EDITORIAL I JULY 2009

You never know

Inez Sharp.
who's watehing
editor-in-<hief

Friday evening on the ICE 108 to Berlin. A youog man

gels on at Nuremberg and takes a seat. As he's making himself com-
fortablc, he notices a brightly coloured magazine on the fable in
front afhim. "Is Ihis yaursT' he asks thc strawberry blonde \Vornan
in dark glasses sining nexl 10 hirn. She shakes her head. Thc man -
Jetts caU him Mr X - picks up thc magazine and begins 10 read.
He's concentrating so hard Ihat he doesn", notice lhe wornan is
watehing hirn - and shets walchiog vcry c1osely. At one point, she
takes out a notebook and wriles a few sentences. At Berlin Sürl-
kreuz, she leaves fhe rrain. Playing the mystery woman is an uncon-
ventional way 10 get readers' reactions 10 Spotlight. bur it did give
roe lhe chance 10 watch one reader internet with the May magazine.
What did I learn? Mr X spem a long time studying thc lan-
guage feature and seemed 10 enjoy it. If he liked our Small Talk
guide, llhought, he'lI have a 101 of fun this month with the mistakes
made by famous people, wh ich begin on page 14. Mr X also looked
carefully through the main language section. Everyday English on
page 49 was a c1ear favourite - this rnonth, tbe topic is Love -
and at one poinl, he seemed 10 search for a pen to do Ihe exercises.
I wanted to lend hirn mine, but decided it might give thc game away.
Sy then, Mr X had moved on 10 Paul Smith's column Before VOll Go
and was smiling happily to hirnself. Dear reader, I hope that you,
like Mr X, find plemy to entcrtain you in this month's Spotlight.

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 CONTENTS I JULY 2009

THIS MONTH'S TOPICS .... Cover topics LANGUAGE SECTION

6 PEOPlE 28 FILM 46 VOCABULARY CZID
Narnes and Faces ~ Comedy ~ On the beach
Politician Rahm Emanuel, rock After a two-year break, Sandra
musician Mlck Jagger and others Bullock returns with a very funny
48 GRAMMAIl BASICS a:a:.
Not necessary or not allowed
new film, The Proposal
9 A DAY IN MY L1FE 49 EVERYDAY ENGUSIl
Wales
Stephen Edwards is a chef a! a top
30 PRESS GAllERY
Comment
'''''M'· ~

51
,'rn in love!
LANGUAGE CAROS eiltift"
spa hotel in Cardiff Opinions on recenl events, Including Pull out and practJse
Canada's response 10 swine flu, fram
10 WORlO VIEW @"ib'" the English·language media 53 TRAVEL TALK

News in Brief
~ On aplane
Motorbike ambulances in Sudan, and
renaming New Zealand's isJands
32 TRAVEl
~ Britain
Expkx'e the beautifut waterways 01
54 PEGGY'S PLAct:
The Iatest from a l.O'lG. ...,
55 ENGUSH AT WDRIl.
14 LANGUAGE Britain on a oarrowboat that does
Saying goodbye
~ Famous Mistakes ooe thing weU - it goes slow
We Iook. at celebrities' mistakes and 56 CROSSWORD
leam how 10 avoid doing the same 38
~
HISTORY
A Picture and Its Story
Find the words and
•
57 WORD POWER
20 DEBATE One small slep for a man: a look ~ Going to the bank
~ United States back at the lJrst moon landing
Would you ever 'ie about past jobs? 40 years ago this mDnth 58 PERFECTlONISTS OhU'
New Hampshire people have their say Nuances of Enghsh
42 ARTS 60 SPaKEN ENGUSH
22 LIFESTYLE What's New Watch it! "Look" arc
United States The latest books, films and events,
We take a trip to the magical and plus a short story aOOut love, ghosts 61 NEWS AHD REVIEW!'
Language and pnxIu
musical southem city of Memphis and coming horne
this month's Spot!

4 Spo~ighl
COLUMNISTS
13 COLIN BEAVEN LANGUAGE USE IN SPOTLIGHT
Britain Today The articIes in this magazine lJSe tIle style, spelling, punctuation and pro-
The great British breakfast nunciation of British English unless rn3f1{ed GI for American usage.
Each artide is also mar1(ed wittl its level 01 difflCUlty. The leveis in Spotlight
26 AMY ARGETSINGER C'''''Ii'.
cooespood to the reading comprehension levels of the Common European
I Ask Myself
FrameworX of Reference for languages foughly as tollows:
The new US royal family
• "iW A2 • +;;""0* 81-B2 fil"M" Cl-t2
40 PETER FlYNN ·""M'· Texts not marteCl on this double page are at a medium level.
Around Oz ifml. informal or slang word or phrase
Green poIitics in South AustraJia 'IlJ1g. vu!gaI word or phrase

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 PEOPLE I NAMES AND FACES

"Rule ooe: never allow a crisis to Wo.

~." To Rahm Emanuel, crises are
"0 P.2ffiJnities 10 do b' thj~". Wtth
Uds personal philosophy, it's little
wonder thai Rahm Emanuel became
IN THE NEWS
Barack Obama's chief of 513ff - the
most powerful person in the White John Cale, ex-member of the rock band The Velvel Underground, is also
an artist and film-maker, reports The limes. Cale, 67, has been chosen to
House after the president himself. The
represent Wales at the Venice Biennale. His films will be shown through-
49-year-old trom Chicago who once out the art festival, which runs unlil early November. "I've'always liked art
trained as a baUet dancer served as and artists, particularly those who are mischieyous,· said Cale.
special adviser to President CUnton in
Joanna Lumley, known from TV comedies such as Absofutefy Fabulous,
the 1990s, a job thai established hirn has been campaigning to allow ex-GurKhas to retire to the UK. Gurkhas
as a Democratic Party insider. After are soldiers in the British army who come from Nepal. The governmenl
tbat. tte became a successful invest- has been making it difficutt for them to settle in Britain. The BBC says Im-
ment banker and then a representative migration Minister Phil Woolas has agreed tu rmm the problem.
to Congress for the state of IlIinois. He's British ~ Gordon Ramsay had something to chew 00 recent!y, when a
known for his loyalty, his strong Jew- famous list of top restaurants left his out completely. The san Peltegnoo
ish faith and his ability 10 gel things WorId's 50 Best Restaurants had included him every year since 2002. But
Ramsay doesn't seem to mind. "Gordon takes all these sorts of ~
done. His lough management style has
with a ojnch of salt. He regards his thousands of customers as his most
led critics 10 cal1 hirn "Rahm-bo", valued critics,~ a representative of Ramsay told the BBC.
Strength, however, is something the
Seeinq the world differently: (ale, lumley and Ramsay (from leh)
Republicans who attack President
Obama cao respeclln fact. the dy- f I
namic character of Josh Lyman in the
TV series The West Wing is believed to f
have been inspired by Emanuel.
[~ lIsten to thls text on Spotlight AudlO

6 SPOlÜght
 lookinq for answers: Caine and Hudson
Wben critic Mark Swed allended a concert by Polish pianist
Krystian Zimerman. he expccted to write just about the music
for the Los Allgeles limes. But the pianist surprised both Swed
and the audience by announcing that he would not perfonn in
the US again beeause he's against its planned missile defcnse
~ in Poland. "Get your hands off of my eountry," he said.
He also has a history of problems in the USo When hc landed
in New York for a eoneen soon after 9/11, officials thought his
piano sOlelIed ~ - and destroyed it.

Cannie Culp is the first person in the US to have had a full fa-
eial transplant. Her husband shot her five years ago, leaving
her without a face. Last December, shc received a new physiog·
nomy in an operation lasting 22 hours. The Ohio resident
thanked thc l12n2r family and the doetors who have made it
possible for her to talk, smile and taste food. Tlle Cillcillnati
Post reponcd that she also had a message for the public: "Don't
judge peoplc who don', look thc same as you do."

Canadian film-maker Jennlfer Baichwal's latest film, Ac' 0/

God. is about lightning and how people react after being struck
by it. ,,!t's impossible not to ~ meaning to i1," Baiehwal
told Maclean S. "1I's such a sign from the heavens." Her hus-
band was the film's ~
tor ofphologmphy, and at
limes, Baiehwal woutd _ _ _ singe< 00 1l1e _ o! membenl
leave hirn to shoot seen es o! her famlly Iaslyeor
by himself - so shc could
still mise their!Wo childrcn
if he were to be struck by
lighming. Fortunatcly, both
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
survived filming.
After 40 years on stage, Mick Jagger, lead singer of The
Rolling Stones, shows no SigflS of slowing down. As he cele-
Siqns from
the heavens: brates his 66th birthday on 26 July, Jagger will be looking
Jennifer forward to the release 01 a new song. To raise money lor /
Baichwal
filmed storms the UN's International Day of Peaee on 21 september, he
has recorded a duet with young English sout singer
ascrlbe Ith. to Ith. [Ol'skr;llb tOll einer Sache elw. zuschreiben
beneftb ('bemfltsl staatliche Unlerstützung Jass Stone. nwill bring the number of songs Jagger
chef l(d! Koch, Köchin has reteased since starting his eareer in
CNw' on: h8Ye somethlng to .. ('t(u: Dn] an etW. ZlJ knabbern haben
dlrector of photography Kameramann . ..freu the early 1960s 10 more than 100.
IdOl re"'ti OlV fOl'tOQr.lfi!
cklnor [d<lllnOlI Spenderlin)
He recently worked on another
tun fMli ~""m UN proieet: named after
mme ve me ' [mi
go to walte: allow Ith. to .. etw. ungenutzt verstreichen a Stones song, G.im.m.e.
l.g;:ou ta 'welstl lassen
~ aims 10 help .ri.c..:.
keep sb. lkl:pl jmdn. finanzieren
la about 'lelOl baut UK Faulel'\le In .tiDJi 01 lighting in the Democrat·
11 I lilltm BI' e
mtlc:hlevoul [mI5t(lVas! frech je Republic of the Congo. Jagger helped
mlssHe defense Ihleld Raketenabwehrschild make a documentary on the problems
l,mISil~1 di'fen5 .o~ld]
review $Öl. !rt'vlu:1 elw. überprüfen in the central African country. The singer
lhenflr [f!I~! SChutz, Unterkunft
langsamer werden
has had a busy personalIife, 100. He's
lJow down 1,s1<lU 'd<l.un!
survey r.Sl:vell Aufstellung been married twice, has seven chil-
lurvlve .th. !SOl""ilIV! elw. überleben
traMplant l'tril:'nsplll:ntl Transplantat, Transplantation dren by four women and is now in
vlctlm !'vlktIln! (TooeslOpfer a relationship with American fash-
wlth a plnch of lalt: take Ith... einer Sache nicht zu viel
jWlö,) .pmtf Oll' 's.:dtJ Bedeutung beimessen ion stylist L'Wren Scott.
Still a ladles' man;
7/09 Mkk Jaqqer
 WALES IA DAY IN MY L1FE

A taste of Wales on your plate

Erst steht er bei der Arbeit am Herd. Dann kocht
er noch zu Hause. Und mit DAGMAR TAYLOR
. . . . dl ..... [!l~.,
sprach er - übers Essen.

My name's Stephen Edwards. I 'm a sous-chef at

Thc ~ restaurant at SI David's Hotel & Sml in CardifT,
Wales. On an avcmgeday, I work from 10 a.m. til1 10 p.rn.
First thing in thc moming, I check the dcljverjes, give out
jobs 10 the members of staR' and change the menu. The ä
la carte menu is changed every two 10 three monlhs. de-
pending on the season. The cooking is a li2ll betwcen
French and British traditions.
On the ä la carte menu wc've goi nißc dishes, and wc
like most of them 10 havc some sarI of Wclsh influencc.
We Iry 10 use plcllty of localmcat and tmdilional Welsh
cheescs. I laste quitc a lot offood, which C31l be a bit much
in winter. Dur summer menu is Iighler; I tend to lose weight
in the summer becausc ('rn not ealing as much.
Up to noon, I prepare the ~ and get ready for lunch.
I tend to move around and supervjse the other people in
the küchen. Most days I check what gocs out into the din-
ing room ~ I taste everything and arrangc the food on the
platcs myself. [{ helps to keep a certaill standard if every·
thing's plated by one person. We have about 20 people for I also really cnjoy teaching. When we gCI a trainee, that's
lunch, with abaut 30 or 40 more in Ihe bar. really my thing. You've got 10 be very patient with trainces, .
but it's great when you gel Ihem 10 ron a scction and the'
After lunch, al about 2.30 p.rno, I go dowDstairs for food comes out e~actly as you instructed. You can see
meetings, to answer qucstions abaut the menu and 10 eheck they're really proud ofit.
my e-mail. We have a lot of people booking large tables at Dur evening service slarts al about 5.30 p.m. and is a bit
the moment. A lot ofbusinesses are coming in with groups busier. We've got 14 or 15 different main·~ dishes,
of 20 and cating in the restaurant. We have to write menus plus a grill section for cooking burgers and steaks. We're
espceially for those parties and change thClll according to elose to the Welsh Opera Centre. so we do some pre-theatre
different ~ requircments. meals. We get about 30 people at 5.30 p.m., and at aboul 8
Most of my job eonsists of eooking. Ihough, whieh is we Slart to gel the rest. Dinner usually lasls unlil 10.
quite niee. I"ve worked as a sous-chef in other jobs, and it
was paperwork, papcrwork. paperwork. (fyou're a chef, Generally it's about 10.45 p.m. when we finish. I ride
no matter how high you rise in the profession, you still my bike horne, wh ich really helps me to rcla~. We work
want to bc cooking most ofthe time. quile long hours, but long hours don't really QQ!Mr mc as
long as I'm enjoying my job. I eook quite a 101 at horne,
bother sb. I'bOl'l<l) jmdn. stören 100. [ don't ever buy any pre-made meals. Everything's
courM lJo:sl Gang. Gericht eookcd using fresh jngredjents. Irl spcnd aJl day cooking
cross Ikrosl Mischung
dettver di1/v;}ri lJeferu
good food, I don', want to go horne and eat something I
dletary ['dal<l~r11 ErnährungS- stick in a microwave. I find iI very diffieult to understand
chh IdlO Gericht, Speise anyone who can't coole. Whal da you eat? I just don 't ~ il.
get ath. 1<Jet) ifmJ. etw. kapieren I starled working as a kÜchen porter parHirne whcll I
I lent 111' rl:di<lnt Mal
kttchen porter ['klt(<ln ,oo:t<ll Küchenhilfe was 11 years old and just beeame intercsted from then,
menu fmenju:l Speisel<.arte really. I got my first fuU-lime chef job when I had just
pre-made ['pri: ,meld[ Fertig· turned 16. I 've worked in regular restaurants hcre and
re tftlve rt' l;)tlv eintöni
run 8 aectlon [,rMl ;) 'sekfnl einen Posten/Teilbereich
there, but it's mainly been hotels. In a restaurant, it ean be
übernehmen a bit repetitive. At the hotel. one day I might have an event
sous-cltef ['su: [ef! stellvertretende{r) for 400, and the nexi day jusl dinner for 10. Thc varielY is
Küchencheflinl
, , wellnessbad
whal kceps it e~citing. •
supervfM sb. !'su:~valzl jmdn. beaufsiehtigen
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 WORLD VIEW NEWS IN BRIEF I
Off 10 the hospital:
women in southem
Sudan qet help

SUDAN Few prcgnant warnen likc thc idea ara roug.h tide, Motorbike ambulances have already becn a success in
but rides on mOlorbikes are alrcady improving thc lives of Malawi and Uganda. and soulhem Sudan's govemmcnl
soulhem Sudan's warnen. UNICEF has bough! five motor· has promised 10 gel more bikes ifthey prove 10 be effec-
bikes 10 servc as ambulances al hcalth centres in parts of live. The bikes have sidecars wilh seal beils and a bed so
thc coumry that are far from big towns. Thc move should thai women can streich out. Bul lhe main benefil is that
hclp more warnen stay alive during childbirth. help can reach pregnant women even during the rainy sea·
Thc Johannesburg Mai! & Guardian rcports that 90 per son, when cars cannol drive losmall villages.
cent ofbirths in soulhem Sudan lake place without mediea! "You can easily move with the motorbike 10 remOie
hclp. Warnen have a one-in-six chance of dying whilc hav- places, whcre there are no roads, where cars cannOI go.··
ing a child -the world's highest matemal rnortality rale. UNICEF heaJlh specialisl Joycc Mphaya explaincd.

The search for the real Q '''; f" ii ,,_

BRITAIN ·0· is the M!§ sclentist who provides James Bood with fantastic SPOrts The movie Q:
cars and multifunctional pens and watches. M16's sister service, ~ now Desmond
wants a 0, too, and has started a nationwide search to find the right person Uewelyn
(1914-99)
for the job.
The Guardian reports that the job will be to keep the intelligence ser-
vice up 10 date. "11 will involve a sort 01 future-gazing to see where tech-
nology will be taking us in a year or so," said John Beddington, the
British government's chief stientist. "There is a really important role in
providing sclentific and technological advice on addressjog problems
agents in the field will face.·
MI5 reports that there's lots of interest in the job, and It plans to name .,.'
its 0 later this year.

10 Spotlight 1109
 Go north, shopper! "'e
NORTHERN IRELAND Paople In the Republic of Iraland are driving a long way to
shop In Northern Ireland - even the 167 kilometres from Dublin 10 Belfast. Why?
Prices in Northern lraland are rnuch lowar, the BBC reports. This makes it possible
to save up 10 €200 on monthly shopping costs.
Sales are, for example, unusually goOO at Tesco supermal1<ets in Northem Ire-
Iand's border area. The greater number of shoppers is not all good oews, however.
An Internal Tesco .m..e..rD2 says many paople now associate the company's Irish
stores with higher prices than at Tesco in Northem Iraland. "Having invested circa
E3lill.1i2n in Iraland, Öle damage 10 the Tesco Iraland brand [must be hatted]; it sald.
Irish shoppers couldn't be happier. Northern Ireland's lower yalue added tax is
ane big advantage. Another has been the low British pound. 1I has all meant big
savings for slloppers.

