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Spotlight Audio 2/2015
Introduction
[1] David: Welcome to the February 2015 edi-
tion of Spotlight Audio. I’m David Creedon
from Britain. Join me now for a 60-minute ex-
pedition around the English-speaking world —
with stories, language tips and exercises.
•W  hen was the last time you tested your Eng-
lish speaking skills? In our language section,
we show you how to get the best results
from the speaking section of the IELTS test.
• U ganda is an East African country which has
become a popular tourist destination for its
amazing wildlife. We meet Uganda’s moun-
tain gorillas and a woman who’s dedicated to
protecting them.
• Is sorry really the hardest word to say? Not if
you follow our advice on apologizing in this
month’s English at Work.
World View
[2] British saffron
David: Spices have been important and val-
uable for thousands of years. Saffron, for in-
stance, is mentioned in the Bible. It was used
as a perfume in ancient Greece and Rome, and
shortly after Buddha died, his priests made
saffron the official colour for their robes. To-
day, saffron is the most expensive spice in the
world. Listen now to this story about saffron
from the World View section of the magazine.
Saffron is used to flavour food and give it
a golden yellow colour. The spice, usually
sourced today from places like Iran, Spain or
Morocco, was once produced in England, too.
After a 200-year hiatus, it is now being farmed
there again — in the Essex town of Saffron
Walden, a place that was long associated with
the spice trade.
“I looked into who was growing saffron, and to
my surprise, I found there was no one doing it,”
English saffron farmer David Smale informed
The Telegraph. “I was told the practice had died
out a few hundred years ago, which I thought
was ridiculous, so I decided to give it a go.”
dedicated: be ~ sich zum Ziel gesetzt haben
give sth. a go etw. probieren
hiatus Unterbrechung, Auszeit
ridiculous lächerlich
robe Gewand
saffron Safran
source beschaffen, beziehen
spice Gewürz
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Smale has been growing Crocus sativus, the
flower from which saffron is made, for years in
order to have enough of the spice to sell. Cur-
rently the only farmer in Britain to produce it,
he relies on the well-known shop Fortnum &
Mason to offer the saffron he makes for £15
per 0.2 grams — three times the price of gold.
Source: Spotlight 2/2015, page 12
A Day in My Life
[3] Carillonneur Andrea McCrady
David: Have you ever heard of a musical instru-
ment called a carillon? It’s a set of at least 23
bells that can be played with a keyboard. Caril-
lons are usually located in the tower of a church
or public building.
In A Day in My Life, we meet American carillon-
neur, or carillon player, Andrea McCrady. She
plays the carillon at the Peace Tower, which is
part of the Canadian parliament complex in Ot-
tawa, Ontario. Listen now as McCrady explains
how she became the Peace Tower carillonneur.
I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I’m a
damn Yankee. But my father came up to Ontar-
io to fish and hunt every summer, and I learned
how to paddle a canoe up here and so forth, so
we enjoyed coming to Canada. I did my under-
graduate bachelor’s degree in history, and then
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I went over to Europe to study, and then I came
back and went to medical school at McGill Uni-
versity in Montreal. While I was there, I was the
carillonneur of L’Oratoire Saint-Joseph in Mon-
treal and taught the person who was next to
play. And I did my hospital training in Toronto.
There are three carillons in Toronto, and I was
the carillonneur of the CNE — the Canadian Na-
tional Exhibition. I was going to stay in Canada,
but they changed all their immigration laws
and canceled all the credits I had built up, so I
went back to the United States, to Seattle, and
the only carillon close to that was Victoria — so
again crossing the border — and taught the
person to play at Victoria.
I continued to work as a doctor for 28 years,
went overseas and so forth. I was on a plane
going to Boston for a medical meeting on 9/11.
Our plane safely turned around and landed, but
I made the decision at that point that when the
time was right, I was going to go back to music
and get a degree in carillon and in music so I
could teach it for a university. And I went back
to school; I went half-time in medicine. [I] went
back to school in 2006 and got the degree in
2008, with the plans to continue practicing
medicine where I was, in Washington state. I
was the cathedral carillonneur there.
[In 2008] Mr. [Gordon] Slater announced his
retirement at the Peace Tower, and they made
it a worldwide competition. It wasn’t really
my original plan, but I said, “Oh, it’s the Peace
Tower. I don’t have a chance,” because I knew
there would be a lot of very good carillon-
neurs, especially from Europe, [who] would
be applying for the job. But somehow I made
the shortlist. The other person was from New
Zealand and France, and I won the job. So here
I am!
See Spotlight 2/2015, pages 8–9
Britain Today
[4] Fruits of technology
David: In Britain Today, Colin Beaven looks at
how new and old generations have adapted
to modern technology. As you listen, try to an-
swer this question: What noun describes a cold
dessert made of small pieces of different types
of fruit?
Perhaps it’s time I bought something elec-
tronic. But what do I buy? There are so many
products to choose from. An iPad from Apple?
A contract from Orange? A smartphone from
BlackBerry? Should I just buy all of them and
try to make fruit salad?
Everyone else certainly seems to have more
than one of these things. We’re told we need
at least “five a day” to stay healthy. For many,
though, this means not fruit and vegetables,
but personal electronic devices.
When I say everyone else, I really mean the
younger generation. For those above a certain
age, the words apple and blackberry have little
to do with technology. That’s because they’re
key ingredients of a classic British pudding:
blackberry and apple crumble. It’s a traditional
dessert that’s ideal for Sunday lunch — so filling
that it may send you to sleep till the alarm gets
you out of bed on Monday morning.
Energetic people with iPhones, iPads and iPods
would no doubt find it highly frustrating to lose
so much i-time. No sooner have these poor
things bought all this stuff than it’s time to save
up for the next must-have product — like the
Apple watch, perhaps. It’s a never-ending ex-
pense, enough to make you scream. Shouldn’t
it be called an iWatch, or would an iWatch just
make Apple’s customers i-scream?
Well, if we’re now talking about ice cream,
good-quality vanilla is, of course, the perfect
adapt sich anpassen
and so forth und so weiter
blackberry Brombeere
carillon Glockenspiel
crumble  mit Streuseln bestreutes,
überbackenes Obst;
zerfallen, zerbröseln
device Gerät
key ingredient Hauptbestandteil
noun Substantiv
shortlist engere Auswahlliste
undergraduate Bachelor-Abschluss
bachelor’s degree
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flavour to serve with your blackberry and apple
crumble.
