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PAGES EXTRA! READ MORE! LISTEN 16 TO MORE! LEARN MORE! SPELLING CHALLENGE Twenty words native English speakers can’t spell. WEIRD & WACKY Is it art? CELEBRITY REQUESTS Silly things that the stars demand. VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS Idioms, phrasal verbs, useful words, useful verbs… Wanted! Angelina gun power with Jolie BRITISH MUSIC SPECIAL Coldplay. Amy Winehouse. Pete Doherty. The Prodigy. Music lyrics quiz. Can you do it? PLUS, grammar, error correction, jokes, anecdotes, trivia, slang, phrasal verbs, social English. Magazine Index Editor’s intro 3 Editorial 4 Rich Taste Hello everyone, and welcome 5 Road Rage to another issue of Hot English 6 Name Game CD index magazine – the fun magazine for 7 Pets of Honour learning English. First of all, we hope 8 Useful Vocabulary: Adjectives 1 Hello 9 Useful Verbs: Food & Drink you had a great summer holiday. 10 Train Robber 2 Rich Taste 11 Story Time 3 Road Rage This month, we’ve got an article on 12 Basic English: Musical Instruments

13 Social English: The Music Shop Intermediate Pre 4 Story Time spelling difficulties in English. If you This symbol tells you 14 Functional language: Invitations that the article is 5 Social English recorded on the CD. think English spelling is hard, don’t 15 Error correction & Listening: Sunken Treasure 6 Functional language worry – you aren’t alone. Even 16 Grammar Fun CONTENTS 7 Fingers’ Error Correction native speakers have problems 17 Rebel Tory 8 Sunken Treasure 18 Cover Version with English spelling. There’s no logic. Just the other 19 Air Rage 9 Radio ad day, I discovered that the word “lasso” has just one “o” 20 Happy Hour 10 Happy Hour 21 The Working McMillionaire 11 The Working Millionaire (I always thought it was “lassoo” with two “o’s”). On a 22 Trivia Matching 12 Radio ad similar note, I tried an online grammar test recently. 23 Weird Trivia Much to my annoyance I didn’t get 20 out of 20, failing 24 Dr Fingers’ Grammar 13 Weird Trivia 25 Subscriptions 14 Corny Criminals to recognise the correct spelling of “accommodation” 26 Corny Criminals 15 Nobel Nobility – I always thought it was one “m”. Anyway, why does 27 Recipe & Listening: Nobel Nobility 28 Wicked Witch it have two “m’s”? The extra “m” doesn’t really bring Intermediate 16 Jokes 29 Art Eggxibit 17 Graffiti anything to the table, does it? Ah! 30 Silly Spelling 18 Mechanical Martini 31 Purrfect Job 19 Awful England This month, we’re also looking at some misheard lyrics 32 Don Arden – those confusing words in songs. Try our quiz to see 33 Marketing Ozzy 20 Radio ad 34 Film: Wanted 21 Typical dialogues how good you are at understanding the lyrics. 36 British Music 22 Dr Fingers’ Vocabulary It’s easy to misunderstand things when you’re learning 38 AC/DC a language. As a teacher, I always used to say “First of 40 Jokes, Graffiti & Cartoon 23 Quirky News 41 Misheard Lyrics 24 Marketing English all…” at the start of my classes. At the end of the year, 42 Mechanical Martini 25 Financial English one of my students asked me, “By the way, why do 43 Awful England 26 Radio ad you always say ‘festival’ (“first of all”) at the start of the 44 Vocabulary: The Police / Crime 45 Typical Dialogues: Police Search 27 British Bar Chat class?” As you know, some song lyrics are notoriously 46 Face to Face 28 US Bar Chat difficult to understand – for both native speakers and 47 Dr Fingers Vocabulary Clinic: Being Perfect

