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R eading I ars t S Hollywood Stars Do Hollywood stars guarantee a film’s success?

1 Pre-reading A nSWERS on page 45 ig stars. Big money. Big Match the films (1 to 6) to the actors who star in them (a-f). films? What’s the formula o 1. Bewitched for success when it comes H llywood B 2. The Adventures of Pluto Nash to films? No one is sure. Is it the 3. The Island stars? Maybe. Or maybe not. 4. A Christmas Carol 5. Cold Mountain There are certainly benefits to 6. The Last Samurai using a star in a film. It makes the film easier to market. Stars a. Ewan McGregor also help sell more tickets and b. Jim Carrey a drive DVD sales, which are a c. Tom Cruise big part of studio revenue. For d. Jude Law example, the announcement e. Eddie Murphy in 2002 that Tom Cruise wasn’t f. Nicole Kidman b going to star in the film Cold Mountain reduced the movie’s expected revenue by $10 million. Then, later, the announcement that he was in talks to play a leading role in the film The Last Samurai increased the c film’s expected revenue by $28 million.

d However, a star does not guarantee success. Bewitched (starring Nicole e Kidman) cost an estimated $85 million but only made about $62 million at the American box office. Waterworld (1995) had Kevin Costner in it and cost $175 million to make but only grossed $88 million at the US box office. The 2 Reading I f Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) starred Eddie Murphy and cost $100 million Read the article once to check your answers. to make, but only earned about $8.9 million worldwide. The Island (2005) had a production budget of $126 million and had stars Ewan McGregor and 3 Reading II Scarlett Johansson in it, but only made about $35 million. And Jim Carrey’s A Read the article again and choose the correct answers. Christmas Carol took just $30 million after costs of more than $170 million. 1. Tom Cruise announced that he wasn’t starring in Cold Mountain in 2001 / 2002. And there are plenty of examples of films without GLOSSARY 2. Bewitched only made about $62 / $85 million. stars that have made a lot of money. to drive vb 3. The Adventures of Pluto Nash cost $100 / $8.9 ET: The Extra-Terrestrial and the original Star Wars if something "drives" sales, it causes sales to increase million to make. series didn’t need stars to make them successful. revenue n 4. The Island had a budget of $35 / $126 million. Many low-budget films with unknown actors money that is produced an announcement n 5. The Blair Witch Project made more than also make a lot of money. The Blair Witch Project something that is said in public or to the media $500,000 / $248,639,099. had a budget of about $500,000, but made to reduce vb 6. A Christmas Carol cost more than $30 / $170 more than $248,639,099 worldwide. The comedy to decrease in talks exp million. The Hangover had a little-known cast but made if someone is “in talks”, they are $459 million at global box office. The adolescent discussing something a leading role n 4 Language focus The Past Simple vampire romance Twilight took $186 million in the the main part in a film the box office n Look at this extract from the article, “...but only made US despite starring unknown English actor Robert the money made at “the box office” about $62 million at the American box office.” Pattinson. Then there was Slumdog Millionaire represents all the money made from people going to the cinema The writer has used a Past Tense verb (“made”). Transform these which has no stars in it at all but which made a lot to gross vb Present Simple sentences into the Past Simple. of money and won a few Oscars as well. to make an amount of money before tax 1. They film the scenes in a studio. to earn vb to make an amount of money 2. She acts in a lot of films. In the end, if it’s a bad film with a good star, it successful adj 3. They release the film. won’t make much difference. “Movies with stars if something is “successful”, everyone likes it and it makes a lot 4. They make films about the Russian Revolution. are successful not because of the star, but because of money 5. We take pictures of the actors. the star chooses projects that people tend to like,” a low-budget film n a film that is produced with very said Arthur S. De Vany, a professor of economics little money 5 a budget n Discussion at the University of California. And as Sidney the amount of money you have to 1. Have you seen any of the films mentioned? Sheinberg, the former president of MCA Universal, do/produce something won’t make much difference exp What did you think of them? has said, “The simple fact is that if you pay a star won’t affect anything 2. What’s the best low-budget film you’ve ever a great deal of money for a film that people don’t tend to exp if something “tends to” happen, it seen? Why did you like it? want to see, then it won’t work.” usually happens

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1. Just do it. S o n T 2. We try harder. 3. Connecting people. 1 4. Simply inspiring. 5. A royal experience. 6. Unforgettable experience.

a. Nokia 2 b. Avis c. Nike 3 d. Mauritius 4 e. Kingdom of Swaziland f. Germany oes your country’s tourist board have a slogan? Mauritius does, but it Unforgettable recently got a new one that’s causing a bit of controversy. experience A royal experience D 6 5 Slogans are important for every brand. They help explain what the product is 2 Reading I all about, and, more importantly, what it can do for you. Some slogans have an Why do you think there’s a controversy with Mauritius’ slogan? attitude, such as Nike’s “Just do it”. Others explain what the product can do, such Think. Then read the article to check your ideas. as Nokia’s “Connecting people”. And others describe a company objective, such as Avis’s “We try harder”. 3 Reading II Read the article again and complete the sentences. A good slogan must be concise. Three-word slogans are much more effective 1. Some slogans explain what a product can than whole sentences. The less words, the easier it is for the consumer to . remember the slogan. Slogans that leave the consumers confused will make it 2. A good slogan must be . much harder for consumers to understand the brand or message. 3. The Mauritian tourist board decided to its slogan. Just recently, the Mauritian tourist board decided to change its slogan. The 4. The original slogan was “Mauritius – original strapline was, “Mauritius – Unforgettable experience”. But the new one Unforgettable ”. is in French, “Mauritius – C’est un plaisir” (Mauritius – It’s a pleasure), which was 5. Many were shocked at the designed to reflect the island’s French cultural influence. But many are not happy of the slogan. with it. “It’s weak and bland and... too ambiguous to be effective,” said Sean Carey, 6. Each letter of the slogan cost about an anthropologist who writes extensively about Mauritius. £ . And many are also shocked at the cost. The slogan was created by London- 4 Language focus Relative Clauses based marketing agency Acanchi for a reported Look at this extract from the article, “...said Sean Carey, 31 million Mauritian rupees (£625,000), which is Slogan Fun an anthropologist who writes extensively about almost £50,000 per letter. Fiona Gilmore, a director For a bit of fun, go to this Mauritius.” The writer has used the relative pronoun “who”. at Acanchi, appeared on Mauritian TV to defend the site to create your own We often use “who” or "that" for people, and “that” for things. branding. She said that the actual slogan was just slogan: Complete the sentences with “who” or “that”. 5% of the entire marketing campaign for Mauritius, http://thesurrealist. 1. He is the man sold us his which presumably makes it all right then. co.uk/slogan.cgi house. 2. This is the dog lives near us. So, how does the Mauritius tagline compare with GLOSSARY a slogan n 3. That is the cat scratched me. other countries? There seem to be two types. Most a short phrase that is easy to remember 4. She is the woman gave us use a two-word structure: Amazing Thailand; Enjoy a brand n the money. England; Incredible India; Magical Kenya. a product that is made by one particular company Others are based around a phrase: Seychelles – concise adj 5 Another world; Germany - Simply inspiring; The short and to the point Discussion a strapline n 1. What’s your favourite slogan from the ones Kingdom of Swaziland - A royal experience; Hawaii a slogan bland adj on this page? Why do you like it? – The islands of Aloha; Colombia – The only risk is not interesting; boring 2. What’s your country’s slogan? What do you wanting to stay. ambiguous adj that is difficult to understand; that think of it? can be understood in a number of 3. What’s the worst slogan you’ve ever heard? Now hearing some of those, Mauritius’s French slogan different ways a tagline n Why is it so bad? doesn’t seem so bad after all, does it? a slogan (often for a film)

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soup. But when the I SPAT IN soup arrives, the THE SOUP man realises that he needs to go to the bathroom. So, just to make sure that nobody touches his soup while he’s away, he writes on a napkin, “I SPAT IN THE SOUP.” But when he gets back, he finds another message on the napkin, “ME, TOO!” Clever Clogs Daniel Day-Lewis (British/Irish actor) Kevin Costner (American actor) A teacher is giving a Terereh a seven “days” in a Te“osth c ” of something science class and talking week. is the amount you have to about the Earth and its “What day is it today? It’s Wednesday, pay for it. movement around the isn’t it?” “This pen cost me four pounds.” Sun. “What’s the axis of the Earth?” the teacher asks. And a student answers, “It’s an imaginary line which passes from one pole to the other, and on which the earth revolves.” “Very good,” the teacher replies. “Now, could you hang your clothes on that line?” “Yes, sir,” the GLOSSARY to stare vb student replies. to look at someone constantly and for a period of time Surprised, to ignore vb the teacher if you “ignore” someone, you don’t pay attention to them responds, a bowl n “Oh, really? a plate that is deep – often used for (Australian actor) soup or cereal Hugh Jackman What sort of a napkin n A s “jACk” i A device for clothes, if you a piece of cloth you use to clean (American singer) lifting a heavy object off yourself whilst eating Whitney Houston don’t mind me to spit vb “Wit sn h ” i a old-fashioned the ground, for example, to force liquid out of your mouth word that is used for a car. asking?” to hang vb And the if you “hang” wet clothes on a line, emphasis. “She used the jack to lift the car off you put them on the line so they student replies, can dry “It matters not one whit to him.” = the ground so she could change the a line n “He doesn’t care at all.” wheel.” “Imaginary a piece of string/rope, etc. that is clothes, sir.” used for putting wet clothes on