. . . . d l ..... us

A park in the sky

UNITED STATES For more than 70 years, train tracks have stood above
Manhattan. The High Une, which rises nine meters above the street, allowed
.fWghJ. trains to make their way safely through the city. But for decades, the
tracks have been unused. That finally changed this summer, when they were
turned into a city parX extending 22 blocks through the sky.
No Jonger da ooisy freight trains ~ down the High Une. lnstead, visit-
ors climb the stairs to experience a place of caJm in the middJe of the city.
The New Yorf< TJmes reports that the pam, which will continue to be devel-
oped for several years al a cost of $170 million, combines the natural and
the man-made. RaH tracks can still be seen in some areas, reminding visit-
ors of 1he High Une's original
purpose, but~, trees, and
I even artwork have given it a
new Iook. The -parX in the sky,w
as Olle city officiaJ caJled it, also
gives a new view of Manhattan:
people can Iook down on the city
while sti1J jnteracting wjth it.

tt's all green:

this raised railroad is
now part of a
New Yon park

address sth. [;t'dres] etw. bearbeiten/in den Griff

bekommen
bench IbentO Parkbank
billion I'blll.ml M'lIiarde(n}
chl1dblrth I't(al·ldb3:81 Geburt
frelght Ifrelll Fracht, Guter
Mur.&alinC: ['fju:tfa ,gelvnl ln-die-Zukunft.ßllcken
interact wlth sth. [US ,mt;)r'zkl wIe] mit etw. in Kontakt stehen
mafHNI6e Lrmm 'meld] künstJietI Angelegtes
matemal mortallty MiittersterbliChkeit
[mCl,o:n.1 rru:'tzIClti]
memo " memorandum ['rnem;HJ] Mitteilung
M16/5 Lern al 'slksrfalv! UK britischer Auslands-/
Inlandsgeheimdienst
pregnant ('pregnantl schwanger
rough rlde !r"f'raldl ungemütliche/holprige Fahrt
seat belt l'si:t bell) Sicherheitsgurt
sldec.r ['sardl.:o:1 5eitenwagen
train track [II"('Jn Irzkl Eisenbahnschiene
value added lax Metuwertsteuer
I,lTlju: 'Z'drd tzksl
pfeifen

7/09
 WORLD VIEW I NEWS IN BRIEF

Name game -,,; iiii';'"

NEW lEALAND We know the eounlry of dramatic
landscapes and fun-loving people as ew Zealand,
bUI the Maori have long called il AOlearoa, "Land
of the Long White Cloud".
Now anolher naming discussion has begun. This
time, il's aboutthe country's largest land masses.
the Nonh Island and South Islund.
"North Island und Soulh Island are actually not
orticial names," Don Grant ofthe New Zealand
Geographie Board told The New Zealand Hemltl.
As Maori cultural organizations think about pos-
sible names, suggestions have been coming in from
Ihe broader public. "Fush and chups" is one; "Kiri
and Te Kanawa" - based on Ihe name oflhe fa-
maus New Zealand opera singer - is another.
Wilh unserious choiees like these, replacing
.• orlh and Soulh" doesn't see rn likely, Bul lhe
search will alleasl give rnany New Zealanders some-
thing they dearly love: a good laugh.

blillon l'blllanJ Milliarde(n}

board IbJ:dl staatliche Stelle l Behörde
bother IUS 'ba:ö"rl sich darum kümmern
chuck Ith, It[...kl ifml. etw. werfen
educated redjukeltldJ einer gebildeten Person
fush and chups = f1sh and chips (neuseeländlsche
I,f;J( ;Jnd 'tfapsl Aussprache des Gerichts)
How about "Ki" and ·Wi". based on the local bird? New Zealanders housekeepln,r; rhaus,ki:pl!]1 Arbeiten im Haushalt
are lookinq for new names for their two Iargest land masses loch 1I0)(J 5cot. See

Accent matters
e", '111 'MGI
notlon I'n;MJPn!
teeeived pronunclatlon
[ri,si:vd p~,llI\nsi'elrnJ
trlIck"" rtrilt'kJll)
"".-
Vorstellung
Standardaussptaehe
verfolgen, Dokumentieren

8RITAIN Not SO long ago in Britain, if you had a mes~

sage to communicate 10 others, il was a goOO idea 10
ask a SCottish person 10 talk about 11. TraditionaJly, an WHAT'S .... us

educated Scottish aeeen! was Qne that people very

rnuch liked and lrusted. Watch yourself
In his 1989 book Does Accent Matter?, Professor UNITED STATES 00 you want to lind out what distanee
John Hone wrote that a elear Scottish aceen! was the you jogged last week, how mueh beer you drank in the
second most trusted after RP English (recejved Dro- same period, when your toilet was Jast eleaned. or how
nunciatioo cr BBC English). More recently, in 2004, often you wear red shoes? Then ~life·tracking· may be
writer Simon Gray called it "a Ianguage in which it ap- the thing for you. It allows people to create statislics
pears impossible 10 telllies Bu! why does a SCots-
B
• about their daily activities. Some Iife·tracking websites
man sound more honest than an Englishman? Jour- are very specific; www.mychores.cO.uk ls fCl( keeplng an
nalist lan Jack says this has historical rools that he eye on housekeeolog, and www.nike.comlnikepfus is fOf
eaUs ·popular ~ of Calvinist truttHelling". watching your wor1<oUts, for example. Why ~
Ufe-tracking can help peo-
Now, as a result of the credit crisis, the stereotype
pie analyze how they spend
is being put to the test. In an article in The Guardian
their time and motivate them
titled "How does the voice of trust sound now?", Jack, to reach their goals. "I love the
a Seot hirnself, asked: "Into what deep ~ did Hali- way these sm all actioos add
fax Bank of Scotland khucK its good sense?~ up to something meaningful.·
The Royal Bank of SCotland has lost.b.!!.liQns through Nicholas Feiton, co-founder 01
bad investment. The sound of SCottish bankers talking www.daytum.com.told Wired
on the radio and 1V about Iosing large amounts ot ffiQO- magazme.
ey may finally put an end to this popular stereotype.
Numbers do add up:
[fj Listen to thls text on Spotlight Audlo life-trackinq does the maths

12 Spotlight 7/00
 BRITAIN TODAY I COLIN BEAVEN

The breakfast that

never ends
Frühstück zu jeder Tageszeit? Das klingt gut, ist aber zu schön, um wahr zu sein. Was verbirgt
sich also tatsächlich hinter dem immerwährenden Frühstück? _I.. I;""II'Q_.•

t's important 10 start thc day with lndiana lones opens a ~ and real- ''('m Icrribly sony, sir. ['m surc your
a rcaUy good brcakfasl, and break- izes what's in it. breakfast is just coming. What about
fast in Brilain is somclhing spe· Rcally, Ihough, breakfaSI in Brilain you, madam? Did you order seram·
cia!. YOll generally don', have 10 isn 't rhar bad. The secret of a good bled egg and fried bread?"
go very rar 10 find a linie cafe that British breakfaSI is Ihal it has to be "No. I asked for two boiled cggs
servC$ a traditional English breakfast. freshly cooked. When it iso il can be and a .k.im2g:,"
Order a "cooked brcakfast" or a "full great, and you can choose cxactly whal "Sorry. I'm sure il's just coming."
English breakfast". There are lots of you want. [ generally ask for two pieccs "Exeusc nlC. I've bccn waiting for
naOles, but il's alt basically thc same of bacon. a poached egg, no sausage, my brcakfast langer Ihan any oftllesc
thing: bacon, eggs and other bits and no fried bread and certainly no l:ll.ad people. It is called break-Jast, you
~ most of thcm fried. I said it pudding. But J do sometimes ask for know. Thcre's nothing fast aOOut the
was special, but I didn't say it was same mushrooms and a tomato. food in Ihis place, as far as I can see.
healthy. Then, while you are eating your Am J going 10 ha... c 10 wait all day?"
Whal happens if you oversleep, cornflakes. the chef cooks you IWO "Weil, sir. Ihafs why we caU il an
though? Weil, you cao stay in bed till sausages, and same fricd brcad, all-day breakfast," •
lunchtimc. Lots of cafes still scrve scrambled cgg, baked beans and black
break fast in Ihe middle ofthe after- pudding.
noon, Vou jusl need to look for signs "Hefe )'ou are. sir. Enjoy your
thaI say "all-day brcakfast". breakfaSI!"
Perhaps it's worth making it clear "Um. exeuse me. bUI I aClually
what that means. however. h docsn 't askcd for a poachcd egg. And I didn'l
mean Ihey give you so much food that want black pudding. Ilhink Ihat may
it takes you al1 day to eat it. An all- be somebody else's breakfast,"
day brcakfast is not like an all-night "Oh. !'m terribly sorry, sir. Er, did
party. 11 docsn't last for hours and anyone order sausages, fried bread.
• hours. [t's simply something you can scrambled egg Bnd baked beansT'
ordcr at any timc. either because "Yes, bul I wantcd same bacon, too."
brcakfasts are very popular, or bccause
that's al1 the ~ can cook.
So you could spend your whole life
eating only breakfasts, and many pro-
pie da. Vou get breakfasts in eafes and
in big supermarkcts: and once thcy've
closed, you ean always try thc motor·
way scrviee statioo.
Truc, the quality varies. Vou some-
times see some very elderly fried eggs
that look as if they had been cooked
when Queen Victoria was still alive.
bakad
bits and
_ans (
b!.'ll,;t 'bi:nl!
es bns ;md i:Sll
weiße Bohnen in Tomatenso8e
verschiedene 5achen
Hotels can be the worst. LOls of them black ddl blil'(,; , I UK etwa: Blutwurst
have breakfast buffets where thc food <:aYe I(,;CIVI Höhle
is kept hot in big eovercd mctal ~. <:hef l(ef} Koch, Köchin
Here ou are hla u '0: Bitte sehr
!t's intcrcsting to watch visitors frorn kl r '(,;1 Räu<:herhenn
other eountries corne and opcn Ihem. overslee ;}UV;}'s1i: verschlafen
They Hn the lids of each tray on the poached I'~OI pochiert
buffet, and when Ihey see what's in- e 'sosld Würstchen
seramOfecS rskril'mb>ldl Rühr·
side, the look on their face suddenly HrY6ce station !'s3:VlS ,stelPnI Tankstelle mit ladefI
changcs. It's Ihe look you see when tray: covered ~ Itrell hier: Speisenwarmer mit Deckel

7/09 Spotlight 13
LANGUAGE I FAMOUS MISTAKES
 "I've had to overcome a lot of diversity."
Drew Gooden. US basketbaJl star

Drew Gooden meaot to say that he had overcome Madversity- (difficult circumstancesl.
rather than Mdiversity" (variety or range). The words Iook and sound similar. but have
completety different meanings.
Using a wrang word that sounds like the one you really mean is caJled a malaoroojsm.
The term comes trom Richard Sheridan's comedy The Rivals, written in 1775. One ot
the characters in this play is Mrs Malaprop (tram the French: mal apropos, meaning "not aporapriate~), who con-
stantly coofuses words. Malapropisms often happen when we try 10 make ourselves sound clever by using a difficult
WOfd, only to make idiots of oursetves as we pick something that is nearty right M. eh, so wrong.

Can you identify the malapropisms in the foUowing quotes? Complete the explanations, using the words trom the box.

ambidextrous _ cherish _ copulate _ copy _ emulate humility _ oblivion

a) "I will perish this trophy forever." Johnny Logan, US baseball player

To perish means to die. Johnny logan is not planning to die. What he meant was • which means to
love something ver; much.

b) "I want all the kids to do what 1 da - to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me."
Andre Dawson. US baseball player. on being a role model

This sportsman combined the verbs __---:---:_ ,nd ", which both mean to try to do something as weil
as someone else. To means to have sex.

cl "I cannot tell you how grateful I am. I am filled with humidity." Gib lewis, Texan politician

Humidity is the amount ot water in the air. !his poIitician meant to say he was filled with • Pr modestv.

d) "I might fade into Bolivian. You know what J mean?" Mike Tyson,American boxer

He WOIl't become a Bolivian citizen, but ex-boxers da often disappear from the ooblic eve and fade into ~

e) "Left hand, right hand: it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious." Charles Shackletord, US basketball player

Amphibious creatures live on land and in water. It you can use both hands eQually weU, you are ~

approyrlatl [ipr;JUpri<tt] angemessen

cele~]~'lebr;)tiL Prominente(rl etw. entstellen
embarraulnc l,m~r<lS11J1 peinlicl'1 BeSChiidel1hEirt
fade Into Itfl. [leId '1n~1 in etw. verschwinden OffefItlicl'1keit
nuff 5th. [nAll/fm/.
gocr u: ifm/.
hash: maki a - cf 5th. [h~ "ml.
etw. verpatzen
sich einen Schnitzer leisten
etw. vermasseln trophy ru;wfl
rkl
roIe rno6eI ['r.101 ,mtKJol]
ih bäCk I~ll -~
SICh zurucklehnen
Trophäe. Preis

Answers: a) cherish; b) copy, emulate, copulate; cl hum11lty; d} oblivion; e) ambidextrous

LANGUAGE I FAMOUS MISTAKES
LANGUAGE I FAMOUS MISTAKES
 "I've been up and down so many times that I feel as if I'm in a
revolving door,"
Chef, American singer and actress

The English language is particularly rlch in metaphors and other figurative expressions.
It seems that there are so many of them, however, that it's all too easy to get them
miKed up, as these poor celebrities do.

Fooner British Prime Minister John MajOf didn't know which way 10 turn when he said:

"When your back's against the wall, it's time to turn round and fight,"

In all sports, players want to win, to get a lew points ·in the bag" or ·under thejr belts", but Scottish football manager
George Graham said:
"At this stage of the season, I just tell the players to get points under their bags."

If you come trom behind and take contral of agame, you might say that "the lli1.e. has turned" or that ·the ball is in our
k2U.I1". English football manager Kevin Keegan couldn't decide which phrase to use, so he used both:
"The tide is very much in our court now."

If you face a difficult situation, you have to be brave and "graQ the buU by the homs·, but English football manager Ron
Atkinson gave the phrase more of a football f1avour:
"Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns."

British football manager John Lyall couldn't decide whether the match was as strong as an earthauake or as strong as a
storm: .

"In terms of the Richter scale, this defeat was a force-eight gale."

Most of us hope to see ·the light at the end of the tunnel", buI English footbaJler Stuart Pearce torgot that we usually ofter
"a carrot at the end of a ~" as an jocentive:
"We can see the carrot at the end 01 the tunnel,"

When Iife ofters new opportunities that we can take, we say that "the world's rny ~". Irish footballer Keith O'Nelll
must have preferred miKed seafood, however, when he announced:

"The world is my lobster," •

court [b:t] Spielfekt; hier: ter: the world Is Ist,) Auster; die Wett ehört mir
eigene Hälfte revolvlng door [r1,VOIVIl] 'cb:] Drehtur
earthquake 1'3:ekwelkj Erdbeben Richter scale j'nkta sker'l] Skala zur Angabe der
bildlich Energiefreisetzung eines
sturmIscher Wind (acht auf Erdbebens
der Beaufort·Skala) stk:k Istlkl Slab
etw. packen, ergreifen tide Italdl Ebbe, Aut
undef OJle'S bell: ,et 5th. - etw. fiir sieh
t,...nd.l W,\IlZ 'beIlI verbuchen können
 DEBATE I UNITED STATES

Does I ing pay?

Natürlich passen Sie Ihren Lebenslauf bei einer Bewerbung an den potenziellen Arbeitgeber an.
on . . . . . . . on U S ,. .,,,,
Aber würden Sie dabei auch "sparsam" mit der Wahrheit umgehen?

hal's ajob wanh \0 you? Would YOll lie abau! According to a study done by Careerb,uilder.colll last
your cducation 10 gel a position, Of maybc year, half ofhiring managers reported discovering a lie on
makc a 5mal! change 10 a job lilie 10 sccm aresurne. The most commOll lies were about job responsi-
more expcrienced Ihan you really are? With bilities (38 percent). skills (18 percent). dates of cmploy-
the high rate of unemploymenl in the V.S.. ment (12 percent). and education (10 percent). Pcople
_ such questions are in the air. and c\'cn more so when h.i..gh: were less likely to lie about where they'd worked in the
~ people gel caught Iying abou! Iheir qualifications. past (10 percent) and about previous job titles (5 percent).
An ironie example is that ofMarilee Jones. In 2007, she Thanks to the internet. it's gening more difficuh to lie
rcsjgned her position as dean Qfadmjssjons at thc elite on a resumc. Qualifieations are also bcing checked more
Massachusens Institute ofTechnology (MIT). Why? 1t!l!DJ.S thoroughly than ever. According to Forbes magazine, al·
2I.Ushc didn't have lhc~ shc'd listcd on her~. most 40 percent of personnel managers interviewed in
hl misreprescDlcd my academic dcgrccs when 1 first.iU!: 2005 by the U.S. Soeiety for Human Resource Manage-
~ MIT 28 years ago and did not have the couragc to ment rcportcd inereasing the time they spent checkillg
correct my rcsumc when I applied for my currentjob or at qualifications.
any time sillce." Jones told the press. If people are more likely to ~ct caughl in a lic these
Puttillg false infonnation on a resumc may be more com- days, why do lhey do it? John Challenger ofChallengcr,
mon than Olle thinks. A 2004 article in !:1Jl Maga::il1e re· Gray & Chrislmas, an Qutplacemenl firm in Chicago. told
ported that roughly 40 to 70 pereent of job seekers ~ Forbes that a tough job market pushcs pcoplc 10 take risks
~ their resumes. "It"s a way to ~ (he discrepancy so as 10 attract the attention of a potential ernploycr. Todd
bctween the average applicanl you think you are and the Bermont. author of 10 Insider Sl'cretSIO a Willlling Job
ideal applicant you think they seek:' Roland KidweIl of Seorch, has a good altema!ive. He recommends following
(he University of Wyoming's College of Business told the advice his mother gave hirn: "Whene\er you tellthe
Time magazine. truth. you don't have to remcmbcr what you said.··

20 Spotlight 7/09
 Is i. ever OK .0
Douglas A. Bolduc asked people in Nashua, New Hampshire:
lie on your resume?

Christopher Bell, 27, baker Becky Balley, 18, Dan Blodgett, 33, Fran togan, 6t, retired
tt's OK to exaQgerate to a point, student administrative assistant I think that if you are
but it should not be a 12rnt You shouldn't Iie aOOut your I think it's almost expected that basically an honest person,
fabrjcatiQo of your skills or your past experiences, but there is going to be exaggera- and you put something down
qualifications on the job - on stretching the truth about how tion on resumes. And insofar as that is [not true] and then
something, say, like software long you have been doing a job it is based in truth, it is OK to your employer·.tQ.:M finds
knowledge or program should be fine - or aboot how exaggerate on your resume to a out, your whole character is
koowledge. much [money] you made. certain point. ~ in his eyes.

Danielle Reid, 32, Michael Normandy, 18, Leanne McCarthy, 27, Matt GiII, 37, partner in an
rental·car agent landSCaDef shop manager elecytjve search firm
Ws oot OK, because you have That's fine if you want to say, I would say no, it is not. That's The reality of a resume and
to be trvstworthy. I a1ways like, ""ve been working [at] this falsifying information aboot the evaluation capability is
think that it's better when you for over a year," when it has yourself and giving the wrong reaJIy the ~ into a very
are truthful. lying could get only been nlne or ten months. idea about yourself, basically, important relationship, and
you fired, so it could be very That seems fine. to a person who's potentially so to lie on it is absolutely
bad for you. going to hire you. unacceptable. Is there any
wjggle room? No.
listen 10 Fran. Michael. leanne, and Matt on Spotlight Audlo

!WÜCant Ca-phk;)ntl Bewerber(in) landKap8r [Ia-ndskelP"r1 Landschafts&ärtnerjinj

a to Ith. ~ Ioll ~ sich bei etw. bewerben mbre Hfl1: 5th. ml5 Te ri'unt etw. falsch oarstellen
dean of admlssJons leitet(in) der outplacemem raot,pJe15mi)nt] Arbeitsplatzberatung nach
!,di:n ~v ~'mlPnzI N. Am. Studienplatzvergabe Massenentlassungen
degree [di'gri:J (HochschullAbschluss emu. ri:vl~s Wh«
enhance Ith. hn'ha-ns] etw. aufwerten ,eslgn Ith. [ri'zamt etw. niederlegen
entree I'a:ntrell Einstieg, Anfang resolve sth. [ri'za:lvl etw. überwinden
evaluation li,v;rJlu'Clrn] Beurteilung r6sum6 ['rcLamcl! N. Am. lebenslauf
exaggerate hg'zaodpll"lt] ubertreiben shot l(o:IJ ifml. ruiniert
eX8Cut!ve &earch hg'zekj~llv ,S]:IO Headhunting to-be 11i) 'bi:! zukunftig
tals Ith. 'b:IsIral etw. verfälschen total fabricatlon !'loot~1 Jirbn'l;elrnl reine Erfindung
get caught I.qet 'b:t1 erwischt werden lrustwOfÜ!y ''trASl,W):öi! vertrauenswOrdig
hlgh-ptofll! Lhal 'proufaJ~1l hoch angesehen, bekal'Vlt tum out tu:n 'aotl sich Ielien
HR = human resoure.. L~ltf'(J:rJ Personalwesen wtggJe room ['wJg'1 ,ro:m] ifml. Spielraum

7/09 Spodight 21
LIFESTYLE I UNITED STATES
 idnight approach es in the River City, a eiL)'
filled with Ameriean musie and its many
myths. In a downtown hOle I roorn, a radio is
tuned to WEVL, a 4,800-wal1 ~ of.i!l..l
things Memphis at 89.9 on the FM d.i.i!.1, It's a
quiel night by the Mississippi River, eolored witb the late-
night ßlQ2Q. ofthe film Mysrery Train, in whieh the disc·
jockey voiee ofTom Waits noats from a green plasüc ra-
dio 10 give the lime - "ll"s 2: 17 right here in Memphis.
Tennessee" - before a pislol goes ofT.
Tonighl. the gun is Lonnie Maek's guitar. loaded with
Chuck Berry riffs. as WEVL plays ·'Memphis." a 1963 hit
for both mCll. Songwriter Berry's 'ersion started with the
lYri.g "Long-dislanee infonnation. get me Memphis. Ten-
ncssce:' while Mack's was an inslrumental that ~'",""n~"",
10.000 garage bands. Mack's "Memphis" plays for abaut
thrce rninutes above thc corner of Second Slreet and Union
Avenue aeross from the elegant Peabody HoteL whieh Ledczma. 25. says he's involved with heavy metal right
opcncd in 1869. now, blll thai Memphis music is "lost in time." That time
Scvcral of thc Peabody's street-Ievel.shops are oeeupied is timeless, anehored by an ~ Elvis, who movcd 10
by Lansky's, the company that dressed Elvis Presley. Thc Memphis from Tupelo when hc was 13. Ilis spirit reecives
windows show black-and-white shoes and a "Walking in more than 600,000 guests each year at Graceland. The
Memphis" dress shirt based on the 1989 song by Marc Memphis sound is grounded in blues that moved to thc big
Cohn: -Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue. I Fol- cilY from Ihe Mississippi Delta and never leO. and it is
lowed hirn up to the gates of Graceland, then I watched marketed to people from around Ihe ",orld who prefer mu-
hirn '...'alk right through..:' sie thal's hard to find on the radio.
While Ledczma describes a loeal metal club ca lied the
CLOSER LOOK Buccanecr - so smalI, it holds fewer people Ihan a Volks-
Born in SI. Louis, Missouri, in 1926, Chuck Berry Is one o! Ihe wagen van - a living legend walks in to ask ifthere's
greates! !igures in the hislory of rock 'n' roll. The guitarisl, song· time to make the last outgoing shipmCnl ofthe nigh!. Thcre
wrrIef, and $inger WTOte such cIassics as •Johnny B. Goode," "May· isn't. but bassist James Alexander makes time thc next
bellene- and ~RoII over. BeetOOven.· His music innuenced The Beat· morning for coffee in the lobby of the Peabody to talk
Ies and The RoIling Stones, but Ws not only Beny's songs !hat have abaut music in his hometown and abaut his world-famous
stood We lesl of time: Ihe singer still performs his classics today. soul band. the Bar-Kays.