29 Radio ad language learners. 48 Quirky News Upper Intermediate 30 Telephone Conversation 49 Marketing English & Financial English Anyway, we hope you have a great time, learn a lot and 50 Bar Chats 31 Baked Bean Skinny see you all next month. 51 Telephone English & Listening: Baked Bean Skinny 32 Dumb US Laws All the best, 52 Dumb Laws 33 Dictionary of Slang 53 Directory 54 Dictionary of Slang 34 Error correction 55 Dr Fingers’ Error Correction & Back Issues 35 Radio ad 56 Happy Anniversary 36 Idioms 57 Idioms: Stone Idioms 37 Radio ad 58 Celebrity Requests II 59 Adverts 38 Jumping Jacques 60 Jumping Jacques 39 Taxing Grandma PS Remember, if you’re looking 61 Taxing Grandma Advanced 40 Sweet Slip-Up for lots more free content, GLOSSARY 62 Answers 41 Technology to bring something to the table 63 Listening: Sweet Slip-Up please visit Dr Fingers’ blog exp 64 Technology & Medicine 42 Medicine www.hotenglishmagazine. to add something new, innovative 65 Phrasal Verbs: Food & Drink 43 Goodbye com/blog and useful to another thing 66 Word of the month & Credits 15 18 29

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READING I READING Rich taste $175 hamburger A burger better be good for $175! In New York City’s Lower Manhattan district, you can get a gourmet burger that is a Expensive “work of art”. A Kobe beef burger comes Food topped with black truffles, foie gras This hamburger and Gruyere cheese. However, without may be expensive, but it isn’t the most the truffles (which are seasonal and expensive food in the very expensive), it only costs $32. world. Iranian beluga PRE INTERMEDIATE INTERMEDIATE PRE So, who orders these burgers? caviar costs about “Wall Street types,” says Helen $48,750 for a 2-kilo Tierney, the owner of The Burger container. In 2006, a Shoppe where they are sold. British chef made the “They come in for a beer and most expensive pie get the hamburger to show in the world. It also off in front of their friends,” had truffles and was she added. “Others see it as a served with a glass of prize for stock brokers when champagne. A piece they’ve had a good day on the of the pie cost $1,990. market. Wall Street has good The whole thing was days and bad days. We wanted $15,900. New York’s to have the everyday burger (for Grand Opulence ice $4)... and then something special cream store has the if you really have a good day,” most expensive ice Tierney explains. The restaurant cream on the planet. sells hundreds of the $4-burgers It sells for $1,000 daily, but only around 25 of the $175- a serving. Another Manhattan luxury is burgers per month. “Our burger is not $125 for a slice of pizza about the price,” she says. “It’s all about at Nino Bellisima’s. The quality. If you’re concerned about your most expensive food ever wallet, you are in the wrong shop." was a fruitcake. It sold for $1.6 million in 2005. ANSWERS ON PAGE 62 It was covered with 223 1 Discussion 5 Reading III small diamonds, and it 1. How often do you eat fast food? Answer these questions. was created by a Tokyo What do you eat? Where do you go? 1. Who consumes most of these gourmet pastry chef. It was part 2. How do you like your burger? burgers? of an exhibit called What ingredients do you like? 2. Why and when do they have them? “Diamonds, Nature’s 3. Where would you go for a Miracle”. good burger in your city? Phrasal verb of Why is it so good? I’m so special. the day to show off GLOSSARY Gourmet (food) exp They come in for a beer and get 2 high quality and well-prepared Pre reading the hamburger to show off in food Predict what a $175 burger looks like. topped with exp front of their friends. if food is “topped with” cheese, What does it have in it? tomato, etc, it has that on top of it What do you think “to show off” truffles n means? a very expensive fungus similar to a 3 Reading I mushroom a Wall Street type n Now read and check your answers. a person who works on Wall Street – in the financial district of NYC Language spot to show off phr vb 4 Reading II “To have a good day” is another to try to impress others by displaying something you have What do the following prices refer useful expression. But what tense is used such as money or a talent to? a stock broker n with it in the article? a person who buys and sells stocks 1. $175 Others see it as a prize for stock brokers for investors 2. a wallet n $32 when they’ve had a good day. an object for putting your money, 3. $4 credit cards, etc – usually for a man