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hat do political tomato was thrown Robert Kilroy-Silk, a protesters do in by a student who television presenter W your country? was protesting and MEP. March? Write letters? Sing against British songs? In Britain, it’s traditional sanctions on Iraq. In February 2006, Ruth Kelly, to throw things at politicians. the Education The objective isn’t to hurt them In March 2001, an anti- Secretary, was but to humiliate them. Here are globalisation protester threw a pelted with eggs GLOSSARY to strike vb a few of the latest examples. custard pie at Clare by a Fathers 4 if workers “strike”, they stop working Short (the Justice protester. as a form of protest a docker n In February 1998, Danbert International a person who works in a dock (a Nobacon, from the band Development In October 2008, Phil Woolas, harbour) loading and off-loading things from ships Chumbawumba, threw a Secretary) during a the Immigration to squash vb if you "squash" something, you bucket of ice-cold public meeting at the Minister, received a apply pressure to it and make it flat water over John University of Bangor in Wales. custard pie in the an éclair n a long, thin cake filled with cream Prescott (the then face from a pro- and chocolate on the top Deputy Prime In May 2001, Mr Prescott was migration a custard pie n a cake filled with custard (a sweet Minister) at the Brit attacked once again. This time campaigner during a debate at yellow sauce made from milk and eggs) Awards ceremony. The attack Craig Evans, a farm Manchester University. shadow adj was in protest at Labour’s worker, threw an a “shadow” minister is a minister from the opposition party. This treatment of striking dockers egg at him during a In February 2009, Wen Jiabao, person is not in the government. in Liverpool. general election the Chinese Premier, had a shoe the Home Secretary n the minster in the UK who is in campaign event in thrown at him by a German charge of the police, immigration, counter terrorism, etc. In February 2000, An North Wales. In response, Mr postgraduate a book-signing n environmental activist Prescott punched Mr Evans in student during a if a famous person is doing a “book-signing”, they are putting at the National the face. speech at their name on copies of their book Farmers’ Union annual Cambridge for the public to punch vb conference in In April 2004, Mr Prescott had University. The to hit with a closed hand pro-hunting campaigners n London squashed a chocolate another two eggs student was protesting at people who are in favour of fox éclair into Agriculture Minister thrown at his car by China’s human rights record. hunting (chasing and killing foxes for sport) Nick Brown’s face. pro-hunting a flour bomb n campaigners. In March 2009, a protester a bag filled with flour (a white powder used for cooking) In April 2000, a pro-asylum threw custard and green paint Fathers 4 Justice n a group that fights for the rights of protester threw a In May 2004, purple flour over Nigel fathers to visit their children in cases custard pie at Ann bombs were thrown at Mr Blair Mandelson as a of divorce/separation slurry n Widdecombe (the by protesters from protest against the a mixture of mud, animal waste, dirt, shadow Home the campaign construction of a etc. an MEP abbr Secretary) during a group Fathers 4 third runway at a Member of the European Parliament book-signing in Oxford. Justice in the Heathrow airport. to pelt vb Commons. if someone is “pelted” with eggs, many eggs are thrown at them In January 2001, British Prime Currently, politicians are waiting in store for exp Minister Tony Blair was hit on the In December 2004, protesters to see what 2010 has in store for the things that are “in store for” you, are the things that may happen back by a tomato in Bristol. The threw a bucket of slurry over them. to you

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It’s something you use to surf the internet.

A computer.

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Pr int out a document R ecycle paper To use the printer to create a copy of a To put paper in a special container for document material that will be recycled.

“ Could you print out that e-mail, please?”

“We recycle all our old paper here.”

Send a fax / an e-mail F ile a document To send someone a document by fax or To put a document in a f iling cabinet / e-mail. desk, etc.

“I need “ Could you to send f ile those those documents e-mails to on my desk, Bryony.” please?”

Make a phone call Ha ve a break To use the phone or a mobile to speak To stop working so you can rest for to someone. a while.

“We usually “I need to make have a a few important coffee phone calls this break at morning.” 11 am.”

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A nSWERS on page 45 Are celebrity chefs as bad as they seem? by Patrick Howarth eadin r 1 Pre-reading here are my knives?” screams an angry et Match the words (1 to 8) voice which will be immediately l k to the pictures (a-h). “Wrecognisable to TV viewers all over Britain. 1. Eggs It’s Johnny Cramer, star of The Cream of Cramer, TV's o 2. Flour a most popular cookery show. Some people think

3. Butter he’s more famous for his rudeness than 4. Cheese his cooking. So, in an effort to show the i 5. Salt and pepper world that he's a nice guy as well as a SkllsB o 6. A saucepan b master chef, Johnny has invited me to 7. A dish his kitchen where he is going to give me d 8. The fridge a cookery lesson. Today’s recipe: soufflé.

c “Where ARE my knives?” the voice shouts again as the kitchen doors open. Johnny I break eggs and heads! f enters, laughing, and tells me that he’s only joking. He knows exactly where his knives are. e In fact, he immediately picks one up and h throws it at the wall where it sticks firmly 2 Reading I g into a photograph of restaurant critic You are going to read an article about a celebrity chef. Read the article Miles Haddock. I’m already terrified and once. How would you describe the chef? we haven’t even broken an egg yet. a) He’s always angry. b) He never gets angry. “Right, so what are we making?” c) He only gets angry on TV. Johnny demands enthusiastically. “Cheese soufflé,” I answer timidly. “Excellent! Right, let’s get started. Have you washed your hands?” Johnny 3 Reading II shouts. “Er, not yet. No.” Read the article again and choose the correct answers. “WHAT!” he explodes before laughing once again. I have a feeling Johnny’s 1. What is Johnny Cramer the star of? going to enjoy his afternoon of making me nervous. Two minutes later, a) a cookery show b) a talent contest clean and wearing a chef’s apron and hat, I’m ready for action. 2. Why has Johnny invited the journalist onto his show? a) To teach him how to cook. b) To show the “So what do I do first?” I ask. “Measure out all your ingredients. You’ll need world what a nice person he is really. some butter, about 40g, 25g of flour, 200g of Emmental cheese, 150ml 3. What are they going to make? a) an omelette of milk, 5 eggs and some salt and pepper. Oh, and a soufflé dish and b) soufflé saucepan too, of course.” 4. How would you describe the journalist’s state at “So, what do I do?” I ask timidly. the start of the show? a) He’s relaxed. b) He’s a bit “Melt some of the butter in that pan.” nervous. I manage to turn on the gas ring and put the butter in the pan. 5. How would you describe the journalist’s state at “That’s too hot. It’ll burn. Turn it down.” the end of the show? a) He’s really pleased with I do so. things. b) He’s even more nervous. “That’s better. Now add some flour. SLOWLY.”

4 Language focus Quantifiers As we proceed I’m amazed to find that everything goes well. My white Look at this extract from the article, “You’ll need some butter,...” sauce is perfect and the cheese melts into the sauce without any The writer has used a quantifier (“some”). Remember, we use “some” problems. I add the egg yolks and they mix in exactly as Johnny says for uncountable and plural countable nouns. Complete the sentences they will. I realise that now we’re cooking, Johnny is being friendly and with “some” or “a/an”. encouraging. I’m doing all the work but he’s giving me confidence. I put 1. We need more wine. the soufflé in the oven and we chat for twenty minutes while we wait to 2. Have you got apple? see the results of my lesson. Johnny is kind and polite to me and to all his 3. There’s sugar in the cupboard. staff. 4. We’ve got beer in the fridge. 5. There’s banana on the table. “The shouting and screaming is just for TV,” he explains. “I’m a nice bloke really but that would be boring on television. So I act a bit.” 5 Discussion My soufflé is perfect and Johnny is very pleased. Incredibly, I cook it myself 1. Do you like cooking? Why? Why not? at home the next day and it’s perfect again. It seems that the truth about 2. What can you cook? Johnny Cramer is simple. He’s a nice man, a great chef, and a very good 3. What’s the best meal you’ve ever cooked? teacher. Thanks for the lesson, Johnny.

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Useful I n tHIS dIALOgue, Tiphany is Expressions D aloguei at Sam’s house. What you say I’ll have a rare steak, please. (not Tiphany: I’ve put a roast in cooked very much) the oven. Would I’ll have a medium rare steak, please. (cooked a bit more) you like to stay for I’ll have a medium steak, please. dinner? (cooked a bit) Sam: Oh, yes, please. I’d like my steak well done, please. What is it? (cooked a lot) Tiphany: Roast beef. I don't eat pork. Sam: Oh, my favourite. Is there any gravy to go with this? What have you got to go with it? Tiphany: Roast potatoes, broccoli, Brussels sprouts and gravy. Sam: Delicious. Who else is coming? Tiphany: Mark and Jenny. Sam: I thought Jenny was vegetarian. Tiphany: Yes, she is. I’ve also done a special vegetarian meat loaf for her – it’s made with lentils. It’s quite nice really. Sam: Oh, I’d like to try some of that too. What you hear Tiphany: Of course. Now, we need another bottle of wine. Could you pop How would you like your steak? out and get one, please? Would you like any apple sauce with Sam: Sure. Red or white? the pork? Tiphany: Red, I think. Oh, and get a baguette too, please. Would you like white meat or brown? Sam: OK. See you in a minute. Would you like the breast or a leg? Tiphany: Bye. Anything else?

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5. How much bottles of beer are there in the fridge? 2 Listening I You are going to listen to various people in social English contexts. Listen once to check your answers from the Pre-listening activity. 6. There isn’t many salt in this food. 3 Listening II Read the sentences and choose the correct words. Then, listen again to check your answers. 1. I think we spoke by e-mail / telephone. 2. We’re going for lunch / a coffee. 3. Hey, do you know where the cloakroom / bathroom is? 4. I’ve been carrying this coat / jacket around all day. 5. I’m working in Vancouver / Seattle at the moment. 6. Are you going to the next conference / talk? 7. I did go to the museum of modern art / natural history... 8. I’m actually free on Friday / Saturday.

