Spotlight Magazin - April 2016

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How to
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Art in Los Angeles:

a new cultural
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Memories on a
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EDITORIAL | April 2016
The myths of
language learning
Every one has their own ideas about the

best ways to learn a second language. There
are some fascinating general theories on this
topic, too. One is the idea that once you start
Inez Sharp, editor-in-chief
thinking in a foreign language, you have really
begun to master it. But is this true? We spoke to Dr Aneta Pavlenko, professor
for applied linguistics at Temple University, Philadelphia. Her answer was unexpected. The interview begins on page 30.
Memories brought back by flavours can be intensely evocative. So what
happens when you start a new life far away from home and become detached
from the culinary traditions of your past? In Memories on a plate, we talk to
people who have experienced just that. Which dishes do they miss and how
have they adapted to the food of their new homeland? We serve up their stories on page 20.
Over the past 15 years, a thriving art scene has developed in Downtown
Los Angeles. Changes in the city planning laws have made the area affordable
for artists and the results are eye-popping artworks. Join us on a tour of the
downtown district. Art at the heart of LA begins on page 14.
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ENGLISCH LERNEN IST EIN WITZ?

Ja, mit diesem Spiel, in dem die Spieler Witze,
Reime, Zungenbrecher und lustige Zitate zum
Besten geben. Und da Spielen ja eine ernste
Angelegenheit ist, versuchen alle sich das
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Fr 3 8 Spieler ab 12 Jahren. Mit 400 Witzen,
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ausfhrlichem Vokabelteil.
In Zusammenarbeit mit:
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Getting ahead in LA:

an installation by Giacomo Bufarini
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CONTENTS
14 Art at the heart of LA
An arts revolution is happening in Los Angeles right now. Our correspondent reports.
30 How to think in English
THIS MONTH
6 People
Names and faces from around the world
8 A Day in My Life
A public relations professional in India
10 World View
Whats news and whats hot
13 Britain Today
Colin Beaven on getting more money
24 History
Apple was founded 40 years ago
26 I Ask Myself
Amy Argetsinger on a happy colleague
We ask an expert: how does thinking in English

improve your ability to learn the language?
34 Debate
Do we need libraries any more?
36 Around Oz
20 The taste of home
Peter Flynn on those New Years promises
38 Society
The Irish uprising of 1916, 100 years ago
42 Press Gallery
A look at the English-language media
44 Arts
Films, apps, books, culture and a short story
66 The Lighter Side

Jokes and cartoons
67 American Life
Ginger Kuenzel on patriotism
68 Feedback & Next Month

Your letters to Spotlight and upcoming topics
70 My Life in English
When people start new lives in other countries, how

much of their food culture do they take with them?
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Peter Limbourg of the Deutsche Welle
29 Easy English
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52 Travel Talk
Spotlight
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Booking a last-minute holiday
53 Language Cards
Teachers: this six-page supplement will provide great ideas for

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Pull out and practise
55 Everyday English
Talking about starting a business
57 The Grammar Page

How to use indefinite pronouns
58 Peggys Place
Visit Spotlights very own London pub
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59 English at Work
Spotlight Online will help you to

improve your English every day.
Try our language exercises or read
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Subscribers will also find a list of all
the glossed vocabulary from each
issue of the magazine.
Ken Taylor answers your questions
60 Spoken English
How to talk about age
61 Word Builder
A focus on the words in Spotlight
62 Lost in Translation
A fun look at interesting words
63 Crossword
Find the words and win a prize
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PEOPLE | Names and Faces

The playwright
married Anne Hathaway, who was then 26. They
had three children, a girl called Susanna and twins
named Judith and Hamnet. The boy, however,
died at the age of 11.
Between 1585 and 1590, Shakespeare started
writing and moved to London. A few years later,
he began performing with a theatre group called
the Lord Chamberlains Men. Then, in 1599, he
helped to finance one of Londons first theatres, the
Globe. The theatre burnt down in the 1600s, but a
copy of it called Shakespeares Globe opened
in 1997 in London and Shakespeares plays continue to be performed there today.
The playwright wrote at least 37 plays and 154
sonnets, and contributed more than 3,000 new
words and phrases to the English language. He
became rich and successful. In 1610, Shakespeare
moved back to Stratford-upon-Avon, where he
died six years later of unknown causes.
On the weekend of 2324 April, Shakespeares
Globe will be showing 37 short films about the playwright at pop-up cinemas along the Thames in London.
Find out more at www.shakespearesglobe.com
Who exactly was
William Shakespeare?
his month, people everywhere are remembering

William Shakespeare, who died 400 years ago on
23 April 1616 at the age of 52. He is considered by
many to be the greatest writer in the English language.
But we dont know a lot about his life.
We do know that he was baptized on 26 April 1564
in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He grew up there and
probably went to Kings New School. When he was 18, he
baptize [bp(taIz]
copy [(kQpi]
playwright [(pleIraIt]
pop-up cinema [(pQp Vp )sInEmE]
taufen
hier: Nachbildung
Bhnenautor(in)
temporres Kino
infringement [In(frIndZmEnt]
innocent [(InEsEnt]
Rechtsverletzung
unschuldig
New Zealand rugby star Sonny Bill Williams visited Syrian

refugee camps in Lebanon with UNICEF. When he returned home, he posted graphic images of dead children on Twitter, where he has more than half a million followers, and wrote, What did these children
do to deserve this? This summer share a thought
for the innocent lives lost everyday in war. Now,
UNICEF spokesman Patrick Rose has told The New
Zealand Herald that this was a bad idea. We
see it as a fundamental infringement
of those childrens rights, said
Rose. I dont think anyone would
be happy about those kinds
of images. It certainly wasnt
something that he consulted
us about and they werent
images that hed taken on the
trip. About 1.2 million Syrian
refugees live in Lebanon.
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Some heterosexual men

would think it of it as an insult if you called them gay.
Not English singer James
Blunt. He told the BBC, I
sing songs that arent very
macho, and so people will say,
Oh, youre effeminate, or
gay, as if calling me gay were
an insult. But to call me gay is a
compliment. The 41-year-old
says his time with the military
helped him to become more
sensitive. He had to go out and find the enemy, so he had to be very
aware of what was going on around him. He now uses this sensitivity to charm female fans. If Id been macho, Id just have had an
audience full of men. By singing the songs I have, I have an audience full of women, and Im happier that way. Blunt and his wife,
Sofia, are expecting their first baby this year.
insult [(InsVlt]
sensitive [(sensEtIv]
Beleidigung
sensibel
Fotos: action press; Getty Images; Scarlet Page
In the news
Happy birthday!
The newcomer
Name: D
aria Gavrilova
Age: 22
From: She was born in Russia but lives in Melbourne,
Australia.
Known as: A professional tennis player
Background: Gavrilova won the Youth Olympic Games
and US Open in 2010 and had a junior ranking of world
number one. She has also won four singles and two
doubles International Tennis Federation titles.
Biggest success: Last year, she beat former world
number one players Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovic.
Where you will see her: In this years Grand Slam
tournaments, which include the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.
federation [)fedE(reIS&n]
tournament [(tUEnEmEnt]
Bund
Turnier, Wettkampf
Elizabeth II became queen because her uncle had abdicated and her parents didnt have a son. She is the longest-reigning female monarch in history.
Elizabeth grew up as a member of the royal family.
During the Second World War, she joined the Auxiliary
Territorial Service as a driver and mechanic.
The princess fell in love with her distant cousin
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. They married in 1947
and had four children. In 1952, Elizabeths father
died and she became queen.
When the marriage of her son Prince
Charles to his first wife, Diana, broke down
in the 1990s, the royal family received a lot
of negative press. Elizabeth worked to improve her familys image. She began paying income tax and opened Buckingham
Palace to the public.
Elizabeth doesnt plan to abdicate, but
will take part in fewer official events in future. She will celebrate her 90th birthday
on 21 April the official celebrations will
take place in June.
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distant [(dIstEnt]
income tax [(InkVm tks]
reigning [reInIN]
abdanken
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entfernt
Einkommensteuer
regierend
Out of the ordinary

Brian Tagalog became a certified tattoo artist when he was only 16 years old.
However, he found it impossible to get a
job. That wasnt because he was young or
because he wasnt good. It was because
he didnt have any arms. Tagalog, 27, was
born without them. But that didnt stop
him from doing all the things he wanted to
do. He can drive a car, fly an airplane and
do complicated tattoos using his feet.
Originally from Hawaii, he now has his own
tattoo shop, called Tattoo by Foot, in Tucson, Arizona. He told Aztec Press, I was
born without arms. But that has not slowed
me down. He hopes his story will help others to believe they can do anything. Go for
it, and never give up, he said. Anything is
possible for everyone.
Is it a boy or a girl? is usually our first

question about a new baby. But Kathy
Witterick and David Stocker dont
answer this question about their child,
Storm. The couple from Toronto, Canada,
have kept Storms gender secret. They dont
want the child to have to conform to gender stereotypes. If you want to get to know
someone, you dont ask whats between
their legs, Stocker told the Toronto Star.
conform [kEn(fO:m]
slow: sb. down

[slEU]
jmdn. aufhalten,
jmdn. bremsen
Texts by TALITHA LINEHAN
gender [(dZendE]
gehorchen,
sich anpassen
Geschlecht
Luke Robertson has become the

youngest Briton and first Scot to make
a solo journey across Antarctica. The
30-year-old from Aberdeenshire spent 40
days pulling 130 kilograms of equipment
across 1,175 kilometres of ice. He burnt
more than 10,000 calories a day in temperatures as low as -50 C and 100 mph winds.
Robertson is giving the money raised from
the expedition more than 45,000 to
the charity Marie Curie, which helps people
with terminal illnesses. The man nicknamed
Luke Snowwalker celebrated the end of
his walk in January with a pizza.
charity [(tSrEti]
nicknamed
[(nIkneImd]
raise [reIz]
terminal [(t:mIn&l]
Wohlttigkeitsorganisation
mit dem
Spitznamen
sammeln, zusammenbringen
hier: unheilbar
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A DAY IN MY LIFE | India
Spreading the word

APARNA PEDNEKAR hat die Hauptgeschftsfhrerin eines PR-Unternehmens
in Mumbai interviewt, die ein Faible fr Mode und Design hat.
sulting, a boutique public relations firm in Mumbai, India. I was born in Paris and grew up in Montmartre, where I started working in PR. Then I moved to New
York and worked with a wonderful hotel group, after
which I started my own company in 2006. I moved to
India in 2008 to set up an extension of the company. We
now have 22 people in our Mumbai office, seven in Delhi, in addition to several consultants.
A typical day for me starts early with my daughter
at 7 a.m., when she goes to school. After that, we all start
reading newspapers, tracking social media and the market
and sharing industry news. For us, the mornings are all
about knowledge, information, trends and sharing those
with our clients. After that, we have client meetings.
We are known as an advisory agency in marketing,
branding and PR, specifically in luxury lifestyle and fashion, which is my personal passion, as well. We have international and local clients, marquee brands like Lancme,
Kiehls, Forevermark Diamonds, which is a De Beers
company, and Swarovski. Last year was fun for us because
we launched H&M in India. Our local clients include a
multi-designer store in Mumbai called Ensemble, which
weve been representing for five years.
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We take great pride in

working with Indian
luxury brands that are
going international, such as

the famous designer Manish
Malhotra or Good Earth, an established design house that has
turned Indian craft into a contemporary design language. One
of my first clients when I moved
to India was Hidesign, which is
like the American brand Coach
in India. Its a huge 35-year-old
brand, and a case study of the
evolution of retail in India with the rise and importance
of e-commerce.
advisory [Ed(vaIzEri]
boutique [bu:(ti:k]
branding [brndIN]
craft [krA:ft]
extension [Ik(stenS&n]
launch [lO:ntS]
retail [(ri:teI&l]
set up [set (Vp]
Beratungshier: klein und exklusiv

Markenbildung
Handwerk, Kunst
Erweiterung, Nebenstelle
einfhren, auf den Markt bringen
Einzelhandel
einrichten, aufbauen
Fotos: Natasha Hemrajani; Thinkstock
y name is Srimoyi Bhattacharya. Im 42 years

old, and Im managing director of Peepul Con-
Info to go
My big baby this year is a new clothing label called
the Orient Line that I created with a friend, the talented
professional designer Megan Ryley. She is a New Yorker
now based in India. One day, we were having a glass of
wine and complaining that we had nothing to wear when
we got home before getting into our pyjamas. A year later,
the line was available. The clothes are comfortable and
stylish, made with 100 per cent cotton, linen and khadi
fabrics at a factory thats highly ethical. Were big proponents of khadi, which also helps the Made in India
brand. My favourite pieces from the label are the Robin
and Magnolia dresses.
As a team, we really believe in a good quality of life.
People leave on time from work. I go back home by 6 p.m.

and try to spend time with my daughter. Public relations
is the best profession to have in Mumbai. It is a very professional city. People come for meetings on time; people
pay us on time. Clients view us as partners, as an extension of their families.
We work in a very personal way and I feel India really
thrives on that. Ive always lived in big metros and Ive
chosen Mumbai because I want that quality of life. Today,
I have the privilege of having a car with a driver and a staff
that runs my home and helps me focus on my family and
work. It is an ecosystem of support that I couldnt have
anywhere else in the world and that is very important to
me.
New: clothing from

the Orient Line
marquee brand
In British English, a marquee is a tent used
for an event or for selling things. In North
American English, it refers to a small
roof commonly seen over the door of
a hotel, for example, or a theatre. This
second definition helped to give rise to
the business English term marquee
brand, as the names of famous actors
are presented on the marquee over
the entrance to a theatre or cinema.
A marquee brand is a prominent
product or product line, one that
people know and follow.
Read the sentences below for
examples of how this expression has been used in
the American press recently:
a) And while the Porsche brand, a division of
Volkswagen, is one of the marquee brands in the
traditional sports car world, it isnt a complete
stranger to electrification. The New York Times
b) Ballast Point was founded in 1996, and fueled
by the popularity of brews such as Sculpin IPA and
Victory at Sea grew into a marquee craft beer
brand. The LA Times
khadi
In India, khadi is not only a popular handmade
cloth produced from cotton combined with some
silk or wool; it is also a metaphor for an independent,
postcolonial India. This is thanks to the world-famous
activist and politician Mahatma Gandhi (18691948),
who promoted the idea of Indians making khadi and
selling it to one another as opposed to the British
colonials buying up the khadi produced domestically,
exporting it to Britain, then sending it back to India as
clothing to be sold to local people at high prices. The
khadi movement was one aspect of Gandhis work to
free India from colonial oppression.
Monumental: Mumbais Gateway of India on the Arabian Sea

brew [bru:]
cloth [klQT]
fabric [(fbrIk]
metropolitan area
[)metrE(pQlItEn )eEriE]
oppression [E(preS&n]
populous [(pQpjUlEs]
proponent [prE(pEUnEnt]
run [rVn]
shed [Sed]
staff [stA:f]
thrive [TraIv]
Gebru
Tuch, Stoff
Stoff ( p. 61)
Ballungsraum
Unterdrckung
bevlkerungsreich, dichtbesiedelt
Befrworter(in), Verfechter(in)
hier: leiten, fhren
ablegen
Personal
aufblhen, florieren, Erfolg haben
big metro
The informal expression big metro as used in the text
means a large metropolitan area. Paris, London and
New York qualify as such, as does, of course, Mumbai.
The port city in the west of India is known to be the
countrys most populous, with more than 20 million
people living in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Until
1995, the city was known as Bombay; it shed this name
as part of a movement across the country to return to
Indian place names after independence from Britain
was achieved in 1947. India first came under British
influence in 1661.
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WORLD VIEW | News in Brief

The real deal:
a recently authenticated
masterpiece
Bosch
Watch yourself
INDIA It was supposed to be a day like any
other: three teenagers stopped on Mahim Bay in Mumbai
to take a selfie. They held up a phone, changed position
to get the best shot of themselves and then it happened:
they lost their footing and fell into the sea. One of them,
an 18-year-old named Tarannum Ansari, drowned as
did Ramesh Walunj, the man who saved her two friends.
It is a type of tragedy that the authorities have come to
know all too well.
In response to the problem, police have now designated at least 16 areas in the Indian megacity as no-selfie
zones. These include many places popular with tourists,
such as the Marine Drive promenade, Girgaum Chowpatty
beach, Sion Fort and Worli Fort. Also included are several
well-known festival sites.
Last autumn, the BBC reported that a visitor from
Japan died from a fall down some stairs at the Taj Mahal
during an attempt to take a selfie. Other countries, such
as Spain and Russia, have also begun campaigns to warn
tourists to exercise caution when taking photographs of
themselves. According to The Telegraph, more people
lost their lives in 2015 taking selfies than in shark attacks.
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Dutch [dVtS]
genius [(dZi:niEs]
proclaim [prE(kleIm]
storage [(stO:rIdZ]
niederlndisch, hollndisch
Genie, Genialitt, Begabung
hier: erklren
Aufbewahrung
Look out: your next step may be your last
attempt [E(tempt]
designate [(dezIgneIt]
drown [draUn]
exercise caution [)eksEsaIz (kO:S&n]
footing [(fUtIN]
shark [SA:k]
shot [SQt]
Versuch
bestimmen, kennzeichnen
ertrinken
Vorsicht walten lassen
Halt
Haihier: Aufnahme
Fotos: Getty Images; public domain
Its a good year for
UNITED STATES The Midwestern metropolis of Kansas City, Missouri, is known for its fine
barbecue. Now, it is famous for fine art, too: Researchers have proclaimed a painting in storage at the Nelson-
Atkins Museum of Art there to be the work of the Dutch
Renaissance master Hieronymus Bosch. The finding is
well-timed: 2016 marks the 500th anniversary of the artists death.
The painting in question, The Temptation of St. Anthony, was long considered to be a product of Boschs
students or followers. The New York Times reports that a
careful comparison was made on a microscopic level of
the artworks details with paintings known definitively to
be by Bosch. The results have led experts to rule that St.
Anthony was, in fact, from the hand of the master himself.
The painting is now part of the exhibition Jheronimus Bosch: Visions of Genius, being shown until May 8
at the Noordbrabants Museum in s-Hertogenbosch, the
Netherlands the birthplace of Bosch, whose pseudonym derives from the citys name. Some 20 paintings and
19 drawings are being exhibited. Worldwide, there are
only about 25 paintings known to be by Bosch. See http://
boschexpo.hetnoordbrabantsmuseum.nl/en
Jonathan lives on
ST HELENA Slow and steady wins the race. If
Jonathan the tortoise could speak, he might try these words on
for size. The well-known expression also the moral of the fable
of the tortoise and the hare is a good description of the worlds
oldest animal, now 183 years old and at home on the island of
St Helena in the South Atlantic since arriving there in 1882.
Jonathan has become almost completely blind due to cataracts and has lost his sense of smell, Dr Joe Hollins, the island
veterinarian, told the Daily Mail. I changed his diet and started to
give him a mixed bowl of fruit and vegetables like apples, carrots,
lettuce, guavas and bananas which are very high in calories. The
life expectancy of a giant tortoise is 150, but there is no reason
why Jonathan wont still be here after we have all gone.
St Helena, part of a British overseas territory, is located 2,000
kilometres west of Africa and has a population of 4,500. For more
on the 16-by-8 kilometre island, see Spotlight 8/10, pages 2225.
cataract [(ktErkt]
hare [heE]
lettuce [(letIs]
life expectancy [)laIf Ik(spektEnsi]
slow and steady wins the race
[)slEU End (stedi wInz DE )reIs]
tortoise [(tO:tEs]
veterinarian [)vetErI(neEriEn]
grauer Star
Hase
Kopfsalat
Lebenserwartung
eile mit Weile
(Land-)Schildkrte
Tierarzt, -rztin
A photo from 1900, when Jonathan was about 70 years old
Only in Ame-hair-ica
UNITED STATES Mike Wolfe of Nampa, Idaho, is a hairy man. A few years ago, he decided to
express his love of country (see American Life, page 67)
using the hirsute qualities that God gave him: He asked
his friend, graphic artist Tyler Harding, to shave an American flag on his back. The result inspired them, so they
gave it a title that references a well-known patriotic song:
Am-hair-ica the beautiful.
Everybody always makes fun of the guy with back
hair, 35-year-old Wolfe told the New York Daily News.
Well now its my turn to shine, right?
The work of manscaping inspired Wolfe and Harding

to even greater heights of artistic achievement: Now they
produce a calendar with photos of different back-hair motifs, a new one for every month. The result? The 2016
Calend-hair, which sells for $20 or $30 for international customers. Proceeds go to charity. January shows
Wolfes back hair shaved into the shape of two champagne
glasses; for July, its the old red, white and blue again
albeit in black.
Its disgusting. But its funny, Wolfe said. You cant
deny its funny.
albeit [O:l(bi:It]
back hair
[(bk he&r]
hirsute [(h:su:t]
manscaping
[(mnskeIpIN]
ifml.
proceeds
[(proUsi:dz]
obgleich, wenn auch

