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EDITORIAL | April 2014
Getting to the
heart of London
Sprachen lernen
– einfach
beim Lesen!
I thought I knew London. I grew up nearby and
lived there as a student. As it turns out,
though, I’m not such an expert. I discovered
this when I tried out five London tours for this
Inez Sharp, editor-in-chief
month’s travel feature. Whether it was popular
sights, East End food, fashion or film, each tour, in its own way, took me to
the very heart of the city, taught me interesting facts and opened new vistas
on a familiar place. Join me on my journey of discovery. It begins on page 14.
William Shakespeare’s plays speak to people of every race and culture.
Romeo and Juliet explores the drama of young love, Hamlet confronts us with
mortality, and Macbeth looks at ambition and power. Nonetheless, the presentation
of the plays has often been heavy, without much of a fun factor. This
month, on the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, we look back to the
colourful, noisy and engaging presentation of plays during his lifetime and how
that spirit is being recaptured today. On pages 28–33, you can rediscover his
work and remind yourself of his brilliant use of language.
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CONTENTS | April 2014
Top London tours
Experts show you around Britain’s most exciting city:
join us on London’s top tours.
14 28
Shakespeare today
Today, 450 years after his birth, we celebrate Shakespeare’s
work and language — and its global reach.
6 People
Names and faces from around the world
8 A Day in My Life
A psychologist in Britain
10 World View
What’s news and what’s hot
13 Britain Today
Colin Beaven on how noisy things are today
22 Food
Ballymaloe, a gourmet Irish tradition
26 I Ask Myself
Amy Argetsinger on the magic of pandas
38 History
The death of musician Kurt Cobain in 1994
40 Press Gallery
A look at the English-language media
42 Arts
Films, apps, books, culture and a short story
66 The Lighter Side
Jokes and cartoons
67 American Life
Ginger Kuenzel on church without God
68 Feedback & Impressum
Your letters to Spotlight — and our responses
34 Around Oz
Peter Flynn on the future of the post office
36 Debate
Should biker gangs be better regulated?
People in Adelaide have their say
69 Next Month
What’s coming next month in Spotlight
70 My Life in English
Author Annette Dutton on living in Australia:
the language, the culture and the Beatles
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PEOPLE | Names and Faces
The politician
Who exactly is…
Arvind
Kejriwal?
Can one man clean up a city of
22 million people? Probably
not. But Arvind Kejriwal,
who briefly served as chief minister of
Delhi from December 2013 until
February this year, did his best and is
now looking for an even bigger political
platform. Kejriwal founded the
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in 2012.
The party’s name means “the common
man”, and it chose a broom as
its symbol. It protested against government
corruption and promised to
improve the lives of normal people.
In December, members of the
party won 28 of the 70 seats in
Delhi’s city hall. Most of them, like
Kejriwal, were new to politics.
Kejriwal was born in 1968 to
middle-class parents in the north of
India. He studied mechanical engineering
and later worked for the Indian
Revenue Service. In 2006, he
began working full-time for causes
such as transparency in government.
broom [bru:m]
Besen
cause [kO:z]
hier: Sache, Angelegenheit
chief minister [)tSi:f (mInIstE] Ministerpräsident
citizen’s arrest [)sItIzEnz E(rest] Jedermann-Festnahme
gender [(dZendE]
Geschlecht
general election [)dZen&rEl i(lekS&n] Parlamentswahl
lens [lenz]
Objektiv
praise [preIz]
loben
revenue service [(revEnju: )s§:vIs] Steuerbehörde, Finanzamt
sit-in protest [(sIt In )prEUtest] Sitzstreik
tap [tÄp] antippen (➝ p. 61)
tear sth. apart [teE E(pA:t]
etw. auseinanderreißen
unifying [(ju:nIfaIIN]
vereinend, einheitsstiftend
Kejriwal believes that politicians
should not have a luxurious lifestyle.
It is said that he and his wife still use
the inexpensive furniture they bought
when they got married in 1994.
In his first month as chief minister
of Delhi, Kejriwal was both
praised and criticized for using unusual
methods. For example, in an effort
to gain more control over the
Delhi police force, he held a sit-in
protest on the streets of the city. The
BBC reported that in the centre of
Delhi, roads were closed and the
metro stopped running. Kejriwal ran
government business from the streets.
India will hold a general election
before the end of May, and the AAP
hopes to win seats in parliament.
“Now it is for the people to decide
whether they want to support clean
politics or not,” Kejriwal told NDTV.
“Earlier, people used to say they
didn’t have an option. Now we will
provide them with a clean option.”
In the news
When Tony Blair went to a London
restaurant recently, the barman
tapped him on the shoulder — but not
to ask what he wanted to drink. Instead,
Twiggy Garcia told the former
prime minister that he was under citizen’s
arrest for war crimes. The website
arrestblair.org offers
money to anyone who
tries to arrest Blair for
his 2003 decision to
enter the Iraq War.
The Independent
reports that instead
of following
Garcia to the police
station, Blair said they
should discuss Syria.
Beyoncé is everywhere. Her song
“Drunk in Love” was a number-one hit
this year, and the press report on her
every move. Now Vanity Fair has written
that Rutgers University in New Jersey
is offering a course called
“Politicizing Beyoncé”. Students
analyse her music
and videos, while reading
texts by black feminists.
The campus newspaper,
Rutgers Today, explained
that Beyoncé’s
“music and
career are used as
lenses to explore
American race,
gender, and sexual politics”.
Glenn Beck is a popular right-wing
political commentator in the US. In
2010, around three million people
watched his daily talk show on Fox
News, in which he spoke aggressively
about the “evils” of liberalism. Beck has
now left television and has a news
website, theblaze.com. In a recent Fox
News interview, he looked back on his
talk-show days and said he wished he
had been more unifying. “I think I
played a role, un -
fortunately, in helping
tear the
country apart,” he
commented.
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Out of the ordinary
Soon, Mandla Maseko will become the first black African
to go into space. Maseko, a 25-year-old DJ, was one of a million
people to enter a contest to win such a trip. He was selected to
go to a space camp in Florida last year, and was one of 23 winners
who will enjoy a suborbital space flight in 2015. “South
Africa has come a long way,” he told The Guardian. “Next year
is the 20th anniversary of democracy. What better way to celebrate
than sending the first black South African into space?”
Fotos: Corbis; Getty Images; laif
Rocket man: Mandla Maseko preparing to visit space
In 2005, after Amy and John Cervantes’ son turned
three, they decided to give homeless children in the US the
chance to celebrate their birthdays, too. So they held a party
for 40 young people. “Most of the children had never been to
a birthday party, not to mention one for themselves,” Amy told
South Charlotte Weekly. “One of the birthday girls actually
asked me ... if the presents were hers to keep.” The Cervantes’
non-profit organization, called Bright Blessings, has now
helped 10,000 children to celebrate their birthdays.
The head brewer at the Brauerei Schönram in Bavaria wears
lederhosen, is passionate about beer — and is an American.
Eric Toft moved from Colorado to Germany to study brewing
at Weihenstephan and went on to become the first American
to run a Bavarian brewery. At a time when German beer sales
are falling, Toft told the BBC he believes the answer is to be
more adventurous. “The Reinheitsgebot ought to be an incentive
to be creative, because we are forced to think of ways of
making different flavours within the law,” he said.
draft [drA:ft]
have come a long way
[hEv )kVm E )lQN (weI]
head brewer [hed (bru:E]
homeless [(hEUmlEs]
incentive [In(sentIv]
non-profit [)nQn (prQfIt]
not to mention
[)nQt tE (menS&n]
passionate about sth.
[(pÄS&nEt E(baUt]
suborbital space flight
[sVb)O:bIt&l (speIs flaIt]
(sport) (Berufung in eine)
Profimannschaft
es weit gebracht haben
Braumeister(in)
obdachlos
Anreiz
gemeinnützig
ganz zu schweigen von
begeistert von etw.
Flug in großer Flughöhe
innerhalb der Erdumlaufbahn
Texts by RITA FORBES
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• Name: Dante Exum
• Age: 18
• Height: 198 cm
• He is: a basketball star from Melbourne, Australia.
• Background: His father, Cecil Exum, played in a
college team with Michael Jordan before moving to
Australia, where he played basketball professionally.
• You’ll see him: playing in the American NBA (National
Basketball Association). Exum recently announced that
he was going to join the 2014 NBA draft.
• Experts say: that he could be one of the top five
players in this year’s draft — with a contract worth
several million dollars.
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A DAY IN MY LIFE | Britain
Helping
people to
change
Dr. Annette Kishore ist Psychologin. Zentraler Punkt ihrer Therapien ist den Patienten
dabei zu helfen, sich selbst zu verändern. JULIAN EARWAKER berichtet.
My name is Dr Annette Kishore, and I’m a
clinical psychologist. I’m 43 and work with adults
at a small private practice in Norwich. Symptoms
of anxiety and depression are the bread and butter of psychology,
but my special interest is in chronic pain, such as
musculoskeletal pain. My work is about helping people to
enjoy a better quality of life. It can be hard for some clients
to pay for private treatment, but they come because they
see the benefit.
I came to London from Trinidad when I was 20 to train
in general nursing. I found myself spending a lot of time
talking to patients. I thought about moving into counselling,
so I applied for a health services degree combined
with psychology. After that, I landed an assistant psychologist’s
job and then applied for a doctoral degree course in
clinical psychology, which included placements within the
NHS. I qualified in 2001 after a total of 11 years’ training.
You could say that I took the roundabout route.
I worked in London for seven years, then moved to
Norwich in 2008. I’ve got two young children, so I work
within school hours. I get up at seven, get the kids ready
and take them to school. I start work at 9.30 a.m. and see
three or four clients a day for therapy. I also do assessments
to ascertain why people are here and what they hope to
achieve. A person has to want change for it to happen.
I’m always looking for new challenges and different
directions. In my last job, I was in one of the biggest
psychology departments in London. I worked in a very
poor area and saw people struggling with social and financial
difficulties. Some were refugees and victims of torture.
One client had lost her entire
family in the Congo.
I enjoy working with
women, helping them to
overcome difficulties
such as abuse.
abuse [E(bju:s]
Missbrauch, Misshandlung
assessment [E(sesmEnt]
Begutachtung
benefit [(benIfIt]
Nutzen, positive Wirkung
bread and butter [)bred End (bVtE] hier: Alltagsgeschäft (➝ p. 61)
clinical psychologist [)klInIk&l saI(kQlEdZIst] klinische(r) Psychologe, Psychologin
counselling [(kaUns&lIN]
Beratung
doctoral degree course [)dQktErEl di(gri: kO:s] Promotionsstudiengang
general nursing [)dZen&rEl (n§:sIN]
Gesundheits- und Krankenpflege
health services degree [)helT )s§:vIsIz di(gri:] Berufsabschluss im Gesundheitswesen
musculoskeletal pain
Schmerzen im Stütz- und
[)mVskjUlEU)skelIt&l (peIn]
Bewegungsapparat
NHS (National Health Service)
staatlicher britischer Gesundheits-
[)en eItS (es] UK
dienst
placement [(pleIsmEnt] UK
hier: Praktikum
take the roundabout route etw. auf Umwegen
[)teIk DE )raUndEbaUt (ru:t] erreichen
victim of torture
Folteropfer
[)vIktIm Ev (tO:tSE]
A person has
to want change
for it to happen
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Influencing the mind:
any change takes time
INFO TO GO
Fotos: J. Earwaker; iStock
Attitudes towards
mental health are
changing slowly. The
media talk about it
more, but the stigma
is still there, especially
for men. I had
one male client who
told his colleagues at
work that he had a
“dental problem”
when he was coming
to see me.
I finish work at 2.30,
and in the afternoon,
the children take over:
homework, driving
them around, housework,
cooking the
evening meal. I don’t
do any therapy from
home, but sometimes I
have psycholegal assessment
reports to write. I
try to keep up to date
by reading studies, professional
publications
or research. Psychologists
like to be seen as scientists and to base their practice
on scientific research.
I meet my supervisor once a fortnight for an hour or
so to talk through my work. As a psychologist, it’s important
to have regular supervision, both informally and in
structured sessions. You need to be aware of your own vulnerabilities
and past experiences and how they influence
your interaction with your clients.
I’m good at switching off. In order to help someone else,
you have to be strong and take care of yourself. I enjoy family
time. I like to relax and chat with my husband. Psychology
is demanding work. The reward is seeing the change
and how the treatment is improving your clients’ psychological
functioning, helping their attitudes to life and assisting
their families. It can really make a difference.
anspruchsvoll
Zahn-
etwas bewirken
demanding [di(mA:ndIN]
dental [(dent&l]
make a difference
[)meIk E (dIfrEns]
mental health [)ment&l (helT]
psycholegal assessment
report [)saIkEU)li:g&l
E(sesmEnt ri)pO:t]
vulnerability [)vVlnErE(bIlEti]
psychische Verfassung,
geistige Gesundheit
gerichtspsychologisches
Gutachten
Empfindlichkeit, Verwundbarkeit
land
Dr Annette Kishore says that she landed an assistant
psychologist’s job in clinical psychology early in her career.
“Land”, when used as a verb with a direct object
— “to land something” — is an informal expression
meaning to achieve something that is difficult to do, or
to obtain something that is difficult to get: “She landed
a teaching contract after many interviews.” Practise
using the verb “land” in the following sentences.
a) Are you trying to __________ a job in the arts?
b) Marie __________ an important role in a film.
c) I am hoping __________ another big project soon.
ascertain
The verb “ascertain” is a formal synonym for “find out
for certain”. In the text, Dr Kishore says that she does
assessments to ascertain why a person has decided to
come to her for help. In other words, she begins her
work with new patients by finding out what they want
to change about themselves. Using the word “ascertain”
instead of simply “find out” makes Dr Kishore’s
statement sound serious and professional. Try using
“ascertain” in the following formal sentences.
a) The police are trying _________ the cause of the
accident.
b) I’m in the process of _________ whether our budget
is adequate.
c) Have you _________ the president’s time of arrival?
fortnight
The noun “fortnight” means a period of two weeks.
Speakers of American English consider it to be an oldfashioned
word, but it is still used frequently in British
English. “Fortnight” comes from the Old English feowertiene
niht, meaning 14 nights. Here are some examples
of how “fortnight” is used.
a) Our best athlete is injured and will need to rest for
a fortnight.
b) Get ready for a
fortnight of fun
at the community
dance
festival.
c) The city suffered
a fortnight of
traffic problems
because of ice
and snow.
Answers: land: a) land;
b) has landed; c) to land;
ascertain: a) to ascertain;
b) ascertaining;
c) ascertained
The mind-body
connection:
helping people
to manage pain

WORLD VIEW | News in Brief
Need a new passport?
Malta can give it to you
— for a high price
It’s a good month to... become Maltese
ing citizenship. The Caribbean nation of Dominica, for
example, will allow you to become a citizen for an investment
of less than €75,000.
A Maltese passport could be attractive for many different
reasons. New citizens would be able to travel freely
throughout the European Union and even work or live in
any of the 28 member countries. And while the price is
certainly high, once you have gained citizenship, you can
buy passports for members of your immediate family at a
much better price: just €25,000 each.
abprallen
Textil-
Filmmaterial
erzielen, einnehmen
wasserabstoßend, wasserfest
nächste Angehörige
bounce off [US baUns (O:f]
fabrics [(fÄbrIks]
footage [(fUtIdZ]
generate [(dZenEreIt]
hydrophobic [US )haIdrE(foUbIk]
immediate family [I)mi:diEt (fÄmli]
MALTA If you’re tired of grey skies and April
showers, Malta could offer you a sunny escape. If you do
visit its islands, but then decide you don’t want to go
home, the Maltese government has a proposition for you.
For €650,000 plus a few hundred thousand more in investments,
you can become a citizen of Malta.
According to Malta Today, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat
expects the programme to generate €30 million by the
end of the year. The international press finds the scheme
controversial, but Malta is just one of several countries sell-
nasturtium [US nÄ(st§:SEm] Kapuziner-, Brunnenkresse
proposition [)prQpE(zIS&n] Angebot
repel [ri(pel]
abstoßen; hier: abperlen lassen
ridged [rIdZd]
gezahnt, gefurcht
scheme [ski:m]
Programm, Aktion
throughout [Tru(aUt] überall in (➝ p. 61)
The butterfly’s secret
UNITED STATES What can we learn from
butterflies? A lot, it seems. Scientists in Boston think that the
microstructures on the insects’ wings could inspire a variety of new
super-hydrophobic products, from raincoats to airplane parts.
In the study, researchers filmed drops of water falling onto various
surfaces. Then, by slowing down the footage, they made some
key observations: a ridged surface, quite like that of a butterfly’s
wing, repelled water faster than a flat one. But how?
The ridges divided each drop of water into smaller parts, which
then bounced off the surface at a surprisingly high speed. As a result,
the ridged surface stayed drier than the flat one; the time that
the water had spent in contact with the ridged surface was shorter
than its time in contact with a flat surface.
Insects’ wings:
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full of useful science
“For years, industry has been copying the lotus. They should
start thinking about copying butterflies and nasturtiums,” Professor
Kripa Varanasi told the BBC. “I’m looking forward to working with
the fabrics industry to develop new clothing that stays dry longer.
What will be the next Gore-Tex?”

Where old is new:
the New Majestic
Hotel in Singapore
A sense of Singapore
SINGAPORE Since gaining its independence
from Britain in the 1960s, Singapore has become a financial
powerhouse, famous for tall buildings and international
flair. Despite its stark modern character, young
people there are trying hard to keep local culture alive.
For Loh Lik Peng, opening one-of-a-kind hotels in
historic buildings proved to be a good way to profit from
this interest in Singaporean authenticity. His New Majestic
Hotel, for example, is located inside a compound
of shops built in 1928.
“You don’t really know
where you are heading as a nation
without having some idea
where you came from,” the 41-
year-old told The Wall Street
Journal. “That’s particularly
important for a country that’s
as young as Singapore.”
Other business people are
opening vintage stores, organizing
historic walking tours or
helping to bring back traditional
Peranakan food, with its
Chinese and Malay influences.
One young restaurant owner
said he opened a new Singaporean eatery because he
feared the island’s cooking had become a “dying art”.
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compound [(kQmpaUnd]
eatery [(i:tEri] ifml.
head [hed]
one-of-a-kind [)wVn Ev E (kaInd]
powerhouse [(paUEhaUs]
stark [stA:k]
Anlage
Restaurant
hier: steuern, gehen
einzigartig
Kraftwerk, Kraftzentrum
hier: völlig
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booklet [(bUklEt]
in-depth [)In (depT]
issue [(ISu:]
pat [pÄt]
round out [raUnd (aUt]
Büchlein, Heft
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Clean energy
for Africa
ETHIOPIA Growth is
a priority for Ethiopia. But while the
economy of Africa’s second most
populous country is expanding, its
supply of power is not. That’s why
one of the continent’s biggest wind farms was recently added to the national
grid. The high-tech turbines of Ashegoda wind farm in Ethiopia’s
north started producing electricity late last year.
The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) says it hopes to
generate 100 per cent “clean” energy starting next year, mostly from
hydropower. Around 10 per cent of the country’s power is expected to
come from steam and wind, however, making Ashegoda a step in the
right direction.
“It complements hydropower, which is seasonal,” Mihret Debebe, the
head of EEPCo, told Al Jazeera. “When you have a dry season, we have
higher wind speed.”
Ruth Mhlanga of Greenpeace Africa also welcomes the move. “We
need an increase in renewable-energy access on the continent,” she told
The Guardian, “so the fact that Ethiopia is investing is really good.”
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Stromnetz
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WHAT’S HOT
Quick soccer
UNITED STATES
For young people in L.A., soccer is a
passion. Student leagues use the
school fields during the day, but at
night, these are unlit. So clever pickup
players have come up with a
plan: to use the city’s tennis courts
for a miniature form of the game.
Called “quick soccer,” or futsal,
the sport has five players per team
instead of eleven. The name comes
from futebol de salão, Portuguese
for “hall football,” which is an official
indoor sport. But in L.A., teens
began playing a fast form of the
game outdoors — on tennis courts.
“Here, I can experiment and see
if I can do these new tricks quickly
in a small space,” 20-year-old Arturo
Sanchez told the Los Angeles Times.
“If I can humiliate a lot of people in
futsal, it’s easier on the big field.”
Once the nets are taken down
and goals are spray-painted into
place, the courts are ready to go —
and they stay lit at night.
Soccer: kids will do anything to play
The power of a good book
UNITED STATES A good book can give you
the feeling of experiencing someone else’s life. Scientists at Emory
University in the state of Georgia
wanted to find out more: what actually
happens in the brain when we lose ourselves
in literature? Their findings
show that the experience in fact
changes the brain, producing an effect
that can last for days.
For the study, 21 people read part
Fact or fiction?
It’s hard to know
of Robert Harris’s exciting best-selling
novel Pompeii (2003) each evening.
Then, every morning, they had a brain
scan. The scans showed changes in a
part of the brain that has to do with language, as well as in the
primary sensory motor region — the area of the brain that is able
to convince the mind that what it is thinking about (like running or
jumping) is actually happening.
“The neural changes that we found associated with physical
sensation and movement systems suggest that reading a novel can
transport you into the body of the protagonist,” Professor Gregory
Berns told The Independent.
After the readers had finished the book, they underwent scans
for five days, during which time their brains continued to show the
same kinds of changes — an effect Professor Berns compared to
muscle memory.
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By RITA FORBES and CLAUDINE WEBER-HOF

