nine o’clock, but he still
b) I went to meet them, but they __________ already
__________.
__________.
g) Our hotel room was disgusting. It __________ for
c) I arrived to find that all the classes __________.
weeks.
Answers: a) had changed; b) had already left / gone; c) had been cancelled; d) had died; e) had gone; f) hadn’t woken up; g) hadn’t been cleaned
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LANGUAGE | The Soap
Helen
Phil
Peggy
FOCUS
Afternoon tea,
anyone?
Join us at Peggy’s Place — Spotlight ’s very
own London pub. By INEZ SHARP
Phil: Well, you’re a sight for sore eyes!
Peggy: You don’t think I’m too dressed up, do you?
Phil: You want me to be honest? I’d ditch the hat.
Peggy: But I never wear my hats, and if I can’t put one on
for a visit to Buckingham Palace, when can I?
Helen: Wow! Peggy, you look amazing. Should I go home
and put on something else?
Peggy: No. You look great. But perhaps you should brush
your hair before we leave.
Phil: So what exactly happens when you get to the palace?
Will you meet any members of the royal family?
Helen: That would be nice, but it’s really just a tour of the
staterooms.
Phil: Then I’d definitely ditch the hat. It’s not like you’ve
got a personal invite. You’re just normal tourists...
Peggy: ...visiting parts of the palace that are only open to
the public for two months of the year. You never know
who we might meet in the corridor.
Sean: You two ladies are looking particularly lovely today.
Peggy: We’re going to visit Buckingham Palace.
Helen: Yes. We’re taking a special tour.
Sean: Why would you do that? Wasting good money to
ogle the elite lifestyle of a family of spongers.
Peggy: Sean!
Phil: I keep forgetting that you haven’t been with us for
very long, Sean. Otherwise you’d know that my wife is
an ardent royalist.
Sean: Of course I’ve noticed the pictures everywhere, but
I thought they were just there to please the customers.
Peggy: No. They’re there to please me.
Sean: Sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. Actually,
I came out to talk about the menu.
Peggy: Well, I haven’t got any time now, but I would like
you to think about the idea of serving afternoon tea.
Sean: Afternoon tea?
Phil: Yeah. We thought it would be a nice way to bring in
more people during the day.
When Peggy calls Sean a cheeky little blighter (Bengel, Mistkerl),
she is using an informal British expression that has
been known for around 100 years. The Oxford English Dictionary
says the term comes from the verb to blight, which
means to “have a negative effect on something or someone”:
“His life was blighted by illness and poverty.” Today,
the word “blighter” is used mainly by the older generation.
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George
Eddy
Sean
“ ”
We need to bring in more customers
Jane
Sean: I’ll tell you right here and now: I think the idea is
naff and pretentious.
Peggy: I’m sorry, I can’t agree. We need more customers,
and I think afternoon tea is the way to go.
Sean: A good gastropub concentrates on serving top-end
food, not dinky little sandwiches and cups of tea.
Phil: Maybe you’ve got an alternative.
Sean: We could vary our menu. Next week, it’s the Notting
Hill Carnival. We could have a carnival special.
Peggy: That sounds naff to me.
Sean: Look, Peggy! It’s my kitchen, and I decide what
comes in and goes out of there. Takings have gone up
by almost 20 per cent since I started. I’d say that speaks
for itself.
Peggy: That might be the case, but I am still the one paying
your wages, and what I say goes.
Sean: If that’s your attitude, then I will have to take the
afternoon off to think about my future. You’ll find the
menu on the table. Good luck with the cooking. I’ll
see you tomorrow.
Peggy: The cheeky little blighter!
Helen: I suppose that means we won’t be going to Buckingham
Palace today.
Phil: Let me take your hat, love. You won’t be needing that
in the kitchen.
ardent [(A:d&nt]
cheeky [(tSi:ki]
dinky [(dINki] UK ifml.
ditch [dItS] ifml.
dressed up [)drest (Vp]
gastropub [(gÄstrEUpVb] UK
leidenschaftlich, begeistert
unverschämt, frech
hübsch, niedlich
hier: weglassen
aufgedonnert
Pub, in dem hochwertige
Gerichte serviert werden
bescheuert
begaffen
protzig
eine Augenweide,
ein göttlicher Anblick
Schmarotzer, Schnorrer
Prunkgemach
denken, meinen
Einnahmen
Spitzen-
Lohn
naff [nÄf] UK ifml.
ogle [(EUg&l]
pretentious [pri(tenSEs]
sore eyes: a sight for ~
[)sO: (aIz] ifml.
sponger [(spVndZE] ifml.
stateroom [(steItru:m]
suppose [sE(pEUz]
takings [(teIkINz]
top-end [(tQp end]
wages [(weIdZIz]
Have a look at all the characters from Peggy’s Place at
www.spotlight-online.de/peggy

English at Work | LANGUAGE
Dear Ken: How can I improve
my listening skills?