Rckenhaar
haarig, stark behaart
modische Epilation
des Krpers beim
Mann
Ertrag, Einnahmen
God bless America:

a work of manscaping
on the Idaho news
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WORLD VIEW | News in Brief

Whats hot
Shell beaches
Road block
or road flock?
The sheep that fight crime
NEW ZEALAND
Some sheep dont need to be told
to fight crime they just do it.
Thats what police in the small
resort area of Queenstown, New
Zealand, discovered after thieves
led them on a 90-minute car chase
through the countryside.
The sheep, about 150 of them,
stepped out on to the road at exactly the right moment, forcing
the criminals to come to a sudden
halt. None of sheep were harmed,
and police were immediately able
to make arrests.
I couldnt help laughing, said

Che Baker, a journalist for Fairfax
Media New Zealand. The farmer
herding them just kept doing his
job as if nothing had happened
and the sheep werent worried
by the fuss at all they carried
on normally and werent aware
they had become duty police that
morning.
Unsurprisingly, the sheep do
have a law-enforcement connection. As The Guardian reports, the
flock is owned by a local policeman.
chase [tSeIs]
flock [flQk]
fuss [fVs]
herd [h:d]
law-enforcement [(lO: In)fO:smEnt]
resort area [ri(zO:t )eEriE]
Verfolgungsjagd
Herde
Aufregung, Wirbel
hten
PolizeivollzugsUrlaubsgebiet
AUSTRALIA Very few

beaches are made up entirely of
shells. One of the most famous is
Western Australias Shell Beach, 110
kilometres long, 10 metres wide
and covered in cockle shells of the
Fragum erugatum species. The beach
is located in the UNESCO-protected
Shark Bay region (see Spotlight 7/12,
pages 3035).
How did so many shells of this
one type of mollusc land on a bay of
the Indian Ocean? The waters here
are extremely salty, creating an environment that the cockles like. The
little creatures have lived and died
here in huge numbers over the years,
leaving their bright white shells behind to create the unusual beach.
As Atlas Obscura in Slate magazine reports, the areas high salinity makes the bay unpopular with
sharks, which naturally makes it a
good place for people to take a swim.
Not Henrys cup of tea
The setting for change:

the Chapel Royal at
Hampton Court Palace
The beauty of Fragum erugatum

cockle shell
[(kQk&l Sel]
entirely [In(taIEli]
mollusc [(mQlEsk]
salinity [sE(lInEti]
shark [SA:k]
shell [Sel]
faith [feIT]
heir [eE]
pope [pEUp]
spin: ~ in ones grave
[spIn]
split [splIt]
uproar [(VprO:]
Muschelschale
ganz, vollkommen
Weichtier
Salzhaltigkeit
Hai
Muschel
Glaube, Konfession
Erbe
Papst
sich im Grabe
umdrehen
Spaltung, Bruch
Aufruhr, Aufschrei
Texts by CLAUDINE WEBER-HOF
Fotos: Alamy; Thinkstock
BRITAIN What would Henry VIII say? The very palace from which
the king announced his split from Rome has recently held its first Roman Catholic
service in nearly 500 years. The British press say the move would have the king spinning in his grave.
The English monarch (14911547) caused an international uproar when he de
cided in the 1530s to exit the Catholic Church and make himself head of the Church
of England. Hampton Court Palace, located south-west of London, was where he
wrote to the pope to announce his decision, a change
that allowed him to divorce his first wife, Catherine
of Aragon, to marry Anne Boleyn. This marked the
start of a series of unsuccessful attempts on Henrys
part to produce a male heir to the British throne. Two
of his queens were executed in the process.
The service at Hampton Courts Chapel Royal was
led by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Britains most senior
Catholic, and Richard Chartres, the Anglican bishop
of London. Dialogue between faiths is much needed
and welcomed in these turbulent times, John Stud
zinski of the Genesis Foundation, which organized
the service, told the Daily Mail. We need to recognize that we have more in common than not.
The
government
trusts older
people
Colin Beaven
is a freelance
writer who lives
and works in
Southampton
on the south
coast of England.
Foto: Alamy
hat should old people do

with their money? They
could follow the example
of Americas very rich. Bill Gates
has given away most of his money
to help with the fight against polio.
And now that Mark Zuckerbergs become a father, hes done something
quite similar.
We dont have the same tradition
of philanthropy here, though the
British do give staggering amounts of
money to charity. Television events
like Red Nose Day and Children in
Need bring in millions.
Still, there are worries that older people in Britain wont be giving
their money to good causes because theyll have spent it all. Theyll
pay off debts, buy a new car or go on
holiday abroad as ways of using their
extra cash.
Extra? Why extra? The governments changed the rules; before
April 2015, many people had to use
the money in their pension pot to
buy an annuity.
Now, however, they can do what
they like with the money theyve
saved. Is there a danger theyll be
tempted to spend it all, leaving them
penniless in their retirement? The
government says no. It says it trusts
them. Perhaps the governments
wrong.
When you tempt people with
money, they want it. The governments the same way. If you do take
money from your pension pot, the
government takes 20 per cent first. If
you take a large amount, it takes up
to 40 per cent. Thats income tax.
Then, if you dont spend it by the
time you die, the government takes
40 per cent. Thats inheritance tax.
Britain Today | COLIN BEAVEN
Live now, pay later?

Letztes Jahr wurde in Grobritannien ein Gesetz gendert,
sodass Rentner jetzt Geld ausgeben knnen,
das zuvor an eine Rente gebunden war.
It may not be very logical, but

this is why people are in such a hurry to spend their money. Apart from
the fact that they cant take it with
them, people hate the idea that the
government will get its hands on it.
In fact, you only have to pay inheritance tax if you leave more than
325,000, so its a lovely problem to
have. Most people dont have that
much to leave.
In any case, is 40 per cent too
much to ask? Perhaps. But remember, this is money you already paid
tax on when you earned it unless
you have a very clever accountant.
Maybe 50 per cent would actually be fairer. Thats called sharing: one
for you and one for the state. Half
each. Or what about 100 per cent?
That would make Bill Gates and
Mark Zuckerberg seem rather mean.
Perhaps inheritance tax ought to
be variable: 100 per cent for wealthy
people whove behaved badly and less
than 50 per cent if theyre kind-hearted sorts who help old ladies across
the road.
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annuity [E(nju:Eti]
cause [kO:z]
charity [(tSrEti]
court of law [)kO:t Ev (lO:]
debt [det]
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inheritance tax [In(herItEns tks] UK
kind-hearted [)kaInd (hA:tId]
mean [mi:n] UK
pension pot [(penS&n pQt] UK ifml.
phone-in [(fEUn In] UK
staggering [(stgErIN]
tax rate [(tks reIt]
tempted [(temptId]
unless [En(les]
Who would decide, though?

A jury would be best not the
old-fashioned kind they have in
courts of law.
No, Im thinking that we have
the perfect format here for a new
Have you spent all your money yet?
TV show, with a panel of experts and

a phone-in so that members of the
public can vote. Its what were used to
from Strictly Come Dancing. It could
be called Strictly Come Financing.
Of course, a maximum tax rate of
100 per cent may seem quite high.
But it still wouldnt be high enough
to deal with someone like Donald
Trump.
Steuerberater(in)
Jahresrente
hier: Sache, Zweck
Wohlttigkeitsorganisation
Gerichtshof
Schuld(en)
Einkommensteuer
Erbschaftsteuer
herzensgut
geizig, kleinlich
Pensionstopf
Zuschauertelefon
gigantisch, berwltigend
Steuersatz
versucht, verleitet
sofern nicht, auer wenn
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TRAVEL | United States
Peace by Piece, a mural by Tristan Eaton in Downtown LA
Art at the heart of LA

In der Stadt der Engel findet gerade eine Kunstrevolution statt. TALITHA LINEHAN berichtet.
alm trees wave on the horizon. Over a busy freeway,

the sun sets, its rays of light bouncing off a cluster
of high-rise buildings. I am among a dozen students,
hipsters, and tourists observing this typical Los Angeles
scene. Were not enjoying a view of the city, however.
Were looking at a giant mural in its oldest neighborhood,
Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA). This is one of hundreds
of murals that have been painted here since a 10-year ban
on street art was lifted in 2013.
You can walk the streets every day and see something
different, says our tour guide, Galo Canote, a street artist
native to the city. Murals get tagged and whitewashed
and replaced all the time. Our street art is constantly
transforming.
ban: lift a [bn]
bounce off [baUns (O:f]
cluster [(klVst&r]
high-rise [(haI raIz]
ein Verbot aufheben

abprallen, reflektieren
Ansammlung, Gruppe
Hochhaus-
A closer look
A tag is an informal term for a graffiti artists signature. It
can include the initials of the artist or the artists crew, as
well as subtle or cryptic messages. If you tag something,
you write your signature on it, normally using spray
paint. Tagging is the most common form of graffiti and
can be found all over DTLA on walls, doors, sidewalks,
telephone poles, and even vehicles.
mural [(mjUrEl]
set [set]
sidewalk [(saIdwO:k] N. Am.
signature [(sIgnEtS&r]
subtle [(sVt&l]
telephone pole
[(telEfoUn poUl]
whitewash [(waItwA:S]
Wandgemlde, Mauerbild
hier: untergehen
Fuweg, Brgersteig
Unterschrift, Signatur
raffiniert, dezent
Telefonmast
bertnchen, weien
( p. 61)
The Last Bookstore with the permanent installation Diagnosis by Jena Priebe and David Lovejoy
although they live elsewhere. I like the idea of Mecca,

says Cartwright, this place where all different types of
artists and people collide and connect.
Cartwrights favorite DTLA gallery is the Last Bookstore, just a few blocks away. I wander over and, as I walk
through the door, I feel like Im stepping into the pages
of a Harry Potter story. Books appear to fly off the shelves
and sheets of paper soar out of an old-fashioned type
writer. This is just one of the surprising art installations in
this two-story historic building, which is filled with about
200,000 books, mostly old or even antique.
On the second floor, I walk through a tunnel of books
and into the Spring Arts Collective gallery, where five l ocal
artists exhibit their work. The creations of Liz Huston,
beneficiary [)benI(fISieri]
collide [kE(laId]
curator [(kjUreIt&r]
enthralled [In(TrO:ld]
exhibit [Ig(zIbEt]
official [E(fIS&l]
on rockers [A:n (rA:k&rz]
ordinance [(O:rd&nEns]
reclaim [ri(kleIm]
reputation [)repjE(teIS&n]
resident [(rezIdEnt]
soar [sO:r]
suburb [(sVb:b]
transient [(trnziEnt]
two-story [(tu: )stO:ri]
typewriter [(taIp)raIt&r]
unicorn [(ju:nIkO:rn]
Begnstigte(r), Nutznieer(in)
aufeinanderstoen
Verwalter(in), Kurator(in)
begeistert
ausstellen
Beamter, Beamtin
auf Kufen, als Schaukel
Verordnung, Verfgung
zurckfordern, sich zurckholen
Ruf
Einwohner(in), Anwohner(in)
aufsteigen, hochfliegen
Vorort
flchtig, vergnglich
zweistckig
Schreibmaschine
Einhorn
Fotos: Jill Simpson; plainpicture
Mural art is undergoing a kind of transformation,

but so is the neighborhood as a whole. Founded in 1781,
DTLA was once the heart of the city, a center of activity
where residents went to bank, shop, and be entertained.
However, following World War II, people moved to the
suburbs. DTLAs population became largely transient,
made up of those who came here to work during the day
and who left in the evening.
Then in 1999, officials passed an ordinance that made
it easier for developers to convert commercial buildings
into lofts and apartments and the multimillion-dollar
Staples Center arena opened. Since then, DTLAs residential population has almost doubled, to more than 50,000,
and the area has reclaimed its reputation as a cultural hot
spot.
One of the greatest beneficiaries of these developments
has been the art community, which has seen affordable
spaces become available, dozens of galleries open, and art
lovers move in. Nathan Cartwright is the owner and curator of the Hive Gallery & Studios, one of the biggest and
most popular galleries in DTLA. Originally from Columbus, Ohio, he moved here in 2001 and opened the gallery
three years later. At that time, the streets were a no-go area
by night. There was a lot of homelessness, a lot of crime,
says Cartwright. We called it the Zombielands.
Tonight, however, the streets are filled with young
professionals, many of them attracted to the Hive by a
show that features fantasy-driven sculptures by about 20
artists. I am enthralled by a set piece called Hollow Temple,
from the upcoming fantasy film Yamasong: March of the
Hollows, and a unicorn on rockers. Further inside are the
studios where about 40 resident artists exhibit and work,
Los Angeles, California, complete

with traffic, heat, and smog
4|16 Spotlight
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A closer look
a heavily tattooed artist, impress with their dreamlike

quality.
Both the Hive and the Last Bookstore are on Gallery
Row, one of 15 sub-neighborhoods in DTLA that include
the Financial District, the Fashion District, Little Tokyo,
and Skid Row. The name Gallery Row came about in 2003
to promote the concentration of art galleries that had
grown up along Main and Spring Streets. It is now the
location of the neighborhoods biggest monthly art event,
the DTLA Art Walk. Founded in 2004 by a handful of galleries, including the Hive, this self-guided tour occurs on
the second Thursday of every month. It features more than
50 galleries, which stay open late for the occasion, and atdrug addict [(drVg )dIkt]
feature [(fi:tS&r]
logging [(lO:gIN]
vagrant [(veIgrEnt]
Drogenschtige(r)
darbieten
HolzfllereiLandstreicher(in), Vagabund(in)
Fotos: Jill Simpson; Schapowalow
Skid Row is an area in DTLA that has one of the countrys

biggest concentrations of homeless people (see Spotlight
6/15, pages 2025). The term skid row can refer to any
area of a city frequented by vagrants, alcoholics, and
drug addicts. It originated as a logging term, for people
who helped transport logs down hills and then had to
wait for transportation back up the hill. It later became a
term for places frequented by people with no money and
nothing to do.
Fotos: xxxxxxxxx
Above: author Talitha Linehan

visits Infinity Mirrored Room by
Yayoi Kusama at the Broad
16
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Thrill of the new:

the Broad museum
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Artist Teale Hatheway; below, gallerist Nathan Cartwright
acre [(eIk&r]
break ground [breIk
(graUnd]
brewery [(bru:Eri]
canvas [(knvEs]
cluttered [(klVt&rd]
executive director
[Ig(zekjEtIv dE)rekt&r]
gentrified [(dZentrIfaId]
pave the way [)peIv DE (weI]
power plant [(paU&r plnt]
squeezed out [skwi:zd (aUt]
thrive [TraIv]
venue [(venju:]
vibrant [(vaIbrEnt]
zone sth. [zoUn]
18
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Morgen (4.047 m)
Bahn brechen,
neue Wege einschlagen
Brauerei
Leinwand
berst
Geschftsfhrer(in)
aufgewertet, luxussaniert
den Weg ebnen
Kraftwerk
herausgedrngt
blhen, florieren, Erfolg haben
Veranstaltungsort
lebhaft, dynamisch
etw. in Zonen einteilen
Fotos: Jill Simpson; Mauritius
The very popular pop artist Andre Miripolsky
tracts about 15,000 visitors. The art is what keeps people

coming back, says Qathryn Brehm, the DTLA Art Walk
executive director and an established artist. You can come
here to eat and drink, but the art is that third component
that really adds the magic.
Brehm was one of the artists who helped pave the way
for DTLAs cultural renaissance. She came here in the late
1970s, when artists were moving into the many buildings
left empty by failed businesses, and converting them into
studios where they lived and worked. This practice was
made legal in 1981, when the city passed an Artist in
Residence (AIR) ordinance, allowing the residential use
of buildings once zoned for industrial or commercial use.
As a result, one sub-neighborhood of DTLA in particular, the Arts District, thrived. It developed a vibrant
artists community, complete with galleries, cafes, and
performance venues. However, in recent years, this area
has become gentrified and rents have climbed. Brehm,
who has lived in the Arts District since 1985, says, The
artists are always the first to break ground. They make an
area safer and more interesting. Others follow and soon
the artists are squeezed out. Most artists cant afford to live
in the Arts District anymore. So where do they go?
Some of them go to the Brewery Art Colony, which is
a few miles northeast of the Arts District, in the neighborhood of Lincoln Heights. Located on a 27-acre site that
was developed at the end of the 19th century and home to
a power plant and later a brewery, it became a residential
property for artists following the AIR ordinance. Today,
it has 13 buildings with 330 studios and lofts with 500
artists making it one of the biggest artists colonies in
the world. The Brewery is open to the public twice a year
for the Brewery Artwalk. Lucky for me, Andre Miripolsky
has offered to take me on a private tour.
A well-known pop artist, Miripolsky has designed
costumes for music legend Elton John, created graphics for singer and actress Bette Midler, and worked with
the Rolling Stones. The walls of his two-story studio are
filled with colorful canvases and the floor is cluttered with
sculptures and art supplies. Miripolsky, who has called

