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Transcend galaxies with…
mIckey rourke
Back from the edge.
GooGle Sea
Google goes
underwater.
In the
the month
Learn the most
up-to-date English words.
What your
astrological
sign says
about you.
plannInG
Have fun while saving
money.
fIlmS
about
Space
What happened
Our top 3.
to pluto?
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Editor’s
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Magazine
Index
3
Editorial
4 Boss Request
5 Sunken Story
6 Name Game
7 Personality quiz: What planet are you from?
8 Useful Vocabulary: Planning a party
9 Useful Verbs and Expressions:
Planning a party
10 SB Article: Party Planning
11 Story Time
12 Basic English: Renting a shared lat
13 Social English: Renting a shared lat
14 Functional language: Describing an object
15 Error correction & Listening:
What colour are you?
16 Grammar Fun
CD
index
1.
Hello
2.
Boss Request
3.
Sunken Story
4.
Story Time
5.
Social English:
Renting a Shared Flat
6.
Functional Language:
Illness
7.
Dr Fingers’ Error
Correction (low level)
8.
What Colour Are You?
9.
Telephone English:
Calling an Electronic Store
10.
Radio Ad – Intensives
11.
Feeding Time
12.
Darwin Day
13.
Radio Ad – Blog
14.
Weird Trivia
15.
Roommate Trouble
16.
Jokes
17.
Grafiti
18.
Globish
19.
Slogan Change
20.
Radio Ad – Translations
21.
Typical dialogues:
The CD Store
22.
Dr Fingers’ Vocabulary:
Similar things
23.
Quirky News
24.
Riddles
25.
British Bar Chat
26.
US Bar Chat
27.
Story: The Shop – Episode 8
28.
Radio Ad – Intensives
29.
Political House Call
30.
Dumb US Laws (Wisconsin)
31.
Dictionary of Slang
32.
Dr Fingers' Error Correction
(high level)
33.
Chat-Up Lines
34.
Anger Management
35.
Radio Ad – Courses Abroad
36.
Idioms: Pot
37.
Send Receive
38.
Give Me Moore
39.
Off the Cuff
40.
Goodbye
Hello, and welcome to another issue of
Hot English Magazine, the fun magazine
for learning English.
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Notes.
This month is another exciting mixture
of topics with something for everyone.
Speaking of something for everyone,
Star Trek XI
is coming out this month.
I was never the biggest fan of
Star Trek
or
science iction, but I must say, I’m really
excited about this ilm. Since we decided
to put Star Trek on the cover, I thought I should go on the
internet and read all about it. (Confession: I even joined a Star
Trek fan website.) The sources say this is the ilm to see even if
you don’t know anything about science iction. And,
JJ Abrams directed it. He’s the same guy who directed the series
Lost
and the ilm
Mission: Impossible III
. To follow with the theme
of exploring the great unknown, we’ve got a few articles about
space and the planets, one science iction festival and also two
“out of this world” recipes.
17 Telephone English & Starry Night
18 SB Article: Film Proposal
19 Film Scripts: Will and Grace
20 Feeding Time
21 Darwin Day
22 Trivia Matching
23 Weird Trivia
24 Dr Fingers’ Grammar & Corny Criminals
25 Recipe & Listening: Roommate Trouble
26 Mythology
27 What happened to Pluto?
28 UFO Sightings
29 Beam Me Up!
30 Lunar Landing
31 5 Ways to Make Eggs
32 Star Trek
34 What's your sign?
36 Face to Face
37 Sci-Fi Festival
38 Jokes, Graiti & Cartoon
39 Misheard Lyrics
40 Globish
41 Slogan Change
42 Vocabulary & Typical Dialogues: The CD store
43 One Trick Pony
44 Dr Fingers Vocab Clinic
45 Quirky News / Riddles
46 SB Article: Downloading Debate
47 Trekkies & Listening: Political House Call
48 Dumb Laws
& Wisconsin Facts
49 Directory
50 Dictionary of Slang
51 Dr Fingers’ Error Correction, Chat-up Lines &
Listening: Anger Management
52 Year in Review: 1991
53 Idioms: Pot
54 SB Article
55 Subscriptions
56 Send Receive
57 Give Me Moore
58 Google Sea
59 Phrasal Verbs
60 Tapescripts
61 Answers and Back Issues
62 Words of the Month
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One of my favourite articles this month (I can never pick an
ultimate
favourite) is the story about Mickey Rourke. This actor
recently won an Oscar for his role in the ilm
The Wrestler
.
Rourke relects on his success, but mostly mentions how much
his dogs helped him through the dificult periods in his life.
It’s a really sweet story. It’s OK to get emotional!
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on the CD.
There are some other articles I really enjoy in this issue as well.
I like the ilm script (this month, it’s from the show
Will and
Grace
), the Dumb Laws page from Wisconsin (I was born there)
and the article about Globish. What’s Globish? Well, just turn to
page 40 and ind out...
So, have fun reading our latest issue,
good luck with your English and
we’ll see you next month!
Yours,
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Personality quiz
What planet are you from?
Ininite Possibilities
Cases of UFO sightings.
Star Trek XI
The latest frontier.
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37
43
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What’s your sign?
What your astrological sign says about you.
Lights, Camera, Sci-Fi!
A fantasy ilm festival.
One Trick Pony
Mickey Rourke’s bittersweet success.
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Boss Request
track
2
1
Pre-reading
Look at the pictures of the websites below. Which ones do you
know / use? What’s the purpose of these websites?
AnsWERs On pAGE 61
Balancing the professional and the personal.