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Have you ever experienced extreme anger whilst driving? If you have, you’ve probably been a victim of “road rage”. This form of anger, and, in some cases, violent behaviour, is usually caused by stress. However, according to a recent survey, some people II READING are more prone to road rage than others. Psychologists found that people who use vanity plates (licence plates with phrases or names on them) suffer more from road rage than any others. “These drivers are territorial, and are more likely to get angry easily,” says I’m so angry. Jacob enfield, who led the study. “Plates with aggressive phrases such as ‘I’ll sue you’ definitely say a lot more about a driver than you think. Anything you do to make your car feel like your territory will make you more INTERMEDIATE PRE upset when someone steals your parking space or cuts you off on the road.”

Road rage is a big problem in America. Every year, it is responsible for over 20,000 injuries and 370 deaths. Not all of these drivers have vanity plates, but many do. And now, states such as North Dakota Road are trying to make vanity plates illegal. The state has a large problem with angry drivers, and authorities agree that vanity plates are connected with road rage. “License plates are causing us a lot of trouble, and they’re definitely connected Rage with road rage,” says the director of the Department of Motor Vehicles. Tell that to the 9.3 million American car owners with Vanity plate viciousness vanity plates. That’s a lot of road rage!

ANSWERS ON PAGE 62 1 Discussion 1. What do you think "road rage" means? Phrasal verb alert 2. Look at the three examples of the use of “to cut off”. Have you ever experienced extreme anger What’s the difference? whilst driving? Have you ever seen an incident a. to cut someone off on a road of road rage? What happened? b. to be cut off whilst talking on the GLOSSARY 3. What are the causes and effects of road rage? road rage n phone extreme anger experienced whilst 4. What do you understand by the term “vanity c. to cut someone off in a conversation driving plates”? a survey n a questionnaire to find out about people’s opinions 2 prone to exp Pre reading if you are “prone to” do something, Look at the following adjectives from the article. you have a natural inclination towards doing that thing How do they relate to road rage? Give examples. a vanity plate n a. violent a customised series of numbers / letters on your licence plate b. aggressive a licence plate n c. an object with letters and numbers territorial on the back and front of your car – used for identification 3 Grammar spot territorial adj Reading I concerned and possessive about Now read and check your answers. To get angry your land / property / home to sue someone exp These drivers are territorial, and more likely to get to begin a legal case against 4 Reading II angry easily. someone in order to get We can use “get” with lots more adjectives compensation What does the article say about the following? a parking space n 1. to talk about the process of becoming a place to park a car vanity plates something. For example: to get tired = to cut someone off / up exp 2. America in general if you "cut someone off", you drive I get tired when I work long hours. your car in front of another car – 3. North Dakota in particular taking their place on the road

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NAME The THE THE Name

Blink-182 (American group) To blink is to close your eyes quickly. Game “I blinked when she took my THIS IS ANOTHER PART IN OUR SERIES OF FAMOUS NAMES WITH MEANING. MORE NEXT MONTH. photograph.”

Jimmy Buffet (American singer) A “buffet” is a type of restaurant in Keith Sweat (American R & B singer) which you pay a fixed price and then “Sweat” is a liquid released through serve yourself any kind of food that the skin when you are hot, sick, is available. playing sports or scared. 50 Cent (American rapper) “I ate three pieces of pumpkin pie, a “I am sweating so much because I “50 cents” is half of one dollar. slice of pizza and a salad at the buffet.” have just run 10 kilometres.” “This pack of gum costs 50 cents.”

