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London goes Gehry

24 An island paradise
30
Architect Frank Gehry has big plans for the British Join us for a cultural tour of the small, fascinating
capital with his Battersea Power Station project. island of Atiu in the Cook Islands of the South Pacific.

6 People 40 History
Names and faces from around the world Muhammad Ali, world champion 50 years ago

8 A Day in My Life 42 Press Gallery

A mineworker from Australia A look at the English-language media

10 World View 44 Arts

What’s news and what’s hot Films, apps, books, culture and a short story

13 Britain Today 66 The Lighter Side

Colin Beaven on using the word “like” Jokes and cartoons

22 Food 67 American Life

Sweets from northern England Ginger Kuenzel enters small-town politics

28 I Ask Myself 68 Feedback & Impressum

Amy Argetsinger on pop star Miley Cyrus Your letters to Spotlight — and our responses

36 Around Oz 69 Next Month

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Peter Flynn on beer in Australia What’s coming next month in Spotlight

38 Debate 70 My Life in English

Should prostitution be considered a crime? Author Bastian Sick on learning English from
People in Montreal have their say American TV and the songs of Frank Sinatra
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 PEOPLE | Names and Faces

The actress In the news

Dame Edna Everage is touring in
the UK this month — for the last time.
Barry Humphries, one of Australia’s
greatest comedy stars, created the
role of Dame Edna almost 60 years
ago. As he turns 80 this month,
though, Humphries is retiring from
Who exactly is… show business. Dame Edna’s purple
hair, flamboyant clothing and special

Mariel
catchphrase, “Hello, possums!”, will
soon be part of entertainment history.

Hemingway?
S tarring as a teenager with
Woody Allen in the film Man-
hattan, Mariel Hemingway
won an Oscar nomination. She has
written books about healthy, bal-
ily that had this horrible curse.” Now
she is trying to change things.
Speaking to Salon, Hemingway
described her own fight with depres-
sion and how changes to her lifestyle
Keanu Reeves recently had an in-
teresting encounter with censorship.
When the Canadian actor went to
anced living; she has two beautiful helped her survive. She also explained China to direct his first film, Man of Tai
daughters; and she’s the granddaugh- the motivation behind the documen- Chi, he was not
ter of writer Ernest Hemingway. tary: “Once you start to tell the story allowed to por-
Mariel Hemingway opened up of your life, you get to move on from tray any under-
about her family history for the 2013 that story.” ground fighting
documentary film Running from Although she still acts occasionally, or dishonest po-
Crazy. he Hemingway family’s bril- Hemingway is putting a greater focus lice officers in
liant creativity has come at a price, on creating a wellness business with mainland China.
though: in the film, she talks about her partner, Bobby Williams. Last “So we had to go
addiction, mental illness and suicide. year, the couple brought out a self-help to Hong Kong,”
Seven members of Hemingway’s book called Running with Nature: he said, speaking
family, including her grandfather and Stepping into the Life You Were Meant on the TV show George Stroum-
her sister, Margaux, killed themselves. to Live. Hemingway’s daughters share boulopoulos Tonight. Reeves stayed
It was a bit like the Kennedy family, the family’s legendary creativity. Dree, positive, however. “That opened up
she says in the film. “he Kennedys 26, is an actress and Langley, 24, is an the story,” he said. “For me, that
had these horrible tragedies, and we artist. Both women have also worked wasn’t, like, a bad experience.”
were sort of the other American fam- as models.
The Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen lived more than 3,000
addiction [E(dIkS&n] Sucht years ago. He became pharaoh at the age of nine or ten and was
catchphrase [(kÄtSfreIz] Slogan, Redewendung dead at 19. Ever since King Tut’s mummy was
censorship [(sensESIp] Zensur discovered in 1922, people have won-
chariot race [(tSÄriEt reIs] Wagenrennen
dered how he died. British researchers
curse [k§:s] Fluch
direct [daI&(rekt] hier: Regie führen
may have found an answer: after ex-
encounter [In(kaUntE] Begegnung amining X-rays and working with car-
flamboyant [flÄm(bOIEnt] extravagant crash investigators, they believe that
move on from sth. [)mu:v (Qn frEm] etw. hinter sich lassen the pharaoh crashed in a chariot
mummy [(mVmi] hier: Mumie race. There are other theories, but
open up [)EUpEn (Vp] sich öffnen Chris Naunton of the British team
possum [)pQsEm] Beutelratte, Opossum
told the Daily Mail that the research
price: come at a ~ [praIs] einen Preis haben
was “a big step forward in terms of
suicide [(su:IsaId] Selbstmord
X-ray [(eksreI] Röntgenaufnahme understanding what happened at
the end of Tutankhamen’s life”.

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 Out of the ordinary
About ten million people in South Africa do not have a job. While
studying for a PhD in Cape Town, Shikoh Gitau from Kenya
found a way to help. She developed an app called “Ummeli” that
asks users to answer 12 questions, then creates a CV which they can
send to potential employers from their mobile phones. The BBC
reports that nearly 300,000 people have used the app — and about
20 per cent of them have found work. Gitau herself has landed a
good job, too: she is working for Google, developing a version of
the app to be used in Nairobi.
Ganpat Jadhav owes his life to a stranger. In 2003, Jadhav’s
heartbeat became irregular. Sometimes, he passed out. Doctors in
Mumbai said that he needed a pacemaker, which costs about €3,000
in India. As a farmworker, Jadhav earned less than €10 a month. But
charities in the US and the UK are beginning to reuse pacemakers,
and Jadhav received one of these free from the US. “I don’t care who
has used this pacemaker before me,” he told the BBC.
The classic film Mary Poppins was released 50 years ago. Now finally,
the little girl who played Jane Banks has seen the movie — at the
age of 58. Karen Dotrice remembers having a wonderful time
making the film, but she
has never seen it com-
pletely. Dotrice told The
Age that she went to the
premiere in London, but
had to leave early be-
cause she had school the
next day. She recently
watched Mary Poppins
from beginning to end
for the first time. Her re-
action? “It’s actually
quite a good film. I rec-
ommend it. It’s not bad,
really.”
Karen Dotrice: a long
wait to see a good film
Fotos: action press; AP Images/picture alliance; dpa/picture alliance
The newcomer
• Name: Evan Spiegel
• Age: 23
• Background: he grew up in Los Angeles and
studied product design at Stanford University.
Co-founder and CEO of: the photo-messaging app
•
Snapchat, in which the photos are automatically —
and permanently — deleted after a few seconds.
• Said no to: an offer from Facebook to buy Snapchat
for $3 billion.
• Snapchat is: very popular, especially among
18- to 29-year-olds. More than 350 million pictures
are sent through the app every day.
Happy birthday!
In 1987, Matt Groening, a comic-strip artist, was invited
to a meeting to discuss making short cartoons for a new
television show. While waiting for the meeting to begin, he
sketched some characters based on his own family. “My fa-
ther’s name is Homer,” he later explained to Smithsonian
magazine. “My mother’s name is Margaret. I have a sister
Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them.”
That sketch grew into The Simpsons, the longest-
running scripted TV series in US history. The show has a
firm place in pop culture. Homer’s familiar “Doh!” has even
been added to the Oxford Dictionary of English.
Groening, born in Portland, Oregon, remembers his
childhood as “idyllic”, but boring. Family was important.
His father, Homer, grew up on a Mennonite

farm in the Midwest. Asked what his father

billion [(bIljEn] Milliarde(n) and Homer Simpson had in
CEO (chief executive officer) Geschäftsführer(in) common, Groen-
[)si: i: (EU] ing said: “Only the
co-founder [)kEU (faUndE] Mitbegründer(in) love of ice cream.”
CV (curriculum vitae) [)si: (vi:] Lebenslauf
The artist has
delete [di(li:t] löschen
pacemaker [(peIs)meIkE] Herzschrittmacher
three children of his
pass out [)pA:s (aUt] bewusstlos werden own, including a
PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) Promotion son by the name
[)pi: eItS (di:] of Homer. Groening
reuse [)ri:(ju:z] wiederverwenden will turn 60 on
scripted TV series TV-Serie (mit Drehbuch)
[)skrIptId ti: (vi: )sIEri:z] 15 February — but
sketch [sketS] skizzieren, zeichnen has kept his playful
imagination.
Texts by RITA FORBES
Matt Groening and
two close friends
A DAY IN MY LIFE | Australia

Keeping
it real
Ein australischer Bergarbeiter beweist,
dass auch harte Arbeit Spaß machen kann.
JULIE COLLINS berichtet.

M
y name is Jason Linke. I’m 38 years old, and
I’m a mineworker in an open-cut coalmine. We
On the job:
mine thermal coal. On a usual day, I’ll get up at mineworker
4 a.m., have breakfast and go to work at around 5. First, Jason Linke
I’ll have a chat with the guys and ask them how they’re
doing. hen we’ll start work at 6.
We have a shift meeting for the first 15 minutes every mine [maIn] fördern, abbauen
day. No matter what shift you are on — morning, after- mineworker [(maIn)w§:kE] Bergarbeiter(in)
open-cut coalmine Kohletagebau
noon or night — a meeting is held to find out things that [)EUpEn kVt (kEUlmaIn]
have gone wrong in the pit, any problems or accidents pit [pIt] Grube
from the day before. pre-start inspection Funktionsprüfung vor
Every single day, I do a pre-start inspection of my ve- [)pri: stA:t In(spekS&n] dem Start
hicle. hat consists of checking tyres, oils, radiator and radiator [(reIdieItE] Kühler
seam [si:m] (Bergbau) Flöz
looking for damage — maybe from the shift before — so
thermal coal [(T§:m&l kEUl] Kraftwerkskohle
I don’t get pinged for it. hen we jump in troop carriers, troop carrier [(tru:p )kÄriE] Mannschaftswagen
probably about 10 of us in each, and go down into the pit.
It’s about 150 metres deep. We mine
around 12 seams on the way Big trucks:
what more does
down. a man want?

I drive Caterpillar 785 D trucks. I also operate a Tiger
845G, which is a dozer with rubber wheels, and recently, I
started training on a Caterpillar D11R, which is a fully
tracked bulldozer. We also carry coal in smaller vehicles to
the ROM, the “run of mine”, where the coal gets processed.
When we are moving around in the mine, we use
something called “positive communication”. If a truck
comes within 50 metres of you for any reason, its driver
must say: “Truck 810, I’m coming into your area.” You
have to reply before he can keep going.
Once you’re loaded, you drive from your digger to the
dump. You tip off, dump, or if you’re on the coal run, you’ll
go to the ROM. hen you’ll go to the dump, where there’ll
be a dozer that will clear away your overburden. Afterwards,
you’ll drive back to the digger and do the same thing.
It’s a circle — you drive around in circles. One “trip”
would be from the digger to the dump and back to the
digger. You might do that trip 20 times a day. Or, if you’re
on a short run, you could do it up to 60 times a day. I
think my record for a short run was 97 trips in one night.
It gets quite boring, and you get tired. Red Bull is a good
friend. No-Doz is good for staying awake, too. So is music.
After five hours of driving, we have a half-hour crib
break, before going back to work for two more hours.
hen that’s pretty much it.
When the day is done, I go home to my wife, who’s a
photographer, and to my three children. We have dinner
together and enjoy some family time. If I have the energy,
I’ll go to the gym for an hour. But I’m quite slack with that.
he structure of the work never really changes. he
night shift is hard. If I get home at 6 in the morning, I don’t
really feel like doing anything. You’re extremely tired. You
come home, you sleep, you get up. Rarely do you see your
family at all — especially on a night shift.
You go to work to earn money. You earn money to
come home to your family and enjoy that time. Hopefully,
I will stay in this job until I’m ready to retire. I love the
work. I like the people I work with. I love getting to drive
big “toy” trucks, which is absolutely excellent.
crib break [(krIb breIk] Aus. kurze Snack-Pause während
der Arbeitszeit
digger [(dIgE] Bagger
dozer [(dEUzE] ifml. hier: Rad-Dozer
dump [dVmp] Abraumhalde; abladen
fully tracked bulldozer Raupen-Bulldozer
[)fUli trÄkt (bUl)dEUzE]
Fotos: Caterpillar; Julie Collins; iStock
gym [dZIm] Fitnessstudio
No-Doz [nEU (dEUz] (Markenname) Coffeintabletten
(doze [dEUz] dösen, schlummern)
overburden Abraum
[(EUvE)b§:d&n]
run of mine (ROM) Förderkohle
[)rVn Ev (maIn]
tip off [tIp (Qf] ifml. hier: auskippen, ausschütten
INFO TO GO
get pinged
If you get pinged [pINd] for a certain thing, you are
blamed or held responsible for something that has
gone wrong. A ping is a short, high ringing sound, like
the noise made when a small stone hits metal. In the
text, Jason Linke says that he inspects his truck very
carefully to make sure that he doesn’t get in trouble for
any damage caused by the person who drove the vehi-
cle before him. Try using the expression in the follow-
ing sentences:
a) He risks ____________ for not keeping to his budget.
b) You have to arrive punctually. You can ____________
for being late.
that’s it
Linke says he works for five hours, then takes a half-
hour break, before working for two more hours. Then
his working day is over. “That’s pretty much it,” he says.
Here, the expression means “that’s the end” or “there
is no more”. It is used in this way in other everyday sit-
uations; for example, if you’re sitting in the cinema
watching a film that ends at an unexpected point in the
story. Disappointed, you might ask: “Is that it?”
Is the expression used correctly in the following
sentences?
a) Is there no more milk in the fridge? That can’t be it,
surely?
b) I’ve done all the housework now. I think that’s it.
slack
Jason Linke says he is “slack” when it comes to going to
the gym, meaning he is not strict with himself about it.
He also uses the present simple form to mean it’s a
habit, unlike the continuous form “be slacking”, which
would mean that the action is more recent. The word
“slack” is related to the Latin laxus — also seen in lax and
relax — and means “loose”. From this, we get the infor-
mal word “slacker”: someone who is lazy or not doing
his or her share of the work. Use forms of “slack” to
complete the sentences below:
a) My brother is such a __________.
b) Your work isn’t very accurate this
week. You ___________.
c) I __________ about tidying
up. I only ever do it if I
have to.
lax [lÄks] nachlässig, lasch, lax
Answers: get pinged: a) getting pinged; b) get pinged
that’s it: yes, both (a) and (b) are correct
slack: a) slacker; b) ’re slacking / ’ve been slacking; c) ’m slack
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 WORLD VIEW | News in Brief
It’s a good month to celebrate...
Chinese New Year in Sydney
AUSTRALIA Why celebrate the new year
just once, when you can do it twice? he Year of the Horse
begins at the end of January, and Sydney is home to one
of the biggest Chinese New Year parties outside of Asia.
Australia has a large Chinese population, with China-
towns in major cities across the country. Many Chinese
immigrants arrived in the 19th century, and immigration
has continued into modern times. From 24 January to
9 February, the city of Sydney will celebrate the Chinese
New Year. Some 80 events give people of all cultural back-
grounds the chance to experience Chinese traditions.
axe [Äks] Axt
body [(bQdi] hier: Leiche
commissioner [kE(mIS&nE] Kommissar
decent [(di:s&nt] anständig
Doing the right thing
for police dogs
BRITAIN Matt Rogers, a police officer in
England’s East Midlands region, remembers the time
when he was attacked by a man with an axe. Rossi,
his partner, saved his life by jumping up and grab-
bing the weapon in his mouth. “He looks after me,”
Rogers told The Telegraph newspaper.
Rossi is a police dog. He’s lucky to work in Not-
tinghamshire, because the county police there recently
announced that they were starting Britain’s first pension
plan for dogs.
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Time to party:
at the Twilight
Parade in Sydney
he Twilight Parade, on 2 February, is one of the high-
lights. More than 3,000 performers will march from the
town hall to Chinatown in a procession filled with light,
colour and dance. For authentic food and great shopping,
Belmore Park turns into an Asian market from 24 to 26
January, complete with music and cultural performances.
he festival closes with a large dose of excitement: two days
of traditional dragon-boat races in Darling Harbour, start-
ing on 8 February.
For more information about the various events and
their locations, see www.sydneychinesenewyear.com
dose [dEUs] Dosis; hier: Portion
dragon boat [(drÄgEn )bEUt] Drachenboot
grab [grÄb] packen
town hall [)taUn (hO:l] Rathaus
The Nottinghamshire police currently employ
26 dogs, half of which are trained to find bodies,
paper money and drugs.
“We look after the people who work for us who
have been police officers and staff,” said police and
crime commissioner Paddy Tipping. “They get
Fotos: A1PIX, Alamy; Corbis; PR
a decent retirement, and I think it’s impor-
tant that the same is done for dogs.”
Each dog’s “pension” will last for three years
and is designed with health in mind. When Rossi
retires, he will get up to £500 a year to pay for
his medical costs.
Money for those
fine dogs that serve
 Ready to fly?
A jetpack from

Flying towards the future New Zealand

NEW ZEALAND Sometime soon, you might

look up in the sky and see something strange flying by — not a bird
or a plane, but a person wearing a jetpack.
For years, companies have been competing to produce the first
commercially viable jetpack. Christchurch, New Zealand, is home to
one of the most promising versions. Powered by a gasoline engine,
the Martin Jetpack can go as fast as 80 kilometres per hour and fly
to heights of more than 2,000 metres, the makers say.
Glenn Martin, 53, began secretly developing this aircraft in 1981.
“Like a lot of my generation, I believed we’d be having holidays on
the moon by now or going to work in our flying cars,” he told The
Wall Street Journal. “Unfortunately, that never happened.”
Soon, though, Martin Aircraft Co. Ltd. plans to begin selling its
machines. The “First Responder Jetpack” should be available later
this year. It is designed for use in emergency situations, such as
earthquakes. By next year, the company hopes to make its jetpack
available to private individuals for about NZ$ 150,000 (€90,400).

colonial master [kE)lEUniEl (mA:stE] Kolonialherr jetpack [(dZetpÄk] Raketenrucksack

developmental benefit entwicklungs- lasting [(lA:stIN] nachhaltig, anhaltend
[divelEp)ment&l (benIfIt] politischer Nutzen legacy [(legEsi] Erbe, Last
earthquake [(§:TkweIk] Erdbeben reparations [)repE(reIS&nz] Entschädigung
first responder [)f§:st ri(spQndE] Ersthelfer sue [sju:] (ver)klagen
gasoline engine [)gÄsEli:n (endZIn] N. Am. Benzinmotor viable [(vaIEb&l] funktionsfähig, marktfähig

Say sorry and pay

CARIBBEAN Fifteen Caribbean nations
are asking for more than just an apology from their for-
mer colonial masters. hey expect to be paid reparations,
too. he reason, said Ralph Gonsalves, prime minister
of St Vincent and the Grenadines, is the lasting damage
to their economies due to slavery.
“he awful legacy of these crimes against humanity
— a legacy which exists today in our Caribbean —
ought to be repaired for the developmental benefit of
our Caribbean societies and all our peoples,” Gonsalves
told the UN late last year.
he decision to sue was taken by the Caribbean
Community (Caricom), an organization
that represents the 15 former colonies, most
of which were once under British rule.
Leigh Day, the London law firm that
won reparations for Kenyans tortured in the
1950s by British colonials, plans to repre-
sent the Caribbean nations before the Inter-
national Court of Justice in the Hague. he
sum of money they hope to be paid has not
been named. Caricom has made it known,
however, that slave owners in the 19th cen-
tury were given £20 million for their losses
after slavery was made illegal. According to
he Guardian, that amount would be equiv-
alent to £16.5 billion today.
Europe may help the Caribbean
island of St Vincent and others

2|14 Spotlight 11
 WORLD VIEW | News in Brief
WHAT’S HOT
Yoga for the road Food crime
INDIA It’s hard to imagine a more dangerous
scenario than a crowded bus speeding down a highway with UNITED STATES
a drink-driver at the wheel. In India, however, this is common. You place your yogurt in the fridge
he Guardian reports that 134,000 people died in India at work. Then you return hours later
in traffic accidents in 2010. Harman Singh Sidhu, president to get it because you’re hungry —
of a road-safety organization, says that drink-driving among but it’s gone. What can you do?
Driving problem: commercial drivers is an alarming part of the problem. Bus National Public Radio (NPR) re-
drugs and alcohol
operators give drugs or alcohol to drivers so that they will cently reported on a 39-year-old
cover their routes faster. “To maximize profits, they compromise the Pennsylvania man who lost his food
safety of drivers, passengers and other road users,” he said. to an unknown perp. The item taken
Can yoga help? he State Road Transportation Corporation in Kar- was a container of strawberry Jell-O
nataka, a state in India’s south-west, hopes it can. he corporation has that he had placed in the fridge in
begun sending problem bus drivers to a 40-day rehabilitation pro- his company’s break room. Because
gramme in Bangalore, the capital city. In addition to yoga, they attend it was not the first time that his food
counselling sessions and talks about health. In a year and a half, 155 had been stolen, the victim took an
men have taken part in the programme. It is thought that 60 per cent unusual step: He called the police
of them remained sober afterwards. Sadly, no other Indian states have and reported the crime.
shown any intention of using similar programmes. he Guardian writes “I think he was fed up,” said Ser-
that the huge number of deaths on the road “looks set to continue”. geant Pete Nickischer of the Upper
Macungie Township police.
The story was also reported —
at the wheel [Ät DE (wi:&l] am Steuer not without humor — on local TV.
break room [(breIk ru:m] Pausenraum One viewer sent in a suggestion for
commercial driver [kE)m§:S&l (draIvE] Berufsfahrer(in) how the saga might end: “When
compromise [(kQmprEmaIz] gefährden
they find the perp, they’ll put him in
counselling [(kaUns&lIN] Beratung, Therapie
custardy.”
custardy [US (kVst&rdi] Wortspiel mit „custody“ = Haft
(custard Vanillesauce, Eiercreme)
drink-driver [)drINk (draIvE] UK alkoholisierte(r) Autofahrer(in) Cold crime:
fed up: be ~ [)fed (Vp] ifml. die Nase voll haben is your food
item [(aItEm] Gegenstand, Artikel safe?
Jell-O [US (dZel oU] Markenname für Götterspeise
perp = perpetrator [p§:p] N. Am. ifml. Täter(in); hier: Dieb(in)
rate [reIt] einschätzen, bewerten
saga [(sA:gE] hier: Geschichte
set: sth. looks ~ to continue [set] etw. wird sich aller Voraussicht nach
fortsetzen
sober [(sEUbE] nüchtern
spank [spÄNk] den Hintern versohlen

How hitting hurts

UNITED STATES A new study has identified
another reason not to hit your kids: spanking can hurt their ability
to learn words.
After collecting data from 1,500 families for 10 years, the re-
searchers from Columbia University found that 60 percent of the
mothers and 40 percent of the fathers had spanked their three-year-
Some of the study results were to be expected. The children
who had been spanked twice a week at the age of five, for example,
were more aggressive by age nine than those who had been hit less
frequently. Then came a surprise finding: The children who’d been
spanked by their fathers twice a week did worse on the vocabulary
Fotos: Alamy, Photodisc; StockByte

olds. Half of the mothers and a third test than those who’d never been spanked at all.
of the fathers had spanked their chil- “Only a few studies have looked at the cognitive ef-
dren at the age of five, too. When the fects of spanking,” Professor Michael MacKenzie told
group turned nine, the parents were the Los Angeles Times. “We are still trying to learn if
asked to rate how aggressive the kids spanking has a direct effect on early brain develop-
were. The children were then also ment, or if families that spank more are less likely to
given a vocabulary test. read to their kids and use more complex language.”
Spanking:
12 Spotlight 2|14 not a smart By RITA FORBES and CLAUDINE WEBER-HOF
option
 Britain Today | COLIN BEAVEN

“Like”
“has replaced
the word
“say”
Like is everywhere
” — like it or not!
Ein kleines Wörtchen ist seit einiger Zeit in aller Munde und nimmt den
Platz von anderen Wörtern ein – Sprache einmal ganz modern.

