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“Holme” for
the holidays with
accenT alerT
Learn about different English
accents.
How To...
Learn all about English
pronunciation.
world FacTs
Find out what’s going on in
the world.
lasT wriTes
Is this the end of handwriting?
THe sHining
The scariest ilm of all time?
TwiTTer. Facebook.
The pros and the cons.
FuncTional
PHrasal
language:
Website Addresses.
Verbs:
The News.
Guy Ritchie’s latest film. should you Go?
Victorian Special
Crime.
Detectives.
Spiritualism.
Plus...
grammar,
error correction,
jokes,
anecdotes,
trivia,
slang,
phrasal verbs,
social English...
24-28
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Editor’s
intro
Magazine
Index
3
Editorial
4 World Facts
5 The Ig Nobels
6 Name Game; & Story Time
7 Christmas Quiz
8 Useful Vocabulary: Getting to work
9 Useful Verbs and Expressions:
Getting to work
10 Skills Booklet Reading: Wacky Wardrobes
11 Let’s talk about... Fruit
12 Functional language: Websites
/
The Shining
13 Error correction & Skills Booklet
Listening: Job Quiz
14 Grammar Fun: So & Such; Backissues
15 Skills Booklet Reading: Bryony’s Blog
16 Plastic Obsession
17 Bird Talk
18 Sherlock Holmes
19 Skills Booklet Listening:
Radio Adverts
; Photo Magic
20 Victorian Times
22 Victorian Whodunit
23 Conan and the Dead
24 Guy Ritchie & Jude Law
26 Last Writes
27 Food Revolution
28 Cockney Bankers
29 Skills Booklet Reading: Strange Weather
30 Vocabulary Clinic: Strange, Weird &
Unusual People
31 Quirky News / Corny Criminals / Riddles
32 How to... Learn English Pronunciation
33 Recipe: English Onion Soup; Skills
Booklet Listening: Oice Problems
34 Dictionary of Slang / Chat-up Lines
35 Directory
36 Year in Review: 1997
37 Accent Alert
; Skills Booklet
Listening: Technical Complaint
38 Idioms: Roads
39 Skills Booklet Reading: PR Disasters
40 The Curse of Sports
41 Red-Facebook
42 Phrasal Verbs: The News
43 Subscriptions
44 Tapescripts
45 Answers
46 Word of the Month: Palindrome
CD
index
1.
Hello
2.
World Facts
3.
The Ig Nobels
4.
Story Time
5.
Let’s talk about... Fruit!
6.
Functional language:
Websites
7.
Fingers’ Error
Correction
8.
Pre-Intermediate
Listening: Job Quiz
9.
Radio ad
10.
Plastic Obsession
11.
Bird Talk
12.
Intermediate Listening:
Trade Fairs
13.
Jokes
14.
Last Writes
15.
Food Revolution
16.
Radio ad
17.
Dr Fingers’
Vocabulary:
Strange, Weird & Unusual People
18.
Quirky News
19.
Corny Criminals
20.
Riddles
21.
British Bar Chat: Facebook
22.
US Bar Chat: Winter Fashion
23.
Radio ad
24.
Upper Intermediate Listening:
Ofice Problems
25.
Dictionary of Slang
26.
Chat-Up Lines
27.
Accent Alert
28.
Advanced Listening:
Technical Problems
29.
Radio ad
30.
Idioms: Roads
31.
Radio ad
32.
The Curse of Sports
33.
Red-Facebook
34.
Off the Cuff : My Wardrobe
35.
Goodbye
01
Hi, and welcome to another issue
of Hot English Magazine, the fun
magazine for learning English. Well, it’s
getting colder now and there are only
a few more days before Christmas!
But don’t worry. Just to keep you
entertained on those cold winter
nights at home, you can enjoy some
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for improving your English, plus the transcripts are there for
you to read, too. OK. Enough of that. This month, we’ve got
a lot of great articles for your reading and listening pleasure.
We’re looking at two really popular websites, Facebook and
Twitter. I saw in the news that some Hollywood producers
are getting fed up of the stars constantly updating their
social networking sites and have even prohibited the use of
them. Also, singer and actress Miley Cyrus has just cancelled
her Twitter account. As she says in a rap that she wrote
to explain her reasons for quitting, “I want my private life
private.” Find out more about these two sites.
Our special feature this month is Sherlock Holmes. Back in
June, it was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. We’re looking
at the fascinating life of this author, plus we're having a look
at life during the Victorian times in general.
