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MEL GIBSON’S
APOCALYPTO
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CD
index
Hello
2
Idioms
3
Jokes
4
Graiti
5
Dr Fingers’ Vocabulary Clinic
6
Common Errors
7
Dictionary of Slang
8
Basic English
9
Living Abroad – Bristol
0
Crank Call
Useful advice
2
Stupid Criminals
3
Dr Fingers’ Grammar
4-5
British Bar Chat
6-7
US Bar Chat
8
Dumb US Laws
9
Great Moments in US History
20
Story Time
2
Weird Trivia
22
Typical Dialogues
23
Social English
24
Quiz
25
Quirky News
26
Quotes – Kissing
27
Grammar Fun
28
Fluency Practice
29
Business English
30
Goodbye
Editor’s
intro
Hi, everybody, and welcome to another issue of Hot
English. This month we’ve got lots of fun material for
you to learn English. For a start, there’s a new section:
Dr Fingers’ Error Correction Clinic. Well, actually, it’s a
section we had a few years ago and that we’ve decided
to
revive
. We think you’ll ind it really useful.
Our feature article this month is on Mel Gibson and his
new ilm Apocalypto. You can ind out lots of interesting
things about him and the ilm. We’re also looking at
the world of the “gaffe” – a silly or stupid comment you
make by mistake. The most famous person in Britain for
gaffes is Prince Philip, the Queen’s husband. You can
read about some of the funny (and not so funny) things
he’s said.
Talking about gaffes, I had a strange conversation with
my three-year-old son the other day. We were in the
city of Vitoria walking past
a bike rental shop
when he
suddenly said, “That’s where I hurt my foot.” He was
right because about a year ago, I’d rented a bike there
and had an accident with Andy: he fell off the back of
the bike and hurt his foot. Anyway, I was surprised that
he’d remembered (he was only two at the time) so I
said, “That’s funny that you remembered that”, meaning
to say that it was “strange” that he’d remembered it
because of his age. However, he understood funny to
mean “funny, ha, ha” and said, “Daddy, why is it funny?
I hurt my foot.”
Anyway, back to some more serious stuff. We’ve
got a new section on our website called “The
Archive”. Just visit: (http://www.
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Archive.php). There are lots of
interesting articles there, and we’ll
be putting more up every month.
The other big news is that we’re
starting the Hot English
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Error Correction Clinic
2
Magazine
Index
Apocalypto
3
Editorial
4
Phrasal Verbs
6
Idioms
7
Jokes & Graiti
8
Dr Fingers’
Vocabulary Clinic
9
Dr Fingers’
Error Correction Clinic
0
Dictionary of Slang
Mel Gibson special
5
Basic English
6
Amazing World – Bristol
8
Living Abroad – Bristol
9
Crank Call & Useful advice
20
Stupid Criminals
2
Dr Fingers’ Grammar
22
British Bar Chat
23
US Bar Chat
24
Crossword & Answers
25
Subscriptions
26
Dumb US Laws
27
Great Moments in US History
28
Story Time
29
Wordsearch & Joke
30
Trivia Matching & Weird Trivia
32
Vocabulary – Skiing
34
Typical Dialogues –
The Skiing Trip
35
Social English
36
Quiz
37
Quirky News
38
History: Freetown
40
Magistrates
43
Nimbys
44
Quotes – Kissing
45
Great Gafes
46
Royal Gafes
48
Grammar Fun
49
Fluency Practice
50
Business English
GLOSSARY
to revive
vb
to bring back to life again
a bike rental shop
n
a shop where you pay to use
a bicycle for a limited period
of time. Actually, in Vitoria,
they lend you the bikes for
free – so civilised!
TEFL
abbr
Teaching English as a
Foreign Language
6
Amazing Bristol
32
Vocabulary: Skiing
and Snowboarding
Word of the month:
cyberslacking
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PHrASAL
vErBS
TAkE
Take it out of you
To make you tired; to exhaust you.
Take over a business
To take fInancial and administrative
control of a company.
when i retire my
son will take over
the fishmongers.
All this running
really takes it out
of you.
Take it out on someone
To hurt or attack someone (mentally/
verbally/physically) because you are
frustrated, angry, etc.
Take up a new hobby
To start doing a new hobby
Ever since my
wife took up
golf, I don’t
see her at the
weekends.
It’s great.
just because
you didn’t get the
salmon cat food,
there’s no need to
take it out on me.
Take someone up on an offer
To accept an offer; to agree to do
something that another person proposes.
Take off
To remove clothing.
you remember
that offer of
a lift to the
airport? I’d like
to take you up
on it.
I can’t hear
what you
are saying. I
need to take
my helmet
off first.
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The verb “to take” has many different uses. Generally, we use this verb to refer to
the action of carrying/taking something from one place to another. For example,
“I took my car to the garage so they could repair it.”
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