W ords can be full of surprises.

Even a word you’ve known
for a very long time can
suddenly transform itself and turn up
one day with a completely new mean-
ing. Like the word “like”.
Even before the days of Facebook,
“like” was so overused it was rather
unhelpful. “Heavens above!” some
might say. “If you already feel like
that about the word ‘like’, how do
you cope with the word ‘love’?”
he trouble is that “like” has so
many different meanings and uses.
All in all, the more you hear it, the
more you realize it’s not a word you
particularly... like.
It’s often a verb, but not if you’re
making comparisons. For example,
perhaps you buy a scented candle to
go with dinner on Valentine’s Day.
You buy it because it’s supposed to
smell like caramel and vanilla. When
you light it, you discover it smells like
cars and vans.
hen, so often people say “like”
just to fill up their sentences. As my
adore [E(dO:]
ask sb. out [A:sk (aUt]
beloved [bi(lVvId]
cope with [(kEUp wID]
disgusting [dIs(gVstIN]
Heavens above! [)hev&nz E(bVv]
like [laIk] ifml.
meaninglessly [(mi:nINlEsli]
obsessed [Eb(sest]
reported speech [ri)pO:tId (spi:tS]
scented candle [)sentId (kÄnd&l]
security chief [sI(kjUErEti )tSi:f]
supposed: be ~ to [sE(pEUst]
traffic fumes [(trÄfIk fju:mz]
trick: play a ~ on sb. [trIk]
Foto: iStock
dictionary explains it, “like” is “some-
times used meaninglessly”. If you ask
your Valentine what she thinks of the
scented candle, she might say: “he
one that smells like traffic fumes? It’s,
like, disgusting.”
hat’s confusing; you can say
“like” when you’re talking about
something you don’t like. So it’s defi-
nitely not a word to use when it’s one young woman who was recently
time to write a message in a Valen- talking nearby: “He was like: ‘Have
tine’s card. you got any plans for Valentine’s Day,
hese cards are generally anony- then?’ And I was like: ‘Seriously? Are
mous, but they’re still supposed to you trying to ask me out?’ And he
make your feelings clear. “Like” is, was like: ‘Well, what would you say
therefore, much too vague. A message if I was?’”
like this is unlikely to impress your hink back for a moment to that
beloved when she opens her card on classic old Beatles song “She Loves
14 February: You”. Remember this line? “She said
“Of all the people I adore, she loves you, and you know that
It’s you I like the best. can’t be bad...”
I’ve never felt like this before. hat was written in the 1960s.
I’m almost, like, obsessed.” Fifty years later, this is what they’d
here’s nothing for it; we need the have written instead: “She was like: ‘I
word “love”. For all its faults, it’s still love him.’” It wouldn’t have got to
elegant, and next to “like”, it almost number one.
starts to look clear and unambiguous. Still, this is the way young people
On top of all talk these days, so it’s something we
anbeten, verehren this, you find that have to live with, even if it does make
jmdn. zu einem the word “like” has reported speech unbelievably boring.
Rendezvous einladen played a trick on I just feel sorry for Britain’s secu-
Geliebte(r) you and has come rity chiefs. hey have to read through
mit etw. zurechtkommen
to replace the word transcripts of the phone calls their
ekelhaft, widerlich (
p. 61)
Gütiger Himmel!
“say”. spies have been listening to — spies
hier: na ja, irgendwie If you want to who no longer use the word “say”.
ohne Bedeutung see how this works Here’s an example: “He was like:
besessen in practice, try lis- ‘Have you got any plans for Valentine’s
indirekte Rede tening to young Day, then?’ And she was like: ‘Seri-
Duftkerze people phoning ously? Are you trying to ask me out?’
Sicherheitschef(in) their friends to tell And he was like: ‘Well, what would
hier: sollen
them about the you say if I was, Frau Merkel?’”
Verkehrsabgase
jmdm. einen Streich spielen
conversation they’ve
just had. You can’t

unambiguous [)VnÄm(bIgjuEs] unzweideutig Colin Beaven is a freelance writer who lives

vague [veIg] vage, ungenau help overhearing. and works in Southampton on the south
Here, I quote from coast of England.

2|14 Spotlight 13
 LANGUAGE | IELTS Test

Putting pen
to paper
Im Rahmen des IELTS-Sprachtests müssen drei schriftliche
Aufgaben bearbeitet werden: das Schreiben eines Briefes, das
Analysieren einer Grafik und das Verfassen eines Aufsatzes.
JOANNA WESTCOMBE gibt nützliche Tipps.

W riting is probably something you do every day. How much writing do you
do in English, though? If your goal is a job or a university place in an
English-speaking country, you will need to make sure that your written Eng-
lish is of a good standard. At the top of your to-do list will certainly be preparing for
and taking either the General Training or Academic module of the IELTS (Interna-
tional English Language Testing System) test. his is the international passport for
people wanting to work or study abroad.
Last year (Spotlight 2/13 and 9/13), we introduced IELTS and presented an exclu-
sive reading and listening test. his month, we are cooperating again with IELTS and
the British Council to bring you a writing test from both the Academic and the Gen-
eral Training modules, covering everyday skills such as letter writing, as well as the
essay- and report-writing skills required for academic and working life.
We are also very pleased to be running a special competition this month. hanks
to the British Council, we are offering one lucky Spotlight reader a free IELTS test
place worth €210. (See page 21.) Even if you have no plans to take an IELTS test,
read on and get writing. When it comes to improving your skills, you just can’t lose.

THE BRITISH COUNCIL

The British Council is the UK’s leading cultural-relations organization. It works in the fields
of the arts, education and society in more than 100 countries worldwide. In addition to the
IELTS test, the British Council offers resources for teachers and learners of English. It has been
in Germany since 1959, initiating projects and holding events across the country. The British
Council offers the IELTS test up to 36 times a year in 14 test locations around Germany as well
as in Austria and Switzerland. For more information, visit www.britishcouncil.de or .at or .ch

IELTS
IELTS is jointly managed by the British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia and Cambridge English
Language Assessment. IELTS results are recognized by more than 8,000 educational institutions,
government agencies and professional organizations in more than 135 countries. These include
3,000 institutions and programmes in the US, as well as all UK universities and colleges. In Ger-
many, as more courses are offered in English, the number of institutions recognizing IELTS re-
sults continues to grow. http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org

14 Spotlight 2|14

What’s in the test?
he IELTS writing test takes 60 minutes and consists of
two tasks. For the first task, you have to write about 150
words. In the General Training module (the non-academic
version) of the test, you have to write a letter. In the Aca-
demic module, you have to describe, explain or summarize
a chart, diagram, graph or table. he second task of both
papers is a 250-word essay.
Writing everyday letters
In the first task of the IELTS General Training module, you
are presented with a problem (see box below) and have to
write a letter explaining your point of view or asking for
something to be done — exactly the sort of reason why you
might write a letter. (20 minutes; at least 150 words)
You have a problem with a neighbour.
Write a letter to your neighbour. In your letter:
• describe the problem
• say how long it has been a problem
• explain what action you want your neighbour
to take.
Begin your letter as follows:
Dear ........,
Tips
• The first sentence of the model letter on the right
explains the reason for writing: I am writing to...
• The rest of the first paragraph describes the problem.
The second paragraph combines the rest of the
required information in a logical form.
• Concrete, relevant examples are given, using lan-
guage specific to the situation (especially verbs here):
lean over · drop · block · leak · damage · injure
• Good synonyms have been found for the word
“problem” in the question: nuisance · danger
• A range of structures links ideas logically:
not just ... but also · I have ... before, but ·
such a ... that · it would ... if you
The writer gets his message across clearly, but
•
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politely: I urge you to · I think you should ·
an alternative ... would be · I hope...
• The letter format is appropriate: Dear Mr Jackson ·
Yours sincerely
How can we help?
If you are planning to take IELTS, the best thing you can
do is visit the British Council website (see page 14) and
follow its advice on how to practise and prepare for the
test. On this and the following pages, we focus on three
writing tasks in the IELTS format — a letter, a description
of a graph and an essay. Each time, we present the task,
offer a model answer (written by a native speaker) and give
tips based on that answer. Working through the sections
will help you to improve your writing skills in English,
whether you are taking the test or not. So why not try the
tasks, starting with the letter below?
Model letter
Dear Mr Jackson,
I am writing to you to see what can
be done about the large tree at the
front of your house. The tree leans
over my side of the fence that divides
our properties. It is not just a
nuisance, but also a danger. It drops
a large amount of debris on my roof,
and these leaves and twigs block the
downpipes. During the last heavy
rainfall, my house leaked as a result.
My worst fear is that in a storm the
tree might fall down, damaging my
house and possibly injuring my family.
The tree has been a problem for more
than ten years, and I have talked to
you about it before, but the tree has
now reached such a height that I
urge you to take action immediately.
I think you should have the tree
removed. An alternative course of
action would be to prune the tree to
fence level, but I think it would die
anyway if you did this.
I hope the problem can be resolved
soon.
Yours sincerely,
Joel Baker
2|14 Spotlight 15
 LANGUAGE | IELTS Test

Describing a graph
In the first writing task of the Academic module,
you have to write a short report about a graph, table,
chart or diagram — a typical task in business or ac-
ademic contexts, especially if you are preparing for
a presentation. (20 minutes; at least 150 words)

The graph on the right shows the proportion of four

different materials that were recycled from 1982 to
2010 in a particular country.

Summarize the information by

selecting and reporting the main
features, and make comparisons
where relevant.

Model report

The chart shows the percentages of
paper and cardboard, glass containers,
aluminium cans and plastics that were
recycled in one country between 1982
and 2010.
In 1982, about 65 per cent of paper and
cardboard was recycled. This figure
fluctuated before rising steeply to
reach a peak of 80 per cent in 1994.
From then on, however, it decreased
cling of plastics, on the other hand,
was not introduced until 1990 and, al-
though the growth in this category
was also constant, it was very slow,
rising from about 2 per cent to around
8 per cent during this period.
Overall, the proportion of paper and
cardboard that was recycled was the
highest of the four classes of mate-
rial, but this category experienced a de-

Fotos: Hemera; iStock

steadily to a level of 70 per cent in cline after 1994, whereas there was a
2010. In 1982, half of all glass continuing upward trend in the recycling
containers were recycled; of the other materials.
after dipping to a low of
40 per cent in 1990, the
glass-recycling rate gradu-
ally increased to 60 per
cent by 2010.

Aluminium cans were first

recycled in 1986, starting at
about 5 per cent, but this
figure climbed rapidly over
25 years, and by 2010 it had
reached 45 per cent. Recy-

16 Spotlight 2|14
 Tips
• The statement in the instructions has been rephrased to make one sen-
tence that introduces the graph: The chart shows the percentages of...
• The information is divided into paragraphs. Paper and cardboard are
grouped together, and aluminium is contrasted with plastic. The focus is on
general trends. This is supported by specific data from the chart: starting
at about... · a peak of... · a level of... · a low of... · around 8 per cent
• The trends are described using a range of verbs and suitable adverbs:
rise steeply · decrease steadily · dip · gradually increase · climb rapidly
• Time phrases are precise and varied: in 1994 · from then on · by 2010 ·
over 25 years · not until 1990 · during this period · after 1994
• The graph uses historical data, so the past tense is the main verb form, but
the gerund also has its place: before rising · after dipping
• A range of phrases is used to compare and contrast:
however · on the other hand · but · although · whereas

Top five writing-test tips

1. Read the task: this tells you exactly what and how much you need to write
to complete the task.

2. Plan your work: follow the correct format (letter, essay, etc.).
Decide what information and examples to include.
Separate ideas into paragraphs in a logical order.

3. Show what you know: use a range of vocabulary and phrases in a style
suitable to the task. Try not to repeat words from the test question — find
synonyms instead. Use accurate grammar, including different verb tenses,
conditional forms and other structures.

4. Make it stick together: use pronouns, linking words and signalling

phrases to organize and connect your ideas.

5. Check and check again: always make sure that you have followed points
1–4 accurately.

2|14 Spotlight 17
 LANGUAGE | IELTS Test
Essay writing
In both the General Training and the Academic module of
the IELTS test, the second task is to write an essay. his
shows your skills in giving and supporting your opinion in
English on any topic, whether in writing or in speaking.
Below, we show a question and a model answer from the
General Training module.
(40 minutes; at least 250 words)
It is generally accepted that exercise is good for children and teenagers.
Therefore, physical education and sport should be compulsory for all students in all schools.
What do you think?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Model essay
Exercise is important throughout life
for all age groups in order to maintain
both physical health and mental well-
being. Making sports instruction and
physical education mandatory for all
able-bodied school pupils is a good
idea, because it establishes beneficial
exercise habits and enhances other
aspects of their lives.
Firstly, sport is a great source of les-
sons for life. It teaches us to take
nothing for granted and to treat others
with respect. The smug individual or
overconfident team is always vulnerable
and may be beaten by an opponent with
less obvious skill but more tenacity
and determination. Sport teaches us
how to behave, or how not to behave,
in defeat. Maintaining composure in the
face of disappointment is a life skill
well worth mastering, as is the ability
to recover quickly after setbacks.
Sport also teaches us concentration,
discipline and a good work ethic (es-
sential for academic achievement as
18 Spotlight 2|14
well). It is only by training hard, stay-
ing focused and exercising self-control
that we attain success. We learn a lot
about competition, but sport teaches
us restraint, too: we need to keep a
cool head under intense pressure in
order to have a chance of winning. To
be calm and composed under pressure
is an enormous advantage at exam time.
Above all, team sports teach us how
to work together. Being a “team player”
is rated very highly by employers.
Knowing how to interact and cooperate
with others prepares us not only for
the workplace but for the rest of our
social lives.
To conclude, sport definitely has a
place in the school curriculum,
because pupils will become fit and
active, improve their attitude to study
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and learn many important life skills.
For these reasons, all pupils who are
physically able should be required to
participate in physical education in
addition to academic subjects.
continued on page 21
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Tips
• The essay on page 18 is of the type
“for” or “against”. The writer’s
position is clearly stated in the
introductory paragraph. The state-
ment in the instructions has been
rephrased, using synonyms and a
different sentence structure.
• In the main part of the essay, there
are three paragraphs of between
two and five sentences, with one
idea per paragraph. Each idea is
expressed generally in one sen-
tence, then developed with specific
examples. Here, the focus is on
sporting skills that are transferable
to academic and working life.
• The paragraphs are connected with
linking words: Firstly · also ·
Above all · To conclude
• The writer’s opinion is supported by
a range of abstract nouns:
respect · tenacity · determination ·
composure · concentration ·
•
discipline...
Positive-sounding words and
phrases “sell” the writer’s point of
view: beneficial · enhance · essen-
tial · it is only by · an enormous
advantage · definitely
• In a concluding paragraph, the
ideas are summarized, and the
writer’s point of view is repeated
in a general statement.
Tips for checking
When you have finished writing, remember that you haven’t yet finished
the task. Whether you are writing to a neighbour, or for an examiner,
it is always important to check your written work. Here are our tips:
• Give yourself several minutes to check your work.
• Know your own typical mistakes.
• Check your spelling first: try working backwards from the last word —
you are checking spelling, not meaning.
• Check the verb tenses, agreements (such as third person “s”), singular
and plural forms.
• Check that sentences and paragraphs work logically together:
check linking words (“however”; “despite”), and reference words
(“this” or “here” or pronouns).
• Check for repetition. Find synonyms, or use pronouns where you can.
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 FOOD | Sweets

Sweet
memories
A treat for
everyone:
English sweets

Im Zeitalter von Supermarkt & Co.

haben es traditionelle Süßwaren-
läden schwer; dennoch gibt es
noch Kunden, die die süße
Vielfalt der Fachgeschäfte
schätzen. Von ANDREW
MARSHALL.

A stone house in the village

of Pateley Bridge in Eng-
land’s Yorkshire Dales is
home to a very unusual shop. he
wooden shelves along the walls of its
interior are filled with large glass jars.
hey contain creamy brown toffees,
black-and-white striped humbugs,
dark-red brandy balls and green-and-pink
sour apples.
he Oldest Sweet Shop in England — the
claim has been verified by Guinness World Records
— opened its doors in 1827. Confectioner Keith Tor-
doff, who now runs the place with the help of his wife
Gloria, son Alexander and Alexander’s partner, Kirsty, ex-
plains that the business started out as a general store. Orig-
inally, it sold milk, bread, eggs, tobacco and sweets, then
later switched exclusively to confectionery.
Tordoff bought the shop 16 years ago. He is proud of
the variety of sweets on offer — 200 kinds in all. Although
the Tordoffs don’t make any of the confectionery them-
selves, they do test every sweet that they sell. “We all take
samples home and try
them first in a tasting ses-
sion before we sell them in
the shop,” he says. “his
helps us to know what we
are talking about.”
and we
have some
Sherbet Foun-
tains in their origi-
nal paper wrapping. hese
days, people like to collect them.” For the Tordoffs, the
style of the shop is important, too. “We run the shop the
way it has always been done. Our only concessions to the
modern age are the electric lights, and the cash register was
converted to decimal currency in the early 1970s.”
Fifty years ago, most towns and villages in Britain had
a sweet shop. It was where schoolchildren would exchange
a few pence of their pocket money for the sticky delight
of gobstoppers and pear drops, while elderly aunts
bought elegant rolls of Parma Violets. Today, the Tordoffs’
shop is a rarity. he recession, supermarket shopping and
cash register [(kÄS )redZIstE] Registrierkasse
concession [kEn(seS&n] Zugeständnis
confectioner [kEn(fekS&nE] Konditor(in),
Fotos: Alamy; A. Marshall; iStock

Keith Tordoff likes the Zuckerbäcker(in)

retro flair of his business.
“We have all the old
favourites,” he explains.
“Not long ago, we bought
some dusted milk teeth,
A happy place: the Tordoffs’ shop which are difficult to find,
22 Spotlight 2|14
dusted milk teeth [)dVstId (mIlk ti:T] Süßigkeiten in Gebissform
gobstopper [(gQb)stQpE] UK ifml. Dauerlutscher
jar [dZA:] Behälter, Gefäß
Sherbet Fountain [)S§:bEt (faUntIn] Brausepulver mit Lakritz-
stange in Tubenform
sticky [(stIki] klebrig
 FIVE TRADITIONAL
SWEETS

an increasingly health-conscious public have sent traditional Humbugs have been around
sweet shops into meltdown. Perhaps it’s not a coincidence, for more than 150 years. They
though, that Yorkshire is home to he Oldest Sweet Shop in are the hard, peppermint-
England. he region has been connected to sugar and the con- flavoured sweets that were first
fectionery industry for hundreds of years. mentioned by writer Elizabeth
When the Crusaders returned from the Middle East in the Gaskell (1810–65) in her book
11th and 12th centuries, they brought with them the first liquo- Sylvia’s Lovers.
rice plants. he sandy soil around the town of Pontefract proved to
be the perfect environment for them, and the plant was cultivated by
local monks. At first, the “sweet root” was probably used mainly as Pear drops are also a hard sweet.
medicine. It was thought to help cure many illnesses, including Traditionally, the drops were half
colds and liver disease. Later, it was produced on an industrial yellow and half pink. Today, the
scale and delivered to the many local sweet manufacturers. colours are separated. No pears
Liquorice is no longer grown in the area today, but are used in their production.
Pontefract cakes and liquorice root are still popular with lo- The flavour — a cross between
cals — and both are sold at he Oldest Sweet Shop in England. banana and pear — comes from
Yorkshire’s love of sugary foods may also have its origins in a chemical called isoamyl acetate,
the Industrial Revolution, which began around 1760, at about also known as pear oil.
the same time as the arrival of cheap sugar from the British colonies
in the West Indies. In 1842, George Bassett founded the confectionery
company Bassett’s in Sheffield, South Yorkshire; Liquorice Allsorts were Liquorice Allsorts are brightly coloured, soft
created by Bassett’s in 1899. Later, Lion Confectionery in the West liquorice sweets. The idea of selling a va-
Yorkshire town of Cleckheaton began making another famous riety of liquorice under the name
candy: Midget Gems. Allsorts happened by accident. In
Today, Yorkshire’s confectionery industry has pretty much 1899, Charlie Thompson, a
been swallowed by big food conglomerates, but the local taste young salesman working for a
for sweets has stayed. For Tordoff’s wife, Gloria, it’s the feel- company called Bassett’s,
good factor that helps to keep the business going. “he won- dropped a selection of sweets
derful thing about working in a sweet shop is that everyone is that he was showing to a cus-
always in a happy mood,” she says, opening a jar of pear drops. tomer. The resulting mix was so
It may also help that confectionery is such an inexpensive de- pleasing that Bassett’s decided to mar-
light: Yorkshire people have a reputation for being careful with money. ket it under the name Liquorice Allsorts.
Keith Tordoff explains: “We have a local lad who bought a giant gob-
stopper when he was 14 years of age, and now he’s 22.” he young man
regularly enjoys a taste of the gobstopper. “hen he washes it and puts Pontefract cakes, small,
it back in the fridge,” adds the shop owner. “Even by penny-pinching soft liquorice discs, are the
Yorkshire standards, that’s excellent value.” oldest sweets on this list.
They were first made in
by accident [baI (ÄksIdEnt] aus Versehen, zufällig the Yorkshire town of
coincidence [kEU(InsIdEns] Zufall Pontefract and are tradi-
conglomerate [kEn(glQmErEt] Großkonzern tionally stamped with an
Crusader [kru:(seIdE] Kreuzritter image of Pontefract Castle.
excellent value [)eksElEnt (vÄlju:] preiswert
industrial scale [In)dVstriEl (skeI&l] industrieller Maßstab
isoamyl acetate [aisEU)Äm&l (ÄsEteIt] (chem.) Essigsäurepentylester
lad [lÄd] ifml. Junge, Typ Parma Violets were first sold in the 1930s. The
Liquorice Allsorts [)lIkErIS (O:lsO:ts] Lakritzkonfekt small, mauve sweets have a highly perfumed
liquorice plant [(lIkErIS plA:nt] Süßholz flavour.
liver [(lIvE] Leber
mauve [mEUv] malvenfarben
meltdown: send sb. / sth. into ~ [(meltdaUn] jmdn. / etw. in den Ruin treiben
Midget Gem [(mIdZIt dZem] kleiner runder Weingummibonbon
pear [peE] Birne
penny-pinching [(peni )pIntSIN] knauserig
soil [sOI&l] (Erd)Boden

2|14 Spotlight 23
 ARCHITECTURE | Frank Gehry

Expect
the

unexpected
Stararchitekt Frank Gehry übernimmt mit Sir Norman Foster ein Milliardenprojekt, bei dem aus
einem verfallenen Londoner Gebäudekomplex 3.500 Wohnungen, Läden und Büros entstehen.
OLIVER WAINWRIGHT berichtet.