Dear Ken
I have problems understanding native speakers and my
English-speaking colleagues from India and China. How
can I improve my listening skills? Can you give me some
advice?
Thanks.
Konrad M.
Dear Konrad
Thank you for your e-mail about listening skills. I’d like
to answer your question in two parts, because there are
two key areas you should think about: firstly, practising
listening, and secondly, controlling conversations.
Part 1
How can you practise listening? Here are a few things you
can do:
• The BBC and CNN television news channels have business
news slots with an international angle. Use them
to practise listening to both native and non-native
speakers with various accents talking about business.
• Subscribe to the audio CD from Spotlight magazine. You
will hear a variety of accents and have the chance to practise
some “active listening” by doing the oral exercises.
• Work on your own professional development by choosing
business courses in English at a training centre, university
or business school. With a bit of luck, there will
be participants from other countries, which will also
give you valuable listening practice.
• Buy some “talking books”. There are a lot of audiobooks
on CD, including many on business. Listen to
them on your journey to work.
• Use your DVD player for listening practice. Try the
British comedy The Office or the American series Mad
Men for a business angle. You could also choose a film
with Indian speakers such as Slum Dog Millionaire or
All in Good Time. Start watching with German or, better
still, English subtitles. After a while, switch off the
subtitles altogether if you can.
All in Good Time [)O:l In )gUd (taIm] Hochzeitsnacht mit
Hindernissen
angle [(ÄNg&l]
Blick(winkel), Perspektive
model [(mQd&l] Beispiel, Vorbild (➝ p. 61)
news slot [(nju:z )slQt]
Nachrichtensendung
physical exercise [)fIzIk&l (eksEsaIz] körperliche Betätigung, Sport
speak up [)spi:k (Vp]
lauter sprechen
subscribe to sth. [sEb(skraIb tE] etw. abonnieren
subtitles [(sVb)taIt&lz]
Untertitel
Send your questions
about business English
by e-mail with “Dear
Ken” in the subject line to
language@spotlight-verlag.de.
Each month, I answer two questions
Spotlight readers have sent in. If one of
them is your question, you’ll receive a
copy of my book: Fifty Ways to Improve
Your Business English. So don’t forget
to add your mailing address!
• Subscribe to a regular podcast. Choose a one- to twominute
section and listen to it intensively. Listen as
many times as you need to understand every single
word. Use it for dictation practice, too. Ask a native
speaker for help or corrections if necessary.
Choose one or two of the above ideas and create a personal
training plan for yourself — as you would for physical exercise
— for a week. Make the plan practical and achievable.
Check your progress at the end of the week, then
revise your plan for the following week.
Part 2
Now let’s think about controlling conversations. Indian
speakers in particular may speak very fast. Slow speakers
down when they are talking too quickly. Be a good model.
Speak slowly and clearly yourself. If that doesn’t work, say:
• Could you speak a little more slowly, please?
If you can’t hear what people are saying, ask them:
• Could you speak up a bit, please?
Summarize the conversation at regular intervals. This is
good practice in any foreign language, of course:
• So what we’ve said so far is...
• Perhaps I could summarize what we’ve said so far, to
make sure I’ve understood everything.
In my book Fifty Ways to Improve Your Telephoning and
Teleconferencing Skills (Summertown Publishing), I go into
these problems in more detail. The book includes a CD
with listening exercises containing a variety of accents.
Hope this is of some help.
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
60
We’ve made it!
ADRIAN DOFF looks at the way we use the
word “make” in spoken English.
• Just relax. I’ll make us something to eat.
• I love your pictures of India. They make me want
to go there myself.
As you can see from the first example in the box, a common
meaning of “make” is to create or produce something.
In this sense, “make” is followed by a noun or a
noun phrase. In the morning, for example, you might
make some coffee, and then you might make a list of
things to do and make plans for the day. If you run a business,
you will need to make decisions so that your company
makes a profit. If you make a success of things, you
might make lots of money.
As the second example shows, “make” can also mean to
cause something to happen. In this sense, it is followed by
a verb or an adjective. If you see a comedy film in the cinema,
it may make you laugh. A romantic film may make
you sad or may even make you cry.
Other common uses of “make” are listed below.
“Make” can mean have the right qualities for:
• This room would make a good bedroom. (= It isn’t one
now, but it could become one.)
• She thinks very logically. She’d make a good lawyer.
(= She has the ability for it.)
The expression have the makings of is used in a similar
way:
• She’s still very young, but she has the makings of a
good lawyer.
“Make” can mean arrive, usually used in the expression
make it:
• The train leaves in ten minutes. We should just make it
(= get there in time).
• Sorry, I can’t make it to the meeting. I’m too busy.
(= I’m not able to come.)
“Make it” is also used to talk about succeeding in a career:
• They say that if you don’t make it in business by the
age of 40, you never will.
In British English, “make” can mean calculate:
• I think the bill’s wrong. I make it £53.50, not £63.50.
