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YES Volume 5

CONTENTS
This page should help you to navigate the magazine
6
7
10
14
Current Affairs Contents
News and anecdotes
Science News
Internet Addiction
in general. Notice that on pp. 6, 21, 64, 87 and 111 there
are more detailed contents pages for each section of 16 Politics: is your ideology a
the magazine. product of your brain?
18 Economics: marriage markets
and the economics of crime

21 Culture Contents
22 Travel: in search of Katherine of Aragon
26 The Brain Dossier: including the man with no
memories; the triumph of the left hemisphere,
the walking dead, is intelligence better than
stupidity? Is God in your head? Voices in your
head, are you really conscious? Is it a crime to
be mentally ill? How to look after your brain.
45 Music: AmyJo Doh’s Shake It!
46 Sports: Bobby Fischer
18 22 50 Literature: the Lamentable
Love Life of W.B. Yeats
54 Poetry: Blake’s The Tyger
58 Cinema: Charlize Theron
62 Explorers: Amelia’s big mistake

64 Grammar Contents
65 The phrasal verbs of thought
66 Translation: signs from Jaen
68 Word Building: mind- and -mind words
26 45 70 English in Context: psychobabble
72 Grammar Focus: Do you ‘mind’?
74 Argentinian false friends
78 ‘mind’ idioms
82 Etymology: the names of brain parts
84 Phonetics: ash /æ/

85 Subscription Information
86 Picture Description

87 Audio Scripts Contents

46 54 88 Audio Scripts

111 Exercises Contents

112 Exercises
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'Downloads' page on www.yes-mag.com for instructions. 134 Staff and contact addresses
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 of the Dead
The Tube can also be macabre...

How to Use Death on the Tracks

Your English Supplement

Metro systems the world over1 attract the suicidal.
Underground workers use the euphemism ‘a one-under’
to refer to someone who has thrown himself or herself
under a Tube train. 2 King’s Cross and Victoria stations
attract the most suicides.
The Grea
There was
SYMBOLS in North L
Each page-long article in the magazine has been ging4 unde
created to be used more or less independently – hundred
so that you can learn and practise even if Black Deat
you only have five or ten minutes free.
Spectral
At the same time, the symbols below allow you to
Meanwhil
develop a theme you are interested in more extensively. ghosts. Th
Teachers can use these symbols to instantly prepare at Farringd
a class or classes around a common theme. pieces by h
Sarah Whi
Philip, was
Photo by Tzortzis searching
said to vis
death11 in
a noisy –bu
Exercise (at the end Speaking extension.
of the magazine). Test A question aimed at Follow
and consolidate what provoking a group
you have learned. discussion of the 1
the world
topic in question. the world
2
in New Yo
macabre;
‘track pizz
3
to be mea
posed to b
4
to dig (dig
5
to run into
– encounter
Downloadable audio This arrow directs you 6
plague pi
file (see also audio to other related articles Photo by Sunil060902

scripts). There are in the magazine.

69-70 23 6
recommendations on
how best to use the
audio files on p. 87.

ABBREVIATIONS KEY
These are the only
abbreviations you
have to know to use
Listening extension this magazine:
(Internet). Once you’ve sb. = somebody
learned the basic sth. = something
vocabulary of a topic, swh. = somewhere
why not listen to [U] = uncountable noun
further discussions? [C] = countable noun