2
Reading I
Make a list of the potential advantages and disadvantages of
these websites. Use the prompts to help you:
family / friends, photos, news, work
Read the article to check your ideas.
OH NO, MY
FRIEND PUT
UP THESE
FACEBOOK
PICTURES…
3
Reading II
Complete the table with the words below.
Julie Smithers' interview
John Masters' day of
H
ave you ever used Facebook? Do you have
Facebook
Facebook is a free social
networking tool that is used
throughout the world. It
was founded in the US
by CEO Mark Zuckerberg
in 2004 and has become
enormously popular
since then. Members can
join networks for cities,
states, countries, and
most popularly, college
universities.
a Facebook page? Some say it isn’t a good
idea.
sick
facebook
e-mail
There’s no denying Facebook’s popularity. It’s
great for inding people with common interests
and
hobbies
and
keeping in touch
with old
friends. It’s also got lots of fun features, such
as quizzes and games, and it can be used to
publicise
large events or parties. That’s all good,
but there’s a negative side to it, too. Many people
upload
photos of themselves at parties. Would
you want your boss to see that?
seen
party
job interview
solicitor
boss
headache
photos
work
investigating
There have been cases of employees getting into
trouble
as a result. Julie Smithers is one such case.
“I went to a job interview and everything went
really well,” the 28-year-old solicitor explained. “But
the next day I got an e-mail from them saying that
they weren’t interested. Apparently, they’d seen
some of my photos on Facebook.”
4
Language focus
expressions
It’s easier to learn language as phrases. Match the expressions
from the article (1-3) with their deinitions (a-c).
1.
to keep in touch
2.
to get into trouble
3.
to call in sick
GLOSSARY
a hobby
n
an activity you enjoy doing in your
free time
to keep in touch
exp
to maintain contact with another
person who you don’t see very
much
to publicise
vb
to make something widely known
to the public
to upload
vb
if you “upload” photos, you transfer
them from your camera to your
computer, or from your computer
to a website
trouble
n
In another incident, an employee lost his job. John
Masters called in sick one day,
claiming
he had a
terrible headache. It wasn’t true, and later that night
he went to a party. The following day, he put some
party photos up on his Facebook page. On Monday,
he went back to work. Meanwhile, his boss, who
was suspicious, decided to do a bit of investigating.
Eventually, she found the photos and saw the date
they were taken. As a result, she sent John an e-mail
telling him not to come into work again.
a.
to phone your boss to tell him / her you’re not
going to work
b.
to maintain contact
c.
to do something wrong and be reprimanded
by an authority
5
Discussion
1.
How do you keep in touch with your friends?
2.
When was the last time you got into trouble
at work or at home? What did you do? What
happened?
3.
Have you ever called in sick at work? When?
Were you really sick?
problems or diiculties
to claim
vb
to say
to censor
vb
to delete information from
something
to get rid of
exp
to remove; to delete; to throw away
a prospect
n
a chance to be successful in your
career
So,
censor
your Facebook proile carefully, and
make sure you
get rid of
all those photos of you
doing crazy things... or it could afect your job
prospects
.
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sunken story
Reporters uncover the truth.
1
Pre-reading
How good is your memory? Memorise these key words from the
article. When your teacher tells you to stop, cover the words and
write down the ones you remember. Afte
r s
tudying the words,
guess what the story is about.
AnsWERs On pAGE 61
AND NEXT
MONTH I’LL
BE FLYING
TO THE
MOON.
Jennifer figge
Jennifer Figge was
reported to be the irst
woman to swim across
the Atlantic Ocean.
She claimed that she
inished in 25 days.
Later, she admitted it
wasn’t true.
Sunken Story
a hero
56
to swim
25
3,400 km
the atlantic ocean
a boat
bad weather
250 miles
impossible
news
pape
r
s
F
or a few days, she was a hero. At the age
of 56, Jennifer Figge of Colorado was the
oldest person to swim across the Atlantic
Ocean (more than 3,400 km). Reporters claimed
that she inished in an
impressive
25 days. But
then they discovered the truth.
2
Reading I
Read the article to check your predictions.
3
Reading II
What do the following numbers from the article refer to?
1.
56
4.
3,860
There’s now a second version of the story. It is
true that Figge swam in the Atlantic Ocean for
25 days. However, they’re now saying that she
spent a majority of those days on the boat. Her
spokesman says this was
due to
bad weather.
The real distance that she swam hasn’t been
calculated
yet, but some
journalists
estimate
it was about 250 miles, which is less than 10% of
the original stated distance.
I DID IT…
OR DID I?
2.
25
5.
250
3.
10
4
Language focus
numbers
How do we say numbers in English? Practise saying the numbers
from the article with your partner and then check with your
teacher.
GLOSSARY
impressive
adj
if something is “impressive”, it is
amazing
due to
exp formal
But that wasn’t the only problem with the story.
The distance from the Cape Verde Islands to
Trinidad is 3,860 km, not 3,400 km as stated in
the article. Also, it’s physically impossible to swim
2,100 miles in 25 days. So the question remains,
why did the newspapers publish the story
without examining the facts? Maybe they didn’t
want the truth to
ruin
a good story.
5
Discussion
1.
Can you swim? When did you learn to swim?
Do you like swimming? Why? Why not?
2.
What’s the greatest distance you have swum /
run? When was it?
3.
Have you ever participated in a physical
challenge? What was it?
because of
to calculate
vb
to ind a mathematical answer to
a journalist
n
a person whose job is to collect
news stories and communicate
them to the public
to ruin
vb
to destroy; to damage
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