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HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT THE NEWS

SOUTH AFRICA: Building post-apartheid reconciliation

BOOST YOUR ENGLISH!

AMY WINEHOUSE, B acktoBlack ALBUM

Grammar: Reexive pronouns

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Organising your summer holidays

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1 1 IntRoduction 2 2- - 6 3  In the News  23-25  Talking to  7 4 - 5  PRess Clippings  26-27  On the Job  8-9  28 6 - 7  The News in Depth  NuMbeRs Talking  WoRds & CultuRe  29-32  10-12 8 - 9  Business News  13-14  What to Say  33-36  What’s Up? 10  -1815 Tips and Techniques  37-39  ShoRt StoRy 11 - 12 -20 19  Did You Know?  40  Just Kidding!  21-2 1 2 3  Life as ARt  41 Tongue TwisteRs  42 14  ConVeRsation 15 - 16  43  IMpRoVe youR intonation  44  PRactise youR pRonunciation

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conTEnTs 11 n o 89 March-APril 2018 How to speak about the news NEWS 4-5 In the News B2 C1 5 PRess Clippings C1 C2 The News in Depth 6-7 B2 C1 Puerto Rico, American (but not an American state) AMy Winehouse, B ackto B lack album LANGUAGE 8-10 WoRds & CultuRe C1 C2  The ABCs of spelling 20 12-13 &spiTuqinhceTes B1B2 11 What to Say B1 B2 © CC BY 2.0 How to speak about the news Organising your summer holiday TImE TrAvEL The GRaMMaR Point to 14-15 B1 C2 Reexive pronouns 16-17 Did You Know? 24 C1 Idioms using the word ‘queen’ 10 WoRds 18 B2 C1 Out of Africa trAvELANDCULtUrE 20-21 Life as ARt B2 Amy Winehouse,B ackto B lack album © Charles HB Mercer / Shutterstock.com 22-23 PRoïle B2 C1 Building post-apaRtheid Reconciliation Maxine Waters, a Democratic US representative for California TiMe TRaVel 24-27 C1 Building post-apartheid reconciliation in the Rainbow Nation 29 29-31 Talking to C1 C2 Christian Bale, about the movieH ostiles BUSINESS TALKING TO On the Job 32-33 B2 Christian Bale © Tinseltown / Shutterstock.com Ulla Gaudin, makeup artist and wigmaster IndustRy Focus 34-36 C1 C2 Trader Joe’s, an all-American supermarket NuMbeRs Talking 36 C1 Ull 3 a Gaud 2 in, 37 Business News B2 C1 © CC BY-SA 4.0 LIFEStyLE 38 TRendy Places B1 makeup artist Kensington Market, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and wigmaster © DR Insights 40-41 C1 British titles and honours: How easy is it to get one? 2-43 What’s Up? 4 B2 C1 INSIGHTS: 44-46 ShoRt StoRy C1 C2 40 British titles  Lawless and the Paris Assassin and honours FUNANDGAMES 47 Quiz B2 C1 SYmBOLS: ARticle in AMeRican English About ‘Lawless and the Paris Assassin’ ARticle Read and RecoRded onaudio ïles 48 Ju B2 C1 st Kidding! The audio îles also have pronunciation and intonation Tongue TwisteRs to 48 B1 C2 Digital Audio eXeRcisesbased on articles from the magazine. eXeRcise 49 NeXt Issue & AnsweRs

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IN thE NEWS Article by ruth AdaM

tHe fuTuRe Of supeRmaRkeT sHOpping Canada is encouraging shoppers to use more technology in supermarkets, so they can buy, bag and pay for goods themselves. On entering a store, you take a portable scanner, and then you check in items as you go along. When you’ve finished, the scanner adds up the value of your purchased items. You then bag the items yourself and pay at a self-checkout machine. This seems to be the future, and companies will make big savings on overheads , as there will be fewer checkout employees. Some people might miss the banter with employees, but other people seem to love it: “It was good,” one shopper said, about their self-checkout experience. “I didn’t have to speak to a single person!”

a shopper

to bag goods to purchase

un acheteur, une personne qui fait ses courses mettre dans un sac la marchandise, les produits acheter

self-checkout

savings overheads the banter

WellingTOn and MexicO CiTY sHaRe eaRTHQuake expeRTise

la caisse (du supermarché) en libre-service les économies les frais généraux le badinage, la plaisanterie

New Zealand and Mexico can learn a lot from each other when it comes to earthquakes, as both countries have capital cities near major faults and with large areas built on reclaimed land . Structural earthquake engineers who visited ruins in Mexico City after the 2017 earthquake recognised that Wellington has similar vulnerable constructions. In 2016, many South Island buildings survived the Kaikoura earthquake unscathed , but that was largely because Wellington was further from the epicentre; any closer and the story would be completely different. A government enquiry into building standards is ongoing , but industry experts fear that property owners will leave improvements until the last minute, creating a demand that will be difîcult for the engineering industry to meet.