4 Language focus Social English – Responding to suggestions/questions In one of the conversations, a speaker says, “Good idea" in response to a suggestion. Match the suggestions/questions (1 to 5) to the responses (a-e). 1. So, how are things going? 2. Do you want to come? 3. So, is this your first time at the conference? 4. Can I get you a coffee? 5. Are you Italian?

a. Yes, that would be great. b. Great, thanks. c. Not exactly, I’m half-Italian and half-German. d. Yes, please. White, no sugar, please. e. No, I was here last year.

5 Discussion 1. Where would you suggest going for a coffee right now? 2. Where would you suggest going for lunch near where you work? 3. Which places would you suggest visiting in your city?

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4. Golf Can you help me? It’s about Bob. He’s become so lazy. He won’t i do anything except watch TV. He comes home everyday from Erm... the thing is Bob and I didn’t actually play tennis

5. Weights SkllsB o a work and sits in front of the TV drinking beer and watching yesterday. Bob lost his racket so we went to the pub and 6. A gym football. He’s getting fat. He never does any exercise anymore. watched Arsenal play Juventus in the Champions League. We’re 7. A bench You’re his best friend, can’t you think of something? going to watch Man Utd versus Inter Milan tonight. Do you want to come? 8. Cycling Jane. b Pete 2 7 c From: Pete Driver [[email protected]] From: Jane [[email protected]] To: Jane [[email protected]] To: Pete Driver [[email protected]] d Date: 24th March 13.33 g Date: 21st March 14.56 Hi Jane Hi Pete Bob has always been a big Chelsea fan. You could buy him a No I do NOT want to go to the pub. Neither does Bob. He should Chelsea shirt and a football, so he can go out and play. do some exercise. We’re going for a run. I’ve told him that we f Pete can jog along the river, it’ll be beautiful. Jane e h 8 2 Reading I What would you do to encourage a friend to do more From: Pete Driver [[email protected]] exercise? Think. Then, read the e-mails once to check To: Jane [[email protected]] your ideas. Were any of your ideas similar to the ones in Date: 25th March 09.36 the e-mails? How was the run? 3 Pete 3 Reading II From: Jane [[email protected]] Read the e-mails again and answer the questions. To: Pete Driver [[email protected]] 9 Date: 23rd March 17.48 1. What does Bob do when he gets home From: Jane [[email protected]] from work? Hi Pete I bought him the shirt and he loved it. He said he might get To: Pete Driver [[email protected]] 2. What did Bob use the football for? another one! He wore it last night while he watched Chelsea Date: 25th March 10.52 3. What does Pete take Bob out for a game play Liverpool on TV. He used the football as a foot rest. More A complete disaster. We walked to the end of the road to warm of? ideas please! up and then it started raining. So, we had to go into the pub 4. What happened to Bob’s tennis racket? Jane to keep dry. The football was on TV, so we stayed there. I’ve 5. Why did they have to stop jogging? decided that I should buy a home gym with weights and a 4 bench. 6. What did Bob use the bench as? Jane

4 From: Pete Driver [[email protected]] Language focus Modal Verbs 10 Look at this extract from the article, “You could buy To: Jane [[email protected]] Date: 23rd March 18.36 him a Chelsea shirt...” The writer has used a modal From: Pete Driver [[email protected]] verb (“could”). Correct the mistakes in the following Hi Jane OK. I’ll take Bob out tomorrow for a game of tennis. I’ll soon To: Jane [[email protected]] sentences with modal verbs. get him fit. Date: 26th March 22.19 1. We might to go out tomorrow night. Pete Great idea. Let me know what happens. 2. You could to spend the night at my Pete house. 5 11 3. They not may like it. From: Jane [[email protected]] 4. She cans leave it here. To: Pete Driver [[email protected]] From: Jane [[email protected]] 5. You not should smoke in here. Date: 24th March 10.29 To: Pete Driver [[email protected]] Hi Pete Date: 26th March 20.43 5 Discussion Bob said he had a great time last night and that you’re going The home gym is a disaster. Bob uses the bench as a bed and 1. Do you do any exercise? What? out again tonight. Brilliant! He’ll soon lose weight playing has put the TV on top of the weights. He fell asleep in front of a 2. How often do you play or do a sport? tennis. boxing match on TV last night. I give up. Jane 3. Which sports do you like to watch? Jane

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rom Lstontha m we looked at some celebrity f neighbours from hell. This month we’re looking s r at some non-celebrity (but equally nasty) u neighbours from hell. h You’re he English newspaper The Daily Mail g a noisy neighbour! e estimates that half a million people in the N i bo T UK moved house last year because of their neighbours. The survey also revealed some of the A nSWERS on page 45 1 Pre-reading typical problems we have with our neighbours. Look at the following list of things. In what ways could they One in ten of those who responded said that noise cause friction between neighbours? from next door had kept them awake all night at least once. One neighbour played Whitney a song exercise a model aeroplane Houston’s “I will always love you” at top volume day a dog a cat glass food oil nails after day. Another did naked exercises in his back garden every day. And another repeatedly flew a a CCTV camera rubbish headlights Love thy model airplane into neighbouring gardens. neighbour! 2 Reading I A number of complaints involved pets. Neighbours’ Read the article once to check your ideas from the dogs and cats doing their business in other Pre-reading activity. people’s gardens is a big one. Barking dogs and meowing cats is another GLOSSARY 3 Reading II typical complaint, as to move house exp to change house and to go to live in Read the article again and answer the questions. are vicious, aggressive another house 1. How many people had to move house last dogs. Rubbish is another to keep someone awake exp to do something that prevents year because of their neighbours? area of conflict. Leaving rubbish outside or near other someone from sleeping 2. Which song was one neighbour playing at people’s properties is something that angers many, naked adj with no clothes on top volume every day? as is leaving your rubbish in the corridor in apartment to do their business exp to go to the toilet 3. What complaints do neighbours have blocks. Smelly rubbish is also a cause for concern, with to bark vb about cats and dogs? many complaining about rotting food, or finding when a dog “barks”, it makes a sound from its mouth 4. What complaints do neighbours have food strewn all over the street because a rubbish bag to meow vb about rubbish? wasn’t tied up properly. when a cat “meows”, it makes a sound from its mouth 5. Why was the retired businesswoman rotting food n food that is very old and starting to described as an “expert in mental torture”? One couple in Leeds, England were victims of a year- smell / go bad, etc. 6. What happened to one family in Holland? long campaign of intimidation by their neighbour. “She strewn all over a place exp if things are “strewn all over the dumped oil on our lawn, she directed a CCTV camera place”, they are all over that area 4 onto our front door, she put nails and glass under the to tie up exp Language focus if you "tie something up", you close Verbs as nouns wheels of our car and beamed headlights into our it with a piece of string to dump vb Look at this extract from the article, “Leaving rubbish windows at all hours of the night. The mastermind if you "dump" something in a place, outside or near other people’s properties is behind this? A 57 year-old, retired businesswoman you put it there in a casual manner and without care something that angers many,...” In this example, described by a judge as “an expert in mental torture”. a lawn n the writer has created a noun from a verb (“to leave” = an area of grass that is very flat, neat and tidy “leaving”). Complete the sentences with your own ideas. Sadly, it’s often the victims who are punished by being a nail n a thin piece of metal. Nails are 1. Having to get up really early in the forced to move away. It’s still very difficult to take often used to hold pieces of wood morning is... legal action against inconsiderate neighbours except together a wheel n 2. Leaving the house without your keys is... in extreme circumstance. However, the situation is a round object that turns around on 3. Getting to work late is... beginning to change. Ex-Labour minister Frank Field a vehicle. Most cars have four to beam vb 4. Having to deal with traffic when you’re has called for noisy neighbours to be evicted and if a light “beams”, it shines brightly a mastermind n late is... housed in steel-container homes on the outskirts of the person who has created 5. Eating too much for lunch is... towns and cities. Sound crazy? Actually he got the idea something; the inventor of something from a similar scheme in Holland. It was introduced a container home n 5 after a “reality-TV” programme that followed the Tokkies a pre-fabricated home Discussion the outskirts n 1. What is the worst thing your neighbours – a real-life “family from hell”. People were so appalled the areas outside a city; the suburbs a national outcry n could do to you? at their behaviour that there was a national outcry. if there is a “national outcry” about 2. If you had a really annoying neighbour, The government used the container proposal after the something, many people in a country are angry about it what would you do about it? success of a trial in Kampen in Eastern Holland. Now to give someone the can exp 3. Have you ever thought about doing the “Tokkies” and others like them have officially been a play on words: 1) to tell someone to leave their job; 2) to send something nasty to a neighbour? 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2 Reading I any hidden Match the pranks (1 to 4) to the prank TV shows (a-d). Then, Hcamera comedy read the article to check your ideas. TV shows? They’re 1. The victim closes a drawer and another one opens. popular all over the 2. The victim thinks his friends are being shot. world. But some of 3. The victim gets into a car with a psycho. them seem to be out of 4. The victim thinks he’s in trouble because of control. This is the first of unpaid tax bills. a two-part series on TV prank shows.