aJl things .._ 1'):1 elQl) alles, was mit ... zu tun hat
All music, all the time Amer/can Idol l;},merlk"n 'ald'll US ein Fernseh·
In a far corner ofthe hotel. a beUer lit bUlless glamorous Talentwetlbewerb
m2! does lale-night business as a FedEx 2Y1k!: Memphis anchor sth, r<telJJ,::"T1 etw. festmachen!
fest en
is the finn 's global headquartc(S, Therc, a young musieian bNcon Ibi:I<;'"1 (leitstrahl)Sender; hier
namcd Jonathan Lcdezma helps customers laminate thcir auch: \lert)(ßller
keepsakes, make photocopies of resumCs, and get pack- daacI IdelZdl ~
dia! d:lTat Skala _
ages out the door in time for ncxt-day delivery. Hemd, das man l\lm Anzug
dress shIrt rdres fl:tl N. Am.
A singer, bass player, drummer, and keyboardist who tra
grew up in POl1sville, Arkansas, Ledezma lives about etemal 1'IJ:n~1 ewi . hier: unsterblich
20 milcs south of the Tennessee border in Mississippi und Graceland ['grelslil>ndl Elvis Presleys Anwesen
he uarters 'hcd kW):rt"Tl Hau tsitz
travels into the city to work. In 2007, he sang Chuek Berry's ~ake l'ki:PSt'lJ,::] Andenken
"Mcmphis" in an early round of America" Idol, but was keyboard1st rki:bJ:rdlst) Spieler(in) eines Tasten-
eliminated when his version ofLed Zeppelin's " ~ instruments
and Confuscd" was judgcd "100 broad in tone:' a.ntnate ath, O""mmeltl hier:etw. sicherverpacke1!,
launch 11th. 10:ntO etw. starten
Yet "broad in tone" is what the musie scene in Memphis !>,riea rJmb! Songtext
is all abaut; it has always weleomed a wide variety ofmu· make time I.melk 'ta1m! sich Zelt nehmen
sie. It's broad enough to inelude the spectrum ofheavy mood mu:d Stimmun
outlet I'autl!'t! ladell;.!Jier: .S~elle.
metal to Oscar.winning hip-hop from Three 6 Mafia, a resurne I'rez;}mell N,Am. lebenslau(===
group that formed here in the early I 990s. At the same shlpment I'(Jpm;)nt! Sendung, Uefel}J...nL
time, Memphis is frozen in lhe publie ear somewherc be- spot [spa:tl Stelle, Ort_ .;;;;;;;;-__
Iween postwar blues and late-60s' soul. That"s why so stand the test of time die Zeit überdauern
[c!tz'nd 0:» tesl av 'ta1m)
many bands play rhythm-and-blues memories for tourists tune sth. to sth. !Iu:n laI etw. auf etw, einstellen
in the bars on Beale Strcet. van [va!nJ lieferwagen, Bus

7/fY9 SpotligbI 23
 LIFESTYLE I UNITED STATES

(0 have kids in the house." Alexandcr's son Phalon. named

for late Bar-Kays SM. man Phalon Jones, is a successful
hip-hop artist and producer living in Atlanta.

Singing on the street

up from the Peabody by t I along the Main
Musie of the
Strcct shopping diSlric!. Eddic Ilenderson sits outside a
soul; Joe Yates drugstore, singing and playing guitar for change in the tra-
talks about dition of men like Sleepy John Estcs. a blues guitarist dis-
songs that covcred in 1929 on a Memphis Slfcet corner and recorded
slaves wng
at the Pcabody. Hcndcrson is buskin~. from the Spanish
Keeping the sound alive bllscar, "to seek"; it's somcthing the middle-aged musi-
"Soul Finger." the Bar-Kays' groovy soul classie - its re- cian onee did in Europe before retuming horne to Mem-
frain sung by loeal kids paid in boules of Coca-Cola - phis when his parents became ill and died.
rcached no. 3 on the ~ charts in 1967. Tragically, at Today. Eddic plays songs by Bob Dylan. a favoritc of
the height of the band's farne, four of its six mcmbcrs died buskers evcl)'whcrc, followed by an original about a~.
in the same plane crash that killcd the Georgia-bom soul "My dog is a pretty nice dog," hc sings as the trolley rolls
singer Otis Redding. Thm was Dcccrnbcr 10, 1967. Alcxan- past. "'that iso if you like dogs..... A tourist in town for a
der was on 3nothcr night. baskctball game drops a dollar in thc cookic tin by the fcct
"li let me know carly how prccjous life IS:' hc says. "I of a man singing to keep the laxes paid on his dead par-
wasjusl 17, and allthe frieods I grcw up wilh werc here ents' horne.
and gone." Two blocks away, Ridda Abu-Zanieh from lhe Palestin-
"A lot ofwhat happens around herc has 10 do with days ian city of l'\ablus seils a ton of nuts c\iery momh from thc
gone by:' says Alexander. He mcnlions the Reverend AI Planlers store Ihat opcned in 1951. That was the year har-
Green of'-Lel's Stay Togclher" farne. naw pastor ofa.fm:. monica legend ""Big Walter"" Horton cut sides for Sam
tecosla) church near Graceland. Then there's the North Phillips at Sun Studios. no" also a mUJ>eum. Phillips. ~
Mississippi Allstars band - young rnen who are kceping itcd with discovering Ehis Presley, was famous for his
the Delta sound alive - and, of course, the Stax Museum work as an carly producer ofrock 'n' roll.
of American Soul Music. ""I wem 10 school in England in the 1970s. so l'm pretty
Thc museum sits on the McLemorc Avenue site of the much l.n!2 the ßritish rock and disco:' says Abu-Zanieh,
legendary Stax ~, which rcleased music by ~ like 51, who runs the caramel-and-hollcy perfumed Peanut
Redding, Booker T. & the MGs the Stax band that Shoppe with his wife Ameerah. "I like the Beatles and
recorded the famous "Green On ions" instrumental - and Pink Floyd and Sting, but thc music Ihat makes me dance
the Bar-Kays. is Palestinian folk music.""
"The last time I saw e\erybody was last year at Isaac
[Ilayes's] funernl. 11 was Iike a reunjon," says Alexandcr, Folk sounds and soul food
59, who playcd on many ofHa)'cs's hits, including "Shaft," Folk rnusic is whal movcs 72-year-old Joc Yales, 100. The-._-I
and who markcb a wide rangc of music through his Jea sound was bom of work songs from the fields and playcd
Right Now record label. ""But fhe way )'ou slay [cUfrentl is on wire nailed to the side of a ~. The \\ ire would be

24 Spollighl 7/09
stretehcd tight and made to wail when p!ueked while slid-
ing a smooth piece of metal across il.
Yatcs owns eafe Napoleon, a soul-fQod restaurant narned
for his murdered son. just a few doors up from Abu-
Zanieh's store. Thc son of a shareeropper and the ~
grandgm of slaves. Yates has been in Memphis smce 1954.
!eaving the family farm in the hili eountry of Coldwater.
Mississippi. as a young man. He claims to have known
both thc Reverend Manin luther King, who was killed in
Memphis in 1968, and Elvis Prcslcy. who dicd from drugs
and fame at Graceland in 1977. He declares that Mcmp is
music is abeut one thing: thc blues.
"I rcmembcr when B.B. [King] was playing on the cor-
ner ofThird and Beale in the park:' says Yates. who yeaTS
ago worked as bell caplain at the Peabody Hotel. ··B.B.,
linie Mi!ton. Bobby 'Blue' Bland -thafs \1emphls."
Thc food at Yates's restaurant retlects African-American Now a museum: the famous 5tax recording studios
cuhure, rcaching back generations: collard greens. maca-
roni and cheese, Wfi.ID, eggs any way you want them.
fried cQrnbread. and banana pudding. Every night. Yales Soul legend: Slax Records
Ial( Records ls one of the best-selling soul record labels of alt time.
bell ca~tn l'bel
bu5k Ibuk]
,u-pt;Jn! N. Am. ChefpOflJer
auf der Straße spielen
S Brother and slster Jim S1ewart and Estelle Axton founded the label in
the tate 19505, forming the btle ~Stax~ from the first {wo letters of each
(und auf Spenden hoffeo) of their last names. They had Iheir first M in 1960 Wlth the R...&..ß. song
catfIstI tri Seewolf
check In on ab. 1.I(ek 'm o:nl nach jmdm. sehen ·'Gause I Love Vou· by lather-daughter team Rufus arid Carta Thomas. In
col18rd ~ns rko:l~d ,gri:nz[ Blankohl the nex! 15 years, 167 Stax songs reached the top 100 on the pop charts.
cookle tln ['kuki ,im] N, Am. Keksdose Stal( launched IM eareers of such artists as Otis Redding, Sam & Dave,
combread I'Jo:rnbred] Maisbrot
credlt .b. wlth. 5th. l'krM;>\ wlBI jmdm. etw. zuschreiben and Booker T. & the MGs. It also helped promote raeiat integration in the
current: stay - ['k3:r;lnt! auf dem Laufenden troubled 1960s: blaek and whlle musidans often performed together ~We
bleiben never looked at color: we looked at people,- Axton onee remarked. Al-
cut sides !,kAI 'saldzllfml. Planen aufnehmen though the company had to dose in 1975, the Stax tabel was relaunched
~tDte fdr&QSD:r! N. Am. Drogeoemarkt
exhibit hg'Zlbltl Auss~ettungsstiJdl m 2006 by the Concord Music Group. Today. you can visit the Stax Mu-
funerlll I'fju:n>r.J1I Beerdigung, Begrabnis seum of American Soul Musie at 926 East Mclemore Avenue and get a
great·grandson l,grell 'grznS<\nl U~"" feeling for how music history was made henl 50 years a9O. The museum
eats rellS Größen
~~ntS]US Maisgrütze includes a re-creatjon of "Studio A, ~ where countless classies were
get one'. groove on sich beim Tanzen gehen reeorded, a ~Soul Train~ danee floor, where visitors can gel tbelr arooye
~\ WM17 'gru:v o:nllfmJ. lassen Wl, and ~ abaut Ihe history of soul. RlTA FDRBES
Into: be - sth, 1'1Il1;}] etw._sehr en
labeI 1'lelb>1J Planenfirma
late lien) verstorben
Pentecosta! nt;'b:sl Pfin 51·
ma\.;es lhe 25-mile drin;' back in time, back 10 the fami[y
uek Lü. ro horne in Coldwaler. 10 check in on his 90-year-old mother,
pooch [pu:IO ifml. HundetIef' Clora. "She's still gQing slwng." says Yates.
pork chop fpJ:rk ,tfo:pl SCtrweinekotelen Early the next morning, hc's back at 86 Main Street.
i!!'eelous l'pref;Jsl wertVOll
R & B = rh hm and blues o:r <In 'bi: making sure the grits and bacon and pancakes are ready
r&--creatlon I,ri:kri'clpnl Nachstellung for the first cuSlorncrs oflhe day. You ean cven get a l2Qrls.
releaMl .th. [rl'lI:s] etw. herausbringen fh2n with your cggs for break fast. And tltH!. baby, is the
reunion Iri:'ju:nj.ml Wiedersehen,
lFamilienlTreffen long-distance infomlation from Memphis, Tennessec. •
Reverend rf~;Jndl Pfarrer(in)
sax = sax Sil'ks Would you like to listen to the Memphis sound? Then go 10
shack Ifa-k] HUtte, SCtluppen www.spotlight-ooline.deImemphis/ 10 hear soogs mentioned here.
sharecropper rferkro:~] N. Am. Pächterjin) elOer kleinen
Farm. der/die teilweise in
Naturalien bezahlt [fj listen to an excerpt from thls text on Spotlight Audlo
ShOppe !fo:p: jokingly: fo:pi] alte Form von shop; Laden
mit antikem Flair RAFAEl AlVAAEZ is a writer based In Ballimore
soul food I'sool fu:d] KOChe der Schwarzen in
den Südstaaten and Los Angeles. He MS written aOOut Amerlcan
still totne: strane:: be - immer noch gut musie for more than 30 years and has Inter-

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I,'!III ,goom 'slo:rJ! beieinander sein vtewed blues greats such as Muddy Waters His
trotley tracks l'tra:J1 ,Ira-ks! US Straßent)ahnschienen books incIude 0110 and l.eInI, a COlIection of short
stories. More at www~tJOO,tD1l
D<ahl

7/09 Spotlight 25
 AMY ARGETSINGER 11 ASK MYSELF

Doesn't America just love

its royalty?
Wer keine hat, der mache sich eine: Die "Erste Familie" der Vereinigten Staaten genießt die gleiche
Aufmerksamkeit und Behandlung wie andernorts eine königliche Familie. .."".,,,,, us

he morning after Presidcnt has the right to bare arms." Gun rights c1aimed the STilS werc going lOad over
Obama gave his first speech activiSls simply had 10 laugh along. the break in Iradilion. 0 one, it
10 Congrcss, a colleague ran Sometimes it feels like we here in seemed, was shocked. but Ihey hap-
up 10 my dcsk. "VOll have 10 Washington are living in a royal court, pily debated thc non-debate.
write about Michclle Obama being eyen if we do not scrve our nalion's It wouldn't be a royal court. of
sleeveless," she said. ruling couple. To those ofus in the course. without gifts. The minute thc
Surely, this was something 35100- media, the relationship can be distant, Obamas deeided to gel a dog, the
ishing. my colleaguc said - possibly difficult, even antagonistic. Yet much courtiers' ofTers began: free puppies
a change from old V.S. Capitol tradi- like the aristocrats who once carried from yarious purcbred lillm; a life-
tion. Wasn't there a rule about ~ the monarchs' robes or opened thcir time supply of dog biscuits. Tbe Ritz-
amts? Had this beeil done beforc? mall for them, we are fixa ted on the Carlton hotel oITered a special dog-
We investigatcd. Certainly Mrs. prelly and powerful couple at the cen- house made of wood, !!lllilin and s.i..Ik.
Obama lookcd vcry impressive. Shc's ter of our Bcllway universe. What is Unlike the Illonarehs ofthc past, the
younger than most other presidents' her ladyship wearing? Is his highness Obamas can't aecept all these things
wives. Her fashion sense is more ad- slill playing basketball these days? - there are ethical rules to consider.
vanced; and obviously, looking al her When the Obamas went 10 Europc, So the puppy, ablad Portuguese
muscular arms, she keeps fil. BUI almost every day brougbt an explo- Water Dog, came as a gift from per-
Jackie Kennedy wore sleeveless sion of ~ about some ordinary haps tbe highesl-ranking member of
dresses all the time. NOlhing new eyenl. Michelle Obama and Carla the court. Ted Kennedy. The arrival
there: so we made a joke of il. Why Bruni stood together, and some TV of 80. the dog. was shown on Ihe front
did Ihe first lady go sleeveless? WeIl. joumalisls called il a "fashion show- page of The Washington Post. The
because she can. down:' Weil, no. it was simply IWO doghouse, though. witllikely end up
My collcaguc was right, though. women pUlling on Iheir good c10lhes in a museum. where all of us tQID.:
This was a fascinallng subjecl. Thc for an official evcnt. but they had to ~ will be Ilblc to see it, and thcn
TV news programs slarted calling. creale a reason to talk about it. J:.Q.S..S.in about wh al kind of food thc
Could J co me on air to discuss Ihe Michelle Oballl:\ pUl her arm (cov- White House dog li.k:es, and which
conlroversy over Michelle Obama's ered, this lime, by a sweater) around stores seil his favorite ~ toys. •
bare arms? Aside from a few critics Queen Elizabeth, and created an
complaining that her style was "im: international sensation. Thc British AMY ARGETSINGER is a co-aulhor of
modesi," there wasn't any "contro- wrOle Slorics about how Americans "The Reliable Source: a column aboul per-
versy:' And yet everyone wanted to were shocked by this. Tbc Amcricans sonaIiIieS in The Washlngton Post.
talk about those prctty anns.
President Obama thought it
was funny, too, ,. 0 mat- feindselig
ler what party you belong bare IbMl unbedeckt, bloß
bare arms f,bM 'o:rmz) Wortspiel auf: bear arms =
10," he jokcd al a big Waffen tragen
press dinner, "we can Be~I) ~ [beltwel] Autobahnring (um Washingtonl
all agree that Michelle chatter l'I(al'!"rl Geschwätz
chew (I(u:! kauen; hier: Kau-
come on all' ].kAm o:n 'e"rl in die/eine Sendung kommen
commoner I'Jw:m;ln~rl Bürgerliche{r)
"What is her courtier I'b:rU"rl Höfling
ladyship gosslp rga:s.lpl tratschen
hl ,t-rankln 'hallst ur 1.:1 ra höchst
wearing? Is hlghneN I'halO;)S1 Hoheit
his highness lmmodest h'mo:dIStJ
Iltter l'ht~l
unanständig
w,.
still playing musUn [m.ulml Musselin
. , I Wol
basket- plJrebred !,pjmbredl reinntSSig
ball?" silk Isll"l $ekle

26 Spoilighl 7109
 FILM I COMEDY

Bullock -
Die lustigste Schauspielerin der heutigen Hollywood-Generation ist jetzt in einer neuen Rolle zu
sehen. CLAUDINE WEBER-HOF stellt sandra Bullock und selbst ist die Braut vor. ... • ., ....., OIS

fSandra Bullock can', make you laugh, nobody can. Mr. Scarlett Johansson, bUI becamc bcucr known this spring

I
The fuooy American actress - who. thanks (0 her in Ihe movie Wolverille as Ihe ~ mutant Dcadpool.
Nurcmberg-bom mother, also carrics a German pass- Therc's nothing scary about Andrew in The Propostll-
port - returns (0 movie theaters on July 30 in rite quite the opposile: he's sweet, looks great in a suil, and
ProPQsal (Selbst ist die BraIlI). After two years spcnl puts up wiJh Margaret"s awful demands - such as Ihreal-
on movie sets. BulJock is ooce again on thc silver green ening 10 make hirn work Ihe weekend inslead of flying to
- and iCs aooul time wc goi her back. Thc new romantic Alaska for his grandma's 90th birlhday. In many ways,
comedy from Disney provides her with a delightful return Andrew is perfcct, as Margaret thinks when shc discovers
10 the cincmas. a problem Ihat could cost her her job. Margaret's rist.iU!:-
In The Proposal, Sandra Bullock plays Margarei Tale. a plica!joo has been lkn.kd. and she's going to be dcporled
10P editor 31 a publishjng hause in New York City. Be- to Canada. She's gO! 10 find a way 10 Slay in the V.S.
tween [cading manuscripls, she marches around in exlra- So she makes Andrew an ofTer he can'! refuse. He can
ordinnrily bi~h heels and mnkes her colleagues' lives hell. either rnarry her, which will make her a legal residen! of
Andrcw PaxIon, her unlucky assislant, is playcd by Ryan thc Vnitcd States, or hc can look for a new job. Ncithcr
Rcynolds. The Canadian aClor is perhaps best known as choice is a!lrac!ivc 10 thc soft-spoken lll!..u.1;., but jobs in