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Christmas Quiz
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Christmas?
Sherlock Holmes
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Victorian Times
The Victorian period – a fun look at it.
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40
Food Revolution
What’s so good about British food?
Accent Alert
A look at English accents from
around the world.
The Curse of Sports
The rise of the professional cheat.
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World Facts
ANSWERS ON PAgE 45
Tea, sleep, mobiles, and beer. Who leads the world?
by Patrick Howarth
1
Pre-reading
How much do you know about the world in the 21st century?
Do the quiz.
1.
Which country drinks the most tea?
a.
the UK
b.
India
c.
China
d.
Ireland
2.
Which country drinks the most cofee?
a.
Spain
b.
the USA
c.
Sweden
d.
Brazil
3.
Which country drinks the most beer per
person?
a.
the Czech Republic
b.
Germany
c.
Australia
d.
Venezuela
Which country has the highest
spending power
?
Which country is the
sleepiest
nation? You can ind
the answers to these and many other questions in the
Pocket
World in Figures
, a fascinating new book recently published by
The Economist
magazine. This is the irst of a two-part series.
4.
Which country drinks the most champagne
per person?
a.
the USA
b.
France
Many of the facts are extremely surprising. For example,
everyone knows that the British love tea. They drink it for
breakfast, at 11.00 am, and, of course, at teatime (3.30 pm).
The
British
must be the biggest tea drinkers. Well, they’re
not. The
UK
is only the world’s sixth biggest
consumer
of
tea, drinking 131,000 tonnes a year. China drinks the most, at 828,000 tonnes,
and, of course, produces the most (1,166,000 tonnes per year). China also
produces more gold than any other country in the world – 270 tonnes a year.
c.
Guadeloupe
d.
Mauritius
5.
Which country produces the most gold?
a.
France
b.
China
c.
South Africa
d.
Russia
2
Reading I
Read the article once to check your answers.
So what about cofee? The cofee in Spanish and Italian bars is famous all
over the world but The United States drinks the most, consuming 1,262,000
tonnes of cofee beans annually. Brazil is the
biggest cofee
grower
, producing 2,164,000
tonnes of beans each year. Which countries
come to mind when you think of beer? Many
of the most famous
brands
come from Europe:
Heineken from Holland, Lowenbrau from Germany,
Carlsberg from Denmark, and Pilsner Urquell from
the Czech Republic, for example. The citizens of
these counties all drink a lot of beer, of course,
but the biggest beer drinkers on earth are... the
Venezuelans, who consume 83 litres per person
annually.
3
Reading II
Read the article again. What do the numbers refer to?
1.
3:30 pm.
2.
828,000 tonnes.
3.
270 tonnes.
4.
2,164,000 tonnes.
5.
$103,040.
6.
4.25.
GLOSSARY
spending power
n
the amount of money people have
to spend (buy things)
sleepy
adj
a bit tired; the “sleepiest” nation,
would be the nation that sleeps
the most
British
adj
from Britain (England, Scotland
and Wales) – "Britain" is often
interchanged with "the UK”
UK
n
from the United Kingdom (England,
Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland) – "the UK" is often
interchanged with “Britain”
a consumer
n
a person who buys / pays for goods
and services for their own personal
needs
a grower
n
a country that grows plants/crops,
etc.
a brand
n
a product that is well-known by its
name/trademark/logo, etc.
GDP
abbr
gross domestic product = the total
market value of goods and services
produced by workers and capital
within a nation’s borders
purchasing power
n
the amount of money people have
to buy things
to have a taste for something
exp
to really like a particular food/drink
bubbly
n inform
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Language focus
The Superlative
Look at this extract from the article, “Brazil is the biggest
cofee grower,...” The writer has used a superlative
(“the biggest”). Complete the sentences with the correct
superlatives.
1.
He is the
(nice)
boy I know.
And champagne? Surely the French drink more
champagne than the rest of the world. Well, they
don’t. Champagne is expensive, so it’s probably most
popular in a rich country. So, what about the USA?
Again, no. Could it be Luxembourg, the country
with the highest
GDP
per head of population, at
$103,040, and the greatest
purchasing power
in the world? No. In fact, the Caribbean islands of
Guadeloupe
have
the biggest
taste for bubbly
,
with 4.25 bottles of champagne consumed
per
head
per year. The islands are in fact part of France,
which perhaps explains the igure.
2.
It’s the
(high)
mountain in the
world.