TV prank shows started with Candid Camera back in 1948. The idea was simple – hidden cameras a Panic Face King filmed people’s reactions b Punk’d to unusual situations. A man would sit at his desk and discover that when he closed one drawer another would open. The jokes were light-hearted and would make the audience chuckle. And the idea was so simple and appealing that hidden camera shows soon started appearing all over the world... and still do. c Candid Camera d S care Tactics But the days of light-hearted practical jokes are definitely over. The Japanese 3 Reading II “hidden-camera” show Panic Face King is just one example of that. A recent Read the sentences below. Which prank TV show are they prank involved a horrifying sniper-attack. It started with the unsuspecting referring to (refer to the shows from the Pre-reading victim chatting to friends in a room. Suddenly, there’s the sound of gunfire activity). Then, read the article again to check your answers. and people start falling to the ground, some with blood pouring from them, 1. The victims in this show are celebrities. apparently shot by the hidden sniper. Terrified, the victim falls to the ground 2. One of the pranks is called “The Cannibal screaming, crying and crawling desperately to the door, only to find it locked. Family.” Seconds later, the “assassins” enter and start shooting his “dying” friends. The 3. It started in 1948. victim begs for mercy... but he doesn’t really have to worry because it’s all just 4. The victim begged for mercy. a joke! GLOSSARY 5. This show puts the victims into terrifying a prank n a joke that involves playing a trick on situations. As you can imagine, there were a number of someone 6. It’s all quite light-hearted. complaints. As one critic said, “The producers of this a drawer n a box in a desk in which you can put 7. One prank involved bailiffs and a famous programme ought to be locked up if you ask me.” things (pens, pencils, paper clips, etc) light-hearted adj singer. But Panic Face King is just one of many. At one end not serious 8. One prank involved a sniper attack. of the scale (the mild end), there are shows such as to chuckle vb to laugh quietly (often to yourself) Punk’d, where the victims are celebrities. Most of the appealing adj 4 jokes are fairly light-hearted, but one prank reduced attractive; nice Language focus horrifying adj Modal verbs: “ought to” Justin Timberlake to tears. As part of that joke, mock terrible; really frightening a sniper-attack n Look at this extract from the article, “The producers of bailiffs went to empty his house because of alleged if there is a "sniper-attack", a person this programme ought to be locked up if you unpaid tax bills. Unaware that it was just a joke, with a rifle shoots people. The sniper is hidden and no one can see him/her ask me.”...” In this example, the writer has used the modal Timberlake burst into tears and rang his mum. to pour vb if liquid is “pouring”, it is coming out verb “ought to”. This is very similar to the modal verb “should”. very quickly Complete the following sentences with your own ideas. At the other end of the scale is Scare Tactics – a to crawl vb to move along the ground on your 1. I really think we ought to... programme which makes Panic Face King look like hands and knees 2. I think you ought to eat more... the Teletubbies. Scare Tactics puts unsuspecting to beg for mercy exp if A “begs for mercy”, A asks B not to 3. I think you ought to eat less... victims into terrifying situations for the audience’s hurt him/her 4. I think you ought to do more... amusement. The names of some of the pranks will to reduce to tears exp to make someone cry 5. I think the government ought to... give you an idea of what they’re about: “Psycho mock adj not real; imitation Hitchhiker”, “The Cannibal Family” and “Spa of Death” a bailiff n 5 Discussion are just a few. Things have come a long way since a law officer who makes sure that legal decisions are obeyed. In some 1. What TV prank shows are there in your desks with opening drawers. cases, they confiscate possessions country? when money is owed to burst into tears exp 2. Which one is your favourite? Why? More next month. to start crying suddenly and a lot

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a Mobile Madness A nSWERS on page 45 The invention we love to hate. On Expenses 1 Pre-reading obile Look at following mobile phone situations. phones. o Rank them in order according to how bad they are We’ve all Switch M biledness M it off! (“1” is the worst thing that could happen). got one, but they Your mobile phone goes off during… can be annoying at … a theatre play. times. In fact, in a …a film. recent survey, 30% …an intimate conversation. of US citizens named …a dinner with friends. the mobile phone as …a football match. the most annoying …a job interview. invention... even …a conversation with your boss. more than alarm …a one-minute silence to honour a clocks! recently deceased person. …a wedding ceremony. One of the main …a train journey. problems is that mobile phones have a tendency to ring at the wrong moment. 2 Reading I Important meetings, romantic meals, trips to the cinema – no matter Read the article once. Which mobile phone situation where we are, we can be sure that a phone will ring when we least expect do you think is the most embarrassing? it... and when we least want it to. One spectator’s mobile started ringing during a performance of the play A Steady Rain in New York’s Broadway. To this 3 Reading II man’s horror, actors Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig (who were acting in the play) Read the article again. Then, complete the stopped their performance. “You wanna get that?” Jackman asked the spectator, information with your own words. referring to the call. “If you wanna get it, grab it. I don’t care. Grab it. We can wait. Just 1. Mobile phones have a tendency grab it!” he added while the mortified spectator tried to switch the phone off. to… 2. When a spectator’s phone went But this is quite a common occurrence. In Missouri, a mobile phone interrupted a off during a recent play, Hugh church wedding. “The music had just started to play and my father began walking Jackman… me down the aisle,” said the bride, Karen Emerson. “All of a sudden, the song ‘Girls Just 3. In Missouri, a mobile phone Wanna Have Fun’ goes off on my mobile phone (it’s my ringtone). Everyone looks at me interrupted… and I realise the one thing I’ve forgotten to do is to turn my mobile off.” 4. Overheard mobile conversations are… 5. In one experiment… Overheard mobile conversations are also top of the “annoying things about mobile 6. Some phone companies are phones” list. Psychologists at the University of York in England conducted an developing mobile phones … experiment: one group of people got on a train and started having a loud conversation; another group started talking at a normal volume into their cell phones. Although 4 Language focus some train passengers said the loud conversations were annoying, many more people The Future Passive thought the person talking into his mobile phone was worse. “The problem seems to Look at this extract from the article, “...SoHo be that people pay more attention when they only hear half a conversation, and that phones will not be sold...” In this example, can be really annoying,” said US academic Jakob Nielson. the writer has used a future passive tense (“will be” + a past participle). Transform these sentences to Some phone companies are trying to help resolve these GLOSSARY the Future Passive. situations. Researchers at the Ideo industrial design company have a tendency to exp 1. They will finish it tonight. have created the SoHo1 phone. It gives callers a small if something “has a tendency to” happen, it usually happens 2. She will send it later. electric shock when they speak too loudly. Graham Pullin of a performance n 3. They will fix it tomorrow. Ideo says their SoHo phones will not be sold, but he hopes if an actor/actress gives a “performance”, he/she acts in front of 4. We will test it this afternoon. they will get designers talking. “Much is made of ‘user-centric’ an audience to grab vb 5. They won't make the call later today. design,” he says, “but the people surrounding the user need to take quickly and suddenly to be considered too.” I don’t care exp 5 it isn’t important to me Discussion mortified adj 1. Has your phone ever gone off at Meanwhile, the number of mobile phone users grows very embarrassed and ashamed a bride n an inopportune moment? What every day. In Britain, there are already 121 phones for every a woman who is going to get married in a wedding happened? 100 people, according to a recent survey; while in the USA, a cell phone n US 2. What are the best/worst things about 1 billion text messages are sent every day. In 2005, there a mobile phone a user n mobile phones? were about 2 billion cell phones in the world; researchers someone who uses something 3. Have you got any mobile phone say there could be 3.3 billion by 2010. Now that’s a lot of a researcher n someone who investigates things anecdotes? What are they? interrupted theatre productions. (often scientific things)

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A 5.SWERS A trouser press Expenses Scandal”. This is the 6. A plasma-screen TV b second of a two-part series. 7. A swimming pool 8. A tennis court The expense system for Britain’s MPs is fairly straightforward. It exists for honest politicians to claim legitimate expenses for items such as travel, e food and accommodation. But many seem to use it as a way to make a fast buck. Does an MP need a tidy garden in order to do his job? David d Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, seems to think so. He claimed expenses for gardening and over £30,000 of work on his home. Jack Straw, the c Secretary of State for Justice, claimed 100% of his council tax bill, although he only paid 50% of the bill. Now where’s the justice in that? h f Many of the claims are extraordinary. Gerald Kauffman, a senior Labour MP, claimed £8,865 for a Bang & Olufsen Beovision 40-inch LCD television g 2 Reading I in June 2006. Does he really need such luxury? Shahid Malik, a Justice Read the article once. Which claim is the most ridiculous? Minister, claimed £750 for a massage chair and a further £1,050 for his plasma-screen TV. His claim for an iPod was turned down. Conservative 3 Reading II MPs Nick Bourne and Alun Cairns got their iPods. Mr Bourse also got What do the numbers refer to? Think. Then, read the article £120 for a trouser press. Oh, well, politicians need to look smart. again to check your answers. 1. £30,000 Other claims are just ridiculous. Douglas Hogg claimed GLOSSARY 2. 50% £2,115 for someone to clean his moat. Yes, that’s it, in the wake of exp 3. 40-inch a moat! Who has a moat these days? Conservative if A happens “in the wake of” B, A happens after B 4. £750 politicians, it seems. He also claimed for piano tuning. an expense n your "expenses" are the things you 5. £2,115 Cheryl Gillan claimed £4.47 for dog food, but later said spend money on in order to do 6. £380 it had been a mistake. David Heathcote-Amery asked your job straightforward adj 7. £1,645 for £380 for horse manure as fertiliser for his garden. simple; basic; easy-to-understand 8. £500,000 James Arbuthnot put in a claim for maintenance to claim vb if you "claim" for something, you ask on his swimming pool, later admitting it was an for that thing 4 to make a fast buck exp Language focus error of judgement. He repaid the money. Oliver to make money quickly and easily The Present Perfect Passive Letwyn supposedly claimed £2,000 to fix aleaking council tax n money you pay to the local Look at this extract from the article, “Over £500,000 has pipe that was part of the underground heating government for services: rubbish been paid back...” In this example, the writer has used a system for his tennis court so his feet wouldn’t get collection, road maintenance, etc. to turn down exp Present Perfect Passive construction (“have/has” + “been” + cold (poor dear) when he played the game. And not to accept something look smart exp a past participle). Transform the following sentences to the Sir Michael Rifkind claimed £3,066 for flights to if you “look smart”, you are wearing Present Perfect Passive. Scotland, although he is MP for Kensington and clothes that are neat and clean a moat n 1. They have spent all the money. Chelsea (which is only three tube stops away from a river around a castle 2. He has copied all the text. the Houses of Parliament). Perhaps the most famous piano tuning n adjusting the notes on the piano so 3. She has signed the contract. allegation was that of Sir Peter Viggers. He claimed they play the note correctly manure n 4. We have installed the program. £1,645 for a 1.5-metre duck house for his pet duck. excrement from cows/horses, etc. 5. They haven’t ordered the furniture yet. that is mixed with chemicals and put on the ground so plants grow well So, what’s been the outcome of the scandal? Some to leak vb 5 MPs have said that they will not stand as candidates if a pipe is "leaking", liquid is coming Discussion out of it 1. What should happen to MPs who abuse the at the next election. Over £500,000 has been the tube n the underground train system in system like this? paid back by various MPs, and an Independent London 2. Do you think this scandal is serious? Why? Parliamentary Standards Authority has been set up to stand vb if you “stand” as a candidate at an Why not? to monitor MPs expenses from now on. Meanwhile, election, you are in that election as 3. What would happen if politicians did let’s hope the duck isn’t getting too cold without his a candidate to set up phr vb something similar in your country? home. to establish and create