the Brewery home for 20 years, says the best thing about
living there is the access he has to other artists, materials,
and resources. It expands the limits of what I can do, he
says. Since 2005, he has been working with city officials,
painting murals in DTLA and nearby neighborhoods, including one that covers an entire building, the School of
Arts and Enterprise in Pomona. He calls this his proudest
achievement.
While Miripolskys art is displayed on the buildings
of DTLA, another artist at the Brewery, Teale Hatheway,
has been using those same buildings as inspiration for
her work. Hatheway, a fifth-generation Angelino, goes
on photo safaris, climbing up inside DTLAs empty old
buildings although their numbers are now declining
to photograph the details high above the streets. Our architectural history is a hodgepodge of different cultures,
says Hatheway. We kind of swiped things from everywhere and squished them together, especially in theaters.
You can see the Moroccan paired with the baroque paired
with the rococo. Its unlike anything else.
Hatheway incorporates elements of buildings into her
works to paint ideas of places. Recently, she has been
working with streetlights, too. LA has the most streetlight designs of any city in the country, some say the
world I think of them as just standing there, watching the traffic go by, watching the people pass, and theres
something about that endurance that is soulful to me.
Hatheway dreams of exhibiting her work at the Broad,
a $140-million contemporary art museum that opened in
DTLA last September. The Broad houses the art collection
of philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad nearly 2,000
works by 200 artists. On a visit, I walk from one room to
the next, looking at the famous works of such greats as
Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Keith Haring. Then
I follow other visitors to see the Infinity Mirrored Room,
a temporary installation by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.
It uses mirrors, lights, and water to create a fantastic illusion. Each visitor gets 45 seconds inside alone.
The door closes behind me, and Im standing at the
center of the universe, with my image reflected a seemingly infinite number of times. The door opens again.
My time is up and I step outside. I may not be at the
center of the universe anymore, but I do feel like Im at
the center of a new world of art. And thats an exciting
place to be.
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endurance [In(dUrEns]
entire [In(taI&r]
hodgepodge [(hA:dZpA:dZ] N. Am.
infinite [(InfInEt]
soulful [(soUlf&l]
squish [skwIS]
swipe [swaIp] ifml.
zurckgehen, abnehmen
Bestndigkeit, Stehvermgen
komplett, gesamt
Durcheinander, Mischmasch
unendlich
seelenvoll, beseelt
quetschen
stibitzen, mitgehen lassen
If you go
LA Art Tours
What: A guided tour of the graffiti and mural art of
Downtown LA, the Brewery Art Colony, or the Santa Fe
Art Colony.
When: Most tours are on weekends, but private tours are
available at other times.
Cost: $12 per person
http://laarttours.com
The Hive Gallery & Studios

Where: 729 South Spring Street
When: Wednesday to Saturday from 1 to 6 p.m.; open
late on the first Saturday and second Thursday of every
month. You can also make an appointment to visit at
other times.
http://hivegallery.com
The Last Bookstore

Where: 453 South Spring Street
When: Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.;
Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Sunday
from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
http://lastbookstorela.com
Downtown LA Art Walk

Where: Primarily on Spring and Main Streets, between
2nd and 9th Streets, in Downtown LA. Get a free map at
the Art Walk Lounge on 634 South Spring Street.
When: The second Thursday of every month, from
around 6 to 10 p.m.
http://downtownartwalk.org
The Brewery Artwalk

Where: The Brewery Art Colony, 2100 North Main Street
When: For two days, normally in April and October, from
11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
http://breweryartwalk.com
The Broad
Where: 221 South Grand Avenue
When: Tuesday and Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday
from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The museum is closed on Monday. Avoid waiting in line
by reserving your tickets online months in advance.
Cost: Admission is free, but you have to pay for parking.
www.thebroad.org
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FOOD | International
At the heart of London: a Turkish baker prepares the food while you watch
Memories on a plate
Mit welchen Erwartungen und Erfahrungen an das Essen kommen Leute nach Grobritannien?
JULIAN EARWAKER hat sich mit drei Personen unterhalten, die auf der Insel ein neues Leben
angefangen haben.
ood is one of the great pleasures of travel. Whether

in restaurants, on the street, at market stalls or in
shops, discovering new tastes is a way of understanding different countries and cultures. Every year, some
600,000 people come to live in the UK. The reasons for
making the journey are various: study,
training, sport, arts, employment,
family, refuge and asylum. Today,
around 8.3 million people, or
13 per cent of the nations population, were born outside the
UK. Together, they represent
an international atlas of culinary
taste and cuisine. Food is a global
language. And its something that
many people begin to get to know
on their first day in a new country.
20
Spotlight 4|16
asylum seeker [E(saIlEm )si:kE]

market stall [)mA:kIt (stO:l]
sip [sIp]
Asylbewerber(in)
Marktstand
schlckchenweise trinken
I arrived in the UK three days before my 16th birthday, says 22-year-old Bashdar Saleh, who made
the long and difficult journey alone as an
asylum seeker from Kurdistan in the
north of Iraq. My first meals were
mainly pizza and takeaway. I eat
more healthily now! he says,
as he sips a coffee in a Portuguese cafe in Ipswich, East
Anglia. Nearby is a Turkish
restaurant, Polish delicatessen, Asian food store and
Chinese takeaway.
Bashdar Saleh: dreaming
of stuffed vine leaves
Fotos: Alamy; J. Earwaker; Mauritius; Thinkstock
Mira Santana,
39, also lives in Ipswich. She knows
Portuguese cuisine
well she grew
up in Angola, southwest Africa, which is a
former Portuguese colony. Like Bashdar, she left her
home country aged just 15, to start
a new life in Portugal. In 2003, she moved to the UK with
her two young daughters. Did they eat takeaways when
they first arrived? No, never, she says with a big smile.
I wanted to cook and eat Angolan and Portuguese food.
Especially dishes like funge (a polenta-like porridge made
from cassava flour) and bacalhau (salted cod).
It wasnt easy back then to find all the ingredients that
she needed. Today, there are several stores in town selling them. Sometimes, however, Mira still has to adapt
traditional recipes. In Angola, we use a green vegetable
called gimboa, but here in England, we have to use spinach, which is similar but not the same.
Things were even more different when Leela Smith
first arrived in Britain. Born in Singapore to Sri Lankan
parents, she lived in Malaysia and Sri Lanka before travelling to England in 1979. At that time, people were
not familiar with Asian food and it was not so popular,
recalls the 82-year-old, as she pulls a plate of hot, spicy
bhaji and samosas from the oven.
Leela had one advantage over other arrivals to the UK
at the time. Her father, a doctor, had sent young Leela
to a local convent to learn about English food and etiquette. British meals were considered a healthy alternative
adapt [E(dpt]
affection [E(fekS&n]
cassava flour [kE(sA:vE )flaUE]
catering industry
[(keItErIN )IndVstri]
chef [Sef]
cod [kQd]
convent [(kQnvEnt]
crisps [krIsps] UK
differ [(dIfE]
don [dQn]
evolve [i(vQlv]
ghee [gi:]
herb [h:b]
keen [ki:n] UK
nutrition [nju(trIS&n]
recall [ri(kO:l]
spicy [(spaIsi]
spinach [(spInIdZ]
stuffed [stVft]
umami [u(mA:mi]
vine leaf [(vaIn li:f]
anpassen
Zuneigung
Maniokmehl
Gastronomiegewerbe
Kchenchef(in)
Kabeljau
Kloster
Kartoffelchips
sich unterscheiden
anziehen
sich entwickeln
Butterfett
Kchenkraut
begeistert
Ernhrung
sich erinnern
wrzig, scharf, pikant
Spinat
gefllt
(der Geschmack von Glutamat)
Weinblatt
Mira Santana: she can

taste that bacalhau
to Asian dishes full of fatty

ghee and coconut milk. She
enjoyed the different and seemingly exotic taste of English food.
After arriving in England, Leela continued her
culinary education by starting work in the hotel industry. I had to go to college to learn cooking for the catering industry, she says. I had to don the chef s clothes,
with hat on, and I was 45 years old! But I learned how to
cook English food properly, and also nutrition and hygiene and things like that.
While the European food tradition is largely based
upon pairing foods that share flavours, Asian cooking
tends to do the opposite. The five
main tastes of sweet, sour, salty,
bitter and umami are accepted globally. Nevertheless, influenced by
environment, culLeela Smith:
makes a mean
ture and tradition,
curry
national tastes still
differ.
Like
many
migrants, Leela
learned to adapt
her culinary skills
to suit her guests,
cooking rich, spicy
curries for her Asian
friends and English food
for her English husband and
friends. Through the years, she has
seen tastes evolve, so that most of her English friends now
enjoy a curry. Her favourite Asian meal is chicken curry
and rice, while she particularly likes traditional British
roast beef, roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding. Tea is
not on the menu, however.
Bashdar adapted quickly to British cuisine, too, and
has developed a great affection for English roast dinners,
which he calls Sunday food. He also enjoys chicken
with rice, beans and okra, although his big favourite are
dolmas, fresh vine leaves stuffed with rice, meat, herbs
and garlic. Hes not a fan of English tea either, preferring
Turkish coffee.
Bashdar is a keen footballer and plays for a local team.
So he tries hard to eat healthily. What about snack food?
Oh, I love British crisps, he admits, especially chilli
flavour. And I really like popcorn, sweet popcorn. His
English remains rudimentary, but food is one area where
his vocabulary has grown.
Mira initially found both the English language and
British food difficult. She survived on meals of rice,
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FOOD | International
chicken, pasta and potatoes.
Today, she still cooks mainly Angolan or Portuguese
food at home. How
ever, thanks to her two
daughters, Flora, 15,
and Flavia, 14, she is
enjoying a wider range
of cuisine. My daughters like an English
breakfast: beans, bacon,
eggs. We eat much more
bacon now, says Mira. And
Flavia cooked banana pancakes
the other day. Although I have no idea where she got the
recipe from!
Takeaways have also become a family treat. The girls
say, Come on, Mum! So we sometimes have fish and
chips thats the number one. But also Chinese. Chicken chow mein is a favourite. And with Indian food, I
think its chicken tikka masala? My daughters teach me!
she says with a laugh.
Mira has witnessed the range of international cuisine available in British shops expand enormously over
the past 13 years. She works as a cleaner, and oven-ready
meals are naturally a big temptation for a busy mum.
Living alone in her flat in the east of Ipswich, ready
meals are also something that Leela finds increasingly
useful. Ive got lazy, she says with a rueful smile. Because today you can buy ready-made meals, quite healthy
meals, at a reasonable price. And if youre alone and single, I think its cheaper than buying things and cooking
them for yourself.
Are there any foods she especially misses? Not really, replies Leela. Because today in this country, you can
get just about anything you like. You can collect all the
ingredients you want. How about Mira and Bashdar? I
miss kazika, says Mira immediately. Its corn, beans and
palm oil cooked together. Its one of the tastes of her
childhood and difficult to find or cook in Ipswich. Bashdar has another solution. When I miss Kurdish food, I
go to London, he says. They have everything there.
Travel may be exciting and liberating, but leaving
home to settle in a new country involves an emotional
Mais
Fertiggericht fr den Backofen
reuevoll, reumtig
Versuchung
hier: Leckerbissen
mitbekommen, miterleben
Wherever you look: shops selling food from

around the world on every British high street
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Fotos: Alamy; T. Barakat
corn [kO:n] N. Am.

oven-ready meal [)Vv&n
)redi (mi:&l] UK
rueful [(ru:f&l]
temptation [temp(teIS&n]
treat [tri:t]
witness [(wItnEs]
What food experiences do newcomers to Germany have? Spotlight quizzed Rashid

and Rabie Barakat, who recently arrived in Munich from Syria.
Spotlight: What is your favourite food German
or otherwise?
Rashid Barakat: Schnitzel with German potato salad.
Rabie Barakat: I like lasagne.
Spotlight: Which dish do you associate with home?
Rashid: Kibbeh with aubergine. Kibbeh is a Middle Eastern
dish made with bulgur with or without meat
and spices.
Rabie: I love vine leaves filled with rice.
Spotlight: What was your first meal in Germany and what
can you remember about it?
Rashid: Spaghetti bolognese it was good.
Rabie: I had Chinese food.
Spotlight: What dishes do you eat regularly here in Germany?
journey, too. Food is an important part of memory and

experience. Unsurprisingly, research shows that food security, the availability of nutritious, tasty food, plays an
important role in feeling at home for migrants. Food is
symbolic of international diversity and difference as much
as acceptance and integration. As Leela Smith says: The
most important thing in life is the food that we take in.
Rashid: Lots of things, like kebabs, pasta, steak and pizza.

Rabie: Ill eat almost everything: beef, noodles, food to go,
Middle Eastern food, pizza
Spotlight: What do you notice when you go food shopping
in Germany?
Rashid: There is a lot of convenience food. People dont buy
and cook fresh food. They save food and warm up
what they had yesterday.
Rabie: People dont eat very healthily. Supermarkets are
filled with strange stuff. At home, people go to the
market more often.
Spotlight: What are you going to have for your next meal?
Rashid: Kibbeh made in the oven.
Rabie: I havent thought about that yet
convenience food [kEn(vi:niEns fu:d]

diversity [daI(v:sEti]
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nutritious [nju(trISEs]
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Vielfalt
Nudel
nahrhaft, nhrstoffreich
befragen
Gewrz
Weinblatt
Lisbon comes to London: a Portuguese cafe in the British capital
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HISTORY | 40 Years Ago
24
Spotlight 4|16
United States
Apple is born
Apple hat 1976 in einer Garage das Licht
der Welt erblickt. Heute sind die von der
Firma entwickelten Technologien und das
typische Apple-Design berall in unserem
Leben vertreten.
Think of Apple, and its hard to believe it started life
in Steve Jobss garage in Los Altos, California. Jobs
(on the right), Steve Wozniak (on the left), and Ronald Wayne founded Apple there on April 1, 1976,
with a vision to build a user-friendly computer for
everyday people. The breakthrough came in 1984
with the Macintosh, the first mainstream computer
to use a mouse and icons rather than complex text
commands. It was a milestone in personal computing. Since then, products like the iPod and iPhone
have also changed the music and phone industries,
and made Jobs and Wozniak multimillionaires. A reason for Ronald Wayne to kick himself: he sold his
Apple shares for $800 soon after its foundation.
Symbol
sich selbst in den Hintern beien
anstelle von
dpa/Picture Alliance
icon [(aIkA:n]
kick: oneself [kIk]
rather than [(rD&r )DEn]
Text by Toby Skingsley
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How wrong can

one country be?
Der lange, ungerechtfertigte Gefngnisaufenthalt eines
Journalisten der Washington Post im Iran hat nach 544
Tagen ein Ende gefunden.
Finally free: journalist Jason Rezaian
or 544 days, we here at The

Washington Post grieved and
prayed for a colleague in peril.
Jason Rezaian had worked for just
over two years for the Post as our
chief reporter in Tehran when he was
unexpectedly arrested by Iranian officials in July 2014.
None of us knew what to make of
it at first. Certainly, it was an affront
of the highest order the kind of
harassment that our foreign correspondents often receive from autocratic governments. But we assumed
the situation would be cleared up
quickly.
Instead, his detention went on
for days. Iran would barely acknowledge that he had been arrested, let
alone say where or why. Weeks went
by, then months, before his jailers
announced that they would put him
on trial for espionage. Of course, this
was laughable. Jason was not a spy
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Jason Rezaian
was caught
up in an unjust
system
Amy
Argetsinger
is an editor for
TheWashington
Post, a leading
daily newspaper
in the US.
but simply a reporter. It became clear

already experts on a particular region
that he was caught up in an unjust
and therefore dont have as much
system, and that he was likely being
of a learning curve as someone comused as a political or strategic baring straight from Washington.
Jason was one of those. The son
gaining chip. But he was in jail. And
of an Iranian father and Amerithere was no guarantee he would
ever get out.
can mother, he grew up in the US,
The Post ran numerous stories
but held dual citizenship and had
and editorials about his plight. We
worked in Tehran for four years bewore Free Jason buttons, hung
fore he was hired by the Post. He had
Free Jason banners. Top-level edithe perfect qualifications for the job.
He is 40 not a young, careless adtors worked behind the scenes developing strategies to free him.
venturer. But as someone with deep
The level of concern was poignfamiliarity with Iran, he had a comant especially considering that
fort zone that most of us would not.
most of us did not know him perIn mid-January, he was finalsonally. For generations, the Posts
ly released, along with three other
foreign correspondents were well
Americans as part of a prisoner trade
known around the newsroom.
with Iran. Ten days later, he was welThese were the cushy jobs that the
comed home to a new Washington
most experienced and ambitious
Post newsroom he had never visited
reporters climbed their way up to,
and greeted with a standing ovaafter years of proving their stuff in
tion by a room full of friends he had
Washington.
never met.
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respondent.
These detention [di(tenS&n]
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doppelt
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the work is in coun- [)edI(tO:riEl]
redaktioneller Beitrag
trauern
tries scarred by war grieve [gri:v]
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and chaos. In some harassment [hE(rsmEnt]
ganz zu schweigen von
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Nachrichtenabteilung
izations find them- newsroom [(nu:zru:m]
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[)nVnDE(les]
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experienced reporters
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scarred: be by sth. [skA:rd]
von etw. gezeichnet sein
other cases, they look
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for reporters who are
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Einfaches Englisch
frAlltagssituationen
Green Light
LANGUAGE | Learning
Thinking
in English
Liegt der Schlssel zum Erlernen einer Fremdsprache etwa darin, in
dieser Sprache zu denken? RITA FORBES hat dazu Dr. Aneta Pavlenko,
Professorin fr Angewandte Sprachwissenschaften, befragt.
ould you speak, read and understand English

better if you actually thought in English?
Dr Aneta Pavlenko, professor of applied linguistics at Temple University, Philadelphia, says theres more to thinking in
a foreign language than just hearing the
words in your head. To truly master
a language, and to think in it, you
need to learn to pay attention to the
world in new ways. Pavlenko has
researched and written about multilingualism. Her most recent book
is called The Bilingual Mind and
What It Tells Us about Language and
Thought. Here, she shares insights from
her research that may change not only the
way you think about language, but the way
you think about thinking itself.
insight [(InsaIt]
Einsicht, Einblick
Spotlight: What does it mean to think in a foreign language?

