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SOUTH
Learn about different
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AFRICA
GraMMar FuN
Modal verb analysis.
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How to survive in
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Magazine
Index
3
Editorial
4 World Facts
5 Boring Viewing
6 Name Game; & Story Time
7 Hello 2010
8 The Best of 2009
10 Skills Booklet Reading: On your Own
11 Let’s talk about... Vegetables
12 Functional language: The Telephone
/ Celebrity Quotes 2009
13 Error correction & Skills Booklet
Listening: Free-Time Fun
14 Grammar Fun; Backissues
15 Skills Booklet Reading: Avant-Garde
16 Neighbours from Hell
17 Classiied Humour
18 Invictus
19 Photo Magic ; Skills Booklet Listening:
Eco-Warriors
20 Matt Damon & Morgan Freeman
22 South African History
24 South African Top Ten
26 Street Style
27 On Expenses
28 The Man with no Name
29 Skills Booklet Reading: Technophobia
30 Dr Fingers' Vocabulary Clinic: Problems
31 Quirky News / Corny Criminals
/ Riddles
32 How to... Listen to English
33 Recipe; Skills Booklet Listening:
Health & Safety
34 Dictionary of Slang / Chat-up Lines
35 Directory
36 Year in Review: 1998
37 Accent Alert
; Skills Booklet Listening:
The Week in Cinema
38 Idioms: “Way” idioms
39 Skills Booklet Reading: Oice Crime
40 Pub Guide
41 Dolphin Slaughter
42 Phrasal Verbs: The News II
43 Subscriptions
44 Tapescripts
45 Answers
46 Word of the Month: Simile
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index
1.
Hello
2.
World Facts
3.
Boring Viewing
4.
Story Time
5.
Let’s talk about...
Vegetables!
6.
Functional language:
The Telephone
7.
Fingers’ Error
Correction
8.
Pre-Intermediate
Listening: Free-Time Fun
9.
Neighbours from Hell
10.
Classiied Humour
11.
Intermediate Listening:
Eco Warriors
12.
Street Style
13.
On Expenses
14.
Dr Fingers’
Vocabulary:
Problems
15.
Quirky News
16.
Corny Criminals
17.
Riddles
18.
British Bar Chat: The Ig Nobels
19.
US Bar Chat: The Classiied Ad
20.
Upper Intermediate Listening:
Health & Safety
21.
Dictionary of Slang
22.
Chat-Up Lines
23.
Accent Alert
24.
Advanced Listening:
The Week in Cinema
25.
Idioms: “Way” idioms
26.
Pub Guide
27.
Dolphin Slaughter
28.
Off-the-Cuff:
Who was your worst neighbour?
29.
Pre-Intermediate Exam Listening
30.
Intermediate Exam Listening
31.
Upper Intermediate Exam Listening
32.
Advanced Exam Listening
33.
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World Facts
Computers, mobile phones, newspapers and tourism. Who leads the world?
by Patrick Howarth
1
Pre-reading
How much do you know about the world in the 21st century?
Do the quiz.
1.
Which country has the most computers per person?
a.
the USA
AnSWERS on PAgE 45
b.
Canada
c.
Italy
d.
Japan
2.
Which country has the most mobile phones
per person?
a.
the USA
b.
the United Arab Emirates
c.
Japan
d.
Spain
3.
Which country sells the most newspapers per person?
a.
the UK
b.
Iceland
c.
New Zealand
d.
Russia
L
ast month we looked at some interesting
4.
Which country spends the most time eating
and drinking every day?
facts from around the world. They were from
the
Pocket World in Figures
, a fascinating new
book recently published by
The Economist
magazine. This
is the second part of a two-part series.
a.
Turkey
b.
Spain
c.
Thailand
d.
France
5.
Which country has the greatest number of
tourists a year?
a.
the UK
b.
Egypt
Which country do you think has the most computers per person? The
Americans and Japanese seem to dominate in the world of technology.