“
Ice-cream
vans now play
their tunes for
longer
”
Britain Today | COLIN BEAVEN
Ice creams
and accidents
Was haben Eiswagen und Einsatzfahrzeuge gemeinsam? Beide
kündigen sich mit lauten und nicht unbedingt schönen Tönen an.
Foto: Alamy
Britain’s streets are noisy. Even if
you’re somewhere quiet, away
from all the traffic, you still
hear sirens non-stop. Police cars, ambulances
and fire engines are just part
of modern life. As the weather gets
warmer, Britain’s fourth emergency
service joins them: ice-cream vans
(Spotlight 8/12, page 44). But at least
they play music!
Ice-cream vans have to make sure
everyone knows they’ve arrived, so
they play a loud melody as they drive
round selling ice cream. Many play
“Greensleeves” — an old English love
song, written, some say, by King
Henry VIII about 500 years ago.
Others play something of equal
cultural prestige: the theme tune from
Match of the Day, the Saturday night
TV programme that shows goals from
all the big football matches. Both can
be rather annoying when they’re
played over and over again like a hyperactive
musical box. Despite this,
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the government decided last year to
allow ice-cream vans to play their
tunes for longer and more frequently:
for 12 seconds at a time, not four, and
every two minutes, not three.
At least ambulances are in such a
hurry that the sirens soon pass. In
fact, there’s a joke from an old Morecambe
and Wise sketch in which you
hear a very loud ambulance siren, and
one comic says to the other: “He’s not
going to sell much ice cream going at
that speed, is he?”
Not all ambulances are loud,
though. Some are simply used to take
patients from place to place and are
actually marked “patient transport”.
The ones with sirens and flashing blue
lights that make you get out of the
way in emergencies ought perhaps to
be marked “impatient transport”.
Ambulances have to be impatient
not just to save lives, but because the
government has rules about them,
too. There’s a target; they’re supposed
to arrive at the scene
of a serious accident
within eight minutes.
So if the ice-cream
van that’s just run you
over goes on to play
its tune more than
four times, your ambulance
is late.
There are targets
right across
Britain’s health
service these
days. Most of
them were introduced
when
verlassen
Unfall-, Rettungswache
Feuerwehrfahrzeug
Patience-Legen
(Kartenspiel)
Gesundheitswesen
Gesundheitsdienst
bemüht, darauf aus sein
hier: erfüllen
britisches Komikerduo
Spieluhr
allein
sich die Zeit vertreiben
jmdn. überfahren
sollen
etw. angehen, bewältigen
Titelmelodie
Colin Beaven is a freelance writer who lives and works in
Southampton on the south coast of England.
Tony Blair’s
government
came to power
in 1997. Targets
helped to tackle some complex problems
in British health care. Waiting
times for operations are now much
shorter, and hospital infections are
under better control.
Why are hospitals so keen to meet
their targets? There are serious financial
consequences if they don’t. In fact,
targets have sometimes become more
important than the patients themselves,
which has caused a new set of
problems. So how can ambulances get
to their destinations more quickly?
Perhaps, instead of using sirens, they
could try tunes like ice-cream vans.
Ambulance drivers could even do a bit
of karaoke over a microphone. They
could update Frank Sinatra: instead of
“I did it my way”, they’d sing, “Get
out of my way”.
A more realistic idea has been to
close ambulance stations and send
ambulances out to wait where you
think they’ll be needed. So don’t be
surprised if you see a lonely ambulance
in an isolated car park looking
like an abandoned burger van.
And how are ambulance drivers to
pass the time now that they can’t talk
to their friends in the ambulance station?
They can always take a pack of
cards with them. Even if they’re on
their own, there’s one game that’s
ideal: a game of patience.
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TRAVEL | Britain
On tour in

London ist eine Stadt, in der man immer
wieder Neues entdecken kann, egal, wie oft
man schon da war. INEZ SHARP berichtet
von originellen Stadttouren.
I’ve just boarded the morning flight from Munich to
Heathrow. As I get comfortable and start reading my
English newspaper, the man next to me asks if I live in
London. I explain that it was once my home, and that I’m
on my way there now for a few days’ visit. The man —
who is German and whose name is Thomas — is on his
way to London with his family. He wants to know if I have
any tips on what to do. I ask him to be more specific.
“That’s the problem,” Thomas says, looking towards his
wife, their teenage daughter and a cheerful boy of about
nine. “My wife and I have been to London a few times.
Lena went last year on a school trip, but it’s Oliver’s first
visit. Everyone wants to do something different.”
“Ha!” I respond, folding up my newspaper. “I have the
solution. You need to book some tours. There are tours of
classic sights — in German, too. There are food tours,
fashion, art and film tours. You can choose standard or
bespoke. Here’s a list.”
Thomas is rather surprised by my enthusiasm and
clearly thinks that he is seated next to a nutter. I wonder
if I should explain that I am on a mission for Spotlight to
discover the best tours of London. I decide against it and
go back to reading my paper.
A CLOSER LOOK
Fotos: Franz Marc Frei; iStock
The word bespoke describes a service provided by a
company to meet one customer’s specific wishes. If
you order a bespoke suit, for example, you choose
the material and the style, and the clothes are then
made to fit you exactly. The term was created in the
London district of Mayfair in the 17th century. A gentleman
visiting a tailor there might be told that certain
cloth had already been spoken for — that it had been
reserved by someone else and was not available to
other customers.
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Classic London: where Regent
Street meets Piccadilly Circus
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On your bike: a
street performer at
Covent Garden
The classic London tour
Over the next four days, Thomas and his family are often
my invisible companions, especially on my first morning,
as I try out a walking tour that includes the classic sights.
I have chosen London Tours auf Deutsch, which suit different
ages and language abilities.
My guide is the lovely, red-haired Fiona, who has
agreed to walk me round some of London’s popular sights.
We meet in Covent Garden, and Fiona begins the threehour
tour with a short history of the city — in English or
German, depending on the group.
The former fruit, flower and vegetable market is now
home to upmarket boutiques and restaurants. Fiona says
it’s a good place to start if there are kids on the tour, because
they can see the street performers. “It’s a great mix,
from acrobats to Chinese singers, and they audition so
there’s a certain standard.”
Along with the London Transport Museum (see Spotlight
4/13, pages 28–35), another nearby attraction is the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It is showing Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory. Fiona says going to a musical is a highlight
for visiting families. She also recommends The Lion
King, playing a few streets away at the Lyceum, as especially
good for international visitors.
As we leave Covent Garden, Fiona describes the raucous
behaviour of theatre audiences in Shakespeare’s day.
“They were fighting, pulling the actors off the stage,” she
tells me. The civilized behaviour we associate with theatre
visits these days began during the reign of King Charles II
(1660–85), she says, in the era when the original Theatre
Royal, Drury Lane, was built.
We stroll across Leicester Square, a place synonymous
with big film premieres. Fiona takes the opportunity to
Royal red: the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; a traditional red postbox; the Grenadiers on parade
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View from the South
Bank: Tower Bridge
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explain the term “red carpet”. “For
centuries, only royalty was allowed to
wear red,” she says. “They also walked
on a red carpet. Later, everything run
by the state was marked by this colour
— the postboxes, telephone boxes and
buses.”
We cross to Piccadilly Circus,
where a statue of Eros stands above a
fountain. “It wasn’t Eros originally,”
Fiona tells me. “It was The Angel of
Christian Charity. It commemorates
the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, a social reformer.”
Before 1833, the children of the poor worked
long hours in factories and mines. That year, however,
Shaftesbury created the Ten Hours Act. From then on, no
child under 13 was allowed to work more than nine hours
a day, six days a week. “Imagine what it must have been
like before,” says Fiona.
We take a walk through St James’s. It’s Sunday morning,
and the district is quiet, so we head straight to St
James’s Palace for the changing of the guard. We watch as
the Grenadiers, a special unit of British Army soldiers,
march out to the front of the palace, ignoring the cold
wind. In their red coats and bearskin hats, they line up in
formation. When the band begins to play, the soldiers
head out towards Buckingham Palace, guarded by
mounted police. Suddenly, even the freezing tourists are
in a parade mood. I’m surprised how well the horses deal
with the music and the noise. Fiona tells me that Queen
Elizabeth II asked Monty Roberts, the American horse
whisperer, to help train the horses.
Fiona and I walk on to Westminster Abbey and the
Houses of Parliament. She explains that the famous bell
known as Big Ben was probably named after the engineer
Sir Benjamin Hall, who had helped to install it in the
1850s. She also shows me Westminster School, which offers
a top-level education to children between the ages of
13 and 18. Tuition costs
around €40,000 a year, and
“people are prepared to go
without a car and have no
holidays for years, so that
their children can go to this
school”.
We take a bus that goes
past Trafalgar Square, along
the Strand and into London’s
financial heart, the City. We
walk to London Bridge,
pausing at the 61-metre-high
stone column known as the
Monument. It marks the
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place where the Great Fire of London started in 1666. The
fire destroyed more than 13,000 houses and 80 churches.
We cross London Bridge, from where we have a view
of the Tower of London on the north side of the Thames.
Fiona talks of King Henry VIII and his six wives, two of
whom were beheaded in the Tower (see Spotlight 11/11,
pages 30–35). South of London Bridge is Borough Market,
and the end of our tour. As we drink tea in one of the
cafes at the food market, Fiona explains why the tour of
classic London sights is so popular. “London is an expensive
place. People can’t afford to stay for long, so they want
to make the most of their time. A tour is an effective and
fun way of finding out a lot.”
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The East End food tour
When will London’s reputation for poor food finally be
thrown out with the slops? I don’t know of any other city
that offers such variety and innovation when it comes to
cooking. To show just how good the food can be, I’m
going on a food tour through the East End. I will see and
taste English specialities, but also the cooking of immigrant
communities, including the Russian Jews who came
to this area in the late 19th century, and the Bangladeshis
who settled around Brick Lane in the 1970s.
My guide is Nicole from Eating London tours. We
meet near Liverpool Street Station at St John Bread and
Wine. The restaurant’s founder, chef Fergus Henderson,
likes his meat and has become famous for his nose-to-tail
eating philosophy. We are at St John to try a bacon sand-
THE MULTICULTURAL EAST END
The East End of London has a long history of attracting immigrants.
The Huguenots were the first, arriving in the late 17th
century to escape religious persecution in France. Many of the
Protestant refugees were talented weavers and goldsmiths, and
they set up their businesses in and around Spitalfields Market.
Beginning in 1880, pogroms in Russia and Poland caused
many Jews to flee to England. Most of these immigrants, tens
of thousands in number, settled in London’s East End.
The most recent arrivals have been people from Bangla -
desh. In the 1970s, East Pakistan (today’s Bangladesh) fought
for independence from West Pakistan. Many Bangladeshis left
home to escape the war and went to live in London.
Each culture has changed the East End in its own way.
La Neuve Eglise in Brick Lane, a Protestant chapel built in 1743
by the French Huguenot community, is now a mosque where
Bangladeshi Muslims go to pray.
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Ausbackteig
Zweigniederlassung
Brot-Butter-Pudding (eine Art
Brotauflauf)
Kapelle
Pommes frites
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knusprig
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A traditional chippy: Poppies Fish & Chip shop in the East End
wich that is said to be the best in London. In the simple,
white-walled restaurant, I am served juicy, smoked English
pork between two thick slices of buttery grilled bread. It’s
heavenly — especially with the house ketchup — and certainly
the best bacon sandwich I’ve ever eaten.
A few steps away, in The English Restaurant, I try a
plate of bread-and-butter pudding. The food is excellent,
and the atmosphere is comfortable and warm. The next
foodie stop, thankfully, does not involve sitting down to
eat. It’s Androuet, a cheese shop in nearby Old Spitalfields
Market. Along the walls are cheeses in every shade of
cream and yellow. Brothers Leo and Alex Guarneri opened
a branch of the original Parisian shop here in 2009. Nicole
recommends that I try two English cheeses: a Lincolnshire
Poacher, a hard cheese with a mild taste of caramelized
nuts, and a type of Stilton with a sweet aftertaste. Leo offers
other cheeses for me to try, but I love the Stilton and
buy some to take home.
Around the corner in Hanbury Street is Poppies Fish
& Chips restaurant and takeaway. Inside the 1950s-style
interior, we are served cod and chips that look and taste
like the most perfect version of what my granny used to
make — large, golden chips, and fish in a crispy batter.
Fotos: Alamy; Kirkwood