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an earthquake

a fault reclaimed land unscathed ongoing an improvement © CC BY-SA 4.0

un tremblement de terre une faille (géologique) des terrains viabilisés indemne, sain et sauf en cours une amélioration

Successful TeacHeR Held lessOns undeR a TRee

© DR

FoR oVeR two decades , in the noRtheast of South AfRica, JeRRy mbowane taught MatheMatics and science undeR a tRee in his faMily’s yaRd . This was a daunting pRospect , as he didn’t haVe enough desks oR chaiRs foR his students, and he had to cope with capRicious weatheR conditions. HoweVeR, his pupils weRe enthusiastic and eageR to succeed. mbowane belieVed in changing the iMage of sciences, which aRe often Maligned as difïcult subjects, as they aRe iMpoRtant when it coMes to uniVeRsity adMissions. OVeR the yeaRs, he has tRansfoRMed soMe of the pooRest childRen in his aRea into students with stRaight A’s*, who haVe gone on to becoMe doctoRs, engineeRs and lectuReRs. reading about his success, a local © NigelSpiers / Shutterstock.com petRocheMical coMpany was undeRstandably iMpRessed and Made a donation of r150,000 (aboute8,800), which will now pRoVide mbowane and his students with stationeRy and a classRooM.

* To get straight A’s at school or college is to get the best results in all examinations.

to hold (held, held) a decade a yard a daunting prospect to cope with to be eager to maligned stationery

organiser, tenir une décennie un jardin une tâche difîcile affronter, faire face à être impatient de néfaste, pernicieux des fournitures de bureau

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MicROcHips fOR aTHleTes The WoRld OlyMpians Association was taken aback when its chief eXecutiVe, mike milleR, suggested that in oRdeR to ïght dRug taking in spoRt, peRhaps athletes could be MicRo- chipped, Much as we do with aniMals. He was speaking to anti-doping leadeRs at a WestMinsteR foRuM on integRity in spoRt, and Made it cleaR that this was his own idea, and not the policy of the association. He Realised that people would be Reluctant to do this to huMan beings, but in oRdeR to fosteR a debate, he said: “Well, we’Re a nation of dog loVeRs; we’Re pRepaRed to chip ouR dogs and it doesn’t seeM to haRM theM, so why aRen’t we pRepaRed to chip ouRselVes?”

a microchip taken aback

une puce électronique surpris, étonné, déconcerté

to foster to harm

encourager faire du tort à

WOmen pRisOneRs îgHTing CalifORnia’s wildîRes California’s women inmateswillingly choose to be trained as îreîghters and work long, arduous hours during the wildîre season. It’s dangerous work and they don’t do it for the money, which is a pittance , but because they are part of a team that knows it is doing something worthwhile. As one woman said, they would do it for free: “It feels good that you saved somebody’s home, you know?” Unfortunately, when they leave prison, the women cannot be hired by their local county îre departments, which prohibit the hiring of felons . Even the prison department regrets this situation; it seems a shame that the state cannot reap the beneîtsof its training programme, while also helping ex-offenders to get a solid foothold in society.

a wildîre an inmate willingly

arduous a pittance

un feu de forêt un détenu, un prisonnier de bon cœur, de bonne grâce difîcile, laborieux une misère, des clopinettes

© mikeledray / Shutterstock.com

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a felon a shame to reap the beneîts of sth to get a foothold in

un criminel (ici) dommage récolter les fruits de qch avoir un point d’appui dans

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About theNational Football League(NFL) protest Controversy

I am not going to stand up to show p “ ride in a ag for a Country that oppresses blaCk people and people of Color . ” COlin KaepeRnick, THe îRsT NFL plaYeR TO sTaRT kneeling duRing THe NaTiOnal AnTHem

I try to Challenge people that you s “ hould be just as upset that all of these things are happening in this Country. What we are saying that this ag stands for, and justiCe for all, and the things in our Constitution that we hold near and dear*, are not being upheld . ” MalcOlm Jenkins, an AmeRican fOOTball safeTY fOR THe PHiladelpHia Eagles

This union …will never baCk down w “ hen it Comes to proteCting the Constitutional rights of our players, as well as their safety as men who Compete in a game that eXposes them to great risks. ” DeMauRice SmiTH, execuTiVe diRecTOR Of THe NFL PlaYeRs AssOciaTiOn

PolitiCs and sports have always b “ eenintertwined ... RaCe is a part of the DNA of this Country. ” Spike Lee, îlmmakeR

Wouldn’t you love to see one of these N “ FL owners , when somebody disrespeCts our ag, say, ‘Get that son of arThOG o the îeld right now, out, he ’s îred . He’s FIRED! ” DOnald tRump, 45TH PResidenT Of THe UniTed STaTes

to stand up to kneel (knelt or kneeled, knelt or kneeled) the national anthem to be upset to be upheld a union

to be intertwined an owner to be îred

se leVeR se MettRe à genouX, s’agenouilleR l’hyMne national êtRe affecté, êtRe contRaRié (ici) êtRe Respecté un syndicat, une oRganisation syndicale êtRe étRoiteMent lié un pRopRiétaiRe êtRe ViRé, êtRe RenVoyé

* ‘Near and dear’ is an expression meaning ‘those who are near to your heart and dear to you’.

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