Sorry! Back to technology: third-generation
smartphones are obviously quite helpful, be-
cause they can give you a wireless connection
to the internet. Technology doesn’t stop there,
though. Many parts of the country have 4G,
and 5G is already on the cards, it seems.
How many do we actually need? Do different
generations of electronic communications de-
vices make it any easier for different genera-
tions of people to communicate? To judge by
the families you see out for a meal in a restau-
rant, the answer would seem to be no. They’re
as silent as monks, concentrating on the elec-
tronic screens in front of them.
Phones, I think, are like family celebrations:
three generations are more than enough. True,
while children use WhatsApp to contact their
friends, parents can check out the day’s latest
photos on Facebook, and grandparents can try
to work out how to use Twitter. But while every-
one communicates, no one says a word.
All these rows of handheld machines round
the dinner table do mean there’s less need
for family arguments, of course. So I suppose
we should be grateful to firms like Apple. Let’s
hope their products are now here to stay. After
all, even a business that’s based on a fashion-
able sector of the economy like communica-
tions technology can have its ups and downs.
And firms don’t last forever.
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It doesn’t seem so long ago that everyone in
Britain was buying a Sinclair ZX80, a basic but
immensely popular personal computer. A great
success in the 1980s, the firm was in financial
difficulties by the mid-1990s.
Who knows? Changes in taste and fashion have
ruined big businesses before. Perhaps one day,
they’ll even make BlackBerry and Apple crum-
ble.
“I’m sorry. Did you say you’d made blackberry
and apple crumble? Yes, please! That’s my fa-
vourite.”
“And what would you like to go with it? Custard,
cream or ice cream?”
“I scream! Sitting here with all this technology
around me, I definitely scream.”
Source: Spotlight 2/2015, page 13
David: Were you able to answer the question?
What noun describes a cold dessert made of
small pieces of different types of fruit? The an-
swer is: a fruit salad.
Travel
[5] Visiting family in Uganda
David: The East African country of Uganda is
experiencing a renaissance as a popular tour-
ist destination. Once a British colony, Uganda
gained independence in 1962. In the following
decades, war and dictatorship tore the coun-
try apart. Today, Uganda is one of the safest
destinations in Africa. The country has a lot to
offer tourists, including the continent’s highest
mountain range and largest lake. The big draw,
however, is the phenomenal wildlife, especially
the mountain gorillas. Half the mountain goril-
las in the world live in Uganda. For the Febru-
ary edition of Spotlight, deputy editor Claudine
Weber-Hof travelled to Uganda to explore the
tropical national parks and meet some of man-
kind’s closest relatives. In the following excerpt
from Claudine’s article, you’ll hear about two
national parks in western Uganda, close to the
border with the Democratic Republic of Congo,
or DRC.
Friday with gorillas
In the Ishasha Sector of Queen Elizabeth Na-
tional Park, travellers use the word “Congo” to
mean a wilderness they might never see. Oth-
er than a few nature reserves that are open to
tourists, its political instability makes the DRC a
tough place to visit. On the Ugandan side of the
border, though, the greatest danger may be the
tree-climbing lions. Their legs hang down from
the big fig trees where they are asleep at mid-
day. We stop the jeep to take a look. Our guide
explains that it’s cool up in the trees, and from
there, the lions can watch for Topi antelope.
Later in the day, we drive past guide Eric
Ndorere’s home town of Kihihi. Workers queue
outside tea factories right next to the bright
green tea plantations that blanket the land.
The farming stops where Bwindi Impenetrable
Forest begins. Mountain gorillas are its main
attraction; more than 400 of them live here. I
have a perfect view of their habitat when we ar-
rive at Silverback Lodge. Rising above the hotel
gardens, the jungle hills seem inviting. With tall
mahogany trees and a thick carpet of plants,
they exude a feeling of safety — of a home in
the wild.
It’s a place utterly familiar to Medad Tumuga-
biiewe, or Medi, as he asks us to call him. The
ranger has been at Bwindi since part of the
argument Streit
custard Vanillesoße
deputy editor stellvertretende(r)
Chefredakteur(in)
draw hier: Magnet
excerpt Auszug
exude ausstrahlen, verströmen
fig tree Feigenbaum
judge by sth. etw. nach zu urteilen
last währen, bestehen bleiben
mankind Menschheit
monk Mönch
mountain range Bergzug, Bergkette
renaissance Wiedergeburt
row Reihe
silent stumm, schweigend
suppose annehmen
tear apart auseinander reißen
utterly absolut, gänzlich
wireless connection drahtlose Verbindung
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forest opened as a national park in 1991. The
gorilla trek he’ll be leading can take up to eight
hours. The paths, made by the Batwa pygmies
who once lived in the jungle, are steep. We will
be tracking the 17-member Rushegura family
of gorillas. Its dominant silverback — so called
because of the grey fur seen on senior males
— has recently died. Now a new leader is in
charge.
Certain gorilla families have been habituated
to humans: about half the gorillas in this park.
American researcher Dian Fossey, who worked
with the mountain gorillas of Rwanda, de-
scribed them as gentle. “After more than 2,000
hours of direct observation,” she wrote in Na-
tional Geographic in 1970, she’d seen “less than
five minutes of what might be called ‘aggres-
sive’ behaviour. And even this really amounted
to protective action or bluff.” Medi’s advice to
us is to keep a distance of seven metres from
the gorillas when we see them.
We hike uphill through a tunnel of banana trees.
Each of us has a walking stick, which helps im-
mensely with rocky areas, and many of us have
hired local porters to carry our packs. After an
hour, we take a break. When the trek continues,
Medi shows us the trails used by gorillas to go
deeper into the bush. “Gorillas make nests on
the ground,” he says, “and an individual makes
a nest every night.”
After two hours, we’ve hiked up to 1,700 me-
tres, the top of the mountain. The trackers,
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who had gone out an hour ahead of us to lo-
cate the gorillas, rest at the side of the path.
We pass by them, expressing our thanks, and
follow Medi to an area where we can hear the
gorillas moving in the trees. Soon they appear:
young males and adult females with babies, all
looking for leaves to eat. None of them seem at
all concerned about our presence.
