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etHiCal eating
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Editor’s
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Magazine
Index
3
Editorial
4 Capital Crime
5 Circus Ban
6 Name Game; Story Time
7 Conquering Conkers
8 Useful Vocabulary: The Morning
9 Useful Verbs & Expressions: The Morning
10 Skills Booklet Reading: Disney Magic
11 Let’s talk about: Taxis
12 Functional language: E-mails
/
The Gentleman Cowboy
13 Error correction & Skills Booklet
Listening: Helping Out
14 Grammar Fun; Backissues
15 Skills Booklet Reading: Shrouded in Mystery
16 Consumed Consumer
17 Fit for the 70s
18 Typical Mistakes
19 Skills Booklet Listening:
Have you ever...?
; Photo Magic
20 Vampires in Vogue
22 The Dark Avenger (Dexter)
23 Mortal Love (Twilight & New Moon)
24 Rocking Rio
26 World’s First Lady
27 Insurance Fun
28 Silvio Berlusconi
29 Skills Booklet Reading:
Celebrity Sell Out
30 Dr Fingers’ Vocabulary Clinic:
Not very nice people
31 Quirky News / Corny Criminals /
Riddles
32 How to... Learn English
33 Skills Booklet Listening: Food
Celebrities
; Recipe: Autumn recipes
34 Directory
35 Dictionary of Slang / Chat-up Lines
36 Year in Review: 1996
37 Ethical Eating
Skills Booklet Listening: Small Talk
;
38 Idioms: The Road
39 Skills Booklet Reading:
Sobering Thoughts
40 Slaying Slough
41 Fourth Plinth
42 Subscriptions
43 Phrasal Verbs: Travel
44 Tapescripts
45 Answers
46 Word of the Month: Sleaze
CD
index
1.
Hello
2.
Capital Crimes
3.
Circus Ban
4.
Story Time
5.
Let’s talk about...
Taxis!
6.
Functional language:
E-mails
7.
Fingers’ Error
Correction
8.
Pre-Intermediate
Listening: Helping Out
9.
Radio ad
10.
Consumed Consumer
11.
Fit for the 70s
12.
Intermediate Listening:
Have you ever...?
13.
Jokes
14.
World’s First Lady
15.
Insurance Fun
16.
Radio ad
17.
Dr Fingers’
Vocabulary: Not
very nice people
18.
Quirky News
19.
Corny Criminals
20.
Riddles
21.
British Bar Chat: E-mails
22.
US Bar Chat: Favorite City
23.
Radio ad
24.
Upper Intermediate Listening:
Food Celebrities
25.
Dictionary of Slang
26.
Chat-Up Lines
27.
Advanced Listening: Small Talk
28.
Radio ad
29.
Idioms: The Road
30.
Radio ad
31.
Slaying Slough
32.
Fourth Plinth
33.
Off the Cuff : Favourite Decade
34.
Goodbye
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Conquering Conkers
An unusual English game and pastime.
Vampires in Vogue
Blood is the new black as vampires
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The Dark Avenger
Dexter – the crime ighter with a
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Capital Crimes
Styles of writing that annoy us.
1
Pre-reading
Match the types of text (1 to 5) to the examples (a-e).
1.
Bold
c
2.
Capital letters (block capitals)
3.
Lowercase letters
4.
Italics
5.
Highlighted text
AnSWERS On PAgE 45
a.
mrs brown goes to paris next may.
b.
Mrs Brown goes to Paris next May.
c.
Mrs Brown goes to Paris next May.
d.
MRS BROWN GOES TO PARIS NEXT MAY.
e.
Mrs Brown goes to Paris next May.
2
Reading I
Read the e-mail below. What’s the problem with it? Why would
it make people angry? Think, then read the article to check your
ideas.
jessica@yahoo.com
D
o you use
block capitals
a lot in e-mails? If you do, be careful, or you
REMINDER
TO ENSURE YOUR STAFF CLAIM IS PROCESSED AND
PAID, PLEASE FOLLOW THE CHECKLIST BELOW.
