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A2 04.03.2015 15:08:51 04.08.2016 11:24:45 SEPTEMBER 2016 6 World Map M US A look at very tall buildings around the globe, in honour of the 9/11 attacks 15 years ago 24 South Africa M 8 People E Our correspondent takes you to Names and faces from around the world South Africa’s beautiful north-east, 10 World View E M A where people are using creativity What’s news and what’s hot to build a better future.

11 Living Language M Spotlight shows you why translation software cannot take the place of language learning

14 Peggy’s Place M Visit Spotlight’s very own London pub

34 Food M Britain’s hot young chefs

60 History M The Great Fire of London, 350 years ago

62 The US in Germany M US American-style diners in K-town and Mannheim

66 Short Story A “Room 404”

68 Material World A Meet the Taylors

70 Arts M Films, apps, podcasts

72 The Lighter Side E Jokes and cartoons

73 102 English Things to Do E M A Be nice How do 74 Feedback & Next Month E M A Your letters to Spotlight and upcoming topics you describe COLUMNS something 15 Britain Today E Colin Beaven on famous people you

23 American Life M US like a lot? Ginger Kuenzel on midlife crises

33 I Ask Myself A US Amy Argetsinger on starting over

71 Around Oz A Peter Flynn on the building war

76 My Life in English E Actor Erol Sander 38 Language M How old is your English? 35 years of Spotlight: Do this fun enjoy a story from the very first issue of the quiz and find out. 360° Editorial Alamy; A. Hub/laif; magazine on page 10 Fotos:

4 Spotlight — 09 — 2016 CONTENTS In diesem Heft: Improve your English 15 SPRACHSEITEN with Spotlight 42 Vocabulary M Back to school Spotlight plus 44 M Everyday English Practise the language and At a flea market grammar of Spotlight with the 46 Spoken English M exercise booklet plus. For the Go for it! pages in the magazine marked with this symbol PLUS 47 English at Work M there are additional exercises Ken Taylor answers your questions in plus. Find out more at: 48 Green Light E www.spotlight-online.de/plus Easy English

50 The Grammar Page M Spotlight Audio How to use superlative adjectives Enjoy interviews and travel 51 Language Cards E M A stories and try the exercises on Pull out and practise the monthly 60-minute CD/ download. Look for this symbol 53 Lost in Translation A AUDIO in the magazine. A fun look at interesting words Find out more at: 54 Words that go together E www.spotlight-online.de/audio “Play” and “go”

56 Crossword E M A Spotlight in the classroom Find the words and win a prize Teachers: this six-page supplement will provide great ideas for classroom activities based on the magazine. Free COVER for all teachers who subscribe STORY to Spotlight. See: 16 www.spotlight-online.de/teachers www.spotlight-online.de Society M Spotlight Online will help you The weird and improve your English skills wonderful every day. world of English Try our language exercises or eccentrics. read about current events and fascinating places to visit. Subscribers will also find a list of all the glossed vocabulary from each issue of the magazine.