Being this close to gorillas creates the strong
need to anthropomorphize: they seem so very
human. As I watch, a mother gathers her baby
to her chest, allowing her tiny boy to nurse.
Two teenagers sit together and groom each
other. It looks as though they are waiting for
someone else to appear. Just then, the big sil-
verback walks out of the bush. The junior mem-
bers of the group watch him to see what to do
next. Are we humans really so different?
After nearly an hour, the gorillas have had
enough of us and disappear into the jungle.
Fossey wrote that we “human trespassers”
were pushing too far into the limited areas
where mountain gorillas can still live in the
wild. Turning to leave, I wonder if careful tour-
ism like this will create the balance necessary
to keep local communities happy and the pop-
ulation of gorillas growing. Who knows? It may
just work.
Source: Spotlight 2/2015, pages 14–21
[6] Gorilla conservation in Uganda
David: We’ll now hear from Dr Gladys Kalema-
Zikusoka, the founder and head of Conser-
vation Through Public Health (CTPH). This
non-governmental organization aims to pre-
vent and control the spread of disease between
people and wildlife — especially the mountain
gorillas of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in
western Uganda. Dr Gladys, as she’s affection-
ately known, began her career as a veterinarian
with Uganda Wildlife Authority. In 2002, there
was an outbreak of a skin disease called scabies
among mountain gorillas. Listen now as Dr Gla-
dys describes how she realized that the gorillas
had caught the disease from a local village.
At the time, we didn’t know where it came
from, but they had scabies. We looked around,
and the [local] community was so unhealthy
and unhygienic. The people even came up and
said, “Look.” I was the only vet at the time. They
were like, “Why don’t you design a programme
to improve people’s health?” and it came out
clearly that we needed to start improving com-
munity hygiene. I was given that assignment;
I loved it. [We] went ahead and we developed
brochures for them on the risks of human and
gorilla disease transmission, and we were with
a community conservation warden and ranger
and with district health people. You know, this
is the problem: gorillas are curious. If you leave
your dirty clothing in the garden, they’ll get it.
And we thought that’s how they got the sca-
bies, because these groups were always going
outside the park.
David: In the next part of the interview, Dr
Gladys gives an example of how CTPH’s early
warning system of tests and analysis helped
the community’s health. You’ll need to know
that giardia is a waterborne parasite that can
infect both animals and humans.
affectionately liebevoll
anthropomorphize menschliche Eigenschaften
zuschreiben
assignment Aufgabe, Auftrag
brochure Broschüre
curious neugierig
dirty schmutzig
disease transmission Krankheitsübertragung
founder Gründer(in)
groom sich pflegen, sich putzen
hike wandern
in charge: be ~ das Sagen haben
non-governmental  nicht behördlich, nicht
staatlich
outbreak Ausbruch
porter Träger(in)
pygmy Pygmäe, Pygmäin
ranger Parkaufseher(in)
scabies Krätze
they’re like ifml. hier: und dann sagen sie so
tracker Fährtenleser(in)
trespasser Unbefugte(r), Eindringling
veterinarian Tierarzt, -ärztin
warden Aufseher(in), Wärter(in)
waterborne durch Wasser übertragen
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Another thing we developed is that we’re not
only testing people; we’re also testing livestock
and humans who are sick through our partner-
ship with the local hospitals. So if we’re look-
ing... If we got a test... Let’s say we’re testing
[for] giardia — we had a kid that was [tested
for] giardia. Luckily, we found that the gorillas
didn’t have giardia, but the park staff had gi-
ardia; so did the livestock. And [in] the commu-
nity, the people who were sick had it in a high
percentage, like the infants who had diarrhoea.
We convinced the hospitals [not to] throw away
the sample, because when someone’s sick,
we just give [him or her] everything and hope
one thing will work. We don’t have time to do
diagnostics and stuff; [we] don’t do anything
sophisticated. So we were like, “Don’t throw
away the sample. It’s tested for what we’re
testing anyway. And if we find something inter-
esting, we will let you know. Then you can do
more holistic prevention.” Because now when
they found that giardia was quite high — 40 per
cent — then they could educate the commu-
nities when they come in and they’re sick and
[ask] them, “Hey! Where do you get your water
from?” Actually, we found out that 50 per cent
of them get water from an unprotected water
source.
David: CTPH’s efforts have been successful in
improving the lives of gorillas by changing the
attitudes of both local people and tourists.
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Listen as Dr Gladys describes the response from
local people when a gorilla was tragically killed.
You’ll need to know that a duiker is small ante-
lope.
In 2011, a gorilla was killed in Bwindi, which is
very rare. And because the communities get
so much from tourism — 20 per cent of the
park entry fee, it’s an act of parliament, has
to go to them, and in Bwindi five dollars from
every permit also goes to them — and so with
all of that, they really love the gorillas. Now, a
gorilla was killed by a poacher who was com-
ing to poach duiker with his hunting dogs. The
gorilla got into a fight with his dog, and he just
speared the gorilla several times. And because
the person who killed it came from parishes
where we were not working or other NGOs
were not working, but it’s bordering the oth-
ers, and they’re very poor there, and they’ve
had very few benefits... So he came in — he’s a
well-known hunter, apparently — and the fun-
ny thing is, [the local people] were able to trace
the blood of the dog all the way to his home.
They all did a very good job. They quickly got
the police in, and so he was put into jail for a
few days. But he bribed the magistrate and got
out and only paid $20 equivalent.
See Spotlight 2/2015, pages 14–21
Everyday English
[7] At the hairdresser’s
David: This month in Everyday English, we’re
looking at the words and phrases people use
when they talk about going to the hairdresser’s.
In the following dialogue, Irene and Janet are
discussing having their hair done for a wedding
they’re going to. As you listen, try to answer
this question: What adjective describes hair
that has been dried by blowing hot air over it?
Irene: I’m going to make an appointment to
have my hair done on the morning of the wed-
ding. Do you want me to make one for you, too?
Janet: Yes, please. What are you getting done?
Irene: I want to get it washed, blow-dried and
styled. I’m thinking about putting it up in a bun.
Janet: I think that’s called an updo these days.
Irene: Yes, one of those. What about you?
Janet: The same, probably, but I’d like some
braids in it to keep the wispy bits out of my
face. Do you think we’ll get an appointment at
the same time?