Always crowded:
Beigel Bake in Brick Lane
By this time, I’m wishing I had worn looser clothing.
Our next stop is a pub: The Pride of Spitalfields, hidden
away in a small street, is a picture-book English pub with
a piano in one corner. I order a glass of cider and note
down ideas for the next instalment of the Spotlight soap
opera, Peggy’s Place (see page 58).
Usually, Nicole takes visitors to Aladin in Brick Lane
to try the famous Bangladeshi curries, but I am running
out of time, so I end my tour at the penultimate stop:
Beigel Bake, also in Brick Lane. There, I try a hot salt-beef
bagel prepared in the traditional Jewish way. Open 24
hours a day, seven days a week, this busy shop has a large
mirror opposite the counter. I look into it and give myself
a big, salt beef-and-mustard grin.
The fashion tour
The oldest hat shop in the world?
Penelope, one of the co-founders
of Fox & Squirrel tours, has come
along personally to take me on
the fashion tour. Our focus is on
traditional and contemporary
fashion. We start at Burlington
Arcade, an elegant row of shops in
the fashionable district of Mayfair.
Penelope explains that Mayfair
and neighbouring St James’s
were open country until the 16th
century, when artisans from the
East End brought their businesses here, selling clothes,
hats and shoes to wealthy locals.
Our first stop is Lock & Co, which has been
selling hats since 1676. In front of the tiny shop
in St James’s Street, Penelope explains how
English fashion has been defined by the
hunting traditions of the aristocracy.
“Tweed jackets, riding trousers and hats
are part of urban fashion today, and
their origins are here. In
France, Paris traditionally
shaped the fashion
of the country.
Here, it’s the other
way around.”
High heels at Nicholas Kirkwood
Traditional tailoring:
Gieves & Hawkes
The interior of Lock & Co is papered in gold and
cream; everywhere I look, I see hatboxes and royal warrants.
I walk up the creaking stairs past a glass case containing
a Lock & Co hat that once belonged to Lord
Horatio Nelson, best known to visitors as the vice-admiral
whose statue stands atop of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar
Square. In the ladies’ hats department, I am so impressed
by one of the large straw hats that I allow my head to be
measured by Ruth Ravenscroft, Lock & Co’s creative director.
A little while later, I find myself leaving the shop
with a black-and-white
hatbox.
History and fashion
meet at Gieves &
Hawkes in Savile Row.
As smart-looking gentlemen
focus on the racks
of jackets, Penelope and
I go up to the tailor’s
mezzanine-level exhibi-
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tion space. On display there is historical military clothing
once made by the shop. One popular exhibit shows the
first life jacket, a smart grey waistcoat with an inflatable
rubber ring on the inside and a cork whistle. That’s what
I would call going down in style.
By way of contrast, the shoes displayed in Nicholas
Kirkwood’s boutique on Mount Street could never be described
as practical. However, the exquisite pink loafers
and black platforms with a chiffon frill are why Kirkwood
is currently one of the hottest names in shoe design.
Penelope and I head for Regent Street via the famous
Claridge’s hotel. Penelope suggests returning sometime to
take tea in the art-deco-inspired foyer, where political
activist and style icon Nancy Cunard of
the Cunard shipping family once took
tea. After a tour of the traditional
shopping emporium, Liberty
(see Spotlight 4/13, pages
28–35), we round off the
day at OTHER/Shop, a
place where young British
Low heels at Nicholas Kirkwood
The inside view:
Gieves & Hawkes
designers can sell their products. I take a very cool tweed
jacket from one of the racks. It wouldn’t look out of place
at Gieves & Hawkes — but I’m not certain its hip designer
would agree.
The Making of Harry Potter Tour
On the bus from Watford Junction to the Warner Bros.
Studio, I experience a moment of déjà vu. Many of the
houses along the route look exactly like 4 Privet Drive, the
place where Harry Potter spent his early years. Have
Warner Bros built these roads for use in a film set? Of
course not — but the story of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s
Stone begins in exactly the kind of suburban homes
I can see from the bus.
The real tour begins 10 minutes later in the studios.
Movie magic is what we get, as actors Daniel Radcliffe,
Emma Watson and Rupert Grint appear on a huge screen
and welcome us to the tour. Behind them are the doors of
the Great Hall at Hogwarts. Slowly, the screen lifts, and
we find ourselves standing before the actual doors. Everyone
gasps as they slowly open, and we step into Harry Potter
land.
First, we enjoy the grand atmosphere of the Great Hall,
then we move on to another huge room, which contains a
variety of sets and props. In one corner is a section of the
boys’ dormitory at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry. In another is The Burrow, the
home of Harry’s friend, Ron Weasley. Details
such as socks drying on the heater in the dormitory
bring the sets to life.
The Great Hall: come in and find out more
Schlafsaal
Rüsche
nach Luft schnappen
Harry Potter und der
Stein der Weisen
aufblasbar
Rettungsweste
Halbschuh
Plateau-Schuhe
Requisite
Vorstadt-
Weste
(Triller)Pfeife
dormitory [(dO:mEtri]
frill [frIl]
gasp [gA:sp]
Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone
[)hÄri )pQtE End DE
fE)lQsEfEz (stEUn]
inflatable [In(fleItEb&l]
life jacket [(laIf )dZÄkIt]
loafer [(lEUfE]
platform [(plÄtfO:m]
prop [prQp]
suburban [sE(b§:bEn]
waistcoat [(weIskEUt] UK
whistle [(wIs&l]
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IF YOU GO... Kopfzeile fett | KOPFZEILE FETT
The friendly
face of
London
absorbed [Eb(zO:bd]
customs [(kVstEmz]
for free [fE (fri:]
top up [)tQp (Vp] UK
X-ray machine [(eks reI mE)Si:n]
vertieft
Zollabfertigung
kostenlos
hier: (Geldkarte) aufladen
Röntgenprüfgerät
Highlights for Potter fans on this tour include a lifesize
Hogwarts Bridge, and Diagon Alley, the magic-shop
street where Harry’s adventures began. For me, though,
the best part is a collection of tiny models of the buildings
that feature in the Harry Potter movies. They are the
beginning of a film-making adventure
that has made history.
Next day at Heathrow, I
keep looking for Thomas and
his family. I am so absorbed
that I forget my new hat just
outside customs. I notice that it
has gone as I put my suitcase on
the X-ray machine. Hurrying
back to ticket control, I
tell the man at the desk
what’s happened. He
smiles kindly and
waves me through.
Luckily for me, the
hat is lying just
where I left it.
Thomas and his
family are not on
the plane, but I am
with some great
memories — and my
rather stylish hat.
Getting around
Use an Oyster Card on the buses and Underground.
The card can be bought at every Underground station
and topped up with money. Children aged 11 and
younger travel for free as long as they are with an
adult with a valid ticket. Find out more at the Transport
for London website, www.tfl.gov.uk
Tour information
London Tours auf Deutsch: private tours cost £185
per group and need to be booked in advance.
www.londontoursaufdeutsch.com
Eating London: the East End food tour lasts four hours
and takes place daily except on Sundays. The price per
adult is £59, Teenagers (13–17) cost £50, children
£40. The food is included.
Fox & Squirrel London Walks: this company offers
fashion, art, architecture, photography and film
walks. The price per person is £125.
www.foxandsquirrel.com
The Making of Harry Potter Tour takes place daily.
Trains to Watford Junction leave Euston Station every
20 minutes. The journey takes 20 minutes. A tour bus
picks visitors up from Watford Junction and goes directly
to the studios.
Tickets for Harry Potter can be ordered at
www.wbstudiotour.co.uk
For more information on how to plan your trip to
London, go to www.visitlondon.com
Get a taste of England!
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FOOD | Ireland
Where it all
happens: the
kitchen at
Ballymaloe
The essence of Ireland
In Irland steht die Ballymaloe-Kochschule ganz hoch im Kurs. Ihr Geheimrezept: natürliche,
unverfälschte Nahrungsmittel direkt aus dem Garten. CHRISTINE MADDEN berichtet.
After a rain shower in the early
morning, it’s a fine day in
County Cork in south-west Ireland.
As part of the tour through the
Ballymaloe cookery school, manager
Toby Allen has led me into an enormous
glasshouse, easily the size of a
football pitch. In the sunshine,
tomatoes, red peppers and chillies
gleam like jewels through the
leaves. Toby Allen bends
over a plant.
“Do you like
cucumbers?” he
asks.
I do. He breaks
one off and gives it
to me. “I love them,”
he says, “but not
everybody does.” I
bite into the cucumber:
crisp and aromatic
with an almost creamy
taste. It’s hard to believe it is related to those impossibly
straight, plastic-wrapped green vegetables on display at the
supermarket.
Two of the
Ballymaloe
cookbooks
What goes for the cucumbers goes for everything
at Ballymaloe. This business is all
about natural, unadulterated, local ingredients.
Simply Delicious, the name of
a book written by Darina Allen, the
head and founder of Ballymaloe Cookery
School, says it all.
Ballymaloe and its three most famous
chefs, Myrtle, Darina and Rachel Allen, are
known throughout Ireland. In 1964, Myrtle
Allen opened a restaurant in Ballymaloe
House, a Norman castle built in the 15th
century that she and her husband Ivan had
bought. There she began to make a name for
herself. She was so successful that the restaurant
held a Michelin star from 1975 to 1980. In
1984, Myrtle Allen published her first collection
of recipes: The Ballymaloe Cookbook.
crisp [krIsp]
cucumber [(kju:kVmbE]
glasshouse [(glA:shaUs] UK
gleam [gli:m]
go for [(gEU fE]
red pepper [red (pepE]
unadulterated [)VnE(dVltEreItId]
knackig
Gurke
Treibhaus
glänzen
gelten für
rote (Gemüse)Paprika
rein, unverfälscht
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The restaurant was, for
its time, unique. After having
taught herself how to
cook, Myrtle Allen used
fresh, local food to prepare
meals for enthusiastic
guests. She bought fish
from the fishermen on the
nearby coast, vegetables
from neighbouring farmers,
meat from local butchers
and even wild berries
from children who collected
them in baskets and
brought them to the back
door. After a few years, she
offered a few rooms in the
farmhouse to overnight guests. Today, 50 years later, Ballymaloe
House is the centre of a family business that includes
the hotel and restaurant, a cookery school, many
cookery books and television programmes.
On my first evening, I find the warm, welcoming glow
of Ballymaloe House and its elegant dining rooms irresistible.
Over drinks and an opulent dinner, I have an opportunity
to meet various members of the Allen clan —
including the legendary Mrs Myrtle Allen, who celebrates
her 90th birthday this year. Her grandson Cully, who runs
an organic-food service, is also at the dinner. When I ask
how many members of the Allen clan there are, nobody
seems completely sure. Estimates vary from 72 to 78. Most
of them, though, live within five to ten kilometres of Ballymaloe
House.
The home of good cooking: the main house at Ballymaloe
Before marrying Myrtle’s son Tim, Darina Allen studied
hotel management at the Dublin Institute of Technology.
When she left college, she says, “you could count the
number of good restaurants in Ireland on one hand and
still have a finger left over”. Of those, “none would have a
woman in the kitchen”. But she had heard about Myrtle
Allen and decided to get in touch with her. Darina later
went to work at Ballymaloe and “soaked up everything
Myrtle knew”.
glow [glEU]
irresistible [)Iri(zIstEb&l]
soak up [sEUk (Vp]
unique [ju(ni:k]
Schimmer, Schein
unwiderstehlich
(in sich) aufsaugen
einzigartig
Three generations who have made food and cooking their business: Myrtle (left), Rachel and Darina Allen
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FOOD | Ireland
“We won’t buy
any more meat;
we’ll buy a pig.”
The two women
began giving classes
in cookery from the
restaurant kitchen.
These were so popular
that Darina and
her husband, Tim,
bought a neighbouring
farmhouse and opened the
Ballymaloe Cookery School,
which celebrated its 30th anniversary
last year.
The school reflects Darina
Allen’s belief that people should
get back to basics. The longest
course, which lasts 12 weeks,
takes students through every
step and method of the cooking
process to become professionalstandard
chefs. On the first day,
students begin with a tour of the
PHILIP
DENNHARDT
The Ballymaloe family
has a new and unexpected
member. Philip
Dennhardt is from an area near Ludwigsburg,
Germany and is a qualified master butcher.
After meeting Emily, Darina and Tim Allen’s
daughter, in New York, he followed her to Ireland
where they married in 2010. Dennhardt
now gives butchery classes at the school.
“The first to take the course were farmers,” he
says. “Also people who had to learn a new
trade and people who couldn’t afford to buy
food anymore so they said, OK, we won’t buy
any more meat; we’ll buy a pig.”
Not satisfied with just one qualification,
Dennhardt has studied pizza-making in Italy
and the United States. His special pizza
classes in the cookery school’s cafe on Saturdays
are popular with both visitors and locals.
gardens. Then they plant a seed. “It could be radishes, lettuce or sweetcorn,”
explains Toby Allen, Darina and Tim’s son. “They see how long it takes to
grow.” This helps them develop a sense of respect for ingredients, how much
effort goes into natural products and what makes excellent, tasty food.
A walk through the cookery school’s organic farm takes the better part of
a sunny morning. Toby and I visit the 350 chickens, which are free to move
about between the henhouse and the green meadow. We look at the dairy,
where members of the Allen family and co-worker Eileen O’Donovan make
fresh butter, yogurt and cheese from the milk from Ballymaloe’s cows. Past the
elegant herb garden, the beds are bursting with rows of fruit, vegetables and
herbs: horseradish, Jerusalem artichokes, colourful varieties of cabbage,
parsnips, beetroot, asparagus and potatoes.
These are the fresh ingredients the students use for their lessons. At
lunchtime, the tables are piled high with their coursework: fresh salad leaves
picked from the garden, fish pie, pâté, breads, cakes and
Out and about:
the gardens and
greenhouses of
Ballymaloe; one
of Rachel Allen’s
recent books
asparagus [E(spÄrEgEs]
bed [bed]
beetroot [(bi:tru:t] UK
cabbage [(kÄbIdZ]
dairy [(deEri]
henhouse [(henhaUs]
herb garden [(h§:b )gA:d&n]
horseradish [(hO:s)rÄdIS]
Jerusalem artichoke
[dZE)ru:sElEm (A:tItSEUk]
lettuce [(letIs]
meadow [(medEU]
parsnip [(pA:snIp]
piled high [paI&ld (haI]
radish [(rÄdIS]
sweetcorn [(swi:tkO:n]
tasty [(teIsti]
Spargel
hier: Beet
rote Beete
Kohl
Molkerei
Hühnerstall
Kräutergarten
Meerrettich
Topinambur
Blattsalat
Wiese
Pastinake
turmhoch beladen
Radieschen, Rettich
Zuckermais
lecker, schmackhaft
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tarts. Jugs of home-made lemonade stand
on the tables. After lunch, Rachel Allen,
Darina’s daughter-in-law — who, like
Darina, has published several cookery
books and had a TV series — gives a
cooking demonstration to the students.
She makes everything from soups to
marzipan. It looks effortless, like some
kind of alchemy. “This is the original fast
food,” she says, beating some eggs. “It
takes about 30 seconds.” With those eggs
direct from the henhouse, she makes the
quickest, tastiest omelettes I’ve ever eaten.
Rachel Allen came to Ballymaloe in
the 1990s to take a course and never left: “When you catch
Darina’s bug, it’s so infectious; her passion is so exciting.”
After the course, Rachel worked in the restaurant kitchen,
then returned to the school to teach. She’s travelled around
the world in search of inspiration. She writes a weekly food
column for a national newspaper and continues to appear
frequently on TV. And along the way, she married Darina’s
son Isaac, with whom she has three children — three more
members of the Ballymaloe clan.
This is how it’s done: a cookery class at Ballymaloe
The next generation: Rachel (left), Myrtle and Darina pass on their knowledge
The green fields and busy kitchens are central to the
cookery education at Ballymaloe, and those who work
there are on a mission, after many generations, to bring
great flavours and good nutrition back to people who no
longer know what these mean. People used to watch cookery
programmes to learn, Darina Allen explains. Now it’s
entertainment. “They’re spending much more time watching
than in the kitchen. People say they haven’t time to
cook. Instead, they’re slumped down in front of the TV
eating crisps and watching the box,” she says.
“The global food system is fractured,” Darina
Allen continues. “My major preoccupation at
the moment is the time bomb of obesity. There’s
a real need to go back to basics and help people
learn the skills that they missed. Every single
school should have a garden. We must teach the
kids how to cook again.”
What better way to get that education than
to spend an afternoon at Ballymaloe or to take a
course there? Sceptics need only enjoy a meal in
their restaurant or the cookery school cafe to be
persuaded. “We need to grow food that is going
to nourish people, rather than just fill the pockets
of the multinationals,” says Darina Allen.
“Education is more and more of a mission at
Ballymaloe. It’s absolutely essential.”
catch a bug [)kÄtS E (bVg] ifml.
crisp [krIsp] UK
daughter-in-law [(dO:tEr In )lO:]
fractured [(frÄktSEd]
jug [dZVg]
multinational [)mVlti(nÄS&nEl]
nourish [(nVrIS]
nutrition [nju(trIS&n]
obesity [EU(bi:sEti]
preoccupation [pri)Qkju(peIS&n]
slump down [slVmp (daUn]
tart [tA:t]
sich anstecken lassen
Kartoffelchip
Schwiegertochter
zersplittert, uneins
Krug
multinationaler Konzern
ernähren
Ernährung
Fettleibigkeit
Sorge, Beschäftigung
in sich zusammenfallen
Torte, Obstkuchen
Ballymaloe House, Shanagarry, Co. Cork;
tel. (00353) 21-465 2531, www.ballymaloe.ie
INFO
Ballymaloe Cookery School, Shanagarry, Co. Cork;
tel. (00353) 21-464 6785, www.cookingisfun.ie
A wide variety of day/week/12-week cookery
courses
Coming up: Ballymaloe LitFest of Food and Wine,
with guest speakers, including Yotam Ottolenghi,
16–18 May 2014, www.litfest.ie
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AMY ARGETSINGER | I Ask Myself
When are pandas
better than presidents?
“
The pandas
gave me the
chance to meet
Bill Clinton
”
Pandabären sind Bambus knabbernde sanfte Riesen, die auch schon
mal dem Präsidenten der USA die Show stehlen können.
When Bao Bao recently made
her public debut, visitors
lined up for hours to see the
first baby panda born at Washington’s
National Zoo since 2005. Zookeepers
had to nudge her awake for the occasion.
As soon as they put her in front
of the crowds, though, she fell fast
asleep again. Her fans loved it.
Washington loves pandas. Or
maybe, more to the point, everyone
loves pandas, and Washington is
lucky enough to be one of the four
American cities to have them. The
Making her debut: Bao Bao at the zoo
assignment [E(saInmEnt]
brush [brVS]
nation’s capital was also the first. In
1972, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing
were gifts of the Chinese government
to the US. I was a very little girl at the
time, but I can still remember the excitement
over them.
Why are we mad about animals
that make so little effort to charm us?
Maybe we see a bit of ourselves in
them: their oversize heads remind us
of human babies; and those black
patches on their faces make their little
eyes seem huge and empathetic.
What’s more, unlike most of their
more dangerous cousins in the bear
family, pandas are gentle vegetarians.
Another reason I love the pandas
is that they gave me the chance to
meet Bill Clinton.
In December 2000, the National
Zoo welcomed the young pandas Mei
Xiang and Tian Tian to replace Ling-
Ling and Hsing-Hsing, who had died.
Washington was excited about the
newcomers; The Washington Post published
story after
story about them.
Auftrag
hier: Begegnung,
kurzes Zusammentreffen
claw [klO:] Kralle (➝ p. 61)
cram [krÄm]
stopfen
elimination system
Ausscheidungs-,
[i)lImI(neIS&n )sIstEm]
Verdauungssystem
empathetic [)empE(TetIk]
einfühlend, mitfühlend
enclosure [In(kloUZ&r]
Gehege, Anlage
fast asleep: fall ~ [fÄst E(sli:p] in tiefen Schlaf fallen
flushed [flVSt]
gerötet
lecture sb. [(lektS&r]
jmdm. einen Vortrag halten
nudge sb. awake [nVdZ E(weIk] jmdn. wachrütteln
nutrient [(nu:triEnt]
Nährstoff
obese [oU(bi:s]
übergewichtig, fettleibig
patch [pÄtS]
Fleck
quick study [kwIk (stVdi] N. Am. ifml. Schnelllerner
stalk [stO:k]
Halm, Stiel
turn: sb.’s ~ to do sth. [t§:n] jmd. ist an der Reihe,
etw. zu tun
venture [(ventS&r]
sich trauen
As a reporter
writing about local
schools, I did not
mix much with
politicians or VIPs.
But in January
2001, it was my
turn to work on a
Saturday morning
when the president
was invited to tour
the zoo. The idea
was to give him a
first look at the pandas
weeks before the
animals would be
shown to the public.
The president’s visit
was scheduled for the morning hours
before the zoo opened, and the political
reporters didn’t want to get up so
early for such a silly story. So the assignment
was mine.
Clinton was taller than I had expected,
and his big, flushed face was
lit with the famous charisma you’ve always
heard about. Our former president
is a quick study who likes to
dominate a room with his knowledge
on whatever topic — and now, the
topic was pandas. Clinton was given
a private meeting with the pandas and
their keepers in a special enclosure
where we reporters could not follow.
He clearly crammed as much learning
as possible into that brief encounter,
because when he emerged, he was
ready to teach a class on pandas.
“They have long claws and very
big teeth,” he informed me and two
other reporters. He also explained
how the pandas consume thick stalks
of bamboo. “They eat 40 pounds a
day. They have a more efficient elimination
system than we do. They take
whatever nutrients they need and
eliminate the rest. If we consumed
40 pounds a day, we’d be obese.”
Bill Clinton was lecturing us on
panda biology. I wanted to remember
everything about this historic brush
with greatness, but suddenly, there
was a big cracking noise. Mei Xiang
had ventured outside to where we
could see her and was breaking into
the bamboo. The president talked on
and on, but we were no longer such
an attentive audience. We were all
staring at the panda instead.
Amy Argetsinger is a co-author of “The Reliable
Source,” a column in The Washington
Post about personalities.
Foto: Getty Images
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LANGUAGE | Shakespeare
Actor meets audience
Plays for today
at the Globe Theatre
Vor 450 Jahren wurde William Shakespeare geboren. Seine Theaterstücke gehören zu den
meistaufgeführten der Weltliteratur. VANESSA CLARK spannt den Bogen...
Prologue
April 1601. Today’s entertainment: a hanging this
morning and an afternoon at the playhouse. It’s
nearly time for Master Shakespeare’s great play
about our great old King Henry to begin. Down here in
the pit is where the fun starts. We’re packed in tight —
hundreds of us at a penny a head. It’s good business, theatre.
The rich are all right in their covered seats around us.
But it’s going to rain potatoes on us groundlings later —
and blood, if we’re lucky. Two o’clock. Time to begin. The
new play I saw last week started with lords and musicians:
“If music be the food of love...” Well, there are thieves and
drunks all around me, so I’m holding on tight to my pie
and plums and my ale, I can tell you.
Now there’s a player on stage. Our little theatre — a
wooden “O”! — is a battlefield in France, he says, and
we’re the English army, with our helmets and horses. Well,
we’re noisy enough, and we’re always ready to fight for
England and our good queen. I’d like a helmet and horse,
though. Someone behind me is spitting out cherry stones,
and God knows what I’m standing on — nutshells and
mussels, and I don’t want to think what else. ... Now it’s
the next scene: two greedy bishops saying how much they
love the king. (That’s right, Master Shakespeare — keep
the royals happy.) Well, he’s keeping the rest of us happy
so far, too, but now we want laughs, people like us. Give
us a tavern scene! Give us some action!
a head [E (hed]
ale [eI&l]
greedy [(gri:di]
groundling [(graUndlIN]
mussel [(mVs&l]
pro Person
Bier
gierig
Parterrebesucher
(Mies-)Muschel(schale)
pit [pIt]
playhouse [(pleIhaUs]
plum [plVm]
spit out [spIt (aUt]
tavern [(tÄv&n]
Grube; hier: Parkett
Theater
Pflaume
ausspucken
Wirtshaus
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Act I
April 2014: Would you use the words “entertainment”,
“noisy” and “laughs” to describe your experience of Shakespeare?
We studied him at school — boring lessons going
through the text line by line, struggling to understand its
meaning. I was taken to the theatre to see The Merchant of
Venice. The actors wore old-fashioned costumes, and it was
all very serious. It didn’t excite me. I didn’t “get” it. It’s not
surprising that many of us left school with a sort of fearful
respect for our “greatest playwright”.
Shakespeare for schools has changed, however. Creative
materials are helping teachers to make the old stories accessible
to a new generation. Theatres are taking a fresh
approach, too. In 2012, I took my own children (then 14,
11 and 10) to see the same play, The Merchant of Venice,
performed outdoors by Creation Theatre in Oxford (see
page 31). It was fantastic. We laughed. We cheered. People
didn’t wriggle in their seats. We chatted about it on the
bus on the way home. In short, we all “got” it.
Today, 450 years after his birth, William Shakespeare
is still a global hit. There has never been any doubt that
Shakespeare is a storyteller, historian, philosopher, poet
and wordsmith par excellence. And in this anniversary
year, there are more opportunities for more people than
ever before to encounter his works — to be amazed at how
this long-dead writer could have such an understanding
of human psychology as well as of the “big” themes in our
modern society such as class and power and greed. In
Britain and abroad (perhaps nowhere more than in the
German-speaking world), theatre companies are producing
new, energetic versions of the plays. Popular actors —
looking for a new adventure as well as Academy Awards
— are queuing up to play in them. Jude Law (The
Talented Mr Ripley, Sherlock Holmes) has been
crowned a success in Henry V, and tickets to
see Tom Hiddleston (the
Thor movies) as Coriolanus
are being sold online for more
than £1,000. A stage version of
the 1998 film Shakespeare in Love is
even due to open in the West End in
the summer.
Audiences of the 21st century are
certainly quieter and more focused than
their ancestors in 1601 (no beers and
meat pies, not even in the cheap seats);
but the atmosphere in the theatres,
whether in Stratford, at the Globe in
London, on Broadway or at open-air
festivals, has some of the dynamic
and excitement of Shakespeare’s time.
This reinvigoration of Shakespeare
is not only for “culture vultures”
who can afford to pay top
prices for theatre tickets. New initiatives
from the big theatre companies
are bringing his plays to a
wider audience. Shakespeare is
being streamed live around the
UK and across the world, so
everyone can enjoy the experience
of a professional play with
top actors — for less than €20
in the cinema.
Fotos: Corbis; iStock
ancestor [(ÄnsestE] Vorfahre
approach [E(prEUtS] Ansatz
cheer [tSIE] jubeln (➝ p. 61)
culture vulture
Kulturlieb-
[(kVltSE )vVltSE] ifml. haber(in)
encounter sth. [In(kaUntE] etw. begegnen,
auf etw. treffen
playwright [(pleIraIt] Dramatiker(in),
Bühnenautor(in)
reinvigoration
Neubelebung
[)ri:In)vIgE(reIS&n]
stream sth. live
etw. live übertragen,
[stri:m (laIv]
(Internet) streamen
The Merchant of Venice Der Kaufmann
[DE )m§:tSEnt Ev (venIs] von Venedig
wordsmith [(w§:dsmIT] Schriftsteller(in),
Wortschöpfer(in)
wriggle [(rIg&l]
hier: unruhig hin
und her rutschen
Shakespeare: as
seen by Roubiliac
(1702–62)

LANGUAGE | Shakespeare
Act II
“But soft,
what light
through
yonder window
breaks?
It is the east,
and Juliet is
the sun.” (II. i)
Want to feel part of the Shakespeare boom? Watch (or read) a Shakespeare play for pleasure or as part of your studies,
and you’ll get a timeless story, great drama and rich language. Here’s a taste of three of his most popular plays.
Famous
faces,
famous
kisses
“All that glisters
is not gold” (II. vii)
“I am a Jew. Hath not a
Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew
hands, organs, dimensions,
senses...?” (III. i)
Al Pacino as Shylock
Romeo and Juliet (1594–95)
The Merchant of Venice (1596–97)
The story
Two young people meet, fall in love and marry the next
day. Unfortunately, their families are enemies. Will true
love win in the end, or do the fates have other plans for
Juliet and her Romeo? As well as romance and tragedy,
there is comedy and lots of action.
Themes then and now
(First) love across divisions in society, families, gangs,
growing up and finding your identity.
Films
• Baz Luhrman’s Romeo + Juliet (1996) with Leonardo
DiCaprio and Clare Danes (see photo above).
Modern-day “Verona Beach”, with original dialogue.
• Romantic comedy-drama Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Romeo + Juliet is the love story within the love story.
More
• Romeo and Juliet was probably the first Shakespeare
“Good night, good night.
Parting is such sweet
sorrow
That I shall say good night
till it be morrow.” (II. i)
“For never was a story of
more woe
Than this of Juliet and her
Romeo.” (Last line)
demand [di(mA:nd]
fate [feIt]
fortune [(fO:tSEn]
mercy [(m§:si]
play to be performed outside
England, in Nördlingen in 1604.
• The story has been retold many
times: in Prokofiev’s ballet, in
Berlioz’s dramatic symphony, in
many different operas, in Dire
Straits’ 1981 hit song and in the
musical West Side Story.
• Girls who send their love problems
to the “Club di Giulietta”,
Verona, receive a handwritten
answer from “Juliet’s secretaries”.
fordern, verlangen
Schicksal
hier: Vermögen
Gnade, Erbarmen, Mitleid
The story
Successful Christian merchant Antonio borrows money
from Shylock, the Jewish moneylender, who, when Antonio
cannot pay it back, demands a “pound of his flesh”.
Meanwhile, rich Portia has a problem: too many men want
to marry her. She wants to choose her own husband, but
her dead father’s will states that, to win his daughter’s hand
(and fortune), a man must first win a kind of lottery...
Themes then and now
Anti-semitism, justice, revenge,
banking ethics
Film
• The Merchant of Venice (2004) with
Al Pacino as Shylock and Jeremy
Irons as Antonio. Set in Venice in
1596, with original Shakespearean
language.
“The quality of
mercy is not strained,
It droppeth as the
gentle rain from
heaven
Upon the place
beneath. It is twice
blest:
It blesseth him that
gives, and him that
takes.” (IV. i)
More
• Several of Shakespeare’s plays are set in northern Italy;
so for audiences, the powerful trading city of Venice
was at the same time a far, exotic location and a familiar
one.
• Christians could not lend money, so Venetians had to
go to Jewish moneylenders. The Venetians looked
down on them for their “dirty business”, but were
happy to use their services.
• The word “ghetto” comes from the name of the area
of Venice where the Jews were forced to live in Shakespeare’s
time.
revenge [ri(vendZ]
will [wIl]
woe [wEU]
yonder [(jQndE]
Rache
Testament
Kummer und Leid
(veralt., poet.) jener, jene, jenes
Fotos: Giulia Biasibetti; iStock; PBS
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“Will all great
Neptune’s ocean
wash this blood
Clean from my
hand?” (II. ii)
Patrick Stewart:
hands and
blood
Act III
To find out how theatres are bringing Shakespeare
alive today, we spoke to Lucy Askew, chief executive of
Creation Theatre, Oxford.
Creation Theatre has been exciting audiences with
its productions for nearly 20 years. What do you
say to people who think that Shakespeare is “too
hard”?
Often this is because their experience so far is reading
texts alone or at school. I think if everyone had the opportunity
to see Shakespeare performed by people who
love and respect the language, characters and stories,
they couldn’t help but love it.
Macbeth (1606)
The story
The Scottish nobleman Macbeth
is loyal to the king and fresh from
victory on the battlefield. Life is
“When shall we
three meet again?
In thunder, lightning,
or in rain?”
(First line)
going well for him and his ambitious wife. Then he hears
a prediction from three witches: he will win new titles, and
even the throne of Scotland. But how can Macbeth become
king, when King Duncan is alive and well? When
Duncan rewards Macbeth with a new title, it seems as if
the witches’ predictions are starting to come true.
Themes then and now
Ambition, murder, the eager wife behind the powerful
leader, the role of the First Lady
Films
• Roman Polanski’s 1971 adaptation, The Tragedy of
Macbeth (filmed in England and Wales)
• The 2010 TV film Macbeth with Sir Patrick Stewart,
one of Britain’s best-loved Shakespearean actors
• Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard are to star
in a new film version (2015).
More
• Macbeth is full of compliments to King James I, who
was Scottish and was thought at the time to be a descendant
of the real Banquo.
• A new tourist route, the “Macbeth trail”, is opening
in Scotland, showing sites of importance in the life of
the real King Macbeth.
• There is a superstition about the name of the play: if
you say the name inside a theatre, it will bring bad
luck. Many actors call it “the Scottish play”.
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?” (II. i)
How do your actors help the audience to
understand the story and especially the language?
It’s essential that the actors really engage with the language.
If you in the audience can’t understand what is
meant, it may be that the actor
speaking it doesn’t understand it either.
The delivery, the emotion and
the expression have to come right
from the truth of the lines. At Creation
Theatre, we also work hard
with our creative teams to keep our
shows fast-paced and physically and
visually interesting to carry people
along with the story.
What advice would you give learners of English
who’d like to have a first taste of Shakespeare?
Read a synopsis first. It’s not cheating. Don’t try to read
the text, but find a performance, either filmed or live.
Don’t worry if you don’t follow every word. If you’re
able to understand the gist and can really connect with
a phrase here and there, that counts as success for me.
www.creationtheatre.co.uk
cheat [tSi:t]
chief executive
[)tSi:f Ig(zekjUtIv]
dagger [(dÄgE]
delivery [di(lIvEri]
descendant [di(sendEnt]
eager [(i:gE]
engage with sth.
[In(geIdZ wID]
fast-paced [fA:st (peIst]
gist [dZIst]
help: sb. cannot ~ but do
sth. [help]
nobleman [(nEUb&lmEn]
prediction [pri(dIkS&n]
superstition [)su:pE(stIS&n]
synopsis [sI(nQpsIs]
schummeln
Geschäftsführer(in)
Dolch
hier: Darbietung
Nachkomme, Nachfahre
ehrgeizig
sich mit etw. (intensiv) beschäftigen
tempogeladen
Hauptinhalt, das Wesentliche
nicht umhin können, etw. zu tun
Edelmann, Adliger
Prophezeiung
Aberglaube
Zusammenfassung
Lucy Askew of
Creation Theatre
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LANGUAGE | Shakespeare
Act IV
We cannot be completely sure about many of the facts
of Shakespeare’s life (1564–1616). In this
section, however, we have collected some
details about the poet and his world
that are almost certainly true.
Portrait of
Shakespeare:
1610–16
Shakespeare...
...became rich, but probably not
from writing plays. His love poetry
made money, but most of his
wealth came from his financial involvement
in the theatre company
and other good investments.
...like all gentlemen of his time, carried a
sword or knife. This was for self-protection on
the streets, for fashion — and it was also useful
for opening oysters. Real weapons were also used on
stage.
...could tell the time (unlike his parents). By 1600,
public clocks had become part of city life. Theatres
needed their audiences to arrive on time (often at
2 p.m.), so that the performances could finish and
everybody could get home before dark. His plays contain
more than 80 references to clocks.
...didn’t write his name “Shakespeare”. Six handwritten
signatures, with six different spellings, have survived,
including “Shaksper”, “Shakspere” and
“Shakspeare”. “Shakespeare” was used in printed signatures
in his lifetime, though.
...was inspired by the exotic goods and stories of adventure
that explorers, travellers and merchants
brought back to England during the 1580s and 1590s.
...had seen a public execution. Executions were common
(and very bloody) in Elizabethan England. In
seven of Shakespeare’s plays, someone comes on stage
carrying a head.
...probably performed in front of Queen Elizabeth I,
but was most successful after James I came to the
throne in 1603. Within ten days, James had changed
the name of Shakespeare’s theatre company to The
King’s Men.
Act V
It is said that when Shakespeare couldn’t think of the word
he needed, he made one up — about 2,000 of them, in
fact. In general, Shakespeare’s language is not always easy
to understand, so in this section, we give you some help.
1. ’Tis true
In Shakespeare’s time, some of the most frequent
pronoun and verb forms were different from today;
for example, “thou art” instead of singular “you are”.
Write the modern equivalents of the following:
a) thou wert _________________
b) thou wilt _________________
c) it doth _________________
d) ’tis _________________
e) ’twas _________________
f) he hath _________________
2. Typically Shakespeare
afraid | quickly | request | send greetings (from)
soon | stop | why | would like to
Shakespeare used many words that are not in use
today. Match the “typically Shakespearean” words in
bold with their modern equivalents in the list.
a) “Art thou afeard...?” ___________ Macbeth, I. vii
b) “You shall see anon...” ___________ Hamlet, III. ii
c) “Gallop apace,...” ___________ Romeo and Juliet, III. ii
d) “But I shall crave your pardon.” ___________ Macbeth, IV. iii
e) “Run ... and commend me to my lord.” ___________
Julius Caesar, II. iv
f) “...and I fain would sleep.” ___________ Richard III, I. iv
g) “Forbear, and eat no more!” ___________
As You Like It, II. vii
h) “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”
___________ Romeo and Juliet, II. i
oyster [(OIstE]
plague [pleIg]
sword [sO:d]
Auster
Pest
Schwert
Fotos: Bridgeman; iStock; Stockbyte; Ullstein
...definitely went on tour. In 1603, the plague
broke out in London. Theatres were closed for
almost a year. Shakespeare’s company had to
leave London to perform in other towns.
Answers: 1. ‘Tis true: a) you were; b) you
will; c) it does; d) it is; e) it was; f) he has
2. Typically Shakepeare: a) afraid; b) soon;
c) quickly; d) request; e) send greetings (from);
f) would like to; g) Stop; h) Why
(Acts and scenes: l. vii = act 1, scene 7.)
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The Globe Theatre:
a wooden “O”