• Is my watch right? I make it 6.30 p.m.
A common way to ask the time in the UK is:
• What time do you make it? (= What does your watch say?)
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The phrasal verbs make of and make out can mean
understand or interpret:
• I’ve just received an e-mail from my boss. I don’t know
what to make of it. (= I don’t understand what he’s trying
to say.)
• Her new boyfriend is very strange. I can’t make him
out at all. (= I don’t understand his character.)
• What does that sign say? I can’t make it out.
(= I can’t read it.)
“Make” is also used as a phrasal verb with up:
make up = invent
• I don’t believe he met the queen. I think he was just
making it up. (= He invented the story.)
make (it) up = be friends again
• He had a terrible fight with his girlfriend, but now
they’ve made (it) up.
make up for = compensate for
• He spent the holiday relaxing, but now he’s studying
hard to make up for it.
Another common expression with “make” is make sure.
It means to check or be certain:
• Wait a minute. I just need to make sure all the windows
are closed.
“Make sure” is often used to remind people to do things:
• Make sure you phone me when you arrive.
• You will make sure to wear something warm, won’t
you?
Add one word from the list in the box to complete
each sentence below.
a | it | it | out | sure | up
a) The bus is still there — we’ve just made.
b) Make all the lights are off before you leave.
c) She speaks with such a strong accent, I can’t make
anything she says.
d) Why don’t you say you’re sorry and try to make
with her?
e) What time do you make?
f) The company has made profit every year so far.
Answers: a) We’ve just made it. b) Make sure all the lights are off...; c) I can’t
make out...; d) ...make (it) up with her; e) ...make it; f) ...has made a profit...
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.
copy [(kQpi] noun p. 14
model [(mQd&l] noun p. 59
a single book, newspaper, etc. that is one of many
that have been produced
Exemplar
I lent my copy of Margaret Thatcher’s
biography to a friend and never got it back.
a good example of sth.
Beispiel; Vorbild
It’s hard to be a good model for your
children when you love sweets and chocolate
as much as I do.
A hard copy is a printed copy of information taken from a
computer.
Model is also an adjective: “He’s a model father /
businessman.”
drag [drÄg] verb p. 28
get to do sth. [)get tE (du:] verb pp. 9, 17
to pull something or someone with difficulty
be able to, have the chance to do sth.
zerren, tragen
die Möglichkeit haben, etw. zu tun
Jack has nothing to do with this. Please
don’t drag him into the discussion.
I got to read two whole books while I was
on holiday last week. It was lovely!
See the extra notes below on how to use this word.
get to doing (ifml.) = start doing: “I got to thinking about
my childhood.”
pale [peI&l] adjective p. 56
with skin that is lighter than usual (of a person who is
worried, ill, etc.)
blass
When he heard the news, he turned pale and
began to shake.
“Pale” also describes colour: pale blue, pale green, etc.
sober [(sEUbE] adjective p. 13
not drunk
nüchtern
I need to talk to you when you’re sober, not
after three beers. It’s important.
sober up = become sober again after being drunk
Foto: iStockphoto
How to use the verb drag
When you’re talking about time, the verb drag is the
opposite of fly. On holiday, time really flies. A boring
meeting might drag on, however. There are many useful
expressions with the verb drag and a preposition:
• Don’t let it drag you down. (= make your
position worse)
• Don’t let him drag you into this. (= involve you in a
situation against your will)
• He dragged the details out of me. (= make you talk
about something when you don’t want to)
• He dragged up the old story about... (= talk about
sth. from the past that you hoped was forgotten)
• I couldn’t drag myself away from my book. (= stop
doing something enjoyable)
You can practise using drag in Spotlight plus.
Complete the following sentences with words
from this page in their correct form.
a) This business is a ___________ of good practice.
b) I hope the rain will stop so we can ___________ to go
out for a walk later.
c) Have you got a ___________ of yesterday’s Times?
d) My colleagues all drank wine at lunch. I’m the only
___________ person in the office.
e) Auntie Sue always manages to ___________ her
health problems into the conversation.
f) You look a bit ___________. Are you feeling OK?
g) If Roger Federer is playing, you’ll have to drag me
___________ from the TV.
Answers: a) model; b) get; c) copy; d) sober; e) drag; f) pale; g) away
OVER TO YOU!
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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.
Beer glasses
Before you order a beer in
an Australian pub, think
carefully about how thirsty you are
and where exactly you are. The only
glass size everyone agrees on is the
pint, at 570 ml — well, nearly everyone
agrees on it. In Adelaide, the capital
of South Australia, it’s called an
“imperial pint” and is 425 ml. In the
rest of the country, this smaller glass
is called a “schooner” [(sku:nE]. In
Adelaide, a schooner is a 285 ml glass
— called a “middy”, a “half pint” or
a “pot” in other cities. A 200 ml glass,
which is seven fluid ounces in English
measure, is a “seven” in Sydney, Darwin
and Brisbane, and simply a
“glass” in Melbourne and Perth. Adelaidians
call this a “butcher”. General
agreement exists only on the 140 ml
glass, which is called a “pony” nearly
everywhere, including Adelaide.