Irene: Yes. I asked about that. Muriel could fit
us in at nine. It’ll take about an hour and a half,
she said.
David: Were you able to answer the question?
What adjective describes hair that has been
dried by blowing hot air over it? The answer
is: blow-dried. In the next dialogue, Janet and
Irene are on their way to the hairdresser’s. As
you listen, try to find a name for a shop where
people have their hair cut and styled.
Irene: I hope you get on with Muriel. She can
be a bit ditzy.
Janet: What do you mean?
Irene: Well, sometimes she’ll be telling you
something and then just stop in mid-sentence.
Or she’ll ask you the same question twice. I
think her mind just wanders.
apparently anscheinend
blow-dried geföhnt
bribe bestechen, schmieren
bun Haarknoten
diarrhoea Durchfall
fee Gebühr
holistic prevention ganzheitliche Prävention
livestock Vieh
magistrate Richter(in)
NGO (non-governmental Nichtregierungs-
organization) organisation
parish Gemeinde
poacher Wilderer, Wilderin
sample Probe
sophisticated  ausgeklügelt, komplex,
aufwändig
source Quelle
spear aufspießen, durchbohren
staff Personal, Mitarbeiter
trace verfolgen, aufspüren
wispy flaumig
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Janet: I see. Does she try to get you to buy ex-
pensive products?
Irene: Oh, I can’t stand that. No, she wouldn’t
do that. She’s really good. I always look ten
years younger when I leave the salon — at least
I think so.
Janet: You have your hair coloured, don’t you?
Irene: Yes, I get my roots done every few
weeks, and sometimes I get highlights. It’s ex-
pensive, but I’m not ready to go grey.
Janet: No. Neither am I.
David: Were you able to answer the question?
A shop where people have their hair cut and
styled is called a salon.
Source: Spotlight 2/2015, pages 55–56
Debate
[8] Asylum seekers in Ireland
David: Like many EU countries, Ireland has had
difficulties coping with asylum seekers. The
government policy for dealing with those ap-
plying for asylum is known as “direct provision”.
Asylum seekers are provided with food and
housing along with free health and education
services. However, asylum seekers are not al-
lowed to work; adults receive an allowance of
just €19.10 per week, while children get €9.60.
There are currently around 5,000 asylum seek-
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ers waiting to be either given refugee status or
deported. On average, asylum seekers must
wait seven years to get a decision. In the mean-
time, they must stay in direct-provision hous-
ing — often an old hotel or hostel far from cit-
ies, towns or even villages.
Recent hunger strikes and protests have drawn
attention to the situation, but it’s uncertain if
improvements are on the horizon. To find out
more about the issue, correspondent John
Stanley asked people in Dublin: Does Ireland
treat people seeking political asylum fairly?
Breda Murphy:
To have people living like that is just totally un-
acceptable. People should be allowed to grow
and develop and live, you know, a normal, hap-
py life. You know, those parents want for their
children what we want for our children, which
is an opportunity to work and to be educated
and, you know, just the basic human rights, ba-
sically, and maybe have a choice of where they
live and how they live.
Michael Crowley:
I think we treat them as fairly as we could; and it
would be too easy to sound xenophobic, which
I’m not, but you take certain segments [of asy-
lum seekers] that do their race, as it were, a
discredit.
Joe Gantly:
I think the government needs to revisit the en-
tire operation. Go out and study it and see how
they can improve it and certainly accept that
it must not take 10 years to find out whether
somebody is a legitimate asylum seeker or not.
Julie Curtin:
I think we treat them very [fairly]. They get
more than enough from our government and
tax system — and sometimes maybe too much
— and the system is abused in bad ways. Now,
that’s not to say all of them are abusing it, but
I think some people have come into our coun-
try and used our system for the wrong reasons,
[and not] for seeking asylum.
See Spotlight 2/2015, pages 38–39
American Life
[9] We’ll just have to be more patient
David: In the US, the demand for health care
is growing fast. Unfortunately, the number of
general practitioners is falling. Ginger Kuenzel
examines the situation in this month’s Ameri-
can Life. As you listen, try to answer this ques-
tion: According to the text, how much debt
does the average US medical-school graduate
start his or her career with?
Have you ever wondered why you’re referred
to as a “patient” when you go to the doctor’s of-
fice? In many cases, that’s just what you have to
be. In fact, you not only have to be patient once
you arrive in the waiting room; you’ve probably
also had to wait a very long time just to get an
appointment. And according to many experts,
the situation is only going to get worse.
There are various reasons for this. For one
thing, the number of primary-care physicians
— also known as general practitioners — is de-
clining. The average medical-school graduate
in the US starts his or her career about $170,000
abuse missbrauchen
allowance Zuschuss, Beihilfe
apply for sth. etw. beantragen
asylum seeker Asylbewerber(in)
debt Schuld(en)
decline abnehmen, sinken
demand Nachfrage, Bedarf
deport abschieben
discredit schlechter Ruf
doctor’s office N. Am. Arztpraxis
entire gesamt, ganz
general practitioner Allgemeinarzt, -ärztin,
Hausarzt, -ärztin
graduate Hochschulabsolvent(in)
in the meantime in der Zwischenzeit
legitimate rechtmäßig
on the horizon in Sicht
primary-care physician Hausarzt, -ärztin
xenophobic ausländerfeindlich
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in debt. Because of this, many choose to spe-
cialize in order to increase their earning power.
Just as fewer primary-care physicians are hang-
ing out their shingles, many of the doctors who
are currently practicing will retire in the coming
years, leading to a further decline in number.
The problem is not just fewer doctors, though.
There are also more people waiting to see
them. One reason for this is the Affordable Care
Act — popularly known as Obamacare — the
goal of which is to provide access to affordable
health care for all.
While that’s a good thing, it has also expanded
the pool of people who are probably going to
visit a doctor. Another growing group of pa-
tients are the elderly. And because the elderly
are more likely to go to the doctor more fre-
quently than younger people, this places even
more pressure on doctors’ schedules.
One development in health-care delivery can
help at least somewhat with this problem: the
increased use of urgent-care centers, which
started opening across the US in the 1970s.