3. It was different then
Some Shakespearean words are “false friends” — they look like modern words, but they had a slightly different
meaning in his time. Even the word “false” is a false friend. Choose the correct Shakespearean meanings below.
a) “We thank thee, gentle Percy...” honourable / soft Richard II, V. vi
b) “...you false Danish dogs!” incorrect / treacherous Hamlet, IV. v
c) “O brave new world...” courageous / excellent The Tempest, V. i
d) “My soul is heavy,...” overweight / sad Richard III, I. iv
e) “Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?” bad(ly) / sick Romeo and Juliet, III. ii
Romeo and
Juliet (1597)
and First
Folio (1623)
4. Wise words
Shakespeare is often quoted by motivational speakers and in self-help books.
Which of the following quotations do you think give good advice?
a) “To thine own self be true.” Hamlet, I. iii
b) “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” Hamlet, I. iii
c) “Love is blind.” The Merchant of Venice, II. vi
d) “Be not afraid of greatness.” Twelfth Night, II. v
e) “The course of true love never did run smooth.” A Midsummer Night’s Dream, I. i
f) “What’s done cannot be undone.” Macbeth, V. i
Answers
3. It was different then
a) honourable; b) treacherous (betrügerisch,
heimtückisch); c) excellent; d) sad; e) bad(ly)
4. Wise words
(Various answers are possible.) (Twelfth
Night: Was Ihr wollt)
5. Everyday Shakespeare
a–1; b–2; c–2; d–1
5. Everyday Shakespeare
Many phrases in English and other languages have their origins in Shakespeare. Choose the correct meaning for each
modern expression below taken or adapted from Hamlet.
a) He’s my own flesh and blood. (I. v)
1. He’s a close family member.
2. He’s a close friend.
b) He shuffled off this mortal coil. (III. i)
1. He got married.
2. He died.
c) In my heart of hearts, I know it’s true. (III. ii)
1. I’m glad to tell everyone that it’s true.
2. I might not want to admit it, but I know it’s true, really.
d) He was hoist by his own petard. (III. iv)
1. He planned to harm someone, but he himself was harmed by his own plans.
2. He was tricked by his own family or friends.
Henry V and followers at the Globe Theatre
Epilogue
William Shakespeare is believed to have been born and
to have died on the same day, 23 April. In his own short
life, he breathed life into the English language, and his
works still have the power to make our lives richer today.
Even if you haven’t bought a ticket to Stratford, there
are many ways to celebrate the bard’s big birthday.
Why not do an online quiz, learn a quotation or find
the origins of one you know in German? You can act
out a scene from a play, watch a DVD of a film
adaptation or read a sonnet aloud. Shakespeare lives,
so play on — or what you will!
Find more ideas at: www.spotlight-online.de/shakespeare

PETER FLYNN | Around Oz
When less is more
Seit Briefeschreiben out ist, verkommt auch das australische
Postamt immer mehr zu einem Ramschladen.
Ihave always carried around a little
book of postage stamps. The pack
of 10 stamps usually lasts a couple
of years because, like most people, I
am posting fewer and fewer letters.
Australian post offices have
changed a lot since their birth in
1901, the year Australia was founded.
Back then, the central
offices in all
the major cities
were grand stone
buildings with
polished floors of
marble or fine
wood.
I visited one the
other day, reduced
now to a shadow of its
former self and looking
more like a discount
store. Less than
10 per cent of the
ground-floor space was being used;
the rest was covered in giant murals
showing much busier days from the
previous century.
The upper floors — where mail
was once sorted, telegrams were sent
out and rows of young women ope -
rated the early telephone exchanges
— are now company offices. What
struck me most, though, was the
number of useless items for sale.
For example, you could get a tiny
backpack with a built-in water bottle
and a metre-long plastic tube with a
mouthpiece. Not even bike riders in
the Tour de France would use anything
as silly as that! There were magnifying
glasses with LED lights for
anyone wanting to be the next Inspector
Clouseau, and a night light in
the shape of an angel for those afraid
of the dark. Then there were really
ugly things, such as wall clocks with
a thermometer, holders for plants
you’d have on your desk, plastic
picnic blankets and Thomas the
Tank Engine storage bags.
Of course, there was some good
stuff, too, like cheap mobile phones
and SIM cards, all kinds of notebooks
and printer paper, as well as
toner cartridges, travel
guides and adapters to fit
every type of electrical
socket in the world.
These better-quality
goods are the sort of stuff
you can also buy in pharmacies
and newsagents,
which not surprisingly
are starting to convert
some of their shop
space into miniature
post offices. That’s
probably the future
for post offices: being combined
with other retail businesses that have
also had to adapt to the 21st century.
The mail business has been in decline
since 2008. It’s now losing
A$ 100–200 million (€65–130 mil-
hier: Antrag
zuweisen
Milliarde(n)
Patrone, Kartusche
Steckdose
Lupe
Marmor
Wandgemälde
Zeitungsladen
Päckchen
Apotheke
Porto
Verlängerung
Einzelhandels-
Sozialgeld, Sozialleistungen
Aufbewahrungstasche
hier: auffallen, beeindrucken
hier: gelegentlich, vereinzelt
Thomas, die kleine Lokomotive
application [)ÄplI(keIS&n]
assign [E(saIn]
billion [(bIljEn]
cartridge [(kA:trIdZ]
electrical socket [i)lektrIk&l (sQkIt]
magnifying glass [(mÄgnIfaIIN glA:s]
marble [(mA:b&l]
mural [(mjUErEl]
newsagent [(nju:z)eIdZEnt] Aus., UK
parcel [(pA:s&l]
pharmacy [(fA:mEsi]
postage [(pEUstIdZ]
renewal [ri(nju:El]
retail [(ri:teI&l]
social-welfare payments [)sEUS&l (welfeE )peImEnts]
storage bag [(stO:rIdZ bÄg]
strike [straIk]
the odd [Di (Qd]
Thomas the Tank Engine [)tQmEs DE (tÄNk )endZIn]
Peter Flynn is a public-relations consultant and social commentator who lives in Perth, Western Australia.
“
The post
office is a
shadow of its
former self
”
lion) a year. Not long ago, nearly five
billion letters were being sent each
year, but soon it will be only half that
number. Ironically, the only real
growth area for post offices is in the
parcel business generated by online
shopping.
Other plans to keep post offices
open include letting them play a
larger role in certain government
services. Australia Post already
processes passport applications and
renewals, and assigns tax numbers to
individuals. Post offices could soon
become agents for social-welfare payments
and the taxation office, although
a lot of that is already done
online. Issuing old-fashioned pieces
of paper such as birth, death and
marriage certificates could fit into this
business model.
Meanwhile, I’ll keep buying the
odd booklet of stamps. One day
soon, they will be a collector’s item.
Foto: iStock
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DEBATE | Australia
Trouble on two wheels
Schießereien, Gewalt und organisierte Kriminalität – die australischen Behörden haben jetzt die
Nase voll und illegalen Motorradbanden den Krieg angesagt.
Australia has a problem with bikies — the name
commonly given in that country to members of
motorcycle gangs. Biker clubs such as the Hell’s Angels,
the Rebels and the Bandidos are hugely popular there.
Some people in these gangs are involved in illegal activities
such as drugs, money laundering and prostitution. Fighting
is common between rival gangs and has resulted in
bombings, shootings and murders, as the groups struggle
for power. While the members of the gangs are the ones
most in danger, civilians have also been injured.
Hell’s Angels: one of the biggest bikie gangs in Australia
altogether [)O:ltE(geDE]
anti-association law
[)Änti E)sEUsi(eIS&n )lO:]
breach of human rights
[)bri:tS Ev )hju:mEn (raIts]
carte-blanche approach
[kA:t )blA:nS E(prEUtS]
charge [tSA:dZ]
convict [(kQnvIkt]
gym [dZIm]
money laundering
[(mVni )lO:ndErIN]
raid [reId]
seizure [(si:ZE]
stance [stÄns]
suspicion [sE(spIS&n]
task force [(tA:sk fO:s]
hier: vollends
Vereinigungsverbot
Menschenrechtsverletzung
Blankovollmacht-Vorgehensweise
Anklage
Strafgefangene(r), Verurteilte(r)
Fitnessraum
Geldwäsche
Razzia
Beschlagnahmung
Haltung, Einstellung
Verdacht
(Polizei) Sondereinheit
Special task forces and the general police have had a
certain amount of success with raids on bikie headquarters,
especially in the seizure of stolen or illegal goods. However,
the authorities admit that it has been extremely difficult
to put an end to criminal behaviour among bike gangs
altogether.
In recent years, state governments have tried to stop illegal
activities with so-called anti-association laws. These
give police increased powers to prevent groups of bikies
gathering or riding together. Queensland is the latest state
to bring in this kind of law, which allows
the police to stop groups of three
bikers or more without the need for
any suspicion of a crime. The authorities
can also decide that a group is a
criminal organization without any evidence
to prove it. Anyone associating
with members of the group could
then be arrested.
The new laws have also increased
punishments for bikies who are found
guilty of crimes. As a result, they face
a long time in jail in a biker-only
prison outside the city of Brisbane.
The jail won’t have a gym or television
sets, prisoners will be locked up for 23
hours a day, and there will be regular
searches and drug tests. Convicts’ motorbikes
will also be destroyed. The
new laws appear to be working —
with more than 560 bikies arrested on
around 1,200 charges. Some discouraged members of the
Bandidos gang have even left the club.
Not everyone is happy with Australia’s tough new
stance, however. Earlier this year, more than 200 motorbike
enthusiasts protested on the steps of the South Australian
parliament building for an end to the antiassociation
laws, calling them a breach of human rights.
The Free Australia political party also joined the protest,
arguing that it is unfair to have a carte-blanche approach
to targeting groups of motorbike enthusiasts who have no
historical link to criminal activity. Some of those groups
are involved in organizing charity rides and believe that
they’ll be targeted by police or declared a danger to other
traffic simply because they choose to ride on two wheels.
The question remains: where is the line between controlling
crime and allowing citizens personal freedom?
Fotos: Getty Images; V. Malandris
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Vassil Malandris asked people in Adelaide, Australia:
Should biker gangs be better regulated?
Listen to John, Francesca, Amy and Frank
John Casey, 52,
TV presenter
Francesca Tripodi, 30,
journalist
Amy Taeuber, 23,
librarian
Frank Pangallo, 59,
producer
John Maguire, 47,
activist
Sophie Besanko, 23,
production assistant
Lindy Allen, 35,
researcher
Alex Fragnito, 43,
cameraman
concern [kEn(s§:n]
Besorgnis, Sorge
crack down on sb. [krÄk (daUn Qn] ifml. gegen jmdn. hart vorgehen
fragment sth. [frÄg(ment]
etw. zersplittern
librarian [laI(breEriEn]
Bibliothekar(in)
mistake [mI(steIk]
verwechseln
outlaw [(aUtlO:]
recover: ~ ground [ri(kVvE]
turn a blind eye to sth.
[)t§:n E blaInd (aI tE]
TV presenter [)ti: (vi: pri)zentE]
hier: verbieten
Boden wiedergewinnen
die Augen vor etw.
verschließen
Fernsehmoderator(in)
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HISTORY | 20 Years Ago
Kurt Cobain
Voice of a generation
Viele Rocklegenden lebten intensiv – und
starben mit 27. Als Kurt Cobain 1994 auch
in diesem Alter starb, trauerte eine ganze
Generation. Von MIKE PILEWSKI
To Time magazine, Seattle musician Kurt Cobain was
“the John Lennon of the swinging Northwest.”
Rolling Stone called him “the spokesman of a gene -
ration.” But Cobain, the lead singer, guitarist, and main
songwriter of the band Nirvana, said, “Famous is the last
thing I wanted to be.” Cobain died in an apparent suicide
20 years ago this month, on April 5, 1994. He was 27
years old.
Born in 1967, Kurt Donald Cobain had grown up in
Aberdeen, a small town on the Washington coast. There,
in 1985, he and a friend’s brother, bassist Krist Novoselic,
formed Nirvana.
The music industry was looking for the next big thing,
and found it in a style that was inspired by both punk and
heavy metal. The sound was characterized by a slow, distorted
electric guitar, dissonant harmonies, and lyrics dealing
with alienation, apathy, or a desire for freedom.
Nirvana’s first album, Bleach, which came out in the summer
of 1989, helped to usher in this new genre, called
“grunge.”
Grunge is dirt that is hard to remove. Unlike the heavily
styled glam rockers who had dominated the 1980s with
their elaborate light shows and stage performances, grunge
musicians dressed in their everyday clothing, performed
in an almost minimalist way, and paid little attention to
grooming.
The authenticity was overwhelming. Young people listening
to Nirvana felt that Cobain and the rest of the band
were just like them. With Cobain slurring the words,
rather than singing them, listeners were free to hear what
they wanted in his music. Many felt as though Cobain was
speaking directly to them.
Stormy relationship: the Cobain family in 1993
Hero of grunge:
Cobain’s image
was authentic
In one of his first interviews, Cobain told Sounds magazine:
“When I write a song, the lyrics are the least important
thing. I can go through two or three different subjects
in a song, and the title can mean absolutely nothing... I
try out a few subconscious things, I suppose, like conflicts
with other people. Most of the lyrics on the Bleach album
are about my life in Aberdeen.”
The album’s title was, in fact, inspired by a poster
Cobain had seen, advising heroin addicts to clean their
needles with bleach so as not to spread AIDS. But Nirvana’s
second album, Nevermind (1991), was much more
mysterious. Lyrics such as “Take your time. Hurry up! The
choice is yours. Don’t be late!” in the song “Come As You
Are” were playfully contradictory, as Cobain said he’d
intended.
alienation [)eIliE(neIS&n]
apparent [E(pÄrEnt]
bleach [bli:tS]
contradictory [)kA:ntrE(dIktEri]
distorted [dI(stO:rtEd]
elaborate [i(lÄbErEt]
glam [glÄm] ifml.
grooming [(gru:mIN]
heroin addict [(heroUEn )ÄdIkt]
lyrics [(lIrIks]
Never mind! [)nev&r (maInd]
overwhelming [)oUv&r(hwelmIN]
slur [sl§:]
subconscious [sVb(kA:nSEs]
usher in [)VS&r (In]
Entfremdung
hier: mutmaßlich
bleichen; Bleichmittel
widersprüchlich
verzerrt
aufwändig
schick, aufgedonnert
Körperpflege
Heroinsüchtige(r)
Songtext(e)
Macht nichts!
überwältigend
undeutlich aussprechen
unterbewusst
einleiten
Fotos: action press; Corbis; dpa/picture alliance
38

Nirvana’s albums:
classic cover art
Released on a
major label — DGC,
or Geffen Records —
promoted heavily by
MTV, and having
a memorable cover
with a photo, taken
underwater, of a baby
swimming toward a
dollar bill, Nevermind
was a runaway success, selling 400,000 albums a week.
Still, Cobain was often uncomfortable and frustrated.
He felt his message was too often misinterpreted. In fact,
it was never clear what that message was. Nirvana’s bestknown
song, “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” has the lyrics
“With the lights out, it’s less dangerous. / Here we are now.
Entertain us! / I feel stupid and contagious.” “Heart-
Shaped Box,” from the band’s third and final album, In
Utero (1993), has been interpreted as being about a relationship,
about memories, or about drugs — all things
that were personally relevant to Cobain.
As a teenager and an adult, he used various drugs: marijuana,
LSD, alcohol, glue, oxycodone, and finally heroin.
The heroin, Cobain said, stopped the pain from a chronic
stomach problem he had had for years.
Cobain’s stormy relationship with singer and guitarist
Courtney Love was the subject of constant and unwanted
media attention. The two were married in February 1992,
and their daughter, Frances Bean, was born that summer.
Like Kurt, Courtney had a drug problem; she said she’d
used heroin without knowing she was pregnant. Kurt went
into rehab that year, but suffered withdrawal symptoms
and began using heroin again. A court ordered that their
daughter be taken away from them for several weeks.
On August 5, 1994, Kurt Cobain was no more. His
body was found three days later at his home in Seattle, a
shotgun pointed at his chin. A handwritten note read: “I
have it good, very good, and I’m grateful, but since the age
of seven, I’ve become hateful towards all humans in general.
Only because it seems so easy for people to get along
that have empathy. Only because I love and feel sorry for
people too much, I guess. Thank you all from the pit of
my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and con-
cern during the past years. I’m too
much of an erratic, moody baby! I
don’t have the passion anymore, and
so remember, it’s better to burn out
than to fade away.”
Experts were unable to determine
whether any or all of the note had
been written by Cobain, his writing
having changed dramatically at the end after a large dose
of drugs, or whether a second person had added the lines:
“Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances... I love you.”
Could Cobain have been murdered? Some fans said he
had not seemed depressed during interviews, and claimed
that stories about him being depressed had all been rumors
put out by Love. A cousin, Beverly Cobain, offered a different
perspective as a psychiatric nurse. She said two of her
uncles had committed suicide with guns, and that alcoholism
had been a big problem in her and Kurt’s extended
family. Kurt himself had had attention-deficit disorder as a
child, and later bipolar disorder.
His death was a turning point both for fans and the
music industry. Comparisons were made to other musicians
— Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison — who
had been involved with heroin and had died at age 27.
Helped along by the success of Nirvana, other grunge
bands, such as Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Stone Temple
Pilots, and Mudhoney, sold well for a few years; however,
popular music generally became less introspective,
and the grunge phenomenon soon disappeared.
It was never forgotten,
though. In January
2014, the mayor of
Aberdeen, Washington,
said the town would recognize
the singer’s birthday,
February 20, as
Kurt Cobain Day, while
nearby Hoquiam, Washington
— Cobain’s
home for a short period
of time — said it would
celebrate April 10 as
Nirvana Day.
Teen spirit: sadness at Cobain’s death
attention-deficit disorder Aufmerksamkeits-
[E)tenS&n (defEsIt dIs)O:rd&r] defizitsyndrom
bipolar disorder
manisch-depressive
[baI(poUl&r dIs)O:rd&r]
Erkrankung
concern [kEn(s§:n]
Sorge
contagious [kEn(teIdZEs] ansteckend
empathy [(empETi]
Einfühlungsvermögen, Mitgefühl
erratic [I(rÄtIk]
unstet, fahrig
extended family [Ik)stendId (fÄmli] weiterer Familienkreis
fade away [feId E(weI]
langsam verschwinden
get along [get E(lO:N]
(gut) miteinander auskommen
glue [glu:]
Klebstoff
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memorable [(memErEb&l]
nauseous [(nO:SEs]
pit [pIt]
pregnant [(pregnEnt]
rehab [(ri:hÄb]
rumor [(ru:m&r]
runaway success
[)rVnEweI sEk(ses]
shotgun [(SA:tgVn]
withdrawal symptoms
[wID(drO:El )sImptEmz]
selbstreflektierend
einprägsam, unvergesslich
unter Übelkeit leidend
Grube
schwanger
hier: Entziehungskur
Gerücht
Renner, Riesenerfolg
Schrotflinte
Entzugssymptome
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39