I t will be absolutely amazing and

extraordinary,” says Rob Tincknell,
head of the Battersea Power
Station Development Company. “It
really is so exciting that we will have
Frank Gehry’s first building in Lon-
don right next to the power station.
It will become another icon, so you’ll
have two icons set side by side. What
could be better than that?”
It was announced last week that
Gehry will be joining Norman Foster
in the next phase of the £8 billion
Malaysian-backed plan to change
South London’s old cathedral of
Tincknell is speaking in excited
tones, like someone who has just won
the biggest real-estate prize imagina-
ble: not the protected historic brick
power station, but the promise that a
Gehry building will one day be built
next door.
billion [(bIljEn]
brick [brIk]
flex one’s muscles [)fleks wVnz (mVs&lz]
fluidity [flu(IdEti]
icon [(aIkQn]
real estate [(rIEl I)steIt] N. Am.
“His style of architecture is com-
pletely unique,” he continues. “Other
architects might design buildings of
different styles, and do it differently
each time, but Frank’s buildings are a
continuous interpretation of his idea
of fluidity. It’s just fantastic.”
Milliarde(n)
Ziegelstein, Backstein (
p. 61)
seine Muskeln spielen lassen
hier: fließende Formen
Symbol, Wahrzeichen
Immobilien
Fotos: Alamy; Getty Images; Huber; laif

power into a shining wonder world A CLOSER LOOK

of 3,500 flats, shops and offices.
Gehry will be responsible for five
apartment buildings, including the
main attraction, named “he
Flower”, which, says Tincknell, “will
give Frank the opportunity to flex his
design muscles as far as they go”.
24 Spotlight 2|14
Battersea Power Station was built in the 1930s, but it stopped generating
power in 1983. With its four tall chimneys and attractive art deco design,
it has since become a symbol of London. Said to be the largest brick build-
ing in Europe, it was sold to Malaysian property investors in 2012. They
have begun work on the structure and the surrounding area.
 A very busy man:
Frank Gehry in his
Los Angeles offices

“He now comes packaged as ‘Gehry’ with quotes on,”

says the famous critic Charles Jencks, a close friend who
has known Gehry since he started out in 1970s’ Los An-
geles. “He has become part of the Establishment, but he
began on the outside, kicking against the fence. He’s like
the Woody Allen of architecture: he loves railing against
the world and doesn’t want to be liked by anybody — but
at the same time,
he wants to be
he 84-year-old Canadian ar- loved and accepted
chitect Gehry has a reputation of by everybody.”
being the top magician of iconic In a world of
forms, bringing with him the competing “starchi-
promise of headlines, tourists and tects”, whose ce-
minor economic miracles. he lebrity reputations
billowing metallic exterior of his shine more brightly
Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, than their build-
completed in 1997, is widely de- ings, none is more
scribed as the project that saved starry than Gehry.
this post-industrial town and His website carries
even came with its own term, a note that he can-
“the Bilbao effect”, introducing not respond to
an era of similar projects in autograph requests
A great success: the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain
countless other places. because of the huge
Gehry has become a global brand. He is the king of the number received. He has appeared on television’s he
crumple, whose dramatic creations of metal and glass can Simpsons, designing Springfield opera house in the shape
be found the world over. here is the 76-storey skyscraper of a scrunched-up envelope. For Lady Gaga, he made a
in Manhattan — “New York by Gehry” — which hangs hat like a laundry bag that had been attacked by a Rott-
like a silk scarf, blowing in the wind. here are playful- weiler; and Mark Zuckerberg has asked him to design the
looking university buildings in Massachusetts and Ohio and new Facebook mega-campus.
a dancing apartment block in Prague. On Saadiyat Island hen there’s the Hollywood connection: actor Brad
in Abu Dhabi, work is under way on what will one day be Pitt has become his apprentice. Gehry has worked with
the mother of all Guggenheims, a 30,000-square-metre mu- him on various projects, from a doomed scheme for Hove
seum formed from on England’s south coast, which would have resulted in
a mix of cones and the waterfront being desecrated with four 120-metre tow-
towers. ers shaped like crumpled Victorian dresses, to a low-cost
house in post-hurricane New Orleans (see Spotlight 9/09,
New directions:
Gehry’s design for page 22). “I’ve got a few men I respect very much, and one
the Guggenheim would be Frank Gehry,” Pitt told Vanity Fair. “He said to
in Abu Dhabi me, ‘If you know where it’s going, it’s not worth doing.’
hat’s become like a mantra for me.”

apprentice [E(prentIs] Lehrling

autograph [(O:tEgrA:f] Autogramm
billowing [(bIlEUIN] hier: wellenförmig
cone [kEUn] Kegel
crumple [(krVmp&l] Krumpeln, Zerdrücken
desecrate [(desIkreIt] entweihen; hier: verschandeln
doomed [du:md] gescheitert
laundry bag [(lO:ndri bÄg] Wäschebeutel
rail against [(reI&l E)genst] über jmdn./etw. schimpfen
scrunch up [skrVntS (Vp] zerknüllen
starry [(stA:ri] hier: berühmt
storey [(stO:ri] Stockwerk

2|14 Spotlight 25
 ARCHITECTURE | Frank Gehry

Former US Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton went as far as using
Gehry’s architecture as a metaphor
for where the world should be going.
“We need a new architecture for this
new world; more Frank Gehry than
formal Greek,” she told the audience
at the Council on Foreign Relations.
“Some of his work at first might ap-
pear haphazard, but in fact, it’s highly
intentional and sophisticated. Where
once a few strong columns could
hold up the weight of the world,
today we need a dynamic mix of ma-
terials and structures.”
So how did this Everyman — Where it all started: the house Gehry built for himself in Santa Monica, California
who dresses in T-shirts and loose
trousers to meet company chiefs — glass structures seem to explode, it development. His house attracted
end up being so popular with the was his manifesto. he neighbours crowds of young architects and critics.
global elite? An initial answer can be hated it so much that one of them It became his laboratory and show-
found on the corner of a street in regularly brought his dog to defecate room. As critic Beatriz Colomina said,
Santa Monica, California, where on the garden path. it is “the house that built Gehry”.
Gehry built his first project in 1978: he building burst on to the scene “He developed an incredible skill
a house for himself, which appears when boring mirror-glass modernism at making very sophisticated work
both to attack and swallow a simple was in vogue, standing out against with cheap materials,” says Jencks,
beige bungalow. California’s conservative architectural describing how Gehry would do “the
Wrapping the existing building in culture of anonymous office blocks. kind of B-movie jobs, like malls and
a cocktail of metal, wood and chain- Gehry’s street-style mix of cheap in- parking lots, that no other architect
link fencing, through which angular dustrial materials was a refreshing would touch.”

The Walt Disney angular [(ÄNgjUlE] eckig, kantig, winklig

Concert Hall B-movie [(bi: )mu:vi] hier: Billigproduktion
in Los Angeles chain-link fencing [)tSeIn lINk (fensIN] Maschendrahtzaun
defecate [(defEkeIt] sein Geschäft verrichten
haphazard [hÄp(hÄzEd] willkürlich, planlos, zufällig
manifesto [)mÄnI(festEU] öffentliche Erklärung
sophisticated [sE(fIstIkeItId] durchdacht, ausgeklügelt

In Barcelona:
Gehry’s playful
Fish sculpture
Fotos: A1PIX; alamy; F1 online; laif

26 Spotlight 2|14
 City highlight: When it was finished, neighbours discovered that the
Prague’s dancing building’s concave polished steel surfaces focused the sun-
building light into their apartments, leading to extremely high air-
conditioning bills. here was also the danger of blinding
passing drivers. Gehry’s office had to sand down the prob-
lematic areas of the exterior to prevent the glare.
Having done battle with the Walkie-Scorchie
“fryscraper” by Rafael Viñoly — who, somewhat omi-
nously, is also responsible for the Battersea Power Station
master plan — London, at least, should be ready for what-
ever Gehry decides to throw at it.
© Guardian News & Media 2013

A CLOSER LOOK

Walkie-Scorchie and “fryscraper” are popular names

for the skyscraper being built in central London at 20
Fenchurch Street. Originally called the “Walkie-Talkie”
building because of its unusual shape, its new names
came about when sunlight shining off of the mirror-
like exterior caused parts of a car parked nearby to
Jencks suggests that a key work was Gehry’s Fish sculp- melt. The building’s architect, Rafael Viñoly, has said
ture in Barcelona, created to jazz up the base of a boring that he is working on the problem.
hotel tower in the Olympic port in 1992. his was the first
time the architect employed computer-modelling software,
borrowed from the aerospace industry.
A curved steel skeleton covered with a shimmering
golden lattice, the Fish was designed using Catia, a
computer-aided three-dimensional interactive application
that has since become one of the basics for architectural
practices working with complex geometries. It has even
generated a completely separate branch of the office, now
formalized as Gehry Technologies. Modelling tools of this
kind also allowed the complex curves of Bilbao to be cre-
ated and linked up directly with the manufacturing
process — a breakthrough at the time.
Such innovative technology has its problems, however.
Costing two and a half times the original budget, Gehry’s
Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles,
launched in 1987 and finally completed in 2003, was the
subject of more than 10,000 requests for information from
the contractor to the architect, resulting in a legal dispute
that ended in an expensive settlement.

contractor [kEn(trÄktE] Bauunternehmer(in)

glare [gleE] grelles Licht
jazz sth. up [dZÄz (Vp] etw. aufpeppen
lattice [(lÄtIs] Gitternetz
legal dispute [(li:g&l dI)spju:t] Rechtsstreit
ominously [(QmInEsli] unheilverheißend
sand down [sÄnd (daUn] anschmirgeln
scorch [skO:tS] verschmoren, versengen
settlement [(set&lmEnt] (jur.) Vergleich, Regelung

A shining design:
London’s “fryscraper”
 AMY ARGETSINGER | I Ask Myself

“ By shocking
everyone,
she has made

What is wrong with herself a star

”
pop star Miley Cyrus?
Um im Showbusiness zu bestehen, greifen Stars immer tiefer in die
Trickkiste und landen dabei auch mal unter der Gürtellinie.

M iley Cyrus, whose songs are

topping the charts in the
United States this year, isn’t
much of a singer. Her songs aren’t
anything special either. While she has
a bright-eyed charisma, she’s not par-
ticularly pretty. And she doesn’t even
manage to compensate, as so many
less-than-great singers do, with dy-
namic dance movements. She’s just a
passable dancer, as good as you would
be if your job had required you to
take a few dance classes.
In short, for an entertainer, she’s
not really all that entertaining. his is
why I feel the need to defend Miley
Cyrus. It’s very fashionable in the US
these days to bash her. After she did
a lurid song-and-dance routine on an
MTV awards show last year, there has
been much debate and concern about
the 21-year-old star. Is she corrupting
our youth? Is she out of control?
Cyrus, wearing practically noth-
ing, waggled her tongue suggestively,
caressed herself and fellow performers
with an oversized foam finger, and
provocatively shook her rear end in a
dance move known as “twerking.”
Many adult viewers were shocked.
Just a few years ago, Cyrus was the
star of a children’s show. How could
she do this to her innocent young
fans? Others insisted the performance
was so bad that it was a career-ender.
“What’s wrong with her?” every-
one seemed to be asking. Forget, for
a second, that no one was asking the
same question of Robin hicke, the
older male pop idol who joined Miley
Cyrus on the stage, performing in a
routine they had obviously planned
together. His morals were not ques-
tioned, and no, that’s not fair.
As far as I’m concerned, Miley
Cyrus triumphed that night. Millions
of people watched her, fascinated.
he next morning, millions more
were talking about her. hat’s what is
seen as success in today’s pop music
scene — just as it was for Britney
Spears a decade ago, Madonna 30
years ago, or even the shock rockers
of the 1970s — like the demonic-
makeup-wearing group Kiss. In a
crowded celebrity marketplace, the
most important thing is to stand out.
With every year
bash sb. [bÄS]
that goes by, it’s harder
boast of sth. [(boUst Ev]
to do that: we’re no brazenly [(breIz&nli]
longer shocked by caress [kE(res]
punk rockers calling compensate (for) sth.
for anarchy or by rap- [(kA:mpEnseIt]
pers boasting of crim- corrupt sb. [kE(rVpt]
curse [k§:s]
inal records. Cyrus
foam [foUm]
succeeded in domi- lurid [(lUrEd]
nating the conversa- rear end [)rI&r (end] ifml.
tion, though. In one smear [smI&r]
of her recent videos, straddle sth. [(strÄd&l]
she is basically naked,
studded [(stVdId]
straddling a wrecking
waggle [(wÄg&l]
ball as it swings on a
chain. You can hardly wrecking ball [(rekIN bO:l]
remember the tune of the song when
it’s over, but you remember the pic-
tures. By shocking everyone, she has
made herself a star.
Now, my feelings towards Miley
Cyrus aren’t all warm. Last September,
she appeared on the cover of Rolling
Stone magazine in another brazenly
sexual pose. She was sticking out her
tongue, her heavy eye makeup
smeared, her ears studded with mul-
tiple rings, her arms barely covering her
naked chest. In the interview inside the
magazine, she cursed a lot and talked
openly about her drug use. A week or
so later, my husband and I learned
that the baby we were about to have
is a girl. We immediately thought
back to the Miley Cyrus cover.
“Is this a terrible world to be rais-
ing a girl in?” my husband asked.
Maybe, I replied. But for our daugh-
ter, Miley Cyrus will be a figure of the
distant past. Who knows what kind
of world we’ll be living in by the time
our child’s generation is on the covers
of magazines?
jmdn. scharf kritisieren
mit etw. prahlen
schamlos
streicheln
etw. wettmachen
jmdn. verderben
fluchen
Schaumstoff
grell, reißerisch
Hinterteil
verschmieren
mit gespreizten Beinen
auf etw. sitzen
hier: gepierct
wackeln, hin und
her bewegen
Abrissbirne
Foto: PR

Amy Argetsinger is a co-author of “The Reliable Source,” a column in The Washington Post about personalities.

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TRAVEL | Cook Islands

What to do on
 Atiu
Auf der winzigen Insel Atiu, die zu den
Cookinseln gehört, gibt es weit mehr zu
entdecken, als man sich vorstellen kann.
JIM EAGLES berichtet.
approval [E(pru:v&l]
Atiu [(Ätju:]
ban: ~ sb. from doing sth. [bÄn]
coconut shell [(kEUkEnVt Sel]
Fotos: Corbis; Mauritius; Getty Images
delighted [di(laItId]
dip in [dIp (In]
hint [hInt]
jungle [(dZVNg&l]
moist [mOIst]
pass sth. round [)pA:s (raUnd]
pour [pO:]
T he tropical night has fallen, thick and
black. As I start down the narrow jungle
track, I’m swallowed up in the hot, moist
smell of rainforest, with its flowery perfume and
the aroma of wet vegetation. From the darkness
on either side come the sounds of the jungle. I
feel a little bit nervous, but fortunately, the cheer-
ful lights and happy laughs of my destination are
just ahead through the trees.
At the end of the path is a small hut, open to
the jungle on three sides, where a dozen men are
sitting around a plastic bucket. hey seem de-
lighted to see me and quickly make room. A
young man sitting beside the bucket dips in a
small coconut-shell cup and then takes it out. It’s
filled with an orange liquid. He pours some back
before holding out the cup.
his is my first visit to a tumunu, a type of
drinking club found only on Atiu, so I agree to
try a small portion. I take the shell in one hand,
breathe in the aroma of the liquid, which is fruity,
then quickly drink it down. One of the men asks
me if the taste reminds me of anything. I suggest
that I may need to have some more before I can
really say what I think about it.
he others nod to show their approval and
pass the cup round. When I get the chance to
drink again, I concentrate more on how it tastes.
It’s sweet with a slight hint of orange. I can’t say
that it tastes like anything too familiar, but it does
have something in common with a light beer.
Apparently, the church here still strongly op-
poses tumunu. But the local chief of police sitting
next to me says that the drinking clubs are quite
a good thing for the islanders and that strict rules
have to be followed. “People who drink at the tu-
munu have to behave and mustn’t cause trouble
at home afterwards, otherwise they’ll be banned
from coming,” he says, smiling. “It has a very
good effect on behaviour.” Naturally — who
would want to miss out on the fun?
Atiu impressions: Taungaroro Beach; a local ukulele
player; clouds over the sea; and cloth being dyed
Zustimmung
jmdm. etw. verbieten
Kokosschale
erfreut
eintauchen
hier: Spur
Dschungel
feucht
etw. herumreichen
gießen
2|14 Spotlight 31
TRAVEL | Cook Islands

he tumunu is also a great

meeting place. On my first visit,
I sit next to Ina Mokoroa, the
Cook Islands’ government sec-
retary for Atiu, who talks enthu-
siastically about a project to
restore three marae (see Spotlight
12/13). hese traditional holy
places were abandoned after the
arrival of the missionaries. he
next day, he takes me to one of
them, Moko Ero Marae, where
a flat area the size of a football
field with stone walls and enclo-
sures on it has been carved out
of the jungle. I’m fascinated by
At the ancient marae: Ina Mokoroa explains the history a row of stone pillars made of Out at the tumunu:
stalagmites from the many caves nothing fancy, just
companionship and the
he history of this beer dates back nearly 200 years to on the island. local drink
when the first European missionaries arrived in the South
Pacific. hey quickly threw out the old religion and THE ISLAND OF ATIU
banned the traditional Polynesian narcotic drink of kava,
too. Maybe because they felt a bit bad about this, the mis- Atiu is one of the 15 small Cook Islands, a nation in the South
sionaries gave the islanders oranges. hen visiting whalers Pacific located halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand. Atiu
showed the Atiuans how to use the citrus fruit and a few is 187 kilometres north-east of Rarotonga, the main island and
other ingredients to make a sort of beer. national capital, and has a population of around 600.
As you might ex- In some places on Atiu, you can walk through the ancient
pect, the mis- coral reefs, called makatea, and explore caves that were once
sionaries were situated underwater. Quite different from many of the other
against the islands in the Pacific, Atiu has kept much of its forest. That is
orange beer one reason why it has more species of bird than any of the
as well. By this other Cook Islands.
time, though, the Atiu’s ancient name is Enuamanu, which some say means
Atiuans were no “island of birds”. Others, however, interpret the name as “island
longer in a coopera- of animals”, meaning that when the first Polynesian settlers ar-
tive mood. hey took rived here some 1,500 years ago, there were no other human
their beer and went inhabitants.
into the forest to Originally, the villages were on the coast. Following the ar-
drink. Today, the tra- rival of English missionaries in 1823, the people moved to the
dition lives on in a centre of the island, where the churches had been built.
half-dozen tumunu.
he one I’m visiting,
known as Tamariki te abandon [E(bÄndEn] verlassen
po nui — “the big night carve out of sth. aus etw. (heraus)hauen
boys” — is generally [kA:v (aUt Ev]
cave [keIv] Höhle (
p. 61)
thought to be the best.
coral reef [)kQrEl (ri:f] Korallenriff
enclosure [In(klEUZE] Einfriedung
Fotos: Corbis; J. Eagles; Getty Images

government secretary Minister(in)

Blowing a conch [)gVv&nmEnt (sekrEtEri]
shell to welcome ingredient [In(gri:diEnt] Zutat
visitors marae [mE(rVI] (maori) soziales und
religiöses Zentrum
narcotic [nA:(kQtIk] betäubend
pillar [(pIlE] Säule
whaler [(weI&lE] Walfänger