Somewhere on the spectrum between a doc-
tor’s office and a hospital emergency room
(ER), urgent-care centers don’t require an ap-
pointment. They are generally open seven days
a week, offer evening hours, and are less ex-
pensive than an ER. They are the place to go if
you have an illness or injury that needs urgent
attention, but which is not life-threatening. If
you’re having a heart attack, you’ll want to go
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straight to the ER. But if you’ve got a broken
arm, a cut that needs stitches, or you have flu-
like symptoms, you can consider going to an
urgent-care center.
The number of urgent-care centers is growing.
Some reports estimate that there are currently
9,000 of them in the US. They can operate more
cost-effectively than a hospital ER and are not
required to accept all patients. Most of them
do not accept people on Medicaid (the nation-
al insurance for low-income people) or those
without insurance — unless, of course, these
people pay up front. Hospitals, on the other
hand, are required to accept anyone in need of
medical attention. Some people never pay their
hospital bills, however; or Medicaid pays them,
but only a small part of the total amount. This
can mean that hospitals end up charging oth-
er patients more in order to cover their overall
costs.
Obviously, urgent-care centers are not a cure-
all. They are only for emergency situations. And
the basic problem still exists: there are fewer
doctors and more patients. The result? We will
all need to have more patience, too.
Source: Spotlight 2/2015, page 67
David: Were you able to find the answer? Ac-
cording to the text, how much debt does the
average US medical-school graduate start his or
her career with? Listen:
The average medical-school graduate in the US
starts his or her career about $170,000 in debt.
Replay
[10] A look at recent news events
David: We’ll look at recent news events around
the world now, in our Replay section.
Welcome to Replay, the listening exercise with
the voices of people who’ve been in the news.
I’m Inez Sharp. In this edition:
• T wo of the world’s biggest countries agree to
fight climate change; and
• C ould robots soon become too smart to con-
trol?
Remember, if you don’t understand something,
you can always go back and listen to it again.
[11] An agreement on climate change
The planet is getting warmer, with 2014 again
one of the hottest years on record. At the lat-
est UN climate conference — this time in Lima,
Peru — there was lots of talk about reducing
the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmos-
phere. This year’s delegates had reason to be
excited, though: in the weeks before the con-
ference, US President Barack Obama and Chi-
nese President Xi Jinping had agreed to reduce
their countries’ emissions — the gases they’re
putting into the atmosphere. Jody Freeman, a
former adviser to Obama, said...
Jody Freeman, environmental-law expert:
“The US-China deal is really, I think, a game-
changer. It adds tremendous momentum to
these talks in Lima. You know, the US and China
are the two indispensable nations on this prob-
lem. They are together, if you combine them,
responsible for 40 percent of global emissions.”
Source: WNYC/PRI
A game-changer is a factor that suddenly
changes what can happen — just as when a
new player or a new strategy is put to use in the
middle of a football game. The US and China
are indispensable in this discussion — in other
words, they are absolutely necessary. Barack
Obama described the goal as ambitious, or op-
timistic.
charge sb. jmdm. in Rechnung stellen
cure-all Allheilmittel
earning power Erwerbskraft
elderly ältere Menschen, Senioren
emergency room N. Am. Notaufnahme
greenhouse gases Treibhausgase
momentum Schwung, Impuls
need stitches genäht werden müssen
shingle N. Am. Praxisschild
tremendous gewaltig, enorm
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Barack Obama, president:
“The United States has set a new goal of reduc-
ing our net greenhouse-gas emissions by 26 to
28 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2025.
This is an ambitious goal, but it is an achievable
goal.”
Source: Reuters
To make the agreement work, Obama will need
the support of Congress — which he’s not like-
ly to get. Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe said
the deal worked in China’s favour. As part of the
agreement, China says it will greatly increase
the percentage of non-fossil fuels by 2030 —
but only after that will greenhouse gases have
to be reduced.
James Inhofe, senator:
“What did China agree to? Now, first of all, even
if they did agree to reducing emissions, we
wouldn’t believe them, because they never ...
end up doing what they say they’re going to do
in these agreements. But what [Xi] says he’s go-
ing to do is stop increasing its CO2 emissions by
2030. In other words, between now and 2030,
they’re going to continue to increase their lev-
els of CO2 emissions.”
Source: C-SPAN
In the meantime, the European Union has al-
ready reduced its own emissions by 18 per cent
compared to 1990. By 2030, the amount will be
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40 per cent, and by 2050, it should be 80 per
cent.
[12] A danger to the human race?
British physicist Stephen Hawking spends most
of his time thinking about very big questions,
such as what happens inside black holes. Lately
he’s been thinking about artificial intelligence
— robots or computer systems that can think
and make decisions on their own. Hawking,
who is paralysed, uses a computer to produce
speech. Recently he started using a new sys-
tem that predicts what he is going to say, so
that he can communicate faster. This got him
wondering: What will happen when computers
start to think faster than we do?
Stephen Hawking, physicist:
“I think the development of full artificial intel-
ligence could spell the end of the human race.
Once humans develop artificial intelligence, it
[will] take off on its own and redesign itself at
an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are lim-
ited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t com-
pete and would be superseded.”
Source: BBC
If humans are superseded, their place will be
taken by something else; and if artificial intel-
ligence, or AI, takes off on its own, it will do
whatever it wants. Professor Murray Shanahan,
who works in the field of artificial intelligence at
Imperial College London, says we don’t have to
worry about this — yet.
Murray Shanahan, roboticist:
“[A] hundred years is just the blink of an eye to
Stephen Hawking, and I think that’s the kind
of timescale on which we might have to think
about this. There really is no need to panic, be-
cause what he calls full AI or human-level artifi-
cial intelligence is really not around the corner.”
Source: BBC
The blink of an eye is just a short moment. Elon
Musk, the inventor of the PayPal internet pay-
ment system, says we may not have very much
time. He argues that major advances in artificial
intelligence are just around the corner, mean-
ing in the near future — perhaps only five to ten
years away. Musk expects an existential threat
— a threat to our existence — and compares
creating artificial intelligence to summoning a
demon. To summon someone is to command
him or her to appear.
Elon Musk, innovator:
“I think we should be very careful about arti-
ficial intelligence. If I were to guess what our
biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that.