PRESS GALLERY | Comment
An end to poverty?
Bill Gates ist der Meinung, dass es bis zum Jahr 2035 so gut wie keine armen Länder mehr auf
der Welt geben wird. Doch wie ernst kann man seine Vorhersage nehmen?
We have, according to Bill Gates, never had it so
good. The billionaire philanthropist ... goes on
to make the bold prediction that “by 2035 there
will be almost no poor countries left in the world”. ...
The World Bank classes as low-income any country
that earns below $1,035 gross national income per capita,
so to meet Gates’s criteria they will need to be earning
more than the equivalent of that in 20 years’ time. This is
by no means impossible ... but it is far from
easy. Some estimates suggest that, once population
growth is taken into account, a poor
country earning $500 per capita needs to grow
by an average of 6%–7% for 20 years to reach
the $1,000 threshold. ...
A second strand of Mr Gates’s [assessment]
is global health. Citing a Lancet study, he
writes that by 2035 every country could have
child mortality rates that are as low or lower
than the rate in the US or the UK in 1980.
The Lancet study does indeed say this is possible,
but it concludes: “If historical patterns ...
continue without change, we predict that the
child mortality rate will continue to decrease,
but by less than 28% by the year 2035 relative
to 2010.” ...
Even within his own criteria, then, Mr
Gates’s assessment is exuberant. ... And yet his
broader themes chime with a growing appreciation
of the inexorable if faltering global retreat
of the human violence that inflicts so
much of the world’s poverty in the first place.
Mr Gates’s view resonates, too, with recent
positive pronouncements from experts, including the
World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, who are now inclined
to discuss dates when world poverty will end, rather
than debate whether such a goal is possible. ...
So while Mr Gates may be proved wrong on the detail,
there is good reason for optimism — and good reason to
spread it. ...
© Guardian News & Media 2013
Optimistic: Bill Gates (left), with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
bold [bEUld]
prediction [pri(dIkS&n]
class [klA:s]
gross national income
[)grEUs )nÄS&nEl (InkVm]
per capita [pE (kÄpItE]
by no means
[)baI nEU (mi:nz]
take sth. into account
[)teIk )IntE E(kaUnt]
threshold [(TreShEUld]
strand [strÄnd]
child mortality rate
[)tSaI&ld mO:(tÄlEti reIt]
kühn
Vorhersage
einstufen, klassifizieren
Bruttonationaleinkommen
pro Kopf
keineswegs
etw. mit berücksichtigen
Schwelle
hier: Gedankenstrang
Kindersterblichkeitsrate
pattern [(pÄt&n]
exuberant [Ig(zju:b&rEnt]
chime with sth. [(tSaIm wID]
inexorable [In(eksErEb&l]
if [If]
faltering [(fO:ltErIN]
retreat [ri(tri:t]
inflict [In(flIkt]
in the first place
[In DE (f§:st pleIs]
resonate [(rezEneIt]
pronouncement [prE(naUnsmEnt]
inclined: be~ to do sth. [In(klaInd]
Schema
überschwänglich
mit etw. übereinstimmen
unaufhaltsam
hier: wenn auch
zögernd
Rückgang
bereiten, zufügen,
verursachen
überhaupt erst
Zustimmung finden
Behauptung, Erklärung
geneigt sein, etw. zu tun
Foto: Getty Images
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INFO TO GO
The Lancet
When speaking about the subject of global health, Bill
Gates quotes information from a publication known
as The Lancet. Appearing on a weekly basis, The
Lancet is not only the oldest but also one of the
world’s most respected journals dedicated to the
field of medicine.
When he first published the journal in 1823, its
founder, Thomas Wakley, explained his reason for
calling it The Lancet. A lancet is a small, extremely
sharp, double-edged medical knife with a pointed
end. Wakley described it as something with which to
cut away the rubbish, the waste, the useless matter.
Lancet is also the name given to a window that is
arched at the top, letting in a lot of light. Wakley intended
his journal to have both these qualities.
Perhaps the strong reputation enjoyed today by
The Lancet — and the fact that research and analyses
printed in it are oft-quoted — is proof that Wakley’s
intentions have been realized. Today’s Lancet offers
not just the printed magazine, but also online articles
and audio content.
IN THE HEADLINES The Economist
Listen to more news
items in Replay
Monkeys are among the most intelligent animals, but
compared to humans, they appear stupid and incompetent.
A number of idioms use this comparison to refer to
humans who are not as smart as they should be. To make
a monkey out of someone is to make that person appear
foolish. To monkey (around) with something is to try to
fix something, thinking you can, when you really can’t.
“Monkey see, monkey do” is said of people who imitate
the behaviour or actions of others without thinking.
Finally, monkey business is silly behaviour. This headline
referred to a recent debate on the origin of the world, held
between a well-known scientist and the head of a Bible
group, at the Creation Museum in Kentucky. By using this
headline, The Economist is saying that monkeys are at the
centre of the debate, but also that the debate itself is silly.
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| Drama
Rebels: Jamie Bell
and Chris Evans
On thin ice
South Korean director Bong Joon-Ho is known in
film circles as a festival director: his movies usually
appeal to smaller audiences and specialist film fans.
Made in English, with English and American actors, his
newest movie, Snowpiercer, belongs to a growing group
of climate-change films. It could bring the director to the
attention of a much wider audience.
It’s the year 2031, and the world is in the grip of a new
ice age caused by humans trying to slow down global
warming with chemicals. The survivors are trapped on a
train that takes exactly one year to circle the earth. The
| Comedy
A Long Way Down starts on New Year’s Eve, when four
people meet by chance on top of a building ready to jump to
their deaths. Jess (Imogen Poots), Maureen (Toni Collette), Martin
(Pierce Brosnan) and J. J. (Aaron
Paul) all have reasons for committing
suicide, but in meeting, they
find strength and decide to help
each other in the six weeks before
Valentine’s Day. In fact, that’s time
enough for strangers to become
family. Directed by Pascal Chaumeil,
the film shows that, like its characters,
lightness is the best option.
Looking forward, not down
poor and helpless live in terrible conditions at the back of
the train. The ruling classes enjoy life in the front carriages
with the help of bottled water, oranges and drugs. Right
at the front is the engine room. This is where Wilford (Ed
Harris) lives in luxurious isolation. He invented the train,
keeps it running and is worshipped like a god, until three
rebels (Chris Evans, John Hurt and Jamie Bell) challenge
his rule. Based on a French science-fiction novel, Snowpiercer
examines power through the eye of a story that
combines elements of George Orwell and Agatha Christie
with spectacular special effects. Starts 3 April.
| Crime
When the New York mobster Giovanni
Manzoni (Robert De Niro) informs on another
mafia boss, he and his family are
forced to join an FBI witness-protection
programme. This means leaving the US
to start a new life in France. If the Manzoni
family’s home is new, their attitudes
are not. When Giovanni and his
wife, Maggie (Michelle Pfeiffer), find
themselves struggling with life in a
Bulletproof
humour: Malavita
French village, they deal with the situation mafia-style. The
crime comedy Malavita — The Family, directed by Luc
Besson, plays off the sunny countryside of Normandy against
a family of city thugs. Available on DVD from 30 April.
appeal to [E(pi:&l tE]
carriage [(kÄrIdZ]
city thug [)sIti (TVg]
commit suicide [kE)mIt (su:IsaId]
ice age [(aIs eIdZ]
inform on sb. [In(fO:m Qn]
mobster [(mQbstE] ifml.
gefallen
Waggon
Gangster aus der Stadt
Selbstmord begehen
Eiszeit
jmdn. denunzieren
Gangster
New Year’s Eve [)nju: jIEz (i:v]
play sth. off against sth.
[pleI (Qf E)genst]
trapped [trÄpt]
witness-protection programme
[)wItness prE(tekS&n )prEUgrÄm]
worship sb. [(w§:SIp]
Silvester
etw. gegen etw. ausspielen
gefangen, eingeschlossen
Zeugenschutzprogramm
jmdn. anbeten
Fotos: PR
42 Spotlight 4|14

| Science
| Radio show
Journeys of Invention app has been developed by the
Science Museum in London. It allows users to explore the development
of 81 human inventions — from the guillotine to
the supercomputer. The objects are connected through 14
journeys. Go from the car phone to the Eisler Radio of the 1940s
and on to Enigma, a machine that creates coded messages and
can decode signals, too. Many objects are presented as interactive.
So you can write your own coded message on the
Enigma machine; or if you decide to visit the Apollo 10 space
capsule, the app allows you to view the inside of the capsule
as if you were actually there. Many of the inventions come with
detailed descriptions of their history and uses. Journeys of Invention
is available for the iPad and costs €8.99.
Travel through
the world of
science
Night Vale is a fictional town “somewhere in the Southwestern
United States”, we are told by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor,
who created the podcast Welcome to Night Vale. The bimonthly
radio show
from Night Vale tells of
small-town America
turned on its head. It is
home to strange and
mysterious characters
— in episode 2, the police
are looking for a
five-headed dragon
suspected of insurance
fraud — and a place
where the weather report
is a piece of music.
Night Vale: a dark world
Welcome to Night Vale has a cult following and is the most
downloaded podcast on iTunes. The language can be as
strange as the stories, so it’s good to know that transcripts are
available at welcometonightvaletranscripts.tumblr.com
A book with stories from Night Vale is planned for 2015.
| Theatre
Gone with the Wind is a great novel, and it was turned into a great film. But getting the book on to the silver screen involved more
than choosing an actress to play Scarlett O’Hara. Moonlight and Magnolias, a play by Ron Hutchinson, imagines part of this
process by bringing together
producer David O. Selznick, his
new director Victor Fleming,
scriptwriter Ben Hecht and a large
supply of bananas and peanuts for
five days in one room. It turns out
that Hecht hasn’t read the book, so
Selznick and Fleming find themselves
acting it for him. This entertaining
vision of what lay behind
one of the greatest successes
in entertainment history runs
throughout April and early May at
Vienna’s English Theatre. For tickets,
check www.englishtheatre.at
At Vienna’s English
Theatre: the making
of a great film
bimonthly [)baI(mVnTli]
code [kEUd]
fictional [(fIkS&nEl]
fraud [frO:d]
scriptwriter [(skrIpt)raItE]
hier: zweimal monatlich erscheinend
verschlüsseln
fiktiv
Betrug
Drehbuchautor(in)
silver screen [)sIlvE (skri:n]
space capsule [(speIs )kÄpsju:l]
throughout [Tru(aUt]
turn sth. on its head
[)t§:n Qn Its (hed]
Kinoleinwand
Raumkapsel
hier: durchgehend, immer
etw. auf den Kopf stellen
Reviews by EVE LUCAS
4|14 Spotlight
43

ARTS | Short Story and Books
Fear of spiders
Eine junge Frau überwindet ihre Angst vor Spinnen in einer mutigen Rettungsaktion und wird
mit einer interessanten Begegnung belohnt. JESSIE OPAL berichtet.
Ihave a complicated history with
spiders. You might even say that
they have made me the person I
am today.
It all started with Charlotte’s
Web, my favorite book as a child.
You know the story: Charlotte is a
spider who lives on a farm and
saves the life of a pig named
Wilbur. She was my first role
model — and looking back, I
realize that I could have done a
lot worse. Charlotte taught me
about loyalty and self-sacrifice and how to
look for the best in others. She also happened to be a spider
with a very large vocabulary, and she was responsible
for the fact that I spent a couple of years saying “salutations”
instead of “hello.” Spiders were my favorite animal.
That changed when I spent the night at a friend’s house
and we watched Arachnophobia on her large-screen TV.
The memory of a horde of hairy spiders terrified me for
months. I became a neat freak, carefully cleaning all the
corners in our house to make sure no cobwebs appeared.
A camping experience later that summer made my
fears even more real. Just before I sat down on a log in
front of the campfire, I decided to switch on my flashlight.
I shone the light onto the log and saw a black widow.
There was no mistaking the red hourglass shape on its
back, and I was sure that I would have been bitten had I
sat down. Convinced that I’d narrowly escaped a painful
death, I began shaking so hard that my mother had to take
me home. I didn’t go camping again for many years.
It was impossible to avoid spiders completely, though.
When I was in my teens, a garden spider made her home
just outside our kitchen window. She was lovely: pale yel-
low with a black design on her belly. Both architect and
artist, she built a new web every morning, drawing silk
from her spinnerets with long legs. I watched from behind
the glass, fascinated by the beauty she created. When a fly
or moth got caught in the web, I would turn away. I didn’t
want to see the bloodbath. But I was reminded of Charlotte’s
words to Wilbur: “I have to think things out, catch
what I can, take what comes. And it just so happens, my
friend, that what comes is flies and insects and bugs.”
In college, I decided to take a course on spider biology.
We learned everything about them. It was fascinating. Did
you know that some spiders have excellent night vision,
and that others live underwater, that babies are called “spiderlings,”
and that tarantulas can live to be 25 years old?
And — very interesting to me — that the bite of a black
widow is almost never fatal to a human?
One day near the end of that semester, I was having
lunch in the school cafeteria, when I heard someone shouting,
“It’s a tarantula!” from the other end of the building.
There was a time when that would have been enough for
me to leave the campus and never come back, but those
days were over. Instead, I ran toward the commotion.
The first thing I noticed was a
very large, very hairy spider
moving nervously back
and forth on the floor
of the lounge. The second
thing I noticed was
a guy with brown
hair and dark
eyes arguing
with the janitor,
who was holding
a large can of insecticide
spray.
argue [(A:rgju:]
back and forth [)bÄk End (fO:rT]
belly [(beli]
black widow [)blÄk (wIdoU]
bug [bVg] N. Am.
Charlotte’s Web [)SA:rlets (web]
cobweb [(kA:bweb]
commotion [kE(moUS&n]
garden spider [(gA:rd&n )spaId&r]
diskutieren
vor und zurück
Bauch; hier: Unterseite
hier: (US) Südliche
Schwarze Witwe
Käfer, Insekt
(dt. Titel) Wilbur
und Charlotte
Spinnwebe
Tumult, Aufregung
hier: (US) Gold-Wespenspinne
hourglass [(aU&rglÄs]
janitor [(dZÄnEt&r]
log [lO:g]
moth [mO:T]
neat freak [(ni:t fri:k] ifml.
role model [(roUl )mA:d&l]
salutations [)sÄljE(teIS&nz]
self-sacrifice [)self (sÄkrIfaIs]
spiderling [(spaId&rlIN]
spinneret [(spInEret]
Sanduhr
Hausmeister
Baumstamm
Falter
Sauberkeitsfanatiker(in)
Vorbild
Grüße; hier:
sei / seien Sie gegrüßt
Selbstaufopferung
Jungspinne
Spinndrüse
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Short Story
“Just let me try to catch it,” the guy said.
“And then sue the college when you get bitten?” the
janitor replied.
I stepped toward the men. “She won’t bite,” I said. “She
might pull some barbed hairs off her belly and throw them
at us, but as long as we don’t get too close, there’s no danger.”
I looked at the janitor and spoke calmly and slowly.
“Tarantulas are expensive. She probably escaped from the
biology department. Just give me a plastic bucket or something,
and then call the department. They’ll come get her.”
The man stared at me as if I were crazy, but then he
opened a cupboard and handed me a bucket. The brownhaired
guy followed me in the direction of the spider. As I
set the bucket down over the creature, the crowd of people
around us began to applaud loudly. I blushed, wondered
if I looked as terrified as I felt, gave a little bow — and decided
it was time to get to my next class.
“Hey, wait up!” The brown-haired guy was jogging
after me. “That was incredible,” he said. “Uh, I’m Daniel,
by the way. And, uh, I just wanted to say ‘salutations.’”
Novel
Although it is a novel,
Buddhaland Brooklyn
by American writer
Richard C. Morais reads
like a biography. In clear,
simple words, it tells the
story of Buddhist priest
Seido Oda, who joins a
monastery in the hills
of Japan’s Fukushima
province as a child, and
learns how the rituals of
belief can help with
tragedy and loss. When
he is sent to Brooklyn to open a new temple, Oda finds himself
being tested. He struggles in an environment in which loud
women and desperate young men threaten the comforts of
spiritual life. With an open eye for the everyday details that
bring the story to life, Morais’s characters find their hearts, and
capture ours, with awareness and empathy. Alma Books Ltd.,
€9.99. German title: Buddha in Brooklyn.
barbed hairs [bA:rbd (he&rz]
blush [blVS]
capture [(kÄptS&r]
give a bow [)gIv E (baU]
monastery [(mA:nEsteri]
plain [pleIn]
sue [su:]
young-at-heart [)jVN Et (hA:rt]
mit winzigen Widerhaken
besetzte Brennhaare
erröten
hier: erobern
sich verbeugen
Kloster
einfach
verklagen
Junggebliebene(r)
Graphic novel
How can you
make a play written
around 400
years ago interesting
to a modern
audience?
One way is to
turn the story
into a fantasystyle
comic. This
is what Classical
Comics has done
with Macbeth
by William Shakespeare.
Also the
play is available
at three different
levels — each
one its own book
— the original in
Shakespearean
English, a plain
version using
simpler language, and a text in easy English. The result is fun
and colorful. Macbeth has long, black hair and muscles like superman,
and his wife looks like an evil Disney princess. For the
young and the young-at-heart, this is a great way to get to
know Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and a number of other famous
books and plays. Classical Comics, €13.10 (quick text version
only). Find out more about Shakespeare on pages 28–33.
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LANGUAGE | Vocabulary
In the loft
Most British houses don’t have a cellar, so people use their loft or attic as storage space.
ANNA HOCHSIEDER presents language to talk about the things you can discover there.
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1. cobweb
6. water tank
11. loft hatch
16. camping gear
2. rafter
7. mattress
12. loft ladder
[(kÄmpIN gIE]
3. dust sheet
8. light bulb
13. cardboard box
17. toolbox
4. model railway (UK)
9. suitcase [(su:tkeIs]
14. Christmas decorations
18. boards / boarding
5. chest
10. tricycle [(traIsIk&l]
15. shoebox
19. loft insulation
A load of junk
The other day, my wife and I cleared out the loft — a
difficult job we had been putting off for ages. There was
so much junk to sort through — bits of broken furniture,
paint-stained dust sheets and a smelly old mattress
to start with. Then there was a battered old suitcase,
some rusty tools that belonged to my father, favourite
toys waiting for some grandchildren, a box full of yellowed
newspaper cuttings, a cracked teapot with the
handle missing and old clothes that gave off a musty
smell because they had been stored up there too long.
Some of the things brought back fond memories: love
letters we had written to each other when we first met;
my parents’ wedding photograph — so faded I hardly
recognized their faces; and the stamp collection that was
one of my most prized possessions when I was a boy.
We even discovered a real treasure: a beautiful art-deco
mirror, a little dusty, but in pristine condition. I have
no idea where it came from, but it could be worth a lot.
We might hold a garage sale, or give some things away.
But I don’t want to part with the mirror.
Illustration: Bernhard Förth
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1. Complete the sentences below with words from the opposite page in their correct form.
a) Let’s cover the furniture with d__________ s__________. We’re going to be away for a long time.
b) Don’t let Julie see those c__________! She’s really scared of spiders.
c) This bag’s too small. Can you get the large red s__________ down from the loft?
d) Where do you keep your t__________? I need a hammer and some nails.
e) As a girl, I was Elvis Presley’s greatest fan. I kept every n__________ c__________ I ever read about him.
f) Please close the l__________ h__________ when you’re up there. But don’t stand on it!
2. Match the sentence halves below to create definitions.
a) A battered suitcase a ➯ 1. has lost its colour.
b) A faded photograph b ➯ 2. is something you own that is very important to you.
c) A prized possession c ➯ 3. is a collection of worthless things.
d) A cracked pot
d ➯ 4. is something you remember that makes you happy.
e) A load of junk
e ➯ 5. is damaged on the surface but still usable.
f) A fond memory
f ➯ 6. is in bad condition because it has been used a lot.
3. Add the missing particles from the opposite page to the verbs below.
a) I spent hours sorting __________ the boxes, but I couldn’t find our wedding photos.
b) She cleared __________ her wardrobe and gave lots of clothes to charity.
c) We have given __________ a lot of our old toys, but some others are just too special.
d) If you keep putting __________ the spring cleaning, it will be summer before you do it.
e) Seeing my friends again after all these years brought __________ happy memories.
f) My brother keeps everything. He finds it very hard to part __________ his possessions.
g) I found a nice coat at the jumble sale, but unfortunately, it gave __________ a strong
smell of tobacco.
4. Underline the correct adjective in each line below.
a) When steel gets wet, it can become dusty / musty / rusty.
b) When a room has not been aired for a long time, it smells dusty / musty / rusty.
c) When furniture has not been cleaned for a while, it becomes dusty / musty / rusty.
An attic is also
called a loft in
British English.
An attic or loft
conversion is
space under the
roof that has
been turned into
an extra room or
a separate flat.
If you are
looking for more
storage space,
see this month’s
Spotlight plus.
Tips
Answers
1. a) dust sheets; b) cobwebs;
c) suitcase; d) toolbox
(tools); e) newspaper
cutting (UK; Zeitungsausschnitt);
f) loft hatch
2. a–6 (battered: zerbeult);
b–1 (faded: verblichen);
c–2 (prized possession:
sehr wertvolles Stück); d–5
(cracked pot: Kanne mit
Sprung); e–3 (load of junk
(ifml.): Haufen Gerümpel );
f–4 (fond memory: schöne
Erinnerung)
3. a) through; b) out; c) away;
d) off; e) back; f) with (part
with: sich trennen von);
g) off (jumble sale (UK):
Trödelmarkt)
4. a) rusty; b) musty (muffig);
c) dusty
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LANGUAGE | Travel Talk
Going to a
baby shower
Celebrate a new life at a special
party with RITA FORBES.
Welcome to the shower
Hello, everyone, and thank you so much for coming
to Kate’s baby shower. I know some of you
have come a long way. Kate, we’re here to give you
lots of love and support — and gifts! We want to
help you get ready to welcome your little one.
We also want to have some fun! Please help yourselves
to snacks from the buffet. We’ll play some
games later, and we have fabulous prizes for the
winners. On this table, we have lots of plain white
onesies and fabric paint, so you can all get creative.
Oh, and the little potted plants are party favors.
Please take one home with you and take good care
of it. It’s like preparation for motherhood.
Opening the gifts
Why don’t we start with this one, Kate? It’s from
Joanne.
Let’s see... Oh, look! Booties! You made these, didn’t
you, Joanne? They’re darling. Thank you so much!
This one is more for you than for the baby.
Stretch mark lotion. Ha! Ooh, and cashmere socks!
I’ll take these with me to the hospital.
Here’s my gift. It’s on the practical side.
A pacifier... a teething ring... washcloths... and a
gift certificate for diapers. That’s perfect! Thank
you.
Baby talk
So when’s your due date exactly, Kate?
May 21 — and we’re ready! The nursery is almost
finished, and we’ve a list of names we both like. We
just want to hold the baby in our arms now.
Is Tom going to be in the delivery room?
Oh, yes. He wants to cut the cord.
That’s wonderful! And how about maternity leave?
I’ll take three months off at first. Then we’ll see.
• Baby showers are very common in the US and
are becoming more popular in all English-speaking
countries. These parties are traditionally held before
the birth of a woman’s first child and are arranged by
one or more of her friends. At a baby shower, friends
and family “shower” gifts, such as baby clothes, onto
the mother-to-be (werdende Mutter).
• Games are an important part of a baby shower.
Guests might be asked to guess how big the mom-tobe’s
belly (Bauch) is, for example, or they might have
to draw a picture of a baby with their eyes closed.
• A onesie (N. Am.) is a one-piece outfit for a baby. It is
usually snapped shut (mit Druckknopf verschließen)
between the legs.
• Party favors are small gifts for the guests at an
event such as a wedding, birthday party, or shower.
• Booties are soft shoes to keep a baby’s feet warm.
• After a woman has a baby — or simply loses a lot of
weight — stretch marks may be left on her body.
• Many babies find it calming to suck (saugen) on a
pacifier, made of plastic or rubber. In Britain, this
object is called a “dummy.”
• Small children can chew (kauen) on teething rings
to help against the pain of new teeth growing.
• The due date is the day when a baby is expected to
be born.
• A nursery is a special room decorated for the baby.
• When a doctor or midwife (Hebamme) helps a woman
give birth, he or she “delivers the baby.” The hospital
room where this happens is called a delivery room.
• The umbilical cord (Nabelschnur) must be cut soon
after the birth. The baby’s father or older siblings
(Geschwister) can get involved by cutting the cord.
• Maternity leave is the period of time a new mother
takes off work. In the US, this is often limited to 12
weeks.
Tips
Illustrationen: iStock
darling [(dA:rlIN]
diaper [(daIp&r] N. Am.
fabric paint [(fÄbrIk peInt]
fabulous [(fÄbjElEs] ifml.
hier: reizend
Windel
Stofffarbe
sagenhaft
gift certificate [(gIft s&r)tIfIkEt] N. Am. Geschenkgutschein
help oneself [)help wVn(self]
sich bedienen
potted plant [(pA:tEd plÄnt]
Topfpflanze
washcloth [(wA:SklO:T] N. Am. Waschlappen
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Cards | LANGUAGE
coffice
NEW WORDS
John spends most of his weekday afternoons
working in a coffice in King Street.
GLOBAL ENGLISH
What would a speaker of
British English say?
North American: “At the time, we thought it was
the start of a revolution, but later, we realized it
was just a tempest in a teapot.”
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(IN)FORMAL ENGLISH
Replace the words in bold with
softer expressions:
1. We were sorry to hear of your mother’s death.
2. Their father died last night after a long illness.
TRANSLATION
Translate:
1. Wie lange hast du dort gelebt?
2. Das hat aber lange gedauert.
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PRONUNCIATION
IDIOM MAGIC
Read the following words aloud:
quartet
quartz
Ching Yee Smithback
Quasimodo
Quechua
quay
queue
watering hole
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FALSE FRIENDS
argument / Argument
Translate the following sentences:
1. I had a terrible argument with my father
yesterday.
2. Das war ein besonders stichhaltiges Argument.
GRAMMAR
Complete these sentences with
“every day” or “everyday”:
1. I try to learn five new English words __________.
2. Learning new vocabulary is an __________ habit
of mine.
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LANGUAGE | Cards
GLOBAL ENGLISH
British speaker: “...a storm in a teacup.”
This expression refers to great anger, excitement
or worry about something that is trivial —
something that is unimportant or of little value.
In German, one speaks of ein Sturm im Wasserglas.
NEW WORDS
For people who need just a laptop computer and
a wireless (drahtlos) internet (Wi-Fi) connection to
do their work, a coffice is a nice place to hang out
(herumhängen). This new word is a blend
(Mischung) of “coffee shop” and “office”. Some
speakers also use it in reference to airport lounges
and hotel lobbies.
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TRANSLATION
1. How long did you live / have you lived there?
2. That took / lasted a long time.
Used as an adverb of time, “long” normally
appears only in questions and negated (verneint)
sentences. In an affirmative (bejaht) sentence,
lange is typically translated with a prepositional
phrase, for example: “for quite some time”.
(IN)FORMAL ENGLISH
1. We were sorry to hear of your mother’s passing.
2. Their father passed away last night after a
long illness.
The verb “pass away” and the noun “passing” are
often used instead of “die” and “death” (especially
in the US), as the latter (Letzteres) are considered
by many people to be too direct.
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IDIOM MAGIC
In the literal (wörtlich) sense, a watering hole is a
place in a body of water where animals can drink,
but the expression is also used idiomatically to
refer to a pub or a bar.
“The Alchemist and Barrister is a popular
after-work watering hole for young bankers and
lawyers.”
[kwO:(tet]
PRONUNCIATION
[)kwA:zI(mEUdEU]
[(ketSuE]
[kwO:ts]
[ki:]
[kju:]
With the exception of a handful of words of
foreign origin, initial “qu-” is pronounced [kw]
in English.
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GRAMMAR
1. I try to learn five new English words every day.
2. Learning new vocabulary is an everyday habit
of mine.
“Everyday” is an adjective meaning “usual”,
“ordinary” or “routine”. It is used only attributively,
in other words, in front of the noun it modifies.
FALSE FRIENDS
1. Ich hatte gestern eine furchtbare
Auseinandersetzung mit meinem Vater.
2. That was a particularly valid argument.
As can be seen here, “argument” could be called
a semi-false friend of Argument. Only in the case
of Streit / Auseinandersetzung does care need to
be taken.
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Staying with a
host family
1. Welcome to Britain!
Listen to dialogues 3 and 4
This month, DAGMAR TAYLOR looks at some
typical conversations that take place between
host families and their guests.
Florian has just arrived at Manchester Airport. His
host family is there to meet him.
2. Home, sweet home
Everyday English | LANGUAGE
Florian and his hosts, Mike and Liz, arrive at the
house.
Fotos: Alamy; iStock
Liz: Florian?
Florian: Yes. Are you Mr and Mrs Murray?
Mike: Yes, but you can call us Mike and Liz. I’m
Mike, she’s Liz.
Florian: (laughs) Yes, I thought so. I’m Florian.
Liz: Pleased to meet you, Florian. How was your
flight?
Florian: Oh, it was fine, thank you. I think I’m a little
bit late. Have you been waiting long?
Mike: No, no. We checked your arrival time before
we left the house. We’ve just got here.
Liz: Anyway, let’s get you home. I’m afraid it’s a
bit of a walk to the car park.
Mike: Here! Let me take your suitcase for you.
Florian: Oh, OK. Thank you.
• It’s common to use first names in English-speaking
countries. If you don’t feel sure about it, start by
saying Mr... or Mrs... and wait until the person you
have just met says: You can call me...
• I thought so is what you can say when you find out
that something you thought was true is confirmed.
• When you are introduced to someone, it’s polite to
say: Pleased to meet you or “Nice to meet you”.
• The easiest response to a question asking how
something was, is: It was fine, thank you.
• You can change the subject of a conversation
by beginning with: Anyway,...
• Let’s get you home means the same as
“let me / us take you home”, but sounds very
caring. It is often said to children or to
someone who feels unwell or tired.
• It’s a bit of a... (UK ifml.) describes
unpleasant or negative
things or ideas. Liz wishes the
walk to the car were shorter.
• People often use let me... when
they want to offer their help.
Tips
Mike:
Right. Here we are. We hope you’ll feel very
welcome.
Florian: Thank you.
Liz:
Florian: OK.
Liz:
Come on, Florian. I’ll take you up to your
room and show you where everything is.
This is your room. The bathroom’s just next
door. I’ve put some towels on your bed. Make
yourself at home.
Florian: Thank you. I’ve got a small question: do you
Liz:
have Wi-Fi?
Yes, of course. We’ve made a welcome pack
for you with most of the information you’ll
need during your stay — and the password
for the router is in there.
Florian: That’s great. Thank you.
Liz:
If you have any questions, just ask us. We’re
happy to help. I’ll go and make us some tea.
Come down to the kitchen when you’re ready.
• You feel very welcome when you feel accepted
or wanted somewhere.
• When you go with someone from one place to
another, especially when he or she doesn’t know the
place, you take (not “bring”) him or her there.
• If someone says make yourself at home to you,
he or she would like you to feel as comfortable and
relaxed as if you were in your own home.
• In the UK and the US, WLAN [)waIElEs (lÄn] is known
as Wi-Fi [(waI faI].
• A welcome pack is a set of different things, such as
information and brochures, that are put together to
help people who are in a place they don’t know.
• The period of time you remain at or visit a place is
called a stay.
• We’re happy to help is something you can say to
make people feel comfortable and looked after.
towel [(taUEl]
Tips
Handtuch
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LANGUAGE | Everyday English
3. Teatime 4. Dinner time
It’s Florian’s first day at the Murrays’. He joins Liz in
the kitchen for a cup of tea.
Florian is back at the Murrays’
after the first day of his language course.
EXERCISES
Liz: Do you take milk and sugar?
Florian: Just milk, please.
Liz: There you are! Help yourself to a scone. Does
your language course start tomorrow?
Florian: Yes, at nine o’clock. What’s the quickest way
to the city centre?
Liz: A bus goes every ten minutes from the stop
just round the corner. You’ll need change.
Florian: Sorry, what do you mean by “change”?
Liz: That means coins. You’ll need the exact
amount of money to get on the bus.
Florian: Ah, OK.
• When you are giving something to someone,
you can say there you are, “here you are” or
“here you go” (ifml.).
• When someone says help yourself to..., he or she is
offering you something — for example, food or drink
— and would like you to serve yourself.
• A scone [skQn] is a small round cake — with or without
raisins — that is typically eaten at “afternoon tea”
in the UK. It is usually enjoyed with jam and cream.
See Green Light 6/2013.
• When you want to know how to get to a place easily,
you can ask: What’s the quickest way to...?
• If someone asks you for change, he or she needs
coins rather than (und nicht) paper money.
• If you haven’t understood what someone has said,
you can simply say: Sorry? If you hear a word, the
meaning of which you don’t know, you can say:
What do you mean by...?
stop [stQp]
hier: Haltestelle
1. Add the missing word.
a) Let me take your suitcase _________ you.
b) I’ve put some towels _________ your bed.
c) The stop is just _________ the corner.
d) Did you get to your course _________ time?
2. What words did they use?
a) I’m afraid it’s quite a walk to the car park. _________
b) Do you have wireless internet?_____________
c) Now, have a scone. _____________
d) We’ll eat when Mike gets home. _____________
Tips
Liz: (door shutting) Florian? Is that you?
Florian: Yes, it’s me. Hello, Liz!
Liz: Hi! How was your day? Did you manage to
get to your course on time?
Florian: Yes. It was no problem.
Liz: And are there nice people in your class?
Florian: Yes. There are two other boys from Germany.
They’re funny. The teacher is very nice, too.
Liz: Great! We’ll have dinner when Mike gets
home. I’m making toad-in-the-hole. Oh, I
forgot to ask; you’re not vegetarian, are you?
Florian: No, I’m not. But isn’t a toad a type of frog?
Liz: (laughs) Yes, but don’t worry! It’s only sausages
in batter. There are no toads in it!
• You manage to do something when you succeed
in doing it, especially something difficult.
• Arriving on time means at exactly the right time.
• A main meal eaten in the evening is usually called
dinner, but you might also hear “tea” or “supper”,
depending on where you are in the UK.
• Toad-in-the-hole is a traditional British dish of
sausages baked in a type of pancake batter
(Pfannkuchenteig). It’s served with vegetables and
“gravy”, a meat-flavoured sauce.
• Another way to ask a question is to make a negative
statement: you’re not vegetarian, and add a positive
question tag: are you? Liz asks in this way because
she expects the answer to be “no”.
batter [(bÄtE]
toad [tEUd]
Ausbackteig
Kröte
3. What did they say in the scenes?
a) P___________ to meet you, Florian.
b) We hope you’ll feel very w___________.
c) S___________, what do you mean by “change”?
d) Don’t w___________! It’s only sausages in batter.
4. Underline the correct words.
a) You can call / name us Mike and Liz.
b) I’ll bring / take you up to your room.
c) There’s a bus that drives / goes to the city centre
every ten minutes.
d) Florian? Is that / this you?
Tips
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Answers: 1. a) for; b) on; c) round; d) on; 2. a) it’s a bit of a; b) Wi-Fi; c) help yourself to;
d) have dinner; 3. a) Pleased; b) welcome; c) Sorry; d) worry; 4. a) call; b) take; c) goes; d) that