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(B2) g The Cost of Gold The real price of a new pair of earrings. By Patrick Howarth. A nSWERS on page 45 eadin r 1 Pre-reading hat’s the connection between the et Match the jewellery (1 to 8) to the pictures (a-h). Olympic Games, the conquest of l k 1. A necklace WSouth America, Ancient Egypt, 2. A bracelet modern banking and weddings. The answer... b

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Preparation 4 Language focus Future Tenses A day before, clean and cut up the chicken into 8 pieces. Pour the half- Look at this extract from the listening, “It’s going to be the bottle of red wine over the chicken. Add the pickled onions, carrot future of cooking.” The speaker has used a future tense (“going pieces and herbs and spices. Cover and put in the refrigerator. to be”). Complete the sentences below with your own ideas. The next day, remove and drain the chicken and the vegetables. Keep 1. Next week, I’m going to try to... the liquid for later. 2. This weekend, I’ll be in... Brown the chicken with some oil in a frying pan. Add the garlic and 3. By next month, I will have... vegetables and cook for a few minutes. 4. This time next week I’ll be enjoying... Put the chicken and the vegetables in a pan. Pour the liquid with the 5. Next year, we’re going to... wine over the mixture and add salt and pepper. Bring to the boil. Cover and cook in the oven for two hours. 5 Discussion In a frying pan, fry the bacon, onion and mushrooms for ten minutes. 1. What’s the cleverest idea you’ve ever had? Add the bacon, onion and mushrooms to the pot and stir for 2 to 3 2. Have there been any new inventions in your minutes. Add more salt and pepper if necessary. country recently? What? Eat with rice or potatoes. Enjoy your “coq au vin”. 3. Have you ever had an idea for a new product? What?

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Films of 1999 American Beauty The Blair Witch Project Dogma Eyes Wide Shut

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No books are officially banned in the United States. However, specifictitles are c frequently challenged in school curriculums and public libraries. Many would-be censors are parents concerned about what their children are reading at school and d in local libraries. They are mostly members of religious groups. The most common e complaint is against books with explicit sexual content or offensive language. However, Sarah Palin (Republican vice-presidential candidate during the 2009 US elections) once tried to have the children’s book Daddy’s Roommate removed from the town library while she was mayor of the town of Wasilla, Alaska. It’s a story f about a boy whose divorced father lives with his male partner. h g 2 Reading I Many famous books have been the target of citizen censors. Favourites Why do you think some people try to ban books such as include 1984 (by George Orwell), The Catcher in the Rye (by JD Salinger), the ones in the Pre-reading activity? Think. Then, read the James and the Giant Peach (by Roald Dahl), The Color Purple (by Alice Walker), article once to check your ideas. For Whom the Bell Tolls (by Ernest Hemmingway), The Grapes of Wrath (by John Steinbeck), and, more recently, the Harry Potter books (by JK Rowling) 3 Reading II because of the use of magic and witchcraft. The most banned book in the Read the article again and answer the questions. United States is a children’s story by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell called 1. Who are the majority of would-be censors? And Tango Makes Three. It is based on a true story about two male penguins 2. What type of books often get targeted by who raised a baby penguin in New York’s Central Park Zoo. The book won these censors? several awards, but it also attracted a lot of complaints from parents, religious 3. What was wrong with the Harry Potter books? organisations and library users. They say the book is GLOSSARY 4. What is the book about penguins based not suitable for children. to ban vb on? to prohibit a title n 5. What’s Philip Pullman’s latest distinction? Philip Pullman is another writer whose books have a book 6. How has Pullman responded to this news? been challenged. A successful novelist and children’s to challenge vb if a book is “challenged”, someone writer, Pullman has a CBE, a Carnegie Medal and questions whether it is suitable 4 would-be adj Language focus Expressions several honorary professorships. However, just a “would-be” X is someone who is with “have” + a past participle recently, he notched up a new distinction: he is trying to be X a censor n Look at this extract from the article, “...once tried to ranked second in the top 10 books that people someone who tries to ban/prohibit have the children’s book Daddy’s Roommate have tried to ban across America. Pullman’s fantasy things a citizen censor n removed from the town library...” In this example, trilogy, His Dark Materials, consists of the books an ordinary member of the public who wants to ban something the writer has used the Causative “have”. We often use Northern Lights (also known as The Golden Compass witchcraft n this construction when we contract/pay someone to do – 1995), The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber the use of magical powers, especially evil ones something for us. Complete the sentences with your own Spyglass (2000). Several schools across America have to raise vb ideas. received requests from parents to remove the books. if parents “raise” a child, they educate and care for that child 1. They had the flowers delivered to... One challenge at a school in Winchester, Kentucky a CBE abbr a Commander of the British Empire – 2. We had the car repaired by... was made on the grounds that the book’s main an award given to someone for special 3. They had the packages sent to... character drinks wine with her meals. Another school services to Britain to notch up phr vb 4. She had the food prepared by... in Oshkosh, Wisconsin pulled the trilogy because of if you “notch something up” (such 5. He had the money paid to... its “anti-Christian message’’. as a score or total), you achieve/get that score Pullman said that he was “very glad to be back in the to rank vb 5 if you “rank” second in a list, you are in Discussion top 10 banned books”. But he added, “Of course it’s a the second position in that list 1. Have any books been banned in your worry when anybody takes it upon themselves to on the grounds that exp because country? Which ones? dictate what people should or should not read.” to take it upon yourself to do 2. What sort of books should be banned? something exp to decide to do something without 3. What forms of censorship exist in the world? More next month. asking permission

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n another way of saying them? talk” (or “management speak” as o I’m walking D 1. A problem on a plan. it’s also known) is full of industry-specific 2. Detail words and expressions. And new terms 3. A plan are springing up all the time. Here are a n A 4.SWERS Let’s talk about it later in person. few of the latest. 5. We need to discuss it. 6. I need you to make a big effort. Many of the new terms are complex 7. With regards to X / Regarding X ways of saying ordinary things. In the 8. That target is easily-attainable. past, businesses faced “problems”, but these days they’re “challenges” or 2 Reading I “opportunities”. Previously, people used Read the article once to check your ideas. the word “detail”, but that’s been replaced with the fancy word “granularity”. For 3 Reading II example, on being asked whether there was a relationship between Al Qaeda Read the article again. Then, complete the sentences and Saddam Hussein, a White House press officer responded, "We just don’t have with your own ideas. that kind of granularity in terms of the relationship” – meaning that he didn’t 1. Many of the terms are complex ways of… have that level of details. And what were once easily-attainable targets are now 2. The word “detail” has been replaced with… considered to be “low hanging fruit”. 3. Brainstorming sessions are now known as… But it doesn’t end there. In the past, employees were invited to attend 4. “Plans” are now known as… “brainstorming sessions", but these are now called “ideas showers”. What was 5. If someone suggests touching base once “the end of the day”, is now the “close of play”. Up until recently, people about something offline, they are spoke about “plans”, but now they’re “strategic staircases”. When the stock market saying… was doing badly, it was “down”, but now it’s “in negative territory”. And what was 6. The suffix "age" is often added to previously a responsibility to monitor every aspect of a product through its entire mundane words to create… life cycle is now known as a “cradle-to-grave approach”.

4 Language focus The Not so long ago, people would suggest talking about things in person, rather Present Perfect Passive than by phone or e-mail, but these days, you’ll hear the suggestion, “Let’s touch Look at this extract from the article, “...but that’s base about that offline”. And the perfectly acceptable, “We need to discuss it”, has been replaced with...” In this example, the writer become, “ We need to syndicate this decision”. has used a Present Perfect Passive construction (“have/ In the past, managers might have asked for a bit of creative thinking, but now has been” + a past participle). Transform the following it’s all about “thinking outside the box”. What was previously a command to pass sentences into the Present Perfect Passive. down orders or directives to more lowly employees, now involves “cascading 1. They have implemented the changes down” information. And if employees were previously asked to make a big according to your instructions. effort to get something done, they’re now asked to “give 2. She has carried out the orders to the 110%” from mathematically-challenged bosses. GLOSSARY letter. to spring up phr vb to appear suddenly and unexpectedly 3. They have informed us of the Some expressions lend the speaker an air of importance. fancy adj modifications to be made. The suffix “age” is often added tomundane words to create special, unusual, elaborate a staircase n 4. She has included the ideas you told us a more official tone. “I noticed some breakage on that item.” a set of stairs inside a building about last week. Or, “We need some more wordage on the poster”, which a cradle n a bed for a baby. A cradle has a 5. They have delivered the bottles that is a fancy way of saying, “We need some more words/text curved base so it can rock (move from side to side) were ordered last month. on the poster”. “Vis a vis” is often used as a way of saying a grave n “regarding”, for example, “Vis a vis the situation at the office, a place where a dead body is buried 5 (placed in the ground) Discussion I’d just like to say...” And “Per” is often used as an abbreviation -challenged adj 1. Which words or expressions from this of “pertaining to”. For example, “As per our conversation, people sometimes use this expression to say that someone has difficulties article do you like/dislike? Why? we think...” And the list goes on, but we wouldn’t want with something. For example, if someone is mathematically- 2. Are there equivalent expressions in to encroach on your valuable time as you’re probably challenged, they aren’t very good your language? What are they? supposed to be attending an “ideas shower”. at maths a mundane word n 3. Does the expression “management a simple, basic word speak” exist in your language? Can you So, will you be using some management speak the next to encroach on exp if you “encroach on” someone’s time, give any examples? time you speak to your colleagues? you take/use some of their time

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H eRE aRE sOME typical phrasal verbs that you can find in news hemes articles. More next month. t The News Break away Bring about If people “break away” from an organisation, To cause something to happen. v they stop being part of that organisation. h P rasalerb

“ Two members of the Freedom Party broke away to form the Liberated “ The new administration hopes to bring about Party.” a peaceful settlement to the conf lict.”