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Metro systems the world over attract the suicidal.
Underground workers use the euphemism ‘a one-under’
to refer to someone who has thrown himself or herself
under a Tube train. 2 King’s Cross and Victoria stations
attract the most suicides.
FOOTNOTES
The superscript numbers in the text
refer to the footnotes at the bottom
or at the side of the same page. The
footnotes explain the difficult vocabu-
lary as determined by our non-native
proofreaders. Like you, these proof-
readers are learners so they are able
to identify the exact words you need
to know to understand the sentence.
Definitions are given in English, so that
you learn to think in English and these
definitions are then checked by the
non-native proofreaders to ensure that
you will understand them. Some words
are defined by pictures: we use these
visual stimuli when that is the best way
to fix an idea in your memory. Read
the definition or look at the illustration
and then re-read the sentence in ques-
tion. By working with English-language
footnotes you will rapidly increase
your vocabulary and learn how English
words relate to each other, all of
which will have a dramatic impact on
1
your fluency and self-confidence .
Some readers find it useful to put
their finger next to the word in the
article that they are looking for in the
footnotes to make it easier to return Photo by Sunil060902
to the text afterwards. Either way, it
69-70 shouldn’t
23 be6 difficult to find your place
because the footnotes are numbered
and the words are highlighted in bold.
Notice that the syllables and words that
should be stressed2 are underlined.
Red footnotes give extra cultural
(rather than linguistic) information,
or they refer you to other articles.
Photo by Fish Gravy
The Great Pestilence
There was meant to be3 a Tube station at Muswell Hill
in North London. Unfortunately, when they started dig-
ging4 underground they ran into5 a massive plague pit6
– hundreds of skeletons of people who had died of the
Black Death.
Spectral Stations
Meanwhile7, four stations are all said to be haunted8 by
ghosts. The ‘Screaming Spectre’ of Anne Naylor appears
at Farringdon Station. She was murdered and cut into
pieces by her mistress9 in 1758. Bank Station is home to
Sarah Whitehead’s ghost. She was a nun10 whose brother,
Philip, was executed in 1811. Her phantom is supposedly
Photo by Tzortzis searching for him. The spirit of actor William Terriss is
said to visit Convent Garden Tube. He was stabbed to
death11 in 1897. Finally, Elephant & Castle is said to have
a noisy –but invisible– ghost.
Follow-on: www.underground-history.co.uk
1
the world over – all around for victims of the Bubonic
the world Plague
2
in New York they are more 7
meanwhile – at the same time
macabre; the term there is 8
to haunt – (of ghosts) frequent
‘track pizza’! 9
mistress – (in this case)
3
to be meant to be – be sup- female boss, lady in whose
posed to be house one works as a servant
4
to dig (dig-dug-dug) – excavate 10
nun – religious woman who
5
to run into (run-ran-run) typically lives in a convent
– encounter 11
to stab sb. to death – kill sb.
6
plague pit – common grave with a dagger/knife
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1
self-confidence – self-assurance (opposite of ‘self-doubt’, ‘hesitancy’)
2
to stress sth. – emphasize, underline

Consonants Pure Vowels Dipthongs

PHONEMIC /ʧ/ as in church, watch
SYMBOLS /ʃ/ as in wash, sure, action
/ʤ/ as in judge, gesture
/æ/ as in cat /iə/ as in ear, here
/ʌ/ as in cut
/ə/ as in occur, supply,
/eə/ as in air, there

Here are the phonemic /ʒ/ as in measure, vision aroma

symbols that we use /j/ as in yes /ɜ:/ as in first, turn, earn
which might cause you /θ/ as in thick, path /ɔ:/ as in court, warn
problems. /ð/ as in this, breathe
/ŋ/ as in sing

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CURRENT SPEAKING & LISTENING EXTENSION

AFFAIRS
7 Speak: was the cashier right to refuse to
serve Jo Clarke until she got off the phone?

10 Watch: a TED talk about movement and our brains.

This section of the magazine offers short news
http://goo.gl/B8bBUp
stories organized thematically:
12 Watch: the rubber-hand illusion –
play tricks on your own brain!
http://goo.gl/2ou7Il
7-8 News
-news stories from around the world.
16 Speak: do you agree with the
9 Anecdotes
archetypes of left and right?
- light-hearted stories from around the world.
10 Science News: Archaeology & Anthropology
20 Speak: the argument suggests a continuum
- keep up with the past!
from double-parking to murder.
11 Science News: Health
Do you agree or are your misdemeanours
- the results of the latest medical research
fundamentally different from ‘crimes’?
12 Science News: Mental Health
- keep up with the past!
13 Science News: Animals and Us
- are we really the supreme species?
EXERCISE 3

14 Internet News
- how to protect children on the internet
15 Internet News
- are you an internet addict?
EXERCISE 12

16 Politics: the Brain & the Ballot Box

- does your brain make you con-
servative or progressive?
EXERCISE 7

18 Economics: the Supply & Demand of Love

- the economics of the marriage market
19 Economics: the Internet & Dating
- how has the internet affected the
Western World’s love life?
20 Economics & Crime
- rationality and delinquency
EXERCISE 27

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Science | HEALTH

DON’T WORRY
ABOUT STRESS
Stress is a killer, there is no doubt about it. However, a Brit-
ish Government study involving thousands of civil servants
has found that worrying about stress increases the risk
of having a heart attack by 50% irrespective of the real
level of stress experienced by the individual in question.