Aneta Pavlenko: Academics generally differ from laypeo-
ple here. Laypeople often think that it means you can

articulate thoughts in that language, maybe speak to
yourself and form sentences quickly without having
to translate. When people hear the words of another language in their head, they may believe they are
thinking in that language. But this is misleading. To
really think in a different language, we need to start
paying attention in new ways. We have to change our
categorical distinctions because things are grouped
in different categories in different languages and
the way we see and understand events.
Spotlight: Can you give us an example?

Pavlenko: English has a progressive aspect, which means
we can talk about things as theyre happening, in progress: I see women walking. I see children playing. You cant say the same thing in German, can
you? My colleagues at the University of Heidelberg
have been studying this for several years, using eye-
tracking equipment. They find that in German, people
talk about goal-oriented events. When they look at a
picture of two women walking, they look at the end
point: Where are they walking to? They are walking
to the house. When English speakers look at the same
type of picture, they dont have to look at the house,
because they can simply say: Oh, there are women
walking. It doesnt matter where theyre walking to.
So when German speakers are learning English, they
have to learn not to think about end points, like going
to the house or toward the forest. They need to learn
to break up events in a more fine-grained way, rather
than discussing them holistically like in German.
Fotos: Thinkstock
articulate [A:(tIkjUleIt]
distinction [dI(stINkS&n]
eye-tracking [(aI )trkIN]
fine-grained [)faIn (greInd]
goal-oriented [(gEUl )O:rientId]
holistically [hEU(lIstIk&li]
layperson [(leI)p:sEn]
matter [(mtE]
misleading [mIs(li:dIN]
perceive [pE(si:v]
shortcut: take a [(SO:tkVt]
subtitle [(sVb)taIt&l]
artikulieren, zur Sprache

bringen
Unterscheidung
Blickbewegungsregistrierungsdetailgenau
zielorientiert, zweckgerichtet
ganzheitlich
Laie/Laien
wichtig sein
irrefhrend
wahrnehmen
eine Abkrzung nehmen
Untertitel
Aneta Pavlenkos tips for learners

When youre reading, watching movies or talking to people, pay attention
to situations where
miscommunication
may happen. For
example, if youre
watching an English
movie with German
subtitles, think to
yourself: Where is
the translation correct, and where did
the translators take shortcuts? What kinds of things
are untranslatable? Where is it difficult to translate
between the two languages? Its when you notice
these things that are different that you begin thinking in the other language.
Speaking to yourself in the language youre learning has its advantages youre practising putting
sentences together. But it also has disadvantages,
because you dont get the correction you need. So I
would say that you actually learn to think better in a
language by talking in it to others than by talking to
yourself in your head.
Poetry is a really good way of looking into the mental and emotional world of other languages. Poets
are creative. They take interesting shortcuts with
language, and they highlight features that are central to the language. I recommend starting with the
American poet Billy Collins. Or you might try writing
poetry. When you talk about your own feelings in a
language, it becomes yours in a way.
Learning other languages is also helpful, because

you work out your own strategies, what works for
you. Sometimes, something youve learned in one
language can help you with the next.
One idea for an English lesson would be to have people imagine being in different situations and to ask
them how they would describe them, and then see
how native speakers of English describe them. Look
at the similarities and differences between how German and English speakers perceive the same situation. Do we always think like English speakers? Where
are we different?
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LANGUAGE | Learning
quickly recall words and to string them together.

Thats not the same as thinking. Its possible to speak
fluently, but to continue thinking in the categories of
your native language. You wouldnt always communicate well. But you can have basic fluency and get basic
tasks done without changing much about the way you
see and understand the world.
Spotlight: Is it really possible to think effectively in another language?

Pavlenko: Absolutely! You see this very well in Germany,
where you have people who immigrated to Germany

as teenagers or adults and became bilingual writers in
German, like Yoko Tawada, who is Japanese-German,
living in the country where the language is spoken. If

youre in your native country, that does not have to
limit your opportunities for interacting with others,
because thats where the contemporary media come
in. We have amazing technology that links us to the
world. We can watch movies and TV shows, or use
YouTube, and Netflix, and Skype.
Spotlight: Could the increasing amount of English vocabulary and grammatical structures in the German language make it easier for Germans to think
in English?
Pavlenko: Well, given the fact that English is a Germanic
language, we do have some common ground to begin with. And its not just McDonalds that travels all
over the world today. English concepts, like privacy or
frustration, are also being adopted by other languages.
And if you think about how many
people are now saying yay! and
high five! and ouch! that, too,
is spreading as a way of emotional
communication, and it all comes
from English. So, yes, the adoption
of English-language concepts makes
it easier to learn English and to communicate with English speakers, but
one also needs to be aware that the
meaning of words that have been
integrated into another language
sometimes changes. In that case,
they may create more confusion.
Spotlight: What do you think of the
idea that our language frames the
way we perceive the world? Does
changing our language change our
view of the world?
Pavlenko: Well, that idea has always
Comedian Ricky Gervais teaches funny English on YouTube
or Alina Bronsky, who is Russian-German and has

written some prize-winning books. They write in German in ways that are understandable and appealing to
a German audience. Theres even an award for the best
non-native-speaker-writer in German: the Adelbert
von Chamisso Prize. So it definitely is possible. And
there are non-native speakers who have become famous
English writers, too, which means that they articulate
their thoughts in ways that are completely English-like.
Spotlight: At what point in the learning process do we
start to think in a foreign language?
Pavlenko: That very much depends on how much expo-
sure and interaction you have in the language. It could

be anything from six months to two years if you are
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been rather simplistic, because there

are many different ways of seeing the world, and many
of them do not depend on language. The more up-todate view is not that the language makes us see things,
but that we use language as a tool to talk about things
that we need to talk about. But when we use a language on an everyday basis, of course, that does train
us to systematically pay attention to certain things.
exposure [Ik(spEUZE]
high five [)haI (faIv] N. Am. ifml.
ouch [aUtS]
recall [ri(kO:l]
string [strIN]
yay [jeI] ifml.
Kontakt
(Abklatschen zur Begrung
oder Freude)
autsch
hier: abrufen
verknpfen
juhu
Fotos: Thinkstock, YouTube Screenshots
Spotlight: Would you say that thinking in your target

language is one of the keys to fluency?
Pavlenko: No, I would not. Fluency is the ability to
Films with German subtitles can help you think in English
For example, if you are a speaker of Turkish and youre

talking about something that happened, you need
to make clear whether you saw the event yourself
or whether its hearsay. So in that way, you can say
that our languages train us to pay attention to certain
things, and learning a new language means that we
need to start paying attention differently. So its not
that the language will ever make you think differently
but you need to start thinking differently if you are
to master the language.
Spotlight: And this different way of thinking its
something that happens naturally?
Pavlenko: Yes. It happens over time, mostly unconscious-
ly. We should stop worrying about languages, because

this happens to be one of those things, unlike playing the violin or learning a medical profession, where
even a little bit of knowledge is a really good thing.
It doesnt have to be perfect most of the time it
cannot be perfect, because we already have a language
but it can be very useful from day one to know a
little bit more of another language, a little bit more of
another way of seeing the world.
Aneta Pavlenko blogs at:
www.psychologytoday.com/blog/life-bilingual
hearsay [(hIEseI]
Hrensagen, Gercht
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DEBATE | Britain
Do we still need
libraries?
In Grobritannien sind Bchereien vom Aussterben bedroht.
Haben Sie noch eine Zukunft? Von JULIAN EARWAKER
o some people, libraries are a thing of the past

shelves filled with old books guarded by stern librarians who have a Shhh! for every visitor. But
in the UK, new libraries in Birmingham, Manchester,
Norwich and London show how they can be a vital part
of the information age.
Books are just one part of it. Free internet access is
available for school homework, job hunting, information
about benefits or business. Library assistants offer skills
and advice. Cafes serve refreshments. Talks, meetings,
events and activities are all part of the service. Open to
all, libraries are community hubs. No wonder that recent
cuts have generated so much opposition.
According to the National Literacy Trust, children
who go to a library are twice as likely to read well as those
who dont. Research shows the importance of social interaction in reading and talking about books, and in sharing
information with friends and family. Libraries, say supporters, are about the freedom of ideas, education, knowledge, entertainment, information, culture and communication. To close them would be cultural vandalism.
Although Britain is one of the most literate nations
in the world, England is the only country in the OECD
whose younger generation is less literate and numerate
than the oldest age group. Nevertheless, since 2011, some
340 libraries have closed across the UK, 6,000 library staff
have lost their jobs and 400 libraries are now run by volunteers. With local government funding being slashed, library services are an easy target especially when books
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argue [(A:gju:]
benefits [(benIfIts]
closure [(klEUZE]
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figure [(fIgE]
funding [(fVndIN]
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numerate [(nju:mErEt]
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precious [(preSEs]
refreshment [ri(freSmEnt]
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run [rVn]
slash [slS]
staff [stA:f]
stern [st:n]
vital [(vaIt&l]
volunteer [)vQlEn(tIE]
argumentieren, einwenden,
behaupten
Sozialleistungen, Zuschsse
Schlieung
Krzung
Zahl, Wert
Finanzierung, Frderung
Knotenpunkt, Zentrum
unvermeidlich, zwangslufig
gebildet, belesen
rechenfhig, rechenkundig
veraltet, berholt
kostbar
Erfrischung
sich auf jmdn. verlassen
hier: fhren, leiten
reduzieren, streichen
Personal, Mitarbeiter
ernst, streng
wichtig, unverzichtbar
Freiwillige(r), Ehrenamtliche(r)
Fotos: Alamy; ddp
The way forward: more digital offerings as well as books
and archives are being replaced by e-books and the internet. With visits to Britains libraries falling by 14 per
cent in the past five years, it could appear that libraries
are an outdated, middle-class luxury needed less than ever
before. But campaigners argue that library closures and
reduced opening hours inevitably lead to fewer visits. And
most library users are not wealthy: a recent report shows
that, in England, although a third of the population uses
a library, in poorer areas, this figure rises to half. In addition, more than 20 per cent of the UK population still has
no internet access at home. Closing libraries damages the
lives of those least able to afford it.
Libraries are safe spaces, offering job clubs, skills exchanges, digital literacy and fluency. They provide social
interaction and networking opportunities for those living
in isolation. The number of volunteers working in libraries has doubled since 200910. Is it right to rely on them
to run such a precious resource? Many libraries need to be
modernized, to have better-trained staff, Wi-Fi in every
location, to offer cafes, perhaps, and to serve the needs
of the local community. But is the government willing to
pay for the changes?
What people are saying

A look at the words and expressions used in statements to the press about libraries today.
The Library of the Future
The Guardian
We have an obligation to support libraries: to use libraries, to
encourage others to use libraries,
to protest the closure of libraries.
If you do not value libraries then
you do not value information or
culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and
you are damaging the future.
Neil Gaiman, author
Recent debate about libraries

has been intense. Much of the
focus has been on short-term
issues of funding, the closure
of libraries and a perceived tension between books and digital
technology. As a result, an understanding of how libraries will
contribute to the future success
and well-being of this country
hasnt developed. Public libraries have always adapted
and renewed themselves to meet the changing needs of
people and communities.
obligation: duty or commitment
Alan Davey, former chief executive of the

Arts Council England
closure: the act or process of closing something

silencing: to make quiet, to prevent from speaking
perceived: imagined or looked at in a particular way

contribute: provide, help to achieve
renewed: given fresh life or energy
adapt [E(dpt]
tension [(tenS&n]
sich anpassen, sich umstellen

Spannung
At left, the Kent Library and History

Centre in Maidstone, England;
above, the Canada Water super library in London
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Lets talk about

losing that weight
Life is not
much fun if
you are always
hungry
Gute Vorstze frs neue Jahr zu fassen, macht Spa allerdings

nur, solange keiner auf die Idee kommt nachzufragen, wie viel
(oder wenig) man bereits davon umgesetzt hat.
ow that the first quarter has

passed, its a good time for a
progress report on all those
great plans and promises that were
made at the start of 2016. Person-
Need to lose those kilos? Heres one idea
ally, I dont make New Years resolutions, but that wont stop me giving
an opinion on the failings of others.
And, to be fair to those people, we
know that 80 per cent of promises
made at the start of the year are not
kept.
At the top of the list is the promise to lose weight but most of the
attempts at weight loss ended sometime between the second of January and the middle of that month.
I must confess that I, too, have a
weight problem, but my problem
is keeping my weight at close to 70
kilos. Right now, it is only 67 kilos.
Im jealous of people who can put on
more weight by, as they tell me, just
looking at food. I wish I could do
that. But what I say to those people
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ority to another common New Years

resolution: that is, to enjoy life to the
fullest. Life is not much fun if you
are always hungry.
Another popular resolution is
to save more money. That
would be OK, except that
the only way to save more
is to spend less or to get a
second job. That does not
sound like much fun, but
if the bank manager says
that you are about to lose
everything, then flee immediately to a country that is
full of happy people who
dont have much. If you
cant decide on one, then
maybe try Brazil. Theyve
got the Olympic Games
this year, and they sure
know how to throw a party in Rio.
You might even lose some weight doing all that dancing.
You could actually keep some
other New Years promises, such as
learning something new and exciting. Wherever you go in South
America, you are going to have to
learn either Spanish or Portuguese.
For the more adventurous, try learning one of the dialects spoken by the
native peoples there.
confess [kEn(fes]
dumb [dVm]
inflict [In(flIkt]
pedestrian crossing [pE)destriEn (krQsIN]
quarter [(kwO:tE]
reminder [ri(maIndE]
resolution [)rezE(lu:S&n]
unsuspecting [)VnsE(spektIN]
Peter Flynn is a
public-relations
consultant and
social commentator who lives
in Perth, Western
Australia.
You might even fall in love,

which, to me anyway, is a strange
New Years resolution. You cant just
write yourself a desperate reminder
to fall in love this year. Romance
doesnt work that way. The same
goes for writing a note to yourself
to stay fit and healthy. That is of
no use to you if an out-of-control
bus runs you over on the pedestrian
crossing. Anyway, fit and healthy is
a relative condition. Some prefer fat
and wealthy.
The dumbest New Years resolution, however, is the promise to
spend more time with the family.
Men say dumb stuff like that because
they spend too much time at work,
but if their lives are that uninteresting, why would they inflict themselves on their unsuspecting family?
These guys just dont get it because everybody is happy when they
stay late at work and are never there
on weekends. What the families really
fear is the day when these guys stop
working.
My children are frightened of
that because they know that will
be the day when I throw them all out
of the house, sell everything I own
and move to Bolivia. And thats a
promise.
zugeben, gestehen
dumm, bescheuert
aufdrngen
Fugngerbergang ( p. 61)
hier: Quartal
Erinnerung
hier: Vorsatz
ahnungslos, nichtsahnend
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SOCIETY | Ireland
The Easter Rising began in

Dublin on 24 April 1916
Irelands rebellion
100 years ago
T
his was the first major armed uprising against the

British Empire in the 20th century. In Ireland, the
rebellion of 1916 is being marked 100 years later
as the turning point of Irish freedom from London rule.
But the centenary has raised fears in Dublin that celebrating the armed rebels who took on the British army
could destabilize the still fragile peaceful political settlement in Northern Ireland, with dissident republicans
claiming they are the true inheritors of Easter week 1916.
hardline [)hA:d(laIn]
inheritor [In(herItE]
mark [mA:k]
mired: be in sth. [(maIEd]
take sb. on [teIk (Qn]
uprising [(Vp)raIzIN]
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unnachgiebig, starrsinnig
Erbe
hier: begehen
in etw. stecken
sich mit jmdm. anlegen
Aufstand
The 1916 rebellion, organized by a band of poets,

Irish-language enthusiasts, former British soldiers and a
revolutionary Marxist, captured international headlines
when it took place while Britains armed forces, including
tens of thousands of Irishmen, were still mired in the First
World War. A century later, Irish soldiers have already
been sent out across the republic to deliver the nations
flag green, white and orange to every primary and
special school in the state.
Irelands culture minister, Heather Humphreys, said
that the Irish government will not allow the centenary
of the 1916 rebellion to be used by hardline republicans
those who want Northern Ireland to be integrated
into the Republic of Ireland to justify terror attacks in
Northern Ireland today. Unionists who are for Northern Ireland remaining part of the United Kingdom as
well as some historians, have expressed concern that the
centenary may be used by anti-peace-process republicans
to claim the 1916 rebellion is unfinished business.
Fotos: Corbis; dpa/Picturee Alliance; Getty Images; Ullstein
Irland begeht den 100. Jahrestag des irischen Osteraufstands von 1916 mit einem mulmigen
Gefhl. Man befrchtet, dass die Spannungen wieder aufflammen knnten. Von HENRY MCDONALD
Humphreys has said that the Irish government has

worked to address unionist sensitivities. Most unionists
look back at the Easter Rising as a stab in the back, given
that Britain was embroiled in the First World War and the
rebels were backed by the Germans.
As someone who grew up and still lives beside the
border, I am very aware of the sensitivities that still exist,
said Humphreys. Through Ireland 2016 [the centenary
programme], we are extending an invitation to all of the
people on this island to join with us as we remember the
events of 100 years ago. I have personally met with members of the unionist community to talk to them about
the programme and to ensure that there is a full understanding of the governments approach to the commemorations. She pointed out that the centenary commemorations began on New Years Day with a concert by the
Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland at a Peace Proms at
the National Convention Centre in Dublin to emphasize
cross-community and cross-border cooperation.
Humphreys said the Irish government recognized that
1916 was not just about the Easter Rising, but also landmarks such as the Battle of the Somme in July an event
holy to unionists, given the large number of casualties suffered by the 36th Ulster Division.
The three words I use to describe the tone of the
commemorations are respectful, inclusive and appropriate. I believe it is up to the state to set that tone, and that
the programme is rooted in solemn and formal commemorative events. It is also important to remember that 2016
will mean different things to different people, Humphreys said.
When the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising took
place in 1966, Northern Ireland was only three years
away from the start of the Troubles (see Spotlight 7/15,
pages 1419, Travel: A song from the heart), a 28-year
conflict that claimed almost 4,000 lives. The Nobel Peace
Prize winner and former first minister of Northern Ireland, David Trimble, who wrote a pamphlet in the 1980s
justifying the British militarys decision to execute P
atrick
Dublin in 1916: British soldiers stand guard at a road block
The road to Irish independence