Back to the roots
The Germanic languages are a subgroup
of the Indo-European languages;
one could say that Proto-
Germanic is a daughter of the Proto-
Indo-European mother. Interestingly,
they share a substratum (Basis) of
basic vocabulary that is not of Indo-
European origin — more than their
sister language groups (Romance,
Celtic, Slavic, etc.). This includes the
names of plants (berry / Beere, leek /
Lauch), animals (dove / Taube, sheep /
Schaf ), body parts (liver / Leber, toe /
Zehe), common adjectives (broad /
breit, dear / teuer), verbs (begin / beginnen,
drink / trinken) and nouns
(dream / Traum, ice / Eis). Presumably,
these words were borrowed from
languages spoken by peoples living
in northern Europe before Indo-
Europeans arrived.
Nouns and verbs
Grammar
There are rarely clear-cut boundaries between the different parts of
speech (Wortart). Here, we will be looking at several instances of the word
“drawing”, moving from a pure noun to a pure verb. We’ll start with the
pure noun:
a) Martin’s famous drawings of Mt Vesuvius were sold for a high price.
“Drawings” is phonologically, morphologically and semantically related to
the verb “draw”. In (a), however, it is a normal, concrete, countable noun.
It is preceded by a genitive form (which could be replaced by the possessive
determiner “His”), it is modified by an adjective, it is in the plural and
is followed by an “of” complement. The nouns “pictures” and “sketches”
could be used in its place. “Drawings” in (a) is what is known as a deverbal
noun.
“Drawing” in (b) is also a noun, but an abstract, uncountable noun that cannot
be replaced by “sketch” or “picture”. It is known as a verbal noun:
b) Martin’s effortless drawing of a landscape is a joy to watch.
Verbal nouns can be formed from any verb by adding “-ing” and inserting
“of” before an object, if one is present (for example, in “draw a landscape”).
Semantically, the noun is directly related to the process expressed in the
verb “draw” — in contrast to (a), where “drawing” refers to the result of
drawing rather than the process of carrying it out.
In the next examples, “drawing” displays a mixture of nominal and verbal
properties. This is traditionally called a gerund:
c) Martin’s effortlessly drawing a landscape is a joy to watch.
Many people disapprove of his drawing naked women.
We now have the adverb “effortlessly” instead of the adjective. Also, there
is a noun phrase directly following “drawing” without “of”. Both indicate
that “drawing” is more of a verb than a noun. On the other hand, the genitive
form “Martin’s” and the possessive determiner “his” are indications
that “drawing” is a noun. Interestingly, many — or even most — speakers
of modern English tend to use “Martin” and “him” in the sentences of (c),
in keeping with the view that “drawing” is a verb. After all, the subject of a
verb does not appear in the genitive / possessive. Strict usage experts reject
this formulation, arguing that gerunds are nouns — but this viewpoint
is more dogma than fact.
In the examples of (d), “drawing” is traditionally referred to as a participle:
d) Drawing Mt Vesuvius, Martin realized that his hand was shaking.
The man drawing Mt Vesuvius is Martin.
While participles are verbal in nature, they can also be used as adjectives:
e) The silently drawing man in the corner was Martin.
Finally, we have the “drawing” in (f), which, although normally referred to
as a participle, is in fact a pure verb:
f) Martin is drawing a still life in his studio at the moment.
In which sentence below is “painting” clearly being used as a noun?
1. I watched his skilful painting of the ocean yesterday with fascination.
2. His skilfully painting the ocean was a pleasure to observe.
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Across
2. Got someone else to believe that one’s own
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7. A place where people learn.
10. (Of a person) very well known.
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13. “What are you doing ______ Saturday?”
14. Performed an action.
16. There are 12 ______ in a year.
18. Belonging to him.
19. Loose-fitting clothing, like a dress, but worn by
men and women (plural).
21. Someone who owns land.
24. A word that identifies a person: “His ______ was
Lawrence.”
Down
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3. From the outside to the inside of a place:
“Lawrence led the fighters ______ Syria.”
4. A large meeting.
5. Stopped living.
6. In addition.
8. An individual.
9. A high-ranking military officer.
11. To put in something extra.
15. Belonging to it.
17. At that time.
19. Lawrence’s book was published in a limited
print ______. (Not many books were published.)
20. Lawrence of Arabia was ______ 125 years ago
this month, in August 1888.
22. A word of comparison.
23. Belonging to.
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“
An original idea? That can’t
be too hard. The library must be
full of them.
”
Stephen Fry (born 1957), British actor, comedian and writer
Loyal supporters
A football manager is very angry when he catches two fans
climbing over the wall of his team’s stadium.
He pulls them down by their shirts and shouts at them: “Stop!