HOW SOON IS NOW?

Light and sound travel at different speeds1 and are
interpreted at different speeds in different parts of the
brain. One of the cleverest tricks2 our brains play is
to integrate sights3 and sounds so that we experience
them simultaneously in an illusionary now. This has been
illustrated by a case study from the City University
in London. After surgery4 a 67-year-old man identified
as ‘PH’ found that he was hearing what people said
slightly5 before he saw their mouths move (a bit like
a badly recorded film in which the sound and image
aren’t in synch6). He then realized7 that he could hear
his own voice a moment before he felt his jaw8 move.

Photo by Marina Carresi

FRANKENSTEIN LIVES!
The condemned man is dragged into9 the surgical10
execution room. There are two guillotines, which fall
simultaneously. Moments after the gory11 execution the
surgeons12 have retrieved13 the prisoner’s body and
start to connect it to the severed14 head of the sick
millionaire who died next to the criminal… It sounds like
the plot of a B movie. However, according to research-
ers at the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group
this dystopian15 vision is now technically possible,
even though few would find it morally acceptable.
Prof. Anthony Warrens of the British Transplantation
Society commented, “The whole concept is bizarre”.

1
speed – velocity 10
surgical – operating, for medi-
2
trick – ruse, stratagem cal operations
3
sight – sth. seen, visual image 11
gory – bloody
4
surgery – a medical operation 12
surgeon –
5
slightly – (in this case) a moment 13
to retrieve – get,
6
in synch – synchronized collect
7
to realize – (false friend) 14
severed – cut off,
become conscious amputated
8
jaw – mandible 15
dystopian –
9
to drag sb. into – force sb. to nightmarish,
enter infernal

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CULTURE
SPEAKING & LISTENING EXTENSION
22 Speak: If you were to go on a quest in
search of a historical figure, who would you
choose? Why? Find out where you would
This section of the magazine offers...
have to go and plan the trip. Report back.

27 Watch: Here’s an excellent 50-minute

BBC documentary on memory:
22-25 Travel: Looking for Katherine
http://goo.gl/DJFb3m
– a personal search for England’s
most famous Spanish queen
28-31 Speak: Do you agree with Iain McGilchrist’s
EXERCISE 23
dystopic view of our world?

THE BRAIN DOSSIER

Watch: here’s a cartoon presentation
of McGilchrist’s ideas:
26 The Brain: introduction
http://goo.gl/RLUOOQ
27 Memories – the man with no memories

28-31 A History of the Brain
Listen: Dr Geoff Bunn charts the history
32-33 The Living Dead and the Walking Dead
of our conceptions of the brain in this
34 Intelligence
15-minute BBC radio programme.
35 Stupidity – the advantages of
http://goo.gl/6HLxej
not being top of the class
36 Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight
36 Watch: Jill Bolte Taylor explains
– the thrill of thrombosis
her experience at TED:
37 Religion and Neuroscience
http://goo.gl/enGL0l
– is God in your head?
38 The Solipsistic World – the default network
37 Watch: the sound quality is not good
39 The Voices in Your Head – most of
but the idea is mind-blowing:
your conversations are with yourself
http://goo.gl/xuigRC
40 Consciousness – who’s in charge in your head?
41 The Wizard of Us – the ‘You’ illusion
39 Watch: an awe-inspiring TED talk
42 The Analogue Brain – how you think
about the voices in your head:
43 Law: Blame My Brain – is madness an excuse?
http://goo.gl/TEusI6
44 Health: Brain food – how to stave off dementia
EXERCISES 6, 22 & 33
42 Watch: analogy and the
importance of paperclips:
45 Song: AmyJo Doh’s Shake It!
http://goo.gl/cstkjP
46-49 Sports: Bobby Fischer – chess’s paranoid genius
EXERCISE 5
54 Listen to the poem at:
50 Literature: Ireland’s greatest
http://goo.gl/lfz0bC
poet was unlucky in love
EXERCISE 8
54-57 Poetry: Blake’s The Tyger – the hidden
messages in Britain’s best-known poem
EXERCISE 32
58-61 Cinema: Charlize Theron – out of Africa
EXERCISE 18
62-63 Explorers: Amelia Murray’s Mistake
EXERCISE 21