1914 T
he outbreak of the First World War delays the
implementation of Home Rule laws.
1915 The Military Council of the Irish Republican
Brotherhood forms and plans the Easter Rising.
24 April 1916 The Rising begins on Easter Monday. Irish

republicans fight British forces for six days in an

attempt to end British rule, but are forced to
surrender.
312 May 1916 The leaders of the Rising are executed by

firing squad.
1919 The nationalist movement Sinn Fin sets up Dil
ireann, which proclaims Irish independence.
1920 The Government of Ireland Act creates two governments, one in Belfast and the other in Dublin.
6 December 1921 The Free State, independent and

self-governing, is established by the Anglo-Irish

Treaty. Northern Ireland remains part of the United
Kingdom.
1922 The treaty is ratified, but civil war breaks out

between anti-treaty forces and the new Irish

government. It lasts until 1923.
1932 amon de Valera, the only surviving leader of the
Easter Rising, and his new party, Fianna Fil, enter
government.
1937 Bunreacht na hireann, the Irish constitution, is
put into place and establishes Ireland as a sovereign state.
Marita Moloney
casualty [(kZuElti]
commemoration [kE)memE(reIS&n]
embroiled [Im(brOI&ld]
firing squad [(faIErIN skwQd]
implementation [)ImplImen(teIS&n]
inclusive [In(klu:sIv]
landmark [(lndmA:k]
proclaim [prE(kleIm]
solemn [(sQlEm]
sovereign [(sQvrIn]
stab in the back [)stb In DE (bk]
(Todes-)Opfer
Gedenkfeier
verwickelt
Erschieungskommando
Durchfhrung, Umsetzung
fr jedermann frei
zugnglich
Meilenstein, Wendepunkt
ausrufen, verknden
ernst, feierlich
unabhngig
Dolchsto,
Stich in den Rcken
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Pearse and other rebel leaders, said the sight of armed
men in the guerrilla-style uniforms of the old IRA marching down OConnell Street in their thousands spooked
sections of the unionist community in the late 1960s.
Its worth recalling that before Easter 1966, the
Reverend Ian Paisley could only muster protests against
everything from tricolours flying in Belfast to ecumenical conferences that ran into the hundreds, he said. On
Easter Sunday 1966, Paisley organized a counter-demonstration against the 50th anniversary of the Rising, and
this time 5,000 people turned up. It was Paisleys first
major protest and from then on he built his power base.
Without the jingoism of Easter 1966, Paisley might
have been relegated to the sidelines and, as I have always
argued, without the rise of Paisley and his opposition to
reforms inside Northern Ireland there would have been
no Troubles. The 50th anniversary provided a major stepup for Paisley and Paisleyism.
As with most major political issues or historical events,
plans to commemorate the uprising have produced splits
in how Ireland remembers and interprets the revolt. Sinn
Fin has decided to organize its own series of events independent of the governments official programme. The
party is behind a major exhibition about the Easter Rising in a former cinema north of OConnell Street. Dissident republicans, meanwhile, have coalesced under the
growing number of 1916 Societies,
which observers of republicanism
believe is a newly formed political
movement for all those opposed
to peace and power-sharing in
Northern Ireland.
A former Provisional IRA prisoner and head of its Derry Brigade during the Troubles, Danny
McBrearty, a member of the Derry 1916 Society, said the societies
have created a new all-Ireland network of republicans who see the
Good Friday Agreement as a sellout.
The 1916 Societies is an
Irish separatist organization that
emerged in 2009. Since then it
has spread quietly but rapidly, establishing a presence throughout
Ireland, he said. [T]hey are becoming the go-to organization for
families of fallen IRA volunteers
seeking to commemorate their
loved ones.
For a free Ireland: rebel
and politician amon de Valera
(at centre) in January 1922
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A closer look
The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 established a key
principle in the Northern Ireland peace process: that the
people of Northern Ireland were free to identify themselves and be accepted as Irish or British, or both, whether the country is part of the United Kingdom, as is today
the case, or the Irish Republic, which is the wish of many
republicans. The agreement instituted on Good Friday in
1998 in Belfast is considered the basis upon which Northern Irelands political system now operates. US President
Bill Clinton helped to lead the negotiations.
coalesce [)kEUE(les]
counter- [(kaUntE]
Good Friday [)gUd (fraIdeI]
jingoism [(dZINgEU)IzEm]
muster sth. [(mVstE]
recall sth. [ri(kO:l]
relegate: to the sidelines
[(relIgeIt]
sell-out [(sel aUt]
spook [spu:k]
step-up [(step Vp]
zusammentreten
GegenKarfreitag
radikaler Patriotismus,
Chauvinismus
zu etw. bringen
sich an etw. erinnern
in den Hintergrund drngen
fauler Kompromiss
verngstigen, erschrecken
Anstieg
Hard times: Dublin during the 1916 rebellion
Paul Bew, professor of Irish politics at Queens University Belfast, said he believes the best way to mark the
event is to explore the complexities of the time. The way
they [the Irish government] have included the tradition
of [Irish nationalist politician] John Redmond and the
Home Rule Irish party demonstrates that they have tried
to be fair in this centenary. There is also acknowledgement that the rising and the subsequent war was not just
the Irish versus the Brits, but an internal Irish civil war.
Ireland did not achieve its independence in 1916. The
executions of the rebel leaders, the imposition of conscription and British military actions including the deployment of the semi-irregular soldiers known as the Black
and Tans pushed the majority of the population in the
26 counties of what is now the Irish Republic into the
arms of the IRA and Sinn Fin. Yet when the war of independence ended, Ireland was partitioned, the province
of Northern Ireland established and an even bloodier
civil war was fought between the majority of those who
backed that Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and the diehards
who opposed it.
Guardian News & Media 2016
Unionist: Reverend Ian Paisley in Northern Ireland in 1969
acknowledgement
[Ek(nQlIdZmEnt]
conscription
[kEn(skrIpS&n]
deployment [di(plOImEnt]
diehard [(daIhA:d]
imposition [)ImpE(zIS&n]
partitioned [pA:(tIS&nd]
subsequent [(sVbsIkwEnt]
versus [(v:sEs]
Besttigung, Anerkennung
Wehrpflicht, Wehrdienst
Stationierung, Einsatz
eingefleischte(r) Anhnger(in)
Auferlegung, lstige Pflicht
aufgeteilt, unterteilt
anschlieend, nachfolgend
gegen
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PRESS GALLERY | Comment
Googles taxes:
the missing algorithm
Steuern mssen wir alle zahlen. Doch dass groe Unternehmen mit geringeren Steuerstzen
besteuert werden als Arbeitnehmer und ihre Steuerschuld teilweise noch mit dem Fiskus
aushandeln knnen, ist fr den kleinen Steuerzahler ein Hohn.
[UK Chancellor of the Exchequer] George Osborne

gauged the public mood all wrong when he hailed
[Googles] 130m [tax] contribution as a major success.
It may represent an effective tax rate of something like 5%
on the decade of profits it covers, some suggest considera

bly less. Nobody can say with precision, since the detailed
information required to check the sums remains, predict
ably, veiled in secrecy. But when regular firms face a cor
poration tax rate of 20%, and when individual taxpayers
pay a marginal rate of 20% or 40% with national insur
ance on top, sketchy numbers are enough to confirm that
financial might and some byzantine, border-straddling
structures combine to put Google in a privileged place.
Corporation taxes used to attract no interest beyond the
corporate world. But after years of austerity and years,
too, of energetic campaigning by forensic specialists,
dogged parliamentarians and the agitprop activists of UK
Uncut every day men and women glance at big com
panies cosy tax arrangements and their own more rigid
affairs, and howl at the contrast.
Now that Google has its deal, other transnationals,
haggling with the authorities for similar treatment, will
surely be strengthened. But as Britain drifts towards its
familiar cringe with the begging bowl, there are more
hopeful signs in Brussels, with the European commission
recently showing itself ready to deem not only subsidies
but also tax breaks to be unlawful state aid. If London
cant bring itself to get to grips with tax, the EU may yet
force its hand.
Guardian News & Media 2016
agitprop [(dZItprQp]
amicable [(mIkEb&l]
arbitrary [(A:bItrEri]
austerity [O:(sterEti]
begging bowl [(begIN bEUl]
border-straddling
[(bO:dE )strd&lIN]
byzantine [bI(zntaIn]
Chancellor of the Exchequer
[)tSA:nsElE Ev Di Iks(tSekE] UK
cheesed off: be [)tSi:zd (Qf]
UK ifml.
cosy [(kEUzi] ifml.
cringe [krIndZ]
deem sth. [di:m]
dogged [(dQgId]
gauge [geIdZ]
get to grips with sth.
[)get tE (grIps wID]
glance [glA:ns]
graciously [(greISEsli]
haggle [(hg&l]
hail [heI&l]
marginal rate
[)mA:dZIn&l (reIt]
revenue [(revEnju:]
rigid [(rIdZId]
subsidy [(sVbsEdi]
tax bill [(tks bIl]
veiled [veI&ld]
UK treasury chief George Osborne at a technology event
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Agitation und Propaganda

freundschaftlich
willkrlich, beliebig
Einschrnkung, Entsagung
Almosenschale, Klingelbeutel
grenzbergreifend
sehr kompliziert
Finanzminister(in)
sauer sein
angenehm, bequem
Minderwertigkeitsgefhl
fr etw. halten
hartnckig, verbissen
abschtzen, beurteilen
etw. in den Griff bekommen
blicken
gndigerweise
feilschen, verhandeln
begeistert aufnehmen
Grenzsteuersatz
Fiskus, Finanzbehrde
starr, unnachgiebig
Subvention, Zuschuss
Steuerbescheid
verhllt, verborgen
Foto: Getty Images
othing is certain, it used to be said, except for death

and taxes. But if death goes the same way as Goo
gles tax bill, then there will soon be no certain
ties at all. [O]rdinary mortals are roundly cheesed off
about the behind-closed-doors deal between the revenue
and the tech giant, which ended in an amicable agreement
to graciously pay an arbitrary and inadequate amount.
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Info to go
The Rocks in
a hard place
sketchy
If something is sketchy, as is noted in The Guardian
text on the opposite page, it is questionable. The word
sketch entered the English language in the mid 17th
century and comes from the Dutch word schets or German Skizze. Both refer to a rough drawing, something
not yet filled out in detail. The adjective sketchy has
the same meaning; it sometimes, as here, also implies
that anything lacking in detail should be viewed with
suspicion. As explained in The Guardian text, private
individuals and businesses pay tax at published rates
not the big transnationals, though. In their case, the
lack of regular rates invites scepticism and criticism. In
other words, the lack of information indicates that power and clever financial arrangements are helping some
big companies to avoid paying their fair share of tax.
Use the word sketchy in the examples below:

1.
Thats the ___________ financial report Ive ever seen.
2. ___________ characters are not what this firm needs.
IN THE HEADLINES
The headline above offers a play on the well-known expression between a rock and a hard place. Here, the Rock is a
nickname for the craggy Canadian island of Newfoundland;
it is in a hard place right now with its economy because of
low oil prices. But if you find yourself between a rock and
a hard place, you face two equally difficult choices: Trying
to find a restaurant that both my mother and my wife will
like puts me between a rock and a hard place. The original
reference in this expression is to Homers epic poem the Odyssey. The hero, Odysseus, had to sail his boat between the
Scylla, a monster on a rock, and Charybdis, a deadly whirlpool between a dangerous rock and a hard place to
come out alive.
craggy [(krgi]
felsig, zerklftet
Answers: 1. sketchiest; 2. Sketchy
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Film previews | Fantasy
Who can help him?

Mowgli played by
newcomer Neel Sethi
Wild things
Film previews | Comedy

How to Be Single is an issue for todays young people. Christian Ditters film of the same name centres on a group of young
people looking for love and friendship in New York. Australian actress Rebel Wilson is Robin, a young woman with a loose tongue
and looser morals playing fairy godmother to shy
Alice (Dakota Johnson), who is struggling with a
broken heart. Big cities can be lonely, and Ditters
Big Apple is an exciting place that never sleeps.
But an imaginative camera also finds unexpected
corners where wishes can come true. And so, like
all good fairy tales, the film combines innocence
and cunning to move your heart and touch your
sense of right and wrong. Starts 7 April.
cunning [(kVnIN]
fairy godmother
[)feEri (gQd)mVDE]
fairy tale [(feEri teI&l]
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Cleverness, Gerissenheit
gute Fee
Mrchen
With the voices of Bill Murray and Ben Kingsley as

Baloo and Bagheera, and Idris Elba as the evil tiger Shere
Khan, Favreau has the perfect cast. And with a woman
(Scarlett Johansson) as the serpent Kaa, theres bound to
be an old-versus-new discussion. Join in, if you like, when
The Jungle Book comes to German screens on 14 April.
bound: be to [baUnd]
cast [kA:st]
evil [(i:v&l]
light-hearted [)laIt (hA:tId]
narrative [(nrEtIv]
orphaned [O:f&nd]
serpent [(s:pEnt]
versus [(v:sEs]
zu etw. bestimmt sein

Besetzung
bse
frhlich, heiter
erzhlerisch
verwaist
Schlange
gegenber, kontra
DVDs | Animation
If youre a regular reader of Spotlights Lighter Side (page 66), youll know about Peanuts,
the famous comic strip written by Charles M.
Schulz. The American cartoon ran in newspapers from 1950 until Schulzs death in 2000.
Now, Schulzs son and grandson have produced a 3D computer-animated film based on
the comic. The Peanuts Movie sees our
clumsy hero, Charlie Brown (Noah Schnapp),
fall in love with a new neighbour the Little Red-Haired Girl, of
course. Meanwhile, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the gang
are all there, partying as though it were 1959 (theres not a mobile phone or computer in sight). Though it may not add much to
the world Charles Schulz created, The Peanuts Movie is a funny
and loving tribute to a timeless American classic. Available from
30 April.
clumsy [(klVmzi]
ungeschickt, tollpatschig
Fotos: Raimund Zakowski; PR
ore than 100 years have passed since English

writer Rudyard Kipling wrote a collection of
short stories published under the title The Jungle
Book, stories that include nearly everything Kipling had
heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle. Its nearly
50 years since Walt Disney made his famous animation
film, which brought the orphaned child Mowgli and his
companions Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther to
audiences worldwide.
Disneys light-hearted movie took out many of
Kiplings darker narrative elements about the struggle between man and animals. Now, director Jon Favreau has
turned Disneys original into a live action film, using computer animation to achieve a spectacular vision of jungle
life where animals move through majestic landscapes.
Apps | DIY
Podcasts | Entertainment
Are you a DIY fanatic? Do you like to keep your home in perfect
order? Or are you a passionate decorator? Then why not do it in
English with the BrightNest app? The application begins by
asking a few basic questions, such as whether you have kids and
whether your home has a basement. Then you can select what
aspect of home improvement you want to focus on. There are six
categories: savvy (money saving), clean, green, healthy, handy
and creative. The creative category presents dozens of ways to
decorate your home most suggestions are inexpensive and
fun. In the healthy category, BrightNest gives you a weekly plan
on what is important to clean and how to be hygienic. BrightNest
is available free for Apple and android devices.
basement [(beIsmEnt]
device [di(vaIs]
handy [(hndi]
savvy [(svi] ifml.
Keller, Untergeschoss
Gert
praktisch, ntzlich
clever, klug
KCRW is a radio station run by Santa Monica College in Los Angeles, where it is well placed to explore Americas entertainment
industry. One of its programmes (and podcasts) is The Treatment, which also airs nationwide on National Public Radio. Host
Elvis Mitchell talks for one hour to behind-the-scenes personalities from music, film and journalism. Two of his recent guests included Jay Roach and Adam McKay. You may not know these film
directors, but both recently made movies (Trumbo and The Big
Short, respectively) that were nominated for major film awards.
In an environment dominated by short-lived trends, The Treatments in-depth format provides an interesting perspective. The
podcast is free on iTunes. You can find out more about the content at www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/the-treatment
air [eE]
award [e)wO:d]
in-depth [)In (depT]
respectively [ri(spektIvli]
run [rVn]
ausstrahlen, senden
Preis, Auszeichnung
detailliert, ausfhrlich
jeweils, entsprechend
geleitet, gefhrt, betrieben
Culture close by | Art

You may have seen work by American sculptor
and installation artist Rita McBride (born in
Iowa in 1960) without realizing who is behind
these impressive constructions. Mae West, for
example, is a 52-metre-high hyperboloid structure through which Munichs trams have been
travelling since 2011. The urban processes that
shape the exchange between communities and
individuals are an important aspect of McBrides
work. The artist has taught at the Academy of
Art in Dsseldorf since 2003 and an exhibition
running from 9 April to 26 June at the citys
Kunsthalle will focus on how these complicated
processes find expression in McBrides uniquely beautiful creations. For tickets and information, go to www.kunsthalle-duesseldorf.de
sculptor [(skVlptE]
uniquely [ju(ni:kli]
Bildhauer(in)
einzigartig, einmalig
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The greatest show on Earth