Bring down Bring in To cause a government/leader, etc. If the government brings in a new law, to lose their power. they introduce that law.

“ The government intend to bring in legislation “ The national strike that lasted to reduce the for more than a month f inally size of bank

brought down the government.” bonuses.” ✃

Bring off Burn down To manage to do something successfully. If something “burns down”, it catches f ire and burns until it is completely destroyed. “It was a bold move, but they brought it off magnif icently.”

“A burning match caused the f ire which burnt down the old church.”

Buy up Call for action To buy large quantities of something To demand that action be taken. (often buying everything that is available).

“People have been buying up stocks of tinned food in anticipation of food shortages.”

“ The Democrats are calling for an immediate cease-f ire.”

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S mall Talk (track 8) Camilla said at our meeting last week. Jackie: What character did you play? to get started. Making conversation with strangers. She said it would be a free tree for you Paul: Well, well, when I was at school I was just Presenter: Mr Bream, I’m terribly sorry, but your from me. Rather poetic. like one of the, boy 6 or something like that. time is up. Next up is Mrs Tracey Hopkins. 1. The Coffee Camilla: Rupert writes all my speeches. He’s Jackie: Did you have to dance and sing? Welcome, Mrs Hopkins. Could you tell us Betty: Hey, I met you at that conference last year, simply marvellous at them. Paul: Yeah, singing and dancing but no, I didn’t about your idea? didn’t I? Interviewer: Could you explain the policy for us really have any special lines or any lines I Tracey: Well, I’m gonna sell stuff. Simon: That’s right. You’re Betty Snape, aren’t you? Camilla? could say but later when I directed it, that Presenter: Hmm, commerce. Cynthia, perhaps you Betty: Yes, and you were...? Camilla: Well, we’re going to buy lots of trees was really, that was good fun as well, cause could ask Tracey some questions. Simon: Simon Fenster. I think we spoke by e-mail too. and give one each to everyone who kids really like, like that thing. Cynthia: Good evening, Tracey. Well, what do you tapescripts Betty: Oh, yes. So, how are things going? lives here. Jackie: Yeah, very much. Which is your favourite? want to sell? Simon: Great, thanks. Interviewer: Why? Paul: My favourite what, part in the…? Tracey: I dunno. Stuff people wanna buy, I Betty: We’re going for a coffee just down the road – Camilla: It’s green, darling. Trees are green, aren’t Jackie: Erm, no, your, erm, the adaptation, the 1968 suppose. there’s a nice café. Do you want to come? they? one? Cynthia: Hmm, market forces. Very good, Tracey. Simon: Yes, that would be great. I’ll just go and get my Rupert: They’re really, really green, in fact. Paul: Oh, yeah, yeah, it’s all right, it’s got bits of it Do you have any ideas, Tracey? coat. Camilla: Very, very green, darling. Do try to I like and bits I don’t like, I actually, yeah, I Tracey: No. I thought you were going to tell me. Betty: OK. We’ll meet you just outside the entrance in remember. think it’s quite, it’s too long perhaps. Cynthia: Well, what do you like buying, Tracey? about five minutes. Rupert: Sorry. Jackie: OK. Is that the one with Oliver Reed? That would be a good place to start. Simon: Great. See you there. Interviewer: But why do you need more trees here in Paul: Yeah, that’s the one. I mean it’s very good, I Tracey: I like buying spiders. Betty: Bye. Little Wifflingham? There are thousands like it, but it goes on, I think, goes on a bit. Cynthia: Spiders? of trees here already. There’s a big forest Jackie: OK, so it’s not your favourite? Tracey: Yeah, you know like tarantulas. I’ve got 2. The Cloakroom and three parks in the town. Why don’t Paul: It’s not my favourite. No, but, erm, I haven’t 37 spiders at home. Macy: Hi, I’m Macy Stone. Pleased to meet you. you spend money on a hospital, for seen, there’s a new one by, erm, what’s that? Cynthia: I see. Well, I’m not sure a spider shop Steve: Hi, I’m Steve Barker. Pleased to meet you too. example, or a new school? Polanski isn’t it? would be a very successful business, Macy: So, is this your first time at the conference? Camilla: But trees are green, Nigel. Don’t you Tracey. Steve: No, I was here last year. understand, it’s really quite simple? US Bar Chat (track 22) Tracey: I know. I opened a spider shop last year Macy: Oh, me too. Hey, do you know where the Interviewer: Erm, so who’s going to pay for the trees? The Movies but I didn’t sell any. That’s why I’ve got 37 cloakroom is? Camilla: The government, of course. The Michelle: Hey, Joe I haven’t seen you in so long. How spiders at home. Perhaps I should open a Steve: Yes, I think it’s just down the stairs on the left. government will give me some tax are you? snake shop. I’d really like an anaconda. Macy: Oh, great. I’ve been carrying this coat around all money and I’ll buy the trees. It’s terribly Joe: Hey Michelle, how are you? Presenter: Well, thank you for that interesting day and it’s so hot here. I’ll be back in a minute. simple, darling. Michelle: Just great. I could use a drink though. presentation, Tracey, but your time is up. Steve: Can I get you a coffee? Interviewer: A local newspaper claimed yesterday Joe: OK, let me get you one. Next tonight, we’ve got Mr Norman... Macy: Yes, please. White, no sugar, please. that you were going to buy the trees Michelle: Oh, I’ll have a, I don’t know, rum and Coke erm, Norman... Bream. What? Him Steve: See you in a minute. from the Green Garden Centre in Little or something like that. again? Wiffligham. Joe: OK, no problem. So, what’ve you been up Norman: Meet, The Miracle Quick Cook. It’s going 3. Nationality Camilla: Yes, that’s right. to recently? to be the future of cooking. You open Simon: Good talk, wasn’t it? Interviewer: Who are the owners of the Green Michelle: Not a whole lot, not enough. I never get the door at the front and put the cold Barbara: Oh, yes, I’m a big fan. I saw him at last year’s Garden Centre, Mrs Pongleton-Jones? to the movies anymore. Remember when food inside. Then you move this dial and sales conference – fascinating. I’m Barbara Camilla: Why, we are, darling. Everyone we used to go to the movies all the time. press this button and in one minute your Tivelli, by the way. knows that. It’s one of our many local Joe: Yeah, we’ve seen some great films over dinner is cooked. Simon: Simon Jones. Are you Italian? businesses. the years. Cynthia: It’s a microwave, Mr Bream. Barbara: Half-Italian and half-German, but I was Interviewer: So you are going to spend government Michelle: Yeah. Hey, you know, I hear, they’re Norman: (playing stupid) A micro what? brought up in the States. money buying trees from your own actually making another Pirates of the Cynthia: It’s a microwave oven, Mr Bream. Simon: Interesting. business? Caribbean. Norman: No, no, I made it at home. I invented it. Barbara: You’re English, I guess. Rupert: Yes. Is there a problem? Joe: Oh really? ‘cause I loved the first Pirates of It’s going to revolutionise cooking. Simon: Yes, that’s it, but I’m working in Seattle at Interviewer: Are there any other garden centres in the Caribbean, it was just great. Cynthia: You didn’t make it. Sony made it. It says the moment. Great place. the town? Michelle: I think they’re trying to get Johnny Depp Sony on the front, Mr Bream. Barbara: Yes, as long as you don’t mind the rain. Camilla: Two or three maybe. again, of course. Norman: Of course it does. That’s my wife’s name. Simon: It just reminds me of sunny old England. Rupert: Five, I think, darling. Joe: Now, Johnny Depp makes the film for Sony Bream. I named it after my wife. Barbara: Very funny. Are you going to the next talk? Interviewer: So why are you buying trees from your me. I think without Johnny Depp the, I Presenter: Mr Bream, I’m sorry but your time is up. Simon: Yes, shall we go and get a seat? garden centre? wouldn’t have enjoyed the film so much. Norman: I only need £300,000. I’ll pay it back. Barbara: Good idea. Camilla: Because we have the Green Garden Michelle: He’s good. He is good. Presenter: Security! I’m very sorry about this, Centre. We’re the Very Very Green Party. Joe: He is good. ladies and gentlemen. This is extremely 4. Sightseeing The trees are green. It’s obvious. Michelle: I like Keira Knightely. What do you think of embarrassing. Hopefully our next Gordon: So, have you had a chance to do much Interviewer: But is it ethical, Mrs Pongleton-Jones? her? presentation will be better. And it is Mr sightseeing? Camilla: This interview is over. Joe: I’m not a big fan of Keira Knightely. Norman... Norman... Bream… Oh no! Regis: No, not much. I’m tied up at the conference [To Rupert] What a stupid question! I can’t believe Michelle: What? Most guys go nuts over her. Not him again! all day. he asked if it was ethical. I told you he Joe: Well, she’s very attractive but I don’t think Norman: Oh please let me tell you about my last Gordon: The museums are fantastic. was stupid. she’s the greatest actor in the world. invention. It’s great. Regis: Yes, I’ve heard. I did go to the museum of Rupert: Now, now, don’t get upset. Let’s go Michelle: Anyway, sometimes you don’t need those Presenter: Well, we don’t have any more modern art on my first afternoon here, but home and make a nice fire. I cut down big names. contestants. So...Can someone take I’ve just been too busy since then. the apple tree yesterday so we’ve got Joe: That’s true. this guy off! Ladies and gentlemen, I Gordon: Oh, that’s my favourite. You should try to visit lots of wood to burn. Michelle: Like, like, Muriel’s Wedding. It’s just one do apologise for this interruption, we’ll the castle before you go. It’s beautiful. Camilla: Oh, well done darling. of those films that just stays in my mind get back to you just as soon as security Regis: Yes, I will. Rupert: I told you you wouldn’t like politics. forever. manage to remove Mr Bream from the Gordon: Hey, there’s an excursion on Saturday Camilla: But I really wanted to be on television. Joe: That was a great film. It had some great studios. morning to an old Roman amphitheatre. Everyone else is. actresses in it… Norman: (Shouting in the background) Please! Would you like to come along? Please! I just need about £30,000 to start Regis: Yes, that would be great. I’m actually free on Jokes (track 13) Business Ideas (track 24) things off then I’ll be able to market this Saturday – it’s my day off! 1. What did one magnet say to another? I find you very Business inventors try to sell their ideas. product and sell it. Please! Please! [fades Gordon: OK. I’ll bring in the details later this attractive. Presenter: Good evening everyone and welcome out] afternoon. Apparently, it’s really interesting. 