... I’m increasingly inclined to think that there
should be some regulatory oversight maybe
at the national and international level, just to
make sure that we don’t do something very
foolish. I mean, with artificial intelligence, we
are summoning the demon. You know all those
stories where there’s the guy with the penta-
gram and the holy water and he’s like, yeah,
he’s sure he can control the demon: it [doesn’t]
work out.”
Source: MIT
Of course, this is all speculation. No one knows
what will really happen. But just in case, three
British universities — in Sheffield, Liverpool and
the West of England — recently started a £1.4
million project. Its aim is to make sure that in-
telligent robots will be created responsibly and
that their decisions conform to human ethics.
With that, we end Replay for this month. We
hope you’ve found our explanations useful. Till
next month: goodbye.
artificial intelligence künstliche Intelligenz
demon Dämon
inclined: be ~ geneigt sein, tendieren
lately in letzter Zeit
non-fossil fuel nicht-fossile Energiequelle
oversight Aufsicht
paralysed gelähmt
pentagram Drudenfuß, Fünfzack
predict vorhersagen, voraussagen
regulatory regulatorisch, regelnd
roboticist Roboteringenieur(in)
timescale Zeitraum, zeitlicher Rahmen
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Language
[13] The IELTS speaking test
David: IELTS stands for the International Eng-
lish Language Testing System. It’s one of the
major English language tests. IELTS results are
recognized by more than 9,000 organizations
worldwide. Over the last couple of years, Spot-
light has looked at different sections of the
IELTS test, such as reading and writing. In this
issue, we look at the speaking test, which con-
sists of a conversation with a certified IELTS ex-
aminer. The speaking test is made up of three
sections. It’s recorded by the examiner and
takes between 11 and 14 minutes to complete.
Examiners mark candidates on their fluency
and vocabulary, as well as their grammar and
pronunciation skills. To find out more about the
speaking test, we spoke to Spotlight language
editor Dagmar Taylor. First, we asked Dagmar
what advice she would give for preparing for
the speaking test.
First of all, it’s important to know what the
speaking test is, how it’s structured, how many
parts there are, and what you’ll be asked to
do or to say in each of the parts. I think that
way that will make you feel confident and re-
duce your nerves. So, for example, in the IELTS
speaking test, you have three parts. The first
part is an introduction and interview where
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you’ll be asked to talk about yourself, your
home and family, your job and your studies,
perhaps your interests and your hobbies. And
those questions should be easy enough for
you to answer, and that will help ease you into
the test. In the second part of the test, you’ll
be asked to talk on a particular subject, but you
also have a little bit of time to prepare yourself,
to make yourself some notes, and that should
also help you get through that part of the test.
In the third part, you’ll be asked to give your
opinions and reasons and discuss disadvan-
tages and advantages of something. All these
things you can prepare at home if you have a
look at the structure and just go through each
part slowly, make yourself notes, and perhaps
practise. Of course, it’s always more fun with
a friend, but if your friend doesn’t have time,
then you can practise talking to yourself in the
shower in the morning, after you’ve had a cup
of coffee, and you can record yourself and lis-
ten back to it and perhaps make some notes on
how you can improve it. Practice is, I think, the
key.
David: Dagmar then explained how one could
prepare for the specific language needed in the
test.
Again, when you’re practising specific lan-
guage for the speaking test, it’s important just
to practise each of those situations and think
about what it is you want to say and when you
listen to a recording of yourself, you can think
about ways in which you can be more efficient
in what you say or ways in which you can say
that better. For example, when you’re talking
about your own personal opinion, you can use
set phrases that will help ease you into the sub-
ject, such as “I think” or “In my opinion” or “It
reminds me of”. You can note down some of
these phrases that will help you get into the
topic a bit more and that will maybe help you
feel more confident and fluent. When it comes
to specific topics, I think it’s important to think
about which topics might come up or you
would like to talk about and collect the vocab-
ulary you would need to talk about them. You
could even do a little exercise where you talk
about the topic in your own language and then
see if you have the same sort of vocabulary to
talk about it in English. If you don’t, then you
can go and look it up or ask someone whose
English is better than yours, or a native speaker
or someone who will help you find the words
you need to talk about something.
David: Finally, Dagmar gave us some useful tips
for what to do on the day of the test.
On the day of the test, make sure that you get
to wherever the test is being held on time. You
don’t want to feel flustered when you arrive.
Take deep breaths, and remember, you don’t
have to sound like a native speaker: it’s quite all
right to make mistakes, and you’re not going to
be marked on all those mistakes; the examiner
is expecting you to make a few. If you realize
that you have made a mistake, then take the
time to correct yourself. I mean, that’s good
if the examiner knows that you know you’ve
made a mistake. I think it really helps if you
smile, because that makes you sound more up-
beat. And then speak clearly, so that the exam-
iner can hear you, and just try to enjoy it.
See Spotlight 2/2015, pages 30–35
English at Work
[14] Apologizing
David: Each month, business communications
expert Ken Taylor joins us in the studio with tips
on using English at work. This month, he has
advice on how to apologize. Here’s Ken now.
Ken: Hello. This is Ken Taylor from London.
Many of us would agree with Elton John when
he sings, “Sorry seems to be the hardest word”.
ease  etw. ruhig angehen lassen, in
etw. hineingleiten
flustered nervös, aufgeregt
set phrase feststehende Redensart
upbeat optimistisch, fröhlich
19
Saying sorry is not easy, and if you have to do
it in a second language, it can be quite difficult
to find the right way of expressing yourself.
Let’s have a look at this area of apologizing and
practise some useful phrases and expressions.
There are many ways in which you can apolo-
gize. I’ve chosen 12, which I’ve divided into
levels of formality. Let’s start with three simple
apologies. Listen and repeat the phrase in the
pause after the speaker. When you apologize,
it’s important to sound apologetic as well as
using the right expression, so try to copy the
speaker’s intonation as exactly as you can.
Speaker 1: I’m sorry.
Speaker 2: I apologize.
Speaker 1: I’m very sorry.
Ken: Here’s a short dialogue where you can
hear the phrases used in context.
Speaker 2: I’m sorry I didn’t get back to you
yesterday with those figures you needed.
Speaker 1: No. No. I apologize for leaving it so
late in the day to ask. I’m very sorry it couldn’t
wait until next week.
Ken: Now let’s practise three more formal apol-
ogy phrases. Remember to copy the intonation
the speaker uses.
Speaker 2: Please accept my apologies.