Dusty Springfield (British singer) If something is "dusty”, it is covered with very fine dirt/earth, etc. For example, “We found an old dusty record player in our attic.” Sting (British singer) Status Quo (British band) “Spring” is the season in between summer If a bee “stings” you, it bites you and The “status quo” is the state of and winter. A “spring” is also a coil made of wire which maintains its original shape leaves its “sting” in you. affairs at a present time even after being twisted. A “field” is an “This type of bee doesn’t sting, but “We want to maintain the status quo; open area of grassy land that can be used that other type does. Run!” we don’t want any changes to occur.” for sports or for growing crops.

6 I www.hotenglishmagazine.com Looking for a great teacher? E-mail [email protected] A look at animals in war. By Kejan Haynes Pets of Honour 1 Match the words HONOUR Match A (a bird) to B (a picture). 1. a pigeon ____d 2. an eagle ____ PETS OF 3. a vulture ____ b d 4. an ostrich ____ f 5. a falcon ____ 6. a dove ____ a c ANSWERS ON PAGE 62 Valiant e These pigeons ost countries have medals for an innate ability to find their way home, even if and many others like them inspired brave soldiers. Americans have the they are quite far away. During the war, homing the 2005 movie, ‘Medal of Honor’ and Britain has the pigeons were used to carry messages. These Valiant, which was M ‘Victoria Cross’. But what about brave messages were usually written on small pieces a tribute to all of animals? Many animals go to war: horses, dogs, of paper, which were tied to their legs. the pigeons used cows and pigeons, to name a few. Is there any in war. This was the award for them? One of the most famous pigeons to win the UK’s first computer medal was Paddy. He was an Irish pigeon, and generated In fact, there is. It’s called the Dickin Medal, and one of the first pigeons to return to base out of animation film. it’s given to animals who show bravery and hundreds launched. He was bringing news of devotion to duty whilst serving with the armed the successful D-Day landings in Normandy. forces or civil emergency services. The award He crossed the English Channel in a very short was created by (and named after) Maria Dickin time. in 1943. She had previously established the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) – Another famous pigeon was G.I. Joe. He worked an organisation that took care of injured for the United States Army Pigeon service. G.I. animals. During the Second World War, many Joe saved the lives of the inhabitants and allied animals were given the Dickin Medal, including soldiers in the village of Calvi Veccia, Italy. The 1 cat, 3 horses, 18 dogs and 32 pigeons. village had been captured by allied soldiers. But the air force didn’t know this and was about to Pigeons? You ask. Yes, pigeons. OK, so they bomb it. G.I. Joe was given a message to take, may seem like unlikely candidates for a bravery and it arrived just in time to avoid the bombing. medal, but they were very important to the GLOSSARY devotion to duty exp war effort. During the Second World War, The only cat to have received the award was dedication and a sense of responsibility regarding the things communications weren’t what they are called Simon. He was on a Royal you have to do today. There was no internet, no Navy ship HMS Amethyst. He injured adj physically hurt e-mail, no mobile phones and was originally found in Hong a homing pigeon n no satellites. So, on many Kong and was taken on board a bird that is trained to return to a certain place occasions, soldiers had to the ship. He got rid of rats on specially-bred adj if an animal is “specially-bred” it is use homing pigeons the ship. In 1949, (during the raised / trained to do a specific job to pass on messages. Yangtze Incident), the ship innate adj internal; instinctual; natural These are was attacked and Simon was an ability n specially-bred injured. He soon recovered a talent or a skill the D-Day landings n pigeons and returned to his duty of the day on 6th June 1944 when allied forces landed in northern with rat catching. He was also France I’m so used to raise the morale of to bomb vb brave. to attack a place with explosive injured teenage soldiers. weapons to avoid vb if you “avoid” something, you don’t Some of the most recent awards were given to do / see it to get rid of phr vb non-military animals. In 2002, two guide dogs to eliminate completely successfully led their owners out of the World Yangtze Incident n in 1949, a British ship was attacked Trade Center during the attacks of September near the Chinese city of Nanking 11th. And more recently, brave animals have to raise morale exp to make people feel happier and been given awards in Iraq and Afghanistan. more optimistic