28SpotHght 7/09
 publishing arc hard to find. What's more. Andrcw has big
drcams of writing great novels, and Margaret is his ticket
to the top. He agrces to her proposal.
They decide to go to the immigration office, where he
learns that the deal he has made is riskier than he thought
if the immigration agent discovers the relationship is.t22:
gyi, Andrew will spend five years in prison and pay an
enonnous fine. The couple swear their love is real. though.
and promise the agent thcy']] tell family and friends about
the wedding plans at Grandma Annie's birthday party.
To keep the agent ~ Andrewand Margaret decide
they must learn evcrything {hey can about each other's
personallives - even ifthey can't ~ one another. On
the plane to Alaska, Andrew surprises his boss with his
knowledge of imimate dctails of her life - not because
he's sccretly in love with her, but because he's been work-
ing mund the clock for her far the past three years.
So she asks hirn a question she's sure he can't answer: A family affair: Andrew (Ryan Reynolds) takes his boss horne
docs Margaret have any allergies? "Yes," Andrew replies,
"to pinc nuts - and the full spcctrum ofhuman emotions." one of Bulloek's best eomedies. is all about dedication to
Dis~runlled, the couple arrivcs in thc small town of duty. In that film she plays Gracie Hart. an FBI agelll who
Sitka, Alaska. Margaret meets {he relaxed Paxton clan, an goes undercover at a beauty contest. Thc ~ govern-
eneounter full of slapstick M.!iil and funny perfonnances menl employee has to Ifansform herself into a bikini babe
from Beny White, who plays Grandma Annie. and from to solve a crirne. a role she plays eXlremely weil using
Oscar uriez, an e.'(Qljc dancer. silly jokes and hilarious aecidents, and. of course, her own
The trip horne shows how dedicated Andrew is to his good looks.
job - a storyline thaI appears in other good Sandra Bul- This is Ihe Sandra Bullock fans know and love, and it's
lock films. Miss CQlIgeniality (Miss Undercover, 2000), the Sandra Bulloek {hey get in The Proposal. Fans have
misscd this part ofthe actress's repertoire, In her last big
antics !,;PnIJks! Mätzchen, Komik movie, Premollitiofl (Die Vorahnullg, 2007), she played a
applicatlon Lil'ph'keJPnl An"", depressed houscwife who could see the future. In 2006,
at bay: keep sb. - l;ll 'beI! sich jmcln. vom Leib halten she ~ with Keanu Reeves in The Lake House (Das
at one's best: be - I,;ll W",RZ 'besU in HOchstfOfffi sein
beauty contest l'bjU:li ,to:nlesl] SChönheitswettbewerb
Haus am See), another rnelancholy story that left Bullock
bewltclMnc: Ibi'wJI(IIlI bezaubernd fans wondering where this
bogU! rt>ouqvsl ~äuschl, Unechl was all going, No more A CLOSER LOOK
dedlcated: be - 10 sth. etw. mit Leib und Seele tun
l'dedJtelladl
deny sth. [di'nall etw, ablehnen
laughs? Just sad love stories
and dealh?
Lucille Ball (1911-89)ls an
Icon 01 American comedy.
1
disgrllntled Idls'gr",nl~ldl verstimmt Ofcourse, Bullock can be Wlth her husband, De'sl
encollnter [m'taunl:lrl Begegnung fantastic in serious roles, Arnaz, she starre<! In the tele-
exotic dancer hg,zo:ut 'dil'ns:lrl Stripper(inl
flne tfam! Geldstrafe
too, as in Crash (L.A. Crash, vision show'" Love Lucy·
high beefs (,haI 'hi:~llt hochhackige SChuhe 2004) and "'hile rou Irom 1951 to 1957, p1aYlno a
IIllarious IMeriJSI lUm Schreien komisch Were Sfeeping (Wahrend du housewlle who always goi
hunk IIMntl großer. attraktiver Mann schliefst. 2005). And she's into - aJMl out of - troubIe.
Miss Congenlallty neneste, aber mchl schönsIe
veryatjle enough to do action. Ball's trademarks included
Lmls t;ln,d,3i:ni'il'I;llil KarnlJdatm eines Schönheits-
wettbewerbs as in her breakthrough movie, her bright red hair, perlect
movie .et I'mu:vi ~etl Drehort Speed (! 994). But Sand ra comic timing, and physlcal
nerdy l'm:di! langwei ig Bulloek's really a1 her best slapslick humor. She also had
plne nut I'pam n"tl Pinienkem roles in more Ihan 50 films
pn?poul Ip~'POUl"1] Heiratsantrag when she's making us smile,
publlshlnl house rp",bh(nl ,hausl \!erlog Oflen compared to lucllle and performed on the radio,
put up wtth sth. (.pot '"p Wl9] etw. Ubef sICh ergehen Ball, the dark-haired comedi-
lassen, etw. ertragen
scary Ilkeril Furcht einflößend
enne has fantaSlic timing and a bewitching smile. both of
sJlve, screen !,sl'v..- 'sbi:"! (Kinolleinwand which she uses 10 cnlertain us in The Proposal. (fs easy to
soft-spoken [,s.?:ft 'spoubnl leise sprechend, sanft imagine whal happens with Margarci and Andrew, but do
stand: sb. can't ~ sb. ISI~nd] jmd. kann jmdn. nicht we care? In Sandra Bullock's films, the ending nevcr mal-
ausslehen
star [slo:rl die/eine der Hauptrolle(n) ters nearly as much as allthe lnughs along the way. •
spielen
top editor [,IO:p 'ed;ll:lr! etwa: leilende(r} Lektor(inl
trademark ('treJdmo:rk] Charakteristikum, Directed by Anne RetCher; whO Jast year made 27 Dresses, sfN-
Mar1umreichen ring Katllerine Heigl. Starts Jufy 30. Look for 5andra Buflock's
YerA111e ('vl:QI>l1 vielseitig next film, All About S1eve, in theaters Jater this year.
Visum

7/09 SpoUighl29
 PRESS GALLERY I COMMENT
d,tfl", .. 11 ffi
'TOHO:\TO ST.\H

lesson leamed: Mexico City

schoolchildren are careful not
to get the swine 11u

break) and in the economy (as

lourism slulllocd badly). ßut
Canada i5 now beller prepared 10
handle an infectious M.e1l1like
the new HIN I swinc Ou limin
spreading oulward from Mcxico.
Since the $AR$ OUlbreak. hos-
pitals have drafted pandemie
plans and increased the number
of isolalion rooms and "negative
pressure., rooms thai are ahle 10
cantain a virus. There's also bet-
tcr collabomtion between various
health agcncies, more lab capne·
ity, and stQckpjles of ami-viral
drugs.. ,"
A wise response Still, our hcalth-care nClwork
i5 far from peffeet, and theTe is
Natürlich ist die Schweinegrippe kein einfacher Schnupfen. Aber dennoch cancern Ihat budget pressures, io-
ist sie beherrschbar. und Panik ist nicht angebracht. cluding ~ in same 0n1ario
hospitals, havc wcakcned ilS abil-
t is understandable that conccms are rising ovcr the sprcad ity to handle an epidemic's ~ demands....
I of deadly swjnc Ou... But health offieials Are surely right
in advocating prudcnce rather than panie....
[The virus] isn't standing still - not geographically. as
people move from one country to another. and not geneli-
Here in Toronto, cpicentre ofCanada's 2003 SARS out- cally, bccause flu viruses rapidly mutate and ean develop
break. we eenainly know the cost of failing to respond highly dangerous varianlS.
quickly and effectively to public health threats. The price Taken as a whole. a solid case can bc made for remain·
was paid in lives (44 Canadians died in the SARS out· ing calm but not complacenl. ...

further evidenee ofhow

MPs shouldn't be detached from reality
self-serving they are.... [T]his is too
little, tOO late; it is also
Jeder Brite würde sich schämen. den Staat so aus- shutting the ~ door
zunehmen, wie viele Parlamentarier es tun. after the horse has
~ leaving a stable
hen The Daily Telegraph began its series of~ full of reecjpls for
Wl.i..2n.li about MfL scandalous cxpenses claims. we
promised that our investigation would extend to thc Oppo-
plasma televisions. hillh
P.1l!gs. rcnovated tennis
sition as weil as to ministers and Labour backbenehers. courts, milk frothcrs, Scandalous behaviour:
Britain's House of Commons
We have been as ~ood as our word. Lcading Conscrva- sealler cushions and
tives are [also] rcvealcd to have mountcd highly question- Sainsbury's k!:2..r2!..I[s] (supersoft varicty)....
able raids on the publie purse ... [elaiming] more than one [L]el us supposc thai many MPs are lelling the truth.
sceond horne allowanee. and that they reaUy eannot live without someone else pay-
[T]he public's traditional mistrust ofpoliticians has ing for dining chairs, barbecue sets, garden hoses and 75p
deepened and hardcned dram3lically... bath sponges. 1fthat is really thc ease,then wc have a
If MPs think that Ihe nation's anger will be calmed by simple suggestion: don't run for Parliamcnl. ...
plans for an independent audit of expenses. then that is [T]he sense of true vocatjon ... must be recovered....

30 Spotligbt 7/09
 You owe it to
Mandela, Mr Zuma
Der neue südafrikanische Präsident steht vor einer
Mammutaufgabe - sein Volk vor einem Abgrund.

1 f(South Africa's Dew presidcnI. Jacob Zuma.] is not yet

frightened by thc magnitude of unemployment. poverty
and crime. and by falterjng health and education systems.
then he will be 5000.
Many South Africans who votcd [in latc April) said lhey
were doing it for Nelson Mandela, who ushered in the Ecstatic: Zuma's supporten hope he'l! shake thinqs up
dawn of a better life for all. In 2014, when Zuma's tenn knowlcdgc, he can be a vaslly better presidcll1 Ihan Mbeki,
comes 10 an end. it will be 20 ycars since thc ANC [African who led as ifhe were guidcd by a higher power mysteri.
National Congrcss] look power. He can go down as thc ous 10 everyone but hirn....
man who betrayed Madiba's ~ or thc man who deliv- We are despcratcly anxjQus for Zuma to succecd, and he
ered his promise. is going 10 need help. We will provide it in Ihe form of
Zuma has 101d us that he will nOI be behQlden 10 the very dose scrulinv. Civil society, state institutions and.
coalilion of leftisls, mJ..nY- capilalists and enemies ofThabo crucially, cilizens must be both watchful and detennined
Mbeki who instalIed hirn at the top of the ANC. He does as we eoter the period that will decide whethcr South Africa
not. he says. ~ anyone anything.... [But] he owes us all begins to fulfil its promise or lapses ioto disappointment
a duty under the Constitution. If he governs with that and failure.

ent 'eid m Erre er

anxlous: be ~ for sth. ['iI'lJkf,}S1 mit Ungeduld auf etw. IN THE HEADLINES
as good as one" word: be -
WO"' "
Wort halten t may be the
In.qod ;'Jz wo\nz 'wl:d!
MICHt !,?:dltl Buch-/Rechnur«spnifung Imost famous
bath plug l'bo:9 plAgl
beholden: be - to sb. [b1'h;KJld;'Jn]
Badewannen5töpsel
jmdm. -..erpnichtet sein
kiss in the his-
tory of film:
FromHereto
betray 5th. [bi'IIeJ!
bolt !\);wltl
etw. verraten
weglaufen, ausreißen
Burt lancaster
and Deborah
Maternity
complacent [k;'Jm'plcls~ntl selbstgefällig
Kerr embracing
cron)' ['kr;'Juni! VetternwirtSChaft betreibend 0, The Oprah Magazine
cfuc'all)' I'kru:Plll was ganz wichtig ist each other on a
dellver sth. !di'hv;'J1 etw. einhalten/erfüllen Hawaiian beach as waves roll up over them. The film's
detached from: be - sth. den Bezug zu einer Sache name is From Here to Etemify(Verdammt in alle Ewigkeit).
[di't~(l ff";'Jml verloren habeo The fashion news headline above is a play on words and
dran. 5th. [dro:hl etw. aufstellen
.xpenses e&alm [lk'spenslZ ,kl~lml Spesenrechoongen
is about a British ~ firm's new matemitv line. The
f.lter rb:I~1 ins Schwanken geraten sexy underwear, in black, red and leopard print, is sup-
hoH Ih;'JOzl Schlauch posed to keep pregnant women feeling like "hot mamas".
la into 5th. 'Iil" m1<l in etw. abnrtSChen
laroff ['ICIOO Entlassung
legae)' l'[('(j<lsl] Vermächtnis .eatter cUlhlon I'ska'l-a ,kurn! Sofakissen
lingerie ['lamd3arll Reizwäsche scrutln 'skru:lInl Über rüfun
100 roll l'lu: f";'Jul) UK Ifml. Klorolle seeond horne allowanca Zulage/Unterstützung für
Madlba (m<)'di:~! Ehrentitel Nelson Mandelas Lsebnd ,hOlUm ;'J'lal,li}nsl einen zweiten Wohnsitz
s1ump !slAmpl einbrechen
mate
Itude 'm mru:d
m;l't3:n;l11
milk frotber l'mllJ,; JroQ.;'Jj
""""""
Umstands-
MiJchaufschiumer
solid ca5e: make a - fof ,th. !.solrd 'J,;elsl
5table ['slelb"l)
VIeles splicht für etw.
Pferdestall
mount sth. [maunt! etw. veranstalten 5tOC I. lok 1~1 Vonat
MP _ Membef GI Partlament I,ern 'pi:! etwa:MdB straln !streml Mrus) Stamm
o.e 5b. 5th. [;'JOI jmdm. etw. verdanken S4lrgln( Cs3:d31!]] stark ansteigend
prudence Cpru:d>nsl Besonnenheit ,.ine ftu I's"'am ,nu:l SChweinegrippe
pub/ie purse Lp,\bllJ,; 'p3:S! Staatskasse u.her sth. In [",fe 'mI etw. elOleiten
raid [reldl Angriff vocatlon [v;lu'!.:elP!l1 Berufung
teceipt !ri'si:t1 Quittung
~ listen 10 news Ilems In the Replay sectlOn of Spotlight Aulilo
revelatlon Lreva'lelpnl Enthüllung

7109 Spotlight 31
 TRAVEL I BRITAIN

Life in the
slovv la e
In Großbritannien gibt es mehr als 6000 Kilometer Wasserwege. Also
leihen Sie sich eines der schmalen Boote und "erfahren" Sie sich Ihre
Entspannung. JUUAN EARWAKER hat bei seiner Bootstour die Lang-
samkeit für sich entdeckt. -,11 II""iiI www.
·,-'
 TRAVEL I BRITAIN

hear the clog befoTe I see il, barking excitcdly as it fol- started her own boat-hire company back in 1970. What are
lows us alang thc rjverbank. Small wavcs form on thc her ti ps for cnjoyablc boaling? "!t's not thc arrival that
metallic surface of the wateT as OUT boat, thc GoldeIl counts. \t's thc travelling," shc says, with a smile.
Volley, ~ smoothly forward. Thco thc dog's own- Before we get undcr way in the Go/deli Valley, we re-
crs corne into view on the towpath. Wc ehal for aminute ceivc full instructions aOOut stecring, control and safcty. A
berare lhey continuc on their way. I smilc and shake my member of staff accompanics us to thc first.l2t.k. When hc
head. Ihis is troly lire in the slow lane: wc'vejusl becn hands the controls over to mc, the boat (cels ~ and
oyertaken by {WO people walking a clog. heavy. Before long, however, I am guiding the narrowboat
Three hauTs aga, my {WO crcwmatcs and [ hircd thc around the many ~ ofthe Thames, my mi nd full of a
Golden Valley from a Thamcs boatyard norlh ofO:<ford. strange new language: locks (wh ich raise or lower boats
"Narrowboat" is thc right term fOT this ~ sißce il is according to changes in the water level), paddles (which
20 mettes lang. but ooly 2.1 mClrcs wide. "rn surpriscd 10 open or dose to allow water into and out of a lock), wind-
sec how much space and comfort il offers, though. It has a ~ (the metal ~ you use to open the paddles) and
large living and dining area, a fully equipped kilchen. a the basie ~ needed tO!!l22I the boat securely. "Don't
balhroom. a double ~ and two single bcrths. The boat worry," says our guide when he sees thc look on my face.
has a gas boiler with radiators for heating and hot water. It "lt'lI all make sense when you're there,"
cven has a television - whieh I'm not going to switch on, Boating may seem likc a lazy way of spending the day,
bccause I'm hcre to switch oIT. bUl it's not. Once you'vejumpcd on and oITthe boat a few
ßrüain has more than 6.400 kilometres of inland water- times, opcned and c10sed lock paddles, moved the heavy
ways, including 3,200 kilometres ofhistoric canals. This gates. moored and unmoored the boat, pulled and steadied
may explain why the British cnjoy boating with a passion. IiO brid2cs (which allow cars to cross the canal), you'lI
'"There is nothing - absolutcly nothing - half so much find thai you slecp cxtremcly weil. So as we move silcntly
worth doing as simply mcssin~ aboul in boats," says Rat through thc ~athcriny dusk into south Oxford, where we'lI
in thc 1908 childrcn's classic The Wind in Ihe Wil/ows. moor for the night, I'm looking forward to my bed.
Evcry ycar, II million pcoplc use these watcrways: for When I awaken, an early-morning.Dl.ill OoalS on the
hiking, jogging, cycling, fishing, boating and observing river as university boat crews, out for their moming prac-
animals - or simply for sitting al a watcrside pub and tice, shoot past in a wave of sweat and shouted instruc-
watehing Ihe world go by. "Water has its own ~; it has tions. We sct off al our own pace of four kilometrcs per
its own heartbeat - and you slow down to that pace and hour. The sun has yet 10 show, and a cold wind blows across
thai heartbeat," says Lindy Foster Weinreb, who has en- the water as we gcntly cruisc past Oxford's historie
joycd a 50-year love affair with waterways. $he I1ves near buildings and under bridges alrcady filling with rush-hour
London in a canal-side house in Berkhamsted, where she trafflc.

34 Spotlight 7/09
 Top Jive canal routes
• Britain's best-[oved canal, the 66-kilometre L1angollen Canal In
Narrow passage: north Wales, includes the dramatic Pootcvsyllte Aqueduct.
Somerton Oeep • Britain's longest canal, the leeds and liverpool Canal, combines
Lock (left); a (hat mill towns with spectacular rnoorIand scenery.
on Oxford (anal 2
(above) • The Shropshire Union Canal runs from Wolverhampton (near Bir-
mingham) throogh DeautiftJl countryslde to the notthem waterside
centre of EUesmere Port (near Uverpool).
• The Kennet and Avon Canal requires river navigation and links
the Thames and Severn through some 01 England's most beautiftJI
bark [bo:k] bellen scenery.
bend lbendl Kurve • The historie Staffordshire and Worcester Canal is one 01 the early
berth [bl:8] Schlaf!u?je -l<QDtQur" canals. n includes spectacular sandslooe scenery.
boa!yard 1~liQ:dl wo..
clumsr I'kL\lnxil schwerfällig
contalned: be - fbn'temd! abgeschlossen sein
contour rkDnw~) (an der) Höhenlinie Watcrways, Iike forests. parks and gardens, arc good for
(entlang verlaufend) OUt well-being. "In rccent years, evcryone has notieed Ihat
cruise [kru:zl gemächlich fahren watet can be really imponanl in tenns of regeneration,"
englneef sth. [,end31'nl~J etw. künstlich erschaffen
gatherlng dU5k I,ga'oonl) 'dASkJ heraufziehende
says Lynda PaYlOn. a eanal enthusiast, volunteer and boat
Aoonddämmerung owncr. "Thc government is recognizing how usefuJ canals
handle l'ha.>nd'lI Griff are in temlS of ~ heallh and olher benefils. Thcre's a
herita&8 l'hentld3J kulturelles Erbe lot of tourist polenlial in our walerways," Paylon first be-
in terms of Im 'b:mz "v! was ... angeht
knot [not] IInol~
came inlerested in canals as 8 schoolgirl in London in lhe
~re [Iep! Freirelt. Erholung late I 960s. "11 was Iike discovering a seerel pan of Eng-
litt bridge [hft bnd3] Hubbrücke land," she says. "Full ofhistory and herila&C and induslrial
Uangollen 11an'goienll1 ., etwa hll archaeology, it was a fascinaling plaee 10 be:'
lock [lDkl SChleuse, Staustufe
mess about Lmes ,,'baut! UK herumspielen Now i1's time 10 discover all this for ourselves. \Ve leave
mlll [mlll Mühle; auch: Fabrik thc Thames through a small passage Jcading 10 Isis Lock,
mIst !mlst! Dunst lock number 46 (all canallocks and bridges arc numbered).
moor .th. [mual etw. festmachen/vertäuen
overtake 5b. !,;}(JVO)'telkl jmdn. übertloIen
This is Ihe bcginning ofthe southcm Oxford Canal, which
pace (peIS] Tempo runs 43 kilometres uphil! to ßanbury. The atmosphcre im-
paddle r!?:!'d>11
Pontc)'!Ytlte [,pontb's,\1teJ [1
radiator [reldielt;l]
""'-
etwa hll
Heizkörper
medialely feels different: more comained, more enginecred
and somehow more familiar.
I1vertl8nk [nVil~nk] Aussufer Thc firsl British eanal is believed to have been buih by
510w Iane ('slau lem! Kriechspur the Romans: Ihe Fossdyke, which conneeted the city of
steadr 5th. l'stedil etw. festmachen/fixieren Lineoln wilh thc River Trenl, is still in use today. But the
Thame. [temz] Themse
towpath l'taupo:81 Treidelpfad
system ofcanals for inland navigation really arrived in
vessel ['ves'J1 Boot. Schiff Britain with the !ndustrial Revolution in thc 18th century.
walk a 110' I,WJ:k ~ 'dog] einen Hund ausführen Back then, roads were difficult to trave! on. and railways
wtllow ['wll~1 Weide didn'l exist. Most trade ran up and down Britain's rivers.
windlan l'wmdl~) abnehmbare Kurbel.
SChleusenschJüssel Thc cwry eanal, in what is now Nonhcm Ireland, was
Woreester l\vust;)) the first modern cana!. It was eomplcted in 1742. two ..