THANKS!
could lose your job... just as Liz Jones did.
Ms Jones from New Zealand used to work in the
Human Resources
department of a large company. Just recently, she lost her job. Her employers
claim that her e-mails, which were often full of BLOCK CAPITALS, were
“
confrontational
”. They also said the e-mails were
upsetting
staf. During
the
trial
for
unfair dismissal
, extracts from the
e-mails were read out. They included the following,
“TO ENSURE YOUR STAFF CLAIM IS PROCESSED
AND PAID, PLEASE FOLLOW THE CHECKLIST
BELOW.” Some of the e-mails also had phrases
in
bold
or red. But, are capital letters really so
ofensive? Some people think so.
3
Reading II
Read the article again and answer the questions.
1.
Where is Ms Jones from?
2.
What word did her employers use to describe
her e-mails?
3.
What is the problem with using block capitals?
4.
What is one of the advantages of writing
letters (as opposed to e-mails)?
5.
Do you think Ms Jones should have lost her
job? Why? Why not?
GLOSSARY
block capitals
n
text in which all the letters are
CAPITALS. Also known as “caps”,
capitals, capitalised or ALL CAPS
Human Resources
n
the department in a company that
is in charge of employees/staf
confrontational
adj
aggressive; likely to cause an
argument
to upset
vb
to make sad/angry
a trial
n
“Many people use capitals to demonstrate their
anger,” explained Nigella Marston, a writing expert.
“
Ultimately
, it is a way of
shouting
. Anyone who
has ever received an e-mail full of capitals may
understand the problem.” So, what should you do
if you’re angry and you need to send an e-mail?
“The thing with e-mails is that they’re so easy to
write and send,” Ms Marston explained. “In the past,
with letters, you had to ind a piece of paper, get a
pen and carefully write your letter. If you
made a
mistake
, you had to start all over again. And then
there was the problem of inding an envelope,
buying a
stamp
and then going to
post
it. It all
took time. My advice is to write the e-mail in a
Word document (not in an actual e-mail – just in
case you send it by mistake), and then to leave it.
The following day, you can read over it and decide
whether it really is a good idea to send it.” So, the
next time you’re angry, DON’T JUST HIT THE
CAPS
KEY
and send. Stop and think! And then send!
4
Language focus
“Get”
Look at this extract from the article: “...you had to ind a
piece of paper, get a pen...” Notice the use of “get”. This
verb can be used to mean many things. Read the following
sentences. What does “get” mean in each case.
1.
I
got
a really nice card for my birthday.
2.
We couldn’t
get
a house in the mountains for
the weekend.
3.
Did you
get
that e-mail I sent you?
4.
I didn’t
get
any money for the work I did.
a legal process to decide if
someone is guilty or innocent
unfair
adj
not just; not correct
a dismissal
n
if there is a “dismissal”, someone
loses their job
in bold
exp
in text that is heavy and black
ultimately
exp
in the end; eventually; at last
to shout
vb
to say something in a loud (and
sometimes angry) voice
to make a mistake
exp
to do something that is wrong /
not correct
a stamp
n
a small rectangular/square piece of
paper with an image and a price on
it. You put it on a letter in order to
send the letter
to post
vb
to send a letter/parcel by mail
the caps key
n
the button on the computer
keyboard that you press when you
want to write in CAPITALS
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Discussion
1.
Who do you write e-mails to at work? What
things do you typically write about?
2.
What’s the best/worst e-mail you’ve ever
received?
3.
What are some of the typical e-mails that you
receive at work?
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Circus Ban
More progress on the protection of animals.
1
Pre-reading
Match the circus acts/animals (1 to 7) to the photos (a-g).
Can you think of any more circus animals or acts?
1.
Elephant
2.
Tiger
3.
Seal
4.
Juggler
5.
Lion
6.
Acrobat
7.