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 History

Where Your
Brain Comes
From
The First Brains
Brains developed because of locomotion. Plants don’t
have brains; they don’t need them because they stay in
one place. Indeed1, sea squirts (Ascidiacea), which have
complex life cycles, have a brain while they move around
and then absorb their brain once they become rooted2 to
a spot3. Sea squirt Photo by Peter Southwood

The precursor of the human hindbrain4 (pons, cere-

bellum and medulla oblongata) emerged in the earliest
vertebrates hundreds of millions of years ago. In fact,
a trout 5’s brain is made up of6 the same three major
regions as the human brain, and many of its parts have
similar functions to their human equivalents. All the
parts of the human brain are present in the brains of
other primates.
The Mammalian Brain
The expansion of the mammalian brain seems to have
begun with an expansion of the tactile and olfactory
areas of the brain – key to nocturnal life while the dino-
saurs ruled7 the daytime. After the dinosaurs, the visual
parts of the neocortex8 of our proto-primate ancestors
developed9 as they took to10 the trees, and eyesight11
became more important. However, the enormous expan-
sion in the neocortex of apes12 was probably due to13
the requirements of group living. The greater the brain’s
capacity to process incoming14 information, the easier it
is for abstract thought to develop9.

The Brain Takes Over15

Some 2.5 million years ago hominids began to appear
with weaker jaw16 muscles. This should have been a dis-
advantage but it allowed17 the skull18 and therefore19
the brain to get much bigger than those of other primates.
This began a virtuous circle; a big brain required more
nutritious food, so the brain focused on feeding20 itself.
Tools21 were developed, fire began to be used. As a result
of cooking, human intestines became smaller, allowing17
more resources22 to be directed to the brain. The body
Home erectus Photo by ‫כ‬.‫( ןולא‬Matanya) becomes the servant of the expanding brain.

1
indeed – (emphatic) in fact 6
to be made up of – be com- ability to see well 18
skull – cranium
2
to be rooted – be fixed posed of, consist of 12
ape – primate 19
therefore – so, for this reason
3
to a spot – in one place 7
to rule – control, dominate 13
due to – because of, caused by 20
to feed (feed-fed-fed) – pro-
4
hindbrain /ˈhaindbrein/ – 8
neocortex – outer part of the 14
incoming – that is entering vide food for
rhombencephalon, the part of cerebral cortex of mammals (the brain) 21
tool – implement, utensil
the brain directly connected to 9
to develop – get bigger, evolve 15
to take over (take-took-taken) – 22
resources – (in this case)
the spinal cord 10
to take to (take-took-taken) – take control nutrition
5
trout – a freshwater fish (e.g. start to live in 16
jaw (adj.) – mandibular
Salmo trutta) 11
eyesight – (in this case) the 17
to allow – permit, enable

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 Cinema

Charlize
Theron
Out of Africa
Gerda Maritz was 15 when her father, a railway1 worker,
died in an accident in 1968. She lived with her sister, two
brothers and her widowed2 mother, in a station house
in Otjiwarongo, Namibia. She was good in sports – espe-
cially gymnastics – but her family was poor and there
were few opportunities for her. At 17 she fell in love with
Charles Theron /tron/, who had also lost his father and
was looking after3 his widowed2 mother and his five

Photo by Gage Skidmore

siblings4. Gerda left her family and married Charles on 29
January 1971; he was 23 and she had turned5 18 just6 two
days before. After several years of nomadic life as Charles
worked for a road-construction company, they returned
to South Africa when Gerda became pregnant with her
first child. Charlize 7 was born on 7th August 1975. In 1980
Charles bought a 2,237-hectare plot8 and began a busi-
ness renting out9 construction
machinery. Despite a shaky10
start, the business began to turn
a profit after a couple of years.