However, the Canadians are the
most likely
to
own
a computer, with
94.3 machines per 100 people, and Denmark has the highest number of
broadband
subscribers at 35.9 per 100 people. More surprising, however, is
the United Arab Emirates, which has the highest proportion of
mobile phone ownership: an
astonishing
176.5 phones for
every 100 citizens.
c.
Greece
d.
France
6.
Which country sleeps the most?
a.
France
b.
Morocco
c.
Vietnam
d.
Argentina
2
Reading I
Read the article once to check your answers.
Name the world’s most famous newspapers and you might
think of
The Times
(UK),
The Washington Post
(USA),
El País
(Spain),
Le Monde
(France),
Corriere della Sera
(Italy) and
Pravda
(Russia). But which country do you think sells the highest
number of daily newspapers? It’s Iceland, at 821 per 1,000
people. Icelanders also have the highest
quality of life
according to the Human Development Index, scoring 96.8
out of 100, so all those newspapers must be good for them.
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Reading II
Read the article again. What do the numbers refer to?
1.
94.3
2.
35.9
3.
176.5
4.
821
5.
162
6.
530
Which nationality spends the most time eating and
drinking every day? No one
takes
their food and
drink more
seriously
than the French, do they?
Except perhaps the Spanish and the Italians. But in
fact it’s the Turks who spend the most time enjoying
their meals, with 162 minutes per day spent eating
and drinking on average.
What about the world’s most popular tourist
destination? It isn’t Egypt with all those pyramids, or
Greece with the beaches and beautiful islands, or
even the UK whose historical buildings do attract
many millions of holiday makers every year. In fact,
most tourists go to France – nearly 82,000,000 in
2007 alone. France is also the
sleepiest
nation on
Earth, with its citizens sleeping for 530 minutes (8
hours 50 minutes) a day. Looking after all those
tourists must be extremely
tiring
.
GLOSSARY
most likely
exp
if something is “most likely” to
happen, it will probably happen
to own
vb
4
Language focus
Modal verbs
Look at this extract from the article, “...and you might
think of
The Times
(UK),...” The writer has used a modal
verb (“might”). See if you can correct the mistakes in the
following sentences with modal verbs.
1.
I might to see her later.
2.
They not should do that.
3.
We can to do it later.
4.
Do you can swim fast?
5.
You don’t must walk on the grass.
to possess
broadband
n
a form of high-speed internet
access
astonishing
adj
surprising; incredible
quality of life
exp
people with a high “quality of life”
live in a place with good healthcare,
top-quality education, etc.
to take something seriously
exp
if you “take something seriously”,
you treat it with care and consider
it to be important
sleepy
adj
if you are “sleepy”, you are tired.
A “sleepy” nation is one whose
citizens sleep a lot
tiring
adj
if something is “tiring”, it makes you
feel “tired” and you want to sleep
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Discussion
1.
Which fact is the most/least surprising?
2.
Do you know any interesting facts about your country?
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Boring Viewing
Some of the most tedious YouTube videos exposed.
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H
ave you watched anything
1
Pre-reading
Look at the topics for mini-videos below. What
do you think happens in the videos?
on YouTube recently? Was it
interesting? Or really boring? Just
recently, YouTube users were asked to
vote on the website’s most boring videos.
Here are a few of the results.
a cow
a car journey
paint
a model plane a dishwasher
grass
a washing machine
Interested in nature? If you are, you might
like to see the 25-second video of a black
and white cow
chewing
some grass.
Wonderful!
tax a pencil sharpener
2
Reading I
Read the article once to compare your ideas.
Do you like driving? If so, you might enjoy the
computer simulation
of a
car journey from Wickford to Southminster on a
snowy day
in December.
Sit down, make yourself comfortable and watch 45 minutes of trees
lashing past
. Fascinating!
3
Reading II
Read the article again and answer the
questions.