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CONTENTS 2016 — 09 — Spotlight 5 World map 2  ’Scuse 1 Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard me while BUILDING TYPE: mixed-use WHERE: , UAE I kiss HOW TALL: 828 m BY: at Skidmore, the sky Owings & Merrill (SOM) COMPLETION: 2010 Eine Auswahl WHO CARES? Everyone: At present, der größten und this is the world’s tallest building and the tallest free-standing neuesten Wolkenkratzer structure on the planet. It looks weltweit. ultramodern, but in fact hear- kens back to a 1956 design for a tall building called MEDIUM US “” by Frank Lloyd Wright, America’s greatest architect. SOM, 1 founded in Chicago in 1936, has created many fa- Midtown Manhattan, between mous American buildings, ver since skyscrapers East 56th and 57th Streets such as Lever House (1952) BUILDING TYPE: started going up in the  residential in New York City and Chicago’s WHERE: New York City, USA (formerly the Sears US in the late 19th cen- HOW TALL: 426 m Tower, completed in 1974 — tury, people have seen BY: Rafael Viñoly Architects with a height of 442 meters, still them as an expression of COMPLETION: 2015 the 15th-tallest in the world), as the human spirit. WHO CARES? Thanks to its well as in E This year marks the 15th location, this tower owns the New York City. 4 skyline. It is the tallest residential www.burjkhalifa.ae anniversary of the attacks on WORLD ONE building in the world and the Lower Parel the World Trade Center in second-tallest building in New hearken back to sth. [)hA:rkEn (bÄk tu] BUILDING TYPE: New York City. On Septem- York City (see One World Trade , auf etw. zurückgehen residential Center). The 767-square-meter ber 11, 2001, 19 terrorists UAE () [)ju: eI (i:] WHERE: Mumbai, India penthouse at 432 Park — the , hijacked two planes and flew Vereinigte Arabische Emirate HOW TALL: 442 m highest residence in the city — them into the Twin Towers. BY: Pei Cobb Freed & was sold for $95 million, alleged- Partners There were more attacks that ly to Saudi Arabian businessman 3  COMPLETION: 2016 day — on the Pentagon and Fawaz Al Hokair. TOWER WHO CARES? If complet- on another plane. More than www.432parkavenue.com formerly Kingdom Tower ed before the 516-me- 3,000 people lost their lives. BUILDING TYPE: mixed-use ter allegedly [E(ledZIdli] , angeblich The US response? To build WHERE: Jeddah, (“penthouse condomi- again: Two years ago, One residential [)rezI(denS&l] , hier: HOW TALL: 1,008 m nium”) Tower in Dubai Wohngebäude World Trade Center opened BY: Adrian D. Smith, Adrian by mega-architects Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture Aedas, World on the site of the NYC at- (AS+GG) One would tacks. In an age when wars are COMPLETION: 2020 become ignored as “not our problem,” WHO CARES? Anyone with a pulse. the tallest and bombings in cities are Will this be the first building to residential common, the belief that we reach a height of one kilometer? building in We shall see: Adrian Smith, the can rebuild — ever better, the world. designer of the Burj Khalifa in The title is ever taller — gives us hope. Dubai, currently the world’s tallest currently held by In honor of 9/11, this map building, is behind this project, 432 Park Avenue in includes some of the exciting as is the Saudi Arabian Prince New York City (426 meters high). tall buildings in the world. If Al-Waleed bin Talal, said to be the www.theworldtowers.com more of our leaders had the richest man in the Middle East. And what about the location? condominium [)kA:nde(mIniEm] courage to take on big prob- Jeddah, the kingdom’s second city , Eigentumswohnung lems the way these architects after the capital, , is located residential [)rezI(denS&l] take on big projects, oh, what on the Red Sea. “Jeddah Economic , hier: Wohngebäude a world it would be! City” is among the newest, flash- by Claudine Weber-Hof iest developments in this port metropolis of four million people. (headline by Jimi Hendrix)

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5 ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER 285 Fulton Street, Manhattan BUILDING TYPE: commercial WHERE: New York City, USA HOW TALL: 541.3 m BY: David Childs at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM); Daniel Libeskind (2002) COMPLETION: 2014 WHO CARES? All Americans, be- 7 cause this building — also called 1 WTC — is the tallest Lujiazui Finance and in the Western Hemisphere. Trade Zone, Pudong District More importantly, though, it’s a BUILDING TYPE: mixed-use symbol of American resilience. WHERE: Shanghai, China Its height, 541.3 meters, trans- 6 HOW TALL: 632 m lates poetically into 1,776 feet BY: Gensler with Chinese — a measurement chosen for its No. 7, Sec. 5, Xinyi Road, Xinyi ­architect Jun Xia patriotic importance, as 1776 was District COMPLETION: 2015 the year in which the US signed BUILDING TYPE: commercial WHO CARES? A very big country in the Declaration of Independence, WHERE: Taipei, Taiwan Asia. Now China’s tallest building, a key move in separating the HOW TALL: 509.2 m the Shanghai Tower has a fascinat- fledgling nation from its British BY: C. Y. Lee & Partners ing spiral shape that sets it apart colonial masters. COMPLETION: 2004 from the famous group of build- www.onewtc.com WHO CARES? The Taiwanese: Taipei ings in the Pudong District, in- 101 is a symbol of the island’s pro- cluding a fantastic group of towers fledgling [(fledZlIN] , hier: jung ductivity. It was the tallest building that defines this futuristic skyline: in the world from 2004 to 2009. the business-like Shanghai World resilience [ri(zIliEns] Then Dubai’s 828-meter Burj Khal- Financial Center, finished , Widerstandskraft, Unverwüstlichkeit ifa surpassed it. Taipei 101, with its in 2010 (492 m tall); the pagoda-like design, is engineered sculptural to resist typhoons and earthquakes from 1999 (420.5 m); and — especially important in view the playful Oriental Pearl of its location very close to a sig- Radio & TV Tower, which nificant fault line. Its stability and was completed in 1994 flexibility are assisted by a huge, (467.9 m). The Shanghai round steel pendulum called a Tower rises above them “” (TMD) near all by a goodly margin. the top of the tower. This hangs du.gensler.com/vol6/ from the 92nd to the 87th floor and shanghai-tower/#/ is a big tourist attraction. shanghai-rising www.taipei-101.com.tw/en/index.aspx