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 TRAVEL I BRITAIN

decades befaTe the more famous Bridgew3lcr Canal, which Ifyou want to see how locks work, Somcrton Dcep Lock,
made it possible for thc Duke of Bridgcwater 10 carry eonl 14 kilomctrcs south of ßanbury, isn', a bad place to bcgin
cheaply from his mines 10 Manchester. Thc canal was de· - unlcss you suffcr from c1austrophobia. Wilh a height of
signed by James Brindley, a self-13ught surveyor whom 3.66 metres, lock number 34 is a slightly scary placc to
many regard as the falher of Britain's cannl nClwork. enter. The brick walls secm to ~ on you as the gates
Thc Oxford Canal was beguß in 1769. but not wilhoUI dose and water ~ around Ihe OOat. It takes only a few
opposition. "Many landowners were horrificd at the thought minutcs to till the lock, but it's a reliefto rise to thc top
ofhaving a cannl built on their land. It would have bccn likc and sec thc cana! bclow and the countrysidc beyond.
building a motorway loday," says Lindy Faster Weinrcb. Whcrc does the watcr come from? "Thc canal is fed by
"So the original cannl builders gavc the hll1downers fights reservoirs up in the hills," says David ßlagrove, who spcnt
10 usc thc cannl fTee of charge for thcir own commercial many ycars carrying commcrcial loads of coal, wood and
purposes. Most ofthose rights are still ~ loday." stone along Britain's canals, "although there are a fcw
The cutting ofBritain's canals involved groundbreakjng placcs wherc they havc to pump water up from a reservoir
engineering skills and the dcvelopment of new bridges, into thc canal'·. Canals, he e",plains, usually connect sec·
tunnels, aqueduclS. pumps and locks. More Ihan 200 years tions of navigable rivcr with othcr rivcrs, but they sddom
later, many ofthese original structures are still in use. draw watcr directly from the river systcm.

• Narrowboals require no special skill or expe· • Brilish Walerways manages 3,500 kilome-
rience. They are simple 10 conlrol, and II's tres 01 Ihe eounlry's eanals and walerways:
hard 10 ~ Baats come luUy equipped. I+WW. waterscape.com
Hire cosls vary, depen<!ing upon the season.
Cosis lor four people lß a SlX-ttmIl narrow- Don'! miss:
boal (the most comlortable way 10 travel) • Opened in 2002, the Falkirk Wheellonns an
are belween E550 and El,300 per week. impressive eentreDieee to Ihe Millennium
• Spotlight lraveIJed wfIh AngJo.Welsh Narrow- link, a three·year, multimillion-poum! Scot-
boals, a member of Drifters. DfifIers is a COfl- lish canal restoration projecl This modern
sortium 01 awa«!-W1nning hOIiday boal com· boa111ft replaees aseries 01 11 lacks con-
panies with bases Ihroughout 8rilain. Tel. neeling Ihe lamous Forth and Ctyde Canal
(0044) 8457-626 252; www.drifterS.CO.uk (the world's firsl sea-Io-sea canal, originally
• tl yot! don'l wanl 10 relum Ihe same way you known as Ihe Great Canal) and Ihe Union
go oul, try a circular boallrip on one 01 canaJ. Together, the!WO canals link Glasgow
Blitain's: "cruising rings". These can take 00- and Edinburgh. The trip in bolh direclions
should take about an hoor. Tel. (0044) 8700-
tween one and Ihree weeks to eomplele;
500 208; www.thetaJkiIkwheef.co.uk
wwwwaterscape.comIthJngs-to-doIboatinQ/
croismg-rings am! www.canaljunction.com • The almospherlc Norfolk Broads are a SB- ital of the Broads, can gel overtoaded with
• The National Walerways Museum is a na- ries of altraellve walerways to the easl 01 hoIidaymaker3, buI il's easy 10 escape to more
tional museum at three dilfetent walerside Nofwlch in East Anglia. Thelf unusuaf geog- ktyIlic areas. A boat lor sa costs Iram around
Iocalions - Gloucesler. Stoke ~ (near raphy is the resutt of oeal digglOQ in the Mid- E700 per week. www.broads-authority.gov.uk
Northamplon) and Ellesmere (near Uverpool). die Ages. Today, Ihey're a ~ lor wildtife and www.visitnorfolk.co.uk/norfolk/norfolk
www.nwm.org.uk an<! for boalers. Wroxham, the boal·hire cap- -broads.aspx

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 A C lOS E R l 0 0 K
The Inland Walerways Association (IWA) ~ its existence to a
book. Narrow Boat by l. 1 C. Roll (1944) described Ihe threallo
Brilain's canals and the way 01 lile around Ihem, and It inspired a
new generation of canal enthusiasts. The JWA was formed in 1946
10 revilaJize the canaIs. Volunteers help to ~ and festore his-
torie waterways as weil as cut new canaIs. www.wa~.org.uk

It's lunchtime when we slide almast unnoticed Ihrough

the back door into Banbury. We wave 10 a young girl who
is walching, fascinatcd, from a pcdeslrian bridge abovc
the canal. We moor elose to a shopping centre and get a
coffee and something 10 cat at ßanbury Museum, nex110
thc water, wherc the canal was completed in March 1778.
Hardly aoy commcrcial goods are carried on the canals
today. Having fallen inlo disrepajr after the Sccond World Travel Travel
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by volunteers and enthusiasts and by campaigning by the The Most Amazing Places Walks in London &
Inland Waterways Assoclation. In 1968, a new Transport ACl in Britain's Countryside Southeast England
signalied a sea chan~e for Britain's waterways. ult was Malerische Ortschaften in den Der Wanderfiihrer aus der Reihe
recognizcd that the canals had a new reason for existence," Cotswolds, majestätische Gipfel, Rough Cu/des stellt abwechs-
says Lindy Foster Weinreb, "which was that the cargo they dicht bewaldete Täler oder der lungsreiche Touren für jeden
raue Channe des Dartmoor Na- Geschmack vor, idyllische Spa-
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The route horne is even slower Ihan our outward jour- der erstaunlichen Vil"lfalt der und Grünzonen genauso wie
ney. Cruising al speeds of belween two and six kilometres englischen Landschaften ver- mehrtägige Wanderungen in
per hour, we have lime 10 see the details orthe world around zaubern. Das Buch präsentiert, den South Downs. Routen und
uso At almost every lock, we find ourselves chaning to nach Regionen unterteilt, 500 Sehenswürdigkeiten-werde n
other boaters. Everyone has a story to tell, and aJl ofthem Orte und deren Besonderheiten, ausführlich beschrieben. Dazu
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It's hard to leave the Golden Volley behind. Driving
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 HISTORY IA PICTURE AND ITS STORY

left behind:
footprints on
the moon's
surface have
•• been made
byonly
12 people

One small step

Die erste Mondlandung war eine technische Meisterleistung und ein Abenteuer, das auch heute,
40 Jahre später, noch seinesgleichen sucht. MIKE PILEWSKI berichtet. ......11 ..... US

ll nalions want prestige aod look forways Tben came Apollo 11, thc real thing. On tbe moming of

A
10.flilliD.:
li!i.n it. Sorne build pyramids. Others have legends July 16, 1969. a Satum V rocket carrying three astronauls
aod stories Ihal are still lold after thousands of liftcd off from F1orida. Four days and 400.000 k.ilomcteTS
years. But only one nation has been ahle 10 fly its later, astronaut Micbael Collins was letl to orbit the moon.
cilizens 10 another world. as the Voiled Stales did 40 years wbile mission commander Neil Armstrong and Edwin
aga Ihis momh, on July 20.1969. hßUZZ" Aldrin desccodcd to thc l.Ynilr surface.
Worrics about the military Ihreat from Soviel advances Armstrong radioed back from an area known 10 as-
in space (sec Spotlight 10/07) had lcd Presidenl lohn F. tronomers as the Sea ofTranquility: "Houston, Tranquilily
Kennedy 10 ca]] for a manned mission 10 the moon. "No Base herc. The E1lgk has landed." Armslrong and Aldrin
single space project in Ihis period will bc more impressive then sat in thcir capsulc for another six hOUTS and 40 min-
to mankind ... and nonc will bc so difficult or expensive 10 utes. resting and checking their instruments.
accompljsb," be told Congress in 1961. Armstrong. whose seat was next to thc door. gQ1JQ c1imb
Gening to tbe moon required leaving tbe Earth's sur· out first, just before 1I p.m., Florida time. Six hund red
face, entering 2rl2iL leaving Earth orbit, orbiting the moon million people, or a fitlb ofthe world's population, watched
and then landing. Each of these stages bad to bc rebearscd. or lislened as hc c1imbed down a ladder on tbe outside of
Projcct Mcrcury concemcd itsclf witb tbe ~ aspect. Ihe lunar module. When he reached the ballom, he pUl his
Project Gemini studied thc effects of mjcrogravity on letl boot in the dust and said, "That's one small step for [a1
astronauts and had them practice dQckjng maneuvcrs. man, one giant k;m for mankind."
Project Apollo tested in space all the compollents and tasks Armstrong and Aldrin lOok phologTllphs, planted a flag,
necessary for a trip to tbc moon. colleclcd 21 kilograms ofrocks, received a phonc call

38 Spotlight 7/09
 from President Richard ixon. and generally assesscd pect. For examp!e, flags on tbc moon appear to bc waving
how weil people would bc able to work on the moon. in the wind, even though the moon has no air. Tbe photos
After two and a halfbours outside, it was time to meet don't show any slars in thc sky, nor do they always seem
up with Collins and return horne. The astronauts left be- 10 ~ thc laws ofperspcclive.
hind a sign that read: "Here men from Planet Earth first Astronomcr Phil Plait dcbunks these claims on his pop-
set foot upon thc moon, July 1969 A.D, We came in peace ular websitc, 11'lvw.badaslrollomy.com Thc Apollo // nag,
for all mankind." he says, was to be held horizontal, but one or the mds. sup-
On July 24, their capsule landed in the Pacific Ocean. It porting it did not puH out properly. ASlronauts on later
was unknown whether the moon was horne to any micro· missions liked the look ofthe "waving nag" and puJled
organisms, so the men were kept in quarantine for 18 days their flags into the same shape.
and interviewed through a glass window. Plait adds Ihat tbc lack of a lunar atmosphere creates
Further missions landed in different spots. explored pbotographic results thai are unfamiliar on Earth. Because
larger areas. spent as long as several days on the moon light is nol scanered, contrast is extremely high, and dis-
and set up instruments that could bc monitores! fTom Earth. tant objeets appear as clearly as those nearby.
Twenty Apollo missions had been planned, but the final Repeated harassmcnt by skeptics made il hard for Buzz
three were canceled - public opinion in 1972. an e1ection Aldrin to control his anger while visiting Beverty Hills,
yeur, had turned against the cnormous expense. As far as California, in 2002. Aldrin, 72 at the time. was leaving his
NASA was concemed, the V.S. had proven it could get to hotel whcn )7·year-old author and filmmaker Bart Sibrel
the moon. Now it needed to Slart building aspace station stood in his way, calling hirn ·'a~. alffir, and a thief."
in Earth orbit, as the Soviets - who had given up on send- "Will you get away from meT' Aldrin
ing men to the moon five years before - were doing. said, before hittiDg hirn with bis
In Ihree and a half years, a total of 12 men on si;.; mis· right fist. t
sions had walked, played golf, and driven on the moon. Conspiracy theories continue to
Behind them stood 400,000 others who had developed and thrive, pcrhaps because thc moon
perfccted the tcchnology to gel them there. landings look place so long ago.
Yet for 40 years, a small number of people have bc- Since December 17, 1972, when
lieved that the manned moon landings never happen cd. astronaut Eugene Cernan climbed
"Lunar skeptics" base much of their Ihinking on NASA back up the ladder of Apollo /7's
photographs that look different from what one might ex- lunar module, no one has rcturned
to the moon.
"Yes, I am the last man to have
accompllsh 5th. [il'b.:mphO etw. IIOIIbl'ingen walked on the moon, and that"s a very
"'.0. lanno Oofmntl [.1'1 'di:l n. ehr. dubioys and disappointing honor, ,.
855e$5 5th. lil~1 etw. abo/einschätzen
can<:et 5th. r~ns>il etw. streichen Ceman said at a gathering or former
cherlsh a hop! I,I(en[ iJ 'hoop[ eine Hoffnung hegen Apollo astronauts in July 1999. "h's
concemed: " 'ar as sb. Is - was jmdn. betrifft been rar too long. ! know somewhere
[kiJn'S3:ndl
coward ['kau~rdl Feigling
out there is a young boy or young girl
debunk sth. I,dl:'bi\ljk] einer Sache den Wind aus with thc jndomitable will and courage to
den segeln nehmen take that particular honor away from me; and
6escencl [dl'sendl herabbewegen; hier: sich those are the cherished hopes that we havc for
nähem
the future." •
dockIng [do:ki!]!
dUbloc.l5 ['du:blilSl An"""' "
fragwiirdig Aldrin on the moon:
eagle ('i:~] Adler. Name der
believe it or not!
Mondlandefähre
e.pensa hk'soensl
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Umweltschutz ist eine Sache der Perspektive: Für eine Ptastiktüte zu zahlen hat vielleicht Sinn.
Aber die Klimakatastrophe lässt sich so vermutlich nicht aufhalten. t"'idb"

his June, Soulh Australia be- South Australians enjoy doing finaneial erisis - after warning of
carne the first statc in thc coun- things like this, and I'm sure many of the dangers of any such delay as re-
try to stap alt shops giving cus- them feet very, very good about it. ccntly as Christmas. Most peopte,
{omers free plaslic bags. Thc The environmentatists think the ptan though, wcrc quick to recognizc the
mm is aimed mainly al climinating Ihis will savc a lot of wild animals and extremely clever potitics involved in
al supermarke! chains, bUI il also in- fish from sufIocating in plaslic bags. combining the delay with a massive
cludcs smaller shops. The ~ range South AUSlralians have been the only increase in the 2020 carbon reduclion
from A$ 300 (€170) 10 AS 5,000. people in the country for at least the goal, from just 15 per cenl of 2000
Consumers will now have {O bring past 30 years who pay five eents de- levels 10 25 per cent.
lheir own "green" bags or pay al least ~ on each drink boule. Elsewhere This maximum target requires the
25 cents for each biodciradable plas- in Australia we put cans, boules and world's biggcst economies to reaeh a
tie bag from Ihe shops. Nalionally, newspapers in recycling containers similar agreement 3t Ihe Copenhagen
the rcsull is expected 10 be a 10 per for the local govemment 10 seil. climate meeting late this year. Other-
cent rcduction in the number of plas- Ironicatty, an almost simuttaneous wise Australia can go back to its
tie bags uscd in Australia each year. statement by the federal govemment minimum position of a five per cent
announced that an emission trading rcdUClion.
scheme (ETS) in Australia would not Rudd needs either the conservative
be introdueed until July 2011. Even opposition or the five green senators
then the ~ reducrion scheme will in the upper house of Parliament 10
have a fixed price of A$ 10 per tonne support his ETS plans. Neither is
of carbon for the first year, befoTe big likely to da so, because conservativcs
polluters have to move 10 full market think the muimum target is too high
trading wh ich means that an ETS (even though they have long argued
won't really start until 2012. for a delay), and the greens simpty
Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, won't compromise on a delay (even
who signed the Kyoto protocol early Ihough Ihey have tong argued for a
last year, blamed all this on the global highcr target).
It's no surprise that most Australians
are confused. This is a complex sub-
jcct. People can get thousands of dol-
lars in govemment money for pulting
solar panels on their roof or for .iDiY.:
.lnin.& Iheir houses, but many experts
wonder whether Ihis makes the own-
ers greener or simply provides indus-
trial polluters with ETS credits.
ban lbil'nl Verbot Most of our eleclricity comes from
blode radable bal;wdi' reld~b'1 biofo isch abbaubar coal anyway - the same coalthat has
can t~nl 00.. been driving Australia's wealth and
carbon J'kQ:~nl hier: Kohlendioxid(ausstoß)
deposlt Idl'paz!tl Pt..", Ihat of firstly Japan and now China
elImInate sttl. lI'llmmeltl etW. abschaffen/verhindern for Ihe paSI half century. Then Ihere
tederaI Nedml!
llne Ifaml """""~
Geldstrafe
are the millions of famous merino
flatu'-"Ce ('fI~l!ol~nsl Blähungen sheep, the flatulence of which proba-
green/!o!Jse In I'gri:nhaus .glrSl Treibhausgas bly produces as mueh greenhousc e;as
Insulate Ith, I'mstulenl etw. isolieren as our iron-ore mjnes. No wonder
lron-ore mine ral~n;,: ,maml Eisenerzgrube
same pcople are happy to see a ban
polluter [pil'lu:t;"J) verschmutzer
101ar anel aul~' il'n~1 Sonnenkollektor on plastic shopping bags at the super-
5uffocate ['SI>f;)keltl ersticken market checkout. •

40 Spotlight 7/09
 ARTS I WHAT'S NEW

h8 movie business has always Iiked to rework

T slanes. There have been al least nine different

film versions 01 louisa May Alcatt's novel
Wornen aod five ~ 10 Öle teen hit American Pie.
tittJe

In Ölese hard times, any story that has already proved

itself popular is coosidered. !his July, another oId story,
=rJ
The Taking 01 Pelham 123, anives in aur cinemas.ln ~J'r
the original film, made in 1974, Waller Matthau played bl rot
a New Yark subway cog dealing with the hijacking 01 a shadows
train. The new version stars Denzel Washington in the
same role. Back in Öle 19705, Matthau's tlred, tough~
talking character personified New Yark's battered seit·
respecl A hijacking in the modem version immediately
awakens memones of 91fl. Denzel Washington faces
Joh" Travotta, who plays the bad guy. Tbis is a film
packed wfth high-energy action. 80th films have tbe
same, seemingly unsolvable dilemma. Ewen if the
hijackers gel the money, how will they gel out of the
tunnel? Starts 23 July. DAVlD MAASH

he Montreux Jazz Festival was first ful1 and B. B. King, old rockers such as
MUSIC . " " '
T held in 1967. In the early days, jazz Steely Dan and Allce Cooper, as wett as

.
'.,- , \~. ~.
~ such as Keith Jarrett, Weather Re-
port, Ella Atzgerald and Mires Davis were
relative newcomers trom lauryn Hili to the
Black-Eyed Peas. Set on the shares 01 UM

... ,.
../
.
. regular guests. Since then, the festival's ~ , the Quality an<! range of this huge

"-
..'-~"
range has expanded enormoosty to indude
just about every kind of popular music.
This year's guest singers include veterans
event, which takes place trom 3 to 18 July,
is as breathtakjng as the locallandscape,
For more. go 10 www.montreuxjazz.com
such as Herbie Hancock, Marianne Faith- EVE LUCAS
B. B. Kir,~ Hlt!!i Ii 11'11 '

42 Spotlight 7/09
 LITERATURE I ARTS
SHORT STORY

A restless place
Ruhelos die Landschaft und rastlos die Menschen,
die in ihr leben. Von MAAY SIMONS -::lI.ii!i,,'t?1

ack und my siSler Edith wcre out walking when Edith

J snw thc ghost. It was a Sunday moming in 1919, and

the ghost was a menk. Jack was jusl horne from the
war. He and my si SI er were courling, and (hey used 10
walk 10 church on Sunday moming, down the road 10 SI
Peter's ChapeL It was a very old place, built cenluries aga
down on the sea wall by lrish ffiOnks wbo sailed along thc
English coast, looking for a horne. Not alt of Ihern had
landcd safely. Same had droWDCd - and reappearcd Raw
and thell (0 remind us orlheir bad luck.
J'd only juS! turned six on thc Sunday Edith came horne say, "['11 never move away," To me it was perfectly.d.uJ.l.
and lold us abou! thc mank, but I wasn', surprised. OUf Sometimcs I would ride away on my bicycle for an after-
family had lais of ghost stories 10 tell, and they all made noon, cycling madJy milc after mile down towards the sea.
sense in this lonely, restless landscape. The people who I only ever made il once. By that time we were baek at
came 10 live here. near Ihe Essex mudOals and the grey· war, and when I rcached the sea wall, liroo and desperate,
green sea, were restless, too - both in life and in dealh. I could see the black d2!s. of fighter planes on Iheir way
Al 18, I marr;ed Fredrick. I-lis falher had a farm miles out to the ComincOl,
away, inland. On summer evenings, we would lie under an '·You·re ~," said Frcd, when I finally got home. He
oak trcc behind thc house and look out across the fields. walkcd out, slamming the door, The next day, Mary at the
To Fredrick it was pcrfccl. "What a picture," he used to post office IOld me that a plane had come down near
Bradwell-on-Sea. killing the pilot. Another ghost.

barmy Cbo:mil UK ifml.