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Speaker 1: I really am most terribly sorry.
Speaker 2: Please excuse my behaviour.
Ken: Listen again to how these phrases might
be used.
Speaker 1: Please excuse my behaviour in the
meeting, but John made me so angry.
Speaker 2: It’s not your fault. I really am most
terribly sorry he was so personal in his ap-
proach.
Speaker 1: Still, I shouldn’t have reacted in the
way I did. Please accept my apologies.
Ken: Now here are three very formal phrases
that might be more appropriately used in writ-
ten apologies.
Speaker 1: Please accept my sincerest apolo-
gies.
Speaker 2: I cannot express how sorry I am.
Speaker 1: I apologize unreservedly.
Ken: Listen to what a politician might say in
an official statement when he or she has been
caught doing something wrong.
Speaker 2: I cannot express how sorry I am for
my inappropriate behaviour. I apologize unre-
servedly for abusing the trust people placed in
me. Please accept my sincerest apologies.
Ken: Finally, here are three colloquial expres-
sions.
Speaker 1: I don’t know what to say.
Speaker 2: I don’t know what came over me.
Speaker 1: I just want the ground to swallow
me up.
Ken: Now, listen to two friends talking together
and using these phrases naturally.
Speaker 2: I totally lost my cool when she said
that to me. I don’t know what came over me.
Speaker 1: And I joined in, too. Afterwards, I
didn’t know what to say.
Speaker 2: And when she started crying, I just
wanted the ground to swallow me up.
Ken: So saying sorry doesn’t have to be the
hardest word if you learn some of these ex-
pressions and use them at the right time. As
Lynn Johnston, the Canadian cartoonist, said,
“An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair
just about anything.”
David: If you have a question for Ken, send
it by e-mail to language@spotlight-verlag.de
If Ken chooses your question to print in Spot-
light magazine, you’ll receive a free copy of his
book, 50 Ways to Improve Your Business English.
See Spotlight 2/2015, page 59
Peggy’s Place
[15] Romance and referendums
David: Now it’s time to visit Spotlight’s very
own London pub, Peggy’s Place. In this epi-
sode, Peggy has booked a romantic holiday for
her husband and herself, but things don’t go
according to plan.
Peggy: Do you have a moment, Sean?
Sean: Yes, of course. What is it?
Peggy: Well, this is a bit awkward, but do you
think you could do a weekend shift on the 14th
and 15th?
Sean: Sure. Do you have plans?
Peggy: I wanted to book a weekend in Scotland
for me and Phil. You know, cosy hotel, long
walks along windswept beaches and all that.
Sean: Is this for Valentine’s Day?
abuse missbrauchen
approach Ansatz, Vorgehensweise
appropriately angemessen, passend
awkward peinlich, unangenehm
copy Exemplar
cosy gemütlich
figure Zahl
get back to sb. jmdn. zurückrufen
superglue  Superkleber, Sekundenkleber
unreservedly  uneingeschränkt,
vorbehaltlos
windswept windumtost
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Peggy: That’s right. I thought perhaps you had
a date.
Sean: What gave you that idea?
Peggy: Helen was in here earlier saying she had
a big date for the 14th, and I thought it might
be with you.
Sean: If it is, she hasn’t told me about it. And
anyway, Helen may be an attractive lady, but
she’s not my type.
Peggy: Phew! That’s a relief!
Sean: Sounds like you’ve already booked your
journey.
Peggy: If truth be told, I have. I asked Jane to
help out, but she’s busy.
Sean: I’ll manage fine. I bet you’re looking for-
ward to it.
Peggy: It’s meant to be a surprise for Phil, so
could you keep it to yourself? Hello, George!
George: Is Phil around?
Peggy: He’s out the back. I’ll give him a call.
Phil!
Phil: What is it, love?
George: I have a favour to ask. We’re doing
a charity run at work on the 14th, and I need
someone to pick up my colleagues and take
them down to Richmond. We’ll hire a minibus.
Phil: I don’t think we have anything planned,
do we?
Peggy: Well...
Phil: That’s settled, then.
George: I owe you one.
Phil: What are you offering?
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George: Actually, I’ve been wanting to tell you
about this. An aunt of Maggie’s died a few
weeks ago and left us her house near Loch Lo-
mond. It needs some work done on it, but we
plan to rent it out as a holiday let. You and Peg-
gy could have it any time.
Phil: Sorry, mate, but Scotland’s really not my
thing. I spent all my school holidays up there. It
was always pouring with rain.
George: Well, I can only offer.
Phil: And another thing, that whole referen-
dum business: it really got up my nose.
George: In what way exactly?
Phil: It just seemed like a stab in the back for us
English. All those subsidies...
George: That’s just nonsense.
Phil: Anyway, it’s left a sour taste in my mouth.
I think we should boycott Scotland as a holiday
destination.
George: In that case, I may have to boycott this
pub.
Peggy: Stop acting like the jilted lover and apol-
ogize.
Phil: I may have been over the top, and for that
I’m sorry, but I’m still not going to Scotland any
time soon.
George: I accept your not very gracious apol-
ogy and look forward to renting out our lovely
holiday house to people who appreciate it.
Sean: I love Scotland. If someone were to invite
me there for, say, a romantic weekend, I’d ac-
cept like a shot.
Peggy: Good idea! Phil can look after the pub.
Phil: What are you talking about?
Source: Spotlight 2/2015, page 58
Spoken English
[16] Common phrases with “get”
David: The word “get” is used in many com-
mon phrases. “To get in touch” is to make con-
tact — “I’m trying to get in touch with Phillip.
Do you have his number?”
“To get something straight” is to make a situa-
tion clear — “OK, let me get this straight: you’re
the one who left the door open?” And “to get
your act together” is an informal way of saying
“to organize yourself” — “If you don’t get your
act together, you won’t stay in this job long.”
Now I’ll give you three sentences. Each sen-
tence will feature an incomplete example of
one of the phrases. In the pause, complete the
phrase. Then you’ll hear me with the answer.
Are you ready?
“Let’s get this ______: you really had no idea
who she was?”
“Let’s get this straight: you really had no idea
who she was?”
OK? Here comes our next sentence.
“You’d better get your act ______ before the
exam next week.”
“You’d better get your act together before the
exam next week.”