The Grammar Page | LANGUAGE
Using the
future continuous tense
ADRIAN DOFF explains the use of this tense in relation
to a time in the future.
Paul is flying tomorrow from New York to a sales conference
in Frankfurt. He’s on the phone to a colleague there.
Paul: My flight gets in around midnight. Shall I take a
taxi to the hotel?
Debbie: No. My assistant will meet 1 you at the airport.
Her name’s Barbara.
Paul: OK. How will 1 I find her?
Debbie: She’ll be waiting 2 as you come out of arrivals.
She’ll be holding 2 a sign with your name on it.
Paul: Fine.
Debbie: And she’ll take 3 you straight to the hotel.
Paul: That’s great. So I’ll see you in the morning, then.
Will we be starting 4 after breakfast sometime?
Debbie: Earlier than that, I’m afraid. We’ll be setting up 5
the conference at about 7.30. So could we meet
at seven?
Paul: Seven!
Debbie: Is that too early?
Remember!
The future continuous is formed with:
will + be + -ing: wear She’ll be wearing a black
jacket.
To form questions, the subject and verb are changed
round: She’ll be wearing... Will she be wearing...?
To form negatives, will changes to will not or won’t:
She’ll be wearing... She won’t be wearing...
1. Form questions in the future continuous
tense with the words below.
a) Will / snowing / it / be
___________________________?
b) many / be / will / people / you / How / inviting
________________________________________________?
c) Italy / Where / be / you / staying / in / will
________________________________________________?
d) before / breakfast / you / you / Will / be / leave /
having ________________________________________?
e) be / Won’t / the / York / train / at / stopping
________________________________________________?
1 Debbie and Paul use will + infinitive to talk about a
scheduled event in the future.
2 Here, Debbie uses the future continuous tense
(will + be + -ing) to talk about something that will take
place at a particular time in the future. (At the time when
Paul arrives, Barbara will be waiting, holding a sign.)
3 Here, Debbie uses the simple future again (will + infinitive)
to give the facts about what will happen next.
4 The future continuous can also be used to ask tactfully
about planned actions in the future. Paul asks what has
been decided. (He’s hoping for a later start.)
5 Debbie uses the future continuous to explain that plans
have already been made. (She can’t change them.) The
present continuous for the future is used in a similar way,
but using the future continuous distances the speaker
from the decision and shows that it can’t be changed.
Beyond the basics
The future continuous often has the effect of “softening”
what is said about planned actions in the future or
making it sound more casual (beiläufig, zwanglos). Compare
these examples:
• Today, we’re going to learn a new verb tense.
(This sounds serious.)
• Today, we’ll be learning a new verb tense.
(This sounds lighter, like a natural part of the
programme.)
2. Put the following words in bold into the
future continuous.
a) This time next year (I live) in Australia.
__________
b) Shall I phone at 7.30, or (you have) dinner then?
__________
c) I’m retiring in December, so (I not work) here next
year. __________
d) I’ll pick you up from the station. (I drive) a red
Toyota. __________
EXERCISES
Answers: 1. a) Will it be snowing? b) How many people will you be inviting? c) Where will you be staying in Italy?
d) Will you be having breakfast before you leave? e) Won’t the train be stopping at York? 2. a) I’ll be living; b) will
you be having; c) I won’t be working; d) I’ll be driving
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LANGUAGE | The Soap
Helen
Phil
Peggy
Life’s a picnic
Join us at Peggy’s Place — Spotlight ’s very
own London pub. By INEZ SHARP
George
Sean
FOCUS
Peggy: You look all done in, Sean. Too many late nights?
Sean: Yes, but it’s not what you think. I started watching
House of Cards, the second season, and couldn’t stop.
I watched all 13 episodes in one sitting.
Peggy: Me and Phil must be the only people who haven’t
seen it.
Sean: I didn’t think political drama was my thing, but as
you say, everyone else has been talking about it, so I
started watching, and I couldn’t stop.
Phil: Sean, you look a bit peaky. You’ve been working too
hard. What you need is a day off and some fresh air.
Sean: Well, that shouldn’t be a problem. I’m going to
watch the boat race with Aamir today.
Phil: I didn’t mean today. Who’s manning the kitchen?
Sean: Peggy said she would. There won’t be much going
on, what with the great weather.
Phil: Why am I always the last to know these things?
Peggy: Because you never listen to anything I tell you.
Phil: Why do you want to go to the boat race, anyway?
Sean: Jane suggested it. It’s a “thank you” to Aamir for
helping with her advertising material. She asked me to
make a picnic, and we’ll go down to Chiswick in my
car and make a day of it.
Phil: Typical Jane! Leaves the hard work to others.
Peggy: That’s not fair...
Sean: It’s OK, Peggy. No offence to your daughter, but
I’m not sure Jane’s much of a cook, so it was fine for
me to make the food myself.
Phil: Is Aamir going to enjoy it? I mean, is there much
university boat racing where he comes from?
Helen: Is Phil having a Little England moment?
Sean: Hi, Helen! ... I think the idea was to give him a nice
day out and show him some local colour.
Peggy: I’m sure it’ll be lovely. There’s always such a great
atmosphere with all the crowds.
Helen: Did you make the sandwiches the way I asked?
Phil: Are you going, too, Helen?
Helen: We thought it would be nice to make up a foursome:
Sean, Aamir, Jane and me.
This year, on 6 April, the Oxford and Cambridge University
Boat Clubs will race each other along the Thames in London.
The course of the Boat Race is 6,779 m in length and goes
upriver from Putney to Mortlake. Thousands of people
watch from the banks (Ufer) of the Thames and millions
more on television. The competitors (Wettkämpfer(in)) are
all amateurs — though some are of Olympic standard —
and must be studying at Oxford or Cambridge.
“ ”
How come I’m not invited?
Phil: How come I’m not invited?
Sean: Well, we...
Phil: Say no more. I’m an old fuddy-duddy, who’s no fun
to be around.
Helen: You certainly are behaving like one now.
Peggy: What else are you having for the picnic?
Sean: I made potato salad and a green salad. There’s cold
smoked salmon, and fruit and carrot cake for dessert.
Peggy: Sounds delicious. Have you got blankets and stuff?
Sean: All packed and ready. We’d better go. We’re picking
up Jane and Aamir at the bus stop in ten minutes.
Helen: Phil, can you help us carry things to the car?
Phil: I don’t see why, as I’m not invited.
Peggy: Oh, get over yourself!
Sean: I’ll see you later, Peggy. You can call me if there’s an
emergency, though I’m not sure I’ll be much help on
the other side of London.
Peggy: We’ll be fine. Have a good day, Helen.
Helen: We will. Thanks for your help, Phil. Bye!
Peggy: I do envy them a little bit. It’s such a beautiful day.
What’s this bag here?
Phil: How should I know?
Peggy: It’s the picnic food. Weren’t you supposed to take
that out to the car?
Phil: How should I know that the food’s in there?
Peggy: Phil!
all done in [)O:l dVn (In] ifml.
be around sb. [bi E(raUnd]
envy [(envi]
foursome: make up a ~ [(fO:sEm]
fuddy-duddy [(fVdi )dVdi] ifml.
get over yourself
[get (EUvE jO:)self] ifml.
how come [haU (kVm] ifml.
in one sitting [In (wVn )sItIN]
make a day of it
[)meIk E (deI Ev It]
man [mÄn]
no offence to... [)nEU E(fens tE] ifml.
peaky: look ~ [(pi:ki] UK
pick sb. up [pIk (Vp]
season [(si:z&n]
smoked salmon [smEUkt (sÄmEn]
Jane
völlig fertig
mit jmdm. zusammen sein
beneiden
ein Vierergrüppchen sein
alter Kauz,
altmodische Person
jetzt hab dich nicht so,
nimm dich nicht so wichtig
wieso
auf einmal
sich einen schönen
Tag machen
hier: (personell) besetzen
ohne ... zu beleidigen
angeschlagen aussehen
jmdn. abholen
hier: (TV) Staffel
Räucherlachs
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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
practise essay writing?
Dear Ken
How do I write an essay? I am taking an English writing
test and need some practice. Can you help me?
Best wishes
Moritz M.
Dear Moritz
Thanks for your mail. It’s not specifically a question on
business English, but the advice I have also applies to writing
tasks in business such as minutes and other reports.
Here are some simple steps to follow:
1. Research First, gather information. Use books, databases
and the internet. Note down the key messages.
2. Select Once you have this background material, consider
what you want to say about the subject.
3. Focus Pick out your best idea — a clear statement that
should be the “thesis”, the main point of your essay.
4. Structure Now make an outline. Write one-line sentences
to describe each paragraph and bullet points to
describe their contents. Form a clear, logical structure.
5. Start Write the introduction. Grab your reader’s attention
and make him or her interested in reading further.
Provide an overview of the essay’s contents, but avoid
writing obvious things such as “This essay is about...”.
6. Separate Each paragraph in the main body of the essay
should contain one idea that supports your “thesis” and
the evidence behind it. Write as if talking to someone.
7. Conclude Summarize your main ideas, and end with an
interesting thought, quote, action plan or twist of logic.
The very last line should make the reader want more.
8. Check Remove any padding. Instead of “I think the
environment needs to be protected”, write: “The environment
needs to be protected.” That sounds more authoritative.
Avoid generalizations such as “This is the
most important problem facing the world today” (your
reader may disagree). Instead, write the more reasonable
“This is a major global problem”. Vary your language
and the length of your sentences.
9. Read Read your essay aloud. You will pick up any mistakes
in language and in the flow of the ideas.
10. Share Ask someone to give you feedback on the structure
and contents.
For more tips, see our IELTS feature in Spotlight 2/14.
Good luck!
Ken
Follow Ken Taylor’s “Hot Tips” on Twitter@DearKen101. His book
Dear Ken... 101 answers to your questions about business English is
available at
Send your questions
about business English
by e-mail with “Dear
Ken” in the subject line to
language@spotlight-verlag.de
Each month, I answer two questions
Spotlight readers have sent in. If one of
them is your question, you’ll receive a
copy of my book: Fifty Ways to Improve
Your Business English. So don’t forget
to add your mailing address!
Dear Ken
I have a telephone number with three 5s in it. When I give
it to someone, do I say “triple five” or “five, five, five”?
Thanks!
Elisabeth H.
Dear Elisabeth
If a figure occurs three times in sequence in your telephone
number, you can choose how to say it aloud. For example,
the number 4442555 can be said “triple four, two, triple
five”, or you can say, “four, double four, two, five, double
five”. You could use either of these with a business partner
who speaks quite good English. Practise saying both, and
decide which sounds more natural to you.
If your business partner’s English is not so good, speak very
slowly with a pause after each figure, and say, “four, four,
four, two, five, five, five”.
However you choose to say your number, get your business
partner to repeat it so that you can check whether he or
she has noted it correctly.
All the best
Ken
apply [E(plaI]
authoritative [O:(TQrItEtIv]
bullet point [(bUlIt pOInt]
generalization [)dZen&rElaI(zeIS&n]
grab: ~ sb.’s attention
[grÄb] ifml.
in sequence [In (si:kwEns]
minutes [(mInIts]
note down [nEUt (daUn]
outline [(aUtlaIn]
padding [(pÄdIN]
paragraph [(pÄrEgrA:f]
pick up [pIk (Vp]
triple [(trIp&l]
twist [twIst]
zutreffen, gültig sein
bestimmt, entschieden
Aufzählungszeichen
Verallgemeinerung
jmds. Aufmerksamkeit
erregen
in Folge, nacheinander
Protokoll
notieren, aufschreiben
Entwurf, Gliederung
Füllwörter
Absatz
hier: bemerken
dreifach, dreimal
Wendung, Verdrehung
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LANGUAGE | Spoken English
I use it all the time
This month, ADRIAN DOFF looks at ways to
say how often you do things.
always / usually / often
I sometimes get up early.
don’t usually / don’t often / never
Using adverbs of frequency as shown in the box above is
just one way of talking about how often you do things.
There are many other ways, and some of them are especially
common in spoken English.
Regular habits
To talk about habits, the words generally, normally or
as a rule are often used:
• I generally read in bed for a while before I go to sleep.
• I’m normally asleep well before midnight.
• I don’t go to bed late as a rule, but holidays are a bit
different.
Another common expression is all the time:
• I love my electronic dictionary. I use it all the time.
(= very often — not really “all the time”)
• There’s a great Indian restaurant near us. We go there
all the time. (= maybe once or twice a month)
It’s too much!
“All the time” can also mean “too much”, especially in the
expression spend all one’s time + -ing:
• My niece spends all her time texting (SMS verschicken),
even during meals. It’s really annoying.
Here are some other ways to express the same idea:
never stop + -ing
• He’s a nice kid, but he never stops talking.
keep + -ing
• Just let me explain! You keep interrupting.
be always + -ing
• Our neighbours are always shouting at each other.
Notice the difference between always + present simple
and always + present continuous:
• If the food isn’t good enough, she always complains.
(= She does this every time it happens.)
• She’s never satisfied. She’s always complaining about
something. (= She complains too much.)
Not very often
Common phrases that mean “not very often” or “not
regularly” are (every) now and again / (every) now and
then, every so often, occasionally:
• We eat out occasionally. (= maybe once a month)
• We don’t spend much time together, but we meet
every so often for a drink.
• I don’t really smoke, but I do have a cigar every now
and then.
On and off has a similar meaning. It is often used with a
time period for things the speaker feels negatively about:
• I’ve been feeling ill on and off for weeks.
To say that something happens even less often, we use
hardly ever or very rarely:
• I hardly ever watch TV — except DVDs, of course.
The following expressions also mean very rarely.
Once in a blue moon means almost never, because the
moon is very rarely blue:
• Her parents hear from her only once in a blue moon.
Once in a lifetime is often used as an adjective:
• Flights to the US for just €450! Take advantage of this
once-in-a-lifetime offer.
One-off is commonly used as a noun. A “one-off” is something
that happens only once:
• This music festival is great. I’ll be back next year.
— Oh, I think it’s just a one-off.
Choose the correct words and phrases below.
a) We have quite a big brunch on Sundays as a rule /
in the rule.
b) Did you sleep well?
— No, I kept / stayed waking up.
c) We’ve had internet problems on and off / one-off
for ages.
d) Is Tanja doing OK? I hardly ever / never see her.
e) That job is a once-in-a-life / lifetime opportunity.
f) My husband takes me out for a nice dinner once in
a blue / full moon.
g) Pat always posts / is always posting photos of
herself on Facebook. It’s a bit strange.
EXERCISE
Foto: iStockphoto
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Answers: a) as a rule; b) kept; c) on and off; d) ever; e) lifetime; f) blue; g) is always posting