32 Spotlight 2|14
 A carving
on an old
stone grave

Next, we wander down

to a small lake to see frigate
birds, white-tailed tropic-
birds and grey ducks.
On the way, Birdman
George stops near some
trees and begins making
kissing noises again. He
explains that he’s calling the
kakerori and promises me
they’ll be here when we pass this spot
on the way back. Afterwards, there are
Part of island life: the church still has a strong influence on those who live here
two kakerori just where he said they
would be. I’m pleased, but George surprises me by telling
“What do you think those were used for?” asks Ina the birds off. “You can get closer than that,” he says. “Sit
Mokoroa. I have no idea. “hey were execution stones. Cap- on that branch. Oh, you’re not being very nice today.”
tured warriors were brought here, their heads were placed
on top of the pillar, then — boom — they were crushed
ancestor [(ÄnsestE] Vorfahr
with a rock.” Next he points to several stones lying in a lot
berry [(beri] Beere
of charcoal: “Umu stones used in cooking.” Did that mean branch [brA:ntS] Ast
the prisoners were executed and then cooked? “We don’t charcoal [(tSA:kEUl] Holzkohle
like to think about it,” he answers, “but probably.” chief [tSi:f] Stammesführer
Further into the marae is a raised area, framed by big coy [kOI] scheu, neckisch
blocks of coral, which is too holy to enter. Pointing to a crush [krVS] zerquetschen, zermalmen
stone about 50 centimetres high sitting in the middle of cuckoo [(kUku:] Kuckuck
digger [(dIgE] Bagger
the raised area, Ina Mokoroa tells me: “hat is the head of
drop in [drQp (In] vorbeikommen
their god.” Lying nearby is an enormous stalagmite, which endangered [In(deIndZEd] vom Aussterben bedroht
must be five metres long and at least one metre around at frigate bird [(frIgEt b§:d] Fregattvogel
its base. “hat was the body of the god.” How did the an- grey duck (Pacific black duck) Augenbrauenente
cient Atiu people carry a monster like that from a cave? [)greI (dVk]
“We don’t know,” he says. “It is very, very heavy. A few headdress [(heddres] Kopfschmuck
nickname [(nIkneIm] Spitzname
years ago, they tried to lift it back up into place with a
Pacific wood pigeon Pazifische Ringeltaube
12-tonne digger, but they couldn’t move it. Our ancestors [pE)sIfIk (wUd )pIdZEn]
must have been very strong.” plumage [(plu:mIdZ] Federkleid
he next day, I meet Birdman George, whose nick- ripe [raIp] reif
name comes from his work to save highly endangered shortage [(SO:tIdZ] Mangel
species, such as the kakerori and the kura. So warmly does tell off [)tel (Qf] ifml. jmdn. ausschimpfen
warrior [(wQriE] Krieger
George Mateariki feel towards his birds that, if he takes
wipe out [waIp (aUt] ausrotten
you for one of his walks in the forest, he starts making kiss-
ing noises. “Come on,” he calls. “I know your nest is there. George Mateariki, “Birdman George”, with a kakerori
Come out and say ‘hello’.” But the birds he’s
after, the kura, are feeling coy.
here’s no shortage of others. here are Pa-
cific wood pigeons eating ripe berries. A long-
tailed cuckoo from New Zealand drops in.
hen a kura arrives, its red plumage making a
big statement, and returns Birdman George’s
kiss. Kura were once common in Atiu, but their
bright feathers were in demand to provide
headdresses for chiefs, and they were wiped out.
However, they did survive on nearby Rimatara
in French Polynesia. In 2007, a group of people
from Atiu went there and were allowed to bring
back 27 birds. Today, there are thought to be
around a hundred on the island.
 TRAVEL | Cook Islands

hese birds represent another inspiring suc-

cess story. Found only on Rarotonga, where the
administrative capital of the Cook Islands is lo-
cated, they were almost wiped out by rats, until
in 1989, a pest-control programme began and
numbers went up dramatically. In addition, 30
were released on Atiu, where they have done well.
We see more birds as we walk back to Bird-
man George’s truck: a Mangaia kingfisher, a Pa-
cific golden plover and, the final triumph, the
rare Atiu swiftlet or kopeka, which nests only in
two caves on the island. he next day, I visit the
famous Anatakitaki Caves and see many more of
these birds: some 500 of them live there. Friendly faces: girls growing up in a village on Atiu
hat evening, with a few cups of bush beer
under his belt, George Mateariki is excited about our suc- more than 20 years, Roger has managed an often lonely
cess. “he kakerori didn’t behave very well, but we saw and frustrating campaign to attract tourists to Atiu. I think
them,” he said. “It was a good day, wasn’t it?” I say that I he deserves a drink. But Roger, ever the careful scientist,
agree, and we drink to that. warns that it’s unwise to have more than five cups — “or
I soon learn that bush beer isn’t the only special drink you may regret it in the morning”.
that can be enjoyed on the island. here’s also very good I’m pretty sure we had six or seven cups, but I can’t say
coffee. Like the oranges that go into the beer, coffee was there are any bad effects the next day. As we pack, I feel
introduced by the missionaries, but the industry did well fine.
only briefly. When Juergen Manske-Eimke arrived here
from Germany about 30 years ago, the plantations had belt: have under one’s ~ [belt] im Bauch, intus haben
long been abandoned. Today, his company, Atiu Coffee, briefly [(bri:fli] kurz
manages 39 hectares and also works together with small, ever [(evE] hier: ganz
independent growers. For 250 hours, the organic hand- grower [(grEUE] Anbauer, Erzeuger
kingfisher [(kIN)fISE] Königsfischer
picked beans are dried in the island’s hot sun. Before they
Pacific golden plover Pazifischer
are roasted, the beans are stored for at least half a year to [pE)sIfIk )gEUldEn (plVvE] Goldregenpfeifer
let the flavours develop. he result is 4.5 tonnes of coffee pest control [(pest kEn)trEUl] Schädlingsbekämpfung
that is sold online to people around the world. physicist [(fIzIsIst] Physiker(in)
On my last night on Atiu, I go back to the tumunu plantation [plA:n(teIS&n] Plantage
with Dr Roger Malcolm, a New Zealand physicist who, roast [rEUst] rösten
swiftlet [(swIftlEt] Salangane (Vogel aus der
with his Atiuan wife, Kura, built the island’s first tourist Familie der Segler)
accommodation, Atiu Villas. hat’s where I’m staying. For

The Anatakitaki Caves; fossilized coral on the coast

34 Spotlight 2|14
 Visitors come and go, but the cultural traditions of Atiu remain the same

At the airport, who should be there to check in our
bags, but the young man who was serving the bush beer
the night before. “Kia orana,” I greet him. “How’s your
head this morning?” His eyes look a bit red, and he smiles,
clearly a bit embarrassed.
embarrassed [Im(bÄrEst] verlegen
Behind him is the manager of the airport, Natua, the
head of the tumunu, who looks a lot more energetic. “Kia
orana,” I say. A man of few words, he smiles and gets on
with his job. But as we leave the terminal to walk to the
plane, he says farewell to us: “Haere ra. Come again soon.
We’ll see you at Tamariki te po nui.”
I’d like that. The rare and
colourful
kura

IF YOU GO...

Getting there Where to stay

Several airlines, including Air New Zealand, Qantas and
Emirates, fly from Europe to the South Pacific with a stop
on the way. There are flights into Rarotonga, the Cook Is-
lands’ capital, with Air New Zealand (from Auckland), with
Virgin Australia (from Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney)
and with Air Tahiti (from Papeete). Air Rarotonga flies be-
tween Rarotonga and Atiu every day except Sundays.
Palmerston
Aitutaki
Manuae
Mitiaro
Cook Islands
(southern group) Takutea
Atiu
Fotos: Corbis; Getty Images; G. McCormack; Karte: Nic Murphy
Atiu Villas has small houses for guests, plus a central
restaurant and bar. The owners are happy to organize vis-
its to local tumunu. See www.atiuvillas.com
About visiting Atiu
When we left Atiu, my wife and I were given a certificate,
documenting the fact that while we were there, we were
the only tourists on the island.
Atiu is not on the main tourist trail, though it does get
about 1,200 visitors a year, mainly from Germany, the
United States and New Zealand. That is only a tiny propor-
tion of the 130,000 tourists who arrive in the Cook Islands
every year, mainly visiting Rarotonga and Aitutaki, the two
Mauke most visited islands in the group.

0 150 km Avarua
Rarotonga The Cook Islands’ government recently opened a tourist
Mangaia
information office on Atiu. The number of places to stay
and tourist operators have increased, and there is a good
Solomon network of roads and walking tracks to places of interest,
Islands Tuvalu Tokelau Cook
Islands
(northern group)
including historic sites and beaches.
Samoa
Vanuatu Fiji Tahiti For more information on Atiu Coffee,
Niue
see www.atiu-coffee.com/en/coffee-order.php
Tonga Cook Islands
AUSTRALIA New
Caledonia (southern group)

Kermadec Islands More information

See http://cookislands.travel/atiu or www.atiu.info
0 1400 km New Zealand
Chatham Islands

2|14 Spotlight 35
 PETER FLYNN | Around Oz

We’re drinking less beer

Bier ist zwar das australische Nationalgetränk, doch es ist
teuer. Jetzt besinnen sich die Australier darauf, dass auch
ihre Weine nicht zu verachten sind. “ Beer costs
almost twice
as much as

W
in Europe

e Australians like to think of
ourselves as a nation of beer
drinkers, but consumption
has been declining for years. Recent
figures from the Bureau of Statistics
show that the amount of beer drunk
last year was the lowest since 1947.
Back in those times, there were
only a handful of beers to choose
from, and pubs closed at six in the
evening. he only women in pubs
were the barmaids. Beer brands rarely
crossed state borders, and it was not
until the mid-1960s that closing
times were extended to 10 p.m. across
the whole country.
Over the next 20 years, the brew-
ing industry consolidated into just
two major producers, who controlled
95 per cent of the market fairly
evenly between each other. hen sud-
denly, drinkers were able to buy
brands that had previously been sold
only in individual states.
he early 1980s was probably the
golden age for sellers of beer. I was
lucky enough to be working as a mar-
keting consultant to one of the two
big brewers as well as the hotel indus-
try generally.
he introduction of blood-
alcohol limits for driving a car —
and random breath testing by police
— put an end to those times. he
sales volume of beer from the keg was
suddenly dwarfed by the amount of
beer sold in bottles and cans to be
drunk at home.
Today, the two big brewers have
been taken over by global giants SAB
Miller, based in London, and Japan’s
Kirin Corporation. he biggest
Australian-owned brewery is 150-
year-old Coopers in South Australia,
which supplies about five per cent of
the domestic market. It’s the only big
producer to expand its sales and mar-
ket share in recent years.
he fact is that Coopers has always
made quality beer and has sold it at a
premium price. he Australian beer
market is worth more than A$ 10 bil-
lion (€7 billion) a year, so privately
owned Coopers Brewing is probably
worth about A$ 500 million.
he other big growth area in Aus-
tralia has been the number of bou-
tique or craft breweries. When I was
researching their likely market impact
for my clients in the mid-1980s,
there were only
seven micro-
”
breweries in the country; today, there
are more than 150. I correctly forecast
back then that they had the potential
to grab two per cent of national sales.
hey may produce low volumes, but
all charge premium prices.
In fact, the profit margins for
brewers in Australia are among the
highest in the world. So are our
prices: as much as double those in the
UK, Europe and America. he man-
ufacturers, though, like to blame gov-
ernment taxes. hese are high, but
not the main reason for high prices.
Typical Australian bottled beer
from major supermarkets costs the
equivalent of A$ 6 (€4) a litre. Tap
beer from the keg at pubs and clubs
sells for anything from A$ 5 to 10 for
a half-litre. Little wonder, then, that
wine does so well on the alcohol mar-
ket, making up 38 per cent of the
total alcohol consumed, compared to
41 per cent for beer. here’s plenty of
excellent Australian wine — red and
white — which is available for less
than A$ 20 a bottle.
Sure, beer is still the national
drink, but the value is in the grape.

brewing industry [(bru:IN )IndEstri] Brauindustrie

charge [tSA:dZ] hier: verlangen
consolidate [kEn(sQlIdeIt] (sich) zusammenschließen
craft brewery [)krA:ft (bru:Eri] Wirtshaus-, Kleinbrauerei
domestic market Inlandsmarkt
[dE)mestIk (mA:kIt]
dwarf [dwO:f] in den Schatten stellen
evenly [(i:v&nli] gleichmäßig
from the keg [)frEm DE (keg] vom Fass
grab sth. [grÄb] sich etw. schnappen
low volume [)lEU (vQlju:m] geringe Menge
profit margin [(prQfIt )mA:dZIn] Gewinnspanne
Foto: Alamy

random [(rÄndEm] willkürlich

tap beer [(tÄp bIE] gezapftes Bier

Peter Flynn is a public-relations consultant and social commentator who lives in Perth, Western Australia.

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 DEBATE | Canada

The problem
with prostitution
In Kanada entfacht das älteste Gewerbe der Welt heiße Diskussionen:
Überwiegen die Vor- oder Nachteile einer Legalisierung?

T hey say prostitution

is the world’s oldest
profession. It may
be its most controversial,
too. In Canada, prostitu-
human trafficking. A book called Invisible Chains, which
came out in 2010, has detailed the problem, citing gov-
ernment estimates that sex traffickers within the country
earn an average of C$ 280,000 (€195,000) each year from
a single victim under their control.
tion is currently the sub- Opponents of legalization point to Germany, often
ject of a great deal of called “Europe’s biggest brothel”, as an example of how
debate, with the Supreme things could go wrong. Since prostitution became legal in
Court ready to decide this country in 2002, a rise in the number of sex workers
later this year whether or has led to a massive fall in prices as well as “flat-rate” deals
not this well-established offered by brothels. his means that men can get all the
In danger: a prostitute on the streets commercial activity sex they want for a single low payment. here have also
should be legalized. been cases of women becoming virtual sex slaves after hav-
Under current laws, prostitution has an unusual legal ing come to Germany in search of a better life.
status. Being a prostitute is not illegal. However, nearly all Many opponents of legalization would like to follow
aspects of the job have been criminalized; for example, the example of Sweden, where it is illegal to buy sexual
running a brothel or working in one, the buying of sexual services, but not to sell them. Women in the trade are
acts, living off money earned through prostitution and given help with housing, job training and education. As a
communicating in public for the purpose of prostitution. result, street prostitution has greatly declined.
Supporters of legalization, led by an Ontario domina- Another example is New Zealand, where legalization
trix called Terri-Jean Bedford, think the current law puts was introduced in 2003. here has been no increase in the
prostitutes in danger by forcing them to work on the number of brothels, and instead of using their resources
streets. Bedford says that a change in the law would make to stop prostitution, the police can now focus on fighting
the activity safer and working conditions better. Organized the trafficking of people within the sex trade.
crime could be removed from this sector, giving sex work- A further aspect of this complex debate is the story of
ers control of their own lives. Canadian pig farmer Robert Pickton. He was a serial killer
On the other side of the debate are a number of who hunted prostitutes in downtown Vancouver. Sen-
women’s groups, some of which are campaigning against tenced to life imprisonment in 2007, Pickton claims to
have killed 49 women. he case acts as a powerful argu-
brothel [(brQT&l] Bordell ment for legalization, as it would contribute to the pro-
cite [saIt] anführen, nennen
tection of women in the trade. If legalization is to work,
criminalize [(krImIn&laIz] illegal machen, unter
Strafe stellen however, policymakers will need to ensure that they learn
decline [di(klaIn] zurückgehen from the experiences of other countries.
dominatrix [)dQmI(neItrIks] Domina
human trafficking [)hju:mEn (trÄfIkIN] Menschenhandel For legalization: Ontario campaigner Terri-Jean Bedford
Fotos: Corbis; Getty Images; L. Mallinder

live off sth. [(lIv Qf] von etw. leben

sentence sb. to life imprisonment jmdn. zu einer lebens-
[)sentEns tE )laIf Im(prIz&nmEnt] langen Haftstrafe
verurteilen
serial killer [(sIEriEl )kIlE] Serienmörder(in)
sexual act [)sekSuEl (Äkt] sexuelle Handlung
Supreme Court [su)pri:m (kO:t] N. Am. Oberster Gerichtshof
virtual [(v§:tSuEl] hier: wirklich, faktisch
well-established [)wel I(stÄblISt] gut eingeführt

38 Spotlight 2|14
 Listen to Paul, Sharron, Gina and JC Laurence
Lorraine Mallinder asked people in Montreal, Canada:

Should prostitution be legalized?

Paul Dougall, 47, Sharron Thomas, 29,
teacher shop manager

Gina Stewart, 70, JC Laurence, 43,

shopworker cook

Victor Fandrey, 49, Eliane Legault-Roi, 29,

technician social activist

Svetlana Ivanova, 33, Martin Dufresne, 67,

student translator

abuse [E(bju:z] missbrauchen pimp [pImp] Zuhälter(in)

consent [kEn(sent] zustimmen put sth. to better use etw. besser verwenden
exploitation [)eksplOI(teIS&n] Ausbeutung [)pUt tE )betE (ju:s]
hooker [(hUkE] N. Am. ifml. Prostituierte(r) translator [trÄns(leItE] Übersetzer(in)
no matter what [)nEU )mÄtE (wQt] in jedem Fall you might as well [ju )maIt Ez (wel] du könntest ebenso gut

2|14 Spotlight 39
 HISTORY | 50 Years Ago
1975: Ali fights
Frazier in
the Philippines Boxing champion
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali war nicht nur Weltmeister im Schwergewichts-
boxen, er machte auch als Kriegsgegner und Menschenrechtler
von sich reden. Ein Bericht von MIKE PILEWSKI.

F ifty years
ago, in Feb-
ruary 1964,
Muhammad Ali
became the
ain’t got [eInt (gA:t] ifml.
dazed [deIzd]
defeat [di(fi:t]
donate [(doUneIt]
hier: nicht haben
benommen
besiegen
spenden, schenken
float [floUt] schweben
world heavy- insult [In(sVlt] beleidigen
weight boxing cham- punch [pVntS] Schlag
pion. he greatest fight of his career was, quarrel [(kwA:rEl] Streit
however, only one of many fights in his life — for justice, reigning [(reInIN] hier: amtierend
reputation [)repjE(teIS&n] Ruf
for equality, for what he believed in, and for his health.
sting [stIN] stechen
he man known today as Muhammad Ali was born in theft [Teft] Diebstahl
Louisville, Kentucky, on January 17, 1942. Cassius Mar- whup sb. [wUp] N. Am. ifml. jmdm. eine reinhauen,
cellus Clay, as he was called then, was not only the name jmdn. verdreschen
of his father, but also that of a well-known anti-slavery
politician from Kentucky in the 19th century. weight champion Sonny Liston in Miami Beach. Clay told
At the age of 12, Cassius got his start in boxing when reporters that his opponent “smells like a bear. After I beat
his bicycle was stolen. He reported the theft to a local po- him, I’m going to donate him to the zoo.” hen he ex-
liceman, Joe E. Martin, telling him he wanted to “whup” plained his strategy: “I’ll float like a butterfly, sting like a
the thief. Martin, who was also a boxing coach, suggested bee. Your hands can’t hit what your eyes can’t see.”
that Clay learn how to box first. For six years, he trained Clay was indeed able to move quickly out of the way
and fought, winning six state titles and three national ti- whenever Liston tried to hit him, and he got in some
tles. He even earned a gold medal at the 1960 Olympic punches when Liston wasn’t expecting them. After six
Games in Rome. rounds, Liston was too dazed to continue fighting, and
Although Cassius Clay was a national hero, his skin 22-year-old Clay became the youngest boxer to take the
color prevented him from being treated as such; a title from a reigning heavyweight champion. “I must be
restaurant in Kentucky refused to serve him. the greatest,” Clay said after the fight.
In his 1975 autobiography, he wrote that He had some other news as well: he had joined the
this made him so angry he threw his Nation of Islam, a black-power organization. One of
medal in the Ohio River (though it was the Nation’s teachings was to get rid of the family
later said he lost the medal instead). names that slave owners had given African-Americans.
Clay moved to a black neighbor- So Cassius Clay took a new name: Muhammad Ali.
hood in Miami and began his profes- hree years later, his political views gained him
sional career. For three years, further attention when he
he defeated one boxer refused to join the army
after another — 19 in all and fight in Vietnam.
— with 15 knockout “I ain’t got no quar-
wins and no losses. his rel with the Viet
Fotos: action press; Sports Illustrated

brought him to the top Cong,” he told the

of professional boxing. press. For his
He also earned a reputa- protest, Ali’s title
tion for arrogance and in- was taken away,
sulting his opponents. as were his box-
On February 25, 1964, ing license and
Clay was to fight heavy- his passport.
40 Spotlight 2|14 “The greatest”:
Ali in the 1970s

He was supposed to spend five years in prison. However,
the case went to the US Supreme Court, which in 1971
supported Ali in an 8–0 decision.
Back in the ring, Ali attempted to regain the title of
heavyweight champion by fighting “Smokin’ Joe” Frazier
at New York’s Madison Square Garden in what was called
“the fight of the century.” Both men were undefeated; the
prize money of $2.5 million each was a record sum. After
15 brutal rounds, Frazier won. Two years later, Ali met de-
feat a second time, when Ken Norton broke his jaw.
In 1974, Ali made his comeback — first against Frazier,
then against a new champion, George Foreman, in Kin-
shasa, Zaire. Ali’s insults, once full of hate, had now become
poetry. Before the match against Foreman, Ali said, “I done
wrestled with an alligator. I done tussled with a whale;
handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail. Only last
week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a
brick; I’m so mean I make medicine sick!”
In Zaire, Ali tried an unconventional strategy — lying
against the ropes and letting his opponent hit him long
brick [brIk] Ziegelstein
done wrestled [)dVn (res&ld] ringen
N. Am. slang = have wrestled
handcuff [(hÄndkVf] in Handschellen legen
hospitalize [(hA:spIt&laIz] krankenhausreif schlagen
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In Zaire: Ali makes
a comeback in 1974
enough to become tired. Foreman
did in fact lose strength, and Ali came
back, hitting him harder and harder,
and finally knocking him out.
he following year, Ali fought Joe
Frazier one more time, in Manila, in
one of the toughest matches ever. Ali
won, but only narrowly. In later matches, it became clear
that he was losing strength. He began to suffer from
Parkinson’s disease, thought to have been caused in part
by all the blows to his head. Ali retired from boxing in
1981. he disease was diagnosed in 1984.
In spite of his once controversial politics, Ali has been
a goodwill ambassador for the US government, the United
Nations, and the Olympics. His story was told in the 2001
film Ali, in which he was played by Will Smith.
he former boxer is still alive, though greatly weakened
by his illness. In 1997, he helped to establish the Muham-
mad Ali Parkinson Center, which provides the latest treat-
ment, in Phoenix, Arizona, where he now lives.
jaw [dZO:] Kiefer
mean [mi:n] N. Am. böse, gemein
Supreme Court [su)pri:m (kO:rt] US Oberster Gerichtshof
tussle [(tVs&l] raufen
whale [weI&l] Wal
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 PRESS GALLERY | Comment

Hard times: too few jobs

are available for
educated young people

Learning,
but not
earning
Die Arbeitssituation der jungen Generation ist allgemein nicht rosig; selbst mit
Hochschulbildung haben es Berufsanfänger auch nicht leicht.

G rowing up is always tough, and it is tougher than

ever in a recession that eats away at decent jobs.
Not many of the million or so 16- to 24-year-olds
who don’t go to college and don’t have a job are wilfully
idle. But it’s hard to get a job when you’ve had no experi-
and half of new graduates have taken non-graduate jobs,
shrinking everyone else’s options even further. ...
here are two crises going on here, and it’s not clear
whether they’ll persist through economic recovery. he
first is that the number of graduates is rising but the num-
ence, and harder still when you don’t have the right qual- ber of graduate-level jobs is still below the level it had
ifications. Both can be the unavoidable consequence of reached in the year before the crash. Nearly half of those
being young. So nearly one in five young people is unem- who [have] graduated since 2008 are working in the no-
ployed. he difficulties of the underqualified are com- toriously low-paid retail and care sectors. ... But econo-
pounded when the latest data from the Student Loans mists reckon it could take at least 15 years, about a third
company, which monitors graduate incomes, shows that of a working life, for those who left university during the
each year since the recession, new graduates are taking recession years to catch up.
lower-paid jobs than those who graduated the year before All the same, graduates are still more likely to be work-
ing — nearly nine out of 10 have jobs
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eat away at sth. [)i:t E(weI Et] etw. annagen, wegfressen
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“A levels” (corresponding to Abitur or Matura) are usual- letters: PIGS. The article observes that more migrants are
ly taken at the age of 18. They now arriving in Britain from these countries than from
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of Secondary Education) “pigs can fly” or “pigs might fly” is used ironically when
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in the making [In DE (meIkIN] im Werden, im Entstehen
participant [pA:(tIsIpEnt] Beteiligte(r)
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publishing [(pVblISIN] hier: im Verlagswesen, als
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| Drama
The Butler is the story of Cecil
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from a childhood on a plantation to a
job as the White House butler, serving
eight presidents. In the background is
the bigger story of race politics in the US
over the past 70 years. While Gaines and
his wife, Gloria (Oprah Winfrey), are the
(mostly) silent observers of history in
the making, their sons are active partic- Race politics in
ipants: one dies in Vietnam, the other the US
joins the civil-rights movement. The attitudes and tension
in the Gaines’ home are like a series of snapshots of African-
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American history. Available in Germany from 27 February.
pull apart [pUl E(pA:t] auseinanderreißen, trennen
reveal [ri(vi:&l] offenbaren
screenplay [(skri:npleI] Drehbuch
silent [(saIlEnt] schweigend, stumm
snapshot [(snÄpSQt] Schnappschuss
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media, such as famous paintings, books and films,
have encouraged critics to call him an installation
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2|14 Spotlight 45
 ARTS | Short Story and Books

No sense of direction
Douglas hält seine Frau gerne klein und unwissend. Doch genau das bricht ihm auf einer
Bergtour das Genick. VANESSA CLARK erzählt.