The Precocious
Performer primary school she received numerous trophies, medals
As a child, Charlize was spon- and other awards14 for a variety of performing arts includ-
taneous and confident11 but ing ballet and flamenco, singing and acting. About her
also wilful12. She was a tomboy, childhood she says: “I had a very active imagination as a
who liked to play and compete child and loved putting on15 makeup16, costumes17 and
with boys. She enjoyed being playing characters18, or telling a story”. She told her school
outdoors where she could swim friends that she had been a princess in a previous life. On
or ride horses. She had started Fridays her mother took her to the drive-in19 to watch the
taking ballet lessons at six and new releases20 from Hollywood. The first film that made
by the age of seven she was a lasting21 impression on her was Splash (1984) starring
entertaining her school friends Tom Hanks. Coincidentally, Tom Hanks chose her at the
with song and dance routines13. beginning of her career for a small role in his first directo-
During her seven years at rial work, That Thing You Do! (1996).

1
railway (UK English) – railroad 5
to turn – (in this case) become 11
confident – self-assured, 17
costumes – theatrical clothing
(US English), relating to the train 6
just – (in this case) only having belief in oneself 18
character – role, theatrical part
system 7
the name ‘Charlize’ is a port- 12
wilful – obstinate, rebellious 19
drive-in (movie theater) –
2
widowed – whose husband manteau of her father’s and 13
routine [C] – act, performance, open-air cinema which one
has died her grandmother’s names number watches sitting in one’s car
3
to look after – care for, take (Charles and Elizabeth) 14
award – prize 20
release – (in this case) film,
care of 8
plot – area of land 15
to put sth. on (put-put-put) movie
4
one’s siblings – one’s brothers 9
to rent out – offer for hire – apply 21
lasting – enduring, permanent
and sisters 10
shaky – unstable, difficult 16
makeup – cosmetics

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GRAMMAR
This section of the magazine offers...
65 Phrasal Verbs: cotton on
– the phrasal verbs of thought
EXERCISE 24
66 Translation: can you find the
mistakes in these signs?
EXERCISE 26
68 Word Building: compound words
formed from mind- and -mind
EXERCISE 29
70 English in Context: all the terms you
need to speak psychobabble
EXERCISE 28
72 Grammar Focus: do you ‘mind’?
EXERCISE 4
74 False Friends: Argentinian false friends
EXERCISE 19
78 Idioms: mind expressions
EXERCISE 14
82 Etymology: the origins of the
names for parts of the brain
EXERCISE 2
84 Phonetics: ash /æ/
85 Subscription Form
86 Picture Description
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SPEAKING EXTENSION
70 Speak: is there a mental-illness epidemic or just
a lot more people talking about ‘disorders’?
Reading and Visualizing: here’s a very
82
helpful page from Indiana University for
those who need to be able to label a brain:
http://goo.gl/0T9zLw
AUDIO SCRIPTS EXTENSION
Track 1 Conversation point: when animal
rights conflict with human interests,
should people always come first?
Track 2 Conversation point: do you think that
signing internet petitions is an effective
form of political participation?
Track 3 Conversation point: are people cleverer
than in the past or more stupid?
Track 4 Conversation point: would you like to visit
Mars? What if you could never return?
EXERCISE 11
Tracks 6-9 Conversation point: which types of TV
programmes do you hate to watch? Is there
any bad TV that you find irresistible?
EXERCISE 31
Track 12 Conversation point: what would
you do if you found a bag of money
which included a couple of guns?
Track 13 Conversation point: where would you
like to spend an anniversary with a
‘significant other’? Would your partner be
equally enthusiastic about this option?
EXERCISE 25
 English in
Context

Psychobabble
“The only normal people are the
ones you don’t know very well.”
 -COMEDIAN JOE ANCIS

‘Psychobabble’ refers to the appropriation of psychother-

apeutic words by the general public who use them impre-
cisely and often incorrectly. The process is a natural one –
we have always loved to label1 others’ foibles2 – and has
been going on3 for millennia. Galen’s humours4 gave
us ‘sanguine’ 5, ‘melancholic’, ‘choleric’ and ‘phlegmatic’.
Words for reduced intelligence – like ‘cretin’, ‘moron’ and
‘imbecile’ – were added to the popular psychological arse- Painting by Aurora Mazzoldi
nal in more modern times. Then Freud and the psychoan-
alysts came along6 and gave us ‘Freudian slips’7, ‘wish- Some Examples
ful thinking’8, ‘denial’9, ‘projecting’ 10, ‘the Oedipus com- Here are a few examples of psychobabble:
plex’, ‘libido’ and ‘anal retentive’ 11. Jung added ‘introvert’,
‘extrovert’ and ‘the collective unconscious’ to the mix. >>  ‘Acting out’ is a psychological term for a type of impul-
sive anti-social behaviour12. However, the term has been
taken up13 as a synonym for ‘acting up’, i.e. it is used to
describe somebody simply behaving badly:
- What’s wrong? Have the kids been acting out again?

