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No.83 www.hotenglishmagazine.com ¤ 5.50 with CD Learning EnglishImprove is fun and your easy with... 70 English by 20% with… MINUTE CD INSIDE 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 Sunken Treasure Cover Version Art Eggxibit 500 year old treasure found. Celine Dion destroys classic song. Breakfast-inspired art. 34 36 41 Wanted British Music Misheard Lyrics Choose your destiny. A look at the current music scene. Try our quiz. Advertising All material in this publication is strictly copyright, and all rights are reserved. Reproduction without permission is prohibited. The views expressed in Hot English Magazine do not necessarily represent the views of Hot English Publishing, S.L., although we do think that pigeons are mighty clever, we’d rather work in (00 34) 91 455 0273 McDonald's than do nothing, and we wouldn't want to mess with Angelina Jolie. For lots more content, visit the blog at: www.hotenglishmagazine.com/blog www.hotenglishmagazine.com I 3 CD track 2 READING I US woman 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 4 I www.hotenglishmagazine.com For an English language course abroad, e-mail [email protected] CD track 3 READING II US woman Have you ever experienced extreme anger whilst driving? If you have, you’ve probably been a victim of “road rage”.