V alerie has no sense of direction,” Douglas had said

to friends at a dinner party. “She couldn’t read a
map if her life depended on it, could you, love? Do
you remember that time when we were driving to Scotland
and you had the map upside down? We nearly ended up
in Cornwall!” he other husbands around the dinner table
had laughed politely, but Valerie could feel the embarrass-
ment in the smiles of the wives. hey felt sorry for her —
not because she couldn’t read a map, but because her hus-
band was such a chauvinist. He must be a real pig to put
his wife down in front of other people like that. She could
feel them thinking: “Why does she put up with it?”
So, why did she put up with it? Well, Douglas wasn’t
so bad. He had a lot of good points, too. He worked hard;
he earned good money; he was an active father with their
two sons, and he took care of his elderly father. He liked
being the “man of the house”. His manliness was both his
strength and his weakness. He just wasn’t very good with
women. It wasn’t his fault. He had been brought up with
three brothers and had gone to a boys’ school.
It wasn’t entirely true that Valerie couldn’t read a map.
Of course she could. But when Douglas was leaning over
her, breathing down her neck, her confidence failed, and
she made mistakes. It was the same with driving the car,
booking holidays and dealing with their bank accounts.
It was easier to let Douglas take charge. He did it all so
competently and en-
joyed doing it, so
why should she
mind? he only thing
she wished was that he
wouldn’t laugh at
her in front of
other people. It
was so humiliating.
his week, they had been preparing for their walking
holiday in the Welsh mountains. Douglas had bought
complicated camping equipment, ropes and a high-tech
survival kit from the outdoor shop in town. He was very
pleased with the hiking maps that he’d downloaded on to
his smartphone and a new first-aid app. “You have to be
prepared for all eventualities in the mountains,” he’d said.
“You can die out there if you don’t take care.”
Valerie wouldn’t have chosen February as the ideal time
for a walking holiday. It was cold, icy cold, with a bitter
wind that promised snow. hey had chosen (or rather,
Douglas had chosen) one of the more remote paths in the
Snowdonia National Park.
Douglas had led the way up the mountain, following
the map on his smartphone. here were very few other
walkers on the path. Who else would go hiking in this
weather? As Valerie had walked a few yards behind her
husband on the narrow, winding path, she had felt cold
and lonely. He had turned back and called to her, waving
his phone, but she couldn’t hear him. he wind was whip-
ping away his words. “What did you say?”
“I said that they must have designed these
phones for women like you. It doesn’t matter
which way I hold it, the map always turns
itself the right way up on screen. Not even
you could get lost!” And he had laughed
at his own joke.
A lot happened in the next few hours
— a dramatic fall, cries for help
from below, then
darkness until
the arrival of a
walker the next
morning who
could send for a

both ... and... [bEUT (Änd] sowohl ... als auch... manliness [(mÄnlinEs] Männlichkeit
breathe down: ~ sb.’s neck hier: jmdm. über die Schulter mind sth. [maInd] etw. gegen etw. haben
[(bri:D )daUn] gucken put sb. down [pUt (daUn] jmdn. herabsetzen,
chauvinist [(SEUvEnIst] Macho, Sexist demütigen
elderly [(eldEli] ältlich, betagt put up with sth. [pUt (Vp wID] sich etw. gefallen lassen
embarrassment [Im(bÄrEsmEnt] Verlegenheit remote [ri(mEUt] abgelegen
entirely [In(taIEli] vollständig, komplett sense of direction [)sens Ev daI&(rekS&n] Orientierungssinn
first aid [)f§:st (eId] Erste Hilfe take charge [teIk (tSA:dZ] die Leitung übernehmen
get lost [get (lQst] sich verirren upside down [)VpsaId (daUn] verkehrt herum
humiliating [hju(mIlieItIN] demütigend whip [wIp] peitschen
Fotos: iStock

laugh at sb. [(lA:f Et] jmdn. auslachen, verhöhnen winding [(waIndIN] kurvenreich

46 Spotlight 2|14
 Short Story

rescue team. For Valerie, however, it was a time of sitting

and waiting.
Perhaps she could have set off alone to find help — but
she didn’t have a sense of direction, did she? Perhaps she
could have used the map to find her way — but she
couldn’t read a map, could she? And anyway, the maps
were on Douglas’s phone at the bottom of the rocks. Per-
haps she could have used some of Douglas’s climbing
equipment to try to help him back up — but he had never
shown her how to use it. Perhaps she could have set off
one of his emergency flares — but they were in his ruck-
sack, now lying underneath his broken body.
“I couldn’t do anything,” Valerie explained to a friend
later, when she was back at home. “I just sat there,
wrapped in one of those aluminium thermal blankets, ate
some bars of chocolate and read a book by the light of my
head torch, until someone found us.”
“Chocolate and a book?” asked her friend with a sur-
prised look. “Wasn’t that lucky that you had something to
do during the wait?”
“Yes, wasn’t it?” answered Valerie. “Well, you have to
be well prepared for all eventualities in the mountains, you
know. Douglas taught me that.”

Biography

“The stars are not wanted now: put out every one” wrote the
English poet W. H. Auden in sorrow over the death of a friend.
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Princeton, ISBN 978-0-
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To the outside world, it seems as if
Tobias James is a successful busi-
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started his own company, things
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Death Wasn’t the Deal, detectives Roberta Nettles and
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uncover a web of intrigue and lies. This B1 easy reader has
translated words on every page, language exercises on every
second page and a nine-page final test. It also comes with
an audio CD. Compact Verlag,
ISBN 978-3-8174-8968-8, €7.99.

emergency flare [i(m§:dZEnsi fleE] Notsignal, Notfackel set off [set (Qf] sich auf den Weg machen
entitle [In(taIt&l] betiteln, benennen sorrow [(sQrEU] Trauer
head torch [(hed tO:tS] UK Stirnlampe suspect [(sVspekt] Verdächtige(r)
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 LANGUAGE | Vocabulary

Winter vegetables
Which vegetables are in season in winter? ANNA HOCHSIEDER presents language to talk about
an important source of vitamins at this cold time of year.

2
1
5

3
6
15
4
14

13 12
7

10 9
11 8

1. sweet potato 6. cabbage [(kÄbIdZ] 11. turnip

2. parsnip [(pA:snIp] 7. cauliflower [(kQli)flaUE] 12. celery
3. pumpkin 8. fennel 13. chard
4. beetroot [(bi:tru:t] (UK), 9. chicory [(tSIkEri] (UK), 14. leek
beet (US) endive [(endaIv] (US) 15. Brussels sprouts
5. marrow [(mÄrEU] (UK) 10. celeriac [sE(leriÄk] [)brVs&lz (spraUts]

Comfort food

In the cold season, a healthy diet rich in vitamins and
minerals is particularly important. here is a larger
choice of vegetables available at this time of year than
many people think. Winter greens, such as Brussels
sprouts, cabbage and chard, are at their best now. You
will also find plenty of root vegetables in the shops; for
others are harvested in autumn. Pumpkin, for example,
is a tender plant, which means that it cannot survive frost.
It is harvested in September and October, but will keep
for several months if stored in a cool, dry place.
While most winter vegetables are best cooked, a few,
like celery and chicory, are typically eaten raw. Others can
Illustration: Bernhard Förth

example, parsnips, turnips and sweet potatoes. be preserved in vinegar or salt for later use. his process
Many of the vegetables we think of as winter varieties is called pickling. Before the invention of the refrigerator,
are not actually grown in winter. Some, such as cabbage, pickled vegetables were an important source of nutrients
are hardy and can tolerate below-zero temperatures; in winter. Sauerkraut is a well-known example.

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Practice
Now try some exercises to practise talking about winter vegetables.

1. Which vegetables are described below? You can find them all on the opposite page.

a) It’s large and heavy, with a hard, orange skin, and it’s a symbol of Halloween: _______________.
b) It’s a long, green vegetable that looks like a much larger version of what’s known as a courgette in the UK or zucchini
in the US: _______________.
c) They’re little green balls that grow on long, thick stalks and look like very small cabbages: _______________.
d) It’s a root vegetable with a slightly pink or orange skin and is sometimes confused with the yam: _______________.
e) It’s a light-green vegetable that can be eaten raw or cooked and which produces sweet-tasting seeds: _______________.

2. Which one doesn’t belong? Underline
one vegetable in each group (a–c) that is
different from the others.
a) Brussels sprouts | cabbage | chard | fennel
b) beetroot | leek | parsnip | turnip
c) cauliflower | celery | pumpkin | sauerkraut
3. Underline the correct verb in the sentences below.
a) Please finish the chicory, darling. It won’t hold / keep.
b) How do you normally hold / store your tomatoes? Do you
put them in the fridge?
c) You have to harvest / pickle marrow before the
first frost.
d) We used to buy all our vegetables, but now we try to grow /
pick our own.

4. Match the sentence halves below to complete the definitions. Tips

Comfort food — the title of the
text on the opposite page — is food
a) Hardy plants a  1. often taste slightly sour.
that makes you feel good; for
b) Tender plants b  2. can live outside in winter. example, if you are ill, unhappy or
c) Raw vegetables c  3. need protection from the cold. simply sensitive to the cold.
d) Pickled vegetables d  4. have not been cooked. The verb comfort means to make
someone feel better by being kind
to him or her. Comfort food is often
associated with the type of food
5. Complete the sentences below with four words from the box.
that is traditionally prepared and
that we enjoyed as children.
nutrients | refrigerator | shops | source | vinegar

a) I try to feed my family a healthy diet that is rich in _______________.

b) Sauerkraut is a great _______________ of vitamin C.
c) Beetroot can be preserved in _______________ for use in winter.
d) Sweet potatoes should not be stored in the _______________.

Answers
1. a) pumpkin; b) marrow (courgette [kO:(Zet]: Zucchini); c) Brussels sprouts (stalk [stO:k]: Stiel, Strunk); d) sweet potato (yam [jÄm]: Jamswurzel ); e) fennel
2. a) fennel (the other three are greens (Blattgemüse)); b) leek (the other three are root vegetables (Wurzelgemüse)); c) sauerkraut (this is not a vegetable, but a
dish made with a vegetable)
3. a) keep (sich halten, frisch bleiben); b) store (aufbewahren); c) harvest (ernten); d) grow (anbauen)
4. a–2 (hardy: winterhart); b–3 (tender: nicht winterhart); c–4 (raw: roh); d–1 (pickled: eingelegt)
5. a) nutrients (Nährstoffe; diet: hier: Ernährung); b) source (Quelle); c) vinegar (Essig); d) refrigerator (Kühlschrank)

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 LANGUAGE | Travel Talk
Going to an
art exhibition
See some great art in London. RITA FORBES
takes you there.
So much to choose from
Dear Alice
I can’t wait for you to come to London next week. You
said you’d like to see some art, so I picked up a copy
of Time Out. here’s a lot for us to choose from. At
Tate Modern, there’s a Paul Klee exhibition that peo-
ple say is brilliant. The Queen’s Gallery has a collec-
tion of works by someone called Castiglione — he’s a
Baroque Italian painter and a colourful character, it
seems — as well as some contemporary art given to
the queen for her diamond jubilee. Or we could go to
the National Gallery. I haven’t been there for ages. Let
me know what you think.
Love
Josie
At Tate Modern
I’m so glad you suggested the Klee exhibition, Josie.
Wasn’t it great? I loved the colours and the playful
forms. Some paintings were so intricate, you could
spend hours looking at them.
And he was so prolific! It’s fascinating to see how
his work evolved.
Yes. So, what now? Shall we have a coffee, and then
have a peek at the collection displays?
At the National Gallery
Excuse me. Could you tell us where to find the ex-
hibition on the German Renaissance?
Yes, it’s in the Sainsbury Wing. Here’s a floor plan.
See? Right here, on level two.
hank you! So it looks as if we could walk through
the collection of 16th-century paintings first. Shall
we see if we can find a Michelangelo, Alice?
copy [(kQpi] Exemplar
diamond jubilee [)daIEmEnd (dZu:bIli:] 60. Thronjubiläum
evolve [i(vQlv] sich entwickeln
for ages [fE (eIdZIz] seit einer Ewigkeit
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Tips
• Art is usually an uncountable noun (unzählbares
Substantiv).
• Time Out is a free weekly magazine with listings
(Verzeichnis) of cultural events, shopping and
entertainment. It offers online listings for 60 major
cities around the world. See www.timeout.com
• Tate Modern is Britain’s biggest gallery of modern
art. Located in an old power station (Kraftwerk) on the
Thames, it shows works dating from 1900 to the pres-
ent. More than five million people visited it in 2012.
• The Swiss-German artist Paul Klee (1879–1940) had
connections to the Blaue Reiter and the Bauhaus.
The Tate’s Klee exhibition runs until 9 March 2014.
Admission costs £16.50 for adults.
The Queen’s Gallery is a public gallery in Bucking-
•
ham Palace. Admission is £9.50 and includes an audio
guide. The exhibition changes every few months.
• Baroque is an ornate (kunstvoll, überladen) style of
art, music and architecture from the 17th and 18th
centuries.
• Contemporary art is art created in the present.
• The National Gallery is in Trafalgar Square. It
contains more than 2,300 paintings, which date from
the 13th to the 19th centuries. Admission is free, and
the gallery is open 361 days a year.
If something is intricate, it is very detailed and
•
complex.
• Prolific describes a person who creates a large
number of things. Klee produced about 10,000
drawings and paintings, and the Tate exhibition
shows more than 130 of them.
• A peek is a quick look.
• Admission is free to Tate Modern’s main exhibitions,
which are called collection displays.
• Like a bird, a building can have wings — parts that
spread out from the main area.
A floor plan is a map showing the position of the
•
rooms on different floors of a building.
• You might hear someone say “a Michelangelo”
Fotos: iStock
(or “a Rembrandt”, or “a van Gogh”) when talking about
a work by that artist.
 Cards | LANGUAGE

NEW WORDS GLOBAL ENGLISH

flash fiction What would a speaker of British

English say?
Twitter is a good medium for flash fiction in its
most extreme form. North American: “My mom hasn’t gotten used
to the idea yet.”

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(IN)FORMAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Which letter ending is more formal? Translate the following sentences:

1. Best regards 1. Ich habe meinem Bruder €20 geliehen.

2. Yours sincerely 2. Ich habe mir von meinem Bruder €20 geliehen.

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PRONUNCIATION IDIOM MAGIC

Ching Yee Smithback

Read the following words aloud:

foreign foreigner

gnarly (knorrig) gnaw (nagen)

ignite (entzünden) ignorant

well heeled
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FALSE FRIENDS GRAMMAR

bank / Bank Translate these sentences, using the

phrase “there’s no use”:
Translate the following sentences: 1. Es ist zwecklos, den Chef danach zu fragen.
1. The stone rolled down the bank and into 2. Es hat keinen Zweck zu versuchen,
the river. ihn anzurufen.

2. Wir saßen nebeneinander auf der Bank.

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 LANGUAGE | Cards

GLOBAL ENGLISH NEW WORDS

British speaker: “My mum hasn’t got used to
the idea yet.”
Informal British English “mum” [mVm] has the
same vowel (Selbstlaut) sound as “mother”, even
though the words are spelled with different vow-
els. The spelling of North American “mom” [mA:m]
contains the same vowel as “mother”, but they
have different vowel sounds. The historical past
participle “gotten” fell out of use in British English.
Flash fiction is a genre of short-story writing that
is extremely brief — typically a few hundred
words or fewer. It is said that Ernest Hemingway
once wrote an extreme form of flash fiction — a
six-word novel: “For sale, baby shoes, never
worn.”

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TRANSLATION (IN)FORMAL ENGLISH

1. I lent my brother €20.
2. I borrowed €20 from my brother.
German leihen has two separate translations
in English: “lend” (sth. to sb.) and “borrow”
(sth. from sb.).
The more formal letter ending is:
2. Yours sincerely
In US English, there is always a comma after this
closing of a letter. The comma is often left out in
British English. “Yours sincerely” is used when the
letter is addressed to a person by name; for
example, “Dear Mr Brown”, but not “Dear Sir”.

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IDIOM MAGIC PRONUNCIATION

Well heeled is an informal expression meaning [(fQrEn] [(fQrEnE]
“wealthy”. An equivalent in German might be [(nA:li] [nO:]
gut betucht. [Ig(naIt] [Ig(nErEnt]

“We visited some well heeled friends of ours in the At the beginning or end of a word or stem
Bahamas last Christmas.” (Stamm), the letter “g” is silent (stumm) when it
comes before “n”. Within a word, however, the
“g” is spoken, as in “ignite” and “ignorant”.

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GRAMMAR FALSE FRIENDS

1. There’s no use asking the boss about it. 1. Der Stein rollte das Ufer hinunter in den
Fluss.
2. There’s no use trying to call him.
2. We sat / were sitting next to each other on
The construction there’s no use or it’s no use is the bench.
followed by the -ing form.

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Listen to dialogues 1 and 2
A car breakdown
This month, DAGMAR TAYLOR looks at the
words and phrases people use when they talk
about car breakdowns.
1. Not a good start
Becky and Dean are driving to York to visit their
friend Dave. They haven’t got very far, when...
Becky: (strange engine noises) Why’s the car doing that?
Dean: You mean the juddering? I think you’d better
pull over. Switch the hazard lights on.
Becky: Oh, yeah, right. his is not good.
Dean: Did you fill up with kangaroo petrol or some-
thing?
Becky: Oh, my God! I know what I’ve done. I filled
it up with petrol instead of diesel.
Dean: Oh, no! You didn’t! I can’t believe it!
Becky: I did. I am such an idiot. he last time I filled
up, it was my dad’s car. hat takes unleaded. I
wasn’t thinking. Oh, God! What are we going
to do now?
Dean: Just keep calm. Breathe deeply! Now, are you
a member of the AA?
Becky: Oh, right. he AA. Yes, I am. Now, where did
I put my card...?
T ips
• If a car is shaking and vibrating forcefully (stark),
you can say it is juddering.
• When you want to tell someone what you think he or
she should do, you can say you had better...: “You’d
better stop the car. That doesn’t sound right.”
• When a motorist pulls over, he or she drives to the
side of the road.
• Hazard lights are a car’s flashing orange lights that
warn other drivers of possible danger.
• When you put fuel in the petrol tank of your car, you
fill (it) up.
• Petrol is the liquid that cars need to function. Even
though it’s a liquid, in the US, it’s called “gas”.
• Unleaded means unleaded petrol (bleifreies Benzin).
• AA [eI (eI] stands for Automobile Association. The AA
provides breakdown insurance (Pannenversicherung)
for motorists in Britain, who can then receive help
when their car has a mechanical failure.
Fotos: BananaStock; iStock
engine noises [(endZIn )nOIzIz] Motorengeräusche
kangaroo petrol Känguru-Benzin (minderwer-
[)kÄNgE(ru: )petrEl] UK ifml. tiges Benzin, das Ruckeln des
Motors verursachen kann)
Everyday English | LANGUAGE
2. A call for help
Dean has called the AA and is telling Becky about
the conversation.
Becky: What did they say?
Dean: It’s OK. Apparently, this happens all the time,
and they have vans specially for this problem.
Becky: What? Really?
Dean: Yeah. hey’re going to send one.
Becky: When will it get here?
Dean: In about 20 minutes to half an hour.
Becky: hat’s not too bad.
Dean: Before I was put through, I had to listen to a
safety announcement. It said that we should
wait for assistance well away from the vehicle,
or in the car with our seat belts on. Have you
got one of those warning triangles?
Becky: Yes. In the boot. I think I’ve got a high-vis
vest somewhere...
s
Tip
• Becky uses they, because she doesn’t know
whether Dean spoke to a man or a woman.
• The AA has a special service called “fuel assist”.
The technicians usually drive a yellow van — a vehicle
for transporting goods, equipment or a lot of people.
• When you are put through on the telephone, you are
connected to the person you want to talk to.
• If you are well away from a place or a thing, you are
at a good distance from it.
• In the UK, motorists are advised not to use warning
triangles on motorways. You can read such advice in
the Highway Code, a guidebook for road users in the
UK — also online: gov.uk/highway-code
• Having high-visibility clothing (Sicherheitswarnkleidung)
in your car, such as neon-yellow high-vis(ibility)
vests, is not compulsory (obligatorisch) in the UK.
announcement [E(naUnsmEnt] Ansage
apparently [E(pÄrEntli] offenbar (
p. 61)
boot [bu:t] UK Kofferraum
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 LANGUAGE | Everyday English
3. Can you fix it?
The AA man comes to the rescue.
AA man: Hi, there! I believe you misfuelled.
Becky: Yes. I’m very embarrassed.
AA man: Don’t worry. It happens all the time. We’ll
soon have you back on the road.
Becky: So you won’t need to tow us to the garage?
AA man: Well, nine times out of ten we can fix the
vehicles at the side of the road. Sometimes,
the pump is damaged. How far have you
driven since you misfuelled?
Becky: Only a few miles. We stopped as soon as the
engine started to judder.
AA man: OK. I’m going to empty your petrol tank
and clean it. hen it’ll be OK to refuel.
• It’s common to refer to an employee using
his or her company’s name, as with the AA man.
• When mis- is at the front of verbs and nouns, it means
bad(ly) or wrong(ly), as in misfuelled.
• By on the road, the AA man means “driving” or
“travelling”.
• You tow a car when you pull it behind another vehicle
with a rope or a chain.
• In English, a garage can be the building in which you
keep your car or the place you take your car to be
repaired. In the UK, “garage” is pronounced both as
[(gÄrA:Z] and [(gÄrIdZ], and in the US as [gE(rA:Z].
• Fix means “repair” or “correct”.
• It’s possible to say either “by the roadside” or at the
side of the road.
• When you fill a vehicle (or an aeroplane) with fuel in
order to continue a journey, you refuel.
embarrassed [Im(bÄrEst] verlegen, peinlich berührt
EXERCISES
1. Add the missing word.
a) I think you’d better pull ______________.
b) We should wait well away ______________ the vehicle.
c) We’ll soon have you back ______________ the road.
d) OK, I’ll fill ______________.
2. What do the words in bold refer to?
a) I filled it up with petrol instead of diesel. ____________
b) What did they say? _____________
c) Don’t worry. It happens all the time. _____________
d) It’s going to be an hour or two before we get there.
_____________
Answers: 1. a) over; b) from; c) on; d) up; 2. a) the car / tank; b) the person Dean spoke to on the phone; c) people misfuelling;
d) Dave’s house in York; 3. a) hazard lights; b) high-vis vest; c) garage; d) filling station; 4. a) juddering; b) assistance; c) misfuelled; d) relieved
4. All’s well that ends well
The AA man has fixed the car. Now the journey to
Dave’s can continue.
Becky: he AA man was so nice. I’m really
relieved the pump isn’t damaged.
Dean: Yeah. Look! here’s a filling station. He said
you have to fill up to help dilute any petrol
that’s still left in the tank.
Becky: We can get a coffee, too. It’s going to be an
hour or two before we get there. Did you call
Dave to tell him we’ll be late?
Dean: Yeah.
Becky: What did he say?
Dean: He said he thinks you’re an idiot.
Becky: Charming! OK, I’ll fill up. Unleaded, right?
Dean: No! Diesel!
Becky: Just kidding.
Tips
s
• All’s well that ends well is a saying used to mean Tip
that a situation that began badly has had a happy
ending.
• Becky says she is relieved because she no longer
feels worried about her car.
• A filling station is a place where you go to buy petrol.
It’s also called a “petrol station” (US: gas station).
• If something is left, it remains to be used. Left is the
past form of the verb “leave”.
• You can say how long you think something will take
by using the structure it’s going to be...
• Kidding (ifml.) is a synonym of “joking”.
charming [(tSA:mIN] reizend
dilute [daI(lu:t] verdünnen
3. Rearrange the letters to form words and
expressions from the scenes.
a) h a r d a z s h l i g t __________________
b) h g h i-v i s s v e t __________________
c) r a g g a e __________________
d) f l i n g i l o n t a t i s __________________
4. Replace the words in bold with those used
in the scenes.
a) You mean the shaking and vibrating? ____________
b) It said that we should wait for help... ____________
c) I believe you put the wrong fuel in your car.
____________
d) I’m glad the pump isn’t damaged. ____________
 The Grammar Page | LANGUAGE