Wie wird der Prsidentschaftswahlkampf in den USA in der Zukunft aussehen?
CHRISTINE MADDEN malt ein Horrorszenario fr die Wahlen im Jahr 2026.
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Silicone waits for the audience to quiet down before

she speaks. Now, come on and give a warm welcome
to our final two presidential hopefuls: Stan Wellie and
Barabbas Kontt! The audience stands up and cheers.
Red, white and blue lights flash across the stage as Wellie
and Kontt appear, smiling, waving, looking presidential.
Mr. Wellie, Mr. Kontt, Blowhard says to the contes
tants, are you ready for your final challenge?
You bet! says Wellie, punching the air. Kontt does a
little victory dance and says, Bring it on!
Tonight, you have to show the American people why
you would be the best president, says Blowhard. What
are you doing to protect democracy and freedom, to keep
America great? We want to hear what you plan to do during your year as president of the United States. We want
you to tell the American people your election promises
right here on stage!
Yes! says Wellie, punching the air again.
Wait, not so fast, says Silicone. Blowhard pulls two
small packets out of a jacket pocket and gives one to Silicone. A president has a lot of responsibilities, and having steady nerves is essential, she says. Not to mention
multitasking. So, while youre telling us about your campaign promises, youre going to be building a house of
cards! She and Blowhard show the audience the packets:
two decks of cards.
Youll be judged by the excellence of your promises
and the height of your card house, says Blowhard.
But, if your house falls before the times up, you lose,
Silicone warns.
apron [(eIprEn]
bake-off [(beIk O:f]
bring it on [)brIN It (A:n]
cheer [tSI&r]
contestant [kEn(testEnt]
deck of cards [)dek Ev (kA:rdz]
giggle [(gIg&l]
hopeful [(hoUpf&l]
host [hoUst]
insult [(InsVlt]
judge sb. [dZVdZ]
mudslinging [(mVd)slININ] ifml.
presidential race
[)prezI)denS&l (reIs]
sequinned [(si:kwInd]
steady nerves [)stedi (n:vz]
Schrze
Backwettbewerb
versuch(t)s doch mal
jubeln
Kandidat(in)
Kartendeck, Kartensatz
kichern
Anwrter(in), Kandidat(in)
Moderator(in)
Beleidigung
jmdn. beurteilen
SchlammschlachtPrsidentschaftswahlkampf
paillettenbesetzt
starke Nerven
Fotos: Thinkstock; PR
he studio audience cheers

as show hosts
Ron Blowhard and
Selena Silicone step
out from either side
of the stage to come
forward and wave
to the audience.
Blowhard, with a
big, bright smile
shining across his
suntanned
face,
reaches the front of
the stage at the same time as Silicone. Wearing a sequinned
stars-and-stripes dress, she blows a kiss to the audience.
Thank you, thank you, Blowhard finally says, when
the noise dies down. Its great to see you all here for the
final showdown of this 10th-anniversary edition of Americas Next US President!
I dont know about you, says Silicone, but Im so
excited to see who will win this time! What a presidential
race its been!
Its hard to believe this is already the 10th series,
Blowhard continues. I remember 10 years ago The
audience cheers. Blowhard waits until they are silent
again. Ten years ago, back in 2016, when America realized there was so much entertainment value in the presidential election that it would be stupid not to do it every
year, in front of the camera. Now, here we are, 10 years
later, still having so much fun and, at the same time, making democracy work even better than before!
The audience applauds. Thank you, thank you, says
Blowhard. Weve had a great five weeks. Remember our
Mudslinging Debate, where the contestants get to sling
real mud? A video rolls behind Blowhard, showing the
contestants throwing mud as they scream insults at one
another. The audience cheers and laughs.
How about our First Lady Bake-off? Silicone says.
You had to feel sorry for candidate Samantha Trotters
husband among the rest of the lovely ladies. The film
shows clips of women wearing aprons. They giggle and
point at Mr Trotters collapsing sponge cake.
Or our White House Catwalk? The film now presents images of the candidates walking down a fashion
runway in suits, golfing clothes, military uniforms, and
leisure sportswear with baseball caps.
Short Story
As the audience shouts and cheers, Blowhard and Silicone take Wellie and Kontt to a raised table on either side
of the stage. They show the audience the packets of cards.
New and freshly opened! Silicone calls out. No glue!
Blowhard winks, and the audience laughs.
OK, are you ready, candidates? Three, two, one
go!
Wellie and Kontt pick up the cards and start to build.
When Im president, Wellie shouts, well away from the
cards so he doesnt blow them down, Ill
Someone screams. A member of the audience has
jumped on to the stage. This is a travesty! the man
shouts. Do you call this democracy? Weve turned the
US presidential election into a farce! This isnt politics
its a media frenzy! Year after year, our rights and freedoms
are being taken from us while we watch and laugh at this
ridiculous
Suddenly, there is a huge explosion in the studio. After a moment, however, it becomes clear that it wasnt an
explosion at all: It was the sound of dozens of guns all
going off at the same time. Many people in the audience
had drawn their weapons and shot at the unknown man.
But not only the audience had taken a shot: Blowhard
and Silicone, as well as Wellie and Kontt, are all holding

smoking guns aimed at him. There is a moments silence
as everyone realizes what happened.
Then another cheer goes up from the audience. Blowhard speaks: Well, I dont know how that terrorist got
in here, but thank goodness that, when I was president, I
made it compulsory to own a gun. Otherwise, who knows
what might have happened?
Another cheer goes up, and Blowhard punches the
air as a couple of stage technicians drag whats left of the
body off the stage. A third person wipes up.
Silicone points to the candidates. Look, everybody.
Their card houses are still standing! The audience stands
up as one and cheers in unison.
Blowhard punches the air again. On with the show!
compulsory [kEm(pVls&ri]
drag [drg]
frenzy [(frenzi]
glue [glu:]
ridiculous [rI(dIkjElEs]
travesty [(trvEsti]
wink [wINk]
obligatorisch, verpflichtend
ziehen, zerren
Rausch, Wahnsinn
Klebstoff
lcherlich
Farce, Hohn
zwinkern, blinzeln
Books | Non-fiction
The geography of a refugee camp
is about two things: visibility and
control the same principles that
guide a prison. The refugee camp has
the structure of punishment without
the crime. So writes Ben Rawlence
in City of Thorns. Rawlence,
who once worked for Human Rights
Watch, is describing Dadaab, a refugee camp in the desert of eastern
Kenya. Founded in 1992, it is home to around 500,000 people,
mostly Somalis. Rawlence follows the lives of nine refugees. War
and famine keep them from going home. A new start in, say, the
US, is a distant dream. The refugees live out their lives in huts or
tents surrounded by thorn trees, ensnared by bureaucracy and
corruption, hoping against hope that tomorrow will be a better
day. Granta Books, 18.90.
distant [(dIstEnt]
ensnared [In(sneEd]
famine [(fmIn]
visibility [(vIzE(bIlEti]
fern
umgarnt, gefangen
Hungersnot
Sichtbarkeit
Easy reader | Fiction

Private detective Nat Marley is sitting in
a New York bar one April evening when
he is approached by a stranger. The man,
who looks friendly, but whose clothing is
old, chats to Marley for a few moments,
drinks a couple of beers very quickly and
then disappears. The detective is not
surprised by the incident and thinks he
will probably see the man again soon.
Marley is right. The next morning, when
he arrives at his office, the stranger is there and wants the detectives help. And so begins Ten Long Years. The gripping
crime story by Alan Battersby is written at the A2 beginner level.
There is a list of characters and a map of Manhattan at the front
of the book, and it comes with an audio CD version of the story.
Cambridge, 6.50.
approach sb. [E(prEUtS]
gripping [(grIpIN]
incident [(InsIdEnt]
sich jmdm. nhern

spannend, packend
Vorfall
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LANGUAGE | Vocabulary
At the garden centre

Spring is a busy time at the garden centre. ANNA HOCHSIEDER introduces the words
and phrases youll need to talk about this topic.
4
5
13
12
2
7
14
10
17
16
11
15
9
1. bulbs
6. seeds
pruning shears
13. garden hose
2. bamboo cane
7. gardening gloves
[(pru:nIN SIEz] (N. Am.)
14. watering can
3. trellis [(trelIs]
8. trowel
10. fertilizer
15. hoe [hEU]
4. rake
9.
secateurs
11. lawnmower [(lO:n)mEUE]
16. digging fork
5. compost
[(sekEtEz] (UK),
12. planter
17. spade
Get your garden ready for spring!
Carrots are ideal for growing in raised beds. Sow the

seeds straight into the ground.

Add beauty to your garden with a climbing plant.

A birdbath can attract many different species of wild
birds to your garden.

Are your garden tools up to the task? Well show you
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how to sharpen secateurs, remove rust from spades,

hoes and trowels, clean terracotta pots before repotting and well even service your lawnmower.

Brighten up your patio with ready-planted annuals
in hanging baskets or window boxes. You choose
the colour scheme we do the planting.
finden Sie bersetzungen und das gesamte Vocabulary-Archiv.
Illustrationen: Bernhard Frth
Jim Mason, head gardener at Ware Valley Garden Centre, has these tips for you:
Practice
Try these exercises to practise talking about gardening.
1. Study the pictures and the text to find the things described below.
a) Two things that are used for watering plants: _______________, _______________
b) Two things that are used for supporting climbing plants: _______________, _______________
c) Two things that you put in the ground to grow new plants: _______________, _______________
d) Two things that are used for cutting something: _______________, _______________
e) Four things that are used for digging: _______________, _______________, _______________, _______________
Tips
Remind yourself how to pronounce a word by writing down which other words
it sounds like.
For example:
The words hoe and sow both rhyme with grow.
The word glove rhymes with love.
The ow in lawnmower sounds like the o in hose.
The ow in trowel sounds like the ow in flower.
2. Match the sentence halves to complete the definitions.

a) An annual is
1. an insect that damages plants.
b) Fertilizer is
2. a container in which you grow plants.
c) A planter is
3. a tool used for gathering leaves or cut grass.
d) A rake is
4. a substance added to soil to make plants grow better.
e) A pest is
5. a plant that grows and dies within one year.
3. Underline the correct verb to complete each

sentence.
a) You need to put / sow the seeds thinly in rows.
b) Ive spent all morning repotting / servicing our
houseplants.
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c) Were hoping to grow / plant our own potatoes this

year.
Answers:
1. a) garden hose, watering can; b) bamboo cane, trellis; c) bulbs, seeds; d) secateurs, lawnmower;
e) trowel, hoe, digging fork, spade
2. a5 (annual: einjhrige Pflanze); b4 (fertilizer: Dnger); c2 (planter: Pflanzgef); d3 (rake: Rechen);
e1 (pest: Pflanzenschdling)
3. a) sow (sen); b) repotting (umpflanzen); c) grow
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LANGUAGE | Travel Talk
A last-minute
holiday
Take advantage of a good deal with
DAGMAR TAYLOR.
A good deal
Tips
In British English, How do you fancy...? is an infor-
You know how youve always wanted to go to

Rome? Well, how do you fancy going there for the
weekend?
I have a feeling I dont have a choice youve already booked it, havent you?
I couldnt help myself. I saw this off-peak offer and
couldnt believe how cheap it was. I had to strike
while the iron was hot!
Are you serious? When are we going?
This Friday.
mal way of asking someone if they would like (to do)

something.
If you book something, you arrange to stay or go

somewhere at a certain time.
Something that is off-peak, like a holiday or a phone

call, is not at the most popular and expensive time.
If you strike while the iron is hot, you take advantage of an opportunity as soon as it arises, before the
opportunity disappears.
The catch
Although muppet (UK ifml.) means stupid person, its
The only thing is... the flights really early its at

7 a.m.
Oh, Denise, you muppet! I knew there had to be a
catch.
Dont worry, Ive found a solution. Ive booked a
hotel next to the airport for the night before we
go it was only 39 for a double.
Well still have to get up around four. Dont we
have to be at the airport two hours before take-off?
Yeah, but itll be worth it.
a gentle-sounding insult (Beleidigung).
Here, a catch is a hidden problem or disadvantage,

often used when something seems too good to be
true.
A room in a hotel with a double bed is referred to as a

double. A room for one person is a single.
The moment an aircraft leaves the ground and begins

to fly is called take-off.
When you get a (good) deal, you pay a low price for
What a treat!
something.
A treat is a special and enjoyable occasion or

experience.
If something is out of the blue, it is completely

unexpected.
Another word for a holiday or time away from work is

break.
daft [dA:ft] UK ifml.
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bekloppt, bescheuert
Fotos: Thinkstock
And what about the hotel in Rome? Dont tell me

its next to the airport!
Dont be daft. The hotels the best part of the whole
deal well be staying at the five-star Grand Hotel Plaza.
Really? What a treat and so out of the blue!
Well done, love.
Thanks. I thought we deserved a bit of a break.
Cards | LANGUAGE
New words
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Global English
Mx
What would a speaker of British English say?
If youre not sure whether Smith is a man or a woman,

just address the letter to Mx Smith.
Singaporean: If Im not at home, you can call me

on my handphone.
(In)formal English
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Translation
Make these statements less formal sounding:
Translate:
1. Notwithstanding the evidence, the jury did not

convict (verurteilen) him.
1. Er wollte nicht, dass ich die Gruppe begleite.

2. Ich erwarte, dass ihr alle rechtzeitig ankommt.
2. She thinks shes not very attractive;

notwithstanding, shes a real beauty.
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Idiom magic
Ching Yee Smithback
Pronunciation
Read these British place names aloud:

Bromwich Greenwich
Ipswich Middlewich
Northwich Norwich
Austrennung an der Perforierung
False friends
thin as a rail
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handy / Handy
Grammar
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Complete these sentences with the correct

pronoun:
Translate the following sentences:

1. Have you by any chance got a screwdriver handy?
2. Weit du, ob er sein Handy dabei hat?
1. Well see ________ (uns) tomorrow at noon.

2. We helped _______ (uns) whenever we could.
LANGUAGE | Cards
Global English
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British speaker: If Im not at home, you can call me on

my mobile.
The word handphone, used in Singapore and more
generally in the English of South-East Asia, should look
familiar to speakers of German.
Translation
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1. He didnt want me to join the group.

2. I expect all of you to arrive on time.
The English translations of some German verbs that
take a dass-clause as complement (Ergnzung) take a
following infinitival clause.
Idiom magic
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New words
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This new gender-neutral (geschlechtsneutral) title,

pronounced [mEks] or [mIks], has started to gain
acceptance in the UK. It was formed presumably
(vermutlich) as a combination of the M of Mr, Mrs,
Miss or Ms and the letter x, which often denotes
(bezeichnen) an unknown or unspecified person or thing.
(In)formal English
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1. In spite of the evidence, the jury did not convict him.

2. She thinks shes not very attractive; nevertheless /
in spite of this, shes a real beauty.
Notwithstanding is a formal preposition (also
a postpositive (nachgestellt), as in the evidence
notwithstanding) that can be translated as trotz. It
is typical of legal language. It can also be used as an
adverb (as in sentence 2) or, together with that, as a
conjunction meaning in spite of the fact that.
Pronunciation
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If someone is extremely slim (schlank), you can say they

are as thin as a rail. This corresponds to the German
word spindeldrr.
[(brQmItS] [(grenItS]
[(IpswItS] [(mId&lwItS]
[(nO:TwItS] [(nQrIdZ]
I couldnt fit into Peggys clothes if my life depended

on it. Shes as thin as a rail.
In some but not all British place names ending in

-wich, the w is not pronounced.
Grammar
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1. Well see each other tomorrow at noon.

2. We helped each other whenever we could.
Whenever einander can be used in German in place of
uns (or uns gegenseitig), each other (or, more formally,
one another) must be used in English. It is a classic
mistake made by German speakers to use us in these
two examples.
False friends
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1. Hast du vielleicht einen Schraubenzieher griffbereit?

2. Do you know whether hes got his mobile (phone)
[US: cell (phone)] with him?
The adjective handy is also used in the sense of
praktisch, bequem as well as gewandt (hes handy with
a needle and thread (Faden)). But handy is never
used as a noun (Substantiv) in English and thus (folglich)
cannot refer to a phone.
LANGUAGE | Everyday English
Starting a business
This month, DAGMAR TAYLOR looks at the
words and phrases people use when talking
about starting a business.
1. Sandys plan
2. Planning permission
Sandy has a plan. He talks to his partner, Dave,

about it.
Sandy and Dave are talking about opening the cafe.
Sandy: On my way home, I noticed that boutique on
the high street is closing down.
Dave: The one that looks like a charity shop? I always
wondered how they managed to stay in business for so long.

Sandy: Yeah, I know what you mean. Anyway, I was
thinking...
Dave: Oh! I know what youre thinking! You want to
open up a cafe, dont you?
Sandy: Yes. Ive dreamed about it for so long, but Ive
never found the right premises.
Dave: Go for it! You only live once. Have you found
out about the lease?
Sandy: I talked to the boutique owner and she gave
me the landlords number. Im going to call
him first thing tomorrow morning.
Dave: Dont you need a permit to sell food?

Sandy: Ive been reading up about that. You need to
register your premises and get approval from

the local council. And Ill also need planning
permission because Ill be changing the use of
the shop.
Dave: Wont it be a lot of work to turn a boutique
into a cafe? Youll have to put in a kitchen and

everything.
Sandy: Yeah, I know. Im going to have to write a business plan and talk to the bank. But I reckon,
with the right sort of concept, you cant go
wrong in that location.
Tips
You register something by having information, such
as your name, put on an official list.
Tips
The local council (UK) is a group of people elected to
The high street (UK) is the street in a town where the
most shops and businesses are.
Buildings owned or rented by someone, especially by a

company or an organization, are often called premises.
govern a particular area, town or city, for which they

organize its services.
Planning permission is the official approval one

needs to build a new building or to change an existing
one.
You might say Go for it! to someone to encourage

them to put a lot of effort into something so that they
are successful.
A lease is a legal agreement (rechtswirksame Vereinbarung) that allows you to use a building that belongs to
someone else.
You cant go wrong (ifml.) means that something will

always be successful in a particular situation.
approval [E(pru:v&l]
reckon [(rekEn] ifml.
Genehmigung, Bewilligung
glauben, denken
The person or company from whom you rent a room,

Fotos: Thinkstock
a house or an office is called the landlord or landlady.
charity shop
[(tSrEti SQp]
Gebrauchtwarenladen, dessen Umsatz fr

wohlttige Zwecke bestimmt ist
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LANGUAGE | Everyday English

3. What did you do today?
4. Nearly there
Sandy has had a busy day. He tells Dave about it.
Sandys cafe is opening soon. Dave visits him in it.
Dave: You signed the lease? No way!

Sandy: (laughs) Well, the rent is so reasonable and I
Dave: Wow! I cant believe how different it looks
thought I should grab it before someone else

does. Im so excited. Ive been working on my
business plan all day.
Dave: Let me have a look. Do you think youll be
able to make a living?
Sandy: Ive worked out that I need to sell 267 cappuccinos a day to break even.
Dave: That sounds like an awful lot. But then youve
got cakes and sandwiches, as well.
Sandy: Thats right. Im thinking of selling chocolates
and cards, too.
Dave: Have you handed in your notice yet?
Sandy: Im doing that tomorrow.
now. Its fantastic.
Sandy: Thank you, darling! Do you like the vintage
sofas?
Dave: I love them! And the lights theyre great.
You wont get people to leave, its so hip.
Sandy: Oh, and come and see this. The coffee machine
arrived today. Its the real deal. Im going on a

personal barista course tomorrow.
Dave: You know, I had my doubts that you could pull
this off so quickly but youve done an amazing job in such a short time. How do you feel?
Sandy: Im happy. Im really looking forward to working here and being my own boss!
Tips
Tips
Hip is an informal word for fashionable.
No way! (ifml.) is used to say that you think something
is unbelievable.
The real deal (ifml.) is something that is very good

and has all the qualities that people say it has.
When reasonable is used to talk about a price, it

means not very expensive.
A person who makes coffee in a coffee shop or cafe is

a barista.
If you make a living, you earn enough money to buy

the things you need in life.
If you succeed in doing something difficult, you can

say you pulled it off.
When a company or business breaks even, it earns

just enough money to pay for its costs.
People who say they like being their own boss like
working for themselves and making their own decisions.
By handing in your notice, you give your employer

advance warning that you will leave your job at the
end of a particular period of time.
2. Add the missing prepositions.

a) Go ____ it! You only live once.
EXERCISES
grab [grb]
ergreifen
1. True or false?
b) Ive been reading ____ about that.

c) Ive been working ____ my business plan all day.
d) Youve done an amazing job ____ such a short time.
a) The charity shop is closing down. ______

b) Sandy has written a business plan. ______
c) Sandy hasnt handed in his notice yet. ______
d) The coffee machine has arrived. ______
3. What does the word in bold refer to?

a) The one that looks like a charity shop? ______
b) Ive been reading up about that. ______
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c) I thought I should grab it before someone else does.