battered I~I

breathtaklng ['breEl.It'llunl
eanvaa l'kam'{;JSl
eourt sb. [Io:tj
-
r amponiert, schwer
angeschlagen
atemberaubend
Segeltuch
jmdm. den Hof machen;
We sold lIle fann in 1962. Fred had anhrilis lIlat was so
bad, he cou!d hardly get out ofbed. Dur boys had gone:
Michael worked in the City, and Geoff had marr;ed bis
Canadian sweethean and was living in Toronto. We found
a!in:t house near Bradwell. I was happy for the first time
in years. In the momings, I would open the front door and
take my first breUlh of sen air. I think even Fredrick camc
hier; mit jmdm. ausgehen
desperate I'desNr<ltl verzweifelt to love it. ·'Not perfcct," he'd say with laughler in his eyes,
dot Idotl Puoirt ·'but almos!."
drown [dratln! ertrinken
cMI ldAiI I&ngweilig, glanzlos When he died of a heart attack in 1970. my world
grut 19relll Grolle changed. The restlessness goi to me. J couldn'l sleep un-
hllackln&' l'hald;r.zk.lnl Entfiihruog der all those moving clouds. '·We should have been in
hold on to ath. l,hauld 'on t<JI sich an etw. festhalten
town," I said to myself. "near a hospital whcrc Fred could
Inhabttant Im'hill!blt<Jnt! Bewohnet1inl
Lake Genev. lJel!; d3i!'nl:Vill Genfer See have bcen saved." I sold the house and IUmed my back on
monk (mAn!;1 Mönch the llludOats - an elderly lady with a big ~ ruck·
mud"ata J'nMdnill!lSI Wo« sack, off to see the world, I was looking for a place to for-
oak t,... J'~k tri:l Eiche
plne tree Cpam trl:1 Kiefer get bad memories and enjoy the good ones.
restJeu ['resllilSl ruhelos. unruhig It didn't work. How could it? On boiling nights in an In-
retlrement home Altersheim dian ashram. I would dream of cold winds and angry, grcy
lri'talilmilnt ,haumJ seas. Picnicking among pi ne trees in the Canadian Rock-
reueat (r1'trl:t1 sich zuriicIaiehen
sn _" !,sI; 'w.>:11 Deich, Kai ies, I feit ~ by Ihe imense greens and blues of Ihe
!e(!Uel I'sl:kW;lll landscape. So I came bome, Now, at 96, I spend my days
siam SUI, (slill!ml
stlfled: titel - rstalPldl
""""""""
etw. zuknallen
die Luft abgedrückt
bekommen
looking out to sea from the window of my rctirement home.
Frinlon is quict and fricndly, and I can watch the sea rush-
subway eop U-Bahnpollzist(lnl ing in and rctrealjng. Just the othcr day, I saw a monk
['ubwel ,koP! N. Am. Ifml down on the sands. I'm restlcssly happy and ready 10 join
the City I~ 'sltiJ der Londoner
the ghosts. •
Finanzbezir1\
the ContInent: I~ 'tonhnilnll das europäische Festland
, You can listen 10 !hIS story on Spotlight Audro
tiny ('tamiJ winzig

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 LANGUAGEIVOCABULARY

On the beach
What better place to spend a hot summer's day than on the beach? ANNA HOCHSlEDER
presents the relevant vocabulary. EU 'iGlill'•

.-'

4_
r.:

1. sunglasses 12. goggles rgog~lz)

A day at the seaside 13. windbreak
2. swlmming costume
Sophie: can)'Oll put some suncream on my back, Mum? (US: swimsuit) 14. snorkel ['sn::l:k~ll
Meg: Just a minute. let me put up the umbrella tirsl
Sam: Mum, can we go 10r a swim OOW? 3. deckchair 15. flippers
Meg: Take off your shorts, and put on your trunks, sam. Where's your (US: beach chair)
sun hat?
16. (swimming) trunks
4. beach umbrella,
Tom: Can you help me build a sandcastle. Mum? 17. inftatable Im'f1elt<lb-JI]
Garefu!! Don'! waJk all over ttIe towets, Tom! VOll're getting sand beach parasol
Meg: mattress
everywhere. 5. water wings (UK also: lilo ['1811auJ)
Sophie: GM we hire soma deckchairs, Mum? (UK also: annbands)
Meg: No. 1don't think so. They're too expensive. We've goi plenty of 18. seashell
beach towels. 6. sandcastle
19. seaweed
Sam: Is the tide coming in or going out? 7. spade
Meg: Out, I think. Why don't you boys 90 and see if you can spot crabs 20. suntan l'sl\ntaml
in the rock pools? 8. bucket lotion, suncream
Sam: Yeah, Iet's! Come Oll, Tom! Bring your buckel aloog! 9. wave 21. rock pool
Meg: What about you, Sophie?
10. bikini (US: tide pool)
Sophie: I'm staying in the shade. I don't want to get sunbumed.
11. seagull('si:gtJ) 22. tideline

46 Spotlight 7/09
 Practice
Try these exercises to expand your knowledge of words that have to da with the beach.

1. Comprete the senlences below with words tram the opposite page.

a) tf you dOll" want waler 10 get in your eyes, you should wear .
b) tf YOlI dan't want the sun 10 get in yoor eyes, you should wear _
c) If you're a boyor man, you'lf probably wear for swimming.
cl) If a deckchair is too expensive to hire, why not bring an mattress?
e) If)'oo walk al009 the share. VOll ca" sometimes find beautiful _
f) Jf you want 10 dig a hole in the sand, YOU ca" use yoor hands or a _

2. Match words from both colurnn5 below 10 create

verb phrases you otten use on the beach.
a) put up ,. a sandcastle a) 0
b) putOfl 2. a beach umbrella b) 0
c) build 3. sunbumed c) 0
d) spot 4. your bikini d) 0
e) go for 5. crabs e) 0
0 get 6. aswim 0 0

3. 00 the words in the box reter 10 something produced by nature or by people? Put thern into the corree! column.

bucket crab flippers rock pool sandcasUe seagull seaweed water wings wave windbreak

natural man-made

4. Read the text on the opposrte page again and find the words defined below.
a) a piece of doth with wtlicn 10 dry yourself: a _
b) where you are not in the sun: in the _
cl to borrow something for a short time and pay for it: to _
d) to notice something that cannot be seen immediately: to _

Language tip
Items of clothing wom on both legs are plural in Englistl. They are used with a plural verb and a plural proooun. To make them
countable, say -a pair of":
The things you wear in front of your eyes are also plural
"Where are my swimming trunks? t can't find them. R
nouns:
"I bought a pair of snorts and two pairs of jeans in ~llike your sunglasses. Where did you get them?
the summer sales. ~ ~Can you give me my goggles? "m going snorkelling."

[~ Practlse mllre beach language lIn Spotllghl AudlO

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 LANGUAGE I GRAMMAR BASICS

Not necessary?
Every month in this section, RQBEAT PARR uses notes on a short text to present
and explain a key point of grammar. * i i '-4"

Jake and Trish have walked into their locallown 10 da

some shopping.

Jake: Why are you shaking your head?

Trish: Didn't you see the light (Ampel)? tt was red!
Vau use mustn't + an Jake: Yeah, bot there were no cars aroond.
infinitive 10 say that Use don't have to +
Trish: Still. You rnustn'l da that Just imagine if eMdren
something is not had been watehing! an Infinitive to talk
allowed. aboul somethlng that
Jake: You don't have 10 be 50 aggres.;ve.
Is not necessary.
Trish: l'm not. I just don't understand why you did it.
Jake: Whal's the matter with you?
Trish: Nothing.
TM] minutes Jaler.
Another way of Jake: Look, I'm sony about that - you know, crossing
taiking about some-
when the light was red.
thing that Is not Trish: Yau needn't be SOll)'. I'm SOll)' for reacting like
necessary Is needn't trlal
+ an Inflnltl\le or Jake: Shall we forget about it?
don't need to + Trish: I have done already. let's 90 10 the supermarket
an Infinitive. now. Theo we dan't need 10 90 there on the way
back.

Remember! Beyond the basics

Vou can usa don't have to, needn'l oon't need to and needn't are not eltactly the same: don't need to is an ordinary
or don't need to + an infinitive to verb, and needn't is a modal verb that can be used only to talk about the present.
talk about something that is not In a specific situation, both verbs are possible:
necessary. • We don't need 10 wash up (spiifen) now. We can da it tomooow moming.
• We're going shopping, but you • We needn't wash up now. We can da it tomorrow momlng.
don't have to I needn't I Sut when you are lalking about a general situation, or something that Is not imme·
don't need 10 come with us if diately necessary, only don't need to can be used:
you're busy. • Vou don't need to (nOl:~) be over 21 to hire a car.

Exercise
Undertlne tfle appropriate (angemessen) verb In tfle senlences below.
a) You don't ha\le to drive - mustn't dri\le a car without a valid licence (gültiger Führerschein).
b) You doo't ha\le to have - mustn't have an appolntment to have your hair cut, but it's advlsable.
c) You don't have to get - mustn't get the 8.15 a.m. train.1t doesn't stop at the airport.
d) You don't ha\le to forget - mustn't forget 10 caU Grandma on her birthday.
el You don't ha\le to play - mustn't play a musical instrument to enjoy dassical music.
1) You don't have to wear - mustn't wear smart (tein) clothes. You can come in jeans if you want.

Ans...... on page tU

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·· This month, ROBERT PARR looks at some of the typical words and phrases people use to talk
· 0.""
· about being in Jove. . . . . dl ......

··
· Mandy
1. Areal crush? 2. Gorgeous ~
·· is talking to her friend, Denise. Simon is talking to Paul on the phone. ~
~
· Denise:
Mandy: Guess who
Not Paut?
invited me outto dinner Saturday!
00 Simon: Hey! I hear you and Mandy are an item. ThaI hap-
pened very Quickly.
Vl

Mandy Yes, Paul! He's so oiee! Paul: Who lold you that?
· Mandy: sounds like you've 90t areal crush
Denise: It on hirn. Simon: Denise.
· t
Yes. Weil, 00. tt's more than that !hink he could
one. He's kind. He makes me laugh. He...
be thePaul: Oenise! $he's such a blabbermQUth. We're just going
out to dinner, that's all.
· Denise: way I know. He's gorgeous. 00 you Ihink he feels the same Simon: But you fancy her, don't you?
·· Mandy: 1think so, yes. I cao
about you? Paul: No. Weil, yes. She's beautiful. Jusl hearing her voice

· ~ He keeps looking al my
it.
mouth. lt's like he wants 10 kiss me. You should have
turns me on.
Simon: Wow! Sounds pretty serious to me. Ooes she work in
seen hirn at luochtime today. the same department as you?
Denise: Maybe it was the splnach between your teeth he was Paul: No, but I have quite a 101 10 da with her - on the

· Iooking at phone most of the time.

· Mandy: Ha, ha! Don't pot adamper on the whoIe thing.

Denise: Sorry. I just hope your imagination lsn't running away
Simon:
Paul:
All work-related, I'm sure.
Of coorse. "'s not like that. anyway.
with you. Simon: Isn't she a bit old for you?
·· Mandy: Denise! I'm in love!
Denise: I can see that.
Paul: Aetually, she is older than me. Only a few months,
though.
·
· Tips
• If you -have a crush~ on somebody, you have a feeling of
Tips
• If lWo people are Man itern M•Ihey are in a romanticlsexual
· love for that person (wtliCh often doesn't last very 1009).
• Notice how, instead of saying -Maybe he was looking al the
relationship. This is an informal expressioo.
• MBlabberMis an informal word that means 10 talk about unim-
spinach ('SP1md3J belWeen your teeth-, Denise moves the portant things. A -blabbermouth Mis a person who blabbers.
phrase -spinach belWeen your teeth Mto the front of the sen- • To -fancyM someone is 10 find him or her sexually attractive.
tence 10 give it more emphasis. • Simon's Mall work·related- is intended to be sarcastic.
• If you -put adamperM on something, you make it less • When Paul says "It's nollike that M, he means that his rela-
enjoyable. tionship with Mandy is more than a purely sexual one.
·
· senSfl sth. lsens] etw. spuren turn sb. on I,I3:n 'onl Jdmn. sexuell erregen
· [fj Uslen 10 (halogues 1 amI 3 on Spothgtll AulllD Spotlight 49
 ·
LANGUAGE I EVERYDAY ENGLISH ··

3. He must have been keen 4. Moving in together ·

It's Sunday morning. Denise is talking 10 Mandy. Some months later, Paul and Simon are talking on the phone. ··
Denise: lt's me: Denise. How did it g01 Siman: YOlI're in a goOO mood. What's up?
Mandy: Whal? Paut: Guess what! Mandy ancll are moving in together. ·
Denise: Come on! Don't pretend you don't know what I mean.
Dinner with Paul!
Simon:
Paul:
You're getting a place together? Wow!
Yeah, it's aJl signed and seale<!. We're renting a little
··
Mandy: tt was OK. house iust round the corner tram me. Begjnning of
Denise: OK? I hope this is not becoming a case of unrequited August.
love, is it?
Mandy: Weil, it could 00.
Siman:
Paul:
And you've lhought about it carefully? Fools rush In...
I'm not the ooe who needed convincing.lt was Mandy.
··
Oenise: But he asked you out, not the other way round, so he $imon: So, what did you ~ her with?
must have been ~. Paul: I didn't have to. I asked her and...
Mandy, Yeah, he did. n's difficun to say, reaJIy. n was funny. He
kept taJking about beiog very busy and wanting to
Simo,l: ...after thinking about it f{)( three days, she finaJty said
·yes-.
··
travel the worId.
Denise: Oh, he's just playing hart! to get, that's alt.
Paul:
Simoo:
No. Actually, she said "yes· immediately.
So, do I by any chance hear the patter of tiny feet?
·
Mandy: Maybe he's not ready 10 k2DlID..it, Paul: More like the patler of tiny ~. We're getting a
Denise: Don't give up, Mandy! You need to give him more time. 1lliIllU· ·
Now, lell me one thing. Did he kiss you?
Mandy; Ilhought it wouldn't be loog befOfe you asked that. Tips
··
Tips
• "Signed and sealed· is a fixed expression meaning fixed and
definite; it's used when talking about something official.
·
• ·Unrequited love- is a formal expression and means love Here, Paul is talking about signing the documents for the
that is not retumed by the person you love. house he and Mandy are renting. ·
• Here, "to ask somebody out" means somelhing very spe-
cific: to invite somebody to go out with you as a way of slart-
• -Fools rush in.... is a saying that continues with the words
"...where angels fear 10 tread" and means tha1 inexperi-
·
ing a roman1iclsexual relationship. enced people do things that eKperienced people would nol do.
• Mandy's "he dW refers back to -he asked you out". • "The patler 01 liny feet" is a humorous expression. People
• use it to talk about someone having a baby.
-
8l
~
If you "p1ay hard to get", you make yourself more interestiog
by not immediately aceepting somebody's ofter.
bribe sb. lbralbl jmdn. bestechen

I
~
eommtt (b'rnnl
keen: be -lki:nJ
sieh binden
unbedingt wollen
paw 100:1
puppy rp,\pi/
Pfote
Welpe

Exercises
.
1. What do the underlined words refer 101
) J can see ttla1- (scene
bf Who tald you
1)

b1? (scene 2)
3. Which words in the dialogues above mean,••
'1 to give somebody money to do something
doesrI't want to do for you?
he or she

bl 10 behave in a parlicular way to make someone betieve

c) I thought it wouldn't be long before you asked 1tIa.t. something thai is not true?
(scene 3)
cl 10 find someone sexually attraetive?
dl And you've thought aOOut i1 carefully? (scene 4) dl to make someone believe thai something ls good or true?

2. Exchange the underlined words for the exaet words 4. Which words are missing? The tirst letters are provided.
used in the stenes,
.) Fools rush in where a fear to tread.
.) He's a good oerson! (scene 1)
b) Co I hear the p of tiny feet?
b) I hear you and Mandy are ~. (scene 2)
cl I jusl hope your i isn't running away wi1h you.
cl Maybe he's not ready tor a long-term serious relatiQnship.
(scene 3) d) Maybe she's playing h to get.

dl You're llalWx, (scene 4)

Answers
1. a) lhat Mandy Is in bte; b) flal P<d ald MlwIdy Ire a ~ c) lI'I!lelheI PaU
kissed Mandy: dllTOlinll in tlgether
2. a) so nll:e: b) an ~em: cjlo commil; d) in a good mood
50 Spotlight 3. a) tHibe: b) pretend: cl lancy: d) convIoce
4. a) anoels: b) patter; c) Imagination: d) hard
 CARDS!LANGUAGE

NEW WORDS GLOBAL ENGLISH

text stalking Wha! would a speaker 01 Bri!ish English say?

"The judge decided that the man was guilty 01 Pakistani: "I've got a new job in an engineering firm
text sta/king his lormer wife and forbade hirn to and will be on parade trom next week."
send text messages to her mobile phone."

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(IN)FORMAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Make these informalsentences more formal: Translate:

1. ndepends how you iook at it. 1. Können Sie mir bitte helfen?

2. It depends what you mean by that. 2. Danke für Ihre HUfe! - Bitte.

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PRONUNCIATION IDIOM MAGIC

Read these words aloud:

Zeiss zugzwang
zeitgeist zwieback
Zuckerberg Zwingli

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FALSE FRIENDS GRAMMAR

evangelicall evangelisch Camplete these sentences:

Translate the following sentences: 1. My wife has always Joved the Beatles, and so
I.
1. He was evangelical about recycling.
2. My husband laves the Beatles, and so _ _ i.
2. Bist du evangelisch oder /pltholisch?
 LANGUAGEICARDS

GLOBAL ENGLISH NEWWOROS

8ritish speaker: "... will be workinglstarting naxt week." Astalker is someane wha pursues (verfolgen) or
harasses (belästigen) someone else with obsessive
In Pakistan, "on parade" means "at war1<:" or "involved in attention. Text stalking 15 a modern variant of this
WO/1(-like actiVity",1he term is typically used in the behaviour. tt involves repeatedly sending unwanted text
context of starting something for the first time. Soma of messages to a persoo's mobile phone.
the British Indian Army's largest garrisons (GamisorfJ A similar new term is "textual harassment·, wtllch is a
were in Pakistan, so it 15 not surprising that several play on "sexual harassment".
military terms found their way into Pakistani English
(which is an officiallanguage of the country).

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TRANSLATION (IN)FORMAL ENGLISH

1. Could yoo help ma, please? 1. tt depends on/upan how you look at it.
2. Thank)'Oll tor your help. - You're welcome. 2. tt depends on/upan wtlat you mean by that.

"Please" cannat be used as an answer 10 "thank you". When speaking informally, one alten uses "depends·
Using it here in (2), for example, is a classic mistake wlthaut the preposition in sentences like these. In more
made by German-speakers. Some older British careful writing, one should always include the prepasi-
speakers might still consider "you're welcome" 10 be tron. "On" and "upan" are Interchangeable, thaugh some
an Americanism. Other options are "lt's a pleasure", peopre consider "upan" slightly more formal.
"Don'l mention il", and On formal usage) "Not at all",

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IDIOM MAGie PRONUNCIATION

When someone tries ta cheer you up about samething, Zeiss [zals] zugzwang ['zu:gz",<eIJ]
but it doesn't help you because it's inadequate, thls Is zeitgeist rzaltgalst] zwieback r'zwi:brek]
caJled cold carnlort tt's slmilar to ein schwacher Trost Zuckerberg ['ZAkab3:gl Zwingli rzwlI)gli)
In German.
Wards beglnning with ·z" In English da not Mve the
"The news 01 faJling inflation is cold comlort to the phonetic sound 115). Even In WOfds of German origin, the
millions of jobless people." ·z" is anglicized to (z). (Note: the chess term
·zugzwang· is also pronounced ('ZAgZW<EI)), and
Americans generally pronounce ·zwieback" "zwalbrek).)

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GRAMMAR FALSE FRIENDS

1. ... and so have I. 1. Er war ein glühender Anhänger von Recyr;ling.

2. ... and so do I. 2. ATe you Protestant or Catholic?

·So" can be used in the construction "so + auxiliary 80th these terms have a common religious sense (die
verb + subject" to mean "also". II no auxiliary verb 15 Evangelien betreffend oder darauf beruhend), but in
present In the main clause, then "do" is inserted. everyday language they are false friends. The non·
(This is, 01 course, similar to other constructlons, such Catholic Christian churches are referred to as
as question lormatlon and negation.) "Protestant" In English. "Evangelical" is not very
common in secular language as used in sentej1ce (1).
 TRAVEL TALK I LANGUAGE

On a plane
English is the language of air travel, no matter
where you are flying. AN NA HOCHSlEDER
presents typical dialogues.