>>  A hugely14 popular concept in recent years is the idea

of ‘getting closure’, which tends to refer to being able
to ‘move on’ after a traumatic event. The phrase is often
used to describe a victim’s satisfaction at seeing that their
aggressor is punished15.

>>  The idea that the brain’s hemispheres have different

functions has penetrated the popular consciousness and
the expression “that’s so left-brain” has come to imply
that something is cold, rational and/or uncool.

Jim Parsons’s character in The Big Bang Photo by Kristin Dos Santos
Theory, Sheldon Cooper, is very left-brain.
More examples are given in ‘disorders’ on the next page.

1
to label – categorize, yellow bile, black bile, blood and 9
to be in denial – not accept that about details in an irritating
pigeonhole phlegm sth. is true (despite the evidence way
2
foible – weakness, inadequacy, 5
sanguine – optimistic that it is) because it is psycho- 12
behaviour (UK English) –
defect 6
to come along (come-came- logically painful behaviour (US English),
3
to be going on – be happening, come) – appear 10
to be projecting – imagine conduct
be occurring 7
Freudian slip – lapsus linguae that sb. else is feeling certain 13
to take sth. up (take-took-
4
Galen’s humours – the ancient that reveals one’s true thoughts emotions because one cannot taken) – adopt sth.
idea that the health and person- 8
wishful thinking – confusing admit that one is feeling them 14
hugely – enormously
ality were determined by four what you would like to happen oneself 15
to punish – discipline (e.g. send
‘humours’ (= corporal fluids): with what is really probable 11
anal (retentive) – obsessed to prison)

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SPOKEN-ENGLISH TIPS
Spoken English is significantly different from the written language: YES NO. 5 TRACK LIST
A more limited vocabulary is generally used
and it is, by definition, more colloquial. Mini-debates (23m57s)
Moreover1, spoken English uses many more 1. Do Animals Have Rights? (8m26s)
incomplete or badly constructed sentences. 2. Slacktivism (6m52s)
On the other hand, intonation and stress can be used in speech. 3. Is Humanity Getting More
Stupid? (5m05s)
4. Off to Mars (3m34s)
HOW TO USE THE AUDIO SCRIPTS
Follow our eight-step process to get the most out of the audio scripts: 5. Phonetics (3m23s)

Before you listen we recommend that you read through Monologues:

1 the relevant section of the footnotes2 (not the text itself).
This should give you some idea of the subject3 and help you
to understand the more difficult vocabulary as you listen.
When you listen the first time, don’t expect to
2 understand everything; listening practice should
not be a painful4 process. Simply see how much
meaning you can extract from the recording.
Bad TV Programs (11m40s)
6. Monologue 1 [British English] (3m10s)
7. Monologue 2 [US English] (3m28s)
8. Monologue 3 [Irish English] (3m40s)
9. Monologue 4 [Anglo-Irish English] (1m22s)
10. Interview with AmyJo Doherty
(12m02s)

Listen more times going back to the footnotes 11. Song: Shake It! (2m14s)
3 to integrate the information you have.
Mini-dialogues (13m33s)
Once you understand reasonably well, do the relevant exercise. 12. The Refuse Collectors (4m26s)
4 13. Anniversary in the Jungle (5m23s)
14. A Mouth Full (3m44s)
Finally, read the audio scripts as you listen again.
5 15. English in Context:
Psychobabble (1m45s)
Stop each time you get lost or encounter a
6 structure that interests or confuses you. 16. Picture Description (4m50s)

Repeat words or phrases whose pronunciation surprises you. Total time: 1h13m24s
7
Two or three days later, listen to the text again without
1
moreover – what’s more, furthermore
8 reading to see if your understanding has improved5.
2
footnotes – notes at the bottom of the page (in
this box)
3
subject (n.) – (in this context) theme
This process is intense and time-consuming. However, it will 4
painful – (in this context) arduous, unpleasant
eventually6 solve the problem most learners have of relating7 the 5
to improve – get better
spoken word to the written. Once you’ve done that, the rest is easy!
6
eventually – (false friend) in the end
7
to relate – associate, connect, link

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AUDIO SCRIPTS

10. Interview with

AmyJo Doherty (12m02s)

EP229 which is called Shake it, which Beats gigs237.