______
d) Its the real deal. ______
Foto: Thinkstock
Answers:
1. a) false (A boutique is closing down.); b) false (Sandy has to write a business
plan.); c) true; d) true
2. a) for; b) up; c) on; d) in
3. a) boutique; b) getting a permit / approval; c) the shop / the premises; d) the
coffee machine
The Grammar Page | LANGUAGE
Using indefinite pronouns

ADRIAN DOFF presents and explains this key point of grammar
with notes on a short dialogue.
Its early Saturday evening, and Greta and Sam are at home.
Greta: Lets do something1 this evening.
Sam: Like what?
Greta:
We could go out somewhere2, or go and see
1 Something is an indefinite pronoun. Greta is not saying
Sam:
No, I want to watch TV.
Greta:
You never want to do anything 4. We never see
to talk about a place; someone (or somebody) refers to

a person.
anyone 4, we never go anywhere 4. Its so boring.
Sam: OK, then. What do you suggest?

Greta: How about going to the cinema?
Sam: Is there anything 5 good on?
Grata:
How about seeing the film about the boy and the
bear? It starts at 7.30.

Sam: Um OK.
Greta: Great! Come on then. Lets get ready.
Sam: Just a moment. (checks something on the TV) Look,
we dont need to go out. Im just downloading it
now.
Remember
1. Normally, pronouns with some- are used in positive
sentences, and with any- in negative sentences.
2. In questions, we usually use any-:
(at an airport) Do you have anything to declare?
But we use some- if we expect the answer yes:
(at airport security) Do you have something in your
pocket? (= I think you do have something.)
3. We can also use pronouns with any- in positive sentences when we mean its a free choice:
Its an informal party, so wear anything you like.
2 These are also indefinite pronouns. We use somewhere
3 Here, Greta uses anything. It means anything you like
or anything at all. (= Its a free choice.)

4 We use forms with any- in negative sentences:
anything, anyone (or anybody), anywhere.

5 We can also use forms with any- in questions (see the
Remember section).
Beyond the basics

Indefinite pronouns also have a negative form:
nothing, no one (or nobody), nowhere.
Compare these examples (theyre both correct):
I havent got anything to wear for the wedding.
Ive got nothing to wear for the wedding.
Nothing, no one / nobody and nowhere are used:
1. as the subject of a sentence:
I tried phoning, but nobody answered. (not: not
anybody answered)
Im getting fat. Nothing fits me any more.
2. alone (not in a sentence):
What are you doing? Nothing.
Fotos: iStock
Choose the most suitable words in bold to complete the sentences.

a) Oh, dear. I didnt bring anything / nothing to read.
e) Excuse me. Is anyone / no one sitting here?
b) She lives alone and she doesnt have someone /

anyone to talk to.
f)
Its so boring here. There isnt somewhere / anywhere to go out in the evening.
c) What do you want to eat? Anything / Nothing,

thanks. Im not hungry.
g) English pubs are very friendly places. You can chat to

somebody / anybody.
d) I think they live somewhere / anywhere in the south

of Italy.
h) Fortunately, anyone / no one was injured in the

crash.
Answers: a) anything; b) anyone; c) Nothing; d) somewhere; e) anyone; f) anywhere; g) anybody; h) no one
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EXERCISE
someone 2. I dont know, anything 3.
exactly what she wants to do.
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LANGUAGE | The Soap
Helen
George
Sean
Jane
Phil & Peggy
Dragons den
This place used to be called the George and Dragon
An old tradition leads to a new idea. By INEZ SHARP

Peggy: Help me with this box, would you, Sean?
Sean: Wow, its heavy.
Peggy: Careful! Put it down gently by the sink.
Sean: Am I allowed to ask whats inside?
Peggy: Of course! Its full of plates from the cellar. Here,
take a look.
Sean: Theyre beautiful! What does it say? The George
and Dragon.
Peggy: Thats right. Thats the dragon around the edge of
the plate and Saint George at the centre.
Sean: Where do the plates come from?
Peggy: From here.
Sean: They belong to the pub?
Peggy: Yes. Many years ago, this place was called the
George and Dragon.
Sean: And they had their own china? Thats quite posh
for a pub.
Peggy: Put on the kettle. Theres a nice story attached to this.
Sean: Ooh, was there a terrible battle on these premises?
Peggy: No, not quite that exciting. Back in the 1930s,
when this pub was still called the George and Dragon,
the landlord had a daughter.
Sean: Was she beautiful? Tell me she was beautiful!
Peggy: This is worse than reading a story to my granddaughter. You stop interrupting and make the tea.
Sean: OK.
Peggy: So, the landlords daughter married a man from
Stoke-on-Trent. He was in the pottery business and,
as a gift to his new in-laws, he had these plates made.
Sean: They look like new. Heres your tea.
Peggy: Sadly the young couple died in a car accident during their honeymoon.
Sean: How tragic!
Peggy: It was. And the landlord and his wife packed away
the china and put it in the cellar.
Phil: There you are, love. Ive been looking everywhere for
you. Did you find the box?
Peggy: Here it is.
Phil: Id forgotten how lovely the plates are.
Sean: Are you going to put them on display?
Phil: No, we did that once and someone nicked one of
the soup plates.
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Peggy: Were going to celebrate Saint Georges Day.

Sean: When is that exactly?
Phil: On 23 April. This year, its on a Saturday.
Sean: How do you celebrate it? Is it like Saint Patricks
Day?
Phil: I dont think there are any rules, but there ought to
be a dragon and some fighting.
Sean: Im happy to be Saint George.

Peggy: Sorry, an Irish Saint George is out of the question.
Phil: Anyway, youll be in the kitchen.
Sean: I always miss out on all the fun. Stuck at the stove
Peggy: Who says it cant be fun?
Sean: Come on, surprise me.
Peggy: We thought you could make dragon pie.
Sean: I will if you tell me whats supposed to be in it.
Peggy: Thats the point. You can choose. Anything you
like, but fiery would be good.
Phil: And heres the dish to make it in. Help me lift it,
Peggy.
Sean: That is the biggest mould I have ever seen and
the only one in the shape of a dragon.
Peggy: It was probably meant for jelly, but we thought
you could mould the top of the pie in it.
Sean: Ill make a trial version tomorrow!

china [(tSaInE]
display: put sth. on [dI(spleI]
dragon [(drgEn]
fiery [(faI&ri]
honeymoon [(hVnimu:n]
in-laws [(In lO:z]
jelly [(dZeli]
kettle [(ket&l]
landlord [(lndlO:d]
miss out on sth. [mIs (aUt Qn]
mould [mEUld]
nick sth. [nIk] UK ifml.
posh [pQS]
pottery [(pQtEri]
premises [(premIsIz]
stove [stEUv]
stuck: be [stVk]
trial [(traIEl]
Meet everyone at Peggys Place at
Porzellan
etw. ausstellen
Drache
feurig
Flitterwochen
Schwiegereltern
Gelee, Wackelpudding
(Wasser-)Kessel
hier: Gastwirt
etw. verpassen, etw. versumen
Form; formen, gieen
etw. klauen, etw. stehlen
nobel, schick
Keramik-, TpferwarenRumlichkeiten
Herd, Ofen
festsitzen
Probe-, Versuchs-
www.spotlight-online.de/peggy
English at Work | LANGUAGE
Dear Ken: Is it dinner

or supper?
Dear Ken
How do I invite people without spoiling my purse
for a drink / meal?
Whats the difference between supper, dinner, lunch,
brunch and breakfast?
Thank you
Philipp R.
Dear Philipp
Thats a very good question! Let me answer it in reverse
order.
You start your day before going to work with breakfast.
Brunch is a meal between breakfast and lunch, which
usually consists of dishes from both meals and might
substitute for breakfast and lunch. Some people will have
brunch at the weekends when they get up later than usual
and then want to go out somewhere for the rest of the day.
Lunch is the meal you have in the middle of your working
day, around noon.
Dinner is usually used to describe the meal you have in
the evening after work. Some people in Britain might also
use this word instead of lunch. But this is becoming less
common.
Supper is a meal later in the evening, before going to bed.
Some people will not have dinner but instead have something to eat and drink in the late afternoon (called tea in
British English) and then have supper later on.
If you want to invite someone for a meal without breaking your bank, be specific. Say something like: Id like
to invite you for a light lunch at the cafe tomorrow.
Or: Would you like to meet me at Ricardos tomorrow
evening for a simple pasta dish and a glass of wine? Its
on me.
Words like light and simple clearly indicate budget
limitations.
I hope this helps.
All the best
Ken
break: ones bank [breIk] ifml.
purse [p:s] UK
reverse [ri(v:s]
spoil [spOI&l]
substitute for sth.
[(sVbstItju:t fE]
seine Bank sprengen

Geldbeutel
umgekehrt
plndern
etw. ersetzen
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, youll receive a copy
of my book: Dear Ken... 101
answers to your questions about
business English. So dont forget
to add your mailing address!
Ken Taylor is a communication skills consultant. Follow his Hot Tips on
Twitter@DearKen101. He is the author of the book Dear Ken... 101 answers to your
questions about business English.
Dear Ken
I have a problem remembering peoples names after I first
meet them. The names that give me the biggest problem
are those from more exotic parts of the world like the
Indian subcontinent or the Far East.
Its very embarrassing when I meet the person for the second
time or when I have to introduce them to someone else.
Do you have some tips on how I can improve my memory?
Thanks
Leo M.
Dear Leo
Ive the same problem as you, so I have devised some techniques for trying to fix the name of a new acquaintance.
I really try to listen carefully and concentrate when I hear
a new name.
I often ask the person to repeat their name by saying
something like: Im sorry, I didnt fully catch your name.
I then repeat it.
I offer a business card in order to get theirs, where I can
see the name written down.
If I get a business card, I read their name out loud and
then ask them if that is how it is pronounced.
Sometimes, I ask what the name means. In some cultures,
names have more significance than in others.
Then I might ask how the person likes to be addressed.
Sometimes, people from Asia have English versions of
their name and, if they see you are having problems with
pronunciation, will say, Call me Jim or Call me May.
You are lucky your first name is short and easy to remember, like mine!
Regards
Ken
acquaintance [E(kweIntEns]
catch [ktS]
devise sth. [di(vaIz]
embarrassing [Im(brEsIN]
Bekanntschaft
hier: verstehen
sich etw. ausdenken,
etw. entwickeln
peinlich
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LANGUAGE | Spoken English
Hes getting on a bit

This month, ADRIAN DOFF looks at ways of
talking about age in conversational English.
Look at these phrases. Which are about peoples age?
1. in his late sixties
2. in the late sixties
3. in the Middle Ages
4. in middle age
5. an age group
Answers: 1, 4, 5
you were all in the same age group (= you were all schoolage children). Perhaps you gave your teachers a hard time
because you were at a difficult age. Certainly, you werent
allowed to drink alcohol then because you were under
age.
Now you are an adult, and you may even be middle-aged
(= between 40 and 60). If so, lets hope you look young for
your age (= look younger than you are).
Approximate age
1. by using an adverb or a phrase:

Shes around (or about) 40.
Hes nearly 20. (= 1819)
Hes just over (or just gone (UK)) 45. (= 46)
Shes well over 70. (= probably 73 or more)
To emphasize that someone is getting older, we can say:
Hes getting on for 60.
Hes pushing 60.
Both of these mean Hell be 60 soon.
2. by using an expression like in his / her + decade:
Theyre still in their twenties, but theyve already got
three children.
We can also add the words early, mid or late:
I think she must be in her early thirties. (= 3033)
Shes probably in her mid fifties. (= 5456)
Hes in his late eighties, but hes still very active. (= 8789)
If you are 1319, you are in your teens (in other words, a
teenager):
He started smoking when he was in his teens.
Note: middle age v. the Middle Ages

Someone between 40 and 60 is middle-aged,
or we could say they have reached middle age.
The Middle Ages are a period in history
(about AD 10001500):
The castle was built in the Middle Ages.
Idioms connected with age

If you feel your age, you feel that youre getting older:
He doesnt run marathons any more. Hes beginning to
feel his age.
If you act your age, you behave in a way that is suitable for
your age:
Why doesnt he act his age? Hes 35, but he still behaves
like a teenager.
If you live to a ripe old age, you grow old or live a long
time:
He lived to the ripe old age of 98.
If you say someone is getting on a bit, its a polite way of
saying theyre getting older:
Im surprised she wants to take up snowboarding at her
age. Shes getting on a bit.
Fill each gap with one word from the box.

Note: in his twenties v. in the twenties
in his / her twenties refers to someones age:
Shes in her twenties. (= 2129)
in the twenties refers to a period of time:
Jazz became popular in the twenties. (= 192029)
early | feel | on | over | ripe | under

a) Dont worry. Im sure youll live to a(n) _____ old age.
EXERCISE
To state how old someone is, we can say simply Shes 40

or Shes 40 years old. But often, we dont know a persons
exact age or it isnt important, so we say approximately
(ungefhr) how old they are. We can do this in two ways:
b) Weve got a young CEO. Shes in her _____ forties.

c) Its time to retire. Im beginning to _____ my age.
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Expressions with the word age
e) Sorry, I cant sell you cigarettes. Youre _____ age.
Many expressions include the word age. For example, at

the age of 15, you were probably in a class at school with
other children of the same age (or of your own age), and
f) Its time he got a proper job. Hes getting _____ for 35!
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Answers:
a) ripe; b) early (CEO: Geschftsfhrer(in)); c) feel; d) over; e) under; f) on
Foto: iStock
d) Hes well _____ 80, but he still cycles everywhere.
Word Builder | LANGUAGE
Build your vocabulary

Here are several useful words and phrases from this issue of Spotlight and their
collocations. The words may also have other meanings that are not listed here.
pedestrian crossing
[pE)destriEn (krQsIN]
noun p. 36
noun p. 9
cloth
a place in the road where people can cross safely

Fugngerbergang
Please, children, use the pedestrian crossing
to cross the road.
In North America and Australia, a pedestrian crossing is

also called a crosswalk.
razzle-dazzle [)rz&l (dz&l] ifml.
noun p. 62
something that attracts attention

Effekthascherei
What sort of razzle-dazzle will help magazine
sales?
See the extra notes below on how to use razzle-dazzle.
cushy [(kUSi] ifml.
fabric [(fbrIk]
adjective p. 26
Stoff
What type of fabric did you use to make this
dress?
F abric and the German word Fabrik are false friends, with
completely different meanings. A Fabrik is a factory.
whitewash [(waItwA:S]
verb p. 14
to paint something white

bertnchen, weien
The walls still need to be whitewashed, but
otherwise, the apartment is ready.
To whitewash can also mean to hide something
unpleasant.
flabbergasted [(flbEgA:stId] ifml. adjective p. 67
an easy, undemanding job
to be very surprised
angenehm, leicht
Working on the beach is a cushy job.
baff, platt, entgeistert

The man was flabbergasted when he heard the
news.
The word cushy comes from the Urdu language.
Synonyms of flabbergasted are dazed, dumbfounded

[dVm(faUndId] and stunned.
Razzle-dazzle is another way of saying razzmatazz.

The two forms of the word have the same meaning
an activity that attracts attention either by being
loud or showy (auffallend). You can often see razzle-
dazzle used in the consumer world, for example, in
bright patterns (Muster) to make a product look more
interesting than others, in a highly publicized stunt to
attract more viewers to a television programme or in a
shocking statement. Razzle-dazzle is something that
can be easily spotted. Its therefore interesting that the
US and British navies used razzle-dazzle during the
First World War to hide their ships while at sea. They
did this by painting the ships with zebra stripes to
create visual confusion.
Complete the following sentences with words

from this page in their correct form.
a) I was so ____________ that I was speechless.
b) My mural got ____________ by another street artist.
c) Why is there a ____________ here? I thought this is a
motorway.
OVER TO YOU!
How to use the word razzle-dazzle
d) Theyll use any sort of ____________ to get more

people to eat here.
e) This ____________ was imported from India.
f)
Why should I give up my ____________ job to teach
schoolchildren?
Answers: a) flabbergasted; b) whitewashed (mural: Wandgemlde, Mauerbild); c) pedestrian crossing; d) razzle-dazzle; e) fabric; f) cushy
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LANGUAGE | Lost in Translation
Every month, WILL ORYAN turns his attention to a particularly interesting word or
expression that could be a challenge to translate.
Usage
Today, this idiom is often used simply to mean that someone has gone too far with
something. We see an example of this usage in the headline from Politico quoted below.
After Donald Trump made an issue of the fact that his rival Senator Ted Cruz was born in
Canada (and might not be a natural-born American, as the US Constitution requires of all
presidents), Cruz posted a tweet consisting of a link to the famous clip from Happy Days
(see Background below) showing Fonzie waterskiing in the Pacific. In other words, he
was implying that Donald Trump had jumped the shark when he claimed that Cruzs
birthplace was a precarious issue that would leave Cruz tied up in court for two years.
)dZVmp DE (SA:k
verb phrase
jump the shark

Background
In its fifth season (1977), the popular US TV series Happy
Days included an episode in which one of the main
characters, called Fonzie, actually jumped over a shark
off the coast of Los Angeles on waterskis. Several years
later, the verb phrase jump the shark started being
used to describe a TV show when it begins its decline in
quality and popularity, symbolized by a particular scene
or episode based largely on some sort of razzle-dazzle
to maintain viewers interest. While jump the shark
is still used in this specific way, it has also expanded in
meaning in recent years and is often used in contexts
having nothing to do with television, simply to express
that someone or something has passed his / her / its
prime and is starting to go downhill.
Example
Cruz tweet implies Trump has jumped the

shark
Politico, 5 January 2016
issue: make an of sth. [(ISu:]

precarious [pri(keEriEs]
prime [praIm]
razzle-dazzle [)rz&l (dz&l] ifml.
tweet [twi:t]
etw. aufbauschen
heikel
hier: die besten Jahre
Effekthascherei ( p. 61)
Twitternachricht
Which of these sentences would it make sense to complete with jumped the shark?
a) The latest version of this once revolutionary app is simply bizarre. I think they might have finally ____________.
b) After she ____________, we all went out for pizza.
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Answer: sentence a)
Crossword | LANGUAGE
Irish independence
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The words in this puzzle have to do with the centenary of the 1916
Easter Rising. You may wish to refer to the article on pages 38 41.
Solution to puzzle 3/16:

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Across
Down
1. A thin booklet on a particular subject.