Before take-off
• Excuse me, I think you're sitting in my seall've got 16F.
The window seat? Oh, "rn sorry. Yoo're righll've 901 ttle
aisle seal.
• Would you like me 10 put your brjefcase in Ihe overtlead
locker for you?
• Thank you. That's very kind of you. 1'11 juSl lake out rny
laptop.
• Good aftemooo, aod welcome on board f1ight BA 571 10 Flying on
london Heathrow. Please note thaI an electrooic • Excuse me! When do you think we'lI be Ianding? l've got
~ must be switched off during ~ and a cormecting f1ight to catch.
landiog...
• When does your coonecting f1ight leave?
• n's the 11.40 f1ight 10 Warsaw.
• Dur arrival will be ~ by aOOut half an hour, I'm
afraid. Let me just check what gate your f1ight leaves
Travelling with a baby C!D from.... It's gate 26. Just follow the transit signs.
• Good moming! Welcome on board! You've booked a
• Will there be enough time?
basslnet for )'Our baby, Ilaven't you?
• Yes, you'lI have about 30 minutes 10 get to the gate.
• That's light.
• What about my luggage?
• Fellow me, please. - Hefe are your seats. let me attach
the bassinet fer you... Hefe vou co! 1'11 put your backpack • n's automaticaJly transferred 10 the next plane. No need
and purre down here, OK? 10 worry!
• Thank you. Where can I change his diaper?
• The restroom at the rear of ttle plane has a large alsle l'al'll (am) Gang
changing table. Let me know when you want to use it, brlefcase I'brl:fkelsJ Aktentasche
and 1'11 fold jt down for you. dela ed: be - dl'lcld sich vers -ten
davlce [dl'valsl Gerät
• Thank you. That would be a great help. Oh, and one other fold 5th. 60wn [US Jould 'dauni etw. herunterklappen
thing: could you possibly warm up this bettle for me? I'd Here you &01 rl!S lwr la '9001 Bitte sehr!
take-off ['tel kuß Start(phasel
Iike to feed hirn during take-off.
transfer 5th. to 5th. etw. in etw. umladen
[Irzru'b: ta]

Tips
• Hand luggage (N. Am.: "carry·on bags") has to be stowed (verstaue,." in the overtlead locker (N. Am.: overtlead com-
partment) (Gepäckfach über den Sitzerf} or under the seat in front of you.
• Some airlines allow you to pre-book a bassinet [,b<esl'net] (US English for "cot", also called a "Sky con for your baby.
• The bassinet or cot can be attached to the dividing wall in front of the first row of sealS. lnfanlS (Kleinkinder) are some·
times allowed to use a car seat. In other cases, you may have to hold your chi[d on your lap (SChaD) during the entire
fjight.
• A backpack is a "rucksack~ l'rAks<ek] in British English. A purse (N. Am.) (Handtasche) is a "handbag" in British EngJish.
• A diaper [N. Am.: 'dslp>rJ (Windel) is called a "nappy· in British English.
• A tailet in a public place, such as an airplane, is called a restroom in North America. Ask a flight attendant which one
has the largest changing table (Wickeftisch) and the most space.
• Feeding during take-off and landing helps your baby's ears adjust to (sich gewöhnen an) changes in cabin pressure.
• tf you have a connecting ftight, check your baggage receipt [ri'si:t] (GepäckabschnItt) to see if your luggage has been
checked through to your final destination (endgültiges Reiseziel).

71fJ9 Spotlight 53
 LANGUAGE I PEGGY'S PLACE

On a dark
summer night
Old slories of rals and mice at the pub come back
to frighten Jane. By fNEZ SHARP Eu' HHiEQJ

Phi!

George: Didn't !here use 10 be rals and mice in the cellar? I

remember Phil killing a mause with a beer bottle.
Jane: Siop it, George! I hate coming down here. tt's really dark.
Peggy: Gareful! There's a hole in Ihe floor.
George: You're nol actually scared of mice, are you, Jane?
Peggy (ringing bell): last orders! Jane: Yes, and f'm proud of it.1 can't stand anything that's smatl
Jane: What are thern boxes, Mum? and creepy-crawly. AAl What was ltlat?
Peggy: Oh, we had to get some new pint glasses. Peggy: That was a little mause called -my foot".
George: I suppose you must have quite a bit of breakaoe. I've Jane: Oh, sorry. aut just the thought of touching something turry
never aetuaJIy noticed it. like a mouse 01', even worse, a rat with a loog, scaly lail ...
Peggy: Summers the wOI'St - especially when it's .b!u..ste!llike George: You're nol really scared? Arlyway, if you are attacked,
this. Empty glasses are always getting blown off the tables Peggy and 1will prote<:t you from the evil vermin.
outside. Peggy: Hurry up, or we'lI be here all night!
George: Where's Phil? Jane: 1'11 take three boxes this time. Listen 10 thai wind! Oops!
Peggy: He's taken Simone 10 a Harry Potter special at the Peggy: Ilold you 10 be caretul 00 the stalrs.
Regent They're showing three films, alld the last ooe ends at Jane: Hey! 1can hear fOOlsleps.
two, so he's stavjng over. Peggy: Jane, stop il! You'1I just get into a t!ID:.
George: Thafs nfee. George: No, she's right. t can haar footsteps, too. They're direct-
Jane: They love doing that sort of stuft together, and lt's a good ly above us.
change tor me. If I had the cholce between six hours of Harry Jane: They're coming doser.
Potter and helping out here, I know what I'd rattler be doing. Peggy: I hear them, 100. It can'l be Phi!. He won't be horne lill
Peggy: Weil, everyone's gone. 1'11 lock up in a moment. Can you tomorrow. What are we going 10 do?
stay, Jane, and help me carry tnose gJasses down to the cellar? George (whispering): All right. Put your boxes down quietly and
Jane: Yeah, fine. go and stand around that corner.
George: 1'11 give yoo a hand as weil. Jane: Ptease don'llel me be murdefed. I'm SOITY for all the bad
Peggy: Thai would be great Thanks. Now, where's the cellar things I've clone, Mum.
key? I pul it down here jusl aminute ago. Peggy: I forgive you. Now be quiet!
Jane: Weil, I hope you find it Soofl. I'm lired. George: fs there anybody there? 15 there anybody there? Heflo?
Peggy: Sometimes I'd swear Ihere are imps and elves in Ihis Phil: George, whal are you doing in the ceffar?
place - you know, that move sluff when you're not looking. Peggy: Phil, is that you?
Jane: You're jusl getting old, Mum. That's your problem. Phil: Peggy, whal are you doing in the cellar with George?
Peggy: Thanks for lhose kind words, Jane. AA, here's the key. Peggy: What are you doing back here? ArId where's Simone?
Now, Geofge, if you can ~ three boxes, Jane and I can Phil: She got scared, so we 16ft eany. She's in the car. Whal's
take two. C3reful 00 the stairs. ltlal crashing sound?
Peggy: I'm not exactty sure, but it's probably Jane knocklng QVer
b1ustelX IblAst;Jrll stürmisch some of the boxes with the oew glasses in them. We were just
breaka.e ['blelkld31 B""h carrying them down to the cellar, out of harm's way. •
get sc',ed Iget 'ske;xll Angst bekommen
glve Ib. a hand jmdm. helfen
I,gl\' ;J 'h~ndJ [~ Listen to Peggy's Place on Spotlight AulllO
manage Ith. ['ma>md3J mit einer sache fertig Focus
werden
CMlt of h.rm 'I wtI'J damit nichts paSSiert This mooth, the laIk at Peggy's Place is aboul smaU animals.
Laut;w ha:mz 'weil Jaoe uses the expression creepy-crawly. To creep and crawl is
star ovel I,stel 'OM.\",..J dort schlafen 10 move slowly and dose 10 the ground. The ward creepy-erawly
tlzzy: get lnto a - ['tlzlJ Ifm/. is used 10 talk aboul a smalf insect or animal that we find un-
pleasant If an animal is scaly, il is covered in small plates of
54 Spotlight skin, like a snake. Finally, animaJs that are dangerous because
they might carry diseases are called vermJn.
 ENGLISH AT WORK I LANGUAGE

Saying goodbye
This month, KEN TAYLOR takes a look at how
to say goodbye. •... <1, .. ", ~,.,

ost of us have leamed how 10 greet people in English in

M a business setting. Sut how should we say goodbye in

an aoomoriate way? When we say goodbye, we are
leaving a final impression on ethers - and we want thai final
impression to be a good ooe. Let's see what Öle best way 10 da
thaI iso We'lIlook at saying goodbye from two perspectives: the
vi$itor's and the !K§t's.

Stage 1. Preparing to leave

Offen it is the visitor who takes the initiative.
• I should be golog now.
• I think I ought 10 be getting back.
• Excuse me, but I really ought 10 be 90109.
Notice thaI the language used is ralher polite and tentative. The
visitor wants 10 show thaI he Q( she is enjoying the vigil, but that
leavlng is a necessity. Qccasiooaltv the hast will ask the visitor
to stay longer, atthough this is ffiO(e likely 10 happen in a social
setting.
• There's no need 10 90 just yel
• You don't have to leave yet, da you? speaker would more likeJy say SDmething like, ~No. tt was a
Somelimes this protest is simply politeness. At other times it goOO meeting." or, "No. It was gOO<l of you to come." The "No"
may be a !W1Yine: request. As a visitor, you have to judge how in these replies means: "I should be thanking you,"
honest the host is being in this situation. The visitor might also comment on the success of the visil.
If the visiter really has to 90, he er she might iosist by saying • That was a gOO<l meeting, I think.
something like: • I think we covered everything we needed to, didn't we?
• No, I reaJly da have to 90. • I think we covered a Iot of QIlll.llli1 today.
• I wish I could stay, but... The host could respond by saying:
• No, I wor!'t ~ any more of your time. • I think so, too.
The hosl will then gffUn and say: And then add, as the visitor gelS close to the door:
• Weil, thanks for droopjng by. • let me know how things work out.
• We must get together again sometime. • let's keep in touch.
This is a signal thai the visit is over.
Stage 3. Goodbye
Stage 2. Final closers At the final handshake, either person could say:
As they stand up to 90, visitors will oflen tnank their hast • lt was good meeting yoo.
• Thanks f()( your time. To wtlich the other would respond:
• I really appreciate you taking Ihe time to see me. • It was goOO meeting you, too.
Mosl second-Ianguage speakers of English would respond to The hast should then say one of the folJowing sentences:
this with the phrase "You're welcome." Bul be aware thai !his • Have a safe journey home.
phrase is oyerused, and if you use it here, it sounds a bit as • Are you sure you can find your way trom here?
though you have given up a 101 01 your valuabJe time. A native
Once the final goodbyes have been said, the visitor should turn
around and walk away without Iook.ing back. The goodbye is
appreeNlt.e .!h. I;}'prl:lieu! etw. zu schätzen wissen
then obviousJy over, and the hast can get back to wor1<. without
~te [;'I'pr;)()prIJt! angemessen
~ I,drop '0011 YOl'beischauen having to stand and wave. •
enulne 'd ell'um wirldic:h e<:ht
VB In Iv'm nach eben
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 LANGUAGEICROSSWORD

Waterways
Across
1. People who travel on baats across the waler.
3. The people who work fOf' an organization or a finn
are referred to as the
5. To rest on the surtace of the waler wittlot.rt slnking.
6. Words or expressions.
8. Ta gel something, such as a gifl.
10. Regions, localions: _ _ 01 """
11. TheoppositeofMbig~.
13. To start somethlng.
17. Someone who Is weU-_ _ is famous.
18. Pleasant and peaceful (adjective).
20. ~Thal's nelther here Il()( _ _. '
21. Freight that's carried on a commercial ship.
22. Used money to pay f()( something: -I've _ _ aN
mymoney!-
23. People who knOw each other weil and like 10 da
things together.

Down
i 1. Previously.
2. Ta exchange an item or service with someone.
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This puule has to do with Gur amcle on Britain'$ waterways. You 3. -SmaJI waves form on Ihe metallIC cf lhe
may find it helpful to refer to the text on pages 32-37. water.-
4. A wooded area with many trees.
6. A group of people - not us - used here as the
object of a sentence.
Competition! 7. Unusual In a positive way.
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 WORD POWER I LANGUAGE
2. A range of services
Despite the danger of fraudsters - people who trick others
to get money from them - online banking or internet bank-
ing is becoming increasingly popular. What coold be more
convenient (bequem) than using a bank's services 24 hours
a day from the camfort of your own horne (bequem von zu
Hause aus)?

Online, you can look at statements, the documents that show

what has been deposited in (einbezahlen) or withdrawn
from (abheben) your accounl You can also transfer money
from Olle account to another and set up standing orders. A
standing order is a direct, regular payment of a fixed amount,
such as for rent If you want to pay a varying amount direct-

Banking ty, such as an electricity bill, you have to set up a direct debit

One thing yoo cannet do online is withdraw cash. For that,

This month. AOBERT PARR looks at some of yoo have to go to a cash machine or ATM wittl your cash
the words and phrases you need if you go to card (ATM card) arid PIN (personal identificatioo number).
Another thing you cannot usuaUy do online is apply for an
a bank in 8ritain. d U " c u l t ,,,,,
overdraft (Oispo- or Oberziehungskredit). If you are over-
drawn, you owe (schulden) your bank money that you spent
1. Your account when your account had insufficient (nicht genug) funds.
Most people with a bank account have a curren! account.
This is the account iota which their saJary cr ether eamings 3. Borrowing
are paid and the one they use to pay ttleir day-to-day bills Banks are also in the business of leoding money to people who
(Rechnung). There are sole accounts, for individuaJs, and want to borrow itlf yoo apply for a lcan and are soccessful, yoo
joint accounts, 'er two ()( more people. will pay interest on it The exact amount depends Oll the APR,
the annual percentage rate. loans are usually paid back on a
A 101 of people also have a savings account or deposit monthly basis over a number of years. Banks will not normally
account. savings accounts earn moce interest than curren! allow borrowers to defer (aufschieben/aussetzen) or postpooe
accounts, so they are an incentive (Anreiz) fO( people who (verschieben) payments, but they might allow the repayment to
want 10 save regularly. O"en, though, savings accounts have begin a month after the lcan is issued (gewähren/erteilen). As
conditions attached 10 them. Some accounts, for example, competition between high·street banks (große Geschäfts-
ofter a low rate of I"terest (Zinssatz) for rnonths in which a banken) is tough, many of them do not charge a fee (Gebühr
withdrawal (Auszahlung, Abhebung) is made and a higher verlangen) for setting up a 10an.
rale of interest for monlhs when 00 withdrawals are made.
Banks lend money to people who want to buy a house. This Is
A bank account comes with asort code - the number of the called a mortgage. There are two main methods of repaying it
braneh of a bank where the account is held - and an With a repayment mortgage, you repay the interest and a small
account number. Together, these are your bank details. To percentage 01 the borrowed capital every month. This means
transfer money between bank accounts in different CCM.m· your mortgage will be paid off in tull at the end 01 the mortgage
tries, it is necessary to have tIle IBAN, the international bank tenn. With an interest-only mortgage, YOU pay only the interest
account number, and the Ble, the bank identifier code. on the amount you borrow and put the money that you would
have spent repaying yoor mortgage into other investments.
Exercise
Whlch word or phrase is more appropriate?
al For everyday banking, people normally use a current accaunt - deposit account.
b) Your account number and bank sort code are your bank details - bank particulars.
c) With online banking, you can look at your bills - statements tram any computer.
d) Transferring - Withdrawing money online is not possible, of course.
e) To have a fixed amoont paid from yoor account regularty, you need a staoding order - direct debit
f) If you take out a mortgage wittl a bank, the bank will borrow - lend yoo a sum cf money.
g) When yoo repay a Ioan, you pay back the bOrrOWed capital and the lee - interest.

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 LANGUAGE I PERFECTIONISTS ONLY!

e""M'·

Pigs and make-up Back to the roots

When animaJs aod cosmetics are mentioned in tfle same The verb-fofming suffix ·izel·ise goes back to Middre English
context, one normaJIy thinks of the politicalty and moralty K-isen", which came trom Old French "·jser". This explains
explosive issue of animal experiments (Tierversuche) - but the modem spelling K-ise-, which is the norm in Britain and
not always. Barack Obarna used Ihe expression Hpstick on a the Commonwealth nations. In the late 16th century, how-
pig in last year's US presidential campaign 10 describe some ever, many English printers started spel1ing it "-ize", realizing
of his opponent's proposed policies. Though these words that this is the correct etymological spelling: the suffix ulti-
were not new, they insfanUy caught on all over the English- malely goes back to Greek. ·izein.ln the US, ·-ize Kis now lhe
speaking world, becoming virtually ovemight the standard norm. So why do we use the "z" spelling at Spotlight even in
way to refer 10 cosmetic changes thaI do not provide real or articles with British usage? Because this is the preferred
long-Iasting impmvement 10 things that may be very much in spelling of the Oxford University Press, pubHsher of the most
need of it. Obama's Ianguage caused a scandal - not prestigious dictionary of English, the Oxtord English
among animal-rights activists, but among Republicans and Dictionary. H. W. Fowler, the preeminenl Britislliexicographer
some members of the press. Vice-presidential candidate and usage expert, assumed the H-ise" spelling (which he
sarah Palin had indirectJy referred 10 herself earlier as a "pil himseit opposed) became the slandard because of the hand-
bull with lipstick" 10 stress her fighting spirit. Her supporters, ful of words thai do nol contain the Greek suffix and are
therefore, c1aimed that Obama was calling Palin a pig by arways spelled ·ise (e.g. "devise", "surprise"). Pertlaps more
using this expression. Pigs were presumably not offended- people in England WOlIld write "·ize Kif they koew lhat"·ige"
they are surely used to their Iow linguistic status. is a bastardized French spelling of a Greek suffix.

English then and now: personal wh-pronouns

In the modern language, the only interrogative pronoun that can be used in reference to people is who. rNe are
referring here only to actual pronouns and not to interrogative determiners, as in ·which person".) ·Who is also
ft

the only relative pronoun used in retereoce to people, at least in formal English. In informal spaken language,
Olle can also use "that"; fer example, "He's the one whoIthat tDld me about n- in restrictive (defining) relative
c1auses. "Which Kand "what are never used as personal pronouns today. Dut there was no such restriction in
ft

the 17th century. Shakespeare often used "what as a personal interrogative proooun instead of "who-. In
ft

Romeo and JUliet, tor example, Romeo asks Juliel's nurse "What is her mother?K, not "Who is her mother?K,
when he is trying to determine Juliet's idenlity. Similarly, Juliet lhen asks her nurse "What's he that follows
there?", not "Who is he who ...?" Nor is there any restrietion on using the relative pronoun "which" wilh person-
al reference. For example, in the King James translation of the Bible (trom 1611), the Lord's Prayer (Vaterunser)
starts: "Our father wtlich art in heaven, hallowed be thy name" (Matthew 6:9). (Note also the now extinct
secood·persoo singular of Kbe", "art", and the singular possessive determiner "thy".) Predictably, the modem
translatioo is ·Our fattler, who is in heaven! Hallowed be your name. K

58 Spotlight 7/09
 Grammar
Back-formation
The most typical way to form a new ward from an existing word is by addlng an affix
(that is, aprefix cr a suffix). RJr example, in the 19th century, people started adding
the adjective-forming suffix M_al" to the noun -emotion- (whieh had been impol1ed iom
English trom French in Öle 17th century) 10 form -emotional-. But a new ward can also
be created in precisely the opposite way: by removing an affix (or what Iooks like an
affix). To stick with oor example, -emotion- looks as if it contaioed a noun·formiog suf·
fix "·ioo·, and in the early 20th century the verb "emote (rneanlng ·portray emotion
ft

theatrlcally, as an actor does was coined by removing the "-ion", In other words, it
ft
)

was back-formed fram "emotion", (Note: tM verb "back-form" is itself a back-

formation of the noun "back-formation".) Ooce a back-formed word has become an
accepted, "normal" part cf the Ianguage, the faet that it was originally forme<! by back-
formation is of 00 strueturaJ relevance. Can yoo tell, for example, which of the folklw-
iog verbs was originally back-formed trom the nouo?
a) edit editor
advise adviser/advisor
inspecl inspeclor
The answer is "editM, but only a student of the hislory of ward formation would be
aware of this. To anyone else, it seems as if "edilorMis focmed from adding the agen-
tive suffix ··or~ to lhe verb, jusl as in the other cases. Sometimes, one can argue about
whether a word is back-formed oc not For example, ·aggression~, "aggressor-,
"aggresslve~ all Iook as if they contain a root verb ·agress~. Indeed, one could ima·
gine a football coach suddenly telling his players to "agress~ more ~ a c1ear case of
a back·formed verb. Or IS it? In fact, the verb was weil establlshed several centuries
ago, but is hardly ever used loday. So to people unfamillar with the verb "agress"
(nearlyall modern-day speakers), it "feeis like" a back-formation. To these few philol-
ogists whO know the verb, it does not. Or consider the following case: in the early
19605, lhe adjective "biodegradable" (biologisch abbaubar) was coined by altaching
bottllhe prefix "bio·" and the suffix ·-able~ to the verb ·degrade~. Later, ecoIogists
started using the verb .biodegIade~. It·s impossible to say whethef it was coined as a
back-formation cf "biodegradable" or by prefixation, i.e. adding .bio-~ 10 the verb
"degrade" independently cf the adjective. Perhaps the most productive type of modem
back-formation creates verbs out of (compound) nouns ending in "_erM and "-lng":
b) babysitter - babyslt brainwashing - brainwash
underachiever - underachieve dry-cleaner/-ing - dry-Clean
The level cf acceptability cf lhe verb can vary. ~Babysit· is quile a normal verb. as can
Oe seen from the fad that it sounds fine in the pas! tense: ·babysat~. Bot the back-
formed verb"sightsee~, for example, is not used in the past ·sightsaw~ is not accept-
able to most speakers. Notice that we've been talking only about dropping suffixes,
which nocmally entails a change in the part of speech (such as noon to verb). Back-
formation involving dropping a preftx does occur occasionally, but it is far less com·
mon. One sometimes hears people dropping negative prefixes from adjectives like
"unwieldy·, "ungainly", "dlsgrunlJed" 10 form otherwise non-existent, positive oppo-
sites, Dut generaUy only foc humorous effect Rnally, there is also back-formation that
doesn't involve affixalion (Affigierung, Hinzufijgen eines Wortbildungselements) at all.
This is what happens whefl a compound participal adjective is used as a "normal",
active verb, e.g. "spoon-fed~ - "spooo-feed", ~botlJe-fed" -"botlJe-feed~.