fault line [(fO:lt laIn] , Verwerfungslinie

surpass [s&r(pÄs] , übertreffen, überragen tuned mass damper (TMD) [tu:nd (mÄs )dÄmp&r] , Schwingungstilger

typhoon [taI(fu:n] , Taifun

RUBRIKTITEL 2016 — 09 — Spotlight 7 PEOPLE Names and Faces

EASY THE ACTOR Happy BIRTHDAY! AUDIO ➺ For many years, ➺ JULIA SAWALHA has been on dozens of TV shows. Who exactly is… JAMES CORDEN has been But most people know her as Ed’s conservative and James Corden? a successful actor, pro- frustrated daughter, Saffy, in the hit TV series Abso- ducer and TV presenter. lutely Fabulous. Now, thanks to an online London-born Sawalha is the daughter of actor video series, he has become one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Nadim Sawalha. She began acting in the early 1980s Corden, 38, is from Buckinghamshire, England. He became and, at 21, appeared on the TV show Press Gang. In interested in acting as a teenager and was soon given roles, first 1992, she was given her most famous role — in Ab- on the stage and later on TV and in film. He told The Big Issue he solutely Fabulous, which ran for 20 years. found fame problematic at first: “It is a big adjustment when Sawalha told the Daily Express that, despite the those first flushes of fame come around. You can get a bit lost.” success of the show, this was not a happy time In 2007, he co-created and co-starred in a TV comedy series in her life. “The level of recognition with Ab Fab called Gavin & Stacey. It was a success, as was Corden’s perfor- came so thick and fast … I didn’t see it hitting me mance in the play One Man, Two Guvnors in 2011. The Guardian or understand it. People were expecting me to described his acting as “brilliant”. In 2015, he became the host have some sort of celebrity status.” of the US talk show The Late Late Show. Luckily, Sawalha says she feels a lot better Millions of people watch The Late Late Show. But tens of about life now. “Not happy — happy is too millions watch a segment of the show Carpool Karaoke, which high for me. I like being on an even keel and Corden created and which is also on YouTube. In each episode, living in the now. And right now, I am feeling the performer drives around singing duets with a famous mu- quite excited.” On 8 September, Absolutely sician. Adele, Justin Bieber, Stevie Wonder and Lady Gaga have Fabulous: The Movie, starring Sawalha, opens in all sung with Corden. Germany, and on 9 September, she celebrates Since it began in March 2015, Carpool Karaoke has become one what we all hope will be an absolutely fabulous of the most successful video series ever on YouTube. Adele’s ep- 48th birthday. isodes alone have been watched more than 100 million times. Corden lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children. even keel: be on an ~ [(i:v&n thick and fast: come ~ , , , ki:&l] ausgeglichen sein [)TIk End (fA:st] adjustment flush Woge lost: get ~ die ddp; PR News; PA 360° Editorial; [E(dZVstmEnt] [flVS] [lQst] , knüppeldick kommen, auf , Anpassung, Orientierung verlieren recognition [rekEg(nIS&n] einen Schlag kommen

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