Yes (Y): Great! So, here we have
AmyJo Doherty who’s come to talk to
us about herself and about her song
Shake It, which is… which you can
listen to after this brief227 interview.
So, Amy could you tell us a little bit
about yourself?
AmyJo Doherty (A): Hello, well
thank you for inviting me to speak
about my song. Shake it is a song
that I’m launching228 as my first solo
song and it’s gonna33 be a part of an
is why I’ve chosen that one to put
into the magazine for your readers
to listen to. And it was actually57 a
song that I sang with the Ezra Beats,
which were my band before. But my
friend left and so now I’m on me
own230, well, I’m not actually57 on my
own, I’m with three other guys who
I’ve been… I was with a percussionist,
Iñaki, and then I found a keyboard231
player, Marcel, and just recently got a
guitar player, which means I play the
guitar much less and I just31 sing and
shout at the crowd232 and try to stop
them talking
Y: So what’s the song about?
A: Well, the song, as the title sug-
gests, Shake It, it’s a bit an angsty233,
punky kind116 of song which is actu-
ally57… it sounds a bit typical but
about – y’know5 – a destructive rela-
tionship trying to get rid of234 some-
one or perhaps something a situation
that you are not happy with in your
life and just31 shaking it off235 really.
And also it’s… we chose it because in
my concerts I always give shakers236
to people and ‘shake it’ has become
– y’know5 – it’s – kind of8 – one of
these things that has become a bit
synonymous especially with the Ezra
Y: OK, so, tell us a bit about yourself
because judging from 238 AmyJo I
would think you were an American,
from your accent you sound Brit-
ish and your surname239 is Irish. So,
there must be an interesting story
back there240 somewhere.
A: Yeah, a bit of a mixture really. Well
no, I’m English, although I wasn’t
really brought up241 in England. My
dad was in the army and his family
are Irish. His father from just outside
Cork, Waterford and my mom was a
big fan of the book Little Women and
I think it’s MaryJo so she loved AmyJo
and that’s how I got my name. 242 And
although I’ve got a British passport
I wouldn’t consider myself particu-
larly209 British. We’ve lived all over
the world and now I find myself here.
Shake off. Photo by Des Colhoun

227
brief – short 232
crowd – (in this case) audience 239
surname – family name
228
to launch – promote 233
angsty – (informal) misunderstood, frus- 240
back there – behind those facts
229
EP – extended-play single, CD with approx- trated and anxious 241
to bring up (bring-brought-brought) – rear,
imately four songs 234
to get rid of (get-got-got) – discard, raise, care for a child until s/he becomes
on it (< 25 minutes) eliminate an adult
230
on me own – 235
to shake sth. off (shake-shook-shaken) – 242
the central character of Little Women
(slang/dialect) on (literally) see photo of dog (1868) is called Jo (March) and she has a
my own, by myself, 236
shakers – maracas sister called Amy
alone 237
gig – (informal) concert
231
keyboard – 238
judging from – on the basis of