Whieh of these back-formed words will you not find in a dietionary?

1. 1don't really like 10 spend rnoney, but J do love 10 window-shop.

2. Teachers far prefer ruly pupils 10 unruly ones.

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7/09
 LANGUAGE I SPOKEN ENGLISH

Watch this space!

AOBERT PARR takes a closer look at two commen
•.... <t ... ".
but tricky verbs: "look" and "watch". ,,~,

A person who never looks back has increasiog success:

• Ever sioce his appearance on 8ritain's Gof Talent Paul Potts
has never Iooked back.

"Watch" is Iike "look"

Unlike look at, watch suggests an action In which things are in
The verbs look and wateh have many different uses. Look progress or developing:
is also used as a phrasal verb with at, for and after. .11 you stand at the top of the hili, you can watch the planes
take off and land.

Three of a kind On TV
Ooo't mix up look al with two ather common verbs, look 'or and You doo't Iook TV, you watet! it
Iook after: • What are you watchiog that for? The news has just started.
• 00 you want 10 look al my photos? Watet! is used to talk about programmes on television. See can
• t'm looking for my keys. Have you seen thern? (suchen) also be used:
• My mother's 95 and frall (gebrechJicm, so she needs some· • Did you watch (see) thaI film with Johnny Depp last night?
body 10 look after her. (sich kümmern um)
Be careful!
Without "at"
Wateh is often used to mean Mbe careful ft
:

look can stand alone, without at • Watch that you don't drink too much! TM police will be around
• Look! There's thaI funny man we saw in the pub yesterday. tonight
tf Iook is followed by a sentence beginniog with -woo-, -what" Watch can also mean -make sure nothing happens to-, usually
or "where-, "at" is usualty dropped: wtleo we're talking about something tllat OOloogs to 05:
• look what you've done! What a mess! • Can you watch my bag while I nip (kurz gehen) to the 100
• Look where you're gOlogl ThaI was my foot. (Klo), please?

. A signal ward People say this, tao

Look is a commoo way of signalling thaI you want the person 10 Watch is used in some fixed expressioos to express a warning.
whom you are talking to listen carefully to what you say: You can say Watch what you're dolog! or Watch where you're
• LClOk, wtly cIon't we meet up tor a drink 00 Friday? going! to tell someone to be more careful. Look can 00 used in
• Look is also used to signal that you are going to give an exam· the same way (see above):
pie to show that what you are saying is true: • Hey! Watch where you're going! You oearty ran into me.
• Don't lake your credit card. Look what happened to me! I lost Watch your stepl is used to warn someone that he Cl( she could
mine 00 the first day. get into trouble Cl( make someone angry:
• You'd bener walch your step with your bass. If you keep mak-
Common phrases ing sarcastic remarks, thaI could be the end of your job.
11 you watch the world go by, you sit somewhere and watch
You say Don't look now when you want the person to whom things happen and people as they pass:
you're lalking to lock at someone else, but not immediately: • I spent the day sitting in the park, walching the world go by.
• Don't look now, but there's a guy over there who looks just People who watch the clock are careful not to worklonger than
like Julia's boyfriend. they have to. This expression is used disapprovingly (miss·
I'm just looking is the phrase you use in a shop to tell the shop billigend):
assistant that you are not ready to buy anything: • Don't expect to reach Kevin at his desk after 5 p.m. After
• Can I help you, madam? - Thanks, I'm just looldng. about 4.30 he's always watching the dock.
If you look down your nose at somebOdy, you think you are bet- Watch this space is used to tell people that a situation is devel-
ler or more importanl than the other person: oping and thaI you witllell them the outcome soon:
• 00 you look down your nose at aperson who drives a smaUer .1'11 get the results of my final exam at the end of next week,
car? so watch this space!

60 Spotlight 7/09
 NEWS AND REVIEWS I LANGUAGE
.'" ...1;'';;
_ GRAMMAR
THE WORLD OF LANGUAGE Macmlllan Engllsh Grammar
In Cantext
A word is a word by Thls series of wOfk.books is struetured in a
any other name novel way: a simple explanation of a ruJe
According to the Global lan- or principle of grammar is followed by a
guage Monitor (GlM), a com~ variety of exercises in such categories as
pany based in Aushn, Texas, the science, history and the arts. Users will
number of words in the English e thus effortlessly leam fun facts aloog with
language should reach one mil- grammar. The books indude colour illustrations, an answer key,
lion this summer. But there is aod a CD-ROM (for Pe and Mac) with additiooaJ exercises.
still disagreement over which MacmillanIHueber, Essential (up to 81): ISBN 978-3-19-
words should count Chemical 002972-3; Intermediate (Bl-82): ISBN 978-3-19-012972-0;
terms and produet names are Advanced (C1-e2): ISBN 978-3-19-022972-7, €18.5Q each:
not on Ihe Ust; but there is confusion about whether to
include slang and dialect terms and words taken from AUDIO/REAOING
other languages, John Grimond, writing in The Economist, Read & Listen series
described English as "a IIlQIlQNllanguage that keeps its DA you like to read Stephen King, Roald
vitalily by absorbing new words, uses and expressions· . He Oahl, Jonathan Franzen, Oave Eggers, lan
said tha! the GLM had no light to daim a new ~ as Rankin, Muriel Spark, Nick Homby or
an official word. AIthough EngHsh probably has the higheSt Marian Keyes?Then there's a book with an
number of words cf any language, an exact total is hard to aodio CD for you in the ~Read & Usten"
establish. ~It's like asking how many stars there are in the series by Poos. You'lI find the complete
sky. It's impossible to answer," Professor David Cry5ta1 told text in both languages, as weil as a list of
the BBC. difficult words, plus cultural information. All the COs are very
entertaining to listen to. The books, which are made of good-
ELT training guldellnes quality materials, are suitable for learners at B1-82 and above,
In times of recession, many people tum to "safer career
M
depending on the titte. Pans "Read & listen series, €12.95 each.-
M

options. In Bntain, this has often included teaching English • These products are available tram rw _~l
abroad. But an associaoon of El.I institutions has asked
would-be teachers to consider the qualily cf the training
lhey chelose, aCCOf"ding to The Guardian. Areport drawn up AUDIO HIGHLIGHTS in July
by the Assoclation for the Promotion of Quality in illQL
Education (auiTE) wants to change the belief that teaching • Travel: What better way to spend a summer
English is something that any native speaker can 00. "The day than boating aloog one cf Brttain's beauti-
profession has a name for amateurism, and a number of ful canals or rivers? Boat owner lynda Payton
courses on offer at the moment only serve to underline describes the fun of being on the water.
!his," commented John Norrish, co-chairman of DuiTE. The • Music: Memphis is the beating beart of America's music.
document contains the suggestion thai courses should Spotlight author Rafael A1varez has composed a literary love
include at least 100 Ilours of contact and supervised teach- song to the city and its musicians - past and present.
ing experieoce in areal c1assroom environment. • Words: Not every famous person ls eloquent. Rnd out who
said what wrong, and Ieam to say il betler, ifl our feature -Oid
I say !hat?"
coinage ['1ot:ßJd31 'Nortschöpfung More information online
You'1I find a deScription cf the Spotlight Audio cootents and a toll
track Iisting at www.spotlight-online.delaudiol
Subscribers can also download a complete transcript.

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Answers
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(pp. 46-47)

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bJ blr1k d8lails
Cl (5WIfIIIIWlg) tI'oob
., ....... GRAM. . . BASlCS dJ WilIdawilg
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2. it--2: b-4; e--l; 0-5: &-6; 1-3
(p."l
I) n-.sm, cne
bI clon' hiMllO ' -
Cl rnusln't get
d) musIn'l!orget
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PERFECllOHISTS ONlYl
3. 1Iil1llrnl: Cf3ll, rock pool. seallull. seaW1led. waYe
man-made: buckel, nippefli, sanllcastle, waler wlngs, windbreak
e) dorflIlaYll10 pIay
I) don'l haWlIO wear
"",..."
2. ruly (unruty: 8ufs8ssJQ)

7/09
 THE L1GHTER SIDE I WIT AND WISDOM

.....
THE NEW YORKER
'''I'm ~' and
l 'I~'mean
the same thing -
" .:
.. except at a funeral."
.: . Demetri Martm (born 1973). US comeomn

I
,J Intercultural communication
I
In Germany, everything is forbidden untH it Is
.. . --,= .
.• f permitted.
In England, everythlng Is permitted until it is

~i
forbidden.
In France, everythlng is permitted even If It is
forbidden.
I
Wa, ThurrJoyi out. How ahcuf ~ nrfXr grxxJftr JOUr 1
I
• Very Iittle communication
Bob: Sue, how come you never tell me when
you have an orgasm?
Rugby in heaven Sue: Bob, my dear, i1's because you're never
Two 90-year-old men, Mike and Joe, have been friends tor most of here.
their lives. When lt's clear that Joe is dying, Mike says, ..Joe, we both
loved rugby aJl our Iives. So when yau get to heaven, please let me
know if there's rugby there," Eat the rich
Joe agrees to try. Shortfy atterwards, he dies. A few nights rater, Mike What happened when the banker went swim·
wakes up aod hears Joe calling his name. ming in shar1s·jnfested waters?
..Joe! Where are you?~ Two of the sharks were badly hurt, but they are
"In heaven: says Joe. ul have some good news and some bad news. expected to ~.
The good news is that there's rugby in heaven. All our eid frlends are
hefe. We're young again. It's always spring, and we can play rugby
as often as we want...
"That's fantastic!" says Mike. "So what's tt1e bad news?" Sich entschuldigen
"You're in the team far Tuesday." dyslel(k: IdlS11'Ks1l! legasthenisch
funeraI [fju:n-raJl Begräbnis
lnsomnlac [m'somnl~kl an Schlaftosigkeit
Sieepiess nights leidend
Oid you hear about the insomnjac ~ agnostic? out: be - raut! ausgeschlossen sein
recover [rt'k,w;J] sich erholen, wle<ler
She stayed awake aU night wondering If there was a dog. esund werden
shark-lnfe.ted ['(o:k In (eslId] VOller Haie
sorr)': be - ['sori] leidtun

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64 Spotlight 7/09
 AMERICAN 1I FE I GINGER KUENZEL

The many identities of

our Uncle Sam
Erfahren Sie, was es mit dem gleichermaßen geliebten und gehassten Onkel auf sich hat, der
vor fast 100 Jahren zum Sinnbild der Vereinigten Staaten wurde. EH illliiiiEiFJQ.

his month, America celebmtes recognizing Samuel Wilson as the American flag, and oolookers eheer
Indcpendence Day in mem- man behind the symbol. with pride as he walks by.
ory ofthe ~ of our Dec- So, how did Samuel Wilson herome Most ofthe time, Sam is a kindly
laratien of Indcpendence on the inspiration for Uncle Sam? Dur- unde, someone who inspires us to do
July 4, 1776. In Arlington, Massachu- ing the War of 1812, Wilson supplied our part for our country. But there's
setts, where I live, oße is sUrTOunded beefto the U.S. Army, packed in bar- another side 10 hirn. When we're not
by American hislOry. !t's a neighbor rels stamped with the letters "U.$." happy wilh our government, he be-
of lexington and Concord, where the Bccause the United States was still a eomes the relalive evcryone loves to
"shot heard mund thc world" was young country, thiS!llm was unfa- eomplain about. This is paTlicularly
fired, starting thc American Revo- miliar at the time. According to le- obvious each year around lax time,
lution. Paul Rcvere rode his horse gend - meaning it's probab[y ~ when Uncle Sam asks us for moncy
through Arlingtoll and other towns in 1llli!! true, bul is likely also to be partly to support his extravagant spcnding
1775 on his famaus midnight ride 10 folklore - whcn the soldicrs started habits. Thell again, opposition to pay-
warn thc patriols that the British were asking what "U.S." stood for, some- iog taxes in this country gocs back to
coming 10 attack. one replied, "Uncle Sam Wilson," thc days of Paul Revere. I gucss some
Less weil known, perhaps, is thaI Word spread that the meat shipments things nevcr change. •
Arlington is thc birthplace of Samuel were coming from Uncle Sam. which
Wilson. "Who is he?" you might ask. was then interpreled as meaning the
When I first camc upon his impres- federal govemment.
sive bronze stalUe shortly afler I Today. Uncle Sam is an essential
moved to town, I asked the very same part of Fourth of July parades. He
question. Samuel Wilson (1766-1854) walks along on llil..t.s. to appear very
was the Lnspiration for Uncle Sam, an tall, and throws ~ to kids along
American icon. This bcardcd, white- the route. His c10thing is always a star-
haired man. dressed in red-and-white studded uniform, representing the
striped pants, a blue wajstcoat, and a
ta 11, star-studded hat is the face of thc
V.S. governmenl. The most famous
image of Uncle Sam appeared on a
recruiting poster about thc time the
V.$. enlered World War I, with the
cry:"1 want you for [the] V.S. Armyr'
His image became so popular that
it was used on other posters asking
Americans to do their part to support
the war eITort. Ouring World War 11, undl us Bonbon.
the image was brought out oncc again folklorfl [fookb:rl Uberliefefung
for the same purpose. The Uncle Sam onlookef [a;n,luk>r1 Zuschauerlinl
nb nts us Hose UK: Unterhose
on the posters, however, actually looks ass llth. l<e5 etw. verabschIeden
vcry linie like Samuel Wilson. The shlpment ['[!pmilntl Lieferung
an.ist who created thc first posters told 51 In 'saUlll Unterzelchnun
President Franklin Oclano Roosevelt somewhat [MmwAtI ein bissehen

."......
stamp sth. istzmpl etw. mit einem Stempel
that he had used himselfas the model.
You see. James Montgomery Flagg stat-studded rsta;r ,JilAdldl sternenQbersät
was doing his paTl to help the gov- stltt. bults! Stelzen
term !13:ml Bezeichnung
emment save money by avoiding the
walsteoat I'wesbtl Weste
cost of hiring a model. In 196 J. how- word s lIds W):d 's redz es t sich herum
ever. Congress ~ aresolution )'00 see Uu 'si:1 hier: nämlich

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Einfach super!
Spotlight 5/09 - Vocabulary Boas!. Ich finde das Extra
"Vocabulary Baast" super. Die Wörter sind gut, und man
kann sie durch die Beispiele super lernen. Wäre 1011, wenn
es bei jeder Ausgabe so eine "Karte" mit den wichtigsten
Vokabeln des Heftes geben würde, auch wieder mit so lollen
Beispielen.
Usa Siemens. by e-mail

Extrablatt der Extraklasse

Spotlight 5/09 - Vocabutary 80051. Die diesmalige Beilage
finde ich so hervorragend, dass ich den Vorschlag machen
möchte, diese in Zukunft beizubehalten.
Dieter Rin=eJ. by e-mail

Lob und ausgesprochene Kritik

Spotlight 5/09 - Vocabulary Boosl. Ich freue mich immer
sehr auf die neueSie Ausgabe von Spotlight. Sehr gut finde
ich, dass in jedcm Artikel einzelne Wörter übersctzt und mit
der jcweiligen englischen Aussprache versehen sind. Im
Maiheft fand ich den "Vocabulary Boost" -leider ohne An-
gaben zur Aussprache. So musste ich zuerst nachschauen:
Wie wird das Wort ausgesprochen?
Gisela Umlauf by e-mail

Life in Dur times

Every month, I really enjoy reading your magazine with its
. intercsting. infonnative and currcnt topics. Thanks for all the
aniclcs and language pages abaut everyday Iife in our times.
wriUen by Paul Smith. Ginger Kuenzel, Anna Hochsieder,
Robert Parr, Elisabcth R.ibbans (unlil May 2009), Ken Tay-
. lor and others. Wilh the help of your magazine, I've been
teaching English al the local Volkshochschule for several
years. My students and I especially like reading the short
stories that have an open ending; they'rc the best basis for
discussing thc problems of cvel)'day life.
lValburga Möbius, Eisenach

Noch eine Nadel im Hefte-Haufen

Spotlight 5109 - Feedback. Dem Wunsch Ihres Lesers k.ann
ich mich nur vollständig anschließen. Bei mir stapeln sich
diverse Jahrgänge Spotlight. Alte Jahrgänge habe ich schon
versucht in den Griffzu bekommen, indem ich die ftir mich
intercssanten Artikel herausgetrcnllt und separat gesammelt
habc. Aber auch das ist k.eine Lösung. Es wäre schon sehr
platzsparcnd und rur die Suche hilfreich, wenn Sie die In-
halte elektronisch zur Verfügung stellen könnten, zumindest
für die Abonnenten.
Lothar Brüclcmann, b)' e-mail

66 Spotlig!ll
 PAUL SMITH I BEFORE YOU GO

The right time to

make your wish
Versuchen Sie Ihr Glück mit einem Zahlen muster
aus diesem Artikel, und Sie werden sehen, was
passiert. Alle Angaben ohne Gewähr. """cu" ,~,

" uick. Daddy, make a advenises its drink as having 23 after being knocked down. ßUI you
wish!" says our youngest flavours. In the film The Nflmber 23 possess the strength and courage to
daughter from thc back (which opencd on 23 February 2007), succeed in spite ofany difficulty."
seal of our car. I note thc Jim Carrey plays a man who becomes Sounds true enough.
time on thc clock, 10.10, and make a Qbsessed by the number 23. Early in February 2002, the famous
wish. It's a ritual in OUf family that Significant numbers, black calS and ~ Uri Geller wrote that the 20th
such "double limcs" allow us 10 make counlless other omens have bcen con- ofthat month would be a day of spe-
a wish. And each day offers 23 ap· nectcd with human hopes and fears cial mystical power. Just think abaut
portunities: 01.01, 02.02 ... 12.12, throughout history. At horne. as young it. The date 20.02.2002 is a very rare
13.13 ... 22.22 and 23.23. childrcn, we fought at Sunday lunch- number. It reads the same forwards
"Bul why 23 again?" I ask myself time for the chance to make a wish and backwards; it uses just zero and
Thc number 23 seerns 10 pop up while pulling the Y-shaped chieken two, and repeats itsclfperfectly.
everywherc. Psalm 23, thc "Shcpherd "wjshbone". The ehild with the longer Geller told Sunday People readers
Psalm", is among thc most famaus in halfofthe bone would, everyone be- to make a wish list and 10 look into
thc Bible. Thc Koran was revcaled (0 Iieved. have his wish fulfilled. But a pholo ofhis eyes at 11.11 a.m., at
Muhammad Qver a pcriod of23 years; you have 10 wish hard enough and, of 1.11 p.m. and at 11.11 p.m. while
and basketball player Michael course, eal all your vegelables. thinking oftheir wish. "Oon't worry
"Magie" Jordan wore thc number 23 Certain people serve the wish- ifyou feel warm, see coloured auras
on his shin. as did fOOlball great David fulfilmenl industJy, such as astrologers. around my eyes or ifthings fall off
Bcckham for Real Madrid and the I Ching spedalisls, aura analysts and shelves," he said. "This is the very
L.A. Galaxy. In lIIuminati conspjracy numerologists. For example, hltp:!/ first time anyone in the world has tried
Iheories, 23 is an importanl number. linyllr!.com/(/23rb6takes my birth- to focus human mi nd power on such
Julius Caesar is said 10 have bcen day and teils me thai "Life will test a~, and on such a significant date."
stabbed 23 times, and Or Pepper your willingness 10 gel up offthe floor One critic later remarked Ihat, be-
cause his wish had 001 come true.
"We all have a childlike longing to make Geiler must be a fI:n!.Q. His wish?
"Make Uri Geiler disappear!" Psy-
wishes come true, but you have to wish hard ehic services may havc e1ear commer-
enough - and eat all your vegetables" cia! objeetives, but it would be a
shame if our childlike desirc to make
wishes come true were ruined.
Before you go, consider this fasci-
consplracy fk.ln'spl~si! Verschwörung oating fact. At exactly five minutes
Dr Pepp!! l,doKI~ 'pe!»1 us ein Elfrischungsgetränk and six seconds after 4 a.m. on 7 Au-
&aud Ifn:dl Betr9ger(inl gust Ihis year, the time and date will
,"umlnatl Il)u:m(na:tl:1 Die Er1eochteten; Name mehrerer
GeheimgeseUschaften bc 04.05.06 07.08.09. Maybe that's a
knack .a,. down ( nok 'daunJ lmeln. umwerfen good time for a wish. Or maybe that
obsessed: be - by sth. [;lb'sesll VOll etw. besessen sein time is now. Quick, check your watch
alm so:m Psalm for a double time! •
psychlc 1'5'IIKIKI Medium
scale Iskel'l[ Umfang, Größenordnung
shelf (pI. sl\eIVQ) I(elf; pi. (elvt! Regal{brenl PAUL $MITH is an international management
shephefd [(ewdJ Hirte consuIiaflt who lives oeat Mooich. Read lTlOfe
stab sb. Ista'bl mit dem Messer auf jmeln. einstechen
w1shbone ['wl~nl das gabelförmige SchlOsseIbein bei or his hps aboot commUflicatiog in English at
Vögeln pauls·notes.~.rom

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