1.
How long is the cow video?
2.
How long is the car journey?
3.
What is the model of?
4.
What does this expression mean,
“It’s like watching paint dry”?
5.
What type of washing machine
is it?
6.
How long is the tax video?
Does making a model of a plane sound like an interesting topic for a video? Someone
seems to think so. You can watch as the aeroplane is carefully constructed
in
painstaking detail
.
Have you heard the English expression “it’s like watching paint
dry”? It’s used to describe something that’s really, really boring.
But has anyone ever really watched paint dry? Guess what? Now
you can.
GLOSSARY
to chew
vb
to use your teeth to break up food
a computer simulation
n
a computer version of something –
in this case, a journey
a snowy day
n
a day in which snow (frozen water in
the form of lakes) falls from the sky
to lash past
exp
But if the paint drying was too exciting for you,
here’s something else: nine minutes and 53
seconds of what is apparently grass growing.
Pay
careful
attention
or you might
miss
the action.
4
Language focus
Making suggestions
Look at this extract from the article, “... how
about some instructions on how to
use a washing machine?” The writer
has used the expression “how about”. We
can use this to make suggestions. Match the
suggestions (1 to 5) to the answers (a-e).
1.
How about going to the cinema?
2.
How about getting up early
tomorrow?
3.
How about having an early lunch?
4.
How about going to the park?
5.
How about a nice cup of tea?
to go past very quickly
in painstaking detail
n
in a lot of intricate detail
to pay attention
exp
to listen/watch carefully
to miss
vb
if you “miss” something, you don’t
see it
a dishwasher
n
a machine that washes plates/
dishes/cups, etc.
to load
vb
if you “load” a dishwasher, you put
the plates, etc. in it
to sharpen
vb
if you “sharpen” an object, you make
its end more pointed and thinner
a pencil sharpener
n
a machine for making a pencil sharp
(see previous entry)
to yawn
vb
if you “yawn”, you open your mouth
wide and breath in more air than
usual (often because you are tired)
tax
n
money you pay to the government
to pay for services (the police,
education, etc.)
her Majesty’s Revenue and
Customs
n
the government department in the
UK that deals with tax
tax disclosure
exp
giving information about your
assets/possessions, etc. so the
government assess the amount of
tax you pay
ofshore accounts
n
bank accounts in other countries
to declare
vb
Are you good with technology? Do you know how to use a
microwave oven? What about a
dishwasher
? Fear not. Now
you can enjoy a detailed demonstration on how to
load
a
dishwasher. Incredible!
And if that wasn’t enough for you, how about some
instructions on how to use a washing machine? But
not just
any
washing machine. A Bosch washing
machine. It can do up to 1,000rpm. Watch it for
nearly six minutes as it completes a number of cycles.
a.
I’d rather stay in bed.
b.
No, I’m all right, thanks.
c.
Yes, that would be nice. I need
some sun!
d.
Oh, no. I’m not really hungry.
e.
No, thanks. I saw a ilm yesterday.
Do you know how to
sharpen
a pencil? Are you sure? Just
in case you’ve forgotten, you can learn from an instructional
video on how to use a
pencil sharpener
. Observe carefully as
the pencil is delicately placed into the instrument and slowly
turned around and around and around until its point is nice
and sharp once again.
Yawn
!
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Discussion
1.
Do you watch
anything on YouTube? What?
2.
What’s the best / worst / most
boring thing you’ve seen on
YouTube?
Do you know much about
tax
? If not, we suggest you have a
look at the ten-minute HMRC (
Her Majesty’s Revenue and
Customs
) video on the marvellous world of tax
disclosure
.
“If you are a UK-based investor and have
ofshore accounts
”,
says David Hartnett, the permanent secretary for tax, “you must
declare
them.”
Whoops
! I’ve fallen asleep!
to make known oicially and
formally
whoops!
exp
this is something that people say
when they make a mistake
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