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.
claw [klO:] noun p. 26
throughout [Tru(aUt] preposition pp. 10, 67
sharp, curved nail on the foot of a bird or animal
Kralle
in every part of
in ganz, überall in
Get that cat off me! I don’t want its claws
in my silk dress.
Shakespeare’s genius is celebrated throughout
the world.
Many animals have claws in their paws (Pfoten).
Throughout is also used with time: throughout the day.
cheer [tSIE] verb p. 29
tap [tÄp] verb p. 6
Shout “Hooray!” to show you are happy or that
you like something.
jubeln
The crowd clapped and cheered as the
marchers paraded by.
The opposite of cheer is boo.
touch gently; hit something quickly and lightly
antippen
I’m sure someone’s tapping at the window.
Can’t you hear it?
See the extra notes below on how to use this word.
bread and butter noun phrase p. 8
[)bred End (bVtE]
ever since [)evE (sIns] phrase p. 67
during the whole time since something happened
the main source of business or income
hier: Alltagsgeschäft
Fishing is this town’s bread and butter, so
last winter’s weather was a disaster.
This phrase can also be used as an adjective:
a bread-and-butter issue
von diesem Tag an, seither
I first heard Nuria Rial sing four years ago,
and I’ve been a fan ever since.
Ever after is used in the same way when talking about the
past: “And they lived happily ever after.”
Foto: iStock
How to use the word tap
Tap tap, tap tap: that’s the sound of tapping at the
door. What about the sound of people tapping away
at a computer, tap dancing or tapping their fingers
or feet to the beat of a song? How does that sound?
And what if you tap out a rhythm or a number on your
phone?
A tap is a sound, but it is also a device to control the
flow of something (like water or like beer from a barrel),
from which a second meaning of the verb tap
comes. If you tap something, you make use of it. So
you can tap, or tap into, an energy or a feeling:
We need to tap the goodwill of our townspeople.
The film taps into our fascination with big cats.
Followers of the American series The Wire (or international
news stories) will also be familiar with the concept
of listening in to others by tapping a phone.
Complete the following sentences with words
from this page in their correct form.
a) She had the operation last year and has felt better
________________ since.
b) Winds and rain are still a problem ________________
the south-west.
c) Here’s the game: I’ll ________________ out the
rhythm, and you guess the song. OK?
d) Buster’s ________________ are too long. They need
clipping again.
e) Can you help, Oliver? I need to tap ________________
your massive musical brain.
f) Great play! I laughed and ________________ so much
that my face ached.
g) Local advertising is our ________________ and butter.
OVER TO YOU!
Answers: a) ever; b) throughout; c) tap; d) claws (clip: schneiden); e) into;
f) cheered (ache: wehtun); g) bread
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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.
-elfie
The Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the
Year 2013 was “selfie”, which is a
photograph you take of yourself with
a digital camera or smartphone for
posting on social media. The popularity
of this word has helped “-elfie” to
become a combining form used to
make new words such as “drelfie” (a
selfie taken when you’re drunk),
“welfie” (a selfie taken during an exercise
workout), not to mention
“belfie” (a selfie taken of one’s bottom).
There is also the “felfie”, taken
by a farmer holding an animal or
with animals in the background,
which started
with a contest in the
Irish Farmers Journal
called “Selfie on the
Farm”. Who knows
what might be
next — perhaps
“chelfie” (taken at
church)?
Back to the roots
The word “apocalypse” comes from
Greek apokalyptein (“uncover, reveal”).
In Middle English, it meant
“vision, hallucination”. The last book
of the New Testament, called
Apokolypsis in the original and “Apocalypse”
in the oldest English translation,
describes the final destruction of
the world as it was revealed (offenbaren)
to John of Patmos. This led to
a shift in the meaning of the word
“apocalypse” to its modern sense. In
later Bible translations, the name of
the book is “Revelations” (Offenbarung).
Today, “-pocalypse” is a
combining form (see “elfie” above). It
has been used in “oilpocalypse” (the
BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico),
“beepocalypse” (destruction of bee
colonies by disease or pesticides) and
“airpocalypse” (health problems
caused by severe air pollution).
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Left dislocation
Which example exhibits left dislocation?
Grammar
The basic order of an English declarative sentence is generally S-V-O
(subject–verb–object). The position after V can also be empty or consist
of some other element (X). So S-V-X is the norm, but an object can also be
“fronted”, to be made the topic of the sentence, as in (a):
a) That particular song I don’t like.
The fronted element in (a) is still part of the basic clause structure. In the
following examples, we’ll be looking at a different construction, where the
fronted element is outside the basic S-V-X clause structure — but is linked
to an element within it, typically to a pronoun:
b) That particular song, I don’t like it at all.
In practical grammars the dislocated element is often referred to as a
“header”. Here are some more examples, where different structural elements
are fronted:
c) My brother, someone threw something at him from a car that was
driving past.
My brother, someone stole his car last night.
My wife, she’s actually quite a well-known artist.
The dislocated element can be structurally complex, as in (d), where it includes
a relative clause. The second example shows that the fronted element
can be linked to more than one element in the sentence. In the final
example, it is linked to “back then”:
d) That movie I told you about last week, have you seen it yet?
This guy I work with, I gave him some money, and he never gave it
back to me.
The time we were living in London, I guess we were both much
happier back then.
And in (e), we see that the dislocated element can also be an “-ing” clause:
e) Building castles in the air, I think it’s one of John’s hobbies.
Left dislocation is almost exclusively a spoken phenomenon. Speakers
use it to provide orientation for the listener, making it easier for him or
her to identify the main topic of the sentence. Intonation within the dislocated
element may rise or fall, but a short pause will usually follow.
Most sentences of this kind look somewhat strange in written form, and
there is a question of how to “punctuate the pause”. In summary, left dislocation
is standard and widespread in spoken English, but not in written
English.
Here is one final, rather disjointed (zusammenhanglos, unzusammenhängend)
example, in which semantically connected noun phrases are strung
together. The second is in apposition to the first, and the third is simply
adjacent (daneben, angrenzend):
f) Betty, my mother’s oldest friend, her son, I saw his daughter recently.
1. Her husband, I’ve never seen him before.
2. Her husband I’ve never seen before.
Answer: sentence 1
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Crossword | LANGUAGE
Irish cooking
The words in this puzzle are taken from our article on the Ballymaloe Cookery
School in Ireland. You may find it helpful to refer to the text on pages 22–25.
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5 6
7
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11 12
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15 16
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20 21 22
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25 26
Mike Pilewski
Solution to puzzle 3/14:
CONFRONT
M O U N T E D P R I M E
N H T M
P E O P L E S H E
C A R S C R
O O P E N W H E N G
M F R E
P R I V A T I Z A T I O N
R T H A C
O A N E I Y
M B M O V I N G
I L R E N D
S T E P S S E N T A
E T O O O Y
Across
1. Started a business: “She ______ a restaurant in 1964.”
3. Not far away.
5. Enjoyed by lots of people.
7. “What is your ______? What do people call you?”
8. Individual spaces in a house for sleeping, bathing, etc.
10. “Who ______ she?”
11. The different types of food and spices used in
preparing a meal.
15. “He gave it ______ me.”
16. Lettuce and other vegetables eaten uncooked.
17. “Do ______ like tomatoes?”
18. Laid by chickens, these are often eaten at breakfast.
20. A sign of wet weather.
23. A duo.
25. In a natural state; not tamed or cultivated.
26. At what time?
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Down
1. Belonging to.
2. At no time.
4. Very small fruit that grow on a bush (plural).
5. Procedure: “The course takes students through the
whole cooking ______.”
6. A drink made from lemons, water and sugar.
7. A negative word: “I did ______ sleep much.”
9. Abilities: “The job requires certain ______.”
12. Referring to nature.
13. “Do you ever eat ______ vegetables?”
14. Belonging to it.
19. Receive: “You can ______ an education there.”
21. Made or bought recently.
22. A male child: “They got married and had a ______.”
24. A conjunction showing an alternative:
“Yes ______ no?”
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Catherine Aird
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Politics
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No more credit
You know you’re really in trouble when American Express
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Seagulls
Why do seagulls fly over the sea? Because if they flew over
the bay, they’d be bagels.
bagel [(beIg&l]
con = contra [kQn]
leave home without it
[li:v )hEUm wID(aUt It]
novelist [(nQvElIst]
pull oneself together
[)pUl wVn)self tE(geDE]
seagull [(si:gVl]
Anspielung auf Aussprache: bay-gull
Anspielung auf den Werbeslogan
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Don’t leave home without it
Romanautor(in)
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Möwe
Doctor, doctor!
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PEANUTS
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“
The
motto
is ‘live better,
help often, and
wonder
more’
”
American Life | GINGER KUENZEL
It’s church —
just without God
Kirche für Atheisten: Es wird gesungen, gepredigt und Gemeindearbeit
geleistet wie in der Kirche – aber alles garantiert gottlos.
Foto: Getty Images
What started in England just
over a year ago has been
spreading quickly throughout
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called the Sunday Assembly, and it
describes itself as “a godless congregation
that celebrates life.”
I heard about it last year, when it
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United States, and Australia to spread
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inaccurate, since “gospel” is generally
defined as the teachings of the Christian
religion. However, as Sunday
Assembly founders Sanderson Jones
and Pippa Evans told the press, their
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religion.
Wait a minute. Isn’t that a bit like
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and groom; or the Olympic Games
without athletes? “If you think about
church, there’s very little that’s bad,”
assembly [E(sembli] Versammlung, Vereinigung
awesome [(O:sEm] ifml. beeindruckend, toll
be on to sth. [bi (A:n tE] durchaus Recht haben
bride [braId]
Braut
congregation
Versammlung, Zusammenkunft
[)kA:NgrI(geIS&n]
disenchanted
enttäuscht, ernüchtert
[)dIsIn(tSÄntEd]
ever since [)ev&r (sIns] von diesem Tag an, seither (➝ p. 61)
gospel [(gA:sp&l]
Evangelium, frohe Botschaft
groom [gru:m]
Bräutigam
hymnal [(hImnEl]
Gesangbuch
popularity [)pA:pjE(lÄrEti] Beliebtheit
promote [prE(moUt] fördern, unterstützen
religiously unaffiliated konfessionslos
[ri)lIdZEsli VnE(fIlieItEd]
resemble [ri(zemb&l] ähneln
sermon [(s§:mEn]
Predigt
throughout [Tru(aUt] überall in, in ganz (➝ p. 61)
Ginger Kuenzel is a freelance writer who lived in Munich for
20 years. She now calls a small town in upstate New York home.
Jones told the press. “It’s singing awesome
songs, hearing interesting talks,
thinking about improving yourself,
and helping other people — and
doing that in a community with
wonderful relationships. What part of
that is not to be liked?” And why
shouldn’t everyone enjoy all this, even
those who don’t believe in God?
It’s easy to see why the Sunday Assembly
is often referred to as an atheist
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and other big musicians. There’s a sermon
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interest in community service. The
Sunday Assembly’s motto is to “live
better, help often, and wonder more.”
Their mission is to “help everyone
live this one life as fully as possible.”
And their vision is “a Sunday Assembly
in every town, city and village
that wants one.”
Not everyone
is completely happy
with the idea,
however. Skeptics
ask why anyone
would want to
promote something
that so
closely resembles
church and religion
when they
don’t believe in
those concepts.
Supporters, on
the other hand,
argue that a
growing number
of people still
want to come together
to learn, to reflect, to be inspired,
and to serve others, but are
disenchanted with organized religion.
They may be on to something. A
recent survey by the well-respected
Pippa Evans of the Sunday Assembly
Pew Research Center shows that the
number of Americans who do not
identify with any religion is growing
rapidly. Twenty percent of those
asked described themselves as religiously
unaffiliated, up from 15 percent
just five years ago. And among
people under 30, that figure is even
higher: more than 30 percent.
The research also shows that many
of the unaffiliated consider themselves
to be religious or spiritual, but
they feel that religious organizations
are too interested in money and
power, too focused on rules, and too
involved in politics. This concern
should come as no surprise in a country
founded on the principle of the
separation of church and state.
Since the Sunday Assembly continues
to gain in popularity, then,
providing an alternative for those
who want one, but not all of the elements
that churches offer, perhaps it
should be given a chance. Isn’t that
what religious and political freedom
is all about?
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | My Life in English
Annette Dutton
Die deutsche Schriftstellerin ist vor zwölf Jahren der Liebe wegen nach Australien
ausgewandert und erzählt von ihren Erlebnissen mit der englischen Sprache.
What makes English important to you?
I have been living in Australia for more than 12
years now. My husband speaks only English and our son
as well, with a tiny bit of German. So English is what we
speak at home. Professionally, it doesn’t matter so much,
because I write in German.
When was your first English lesson, and what can you
remember about it?
I was in fifth grade. I still remember the first sentence of
the textbook: “This is Mr Fog.” Very intriguing...
Who is your favourite English-language author?
There are so many of them, I wouldn’t know where to
start, but as a child, I loved Treasure Island by Robert
Louis Stevenson, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens and
The Famous Five series by the wonderful Enid Blyton.
Which song could you sing a few lines of in English?
Basically, any song by the Beatles, from beginning to
end. I’ve been a Fab Four tragic since I was a teenager.
Which dish from the English-speaking world do you like?
I love sweet foods and like a good pavlova in summer —
Australia invented it, after all.
easy to get around by public transport (unlike in Sydney).
There’s a reason why Melbourne was voted the
most liveable city in the world.
When did you last use English — before answering this
questionnaire?
When I told the dog off for being constantly in my way.
She doesn’t understand any German. Although having
said that, she doesn’t understand any language at all.
What is your favourite English word and why?
That would be “spatula”. I read it once in an American
cookery book, looked it up and found it so much nicer
than Bratenwender. Funny what sticks to your brain, isn’t
it? — Not if you had a proper spatula, of course.
Which phrase do you use most in English?
“Having said that...” because I like to see things from
different perspectives, I guess.
Which English words were the hardest for you to learn
to pronounce?
These were — and still are — “illegible” and “eligible”.
What others can’t read, I cannot pronounce; and what
I’m entitled to, I’ll never know, because I just can’t say it.
And then I confuse the two of them anyway. Hopeless!
Which person from the English-speaking world
(living or dead) would you most like to meet?
Easy: THE BEATLES.
Which are your favourite English-speaking cities?
They would be Melbourne, Sydney and New York City,
closely followed by London.
Is there anything in your home from the English-speaking
world?
Yes, that would be my husband, our son and Holly, the
collie. Me, too, I guess, since I have dual nationality.
What would be your motto in English?
Enjoy the ride. What else can you do?
What special tip would
you give a friend visiting
Melbourne?
Come in the Australian
summer (November
to March),
and bring a love of
food, culture and
nature. It’s very
eligible [(elIdZEb&l]
entitled: be ~ to sth. [In(taIt&ld]
Fab Four [fÄb (fO:]
illegible [I(ledZEb&l]
intriguing [In(tri:gIN]
liveable [(lIvEb&l]
pavlova [pÄv(lEUvE]
textbook [(tekstbUk]
The Famous Five [DE )feImEs (faIv]
tragic [(trÄdZIk] Aus. ifml.
Treasure Island [)treZE (aIlEnd]
berechtigt
zu etw. berechtigt sein
fabelhafte Vier
(Beiname der Beatles)
unleserlich
faszinierend
lebenswert
Baiserkuchen mit geschlagener
Sahne und Früchten
Lehr-, Schulbuch
(dt. Titel) Fünf Freunde
hier: Freak, Fan, Sonderling
(dt. Titel) Die Schatzinsel
Foto: PR
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JOANNA WESTCOMBE hat für Sie das Wichtigste über den Gebrauch der Zeiten zum
Heraustrennen und Aufbewahren zusammengestellt.
On the following pages to pull out and keep, we have collected
the most important time forms in English — present,
past and future. The building blocks of each form
(affirmative , negative X and question ? ) are given with
explanations and examples. Timelines help you to visualize
and compare the different forms and their use.
THE PRESENT
Present time in English is expressed in two ways: either with the PRESENT SIMPLE to give general facts or to
describe things that are always true, or with the PRESENT CONTINUOUS to describe actions or situations that
are happening now — or are limited in time to around the present.
Present simple
I / You / We / They
He / She / It
sing.
sings.
X
I / You / We / They
He / She / It
don’t
doesn’t
sing.
?
Do (Don’t)
Does (Doesn’t)
I / you / we / they
he / she / it
sing?
The present simple is the most frequent verb form in English. It gives just the simple facts.
Past
Future
timeless truths:
regular actions and routines:
situations the speaker sees as permanent:
Now
• The Thames flows through London.
• Timothy cycles to work most days.
• I don’t understand you, but I love you.
Don’t
forget the
s with
he / she
and it.
Present continuous
I
am (’m)
You / We / They are (’re) singing.
He / She / It is (’s)
X
I
am (’m) not
You / We / They aren’t singing.
He / She / It isn’t
?
Am (Aren’t) I
Are (Aren’t) you / we / they singing?
Isn’t
he / she / it
The present continuous (also present progressive or “-ing” form) describes an event or situation that takes
place over a time period — of minutes, months or years. This is a limited period that is around the present.
Past
Future
Now
at the time of speaking:
true now, but not always:
projects in progress:
with now and at the moment:
describing a picture:
• Hooray! The sun’s shining.
• Jamie’s working in Newcastle this month, isn’t he?
• We’re currently updating our website.
• We’re eating at the moment, but I’ll call you later. OK?
• Look! Everybody’s smiling in this photo.