You two are going to stay here like everyone else and watch
the match until it’s over!”
© Bulls
Man and machine
“A computer once beat me at chess, but it had no chance
against me at kick-boxing.”
bitch [bItS] ifml.
chess [tSes]
clomp [klQmp]
cut [kVt]
leak [li:k]
nurturing [(n§:tSErIN]
outlive sb. [)aUt(lIv]
THE ARGYLE SWEATER
Plant life
“I bought a cactus. A week later, it died. Then I thought: ‘Oh,
no! I’m even less nurturing than a desert.’”
Miststück, Luder
Schach
Stampf-Stampf
schneiden; auch: Schnitt (beim Filmen)
Leck, undichte Stelle
nährend; auch: fürsorglich
jmdn. überleben, länger leben als jmd.
In the soup
Water is coming through Mr Mitchell’s dining-room ceiling,
so he calls a repairman to fix it.
When the repairman arrives, he asks: “When did you first notice
the leak?”
“Last night,” replies Mr Mitchell, “when it took me two hours
to finish my soup.”
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“Mrs Jones, are you not willing to forgive your enemies?” he
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“Ninety-eight,” she answers.
“Mrs Jones, would you please come to the front of the church
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Mrs Jones walks slowly to the front of the church, smiles at
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PEANUTS
66 Spotlight 8|13

Why
shouldn’t our
town be able to
profit from its
geese?
“
”
American Life | GINGER KUENZEL
My summer plans
Ein Städtchen wird von Gänsen belagert und verunreinigt.
Wie könnte man gegen diese Plage vorgehen?
Foto: Zoonar
Summertime is here, and, as the
song goes, the living is easy. It
wasn’t too long ago that we were
wishing that the warm months would
hurry up and arrive. That got me
thinking about the future.
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, has
Phil, the groundhog who tells us each
February just how much longer the
winter is going to last. If Punxsutawney
can gain fame and fortune from a silly
animal, why shouldn’t our town of
Hague, New York, be able to turn its
geese into a profitable business?
Everyone here complains about
the geese. Their numbers are growing,
a fact we observe with dismay when
the birds return each summer — at
about the same time as our valued
tourists. The big birds pollute the
lake, mess up people’s gardens, and
make our park the best-fertilized field
in the state. Need I say more? To
make something positive out of this,
I’ve come up with a few ideas. I’m
convinced that the federal govern-
ment’s Small Business Administration
will be happy to give us all the support
we need — perhaps even a small
business loan.
One idea for a new business is
goose down. It could be called
“Down-Town Hague.” We would
produce comforters and jackets. The
possibilities are downright endless.
And although few of us want to think
about down clothing at this time of
year, it’s a sure bet that, come November,
people will be happy that they
did. I can’t see the downside.
If that idea doesn’t get the interest
it deserves, we could start a cooking
school. We’ll call it “Your Goose is
Cooked.” People would attend from
all over the country. We could offer
classes in foreign languages and bring
in tourists from around the world,
too. Maybe we’d create a special cookbook
of recipes that use goose meat.
Of course, all of Hague’s goose meat
is organic and raised on the best water
in the world, so we do have something
with which to impress foodies.
Another idea is to start bottling our
own Grey Goose vodka. What goes
come up with [)kVm (Vp )wIT]
sich einfallen lassen
comforter [(kVmf&rt&r] N. Am.
Daunendecke
cook: ~ sb.’s goose [kUk] ifml.
auch: jmdn. ruinieren
dismay [dIs(meI]
Entsetzen
downright [(daUnraIt]
geradezu
downside [(daUnsaId]
Kehrseite, Nachteil
fertilized [(f§:t&laIzd]
gedüngt
foodie [(fu:di] ifml.
Feinschmecker, Gourmet
goose down [(gu:s daUn]
Gänsedaunen
Grey Goose vodka [)greI )gu:s (vA:dkE] renommierte Wodka-Marke
groundhog [(graUndhA:g] N. Am. Murmeltier
pollute [pE(lu:t]
verschmutzen
Prohibition [)proUE(bIS&n] Alkoholverbot in den USA, 1920–1933
Punxsutawney [)pVNksE(tO:ni]
raise [reIz]
hier: züchten
recipe [(resEpi]
(Koch)Rezept
Small Business Administration
US-Bundesbehörde für kleine und mittel-
[)smO:l (bIznEs EdmInI)streIS&n] US ständische Unternehmen
snoop around [)snu:p E(raUnd]
herumschnüffeln
still [stIl]
Schnapsbrennerei
into vodka, anyway? Potatoes, water
— anything else? I believe that the
definition of distilling is that you take
a large quantity of something and
make it more concentrated. We have
plenty of water and potatoes. I don’t
know if the original Grey Goose vodka
actually contains geese, but if so, we
certainly have a huge number of them.