2. What do you call a girl with sausages on her head? to Business Challenge, the show where Regis: Great. Barbie. entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to our Accent Alert (track 27) 3. What did one snowman say to another? Have an business expert Cynthia White. Our The French English Accent T he Election (track 12) “ice” day. first guess is Mr Norman Bream from Hi, I’m Tiphaine, I’m French, and I’m a second-year Politics on a grand scale. 4. Why does history keep repeating itself? Because we Harlesden, London. Good morning, Mr in PA course. I’m studying foreign languages, law, weren’t listening the first time. Bream. economics and office administration. In France, English Interviewer: Well, we’ve spoken to the three main 5. Why is the letter “e” lazy? Because it’s always in Norman: Hello. is compulsory at school, and a French graduate has at parties, so tonight it’s the turn of the “bed”. Presenter: So, what are you going to show us? least 7 years of English by the time you leave. independent candidates. Standing 6. What did one knife say to another? Look sharp. Norman: This is what I call my “quiet, talking- to- Many French people have difficulties pronouncing the for the Very Very Green Party is local 7. If I had 7 oranges in one hand and 8 in the other people- who- are- far- away machine”. “r” sound in English as it’s different from the “r” sound housewife and business woman what would I have? Big hands. Presenter: I see. Any questions, Cynthia? in French. For example, for us it is difficult to say words Camilla Pongleton-Jones. Good evening 8. Who invented King Arthur’s round table? Sir Cynthia: What’s it for? such as “red, really” and “right”. Mrs Pongleton-Jones. cumference. Norman: It stops people shouting. Another sound that is difficult for us is if the “th” sound. Camilla: Oh, call me Camilla, Nigel, darling. Cynthia: I beg your pardon? Words such as “these, those” and “though” are really We’re not formal at the Very Very Green British Bar Chat (track 21) Norman: Well, if you want to talk to someone who hard and some people pronounce them with the “z” Party. Oh, and this is my agent Rupert Musicals isn’t anywhere close to you, you have sound, saying “zese, zose” and “zough”. Pongleton-Jones. He’s also my husband Paul: So, so, I was watching the TV last night and to shout. With my invention, you won’t French people also have problems with the “h” sound Rupert: Turn Really Really Green today! it had, er, Oliver, Oliver Twist on again, oh, it’s have to do that anymore. and forget to use it when it’s necessary. We often say Camilla: It’s Very Very Green, darling. The name one of my favourite musicals, I love it. Cynthia: You mean it’s like a telephone? words without the “h” sound, such as “’arry, ‘uge, ‘ot, of my party is Very Very Green. Jackie: Oh, mine too. Norman: Let me show you. You need two tins – ‘ave” and “’ere”, which should be “Harry, huge, hot, have” Rupert: Whoops! Sorry. Paul: Yeah, you like it, do you? Coke tins or beer tins are fine – and you and “here”. Camilla: Now, Nigel, darling. What did you want Jackie: Yeah, very much. tie them together with a piece of string. It is also difficult to say words such as “sorry” and “thank to ask me? Paul: I was in it, when I was a kid, I was in it, and I Then, you can talk to someone. This is the you”, which often sound like “zorry” and “zank you”, Interviewer: Yes, well it’s about your policy to give was like one of the, er, the little boys that has future of modern communications. In ten which are characteristic of our accent. everyone in the town a tree. to go out and ask for the food. years time, everyone will have seven or Now, here’s a little story for you. Three years ago, during Camilla: Oh yes. My free tree initiative. Jackie: Really? eight of these cans. the summer holidays, I was with my best friends in Rupert: A free tree for you from me. Paul: Yeah, and then, but then a few years later I Cynthia: But we’ve got mobile phones. There’s no France at home. On the evening, we decided to go to Interviewer: Pardon? worked in a school and I directed a version of need for this. the park. But five minutes later, it started to rain. On 44 Rupert: A free tree for you from me. That’s what it, yeah, I really enjoyed that, yeah. Norman: Oh, come on. I just need about £500,000 the way back, we saw a man. He seemed to be coming ans wERs out of my friend’s house. He said, “Hi, girls”. At the time, I thought my friend knew the Answers 4. About it being left outside or near other 1. Talking to someone who isn’t close to you. man. But when he left, she said to me “I think he had my bag”. people’s properties, or being left in the 2. Two tins and a piece of string. When we got to the house, the door was open, and we could see that the bag was Hollywood Stars (page 4) corridor, or being smelly, or being strewn all 3. Because we’ve already got telephones / missing, as well as her camera and her video camera. Straight away, we called her 1 Pre-reading over the street. mobile phones. mum and the police. 1f 2e 3a 4b 5d 6c 5. Because she conducted a year-long 4. About £500,000 to get started. The police and her mum arrived a bit later. We were in shock. The police took us to 3 Reading II campaign of intimidation against her 5. A snake shop. the police station to write up a report. Later, we went at home after a long, tiring and 1. 2002; 2. $62; 3. $100; 4. $126; neighbours. 6. The Miracle Quick Cook – it’s similar to a emotional day. What had started as a beautiful day on the holidays ended up being 5. $248,639,099; 6. $170 6. They were housed in a steel container microwave oven. one full of intense emotions and surprises. But now we look back on it and laugh. It 4 Language focus home. 7. He says it’s his wife’s name. was an unforgettable day which reinforced our friendship even more. 1. They filmed the scenes in a studio. 8. £300,000. apescripts 2. She acted in a lot of films. S ick Jokes (Page 17) t 2 Reading I M ystery Times (track 28) 3. They released the film. M ystery Time (page 37) & Mystery Time 4. They made films about the Russian 1c 2a 3d 4b 3 Listening II (answers will vary) A look at the mystery of the Jack the Ripper killings. Revolution. 3 Reading II 1. Poor, dirty, overcrowded and dark. 5. We took pictures of the actors. 1. Punk’d; 2. Scare Tactics; 3. Candid Camera; 2. They took place in 1888 in Whitechapel 4. Panic Face King; 5. Scare Tactics; 6. Candid between 31st August and 9th November. Presenter: Good evening and welcome to World of Mystery. This week, we’re Camera; 7. Punk’d; 8. Panic Face King talking to crime reporter Mike Garston about the Jack the Ripper case. S logan Slur (Page 5) Five women were murdered over a period Mike, can you give us a quick outline of the case? 1 Pre-reading of 71 days. The murders stopped suddenly. 1c 2b 3a 4f 5e 6d T he Election (Page 19) 3. Because he managed to kill even though the Mike: Certainly. The time is 1888. The scene, Victorian London, which was, of answers 3 Reading II (answers will vary) 3 Listening II streets were full of policemen. course a very different place to modern-day London. Many parts of the 1a 2b 3a 4a 5a 6b city were extremely poor and would have been dirty, overcrowded and 1. Some slogans explain what a product 4. They stopped all of a sudden. can do for you. 4 Language focus 5. He wasn’t in London on 1st September – the dark, since there was not much street lighting at the time. In addition, 2. A good slogan must be concise – about 1. They said that they would do it later. London was a very polluted city. A thick brown fog hung over the city day following the first murder. three-words. 2. She said that she would be there at six. 6. Because he was in France at the time. a lot of the time. Much of the city was probably pretty frightening and 3. The Mauritian tourist board decided to 3. He said that they would finish it on 7. Papers showing that he wasn’t in London at violent, and nowhere more so than Whitechapel, a working-class area in change its slogan. Thursday. the time. the East End of London. Well, between 31st August and 9 November five 4. The original slogan was “Mauritius – 4. She said that she would send it in an hour. 8. Because the places he went to and the women were brutally murdered in Whitechapel. All the murders took Unforgettable experience”. 5. He said that they would put it in the kitchen. times he was there seem to coincide with place geographically close to each other. The five victims, in order, were 5. Many were shocked at the cost of the the murder locations and dates. Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Catherine Eddowes and Liz Stride (who slogan. were both killed on 30th September), and finally Mary Jane Kelly. That’s 6. Each letter of the slogan cost about M obile Madness (Page 28) T he Insiders’ Guide to... five murders in 71 days. You can imagine the outcry in the newspapers £50,000. Prague (Page 39) and the fear in the streets of the East End. Then, unaccountably, the 4 Language focus 3 Reading II (answers will vary) 1. Mobile phones have a tendency to ring at 1 Pre-reading strangest thing of all happened - the murders stopped as suddenly as 1. who/that; 2. that; 3. that; 4. who /that 1c 2b 3a 4f 5e 6d they had begun. the wrong moment. 