Tightrope walker
AnSWERS On PAgE 45
For more information
on animal cruelty in
circuses, visit:
www.circuses.com
a
Poor Tyke
During a circus
performance in
Honolulu (Hawaii) on
20th August 1994, circus
elephant Tyke killed
her trainer in front of
hundreds of horriied
spectators. Tyke then
ran through the streets
of Kakaako for more
than thirty minutes
before police shot and
killed her.
b
T
he circus is a great form of family
entertainment
.
c
d
There are jugglers, clowns, acrobats, tightrope
walkers and... performing animals. But should
animals be in circuses? Some say no.
g
Animals have traditionally appeared in circuses.
In ancient Rome, there were horse and
chariot
races and
re-enactments
of battles that involved
hundreds of horses and even elephants – not to
mention the
notorious
ights between
defenceless
Christians and hungry lions. These days, many circus
acts include lions, seals, tigers and elephants. But
some feel that this should stop.
e
2
Reading I
This article is about prohibiting the use of animals in
circuses. What are the arguments in favour of doing this?
Think, then read the article to check your ideas.
f
3
Reading II
Complete this summary of the article.
(1)
(a country)
has
decided to
(2)
the
use of animals in circuses. They think it is
(3)
. Many other
(4)
have banned the use
of animals in entertainment.
Animal rights organisations are irmly against the use
of animals in circuses. They argue that animals do not
naturally ride bicycles, stand on their heads, balance
on balls, or jump through rings of ire. And when they
do, it’s after months of training with
whips
, sticks and
even
electric prods
. Circus animals must also live in
ilthy
, poorly-ventilated boxcars for hours on end –
sometimes for as long as 100 hours when the circus
travels. “It’s as if you were asked to spend the rest of
your life living in your bathroom,” a
spokesperson
for
PETA
said.
GLOSSARY
entertainment
n
something that amuses, pleases or
makes you laugh
a chariot
n
an ancient two-wheeled vehicle
pulled by horses that was used in war
/races, etc.
a re-enactment
n
a repeat of an event from the past
notorious
adj
4
Language focus
Prepositions
of movement
Look at this extract from the article, “...stand on their
heads, balance on balls or jump through
rings of ire.”
“Through” is a preposition of movement. If you go
“through” something, you go from one side of it to another.
Match the sentences (1 to 4) to the pictures (a-d).
1.
The mouse jumped
over
the box.
2.
The mouse jumped
onto
the box.
3.
The mouse jumped
into
the box.
4.
The mouse went
through
the box.
famous for something bad
defenceless
adj
if you are “defenceless”, you cannot
protect yourself
a whip
n
a piece of leather or rope used for
hitting people or animals
an electric prod
n
a stick that gives electric shocks
ilthy
adj
Many countries have
banned
or restricted the use
of animals in entertainment. These include Sweden,
Austria, Costa Rica, India, Finland and Singapore. And
now Bolivia has joined the list. The new law in Bolivia
deines the use of animals in circuses as an act of
cruelty
. The law was proposed after an
undercover
investigation
. The London-based group Animal
Defenders International (ADI), in collaboration with
a local Bolivian group, ilmed
mistreatment
of
animals by poorly-paid and badly-trained staf. “If they
wanted an animal to move, their immediate reaction
was to
kick
,
punch
or push it,” a spokesman for the
organisation said. Circus operators have one year
from the bill’s passage on 1st July 2009 to comply.
“At present, there are about 50 animals in national
and international circuses in Bolivia, and we want
to negotiate to make sure that the animals aren’t
eliminated,” the spokesman added. Let’s hope they
get there on time.
very dirty
a spokesperson
n
a representative who speaks for an
organisation
PETA
abbr
People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals – an animal rights
organisation
to ban
vb
b
to prohibit
cruelty
n
that causes pain or sufering
an undercover investigation
n
a secret investigation in which the
reporters/police pretend to be
ordinary people
mistreatment
n
the act of being bad / unkind / cruel
to someone/something
to kick
vb
a
c
d
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Discussion
1.
Do you agree with the ban? Why? Why not?
2.
What else should we do to protect animals?
3.
Should some animals have more rights
than others? Why?
to hit with your foot
to punch
vb
to hit with a closed hand
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