Using the present continuous

to talk about the future
ADRIAN DOFF explains how a present tense is used to refer to
planned activities.
1
Val and John are colleagues. They need to arrange a meet- “I’m meeting” is the first person form of the present con-
ing, but they’re both very busy. tinuous tense. It is used here to talk about the future:
John uses it because his meetings with clients are already
Val: We really must meet this week to discuss the web arranged. They’re in his diary.
page. How about tomorrow morning? 2
The negative is formed by adding “not” before the main
John: hat’s no good for me. I’m meeting 1 clients all
verb.
morning — till 12 o’clock. I’m not doing 2 anything
3
in the afternoon, though. Shall we meet then? Again, this is something that has already been arranged.
Val: hat’s no good for me, I’m afraid. I’m flying 3 to Val has booked the flight.
Spain for two days. I’m being met 4 at 12.30 to go 4
This is the passive form of the present continuous.
to the airport.
(= Someone is meeting me.)
John: Oh! And when are you coming 5 back?
5
Val: Not till Friday lunchtime. We could meet on Friday Here, John asks a present continuous question. The
afternoon. word order changes. (You’re coming... Are you
John: No, I won’t be here then. I’m taking 6 the afternoon coming...?)
off to go to a school concert. 6
A school concert is another thing that John has arranged
Val: Oh, dear! It looks like next week then. Or... you’re
for a future time.
not free now, are you?
7
John: Now? Yeah, sure I’m free now. Here, Val decides spontaneously to do something in the
Val: OK. I’ll 7 just get a cup of coffee. I’ll7 come and see future, so she uses the I’ll (= I will) form.
you in ten minutes.

Remember! Beyond the basics

The present continuous tense is used in three main The conversation contains common prepositions used
ways. to talk about future arrangements.
Firstly, it’s used to talk about things happening now: Saying when you’re doing something:
• “What are you doing?” — “I’m reading.” • at with times: at 12 o’clock
Secondly, it’s used for things happening roughly at the • in with parts of the day: in the afternoon
present time (though not precisely at this moment): • on with days: on Friday, on Friday afternoon
• “I’m working a lot these days.” • in + period of time: in ten minutes (= from now)
Thirdly, as in the dialogue, it’s used to talk about things Saying how long something is going on:
that are arranged for the future: • for + period of time: for two days
• “What are you doing tonight?” — “I’m going to bed.” • until (or less formal: till) + point of time: till 6 p.m.
EXERCISE

Use the verbs in the list to complete the sentences below in the present continuous form.

d) She’s nearly 65. She __________ next summer.

do | go | meet | play | retire | see | work
e) “What _____ you _____ at the weekend?”
a) I’ve got tickets for a special opera performance — “Oh, nothing much.”
tonight. I __________ Rigoletto. f) Is it true that Elton John __________ at Glastonbury
b) _____ you _____ to Turkey again this summer? next year?
c) We __________ in the pub at 6.45. See you there. g) They (not) __________ tomorrow. It’s a holiday.

Answers: a) ’m seeing; b) Are ... going; c) ’re meeting; d) ’s retiring; e) are ... doing; f) is playing; g) ’re not working / aren’t working
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 Helen Phil Peggy
LANGUAGE | The Soap

Here’s to Eddy! George

Join us at Peggy’s Place — Spotlight ’s very

Sean
own London pub. By INEZ SHARP
George: I can’t believe the weather. When was the last
Eddy Jane
time it was this cold?
Phil: Yesterday, the day before, last week. Take your pick.
It feels like this cold spell has been going on for months.
Peggy: Before you take another step, could you please
clean your boots on the mat?
George: Are you serious?
Peggy: Look! I’ve cleaned up that dirt three times already.
George: Do you actually want my custom? I mean, this is
“ This weather makes me feel my age

really makes me feel my age...

Peggy: Here comes Helen. Could you wipe your shoes,
”
Phil: Well, I for one have had enough of the freeze. It

love? Hello? I asked you to wipe your shoes. Honestly,

a pub, not someone’s living room. it’s not that much to ask, is it?
Peggy: But we want it to feel as welcoming as your own Phil: here’s no need to cry, Helen. It’s not that bad.
living room. So if you don’t mind... Helen: It’s not that. I’m afraid I’ve got some bad news.
Phil: Can I get you a nice hot toddy? George: What’s the matter?
George: hat would be great. I’m chilled to the bone. Helen: I’ve just come from the hospital, and I have to tell
Peggy: I think everyone’s feeling a bit low. Jane said her you that Eddy died this afternoon.
new business is really suffering. Nobody’s planning par- (silence)
ties. hey just want to stay at home and keep warm. Peggy: No!
George: Is she going ahead with the business in spite of Phil: hat was very sudden.
the spelling fiasco on her publicity material? Helen: Sort of. She’d been under the weather for days,
Peggy: She is, and you’ll never guess who’s helping her. but she kept telling the doctor that there was nothing
George: hat would be you, then. Who else? wrong with her that a Martini couldn’t cure.
Phil: Actually, it’s Aamir. He found her crying outside after George: So?
we all laughed at the posters and said he could help her Helen: Well, today she made a real scene — shouting and
work on her spelling and punctuation. swearing. So the doctor went off to get some help.
George: Your kitchen help from Afghanistan is going to When he came back, she was gone. Draped across the
teach Jane the rules of English spelling? bed in her silk nightie with a Martini glass in her hand.
Phil: I was surprised, too, but Aamir said it might be easier Peggy: Where did she get that from?
to learn from someone who had to struggle himself. Helen: We don’t know.
George: I’ll be damned! Has anyone actually tested him? Phil: Well, she went out in her own inimitable style. And
Peggy: Phil said we shouldn’t look a gift horse in the I think we should drink to that. It’s Martinis on the
mouth, but then Aamir offered to let us test him, and house this evening — in memory of Eddy.
he didn’t make a single mistake.
George: When did all this happen? custom [(kVstEm] UK hier: Kundschaft
Peggy: About two weeks ago. We had a kind of spelling- draped [dreIpt] wie hingegossen daliegen
quiz night after we closed. It was such fun. get along [get E(lQN] klarkommen
gone: be ~ [gQn] tot sein
George: Wonders will never cease. How’s he getting along
inimitable: in her / his in ihrer / seiner
otherwise? own ~ style [I(nImItEb&l] unnachahmlichen Art
Peggy: He loves the cold weather. Says it reminds him of look a gift horse in the mouth: einem geschenkten Gaul
home, especially when it’s sunny. don’t ~ [)lUk E )gIft hO:s schaut man nicht ins Maul
In DE (maUT]
mat [mÄt] Fußmatte
FOCUS

It’s February and freezing, so everyone is talking about the matter: What’s the ~? [(mÄtE] Was ist los?
weather. A cold spell describes several days of icy weather. mind: if you don’t ~ [maInd] wenn es dir nichts ausmacht
If people are chilled to the bone, they feel cold through nightie [(naIti] ifml. Nachthemd
and through. When Phil talks about the freeze, he means sort of [(sO:t Ev] ifml. irgendwie
a few days when the temperatures are below 0 °C. In the take your pick [)teIk jE (pIk] such’s dir aus
winter of 1962–63, the weather was cold for so long that it toddy [(tQdi] Grog
was called the “Big Freeze”. If a person is feeling under the wonders will never cease es geschehen noch Zeichen
weather, he or she is a little unwell. [)wVndEz wIl )nevE (si:s] und Wunder

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Dear Ken: What’s

the professional way Send your questions
to say goodbye? about business Eng-
lish by e-mail with “Dear
to
Ken” in the subject line
ge@ spo tlig ht- ver lag.de
Dear Ken langua
two questions
Each month, I answer
Could you tell me what the correct English translation of e sen t in. If one of
Spotlight readers hav
the title Stellvertretender Geschäftsführer is in the US and stio n, you ’ll rec eive a
them is your que
the UK? I heard that “deputy chief executive officer” is not ys to Improve
copy of my book: Fifty Wa
don’t forget
common in the US, since “deputy” could be misunder- Your Business English. So
ress!
stood. Is that right? to add your mailing add
Best regards
Liz K.

Dear Liz Dear Ken

hanks for your e-mail about this particular title.
here are no clear rules about the use of job titles in busi-
ness. Each corporation or organization has its own hierar-
chy and system of giving names to job positions.
he first question we should ask in this context is whether
there is any basic difference between the meaning of the
words “deputy” and “vice”.
he answer is: not really. Both words are used to indicate
a subordinate position. Whether “deputy”or “vice” is used
depends upon convention. here is no set rule; so we have
vice presidents and deputy sheriffs; vice principals and
deputy managers. How, then, should you translate the title
Stellvertretender Geschäftsführer?
In the UK, it would probably (but not always) be trans-
lated as “deputy managing director”.
In the US, it might be “deputy CEO”. (In the business
context, there is no possibility of this being mistaken for
deputy sheriff .)
However, you will find many variations on this in different
countries, companies and job advertisements. It’s a good
idea to have a look at the websites of large US and UK
companies to get an idea of all the alternative titles that
are used today.
I hope this helps.
Regards
Ken
I have to visit customers in their offices. he hardest part
of this is when I’m leaving. I never know what words to
use when we’re saying goodbye in the reception area.
Whatever I do or say feels awkward.
Help me, please.
Carsten
Dear Carsten
I usually say three things when bidding goodbye to busi-
ness partners.
Firstly, I make a reference to the past:
• Well, that was a really good meeting, wasn’t it?
• We certainly covered a lot of ground today.
• It was great to meet John and Lena.
Secondly, I make a reference to the future:
• So, I’ll see you in a month’s time, then.
• Come and see us next time, if you have a moment.
• I’ll mail you next week.
Finally, I say goodbye and shake hands:
• Goodbye.
• Nice meeting you.
• See you.
hen I walk away without looking back, in order to make
a clean break.
All the best
Ken

awkward [(O:kwEd] unbeholfen, hölzern corporation [)kO:pE(reIS&n] Unternehmen

bid goodbye to sb.
[)bId )gUd(baI tE]
business context [(bIznEs )kQntekst]
clean break: make a ~
[kli:n (breIk]
convention [kEn(venS&n]
sich von jmdm. verabschieden
geschäftliches Umfeld
hier: einen klaren Schnitt
machen
Gepflogenheiten
ground: cover a lot of ~ [graUnd] hier: zahlreiche Themen
behandeln (
p. 61)
principal [(prInsEp&l] Direktor(in), Rektor(in)
reference: make a ~ to [(ref&rEns] einen Bezug herstellen zu
set rule [set (ru:l] feste Regel
subordinate [sE(bO:dInEt] untergeordnet

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 LANGUAGE | Spoken English

Did he really?

Foto: iStockphoto
ADRIAN DOFF looks at ways to show interest
or surprise in English.

Angela is telling Beth the story of her life. to respond to something bad:
Angela: ...So I decided to go and live in Spain. • That’s a pity / a shame.
Beth: Right. • That’s awful / terrible. (= very bad)
Angela: I went to Barcelona and got a job giving private to show you’re interested:
English lessons. • That’s fascinating.
Beth: Uh-huh. to show you’re surprised:
Angela: And one of my students was an airline pilot with • That’s amazing / incredible. (= very surprising)
Iberia. In order to respond more strongly, a phrase with how...
Beth: Oh, really? can be used:
Angela: Yes. His name was Carlos. And after about a • How (absolutely) incredible!
month, he asked me to marry him. • Oh, how awful!
Beth: Did he really? Wow!
Echoing
In the above conversation, Angela does most of the talking, Here, Beth uses an echo question to show interest:
but Beth also says quite a lot just to show that she’s listen- Angela: He asked me to marry him.
ing and is (probably) interested. Beth: Did he really? (= Did he really ask you?)
Here, we look at common ways to respond to what people Here are some more examples. Notice that you repeat the
say, especially ways to show interest or surprise. auxiliary verb (Hilfsverb) or use do / did:
I was very upset (bestürzt, aufgebracht).
Up or down? Were you (really)?
In the conversation above, you don’t know how interested I love eating raw fish.
Beth is. It all depends on how she sounds when she re- Do you (really)?
sponds: does her voice go up or down? Does she empha-
size (betonen) what she says or say it quickly and quietly? I don’t believe you
Compare these examples: Finally, here are ways to show that you’re very surprised or
He asked me to marry him. find something hard to believe, as in the example dialogue:
Did he really? Wow! (= That’s really interesting. Angela: He asked me to marry him.
I’m amazed.) Beth: He didn’t!
He asked me to marry him. Beth could also say:
Did he really? Wow! (= I know. You’ve told me already.) • You must be joking!
• Are you kidding? (= joking)
Short responses • Are you having me on? (= lying to me)
Short responses (a phrase, a word or just a sound) can show EXERCISE
that you’re listening to and following what the other per- Choose the correct word(s) to complete
son is saying: the following sentences.
So they moved to the US.
Oh, really? a) “I loved that film.” — “Were / Did you really?”
You press this red button. b) “She failed the exam.” — “Oh, what / how awful!”
Aha! I see.
c) “I’m only 18.” — “Are you having / kidding me on?”
They gave me the job.
Wow! Great! d) “Someone’s stolen his bike.”
She had to go to hospital. — “Oh, no! This is / That’s terrible.”
Oh, dear! e) “My team won the game yesterday.”
— “Oh, wow! / dear!”
Phrases beginning with That’s... can be used in different
f) “You choose the ‘File’ menu.”
ways; for example, to respond to something good:
— “Oh, yes, I see / I see it. Thanks.”
• That’s good / nice / great.
• That’s brilliant / fantastic! (= very good)
Answers: a) Did; b) how; c) having; d) That’s; e) wow!; f) I see
60 Spotlight 2|14
 Word Builder | LANGUAGE

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JOANNA WESTCOMBE presents useful words and phrases from this issue of Spotlight and their
collocations. The words may also have other meanings that are not listed here.

brick [brIk] noun p. 24 cave [keIv] noun p. 32

a baked block used for building a hole underground or in the side of a hill
Ziegelstein, Backstein Höhle
And the third little pig built his house out of The walkers discovered a cave in which they
bricks. could shelter from the heavy rain.
bricks and mortar = Immobilie (mortar: Mörtel) Wine (even French wine) is kept in cellars, not caves.

apparently [E(pÄrEntli] adverb p. 55 disgusting [dIs(gVstIN] adjective p. 13

based on what seems to be true, when the facts are extremely unpleasant, shocking, unacceptable
not yet certain ekelhaft, widerlich
offenbar I wouldn’t eat anything out of that fridge.
Apparently, our business did better in 2013 It’s absolutely disgusting in there.
than we’d expected. synonyms = revolting; gross (US ifml.)
synonyms = it seems; evidently

make a difference phrase p. 67

ground: cover a lot of ~ [graUnd] phrase p. 59 [)meIk E (dIfrEns]
discuss several topics in the time available have a significant effect
zahlreiche Themen behandeln etw. bewegen, etw. ändern
The members of the project team covered a Changing teachers has made such a difference
lot of new ground in less than an hour. to his schoolwork.
See the extra notes below on how to use ground.
make all the difference = viel ausmachen

How to use the word ground
Let’s look at this from the ground up. Ground is a
useful noun if you lay the groundwork. Firstly,
remember that ground is not always Grund. To build a
house, you need a piece of land, not a piece of ground.
Secondly, if you are sitting on the ground, you are
outdoors. Indoors, you’d be sitting on the floor.
If you are talking about ground as a subject or as
information, you can also go back over the same
ground, or return to familiar ground. Let’s hope that
you find yourself on safe and not on dangerous or
shaky ground.
Here are two more phrases — just to give you a good
grounding:
Don’t let him influence you. Stand your ground.
Foto: Fuse
OVER TO YOU!
Complete the following sentences with words
from this page in their correct form.
a) Let’s get started! We’ve got a lot of ground to
_________________.
b) Speleologists study and explore _________________.
c) Ugh! That cheese smells _________________.
How can you eat it?
d) It took him a long time to get his business off the
_________________.
e) Having Oliver on the team will really make a
_________________.
f) Jane and Jay have been friends since their
schooldays _________________.

We’ve got things off the ground. We’re in business!

g) We’ve bought a little red-_________________ cottage
Answers: a) cover; b) caves; outside town.
c) disgusting; d) ground;
e) difference; f) apparently;
g) brick
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 LANGUAGE | Perfectionists Only!
WILL O’RYAN explains developments in the English language and
examines some of the finer points of grammar.
Hoi polloi
he ancient Greek hoi polloi (“the
many”) has been used in English since
the 17th century to refer derogatorily
(abfällig) to the masses (das gemeine
Volk); for example: “My snobbish
uncle refused to mix with the hoi pol-
loi.” Because hoi is the nominative
masculine plural form of the definite
article in Greek, some people insist
that the phrase should be used with-
out “the”, arguing that this is repeti-
tive. But by extension, hoi should
then be inflected for case as well, so
that it would be “toús polloi” when
used as a direct object, “toîs polloi” as
an indirect object, etc. One would
also need different forms to refer to
women.
As a fixed, unanalysed unit in Eng-
lish, though, there is no reason for
“hoi polloi” not to follow English
grammatical rules. If you miss out
“the”, for example, saying: “hat’s
nothing that would interest hoi pol-
loi”, people who read ancient Greek
will perhaps appreciate it, but every-
one else will find it strange. here is
another interesting, recent develop-
ment: many speakers use “hoi polloi”
incorrectly to refer to the upper classes
rather than the lower ones. his is be-
cause the expression is confused with
the unrelated but similar sounding
“hoity-toity” (hochnäsig, eingebildet).
A typical gathering of the masses
62 Spotlight 2|14
Prepositional passives Grammar
In English, there is no such thing as a subjectless passive sentence: Jetzt
wird geschlafen cannot be directly translated with a passive construction.
When a prepositional phrase of location accompanies the intransitive verb
in German, though, a corresponding English passive sentence with subject
does sometimes exist. The example in (a) corresponds to an active sen-
tence: “Someone has slept in this bed” (In diesem Bett wurde geschlafen.):
a) This bed has already been slept in.
The bed — the object of the preposition in the active — becomes the sub-
ject of the clause in the passive, leaving the preposition stranded (für sich
stehend). This is referred to as a prepositional passive. This type of passive
is subject to an interesting pragmatic semantic constraint (Nebenbedin-
gung): that the predicate should indicate a significant, standard character-
istic of the subject. It is a standard feature of beds that people sleep in
them, along with other possibilities:
b) This bed has been eaten in / jumped on by children many times.
Note the contrast to German here, which does not allow a von phrase in a
subjectless passive: In diesem Bett wurde von vielen Menschen gegessen.
In contrast, example (c) is not standard. Although “The boy slept next to
the bed” is a perfectly correct sentence, since it is not a standard property
of beds that people sleep next to them, the passive sounds strange:
c) This bed was slept next to last night.
Just how acceptable this type of passive sentence is depends to an extent
on what is considered normal, standard behaviour. “No one has driven
across the new bridge yet” can be passivized, as we see in (d), since it’s a
standard characteristic of a bridge to be driven across. But most speakers
would probably choose not to passivize the second example, because it is
not a significant property of bridges that people dance on them:
d) The new bridge hasn’t been driven across yet.
That bridge has never been danced on.
There is, however, an exception. A passive is sometimes possible when the
action of the predicate leads to a change in the subject of the passive sen-
tence. Sentence (e) is noticeably more normal sounding than the second
example of (d). Although the action in (e) is untypical, it results in a change
of status of the bridge. It is now known specifically for this event:
e) That bridge was danced on yesterday. (There was a big party on it.)
Prepositional passives of this sort are most usual when the prepositional
phrase complementing the intransitive verb involves a preposition of
place. The active sentence “They don’t work on Sundays”, in which “on” has
a temporal meaning, does not have a corresponding passive:
f) Sundays are not worked on.
Foto: Alamy; Illustration. iStock
Change the following sentences from active to passive if possible.
1. No one has ever lived in this house.
2. They demonstrated in the garden.
Answers: 1. This house has never been lived in. 2. A passive sentence is not possible, as demonstrations
don’t usually take place in gardens.
 Crossword | LANGUAGE

New buildings The words in this puzzle are taken from our article on the architecture of
Frank Gehry. You may find it helpful to refer to the text on pages 24–27.