3.
This is the
(tasty)
food here.
4.
That was the
(boring)
ilm I’ve
ever seen.
5.
That was the
(bad)
book of
the four.
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Discussion
1.
Which fact is the most/least surprising?
2.
Do you know any other unusual facts? What
are they?
champagne
per head
exp
per person; by/for each person
More next month.
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The Ig Nobels
Awards for unusual scientiic research.
ANSWERS ON PAgE 45
1
Pre-reading
You are going to read an article about some
unusual scientiic research. Look at the words
below. What do you think the research is about?
I’M A
CRAZY
SCIENTIST.
bra
gas mask
beer bottles
tequila
diamonds
pregnant women
Ig Nobels
The Ig Nobels are awards
for unusual scientiic
research. The name of
the competition (The
Ig Nobels) forms an
expression that sounds
like the English word
“ignoble”, which is
basically the opposite
of “noble” (a “noble
person” has excellent
qualities of character,
including honesty,
generosity and
sellessness).
cows
names
A
bra
that can be used as a gas mask. Smashing beer
icelandic banks
bottles over people’s heads. How to turn tequila into
diamonds. These are just some of the themes for this
year’s
Ig Nobel*
prizes – the most bizarre scientiic award
ceremony in the world. And the winners are...
2
Reading I
Read the article once to compare your ideas
from the Pre-reading activity.
The chemistry prize went to Javier Morales from
the National University of Mexico for his
research
into how to make diamonds from tequila. He used
a
pressure vessel
to do this.
3
Reading II
Read the article again and complete the
sentences.
1.
Javier Morales won the
prize.
2.
He used a pressure vessel to make
.
3.
Elena Bodnar won the
health prize.
4.
Katerhine Whitcome wanted
to know why
The public health prize was awarded to Elena
Bodnar of Illinois, for
patenting
a bra that can
be converted into a pair of gas masks. “It was
inspired by the Chernobyl nuclear accident,”
said Bodnar, who is originally from the Ukraine.
The physics prize was awarded to Katherine Whitcome at the
University of Cincinnati and colleagues. They looked into the
question of why
pregnant
women don’t
topple
over
.
women didn’t topple over.
5.
Catherine Douglas and Peter
Rowlinson were awarded the
medicine prize.
6.
The peace prize went to
Bollinger.
The veterinary medicine prize was awarded to Catherine
Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University’s school
of agriculture. Their research showed that giving cows names
such as Daisy increases their
milk yield
. “It’s the
highlight
of
my
career,” said Douglas. “The work
amused
the public, but it also
addressed a serious issue about the
welfare
of animals.”
GLOSSARY
a bra
n
a piece of clothing women wear
under their shirts/T-shirts, etc.
research
n
scientiic investigation
a pressure vessel
n
a metal container (usually
cylindrical) that can be put under
great amounts of pressure
to patent
vb
to formally register an invention as
yours
pregnant
adj
if a woman is “pregnant”, she has a
child in her
to topple over
phr vb
to fall (often because the top part is
too heavy)
a milk yield
n
a cow’s “milk yield” is the amount of
milk it produces
the highlight of something
exp
the most important part of
something
to amuse
vb
4
Language focus
Past tenses
Look at this extract from the article, “The
chemistry prize went to Javier
Morales...” The writer has used the past tense
of the verb “to go” (“went”). Transform the
following sentences from the Present Simple to
the Past Simple.
1.
She wins the prize.
2.
They like the game.
3.
The judges choose the winner.
4.
They do some research.
5.
We don’t know the answer.
The peace prize went to Stephan Bolliger and
his colleagues from the University of Bern in
Switzerland. They did experiments to discover
whether it’s more painful to hit someone on
the head with a full beer bottle or an empty
one. “Empty beer bottles are
sturdier
than full
ones,” the researchers reported.
And the economics prize went to the directors, executives and
auditors of four Icelandic banks (Kaupthing bank, Landsbanki,
Glitnir bank and Central Bank of Iceland) for demonstrating that
tiny
banks can be rapidly transformed into
huge
banks, and vice
versa.”
to make laugh
welfare
n
health, happiness and well-being
sturdy
adj
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Discussion
1.
Which piece of research is the
most/least useful? Why?
2.
Have you heard about any unusual
scientiic research? What was it?
strong; not easily broken
tiny
adj
It’s nice to think that this fascinating research is getting the
attention it deserves!
very small
huge
adj
very big
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