7. The right to do and say what you want: This new law is a
2. The largest part of a group of people: The ______ of

people think the prime minister is doing a good job.
3. A situation in which two or more countries fight
against each other.
4. Protest against authority: The army quickly crushed
the ______.
5. The opposite of 3 down.
6. The line that divides two countries.
8. A formal agreement between two or more countries.
9.
A special set of clothes: All the children at the school
wear the same ______.
10. To push a knife or other sharp object into somebody.
11. A period of seven days.
13. To involve someone or something in a difficult
situation.
14. A person who writes poems.
threat to ______ of speech.

8.
Violent, causing fear: The ______ attacks in Paris have made
governments more careful about security.

10. An official agreement that ends an argument.
12. The ______ of Ireland is a tricolour of green, white and
orange.
To frighten someone: Dont ______ me with any more
ghost stories.
16. To bring people together for some kind of action: The
police were able to ______ hundreds of people to help in the
search.
17. To kill somebody, especially as a legal punishment: Does
a country have the right to ______ criminals?
15.
Competition
How to take part
Congratulations to:
Form a single word from the letters in the coloured

squares. Send it on a postcard to:
Redaktion Spotlight, April Prize Puzzle,
Postfach 1565, 82144 Planegg, Deutschland.
Or go to www.spotlight-online.de/crossword
Astrid Jage (Ratingen)

Joachim Kruppa (Tirschenreuth)
Batrice Hug (Oberglatt)
Yvonne Jger (Jena)
Rocco Bttcher (Warthausen)
Hans-Jrgen Schiefer (Kempten)
Anneliese Schmger (Leidersbach)
Gudrun Scharifi (Mariental)
Ina Dorbritz (Borkheide)
Hannes Hll (Berlin)
Ten winners will be chosen from the entries we receive

by 13 April 2016. Each winner will be sent a copy of
Der groe Sprachkurs Englisch by courtesy of Pons.
The answer to our February puzzle was comedian.
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AUDIO | April 2016
Spotlight
AUDIO
Activate your English!
Wherever
you see this
symbol at the start of
an article in the magazine,
you will find the text
and/or the related
interview or language
exercises on
Spotlight Audio.
Each month, SPOTLIGHT AUDIO brings you around 60 minutes of texts, dialogues, interviews,
news reports and language exercises related to the current issue of Spotlight magazine.
Improve your listening skills with the help of native speakers from around the world.
This months
audio content
A Day in My Life (track 3)
Travel (tracks 56)
Food (track 8)
Language (track 12)
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1. Introduction
2. World View: Whats hot: shell beaches
(text: p. 12)
3. A Day in My Life: Srimoyi Bhattacharya,
managing director of a PR firm (pp. 89)
4. Britain Today: Live now, pay later?
(text: p. 13)
5. Travel: Art at the heart of LA
(text: pp. 1419)
6. Travel: LA artist Teale Hatheway
(pp. 1419)
7. Everyday English: Starting a business
(dialogues: pp. 5556)
8. Food: Memories on a plate
(pp. 2023)
9. Replay: International news, with language
explanations
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Everybody should fear only one person,

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Philip Jos Farmer (19182009), American author
A taxi ride
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A man takes a taxi. When the taxi driver gets to the first red
light, he drives straight through. The man, frightened, asks,
What are you doing?
The driver answers, Dont worry, Im an expert.
The driver goes through more red lights, and the man,
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Then the light ahead turns green and the driver suddenly
stops. The man picks himself off the floor of the taxi and
asks, Why did you stop now? The light's green!
The driver answers, Its too dangerous. There could be
another expert crossing.
The Argyle Sweater
Batteries
The vampire competition
I can sympathize with batteries.

I never get included in anything either.
A true gentleman
A good-looking girl waved at me today.
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of them is the most dangerous. The strongest vampire is
the first to go. Watch this, he says, and flies off as fast
as he can. After 10 minutes, he comes back with blood all
over his mouth. What happened? ask the others. See that
house over there? he says. Yes... Well, there was a family
of five in there, and I sucked them all dry of blood! Not
bad, replies the oldest vampire, but watch and learn. And
off he flies, faster than the first vampire. In five minutes,
hes back, with blood all over his mouth and neck. What
happened? ask the others. See that village over there?
Yes... Well, there were at least 25 people in that village,
and I sucked them all dry of blood! Pretty good, says the
youngest vampire, but you guys just arent quick enough.
He flies off even faster than the others. After only 30 seconds, he comes back with blood all over his mouth, neck
and nose. What happened? ask the others. See that big
tree over there? Yes... Well, I didnt.
To some, the
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Ginger Kuenzel
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in upstate New
York home.
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ne of my relatives recently
told me that, in her opinion,
I am not a patriot. When
I asked why she felt that way, she
told me its because I dont have a
flag flying at my house. I was flabbergasted.
Is flying a flag how I show that
Im a patriot? What about serving as
an elected official, spending countless hours working within the system
trying to make my town a better
place? What about working to get
candidates at the national level elected, people who I believe will do the
best job? And what about staying
informed in order to make informed
choices in elections? To me, these are
key elements of patriotism.
After all, anybody can buy a flag
and put it up in their yard. Those
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And, I added, she obviously wasnt
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the candidate shes supporting for
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American Life | GINGER KUENZEL
The politics of
patriotism
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my brother.
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control. Some say that its unpatriotic to support gun control since the
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square with the right to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness as described in the Declaration of Independence? What about those who
have been denied the right to life by
people who have guns?
To be clear, I have no objection

to politicians standing in front of
the flag when addressing crowds, or
wearing a flag pin on their jacket.
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someone religious. Rather, our true
values are evidenced in what we do
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Practical English:
the dialogues
you need
These conversations are
among the most important you will ever have in
English and Spotlight
is here to make sure you
learn all the right things
to say. Language expert
Vanessa Clark takes you
through the key dialogues
step by step.
Bermuda,
islands of
Britishness
Sacr bleu!
Ireland teaches France
how to cook
Visit these Caribbean

islands where Britain
is still a big deal: red
telephone boxes stand
among pastel-coloured
houses, and in Hamiltons
bars, youll be invited to
drink a gin and tonic
while wearing Bermuda
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Everyday English
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We present the language you need
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phrases youll need to know.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | My Life in English
Peter
Limbourg
Peter Limbourg, Intendant der Deutschen
Welle, berichtet, welchen Stellenwert die
englische Sprache in seinem Leben hat.
hy is English important to you?
Because its the lingua franca of decision-makers

and enables you to communicate (almost) worldwide.
Also because Deutsche Welle reaches a substantial part of
its audience through English.
When was your first English lesson?
My first English lesson as a child involved listening nonstop to the American Forces Network radio in Athens
far more entertaining than the lessons at school.
Name a favourite English-speaking author or musician.
Genesiss Peter Gabriel. He is a magnificent musician

and a remarkable person. His music is powerful, inspirational and innovative. Of course, I should also mention
the writer T. C. Boyle. No one else can describe tremendous failure so captivatingly.
Name a dish you love from the English-speaking world.
US steak and chicken tikka.

Where in the English-speaking world would you like to
be right now?
In New York, at the Chelsea Market, or in London, at

the British Museum. In Aspen skiing, in Stellenbosch at
a vineyard or maybe in the Scottish Highlands.
Have you worked in an English-speaking environment?
I was with a news agency in London for a while at the

end of the 1980s. Later, I was, among other things, a
European correspondent for SAT.1 in Brussels. The
experience in these international environments was enriching and served as a good bridge to my job now as the
head of Germanys international broadcaster.
When did you last use English (before this interview)?
I Wont Back Down performed either by Tom Petty or

Johnny Cash: You can stand me up at the gates of hell /
But I wont back down.
Which person from the English-speaking world, living or
dead, would you most like to meet?
70
Today an international broadcaster like Deutsche

Welle cannot function without English.
What was your best or funniest experience in English?
As a student, I worked for ABC News. There, a young

German constantly praised the good team ghost.
Nelson Mandela. He stood for freedom, peace and

reconciliation.
What is your favourite English word?
back down [)bk (daUn]

broadcaster [(brO:dkA:stE]
captivatingly [(kptIveItINli]
claim [kleIm]
decisiveness [di(saIsIvnEs]
enriching [In(rItSIN]
gate [geIt]
magnificent [mg(nIfIsEnt]
praise [preIz]
reconciliation [)rekEnsIli(eIS&n]
substantial [sEb(stnS&l]
tremendous [trE(mendEs]
vineyard [(vInjEd]
What sentence do you use most often in English?
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Sender
fesselnd
Anspruch
Entschlusskraft
bereichernd
Pforte
groartig, ausgezeichnet
loben
Ausshnung
bedeutend, erheblich
gewaltig, frchterlich
Weinberg, Weingut
Yes! It stands for decisiveness and optimism.

Welcome to Deutsche Welle!
Who would you like to be stuck on a deserted island with?
John Oliver from Last Week Tonight, because I would be

intelligently entertained.
What do you have at home from the English-speaking
world?
Chutney.
What would be your motto in English?
Made for minds. Thats DWs claim.
Foto: Martin Magunia
From which English song can you sing a few lines?
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Green Light
4 2016
ENGLISCH LEICHT GEMACHT
Vocabulary
Learn
words for
sports
Culture
Read
about
Epcot
Grammar
Practise
using
question
tags
GREEN LIGHT | News
This month...
Was beschftigt die
englischsprachige Welt im April?
VANESSA CLARK sprt die heien
Storys fr Sie auf.
Walking in Ireland
located next to Killary Harbour. With its
green landscape, sea and mountains, its the
perfect location for a walking festival.
The Leenane Walking Festival (29
April1 May) has walks for everyone
fast and slow. Local guides will lead the
way. Some walks have themes, such as local
plants, the Irish potato famine and local archaeology, so you can learn as you walk.
1866
150 years ago
USA The American Society for the Prevention

of Cruelty to Animals was
founded in April 1866 in New
York City. It is still looking after animals across the USA today.
cruelty [(kru:Elti]
found [faUnd]
prevention [pri(venS&n]
ankle [(Nk&l]
bloody [(blVdi] UK ifml.
character [(krEktE]
terrifying [(terEfaIIN]
train as sth. [(treIn Ez]
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Grausamkeit
grnden
Verhinderung
Knchel
verdammt
Figur, Persnlichkeit
furchterregend
eine Ausbildung zu
etw. machen
The festival ends with a ceilidh (an

evening of Irish dancing) if you have the
energy.
famine [(fmIn]
landscape [(lndskeIp]
Hungersnot
Landschaft
Jessica Brown
Findlay
Films You might know Jessica Brown Find-
lay as Lady Sybil in the TV series Downton

Abbey.
Findlay trained as a ballet dancer, but
at the age of 19, after three operations on
her ankles, her career was finished. She explains: It was then I realized that the part
of ballet that I enjoyed the most becoming a character and telling a story I could
do as an actor, she told The Telegraph.
This month, we will see her as Lorelei,
a trapeze artist, in the film Victor Frankenstein. She trained for two hours a day for
four months on a trapeze. She describes the
training as bloody terrifying!
Fotos: Thinkstock; PR
Ireland The Irish village of Leenane is
8 pictures | GREEN LIGHT
Sports
DAGMAR TAYLOR presents words for talking about sport.
Write the words next to

the pictures.
Write the English words next to their German

translations.
1. climbing [(klaImIN]
2. cycling [(saIklIN]
3. football [(fUtbO:l],
soccer (N. Am.)
4. hiking [haIkIN]
5. horse-riding
[(hO:s )raIdIN]
6. rowing [(rEUIN]
7. running [(rVnIN]
8. swimming [(swImIN]
a) Klettern __________________________________
b) Fahrradfahren __________________________________
c) Laufen
__________________________________
d) Rudern
__________________________________
e) Fuball __________________________________
f) Wandern _______________________
Answers
a) climbing; b) cycling; c) running;
d) rowing; e) football; f) hiking
Tips
The adjective sporty can be used to describe clothes
that you can wear for sports or to talk about a person
who enjoys sport:
Id like to meet someone sporty who has a good
sense of humour.
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GREEN LIGHT | Grammar elements
Question tags
VANESSA CLARK presents basic grammar.
This month: question tags
What are question tags?
Question tags are little questions at the end of a sentence:
Hello. Youre new here, arent you?
You can use question tags to check information:
You live near the station, dont you?
You can use question tags to ask people to agree with you:
Spotlight is a great magazine, isnt it?
Question tags are like the German expressions nicht wahr?, oder? or stimmts?, but in English,
the question tag changes with the grammar in the sentence.
How to form question tags
If the verb in the sentence is is / are or was / were, repeat it and add -nt to make it
negative:
Hes a great actor, isnt he?
You were there, werent you?
If there is an auxiliary verb (Hilfsverb) in the sentence, repeat it and add -nt to make it
negative:
They have been very kind to you, havent they?
Remember that some verbs need do, does or did in the question form:
You work for a Danish firm, dont you?
He drives an Audi, doesnt he?
She studied in Frankfurt, didnt she?
a) Youre American,
1. arent they?
b) You work part-time,
2. arent you?
c) Your husband works in a bank,
3. didnt you?
d) Youve been here for three years,
4. doesnt he?
e) Your children are at school,
5. dont you?
f) You came here in 2013,
6. havent you?
Answers: a2; b5 (part-time: Teilzeit); c4; d6; e1; f3
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Tips
The correct question tag for I am is
arent I?:
Sorry. Im a bit
late, arent I?
For more on other ways of
checking information, see
page 6.
Fotos: Thinkstock
Match the sentences (af) to their question tags (16).
The Greens | GREEN LIGHT
Bobs home
Andrew is talking to his neighbour, Betty.
By DAGMAR TAYLOR
Andrew: Hello, Betty. Hows Bob?
Betty: Oh, hello, Andrew. Bobs doing fine,
thanks. Im glad hes out of hospital.

Andrew: I suppose hell have to take it easy
for a while.
Betty: Yes, he will whether he likes it or
not.
Andrew: And how are you coping? Is there
anything we can do, like the shopping?
Betty: Thats very kind, but I like doing the
shopping it gets me out of the house.
Andrew: Can he be a bit trying, your patient?
Betty: (laughs) You could say that. Its all
good I can tell hes on the mend now.
Andrew: Well, give him our best and do let
us know if theres anything we can do.
Tips
When someone is told to take it easy,

they must rest and be calm.
Cope means to deal (umgehen) well

with a difficult situation.
If someone is annoying (lstig) or difficult, you can say they are trying.
Someone is on the mend when they

become healthy after an illness.
If you want to send good wishes to

someone, you can say give her / him
our best.
Do is used here in a positive sentence

for emphasis (Nachdruck).
Andrew
True or false?
a) Bob was in hospital. ____
b) Andrew offers to do the shopping for
Betty. ____
c) Betty doesnt like doing the
shopping. ____
d) Bob is getting better. ____
Listen to the dialogue at

www.spotlight-online.de/products/green-light
Answers: a) true; b) true; c) false; d) true
Donna
GREEN LIGHT | Get to work
Checking information
VANESSA CLARK helps you to use your English at work.
This month: checking information
Customer: Hello. I have an appointment at
3.15. My names Jenna Coles.
Receptionist: This is your first visit, isnt it?

Customer: Yes, thats right.
Receptionist: Can I just check a few things?
Customer: Yes, of course.
Receptionist: Could you confirm your ad-
Tips
dress?
Customer: Yes, its 27 Pelly Avenue, BH14
3RN.
Receptionist: Sorry, was that N or M?

Customer: N for November.
Receptionist: And youre here for a checkup, arent you?
Customer: Yes, thats right.
Receptionist: Thank you. Would you like
to take a seat?
Isnt it? and arent you? are question

tags. Using them is a good way to check
information.
If you need certain information, you

can ask Can I just check...?, Id like to
check... or I need to check....
You can check a few things, a few

details, someones details or someones information.
If you want to be sure the information

you have is correct, you can ask the
person to confirm (besttigen) it.
Remember that the word information
doesnt have an s on the end.
If you didnt hear what someone said,

you can ask Sorry, was that...? or
Sorry, did you say...?
For more information about question tags,

see page 4.
Use it!
Highlight the key words and phrases that
you could use in your job.
Culture corner | GREEN LIGHT
I like... Epcot
Jeden Monat stellt ein Redakteur etwas Besonderes
aus der englischsprachigen Welt vor. Diesen Monat
prsentiert Spotlight-Redakteurin JULIA HOWARD ihren
Lieblingsvergngungspark.
What it is
Epcot stands for Experimental Prototype
Community of Tomorrow. It is a theme park
at Walt Disney World in Florida. Epcot covers
120 hectares. Thats as big as 145 soccer
fields put together. In all of these hectares,
there are different worlds which focus on
various cultures, human achievements, and
technology. You can walk through a German
Biergarten, see a Japanese pagoda, or visit a
British hedge maze in the World Showcase.
Or you can enter the iconic, giant, ball-like
Spaceship Earth structure and go on a ride
through time.
Why I like it
I visited Disney World when I was a child. I
have especially good memories of Epcot. I
remember thinking how enormous it was. Im
sure we saw only a small part of what Epcot
had to offer. After visiting the Spaceship
Earth, I wanted to go there again the next day.
I found it amazing that I could learn about so
many cultures in one day.
Interesting facts
Fotos: Alamy; T. Mansch; Thinkstock
Walt Disney wanted Epcot to be a utopian

achievement
[E(tSi:vmEnt]
announce [E(naUns]
ball-like [(bO:l laIk]
giant [(dZaIEnt]
hedge maze [(hedZ meIz]
iconic [aI(kA:nIk]
theme park [(Ti:m pA:rk]
hier: Errungenschaft
verknden,
bekanntgeben
ballartig
riesig, gigantisch
Heckenlabyrinth
ikonenhaft, kultig
Vergngungspark,
Freizeitpark
city, where 20,000 people could live in a

community of the future. Unfortunately,
Disney died shortly after announcing his
vision, and his city was never built.
Around 11.5 million people visited Epcot

in 2015.
Dont look for Mickey Mouse at Epcot.

If you want to meet him, go to the Magic
Kingdom park, also at Walt Disney World.
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GREEN LIGHT | Letters and notes
Your notes
Use this space for your own notes.
The fourteenth letter in the alphabet is N.

N [en] rhymes with then.
The word name begins with an n.
N is the symbol for nitrogen (Stickstoff).
Match the abbreviations (Abkrzung)
(ad) to what they stand for (14).
Then read the sentences out loud.
a) NATO stands for...
b) No. stands for...
c) NYC stands for...
d) NZ stands for...
a
b
c
d
1. New Zealand.
2. number.
3. North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
4. New York City.
NSFW is short for not safe for work

and is used in e-mails as a warning that a
picture or text may be shocking to some
people.
Answers: a3; b2; c4; d1
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Michele Tilgner
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Thorsten Mansch
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