1 2 3 4

5 6 Solution to puzzle 1/14:

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Across Down
1. Referring to an area that has lots of factories. 1. Whether.
5. A thing that belongs to you is your ______ thing. 2. Straight from one place or thing to another.
7. One stage in a process. 3. Not connected to other things.
8. To refer to: “For more details, ______ my book.” 4. Places or regions.
9. The creation of beautiful things that express an idea. 5. “Frank Gehry started ______ (got his start) in the 1970s.”
10. Takes something with her while holding it in her arms. 6. Not old.
13. An individual. 8. Communicating by using one’s voice.
14. Very important: “This sculpture is a ______ work.” 11. To the extent possible: “It’s ______ cold outside.”
15. All people. 12. To require something; necessary to do something:
18. A negative answer. “We ______ to put up some new office buildings.”
19. A covering for one’s head. 16. Written demands for payment.
21. Large indoor areas with shops, mainly in America. 17. Of or for them: “You’ll have to ask them. What happens
23. Belonging to. next is ______ decision.”
25. Things that happen, even though they are impossible. 20. A word of comparison.
26. “We need a new architecture ______ this new world,” 22. Therefore.
said Hillary Clinton. 24. Distant.

Competition!
How to take part
Form a single word from the letters in the coloured squares.
Send it on a postcard to:
Redaktion Spotlight, “February Prize Puzzle”, Postfach 1565, 82144 Planegg, Deutschland.

Two winners will be chosen from the entries we receive by 19 February 2014.
Each winner will be sent the board game Are You Joking? by courtesy of Grubbe Media.
The answer to our December puzzle was nomads.

Congratulations to:
Simone Sanin (Tramin, Italy) · Stephanie Coenen (Icking)

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 THE LIGHTER SIDE | Wit and Wisdom

“ All I need to make a comedy is a park,

a policeman and a pretty girl.

”
Charlie Chaplin
(1889–1977), British actor and director

Job interview
“What’s your greatest weakness?”
“Honesty.”
“I don’t think honesty is a weakness.”
“Yeah? Well, I don’t care what you think.”

Two thirty
“Oh, no! I’m really late. I’m going to miss my dentist’s
appointment.”
“What time is your appointment?”
“Tooth-hurty!”
© Bulls

THE ARGYLE SWEATER

Wrong way
A man is listening to the radio and hears a traffic warning
That’s not very nice! that someone is driving the wrong way down a motorway.
• An old lady at the bank asked me if I could help her Knowing his wife is also on that motorway, he calls her on
check her balance. So I pushed her over. her mobile phone to warn her.
• Are you afraid of dying alone? If so, become a bus driver. She starts shouting at him, “What do you mean there’s one
• I know I’m not mentally qualified to own a gun, person going the wrong way? There are hundreds of them!”
because at least five times a day I think: “I wish I had a
gun right now.”
Silly questions, silly answers
check one’s balance hier auch: den Kontostand abrufen • What kind of underwear do clouds wear? Thunderpants.
[)tSek wVnz (bÄlEns] What’s brown and sounds like a bell? Dung.
•
dung [dVN] Dung, Mist
• What do you call an alligator that’s wearing a vest?
patient [(peIS&nt] geduldig; auch: Patient
An “investigator”.
push sb. over [pUS (EUvE] jmdn. umstoßen
rearranger [)ri:E(reIndZE] Wortspiel mit “The Lone Ranger”;
hier: Umgestalter,
Wohnungsgestalter Smaller and smaller
shrink [SrINk] schrumpfen
Man: “Doctor, you’ve got to help me. I’m shrinking.”
vest [vest] N. Am. Weste
Doctor: “I’m really sorry, but I’m very busy right now.
You’re just going to have to be a little patient.”

PEANUTS

66 Spotlight 2|14

“ You want
to listen to
people, but not
to all of their
problems
” small-town politics
Um gewählt zu werden, muss man die Bürger davon überzeugen, dass
man die richtige Person ist. Das ist leichter gesagt als getan.
W e’re a month into the new
year, and I am starting a
fresh career of sorts — as a
member of the town board. My path
to this elected position started last
summer, when I was discussing town
politics with a group of friends. We
decided that one of us should run for
office, and I agreed to be the one.
I had three strikes against me
going into the campaign. Firstly, I’m
a Democrat in a town dominated by
Republicans. Secondly, I’m not con-
sidered a local. Even though I was
born here, I have lived in other
places, and that doesn’t sit well with
some people. hirdly, I’m a woman
in a town where the “good old-boy”
network has been running the show
since time immemorial. Still, I de-
cided to throw my hat in the ring.
he campaign was a real learning
experience for me and for my friends.
We had the board of elections send us
a list of all registered voters and went
through it name by name. here are
board of elections [)bO:rd Ev i(lekS&nz] N. Am.
ferocious [fE(roUSEs]
foray [(fO:reI]
good old-boy network [)gUd oUld (bOI )netw§:k]
lowdown: give sb. the ~ [(loUdaUn]
make a difference [)meIk E (dIfrEns]
...of sorts [Ev (sO:rts]
run for office [)rVn f&r (A:fEs]
run the show [)rVn DE (SoU] ifml.
since time immemorial [sIns )taIm )ImE(mO:riEl]
sit well with sb.: not ~ [sIt (wel wIT]
snowplow [(snoUplaU]
strike [straIk] N. Am.
throw one’s hat in the ring
[)TroU wVnz (hÄt In DE )rIN]
town board [taUn (bO:rd] N. Am.
Foto: Photos.com
turn out [t§:n (aUt]
Ginger Kuenzel is a freelance writer who lived in Munich for 20 years. She now calls a small
town in upstate New York home.
American Life | GINGER KUENZEL
The world of
only 650 registered voters in town,
and it turned out that we knew almost
every one of them. It took several
meetings to get through the list, be-
cause there were a lot of stories to be
told about the individual voters.
Sally, for example, gave us the
lowdown on who had been spending
the night with whom. How did she
know? It seems that her brother had
been driving the town snowplow,
which meant that he was out clearing
the roads in the early morning hours.
So he knew exactly whose pickup
truck was parked at which house.
It wasn’t just at the campaign
committee meetings, though, that we
heard stories. I knocked on a lot of
doors, talking to voters personally
and listening to what they had to say.
One of my concerns was that every-
one in town seems to have ferocious
dogs. It’s a good thing I’m not scared
of dogs, or my political career might
have ended before it had even begun.
he other thing I learned is that it’s
Wahlvorstand
hier: bissig
Streifzug
etwa: Vetternwirtschaft
jmdm. alle Einzelheiten verraten
etw. bewegen, etw. ändern (
p. 61)
eine Art...
für ein Amt kandidieren
den Laden am Laufen halten
hier: seit man sich erinnern kann
jmdm. gar nicht gefallen
Schneepflug
hier: Gegenargument
kandidieren
etwa: Stadtrat
sich herausstellen
2|14 Spotlight
best not to get too deep into conver-
sations about non-political issues.
One voter, Joe, told me how lonely
he has been since his wife died five
years ago. His daughter recently took
him to a seniors’ club meeting in the
next town, but he didn’t enjoy it at
all. “I was the only man there,” he
told me, “and the women were all
old.” Joe also described his unsuccess-
ful forays into online dating. It’s a fine
line when campaigning: you want to
listen to people’s problems, but some-
times you just can’t help.
he week before the election, the
local newspaper held a candidates’
night. he four candidates, including
myself, had the opportunity to an-
swer questions in front of an audi-
ence. It’s a wise political move not to
say anything stupid. One of the can-
didates responded to a question about
whether there should be a library in
town by saying, “I don’t like books,
I’ve never liked books, and I would
never set foot in a library.” I don’t
think that earned him many votes.
When the polls closed on election
day and the votes were counted, it
was clear: our hard work had paid off.
I had won. here may be some issues
I can’t do anything about, but I look
forward to working on those prob-
lems where I can make a difference.
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words. Later, I learned that in the beginning, she didn’t
speak English at all. She sang “Waterloo” phonetically.
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(living or dead) would you most like to meet and why?
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died several years ago. He was a smart Jewish guy born
in Germany before the Second World War. His mother
flew with him to London where, after the outbreak of
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were German. He spent seven years in detention camps
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piano. After the war, he emigrated to the United States
and became a musician.
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pronounce?
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hing”. You can’t pronounce that without spitting like a
llama and snapping your tongue in two.
Do you practise English, and if so, how?
I sing English songs and watch American TV series or
movies. By switching between the German and the Eng-
lish original, you can learn a lot about translating hu-
mour and puns. And I love the spectacular BBC Planet
Earth documentaries narrated by David Attenborough.
Is there anything in your home from the English-
speaking world?
A tea caddy from the Windsor Castle souvenir shop,
a photo taken at the top of the Empire State Building,
many CDs bought in the United States and Canada, a
sweater from Yellowstone National Park, a toy manatee
from SeaWorld in San Diego and a photo of me among
the monoliths of Stonehenge. Another photo shows me
standing next to the queen, but that’s a montage.
What would be your motto in English?
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languages; German is the Rolls-Royce.
blackboard [(blÄkbO:d] Schultafel
detention camp [di(tenS&n )kÄmp] Gefangenenlager
impact on sth. [(ImpÄkt Qn] Auswirkungen auf etw.
manatee [)mÄnE(ti:] Manati, Seekuh
narrate [nE(reIt] erzählen, kommentieren
pun [pVn] Wortspiel
screenwriter [(skri:n)raItE] Drehbuchautor(in)
Foto: privat
spit [spIt] spucken
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ENGLISCH LEICHT GEMACHT !

Practise the
present
continuous

Learn words
for parts of
the body

Read about
York’s Viking
Festival
 GREEN LIGHT | News

This month…
Was beschäftigt die englischsprachige Welt im Februar?
VANESSA CLARK spürt die heißen Storys für Sie auf.

The Vikings are coming!

History Over 1,000 years ago, York was called Jorvik and was ruled
by the Vikings. A great festival was held there every year to celebrate
the end of winter.
he modern city of York is proud of its history, and its Jorvik
Viking Centre is a world-class tourist attraction. he tradition of an
end-of-winter festival has been restarted, and now the Jorvik Viking
Festival takes place there every February, with a programme of
family-friendly things to do, battles and talks by experts.
his year’s event will be held from 15 to 23 February, and its
theme is the Norse legends.

Feeding the fans

Books In 1976, James Patterson’s first novel won the Edgar Allan Poe
Award, America’s top prize for crime writing. Since then, readers have
been hungry for Patterson’s exciting thrillers, and he does his best to
feed their hunger. Because he works together with co-authors, he can
write several books a year. In 2013, 14 of his books were published.

1814
Patterson’s latest work,
Lügennetz (English title: Now
You See Her), comes out in Ger-
200 years ago man this month. It tells the story of New York lawyer
and loving mother Nina Bloom — a woman with a
secret who must risk everything.

battle [(bÄt&l] Schlacht

celebrate [(selEbreIt] feiern
crime writing [(kraIm )raItIN] Kriminalliteratur
exciting [Ik(saItIN] aufregend, spannend
fair [feE] hier: Volksfest
London February 1814 saw the freeze [fri:z] gefrieren
last “frost fair” on the Thames. The lawyer [(lO:jE] Rechtsanwalt, -anwältin
river was slower and wider than it is Norse [nO:s] (alt)nordisch
today, and the winters were colder, novel [(nQv&l] Roman
so the river froze. Londoners could proud [praUd] stolz
walk on the ice and enjoy all sorts of publish [(pVblIS] veröffentlichen,
herausbringen
entertainment — even horse racing. secret [(si:krEt] Geheimnis

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 8 pictures | GREEN LIGHT

Parts of the body

STEPHANIE SHELLABEAR presents words for eight different parts of
the body.

7
3

6
4

Write the words below

next to the pictures. Match the English word to its German translation.
Titel: Hemera; iStock; Fotos Doppelseite: Alamy; PR; Illustrationen: B. Förth

1. shoulder [(SEUldE] a) wrist a  1. Hüfte

2. elbow [(elbEU] b) elbow b  2. Schulter
3. wrist [rIst] c) hip c  3. Knie
4. bottom [(bQtEm] d) bottom d  4. Ferse
5. heel [hi:&l] e) shoulder e  5. Zeh
6. toe [tEU] f) heel f  6. Handgelenk
7. knee [ni:] g) toe g  7. Hintern
8. hip [hIp] h) knee h  8. Ellbogen

Tips
One part of the body listed above has different names in British English; some are
neutral and some are vulgar. The neutral names are bottom, behind or backside:
• She fell on the ice and landed on her bottom.
Answers: a–6; b–8; c–1; d–7; e–2; f–4; g–5; h–3

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 GREEN LIGHT | Grammar elements

The present continuous

STEPHANIE SHELLABEAR presents basic grammar.
This month: how to use the present continuous tense.

The present continuous is formed using the present form of

“be” + the -ing form of any verb. The verb “stand” has been used in this example:

Singular Plural
I am (I’m) standing we are (we’re) standing
you are (you’re) standing you are (you’re) standing
he / she / it is (he’s / she’s / it’s) standing they are (they’re) standing

The present continuous tense is used to say what action is happening now. Often,
phrases such as “right now” or “at the moment” are added:

• Please be quiet. The baby is sleeping right now.

• Is she listening to the radio in her bedroom?
• I’m reading a really good book at the moment.

The present continuous is used to talk about things that you are doing now — even if
you have been doing them for a longer period of time. Time information can be added:

• My daughter’s learning French at school this year.

• Are they spending five days in London or ten?
• My mum is staying with us for a fortnight.

Complete the following sentences using Tips

If you want to talk about
the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
a fact, something that’s true
(wahr), or about something
a) Can John call you back? He ______________ (talk) to
you do regularly, you use the
his boss right now. present simple:
b) Owen ______________ (write) his memoirs. • My husband works for a
c) Kylie can’t speak to you right now because she German company.
(not: is working)
______________ (have) a bath.
• We visit my mother every
d) Nikki ______________ (study) German at Nottingham Saturday. (not: are visiting)
University.
e) Alan ______________ (fly) to Majorca at the moment,
so his mobile phone isn’t on.
Fotos: iStock

fortnight [(fO:tnaIt] zwei Wochen

f) ______________ they ______________ (laugh) at us?
French [frentS] Französisch

Answers: a) ’s talking; b) ’s writing; c) ’s having; d) ’s studying; e) ’s flying; f) Are, laughing

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 The Greens | GREEN LIGHT

At the baker’s
Andrew and Donna are shopping in the village of Porlock.
By DAGMAR TAYLOR
Andrew: Can we go to the baker’s and get
some nice bread?
Donna: Yes. Look! here’s that new bakery
Betty was telling us about. Let’s go there.
Andrew: OK. Mmm, it smells fabulous!
Shop assistant: Good morning! How can I
help you?
Donna: Hello! Have you got any sourdough
bread?
Shop assistant: Yes, we have. It’s this one
here.
Andrew: hat looks good. We’ll take one
loaf, please.
Shop assistant: Will that be all?
Donna: Yes, thank you.
Andrew: Wait, are those almond croissants?
Shop assistant: Yes, they are.
Andrew: I’ll take one of those, then, as well.
Donna: Actually, could you make that two,
please?
See 8 pictures in Green Light 1/14 for T
ips
•
more on the baker’s and other shops.
• When the shop assistant is ready to
serve (bedienen) you, he or she may
ask: How can I help you?
• If you want to know if a shop sells a par-
ticular (bestimmt) item (Sache, Artikel),
you can ask: Have you got any...?
• If you would like something, you can
say: We’ll take... or “I’ll take...”
• Bread is usually baked in the shape
(Form) of a “roll” (Brötchen) or a loaf
(Laib). The plural is “loaves”.
• The shop assistant asks Will that be
all? to find out whether Andrew and
Donna want to buy anything else.
• If you want to change the number of
items you wish to buy, you can say:
Could you make that...?

Complete the questions below with Listen to the dialogue at

words from the list. www.spotlight-online.de/products/green-light

Could | Have | How | Will

Donna
a) ______ can I help you?
b) ______ you got any sourdough
Andrew
bread?
c) ______ that be all?
d) ______ you make that two, please?

almond [(A:mEnd] Mandel

bakery [(beIkEri] Bäckerei
fabulous [(fÄbjUlEs] fantastisch
smell [smel] riechen, duften
sourdough [(saUEdEU] Sauerteig-

Answers: a) How; b) Have; c) Will; d) Could

 GREEN LIGHT | Get writing

A mistake in an invoice
VANESSA CLARK helps you to write letters, e-mails and more in English.
This month: how to question a mistake in an invoice.
Invoice

To: info@runcornrepairs.co.uk
Cc:
Subject: Invoice

Dear Runcorn Repairs

Thank you for the invoice for the work you did on 31.01.2014.

I think there are two mistakes in the invoice. First, you have charged for four hours,
but your mechanic was here for only two hours. Second, on your website, it says that
your prices include tax, but you have added 20 per cent tax to those prices.

I calculate that the correct total is £100 (not £240). I would be grateful if you could send
me a new invoice.

Thank you for your help.

H. Jones

Fotos: Bridgeman; dpa/picture alliance; iStock

s
Tip
• An invoice is another word for a “bill”.
• If you think there is a mistake, it’s best to explain as clearly as you can. Say what the
invoice is for, e.g. for the work you did, “for the sofa you delivered (liefern)”, “for your
services”, etc.
• To show a mistake, you can say: You have charged for (verlangen, berechnen)..., but...
• Tax (Steuer) can sometimes be a problem. Do prices include (beinhalten) tax, or is the tax
added later?
• The big sum (Betrag) at the bottom of the bill is called the total (or the “total amount”).

calculate [(kÄlkjuleIt] ausrechnen,

rechnen
grateful [(greItf&l] dankbar

e
Us ! Highlight the key
it words and phrases that you
would use if you needed to write an
e-mail or letter like this yourself.

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 Culture corner | GREEN LIGHT

I like… the Omega Workshops

Jeden Monat stellt ein Redakteur etwas Besonderes aus der
englischsprachigen Welt vor. Spotlight-Chefredakteurin
INEZ SHARP präsentiert hier ihre Lieblingsdesigner.

What it was
The Omega Workshops Ltd was an art and
design company started in 1913 in London
by a group of artists that included Vanessa
Bell (the sister of writer Virginia Woolf), Dun-
can Grant and Roger Fry. The group was in-
spired by the post-Impressionists as well as
cubist and Fauvist painters. Most impor-
tantly, they thought there should be no dif-
ference between high art and decorative art
— beautiful and useful products should be
available to everyone.
The Omega Workshops created highly Why I like it
decorative and colourful furniture, textiles The Omega Workshops did not last long, but
and books. Sadly, the pieces were often not looking at objects today (there is a screen
of good quality, and the artists did not know by Vanessa Bell in London’s Victoria and Al-
how to run a business. bert Museum), it is easy to see the enthusi-
n asm the painters had for new ideas and
Fu ts ways of interpreting concepts. In the 1980s,
Most Omega Workshops artists were f
ac the clothing and textile company Laura Ash-
also members of the Bloomsbury Group ley began reproducing Omega Workshops’
— writers, artists and intellectuals — who fabrics. The colours and patterns are still
were looking for a life in which pleasure fresh and modern, as if they had been de-
played an important role. This meant that signed yesterday.
their personal lives were unconventional.
available [E(veIlEb&l] verfügbar
Affairs were accepted, as were rela-
both ... and... [bEUT (End] sowohl ... als auch...
tionships between three cubist [(kju:bIst] kubistisch
people. This free and fabric [(fÄbrIk] Stoff
pleasurable lifestyle Fauvist painter fauvistischer Maler
did not last long, but [)fEUvIst (peIntE]
in the early years, the include [In(klu:d] beinhalten, einschließen
last [lA:st] bestehen bleiben,
artists and writers of (an)dauern
both the Omega Ltd (Limited) [(lImItId] entspricht in etwa:
Workshops and the GmbH
Bloomsbury Group pattern [(pÄt&n] Muster
pleasure [(pleZE] Spaß, Vergnügen
followed a wild and
post-Impressionist Spätimpressionist
happy ideal. [)pEUst Im(preS&nIst]

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 GREEN LIGHT | Notes and numbers

Zip codes Your notes

A zip code (UK: postcode) is a group of Use this space for your own notes.
numbers that is used in an address so that
letters can be delivered (zustellen) more
quickly. In the US, the zip code has five dig-
its (Ziffer, Stelle). Each digit is said separately
(getrennt, für sich). Most people say “oh”
for 0 because it’s shorter, but “zero” is also
possible.
• 38116 = three eight one one six
ZIP is an acronym (Kurzwort) for “zone im-
provement plan”.

Write down the following zip codes

as you would say them.

a) 10023 one oh oh two three

________________________________
b) 20500 ________________________________
c) 10118 ________________________________
d) 98052 ________________________________
e) 32830 ________________________________

The most famous zip code in

the US is 90210 (spoken “nine
oh two one oh”). It is the zip
code for Beverly Hills in
California. The zip code was
made famous by the US tele-
Foto: iStock

vision series of the same name. Answers: b) two oh five oh oh; c) one oh one one eight;
d) nine eight oh five two; e) three two eight three oh

IMPRESSUM
Herausgeber und Verlagsleiter: Dr. Wolfgang Stock
Chefredakteurin: Inez Sharp
Stellvertretende Chefredakteurin: Claudine Weber-Hof
Chefin vom Dienst: Susanne Pfeifer
Autoren: Vanessa Clark, Stephanie Shellabear,
Dagmar Taylor
Redaktion: Owen Connors, Elisabeth Erpf, Anja Giese,
Peter Green, Reinhild Luk, Michael Pilewski (Online),
Michele Tilgner, Joanna Westcombe
Bildredaktion: Sarah Gough (Leitung), Thorsten Mansch
Gestaltung: Marion Sauer/Johannes Reiner
www.vor-zeichen.de
Anzeigenleitung: Axel Zettler
Marketingleitung: Holger Hofmann
Produktionsleitung: Ingrid Sturm
Vertriebsleitung: Monika Wohlgemuth
Verlag und Redaktion: Spotlight Verlag GmbH
Postanschrift: Postfach 1565, 82144 Planegg, Deutschland
Telefon +49(0)89/8 56 81-0, Fax +49(0)89/8 56 81-105
Internet: www.spotlight-online.de
Litho: HWM GmbH, 82152 Planegg
Druck: Medienhaus Ortmeier, 48369 Saerbeck
© 2014 Spotlight Verlag, auch für alle genannten Autoren,
Fotografen und Mitarbeiter.

UNSER SPRACHNIVEAU: Das Sprachniveau in Green Light entspricht ungefähr Stufe A2 des
Gemeinsamen Europäischen Referenzrahmens für Sprachen.
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THEFT AT THE VICARAGE

A painting has been stolen from the

home of a vicar, and he’s not
happy about it. Who has taken it,
and where is it now? Inspector Davies and
his young assistant, Sergeant Pearce, are on the case.
I hope you enjoy this short mystery story that I’ve written specially for
readers of Spotlight. here are comprehension questions at the end of
each chapter (answers on page 23) as well as a full word list at the end
of the booklet. Will you be quicker at solving the mystery than my
two detectives?