2. When a spectator’s phone went off during a 3 Reading II (answers may vary) Presenter: Now presumably the police were investigating the murders. Vocabulary (Page 8) 1. The Old Town has become overwhelmed by Mike: Of course, the police were searching for the murderer after the first 1g 2e 3f 4h 5d 6i 7a 8j 9b 10c recent play, Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig stopped their performance. tourists. victim Polly Nichols was found on 31st August. But the Ripper managed 2. The neighbourhood of Dejvice is primarily to kill another four times even though the streets of London were full Cooking with Cramer 3. In Missouri, a mobile phone interrupted a (Page 10) church wedding. residential. of policemen. That’s one of the reasons that Jack the Ripper became so 4. Overheard mobile conversations are top of 3. The Budvice Pub is home to the famous notorious and feared. The police couldn’t stop him killing. 1 Pre-reading 1e 2a 3d 4f 5c 6g 7h 8b the list of annoying things about mobile Budvar beer. Presenter: Yet, the murders did stop. 3 Reading II phones. 4. The Hotel International is similar to Moscow Mike: Yes, that’s the big mystery. Some experts believe that the murders 1a 2b 3b 4b 5a 5. In one experiment they compared people’s University. stopped because the murderer had completed, if you see what I mean. 4 Language focus reactions to a group who were talking loudly 5. The café there is a nice place to have coffee Presenter: Could you explain more fully perhaps? 1. some; 2. an; 3. some; 4. some; 5. a and someone who was having a mobile and cakes. Mike: Well, some writers believe that the five victims could have been phone conversation. 6. Stromovka is a large park that’s a beautiful connected –they may have been friends, for example. The hypothesis is E rror Correction (Page 6. Some phone companies are developing place to wander around on a sunny that the killer wanted to kill these five women and no one else. So when 13) mobile phones that give callers a small afternoon. he had killed the fifth victim, he stopped. It’s as simple as that. 1. I haven’t got much/any money. electric shock when they speak too loudly. 7. The zoo has a fascinating gorilla enclosure, Presenter: Now we all know that the case was never solved but presumably there 2. Do you have many/any chairs? 4 Language focus an amazing orang-utan exhibit, some were suspects. 3. There isn’t much/any sugar. 1. It will be finished tonight. terrifying anacondas and some reasonably- Mike: Oh, yes. Over the years there have been lots of suspects. A lawyer called 4. How much pasta is there? 2. It will be sent later. priced cafés inside. Montague John Druitt was a suspect, mainly because he was found 5. How many bottles of beer are there in the 3. It will be fixed tomorrow. 8. Dejvicka Ulice has a good variety of local dead soon after the murders stopped. But he was not in London on 1st fridge? 4. It will be tested this afternoon. shops selling everything from books to September and so probably could not have killed in London on 31st 6. There isn’t much/any salt in this food. 5. The call will not be made later today. clothes to snakes in an amazing pet shop. August. Another popular suspect was the artist Walter Sickert. But 4 Language focus (answers may vary) Sickert was in France at the time of the murders, so it can’t have been S mall Talk (Page 13) On Expenses (Page 29) 1. try; 2. book; 3. walk; 4. take him either. My favourite suspect is Prince Albert Victor, the eldest son of 1 Pre-listening 1 Pre-reading Prince Edward, and grandson of Queen Victoria. He was a suspect for a 1. How are you? 1g 2e 3f 4a 5h 6b 7d 8c You Can’t Read That! long time, but papers now show that the Prince was not in London at 2. Do you want to come to a café with us? / 3 Reading II (page 40) the time so it can’t have been him. Perhaps the best suspect is a man Would you like to come to a café with us? 1. The amount that David Miliband claimed 1 Pre-reading called James Kelly. He was a convicted murderer who escaped from 3. Would you like a coffee? / Do you want a for gardening work. 1f 2d 3a 4c 5b 6h 7g 8e prison just before the murders began, so he could have done them. He coffee? 2. The amount that Jack Straw paid of his 3 Reading II (answers may vary) later went to America and a number of Ripper-like killings occurred in 4. Are you going to the next talk? council tax bill. 1. Parents who are members of religious groups. 5. Would you like to go on an excursion? 3. The size of Gerald Kauffman’s TV. 2. Books with explicit sexual content or the States after his arrival and in places that he had visited. 4. The amount that Shahid Malik claimed for a Presenter: I see. And how do we know this? 3 Listening II offensive language. 1. e-mail; 2. a coffee;3. cloakroom; 4. coat; 5. massage chair. 3. They dealt with the use of magic and Mike: Twenty years later Kelly returned voluntarily to prison. He never Seattle; 6. talk; 7. modern art; 8. Saturday 5. The amount Douglas Hogg claimed for confessed to being Jack the Ripper but he did give an account of his life 4 Language focus someone to clean his moat. witchcraft. after his escape and the places and the dates seem to fit. 1b 2a 3e 4d 5c 6. The amount David Heathcote-Amery 4. A true story about two male penguins in Presenter: Well, that’s all we’ve got time for today. Next week, we’ll be looking at claimed for horse manure. New York’s Central Park Zoo. the mystery surrounding the sinking of the Bratwurst. Grammar Fun (Page 14) 7. The amount Sir Peter Viggers claimed for a 5. He is at the top of a list of authors whose 1. Yes, she has already painted the picture. duck house. books people have tried to ban across Off the Cuff (track 34) 2. No, she hasn’t written the report yet. 8. The amount that has been paid back by America. Question: What’s your favourite food related anecdote? 3. No, she hasn’t bought the new software various MPs. 6. Pleased, but worried at the same time. program yet. 4 Language focus Well, I have a funny kind of tragic one. When I was in college, well, I had these two 4. Yes, she has already cleaned the studio. 1. All the money has been spent. Office S peak (page 41) roomates Rona and Kathy. Well, Rona’s mother was like the best cook and baker and 5. Yes, she has already ordered more pens. 2. All the text has been copied. 3 Reading II (answers may vary) every year she would make this yum yum cake for Rona’s birthday. So, she made it 6. No, she hasn’t sent the images by e-mail yet. 3. The contract has been signed. 1. Many of the terms are complex ways of and we brought it back to our dorm room and we put it in the refrigerator. So one day 4. The program has been installed. saying ordinary things. I go in there and I wanna get some, I wanna eat some, I’m really hungry for yum yum S port Time (Page 15) 5. The furniture hasn’t been ordered yet. 2. The word “detail” has been replaced with cake and I take it out and the whole thing goes falling onto the floor, so Kathy comes 1 Pre-reading the word “granularity”. out, now I’m really upset, and I said, oh my God, I’ve ruined Rona’s birthday yum yum 1h 2a 3b 4c 5d 6e 7f 8g T he Cost of Gold (Page 30) 3. Brainstorming sessions are now known as cake and Kathy goes, “Don’t worry”, and starts picking it up. And at that moment, 2 Reading I 1 Pre-reading “ideas showers”. Rona comes out, looks at it and says, “I gotta get to class, just pick it up, whatever.” She 1. He sits in front of the TV drinking beer and 1c 2h 3d 4a 5e 6f 7g 8b 4. “Plans” are now known as “strategic wasn’t even mad but Kathy and I just started, just, you know, laughing hysterically, watching football; 2. A foot rest; 3. Tennis; 4. 3 Reading II staircases”. splitting at the sides and we started eating yum yum cake off the kitchen floor, the He lost it; 5. Because it was raining; 6. a bed 1. 161,000 tonnes; 2. The 1880s; 3. Because 5. If someone suggests touching base about rest of it went back in the pan but it didn’t look the same for sure. 4 Language focus the country was in political exile; 4. Silicosis; 5. something offline, they are saying that they 1. We might go out tomorrow night. Because they had to work without facemasks would like to have a face-to-face chat about 2. You could spend the night at my house. or other protective equipment, they were something. Well, I remember one time, er, I was going to get a train and I stopped off in a shop 3. They may not like it. encouraged to work when ill, they received no 6. The suffix “age” is often added to mundane first and I bought a packet of biscuits. So, I get on the train and sit down and I took out 4. She can leave it here. medical care and they were usually given the words to create a more official tone. my newspaper and started reading and this other guy came and sat down opposite 5. You should not smoke in here. dirtiest jobs; 6. It is used in some electronic 4 Language Focus me. Anyway, I was feeling quite hungry and I noticed the packet of biscuits, er, was equipment, it is widely used in dentistry and 1. The changes have been implemented just sitting next to the window on the table so I open them up and I took the biscuit N eighbours from Hell has some medical uses. according to your instructions. and starting eating it and then I noticed the guy opposite me took a biscuit and (Page 16) 2. The orders have been carried out to the letter. started eating it as well. You know what we’re like being British, we don’t really like to 3 Reading II Riddles (page 32) 3. We have been informed of the say anything, so I took another biscuit and ate it and then he took another biscuit and 1. Half a million. 1. The letter “v”! 2. A clock! modifications to be made. ate one as well and we just went back and forth I ate one he ate one I ate one he ate 2. “I will always love you”. 3. In a dictionary! 4. The ideas you told us about last week have one until the whole packet had gone. Well, a couple of stops later he got up and got 3. About them doing their business in been included. off the train and I went to put my newspaper back in my bag and noticed my packet of other people’s gardens and barking and Business Ideas (page 33) 5. The bottles that were ordered last month biscuits was still inside. I’d been eating his. meowing. 3 Listening II have been delivered. 45 word of the Month

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