I understand that the Russians
will travel to any place that serves
good vodka, so that’s one group of
visitors we can count on. Now we just
need to talk to the makers of Grey
Goose and let them know that we can
manu facture it for them much more
cheaply.
We might be able to use some of
the equipment from the old mines in
town, and even run the business from
one of them. That way, the still would
be out of sight — just in case those
annoying tax men start snooping
around as they did in the days of Prohibition.
And if need be, we can just
hide everything deeper in the mines
until the danger has passed.
For now, I think I’ll pour myself
my favorite summer drink — a glass
of Grey Goose and tonic — and keep
thinking about other uses for all those
geese. I’m quite sure that I’ll be able to
dream up a few more creative ideas.
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
Luisa Hartema
„Germany’s Next Topmodel“ 2012 arbeitet
fleißig an ihrer internationalen Karriere. Dabei
sind Englischkenntnisse unabdingbar.
As a model, what makes English important to you?
English is the world language. You can’t have success
without communication, so English is very important
to me.
When was your first English lesson, and
what do you remember about it?
I had my first English lesson in primary
school. I don’t remember very much about
it, but I think we had to introduce ourselves.
Who is your favourite English-language
author, actor or musician?
J. K. Rowling is my favourite author. I
loved the Harry Potter books when I was
young. Today, they remind me of my
childhood.
What is your favourite food from
the English-speaking world?
I love hamburgers — preferably
from Shake Shack in New York.
Which person from the Englishspeaking
world (living or dead)
would you most like to meet
and why?
I’d like to meet Margaret
Thatcher. She was such a strong
woman, and this impressed me.
What special tip would you give a friend who was going
to visit this city?
My special tip for a friend: you have to go to Shake
Shack, either in Madison Square Park or the Theater
District. They have the best burgers in America. Trust
me. You’ll fall in love with the food the very first time.
Which song could you sing at least a few lines of in
English?
“Wherever You Go” by the American singer Ron Pope.
Have you ever worked in an English-speaking environment?
If so, for how long, and what was it like?
I haven’t worked in an English-speaking environment,
but I’d like to do so in the near future.
When did you last use English (before answering this
questionnaire)?
I used English just 20 minutes ago. I’m in New York
right now, and I had a little problem with my room key,
so I was talking to a person at the hotel reception.
What was your funniest experience in English?
My funny stories are mostly slapstick, so it’s difficult to
translate them into words.
What is your favourite English word?
I don’t have a favourite word yet. Maybe I will when my
English is a little bit better.
Which phrase do you use most when you talk in English?
“I’m fine” — because everywhere you go in the US,
people always ask: “How are you today?” So, “I’m fine,
thanks” is definitely the phrase that I use the most.
If you could be any place in the
English-speaking world right now,
where would it be?
I think I would choose New York
City.
What is your favourite city in the
English-speaking world?
At the moment, New York is my
favourite city in the Englishspeaking
world. It offers so many
options for working as a model.
I’d like to stay there for a longer
time.
If you suddenly found yourself with a free afternoon in
London or New York, what would you do?
I think I would like to go shopping.
Is there anything in your home from the Englishspeaking
world?
I just bought a dreamcatcher for my bedroom.
What would be your motto in English?
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
dreamcatcher
[(dri:m)kÄtSE]
primary school [(praImEri sku:l] UK
Traumfänger (Kunstobjekt
einiger Stämme der Ureinwohner
Nordamerikas)
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This month…
Was beschäftigt die englischsprachige
Welt im August? VANESSA CLARK
spürt die heißen Storys für Sie auf.
Music in the bushveld
Music The Oppikoppi Bushveld Festival in Limpopo Prov -
ince, South Africa, is a very popular event, with three days of
non-stop music and comedy at Oppikoppi Farm. The name
comes from the Afrikaans phrase “op die koppie” or “on the hill”.
Oppikoppi attracts music fans from all over the world and has
helped the careers of many South African musicians. It’s not for the
weak, though. This is real bushveld — hot and dry, with red dust
everywhere. You’ll need a good, long shower when you get home!
attract [E(trÄkt]
bushveld [(bUSfelt]
car [kA:]
co-star with... [(kEU stA: wID]
couple [(kVp&l]
directed by [)daI&(rektId baI]
dust [dVst]
godfather [(gQd)fA:DE]
remain [ri(meIn]
steep [sti:p]
weak [wi:k]
Hollywood friends
Cinema British actress Helena Bonham Carter co-stars
with her old friend Johnny Depp in The Lone Ranger,
which comes out this month. The two actors have
worked together in many films before (Sweeney Todd,
Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory),
often directed by Bonham Carter’s husband, Tim Burton.
Depp is also godfather to the couple’s son.
Although she is a big Hollywood star, Helena Bonham
Carter has never had any training as an actor. Of
Johnny Depp, she says, “He’s very cool. Whatever
Johnny does, there’s something cool about it.” Who
could disagree?
anziehen, anlocken
Buschland
Waggon
eine der Hauptrollen spielen neben...