Good luck!
Vanessa Clark
Spotlight author

IMPRESSUM
HERAUSGEBER UND VERLAGSLEITER:
Dr. Wolfgang Stock
CHEFREDAKTEURIN: Inez Sharp
STELLVERTRETENDE CHEFREDAKTEURIN:
Claudine Weber-Hof
CHEFIN VOM DIENST: Susanne Pfeifer
AUTORIN: Vanessa Clark
REDAKTION: Owen Connors, Elisabeth Erpf,
Anja Giese, Peter Green, Reinhild Luk,
Michael Pilewski (online), Stephanie Shellabear,
Michele Tilgner, Joanna Westcombe
BILDREDAKTION:
Sarah Gough (Leitung), Thorsten Mansch
GESTALTUNG: Marion Sauer, Johannes Reiner
www.vor-zeichen.de
VERTRIEBSLEITUNG: Monika Wohlgemuth
MARKETINGLEITUNG: Holger Hofmann
ANZEIGENLEITUNG: Axel Zettler
PRODUKTIONSLEITUNG: Ingrid Sturm
VERLAG UND REDAKTION:
Spotlight Verlag GmbH
Postanschrift: Postfach 1565, 82144 Planegg,
Deutschland
Hausanschrift: Fraunhoferstraße 22,
82152 Planegg, Deutschland
Telefon +49(0)89/8 56 81-0, Fax 8 56 81-105
Internet: www.spotlight-online.de
LITHO: HWM GmbH, 82152 Planegg
DRUCK: te Neues Druckereigesellschaft,
47906 Kempen

Fotos: Thinkstock

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THEFT AT THE VICARAGE

CHAPTER 1

Y
ou reported a theft, sir. Of a painting?”
“hat’s right, officer. A very valuable
painting. It was stolen this morning,
while I was in the church. I was holding the
ten o’clock service. Someone must have come in and taken
it. Stealing from a vicarage! Do people have no shame?”
he young sergeant didn’t know how to answer. He didn’t want to get
into a discussion about the morals of modern society with an angry
vicar, so he continued with his own questions.
“How much was it worth?”
“I don’t know. If you were to ask me that tomorrow, I’d be able to give
you a better answer.”
Sergeant Pearce was confused. “What do you mean, sir?”
“We were going to send the painting to London to have it valued.”
“I see. And where was this picture?”
“Next to the front door, by all the coats.”
“hat’s a strange place to hang a picture.”
“No, it wasn’t hanging there. It was in a box, waiting to be collected,
to go to London to be valued. Aren’t you listening?”

collect [kE(lekt] hier: abholen

sergeant [(sA:dZEnt] Polizist eines unteren Dienstgrades
service [(s§:vIs] hier: Gottesdienst
value [(vÄlju:] hier: schätzen (lassen)
vicar [(vIkE] Pfarrer, Pastor
vicarage [(vIkErIdZ] Pfarrhaus

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When Sergeant Pearce’s boss, Inspector Davies, had told him that they
were going to the church of St Mary in the village of Little Wittenham,
he had imagined that its vicar would be a sweet old gentleman. But
Reverend Burton wasn’t like that at all.
“How did the thief, or thieves, get into the house, sir? Are there any
signs of a break-in? A broken window, perhaps?”
“No, they must have come through the front door.”
“Did they break it down?”
“No. It wasn’t locked. We never lock our door. his is a vicarage. Every-
one is welcome in our house. We are here to serve the community.”
Sergeant Pearce wanted to roll his eyes, but he didn’t. Inspector Davies
always told him he should treat all members of the public with respect.

At that moment, the inspector himself came into the room with the
vicar’s wife, who was bringing cups of tea.

1. Where, what, how?

Underline the correct words to complete the following facts.
a) The owner of the painting works at the village church / in an art
gallery.
b) The value of the painting is known / unknown.
c) The painting was on the wall / in a box next to the front door.
d) The thief had to / didn’t have to break down the door.
e) Sergeant Pearce has a high / low opinion of the owner.

reverend [(rev&rEnd] hier: Hochwürden

roll one’s eyes [)rEUl wVnz (aIz] die Augen verdrehen

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CHAPTER 2

S
ergeant Pearce thought that Mrs Burton was “a bit of a
hippy”. She had long hair, a long skirt, a long scarf and long
earrings. She had made regular English tea for the three men,
but fruit tea for herself.
“Ah, a cup of tea. he best solution to life’s problems, wouldn’t you
say, Inspector?”
“Absolutely, Reverend. I hope my sergeant has taken down all the im-
portant information from you.”
“He’s done his best.”

Inspector Davies added milk to his tea. “Your wife tells me that the
painting was a Felton, Reverend.”
“Your sergeant didn’t seem very interested in the painting itself, only
in our security arrangements. I doubt whether the name ‘Felton’ means
anything to him.”
Inspector Davies turned to his young sergeant and explained: “Regi-
nald Felton, 19th-century painter, member of the Royal Academy.”
“And my great-great-grandfather,” added Mrs Burton.
“What was the painting of?” asked Sergeant Pearce. “A bowl of fruit,
or...?” He couldn’t think of any more examples of paintings.
“It was a nude,” explained Mrs Burton.
“A naked woman?” asked the sergeant.

great-great-grandfather [)greIt greIt (grÄnd)fA:DE] Ururgroßvater

nude [nju:d] Aktdarstellung

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“Yes,” answered the vicar. “It wasn’t suitable for a vicarage.”
“I don’t see why not,” said Mrs Burton. “God created man and woman
in his own image. hat’s what the Bible says. We shouldn’t be ashamed
of our bodies.”
“We kept it in the attic,” said her husband, “until yesterday, when we
brought it down. We wanted to sell it, to have some money to help
our son when he goes to university. And now it’s gone. My valuable
painting!”
“Your painting, Reverend? Surely it belonged to your wife — if it came
from her family?” asked Inspector Davies.

attic [(ÄtIk] Dachboden

in his own image [In hIz )EUn (ImIdZ] nach seinem Ebenbild

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THEFT AT THE VICARAGE

“Well, our painting,” the vicar corrected himself. “Legally, of course,

it belonged to us both. ‘With all my worldly goods I thee endow.’
hose are the words of the marriage ceremony, aren’t they?”
“Yes,” answered his wife. “‘For better or for worse.’ hat’s what we
promised,” said Mrs Burton as she put down her empty cup.

“Could we speak to your son?” asked the inspector.

“You’ll find him in his bedroom,” said Mrs Burton.
“On the computer, as always,” added her husband.

2. Describe the Burtons

The Reverend and Mrs Burton have different personalities.
Do the adjectives below describe the husband or the wife?

husband wife
a) arrogant
b) conventional
c) relaxed
d) strict
e) open

for better or for worse [fE )betE O: fE (w§:s]
with all my worldly goods I thee endow
[wID )O:l maI )w§:ldli )gUdz aI )Di In(daU]
in guten wie in schlechten Tagen
mit allen meinen weltlichen
Gütern beschenke ich Dich
(Ehegelöbnis der anglikanischen
Kirche beim Anstecken der Ringe)

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 CHAPTER 3

R
obbie Burton turned off his computer when the two po-
lice officers knocked on his door. “Mum said you might
want to talk to me.”
“May we open the curtains? It’s a bit dark in here.”
“Oh, sorry. I forget to open them when I’m playing.”
As the sunlight came into the room, the two men could see dirty cups
and plates everywhere.
“What do you play?” asked the young sergeant, who was quite keen
on computer games.
“Oh, er, nothing special.”
“What can you tell us about the painting, Robbie?” asked Inspector
Davies.
“Nothing, really. Mum asked me to bring it down yesterday. hen
we packed it in a box.”
“You and your mother together?”
“Yes. Dad was at one of his Bible groups.”

“Your mum seems like a very nice lady, Robbie,” said the inspector.
“Yeah, she’s cool.”
“What’s it like, being a vicar’s son?”
“He hasn’t always been a vicar. He and Mum used to travel a lot. hey
were interested in spiritual things. I was born on a kibbutz. And then

keen: be ~ on [ki:n] von etw. begeistert sein

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THEFT AT THE VICARAGE

Dad found God and decided to enter the Church. He changed a lot.”
“hat must have been difficult for you.”
“Well, it’s worse for Mum. She’s not really the typical vicar’s wife, is
she? She doesn’t even believe in God. She’s more interested in Bud-
dhism and stuff like that.”
“So you and your mother were both at home this morning, not at
church?”
“Well, Mum did go to church, actually. Sometimes, she likes to sit at
the back and think.”
“What does she think about?”
“Leaving Dad, probably. She’s not bad for her age, you know. If she

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played her cards right, she could get a second husband. She’s always
threatening to leave Dad, to walk away from the table. Maybe one day
he’ll call her bluff and tell her to go.”
“What would your father do then?”
“Marry one of the women from his Bible-study class, I expect. hey
all fancy him.”
“But you won’t be here, will you? You’re off to university.”
“No. Why would I want to do that?”

3. True or false?
Which three of the following sentences are true?
Correct the two false ones.
true false
a) Robbie spends a lot of time in his room.
b) He helped his father to pack the painting.
c) His parents have different feelings about religion.
d) His mother had been to church that day.
e) Robbie is planning to study at university.

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

call sb.’s bluff [)kO:l )sVmbEdiz (blVf] jmdn. zwingen, Farbe zu bekennen
fancy sb. [(fÄnsi] UK ifml. auf jmdn. stehen
play one’s cards right die Trümpfe richtig auspielen
[)pleI wVnz (kA:dz )raIt]

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CHAPTER 4

A
s Sergeant Pearce drove away from the vicarage, he shook
his head. “A valuable painting taken from an unlocked
house. here’s not much we can do about that, is there,
sir? hese people behave like idiots, and then they want
us to run around and find their things for them. Or maybe they just
want to claim the insurance money.”
“It isn’t as simple as that,” said the inspector. “he insurance company
won’t pay a penny if the door was unlocked.”
“I hadn’t thought of that.”

“But I don’t like that vicar,” continued the young sergeant. “He tells
lies. He said he wanted to sell the painting to send his son to university,
but the boy doesn’t have any plans to study.”
“So, we need to think of another reason for selling the painting. hink
a little more and judge a little less, Sergeant. Judge not, that ye be not
judged.”
“What, sir?”
“It’s from the Bible, Pearce.”
“Oh! And does the Bible have any tips to help find this painting?”
“Yes. It tells us exactly what we should do: ‘Seek and ye shall find.’”

claim [kleIm] Anspruch erheben auf, geltend machen

judge not, that ye be not judged richtet nicht, auf dass ihr nicht
[)dZVdZ nQt DÄt (ji: bi nQt )dZVdZd] gerichtet werdet
seek and ye shall find suchet und ihr werdet finden
[)si:k End )ji S&l (faInd]

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“Very funny, sir. But where can
we start? here’s no evidence.
No broken lock. No broken
window. No fingerprints — or
rather, there will be hundreds
of fingerprints from everyone
in the village. Everyone knows
that the door is always open
and that Sunday morning is
the perfect time to come in.
he son wouldn’t notice if 20 thieves came into the house — as long
as they didn’t take his computer.”
“Stop the car, Pearce!”

Inspector Davies pointed to a small shop. “here’s an art gallery. If

we’re looking for a painting, then that would be a good place to start.”

4. Describe the detectives

Choose the correct word(s) to complete the following sentences.
a) Sergeant Pearce feels optimistic / pessimistic about the case.
b) Sergeant Pearce is quite tolerant / judgemental.
c) Inspector Davies seems a simple / well-educated man.
d) Inspector Davies is more / less intelligent than the sergeant.
e) Sergeant Pearce feels that they have a lot of / don’t have many
clues to help solve the case.

judgemental [dZVdZ(ment&l] voreingenommen

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CHAPTER 5

T
he gallery
was light and
modern. he
walls were cov-
ered with watercolour paint-
ings. Most were landscapes and
views of the village — cottages,
gardens, the pub. “Clichés,” thought
Inspector Davies.
he owner of the gallery came into the
shop from his back room, wiping his
hands on a cloth.
“Good afternoon, gentlemen. Please
feel free to look around.”
“You have some nice pictures here. Are
they all yours?”
“Yes, they are. I find my inspiration in
the countryside around here.”
“I’m surprised to find a gallery like this
in a small village. Do you get many
customers?” asked Inspector Davies,
looking around the empty shop.

cloth [klQT] Tuch

watercolour painting [(wO:tEkVlE )peIntIN] Aquarellbild

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“Tourists, mostly. Are you and your partner on holiday?” he asked,
looking towards Sergeant Pearce.
“Oh, no. My, er, partner and I are police officers,” explained the in-
spector quickly. “We’re investigating the disappearance of a valuable
painting from the vicarage.”
“From the vicarage? hat’s impossible. George Burton has nothing of
beauty or value in his house. Well, nothing he appreciates.”
Sergeant Pearce didn’t like the gallery owner’s manner. “May we take
a look in your back room?” he asked, and he went through before the
gallery owner could say a word.
“Quick, sir! Come and see what I’ve found!” came the sergeant’s voice.
“What is it?”
“A naked woman, sir. I mean, a painting of a naked woman. A nude!”

When all three men were standing in front of the picture, the gallery
owner began laughing, and Inspector Davies had to smile, too.
“What’s so funny?” asked the young sergeant.
“Well, Pearce. Where shall I begin? Firstly, we’re looking for an oil
painting, and this is a watercolour. Secondly, we’re looking for a Vic-
torian woman, and this one has a very modern tattoo of a lotus flower
on her bottom. And thirdly, we’re looking for a painting that’s a hun-
dred years old, whereas this one is still wet.”

appreciate [E(pri:SieIt] zu schätzen wissen

bottom [(bQtEm] UK hier: Po
tattoo [tÄ(tu:] Tätowierung

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5. Something is missing
Fill in the missing letters to complete this summary
of the previous chapter.
The gallery had (a) w _ t _ _ c _ l _ _ r paintings of the village. There
weren’t any (b) c _ _ t _ m _ _ s in the gallery. When Inspector Davies
explained that they were (c) i _ v _ _ t _ g _ t _ _ g the theft of a painting
from the vicarage, the gallery owner said that Reverend Burton didn’t
(d) a _ p _ _ c _ a _ e the good things in his house. Then the sergeant
thought he had found the missing painting in the (e) b _ c _ r _ _ m,
but it was the wrong one. It was a (f) n_ _ e, but it was freshly painted,
and the woman had a tattoo on her (g) b _ t _ _ m.

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 CHAPTER 6

B
ack in the car, Sergeant Pearce sighed: “his is a hopeless
case, sir. We need a miracle.”
“Oh thou of little faith!”
“Is that from the Bible, too, sir?”
“Indeed. We don’t need a miracle; we just need to think. I suggest that
you phone the big auction houses in London and ask about the sale
of a Felton within the last year. Do it now. hen perhaps we can clear
this mystery up before we leave the village. I don’t want to have to
come all the way back again, especially when I suspect that no crime
has been committed.”

Within a couple of minutes, they had their answer. A Felton had been
sold for more than £10,000 eight months before. he owner was a
Mrs Burton.
“So she sold her own painting?” asked the sergeant.
“hat’s right,” answered the inspector. “She needed the money. Prob-
ably for her lover.”
“Her lover?”
“Yes, the artist. hat gallery must lose money month after month, but
it’s still open.”

commit (a crime) [kE(mIt] (ein Verbrechen) begehen

miracle [(mIrEk&l] Wunder
Oh thou of little faith! [EU )DaU Ev )lIt&l (feIT] Oh, ihr Kleingläubigen!
sigh [saI] seufzen
suspect [sE(spekt] vermuten

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“But why do you think that they’re lovers?”

“Well, Mrs Burton’s marriage clearly isn’t a happy one. Her husband had
a fundamental change of belief. hat puts a lot of stress on a marriage.”
“And he’s a pain in the arse,” added Pearce.
“hank you for that useful comment, Sergeant.”
“Sorry, sir. he artist is a creative type. Mrs B would like that. But we
have no proof.”
“I think we would have some proof if we looked at his bank statements
— or at her bottom.”

“Her bottom?!”
“Yes. I wouldn’t be surprised to find a tattoo there of a lotus flower —
a Buddhist symbol. I don’t think that painting in the back room was
for the gallery; it was a labour of love. And that’s an expression from
the Bible, too, Pearce, just for your religious education.”
“hank you, sir. So, she gave him the £10,000?”
“Well, I think she may have used some of the money to pay her son’s
gambling debts.”
“What gambling debts, sir?”
“I’m not 100 per cent sure, but he spends a lot of time on that com-
puter. And did you notice how he used a lot of gambling expressions?”
“How do you mean?”

bank statement [(bÄNk )steItmEnt] Bankauszug

gambling debts [(gÄmblIN dets] Spielschulden
labour of love [)leIbE Ev (lVv] Liebesdienst
pain in the arse [)peIn In Di (A:s] vulg. hier: Nervensäge

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“He talked about ‘playing your cards right’, ‘walking away from the
table’ and ‘calling someone’s bluff’. hose are all gambling
expressions. He has a gambler’s mentality.”

Sergeant Pearce was ready for action. “Right, so now

we need to look at Mrs Burton’s bank accounts.”
“Not so fast, Pearce. We don’t need to prove any-
thing. If my theory is correct, no crime has
been committed. Mrs Burton simply sold her
own painting and used the money in a per-
fectly legal way. hen, when her husband an-
nounced that he wanted to sell the painting...”
“Yes, why did he need the money?”
“It doesn’t matter. It could be for his son’s education, a new car or to
repair the vicarage roof. Who knows? But when he suggested selling
the painting, his wife probably panicked. She asked her son to pretend
to get the painting out of the attic while his father was out and then
to place an empty box in the hall. Remember, no one saw the painting;
they only saw the box.”
“And it would have been easy to take the empty box away while they
were at church,” added the sergeant. “he son could have done it. Or
the artist. Or even Mrs B: from the back of the church, it would be
easy to slip out for five minutes.”
“Yes, and then her husband would think it had been stolen.”

panic [(pÄnIk] Panik bekommen

slip out [slIp (aUt] sich hinausschleichen

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“So, let’s go back to the vicarage,” said Sergeant Pearce, starting the car.
“Reverend Burton is going to explode when we tell him about his wife’s
affair and his son’s gambling debts,” he added with a big grin.
“No, we’ll just have a quiet word with Mrs Burton, and she can tell
her husband herself.”
“Oh, OK. And then we can go back to the station. I should have gone
off duty ten minutes ago.”
“Ah, Pearce, there’s no peace for the wicked.”
“Is that from the Bible, too, sir?”
“How did you guess?”

go off duty [)gEU Qf (dju:ti] Dienstschluss haben

grin [grIn] Grinsen
there’s no peace for the wicked die Ruchlosen finden keinen Frieden
[)DEz nEU )pi:s fE DE (wIkId]

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6. What really happened?
Inspector Davies thinks that no crime has been committed.
Match the sentence halves below to explain his theory.

a) Mrs Burton had already sold the painting...

b) She was probably having an affair...
c) She was probably the model...
d) She might have given the money to her lover...
e) She might have used the money to help her son...
f) When her husband suggested selling the painting,...
g) She asked Robbie to pretend...
h) They placed an empty box in the hall...

1. and took it away during the church service.

2. because he had a gambling problem.
3. eight months earlier.
4. with the lotus-flower tattoo.
5. she panicked.
6. to get the painting out of the attic.
7. to keep his gallery open.
8. with the gallery owner.

a  c  e  g 

b  d  f  h 

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COMPLETE ALPHABETICAL WORD LIST

appreciate [E(pri:SieIt] zu schätzen wissen

attic [(ÄtIk] Dachboden
bank statement [(bÄNk )steItmEnt] Bankauszug
bottom [(bQtEm] UK hier: Po
call sb.’s bluff [)kO:l )sVmbEdiz (blVf] jmdn. zwingen, Farbe zu bekennen
claim [kleIm] Anspruch erheben auf, geltend machen
cloth [klQT] Tuch
collect [kE(lekt] hier: abholen
commit (a crime) [kE(mIt] (ein Verbrechen) begehen
fancy sb. [(fÄnsi] UK ifml. auf jmdn. stehen
for better or for worse in guten wie in schlechten Tagen
[fE )betE O: fE (w§:s]
gambling debts [(gÄmblIN dets] Spielschulden
go off duty [)gEU Qf (dju:ti] Dienstschluss haben
great-great-grandfather Ururgroßvater
[)greIt greIt (grÄnd)fA:DE]
grin [grIn] Grinsen
in his own image [In hIz )EUn (ImIdZ] nach seinem Ebenbild
judgemental [dZVdZ(ment&l] voreingenommen
judge not, that ye be not judged richtet nicht, auf dass ihr nicht
[)dZVdZ nQt DÄt (ji: bi nQt )dZVdZd] gerichtet werdet
keen: be ~ on [ki:n] von etw. begeistert sein
labour of love [)leIbE Ev (lVv] Liebesdienst
miracle [(mIrEk&l] Wunder
nude [nju:d] Aktdarstellung
Oh thou of little faith! Oh, ihr Kleingläubigen!
[EU )DaU Ev )lIt&l (feIT]
pain in the arse [)peIn In Di (A:s] vulg. hier: Nervensäge
panic [(pÄnIk] Panik bekommen
play one’s cards right die Trümpfe richtig auspielen
[)pleI wVnz (kA:dz )raIt]
reverend [(rev&rEnd] hier: Hochwürden
roll one’s eyes [)rEUl wVnz (aIz] die Augen verdrehen
seek and ye shall find suchet und ihr werdet finden
[)si:k End )ji S&l (faInd]

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sergeant [(sA:dZEnt] Polizist eines unteren Dienstgrades
service [(s§:vIs] hier: Gottesdienst
sigh [saI] seufzen
slip out [slIp (aUt] sich hinausschleichen
suspect [sE(spekt] vermuten
tattoo [tÄ(tu:] Tätowierung
there’s no peace for the wicked die Ruchlosen finden keinen Frieden
[)DEz nEU )pi:s fE DE (wIkId]
value [(vÄlju:] hier: schätzen (lassen)
vicar [(vIkE] Pfarrer, Pastor
vicarage [(vIkErIdZ] Pfarrhaus
watercolour painting Aquarellbild
[(wO:tEkVlE )peIntIN]
with all my worldly goods I thee mit allen meinen weltlichen Gütern
endow [wID )O:l maI )w§:ldli beschenke ich Dich (Ehegelöbnis der
)gUdz aI )Di In(daU] anglikanischen Kirche beim Anstecken
der Ringe)

Answers
1. Where, what, how? a) at the village church; b) unknown;
c) in a box; d) didn’t have to; e) low
2. Describe the Burtons: a) husband; b) husband; c) wife; d) husband;
e) wife
3. True or false? a) true; b) false (He helped his mother to pack the
painting.); c) true; d) true; e) false (Robbie isn’t planning to study.)
4. Describe the detectives: a) pessimistic; b) judgemental;
c) well-educated; d) more; e) don’t have many
5. Something is missing: a) watercolour; b) customers; c) investigating;
d) appreciate; e) back room; f) nude; g) bottom
6. What really happened? a–3; b–8; c–4; d–7; e–2; f–5; g–6; h–1

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