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Great 9 Useful advice Euroscepticism, European stereotypes and European website with listenings, archive, games and exercises: 10 Stupid Criminals humour. www.hotenglishmagazine.com. All the English you’ll 11 Hot English radio ad Ever heard of a “coolhunter”? This month, we’re talking ever need! Where can you find Hot English? In shops and kiosks all over Spain. If you cannot find 12 Dr Fingers’ Grammar to Julio about an unusual profession from the fashion it in your local kiosk, please call and we’ll organise 13-14 British Bar Chat industry: coolhunting. Find out what it is and how to it for you. 15-16 US Bar Chat become a coolhunter yourself. 17 Dumb US Laws We’ve also got an interesting article on Hollywood and 18 Story Time 19 Weird Trivia its treatment (or in this case, “mistreatment”) of history. 10 20 Typical Dialogues This month also sees the start of the very first Hot 21 Hot English radio ad English radio play: The Trouser Snatcher. It’s a five-part 22 Social English Victorian murder mystery. You can listen to it on the CD, 23 Quiz and download the script from the homepage on our 24 Quirky News website www.hotenglishmagazine.com 25 Pretty Polly For your further amusement, we have a new series 26 Song Eurovision 27 New Words of Bushisms – funny, interesting and weird things that 28 Hot English radio ad George W. Bush has said. Incidentally, the English- 29 The Trouser Snatcher speaking press often refer to George Bush as George 30 Grammar Fun Dubya Bush. Do you know why? Well, “dubya” is a way 37 31 Fluency Practice of saying “double u” (his middle initial: “w”). So now you 32 Business English know. Well, that’s all for now. Have a great month and 33 Goodbye happy learning. Quirky News Magazine Index 3 Editorial PS Don’t forget to visit Dr 4 Phrasal Verbs Fingers’ blog on our website. 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The views expressed in Hot English Magazine do not the article is recorded on there is an exercise for the necessarily represent the views of Hot English Publishing, S.L., although we don’t think that a Swiss army knife would afford Swiss troops much protection in an emergency, and that the the CD. article in the Exercise Pack. second most irritating thing in May after hay fever is the Eurovision song contest. www.hotenglishmagazine.com or www.hotenglish.hu I 3 PHRASALVERBS Throw Part ii This month we are looking at some more phrasal verbs with the verb “to throw”. We generally use the verb “to throw” to refer to the action of using your hands to make an object fly through the air. For example, “I threw a plate at his head.” Now let’s look at some phrasal verbs with the verb “to throw”. Phrasal Verbs To throw away an opportunity Throw down weapons/guns) To waste an opportunity or a chance to To stop FIghting because the opposition do something is too great. You threw away an opportunity to be a great star. we’re far superior to them. why won’t they throw down their weapons? Throw someone off Throw out/throw away To confuse someone who is chasing To put old or unwanted things in the you; to do something so that someone rubbish bin. cannot Find or catch you. it’s amazing what people i don’t think we’ve throw out. thrown them off yet. Throw off (clothes) Throw someone out of a place To remove clothing quickly. To force someone physically to leave a place; to remove someone from a place. 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