(Ehe)Paar
unter der Regie von
Staub
(Tauf)Pate
übrig sein
steil
Schwache(r); hier: zart Besaitete(r)
140
years
ago 1873
San Francisco The first line of
the famous cable-car system was
opened in Clay Street — a very
steep street. Nothing remains of the
original line today, but you can see
one of the original cars in the San
Francisco Cable Car Museum.
Titel: Purestock; Fotos Doppelseite: africamediaonline/images.de; Disney; Illustrationen: Bernhard Förth
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In the fridge
8 pictures | GREEN LIGHT
STEPHANIE SHELLABEAR presents words for some things you might
have in your fridge.
1
8
2
7
3
4
6
5
Write the words below next to the pictures.
1. ice cubes
[(aIs )kju:bz]
2. fruit juice
[(fru:t dZu:s]
3. margarine
[)mA:dZE(ri:n]
4. salad
[(sÄlEd]
5. ice cream
[)aIs (kri:m]
6. mayonnaise
[)meIE(neIz]
7. fruit yogurt
[)fru:t (jQgEt]
8. ready meal [)redi (mi:&l]
(UK) / TV dinner
Complete the sentences with words from this list.
a) I like vanilla _______ _______ best.
b) If I come home late in the evening, I warm up a _______ _______.
c) In my fridge, the _____________ vegetables stay fresh for a week.
d) Butter is not good for me, so I use _____________ instead.
e) I like to put both tomato ketchup and _____________ on my chips.
f) I drink a glass of _______ _______ with my breakfast every day.
Answers
a) ice cream; b) ready meal / TV dinner; c) salad; d) margarine; e) mayonnaise; f) fruit juice
The word
“salad” is used
for vegetables
[(vedZtEb&lz]
that are eaten
uncooked. The
green, leafy
vegetable called
Kopfsalat in
German is called
“lettuce” [(letIs]
in English.
Tips
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GREEN LIGHT | Grammar elements
Possessive pronouns
STEPHANIE SHELLABEAR presents basic grammar.
Practise how to say who the owner or possessing person(s) is / are.
Person Possessive pronoun Person Possessive pronoun
I my we our
you your you your
he /she / it his / her / its they their
Here are some examples of how to use this type of pronoun:
• This is my book.
• The missing money is your problem.
• Charlie often sends postcards to his grandmother.
• The queen greeted (begrüßen) her guests.
• The new football club has won its first match.
• We want to spend our holiday in America this year.
• It’s so nice to see you! Can I take your coat?
• Donna and Andrew are visiting their friends.
When we ask to whom something belongs, we begin the question with whose, followed
by the object and then the verb. Here is an example:
• Whose car is this?
A typical answer would be:
• The red Mini? It’s my car.
In English, when talking about body parts, we use a possessive pronoun:
• Mick has broken his leg.
• My cat has an infection in its left ear.
Tips
Which possessive pronoun is best? Complete the sentences below.
a) I don’t have time to wash ________ hair in the morning.
b) Children! Please open ________ books now!
c) We want to take ________ dog on holiday with us this year.
d) Jim is not happy. He has lost ________ keys.
e) The neighbours asked me to water ________ plants while they are on holiday.
f) You look tired. Sit down and close ________ eyes for ten minutes.
Fotos: iStockphoto
Answers: a) my; b) your; c) our; d) his; e) their; f) your
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In the restaurant
Donna and Andrew are having dinner in a restaurant.
By DAGMAR TAYLOR
Andrew: Would you like a starter?
Donna: No. I’d rather share a dessert.
They’ve got sticky toffee pudding... Ah,
here’s the waiter.
Waiter: Right, then. Are you ready to order?
Andrew: Yes, I think so. I’ll have a Pils,
please. Did you say you wanted a white
wine, Donna?
Waiter: A Sancerre or a Chardonnay, maybe?
Donna: A glass of Sancerre. And I’ll have the
fishcakes, please.
Andrew: I’ll have the lamb burger, please.
Waiter: OK. Would you like any salads or
sides with those?
Donna: No. That’s everything, thanks. We
want to leave room for pudding!
fishcake [(fISkeIk]
lamb [lÄm]
share [SeE]
sticky toffee pudding
[)stIki )tQfi (pUdIN]
True or false?
Fischfrikadelle
Lamm
teilen
warmer Dattelkuchen
mit Karamellsoße
The Greens | GREEN LIGHT
• The dish (Speise, Gericht) eaten
before the main course (Hauptgang) is
the starter (US: appetizer).
• Dessert [di(z§:t] is the sweet dish that
is eaten at the end of a meal. In the UK,
it’s sometimes called pudding.
• It’s perfectly polite (höflich) to order
food in a restaurant by saying I’ll
have...
• You might see the word sides written
on a menu (Speisekarte). It’s short for
“side dishes” (Beilagen).
• When a waiter asks you if you want to
order anything else, you can say:
That’s everything, thanks.