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THE PAST PRESENT TO PRESENT
The PRESENT PERFECT has a strong connection to the past. It looks back from the present to past events A
that have present relevance. It is also used to describe unfinished events and situations up to the present.
There are two forms: the PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE and the PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS.
Present perfect simple
I / You / We / They
He / She / It
have (’ve)
has (’s)
eaten.
X ?
I / You / We / They haven’t
eaten.
He / She / It hasn’t
Have (Haven’t)
Has (Hasn’t)
I / you / we / they
he / she / it
eaten?
The present perfect simple is used to talk about the present result of past actions; for example, to talk about
changes from the past to the present. The focus is on this present connection, not when the action took place.
Past
A
Future
Now
past actions with present results:
news summaries:
for recent events with already, just and
(not) yet:
repeated past actions up to the present:
with ever and never to talk about life experiences:
• I’ve lost my key. Can I borrow yours?
• The euro has fallen against the dollar.
• I’m sorry, she’s just left the office. Can I take a message?
• Has the electrician rung you back yet?
• We’ve moved house four times.
• Have you really never watched The Simpsons?
Present perfect continuous
I / You / We / They
He / She / It
have (’ve) been
has (’s) been
working.
X
I / You / We / They
He / She / It
haven’t been
hasn’t been
working.
?
Have (Haven’t)
Has (Hasn’t)
I / you / we / they
he / she / it
been working?
The present perfect continuous is used to look back on an action or a situation over a period of time
up to and including the present. The actions are often, but not always, recent ones, and they may or may
not be completed at the present time.
Past
Future
Now
processes going on up to the present:
• The weather’s been getting better all week.
situations that started in the past and are still true: • How long have you been working here?
recent activities with a present result:
• Jane’s been crying again. I can see.
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PAST TO PRESENT
“For” and “since”
The present perfect simple and continuous are often used with the prepositions for (over a period of time)
and since (from a point in the past).
Past
Since
F OR
Future
Now
focus on present result:
focus on activity over a time period up to now:
!
The preposition for is not just used with
the present perfect. It simply signals a period of
time. It is used in the past, present and future
with many different verb forms:
• It’s great to see you again! We haven’t seen you for months.
• I don’t want to move house. I’ve lived here since 1956.
• I’ve been waiting for you since one o’clock.
• He’s been playing the piano for only a few months,
but he’s already really good.
• I lived in Italy for two years as a child.
• I’ve only been living in London for five days, but I love it.
• I’m going to live in the country for a month or two and
write a book.
THE PRESENT
PAST
The PAST SIMPLE is used to give the facts about an action A completed in the past when the time
or date it took place is specified. The PAST CONTINUOUS and PAST PERFECT (see page 4) don’t tell us when
an action happened. They tell us more about the action itself. They give it an extra dimension.
Past simple
I / You / He / She
It / We / They
sang.
X ?
I / You / He / She
didn’t sing.
It / We / They
Did (Didn’t)
I / you / he / she
it / we / they
sing?
The past simple is used for completed actions — finished at a specified time in the past. These actions
could have taken place a long time ago or recently. As well as for actions, the past simple is used for states
and periods of time in the past.
Past
A
Future
single actions finished at a time in the past:
with ago:
questions with when? and what time?
time periods in the past:
Now
• I went to the cinema yesterday.
• He left only five minutes ago.
• What time did you get here?
• We lived in the States for five years.
See the
irregular
past simple
forms on
page 8.
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THE PAST
Past continuous
I / He / She / It
You / We / They
was
were
playing.
X ?
I / He / She / It wasn’t
playing.
You / We / They weren’t
Was (Wasn’t)
Were (Weren’t)
I / he / she / it
you / we / they
playing?
The past continuous is used to focus on the progress of an activity in the past or the period of time involved.
It is often used to give background to past events A that are described in the past simple.
Past
A
Future
Now
background to a past event:
• I hurt my back when I was cleaning the bath yesterday.
action in progress at a particular time in the past: • Why were you watching TV at five o’clock this morning?
with while:
• He told me his news while we were lying on the beach.
Past perfect simple
I / You / He / She / It / We / They had finished.
X
I / You / He / She / It / We / They hadn’t finished.
?
Had (Hadn’t) I / you / he / she / it / we / they finished?
The past perfect simple makes a connection between a
time or event in the past A and a time or event that
happened before it B .
Past
B
A
Future
Now
an action before a point in the past:
a situation before a point in the past:
with by and until:
• There had been a storm in the night, and branches lay everywhere.
• She’d already had dinner when I got home.
• He’d never been on a diet until then, but by July, he had lost 10 kilos.
Past perfect continuous
X
I / You / He / She / It / We / They had been painting. I / You / He / She / It / We / They hadn’t been painting.
?
Had (Hadn’t) I / you / he / she / it / we / they been painting?
The past perfect continuous is used to look back from a point in the past to actions leading up to that point.
Past
A
Future
Now
actions up to a point in the past: • I’d been thinking about buying a new bike. Then I found one online last week.
• Had you been drinking on the night you had the accident?
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THE FUTURE: PERSONAL PLANS
There are many ways to talk about future time in English. In this section, we present the forms that are used
to talk about PERSONAL DECISIONS and PLANS for the future. In each case, the form is chosen based on
the timing and type of decision D or fixed plan F , not on the time of the action A in the future.
“will”
X
I / You / He / She / It / We / They will (’ll) drive. I / You / He / She / It / We / They won’t drive.
?
Will (Won’t) I / you / he / she / it / we / they drive?
The “will” (usually “’ll”) form is used to express ideas
and decisions made now, at the time of speaking.
It is not used for plans that have already been made.
Past
D
A
Future
Now
spontaneous decisions:
promises:
offers:
useful on the telephone at work:
• I’ll make us a cup of tea, and then we can talk. OK?
• We’ll phone you as soon as we get there. Don’t worry!
• Why don’t you leave the washing up? I’ll do it later.
• I’ll leave a message for her to call you.
“be going to”
I
am (’m)
You / We / They are (’re) going to stop.
He / She / It is (’s)
X
I
am (’m) not
You / We / They aren’t going to stop.
He / She / It isn’t
?
Am (Aren’t) I
Are (Aren’t) you / we / they going to stop?
Is (Isn’t) he /she / it
The “be going to” form is used to talk about
intentions and decisions already made
about actions in the future.
Past
D
A
Future
Now
agendas and plans:
personal intentions and plans:
• Today, I’m going to tell you about our latest product range.
• Is Wendy going to join us for coffee later?
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THE FUTURE: PERSONAL PLANS
Present continuous (for future)
X
I am (’m) leaving.
I am (’m) not leaving.
You / We / They are (’re) leaving.
You / We / They aren’t leaving.
He / She / It is (’s) leaving.
He / She / It isn’t leaving.
?
Am (Aren’t) I leaving?
Are (Aren’t) you / we / they leaving?
Is (Isn’t) he / she / it leaving?
The present continuous is used more often with a future meaning
than with a present one. It is used to talk about fixed arrangements,
especially the types of events and appointments in the future that we
might put in a calendar or diary.
Past
F
A
Future
Now
!
fixed arrangements:
making plans and invitations:
• I’m meeting Marcus at seven. We’re going out for dinner.
• What are you doing tonight? Would you
like to come to the cinema with us?
Use the present continuous to reject an invitation politely. The person • Sorry I can’t come to your party.
who invited you will understand that you already have fixed plans: I’m flying home that morning.
THE FUTURE: EXTERNAL EVENTS
In this section, the future forms WILL and BE GOING TO as well as the PRESENT SIMPLE are all used to talk
about external events E in the future.
“will”
X
I / You / He / She / It / We / They will (’ll) grow. I / You / He / She / It / We / They won’t grow.
?
Will (Won’t) I / you / he / she / it / we / they grow?
The “will” (’ll) form is used to talk about future facts and about events that you think or predict
now will happen in the future.
Past
E
Future
Now
future facts:
predictions for the future:
• The swimming pool will reopen next week after repairs.
• Please take some cake now. There won’t be any left tomorrow.
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THE FUTURE: EXTERNAL EVENTS
“be going to”
I
am (’m)
You / We / They are (’re) going to win.
He / She / It is (’s)
X
I
am (’m) not
You / We / They aren’t going to win.
He / She / It isn’t
?
Am (Aren’t) I
Are (Aren’t) you / we / they going to win?
Is (Isn’t) he / she / it
“Be going to” is common in spoken English when looking
forward to an event in the future based on what you can
see or for which you have strong evidence in the present.
Past
E
Future
Now
predictions based on what you can see now:
predictions based on present facts:
• That tooth is so loose. It’s going to fall out soon.
• Maggie’s not happy at work. I’m sure she’s going to leave.
Present simple
I / You / We / They
He / She / It
start.
starts.
X ?
I / You / We / They don’t
start.
He / She / It doesn’t
Do (Don’t)
Does (Doesn’t)
I / you / we / they
he / she / it
start?
The present simple is used with a future meaning to give information that can be found in a
calendar, programme or timetable.
Past
E
Future
Now
calendar events:
programme details:
travel details:
• Christmas Day falls on a Thursday this year.
• It says here that the concert doesn’t finish until 10.30 p.m.
• My flight gets in at 15.40 — twenty to four.
• For more information and exercises on the verb forms of English, see
The Grammar Page every month in Spotlight magazine.
• See page 57 in this month’s magazine for explanations of and exercises on the future
continuous.
• See The Grammar Page in next month’s magazine for more details on the future
perfect.
• Spotlight plus contains several pages of grammar exercises every month.
More details can be found at www.spotlight-online.de/ueben
• A new language exercise is added to the archive every week at
www.spotlight-online.de/language
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Irregular verbs
Some of the most important verbs in English are IRREGULAR VERBS. On this page, you will find many of the
most useful ones. To help you learn them, they are divided into groups of verbs that follow similar patterns
(Muster). This list is available online in alphabetical order at www.spotlight-online.de/downloads
1. All forms the same
There is a small group of verbs in which the infinitive,
past simple and past participle are the same:
infinitive past simple past participle
cost (kosten) cost cost
cut (schneiden) cut cut
hit (schlagen) hit hit
hurt (verletzen) hurt hurt
let (lassen) let let
put (setzen, stellen, legen) put put
set (setzen) set set
shut (schließen) shut shut
split (teilen) split split
2. Second and third forms the same
For many irregular verbs, the past simple form and past
participle are the same:
infinitive past simple past participle
build (bauen) built built
find (finden) found found
get (bekommen) got got
have (haben) had had
hear (hören) heard heard
light (anmachen) lit lit
lose (verlieren) [lu:z] lost lost
make (machen) made made
pay (bezahlen) paid paid
sell (verkaufen) sold sold
shine (scheinen) shone shone
shoot (schießen) shot shot
sit (sitzen) sat sat
stand (stehen) stood stood
stick (kleben) stuck stuck
tell (erzählen) told told
understand (verstehen) understood understood
win (gewinnen) won [wVn] won [wVn]
Some verbs with the same second and third form follow
similar sound patterns:
[e]
[e]
bend (biegen, beugen) bent bent
feed (füttern) fed fed
feel (fühlen) felt felt
hold (halten) held held
keep (behalten) kept kept
lead (führen) led led
leave (verlassen) left left
lend (verleihen) lent lent
mean (bedeuten, meinen) meant meant
meet (treffen) met met
read (lesen) [ri:d] read [red] read [red]
say (sagen) said said
send (senden) sent sent
sleep (schlafen) slept slept
spend (ausgeben, verbringen) spent spent
[O:]
[O:]
bring (bringen) brought brought
buy (kaufen) bought bought
catch (fangen) caught caught
fight (kämpfen) fought fought
teach (unterrichten) taught taught
think (denken) thought thought
3. Similar sound groups
Irregular verbs where all the forms are different often follow
similar sound patterns:
infinitive past simple past participle
[u:]
[EU]
blow (blasen, wehen) blew blown
fly (fliegen) flew flown
grow (wachsen) grew grown
know (wissen, kennen) knew known
throw (werfen) threw thrown
[I] [Ä] [V]
begin (beginnen) began begun
drink (trinken) drank drunk
ring (läuten) rang rung
shrink (schrumpfen) shrank shrunk
sing (singen) sang sung
swim (schwimmen) swam swum
4. Past participle ending in “-en”
The following verbs have three different forms,
and a past participle ending in “-en”:
infinitive past simple past participle
eat (essen) ate eaten
fall (fallen) fell fallen
forget (vergessen) forgot forgotten
shake (schütteln) shook shaken
take (nehmen) took taken
Some of this type of verb follow similar sound patterns:
[EU]
[EU]
break (brechen) broke broken
choose (wählen) chose chosen
freeze (frieren) froze frozen
speak (sprechen) spoke spoken
steal (stehlen) stole stolen
wake (wecken) woke woken
[I]
bite (beißen) bit bitten
drive (fahren) drove driven
give (geben) gave given
hide (verstecken) hid hidden
ride (reiten) rode ridden
write (schreiben) wrote written
5. Individual cases
Some verbs (including some of the most common) just have
to be learned individually:
infinitive past simple past participle
be (sein) was/were been
beat (schlagen) beat beaten
become (werden) became become
come (kommen) came come
do (tun) did done
go (gehen, fahren) went gone
lie (liegen) lay lain
run (laufen) ran run
see (sehen) saw seen
show (zeigen) showed shown
wear (tragen) wore worn
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GREEN LIGHT | News
This month…
Was beschäftigt die englischsprachige Welt im April?
VANESSA CLARK spürt die heißen Storys für Sie auf.
A long way
South Africa For the people of South
Africa, 27 April is Freedom Day, when they
remember and celebrate the first democratic
elections in South Africa after the end of
apartheid.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of
those first elections, so the country is ready
to celebrate in great style. Clocks all over
Louis and the
Chocolate Factory
Business Louis Barnett, 22 years old,
makes chocolate — and money. Louis had
learning difficulties, so his parents took him
out of school and
told him to
follow his
own interests.
His
biggest interest
was chocolate,
and he started
his own company
when he was
only 13 years
old.
South Africa are counting down the days,
hours, minutes and seconds until the big occasion.
This will have an element of sadness
about it, because it will be the first Freedom
Day without Nelson Mandela.
Freedom Day 2014 is a chance for all
South Africans to say: “We have come a long
way.” (See also People, Spotlight, page 7.)
When he isn’t making chocolate, Louis
finds time to talk to young business students
and inspire them with his story.
Easter is always a busy time for Louis.
Every year, he designs new Easter eggs for
top London stores like Selfridges and Fortnum
& Mason. Happy Easter, Louis!
1934
80 years ago
England On 3 April 1934, Percy
Shaw patented his famous roadsafety
invention, the “cat’s eye”. These clever
little reflectors have saved thousands of lives
around the world over the past 80 years.
anniversary [)ÄnI(v§:sEri]
celebrate [(selEbreIt]
come: have ~ a long way [kVm]
Easter [(i:stE]
election [i(lekS&n]
inspire [In(spaIE]
invention [In(venS&n]
patent sth. [(peIt&nt]
Jahrestag
feiern, begehen
viel erreicht haben
Ostern
Wahl
inspirieren, begeistern
Erfindung
etw. patentieren lassen

8 pictures | GREEN LIGHT
In the kitchen
STEPHANIE SHELLABEAR presents words for some of the things you
use in the kitchen.
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2
3
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Titel: Hemera; Fotos Doppelseite: iStock; Louis Barnett; Illustrationen: B. Förth
Write the words below
next to the pictures.
1. oven [(Vv&n]
2. hob [hQb] UK
3. microwave (oven)
[(maIkrEweIv]
4. fridge [frIdZ]
5. freezer [(fri:zE]
6. sink [sINk]
7. tap [tÄp]
8. dishwasher [(dIS)wQSE]
Choose the words from the list that match the
descriptions below.
a) This uses electricity and water to clean dirty plates.
_____________
b) This is the place where you keep ice cream. ___________
c) You wash up by hand in this. _____________
d) Food becomes very hot very quickly in this. __________
e) Keep your milk in this so that it stays fresh. ___________
f) This is what hot or cold water comes out of. __________
Fridge is a shortened form of “refrigerator”. People usually use this form in spoken English.
A combination of a fridge and a freezer in one unit (Einheit, Gerät) is known as a
“fridge-freezer”. A hob is called a “stovetop” or “cooktop” in the US.
Tips
Answers: a) dishwasher; b) freezer; c) sink; d) microwave (oven); e) fridge; f) tap
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GREEN LIGHT | Grammar elements
“Before” and “after” + -ing
STEPHANIE SHELLABEAR presents basic grammar.
Practise using the -ing form after before and after.
Look at the following two sentences, which are written in the present simple tense:
• I always open the bathroom window before I have a shower.
• I usually use hairspray after I dry my hair.
The “before” and “after” parts of the sentences can also go at the beginning.
You then need to add a comma:
• Before I have a shower, I always open the bathroom window.
• After I dry my hair, I usually use hairspray.
If the same subject appears in both parts of the sentence (in our examples, it is “I”),
you can structure the sentences in a different way with this formula:
before subject + verb
before verb + -ing
after subject + verb
after verb + -ing
• I always open the bathroom window before having a shower.
• Before having a shower, I always open the bathroom window.
• I usually use hairspray after drying my hair.
• After drying my hair, I usually use hairspray.
Here are two more sentences, this time written in the past simple tense:
• He was very poor before he won the lottery.
• After he received the money, he bought an enormous house.
You can also use the preposition + -ing form with these sentences:
• He was very poor before winning the lottery.
• After receiving the money, he bought an enormous house.
Practise using the -ing forms: rewrite the sentence parts in bold.
a) Before they went on holiday, they gave a key to the neighbour.
________________________________________
b) She always becomes ill after she eats nuts. __________________________________________
c) After you do sport, you should rest for a few minutes. _______________________________
d) David felt better after he spoke to his son’s teacher. ________________________________
e) Before you leave the office, you should turn off the lights.
____________________________________________
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Answers: a) Before going on holiday; b) after eating nuts; c) After doing sport;
d) after speaking to his son’s teacher; e) Before leaving the office

Donna and Andrew are booking a flight to New York.
By DAGMAR TAYLOR
Donna: Now we have to select a flight. Click
on that one. It’s the cheapest.
Andrew: Is it a direct flight?
Donna: Em... yes, it is.
Andrew: OK. How much is it going to cost?
Donna: You have to press “continue”. There
it is. Oh! That’s a bit expensive.
Andrew: £1,089.30? If we’d booked earlier, it
would have been cheaper.
Donna: But we didn’t know until yesterday.
Andrew: Why are Matt and Paula getting
married in New York anyway?
Donna: It’s their wedding. They can do what
they want. Just think, it’ll be fun. We
haven’t been to New York for years.
Right, do you want an upgrade for only
£297 per person?
Andrew: No. Definitely not.
Donna: I didn’t think so.
The Greens | GREEN LIGHT
Booking a flight
• To choose or select something on
a computer screen, you click on it.
• £1,089.30 is said like this: one
thousand and eighty-nine pounds
thirty. £297 is said like this: two
hundred and ninety-seven pounds.
• Andrew uses anyway at the end of his
question because he has changed the
subject.
• When you get a better seat on a plane
or a better room in a hotel, it is called
an upgrade.
• Per is used with person to say
what the cost of something is for
each person.
• Definitely / Definitely not (ifml.) is
used to show that your decision (Entscheidung)
is clear and final (endgültig).
Tips
Complete the sentences below with
the correct form of the verbs.
Listen to the dialogue at
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a) How much are / is it going to cost?
b) Why are / is Matt and Paula getting
married in New York?
c) They can do what they want /
wants.
d) Right, do / does you want an
upgrade?
Donna
Andrew
continue [kEn(tInju:]
press [pres]
select [sE(lekt]
wedding [(wedIN]
weiter,
fortfahren
drücken
auswählen
Hochzeit
Answers: a) is; b) are; c) want; d) do

GREEN LIGHT | Get writing
Looking for a summer job
VANESSA CLARK helps you write letters, e-mails and more in English.
This month: how to find a summer job or other work.
Summer job
To: info@crudenhotel.co.uk
Cc:
Subject: Summer job
CV Lea Schubert.doc
Dear Cruden Hotel
I’m writing to ask if you have any jobs available in your hotel this summer.
I am an 18-year-old student of tourism and English. I come from Germany, and I am
looking for a summer job where I can improve my English and learn new skills in
the tourist industry.
Last summer, I worked in the restaurant of a hotel in my home town, so I have some
experience.
I will be available from 30 July to 5 October. I have attached my CV and references.
Thank you for your help, and I look forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes
Lea Schubert
• Say what you’re looking for, such as a summer job or “an internship” (Praktikum).
• Say what you hope to get from the job; for example, the chance to improve your
English, learn new skills (Kenntnisse) or “gain (gewinnen) useful experience”.
• Remember to send your CV. If you send it by e-mail, then you can say the CV is attached.
If you send a letter by post, then the CV is “enclosed” (als Anlage beigefügt).
• You will need references, or “the names of referees” — people who can write positively
about your work or studies.
Tips
CV (curriculum vitae) [)si: (vi:]
experience [Ik(spIEriEns]
look forward to [lUk (fO:wEd tE]
Use
it!
Lebenslauf
Erfahrung
sich auf etw. freuen
Highlight the key words and
phrases that you would use if you
needed to write an e-mail like this yourself.
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I like…
The Body Shop
What it is
Walk down the high street of any large town
or city in the UK, and you’ll probably see a
branch of The Body Shop. In 1976, British
woman Anita Roddick started a company to
make cosmetics with a difference. She
wanted to use ingredients that hadn’t been
tested on animals, and she wanted to make
people aware of the concepts of ethical consumerism.
She did this by buying natural ingredients
and products that had been
handmade by people in poor communities
all over the world. The company became
very successful: by 1991, The Body Shop
had 700 branches in 40 countries.
In 1989, Anita Roddick and her husband
started The Body Shop Foundation to support
charities and to work for positive social
change around the world. One of the
first charities the foundation helped was
The Big Issue — a magazine sold by homeless
people.
Culture corner | GREEN LIGHT
Jeden Monat stellt ein Redakteur etwas Besonderes aus der englischsprachigen
Welt vor. Diesen Monat präsentiert Spotlight-Redakteurin
STEPHANIE SHELLABEAR den Lieblingskosmetikladen ihrer Teenagerjahre.
Interesting fact
Why I like it
Banana, apple, satsuma... It could be a fruit
salad, but in fact, those were some of the
names of the shampoos, shower gels and
lip glosses that I bought with my pocket
money at The Body Shop when I was a
teenager. In those days, you could take back
your empty bottles and have them refilled.
Now, you simply put your bottles in the recycling
bin. The shop played an important
role for me, because it was how I learned
about animal testing and Green issues.
aware: make sb. ~ of sth. [E(weE]
bin [bIn]
branch [brA:ntS]
charity [(tSÄrEti]
community [kE(mju:nEti]
ethical consumerism
[)eTIk&l kEn(sju:mE)rIzEm]
foundation [faUn(deIS&n]
Green issues [)gri:n (ISu:z]
high street [(haI stri:t] UK
homeless [(hEUmlEs]
ingredient [In(gri:diEnt]
role [rEUl]
support [sE(pO:t]
jmdm. etw. bewusst machen
Tonne, Abfallbehälter
Filiale
wohltätige Organisation
hier: Staat
ethisches, bewusstes Konsumverhalten
Stiftung
Umweltfragen
Haupteinkaufsstraße
obdachlos
Zutat, Inhaltsstoff
Rolle
unterstützen
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GREEN LIGHT | Notes and numbers
Billion
In English-speaking countries, the
name of the number 1,000,000,000
is a billion. It means a thousand million.
An English billion is the same as the
German Milliarde.
You say a, one, two, etc. billion, without a
final -s on “billion”.
Your notes
Use this space for your own notes.
Write these numbers as you would
say them.
two billion
a) 2,000,000,000 _______________________
b) 10,000,000,000 ______________________
c) 2,500,000,000 _______________________
d) 2.5 billion ____________________________
e) 2,565,132,005 ________________________
__________________________________________
________________________________________
Billionaire
A very, very rich person who has
at least a thousand million pounds is a
billionaire:
• The United States has more
billionaires than any other country.
Answers: b) ten billion; c) two billion, five hundred million /
two-and-a-half billion; d) two point five billion; e) two
billion, five hundred and sixty-five million, one hundred and
thirty-two thousand and five
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IMPRESSUM
Herausgeber und Verlagsleiter: Dr. Wolfgang Stock
Chefredakteurin: Inez Sharp
Stellvertretende Chefredakteurin: Claudine Weber-Hof
Chefin vom Dienst: Susanne Pfeifer
Autoren: Vanessa Clark, Stephanie Shellabear,
Dagmar Taylor
Redaktion: Owen Connors, Elisabeth Erpf, Anja Giese,
Peter Green, Reinhild Luk, Michael Pilewski (Online),
Michele Tilgner, Joanna Westcombe
Bildredaktion: Sarah Gough (Leitung), Thorsten Mansch
Gestaltung: Marion Sauer/Johannes Reiner
www.vor-zeichen.de
Anzeigenleitung: Axel Zettler
Marketingleitung: Holger Hofmann
Produktionsleitung: Ingrid Sturm
Vertriebsleitung: Monika Wohlgemuth
Verlag und Redaktion: Spotlight Verlag GmbH
Postanschrift: Postfach 1565, 82144 Planegg, Deutschland
Telefon +49(0)89/8 56 81-0, Fax +49(0)89/8 56 81-105
Internet: www.spotlight-online.de
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Druck: Medienhaus Ortmeier, 48369 Saerbeck
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Fotografen und Mitarbeiter.
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Gemeinsamen Europäischen Referenzrahmens für Sprachen.