And our final sentence:
“Do you know how I can get in ______ with
Jane?”
“Do you know how I can get in touch with
Jane?”
How did you do? For more ways of using “get”,
look at page 60 of the February issue of Spot-
light.
See Spotlight 2/2015, page 60
appreciate schätzen
feature aufweisen
get up one’s nose jmdm. auf den Wecker
UK ifml. gehen
gracious  anmutig, liebenswürdig,
elegant
if truth be told um die Wahrheit zu sagen
jilted sitzengelassen
mate UK ifml. Kumpel
over the top ifml. übertrieben, überspannt
phew ifml. puh
relief Erleichterung
stab Messerstich
subsidy Subvention, Zuschuss
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Short Story
[17] Miss Vivian, you’re in the South
David: It’s almost time to say goodbye. But be-
fore then, let’s listen to a short story from John
Bell Smithback. In “Miss Vivian, you’re in the
South”, a young American woman learns a hard
lesson about place and identity in the segregat-
ed America of the 1940s.
Sometime during the war, which is to say,
sometime in the 1940s, Vivian — dressed in
her very best mauve outfit and carrying in her
purse, her wallet, and even her shoes all the
money she had been able to save since meet-
ing Matt the previous winter — boarded a train
in Milwaukee headed for the unknown: an army
camp in the middle of Georgia.
You see, Matt was about to be sent overseas to
help rid the world of Nazi tyranny, and he had
sent her a money order to buy a round-trip rail
ticket. In a letter, he had asked Vivian to travel
to Georgia to marry him. She didn’t ask about
the price of a seat in the sleeping car, because
she knew it would be more than she could af-
ford. As it turned out, her reclining seat was
comfortable enough, and she had brought
along a pillow.
The journey normally took between 17 and 19
hours, but it was wartime, and all through the
day and into the night, her train pulled onto
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sidings to allow trains carrying war materiel
and troops to pass. It was the start of summer,
and very hot. The only way to cool the carriage
was by opening the windows, which everyone
did soon after leaving the terminal. Unfortu-
nately, the smoke from the engine blew into
the carriage, causing a film of black, oily soot
to settle on everything and everyone. A porter
appeared and tried to close the windows, but
many of them were stuck and had to stay open
for the entire trip.
The hours passed slowly, and although Vivian
was unable to remove the engine’s soot from
her body and clothing, she remained cheerful,
chatting easily with a number of her fellow
travelers. She told them she was on her way
to get married, and although she had a million
questions about Georgia and the South, no one
seemed willing to express an opinion. Yes, she
did worry that she and Matt might be rushing
into marriage at a time when he was about to
be shipped overseas, but she refused to think
about it too much. Still, there was no denying
that it would not be long before he’d be in a
war zone.
The train traveled in fits and starts through the
night, but at dawn, Vivian was disappointed to
learn that they were still in Indiana. She went to
the washroom and tried to scrub the soot from
her face, but the oily substance seemed resist-
ant to soap and water. And as for her clothing,
well, everything would have to be taken to
the cleaners as soon as she arrived and could
change. Returning to her seat, she looked out
the window and saw that they were crossing
the Ohio River and entering Kentucky.
Once it had crossed the border, the train pulled
into a siding. With much jolting and shuffling
about, it finally came to a stop. After a long wait,
the door at the front of the carriage opened,
and several men entered carrying wrenches
and a number of steel rods. It was clear that
they had done this before, because they moved
down the aisle, methodically fixing steel rods to
the back of the seats. They did not do this to all
the seats, just to a few rows at the back of the
coach. A porter — a large black man with gray
hair — came down the aisle. “I will help you to
move, Miss Vivian,” he said, and with her pillow
under one arm and her suitcase in the other,
he led her to the back of the carriage. “You
see, Miss Vivian, we have now crossed the Ma-
son-Dixon Line,” he said softly, “and down here,
we black folks will ride in the back.”
Vivian sat down. The window was open and,
for the moment, the air that came off the riv-
er felt refreshing. The men with the wrenches
and steel rods quickly finished their work and
moved down the aisle and out the door. Then,
with a series of jolts, the train began to roll
again, and Vivian sighed.
“Well, damn it, I’m in the back now, so let’s
get on with it,” she said to herself, and lean-
ing back, she tried to adjust the seat to make
it more comfortable. But the seat wouldn’t
move, and looking behind her, she understood
the purpose of the men with the tools: they’d
slipped steel bars across the backs of the seats
reserved for blacks.
“Miss Vivian, you’re in the South, and they don’t
want any of our kind getting comfortable,” the
porter explained.
Source: Spotlight 2/2015, pages 46–47
adjust anpassen, einstellen
aisle Gang
carriage UK Wagon
dawn Tagesanbruch
engine Lokomotive
entire gesamt
get on with sth. mit etw. weitermachen
in fits and starts stockend
jolting Gerüttel
mauve malvenfarbig
money order Geldanweisung
pillow Kissen
porter Schlafwagenschaffner(in)
purse N. Am. Handtasche
reclining seat Liegesitz
rod Stab
round-trip N. Am. Hin- und Rückfahrt
scrub schrubben
segregated nach Rassen getrennt
shuffling Gescharre
siding Nebengleis, Abstellgleis
sigh seufzen
slip unterschieben
soot Ruß
steel bar Stahlstange
wallet Geldbeutel
wrench Schraubenschlüssel
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 Spotlight AUDIO
1. Introduction 1:22
World View
2. British saffron 1:53
A Day in My Life
3. Carillonneur Andrea McCrady 2:51
Britain Today
4. Fruits of technology 5:20
Travel
5. Visiting family in Uganda 5:46
6. Gorilla conservation in Uganda 4:28
Everyday English
7. At the hairdresser‘s 2:36
Debate
8. Asylum seekers in Ireland 2:31
American Life
9. We‘ll just have to be more patient 4:53
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Contents 2 2015
Replay: Recent news events
10. Introduction 0:56
11. An agreement on climate change 2:51
12. A danger to the human race? 3:43
Language
13. The IELTS speaking test 5:01
English at Work
14. Apologizing 5:39
Peggy’s Place
15. Romance and referendums 3:30
Spoken English
16. Common phrases with “get” 1:55
Short Story
17. Miss Vivian, you‘re in the South 5:24
18. Conclusion 0:28
Total playing time 61:15
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