• By saying she wants to leave room
for pudding, Donna means she doesn’t
want to eat too much so that she will
have space in her stomach for dessert.
Donna
Tips
a) Donna wants to order a starter. ___
b) Andrew orders a glass of
white wine. ___
c) Donna orders the fishcakes. ___
d) Andrew orders the lamb burger. ___
Andrew
Answers
a) false (Donna wants to share a dessert.)
b) false (Andrew orders a Pils.)
c) true; d) true
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GREEN LIGHT | Get writing
Describing an item for sale
VANESSA CLARK helps you to write letters, e-mails and more in English.
Let’s look at how to list an item on an auction site.
Leather handbag BNWT
Brand-new leather handbag. Beautiful quality.
Unwanted gift.
P. & P.: £6 UK, £10 Europe, £20 rest of world.
Payment by PayPal or bank transfer. Please
pay within seven days of the end of the
auction. I will post within 24 hours of payment.
From a smoke-free, pet-free home.
Any questions, please ask.
Happy bidding!
hayley1034
• The thing you’re selling is called
“the item” and the description
(Beschreibung) of your item is called
“the listing”.
• You should say if the item is “new” or
“used”. If it still has the labels (Preisschild)
from the shop, you can say it is
BNWT (brand new with tags (Preisschild,
Etikett)). If it’s used, you can say
it’s “vgc” (in very good condition (Zustand)).
If it’s very old, you can say it’s
“vintage” [(vIntIdZ].
• Remember to say how much the
p. & p. (postage and packing) will cost
and how quickly you can post the item
after payment.
• Many private sellers describe their
home as smoke-free and / or pet-free
to show that the item won’t smell bad.
Tips
auction [(O:kS&n]
gift [gIft]
happy bidding
[)hÄpi (bIdIN]
transfer [(trÄnsf§:]
Use
it!
Versteigerung
Geschenk
viel Spaß beim (Mit)Bieten
Überweisung
Highlight the key words and phrases
that you would use if you wanted to write a
listing like this yourself.
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What it is
The saguaro is what we usually think of when we imagine a cactus. It looks like a large person
with his arms in the air. A saguaro can grow to be 20 meters tall and live to be 200
years old. However, they grow only in southern Arizona and parts of California and Mexico.
I lived among the saguaro in Tucson, Arizona, when I went to university. They are
most beautiful between April and June, when they produce white and yellow flowers.
Why I like it
Deserts look empty, but they are actually
full of life. A saguaro cactus waits up to a
year for rain, then stores water inside itself.
Little birds and owls make holes in the
cacti, where they build nests. These protect
them from the heat and give them a
chance to drink some of the water inside.
Together, the cacti form a forest. From a
distance, they look
like an army protecting
this unusual
ecosystem.
Unfortunately,
not everyone respects
this. Some
of the cacti have
bullet holes
in them.
Arizona is home to two big cities,
Phoenix and Tucson. Because it does
not rain very often, most people who
live there have cacti instead of trees in
front of their houses. When Christmas
comes, they decorate the large cacti
with coloured lights, the way we would
decorate a tree for the holidays.
bullet [(bUlIt]
cacti [(kÄktaI] pl.
desert [(dez&rt]
distance [(dIstEns]
holidays [(hA:lEdeIz]
imagine [I(mÄdZIn]
owl [aUl]
Phoenix [(fi:nIks]
protect [prE(tekt]
saguaro [sE(gwA:roU]
store [stO:r]
Tucson [(tu:sA:n]
unfortunately
[Vn(fO:rtSEnEtli]
(Gewehr-, Pistolen)Kugel
Kakteen
Wüste
Entfernung
hier: Weihnachtsfeiertage
sich vorstellen
Eule
schützen
speichern
leider
Fun
facts
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GREEN LIGHT | Notes and numbers
Temperature
The Celsius [(selsiEs] or centigrade scale (°C)
is used to measure [(meZE] (messen) temperature
in the UK:
• Temperatures should reach (erreichen)
30 °C today.
The Fahrenheit scale is used in the US:
• Set the oven to 400 °F.
If it’s clear which scale is being used, we just
say, “...four hundred degrees”.
To convert Celsius to Fahrenheit, multiply
the Celsius temperature by 1.8, and then
add 32 degrees.
Your notes
Use this space for your own notes.
Write the following temperatures as
you would say them.
a) 37 °C _______________________________
thirty-seven degrees (Celsius)
b) 180 °C ______________________________
c) 350 °F ______________________________
d) 102 °F ______________________________
e) 18 °C _______________________________
Rise and fall
When the temperature goes up, it rises.
When it goes down, it falls:
• Temperatures will rise to 35 °C in
London today.
Answers: b) a / one hundred and eighty degrees (Celsius /
centigrade); c) three hundred and fifty degrees (Fahrenheit);
d) a / one hundred and two degrees (Fahrenheit); e) eighteen
degrees (Celsius / centigrade)
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