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EXERCISES
PAGE EXERCISE
112 1. Illustrations round-up: see if you can identify
most of the objects and actions illustrated in the
footnotes of this issue.
2. On pp. 82-83 we look at the colourful mean-
ings of some of the (Latin) names for parts of the
brain. This short exercise sees how many of the
translations you can remember.
113 3. Title Tag: can you match these alternative titles
to the news and science articles on pp. 7-13?
4. Grammar Focus: fill the gaps in this exercise
about ‘mind’ structures (pp. 72-73).
5. Sports: can you name the chess pieces in
English? (pp. 46-49).
114 6. Word Search: find words relating to the brain
(pp. 26-44).
115 7. Prepositions: fill the gaps in this text from the
politics section with the correct prepositions
(pp. 16-17).
8. Fill the gaps to complete expressions from the
literature article on pp. 50-53.
116 9. Crossword for general vocabulary revision.
117 10. Sentence transformation for general syntax
revision of structures from this issue.
118 11. Debates: listening comprehension for audio
tracks 1-4 (pp. 88-96).
119 12. Too many words: find the unnecessary
words in this extract from the Internet section
(pp. 14-15).
13. US vs. UK: fill the gaps in the chart. This
relates to the whole magazine.
120 14. Idioms: complete the sentences to form ‘mind’
expressions from pp. 78-81.
15. Pronunciation round-up: review the difficult
words from the footnotes.
121 16. Word game: test your vocabulary and under-
standing of English morphology.
PAGE EXERCISE
122 17. Phrasal Verbs Round-up: how many new
phrasal verbs have you learned this month?
18. Cinema: a quiz relating to Charlize Theron
(pp. 58-61).
123 19. False Friends: test how well you have under-
stood pp. 74-77.
20. False Friends Round-Up: review the false
friends identified in the footnotes.
124 21. Homophones: replace the homophones
so that this excerpt written by Amelia Murray
(pp. 62-63).
22. Internet Listening: test your listening com-
prehension of this fascinating talk about hearing
voices (p. 39).
125 23. Reading comprehension: an exercise relating
to the Travel section (pp. 22-25).
24. Phrasal verbs: revise the multi-word verbs
from p. 65.
126 25. Dialogues: a listening comprehension on
tracks 12-15 (pp. 104-110).
26. Translation: correct these real examples of
broken English (pp. 66-67).
127 27. Economics: a varied exercise relating to
pp. 18-20.
28. Wordplay: another word game relating to the
English in Context section on pp. 70-71
128 29. Word Building: complete these sentences with
compound -mind- words from pp. 68-69.
30. Spelling: an exercise relating to p. 76.
129 31. Listening comprehension for the monologues
(audio tracks 6-9, pp. 96-99).
32. Poetry: use the rhyme scheme to complete
these stanzas from the poem analysed on
pp. 54-57.
130 33. cloze exercise: fill the gaps in this article
about dangerous minds (p. 43).
131-133 ANSWERS
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12. Internet. Read the article on pp. 14-15 and answer the following questions:

i. Complete the following chart in relation to Prof. Cash’s recommendations (p. 14):
Age (in years) <7 7-10 10-13 13-18
Recommended maximum digital-screen
time per day (in hours) a. b. c. d.

ii. Below we reproduce three paragraphs from the Internet Addiction article on p. 15. However, there is an unnecessary
word in each line. Identify it and write it on the right. Don’t look back at the article until after you have finished
the exercise:

Doctor Mark Phillips, Professor of Gambling Studies at the Nottingham 1..........................................................................

Trent University, believes that the numbers of internet addicts are so 2..........................................................................
grossly overstated. We have to differentiate between both addictions 3..........................................................................
‘to’ the internet itself and addictions ‘on’ the net, he says us. 4..........................................................................

Most of ‘Internet addicts’ are not addicted to the internet itself, but 5..........................................................................
use it as a medium to fuel other addictions, according to the Doctor 6..........................................................................
Phillips. Simply put up, a gambling addict who uses the internet to 7..........................................................................
gamble excessively, is a gambling addict, not an internet addict too. 8..........................................................................
The internet is just the place where he conducts his own chosen 9..........................................................................
(addictive) behaviour. With no internet disposable, he would be in a 10..........................................................................
casino or else other gambling establishment. 11..........................................................................

Also, people who do use the internet excessively and don’t 12..........................................................................
experience any detrimental effects are not addicted to the net themselves. 13..........................................................................
For an action to be considered an ‘addictive’ behaviour, there must 14..........................................................................
be some definable detriment. So be careful before that you overreact 15..........................................................................
and restrict your children from technology altogether, because of the 16..........................................................................
danger of internet addiction may also be overstated. 17..........................................................................

13. US vs. UK. Throughout the magazine we highlight variety-specific vocabulary in the footnotes. See if you can
complete this chart with the missing terms:

UK English US English page/footnote reference

1 jail (p. 43, n. 30)
2 flip-flop (p. 67, n. 5)
3 behaviour (p. 70, n. 12)
4 guardrail (p. 76, n. 9)
5 badge (p. 76, n. 11)
6 name after (p. 82, n. 3)
7 rooster (p. 83, n. 2)
8 plaid (p. 84, n. 9)
9 braid (p. 84, n. 10)
10 telly (p. 98, n. 201)
11 banknote (p. 104, n. 304)
12 garbage dump (p. 105, n. 311)

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