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Guesstheword Wordsearch Matchthewords www.hotenglishmagazine.com short e poor rich old big THIS IS ANOTHER PART IN OUR SECTION ON USEFUL VOCAB USEFUL ON SECTION OUR IN PART ANOTHER IS THIS THIS MONTH: ADJECTIVES. MONTH: THIS little slow new fast tall o guess a opposite e It’s the of big. VOCABULARY Little! b f ANSWERS ON PAGE 62 g c i

h ULARY. ULARY. d j USEFULVERBS& EXPRESSIONS THIS IS ANOTHER PART IN OUR ON USEFUL VERBS AND EXPRESSIONS. THIS MONTH: FOOD AND DRINK.

To have breakfasT / LunCh / dInner have something to eat / drink VERBS To eaT soMeThIng for breakfasT / To eat or drink something. LunCh / dInner. USEFUL

“Would you like to have What time did you have something breakfast this morning? to eat?”

Lay the table Make food To put the plates, knives, forks, To prepare food by combining ingredients. spoons, etc on the table.

“Who made this? It’s delicious!”

“Could you lay the table, please?”

Cook food do the washing up To prepare food by heating it. To clean the plates, knives, forks, spoons, etc.

“do you want any “I'm cooking help doing the the food." washing up?”

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Story Time TIME STORY STORY JOKES, ANECDOTES AND STORIES AS TOLD BY NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS.

Complaints earning plenty of money. But eventually, the Boss: I’ve had crowds become bored of the ape and switch complaints about their attention to the lion beside the ape’s cage. you, Johnny, from all The man doesn’t like this, so, one day, he climbs your line managers. on top of the lion’s cage and makes fun of the What have you been lion. The lion gets very angry and the crowds doing? love it. But all of a sudden, the man slips and Johnny: Nothing. falls into the lion’s cage. He’s terrified and starts Boss: Exactly. running around the cage screaming, “Help me, Hidden Money help me!” The lion There was once a man who loved money. When eventually catches he got it, he wouldn’t spend it. Instead, he took him and lies on top it to the bank and put it in a savings account. of him and says to In fact, he was so tight-fisted that once he the mime, “Shut said to his wife, “When I die, I want you up, you idiot, or to bury my money with me”. So when we’ll both he died, his wife did just that. get the On the day of the funeral, she sack!” was sitting beside her sister with her husband lying in the coffin in front of them. When the all I need GLOSSARY undertakers had closed the is a little a complaint n love and if you make a “complaint”, you tell coffin, her sister said, “Did banana. someone that you are unhappy you really bury all that about a situation / service a line manager n money with Fred? You the person in charge of a specific must be crazy!” And the department or division at work tight-fisted adj inform woman replied, “Yes, of a "tight-fisted" person does not like to spend money course, I did. I always to bury vb keep my promises. to put something in a hole in the ground So, after he died, I went a coffin n to the bank, put the a container for a dead person an undertaker n money in my account a person who prepares the bodies of dead people and makes funeral and then wrote him a arrangements cheque. He’s got it with him to keep a promise exp to do what you say you will do right now.” a mime artist n a person who entertains people by using body movements but no The Zoo words a zookeeper n A mime artist is performing outside a person who feeds the animals at a zoo one day when a zookeeper the zoo to replace vb invites him into his office. The if you replace A with B, you put A zookeeper tells the man that the instead of B a costume n main attraction, a gorilla, has died clothes that are used to make you look like someone recently and he needs to replace it. to earn vb So the zoo keeper offers the mime a to make money from working an ape n job. Basically, the guy has to put on a member of the family of a gorilla costume and pretend he’s mammals that includes chimpanzees and gorillas the gorilla. to switch vb to change The mime thinks about it for a bit, to make fun of someone exp but then accepts the job. Amazingly, to mock another person; to laugh at another person none of the visitors notice the to slip vb difference. The gorilla is as to lose your balance; to fall to get the sack vb exp popular as ever and the man is to lose your job

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