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ROBOTS

Will they replace us?

DOSSIER: Emotions·  What Makes Us Human·  Emotional Language

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Technology

THE SINGULARITYThe fear now is that robots could bring about1 the demise2 of humanity. This is not just something that Hol-lywood scriptwriters3 think about. Such things worry computer-programming expert Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype, Huw Price, professor4 of philosophy at Cambridge,

and Lord Rees, the astronomer royal and master of Trinity College, Cambridge. They have set up5 the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at Cambridge.

Part of the problem arises6 because the speed7 and capacity of computers doubles every 18 months. It is pre-dicted that around 2040 we will build our last machine. From then on8 machines will create other ever-more-in-telligent machines autonomously. At this point – known as ‘the Singularity’ – we will no longer be the most intelligent beings on the planet.

THE END OF USSome researchers and philosophers think that machines will be nice to us. There are two problems with this naïve9 idea: first, as we have seen, we have already created robots that kill. Secondly, artificial intelligence is created in our image – how do we treat10 the next most intelli-gent beings in our world? Chimpanzees, dolphins and octopuses? We destroy their habitat, keep them in zoos, experiment on them and eat them. Once robots can rep-licate themselves and control their own evolution, human-ity can be marginalized. This doesn’t have to be anything as dramatic as genocide. As we have seen, robots can simply make the majority of us unemployed, superfluous, obsolete. In such a scenario11 we will just gradually fade from view12 as an irrelevance. As T.S. Eliot wrote back in 1925, “This is the way the world ends // Not with a bang but a whimper13”14.

1 to bring about (bring-brought-brought) – cause

2 demise – end, decline 3 scriptwriter – sb. who writes the script (= text) of a movie

4 professor – (false friend) head

of department at a university, senior academic

5 to set up (set-set-set) – create, establish

6 to arise (arise-arose-arisen) – emerge, occur

7 speed – velocity 8 from then on – after that 9 naïve – unsophisticated, child-like 10 to treat – deal with, act towards 11 scenario – (false friend) hypo-

thetical situation

12 to fade from view – be margin-alized, become irrelevant

13 whimper – whine, pathetic pro-test, small noise of discomfort (like that made by a frightened dog)

14 in The Hollow Men

THE TECHNOCENE:THE AGE OF THE MACHINE

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Science | ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

THE TERMITE TELEPHONEAfrican termites (Macrotermes natalensis) send warning1 messages through their colonies at a speed of 1.3 metres per second, according to research from the University of Bochum in Germany. They do this by banging2 their heads on the ground 11 times per second. Each termite’s message travels only 20cm but it is immediately picked up3 and relayed4 by the nearest termite, a bit like mobile phone antennas. There is little danger of the message being garbled5 – as it is in the game of Chinese whis-pers6 – because it is so simple: “danger predator”.

NOT-SO-CARNIVOROUSCROCS7

Research from the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Charleston, South Carolina, has confirmed decades of anecdotal reports: over half the existing crocodilian species supplement their diet with fruit. It seems that at least 13 of the 23 species of crocodiles and alliga-tors in the world today eat fruit as well as meat.

LUNATICSAND ELEPHANTS

Research from the University of Basel has con-firmed that people sleep worse when there is a full moon8. On average it takes five minutes longer to get to sleep, we sleep 20 minutes less and we spend 30% less time in deep sleep when there is a full moon.

Meanwhile9, a study from Anglia Ruskin Univer-sity has found that African elephants plan their raids10 on cropland11 to coincide with the new moon. Elephant raids are more frequent and more substantial when the nights are darkest. This suggests that they under-stand that darkness lowers the risk of being killed by farmers12. Or perhaps they know that humans sleep less and more lightly13 when there is a full moon!

MY NAME IS FLIPPERDolphins have a signature whistle14 which they use to identify themselves and to identify others. When they hear a familiar whistle they will repeat it back to their acquaintance15, which they don’t do for an unfamiliar whistle. Moreover, a study from the University of Chi-cago has now found that dolphins remember each other’s signature whistles14 after more than 20 years apart, sug-gesting they have the best memory in the animal world.

1 warning (adj.) – alarm 2 to bang – beat, hit3 to pick up – receive 4 to relay – resent 5 garbled – incoherent, meaningless

6 Chinese whispers (UK Eng-lish) – broken telephone (US English)

7 croc – (colloquial) crocodile 8 full moon – when the complete disc of the moon is visible

(associated with werewolves)9 meanwhile – at the same time 10 raid – surprise attack 11 cropland – arable farms 12 farmer – agriculturalist 13 more lightly – less deeply14 signature whistle – high-fre-

quency sound that identifies an individual

15 acquaintance – known indi-vidual, (in this case) friend

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FOOTNOTESThe superscript numbers in the text refer to the footnotes at the bottom or at the side of the same page. The footnotes explain the difficult vocabu-lary as determined by our non-native proofreaders. Like you, these proof-readers are learners so they are able to identify the exact words you need to know to understand the sentence. Definitions are given in English, so that you learn to think in English and these definitions are then checked by the non-native proofreaders to ensure that you will understand them. Some words are defined by pictures: we use these visual stimuli when that is the best way to fix an idea in your memory. Read the definition or look at the illustration and then re-read the sentence in ques-tion. By working with English-language footnotes you will rapidly increase your vocabulary and learn how English words relate to each other, all of which will have a dramatic impact on your fluency and self-confidence1.

Some readers find it useful to put their finger next to the word in the article that they are looking for in the footnotes to make it easier to return to the text afterwards. Either way, it shouldn’t be difficult to find your place because the footnotes are numbered and the words are highlighted in bold. Notice that the syllables and words that should be stressed2 are underlined.

Red footnotes give extra cultural (rather than linguistic) information, or they refer you to other articles.

1 self-confidence – self-assurance (opposite of ‘self-doubt’, ‘hesitancy’)2 to stress sth. – emphasize, underline

Consonants/ʧ/ as in church, watch/ʃ/ as in wash, sure, action/ʤ/ as in judge, gesture/ʒ/ as in measure, vision/j/ as in yes/θ/ as in thick, path/ð/ as in this, breathe/ŋ/ as in sing

Pure Vowels/æ/ as in cat/ʌ/ as in cut/ə/ as in occur, supply,

aroma/ɜ:/ as in first, turn, earn/ɔ:/ as in court, warn

Dipthongs/iə/ as in ear, here/eə/ as in air, there

PHONEMICSYMBOLSHere are the phonemic symbols that we use which might cause you problems.

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CURRENTAFFAIRSThis section of the magazine offers short news stories organized thematically:

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SPEAKING & LISTENING EXTENSION

10 Watch a National Geographic report about the ‘Llullaillaco Maiden’:

http://goo.gl/sVHwXB

15 Speak: do you get mobile etiquette wrong? Do cellphones create conflict in your society?

16 Watch The Singularity is Near, a 2-hour documentary about our robotic future:

http://goo.gl/KQ8M6R Speak: does the robotic future scare

you or fill you with hope?

7 News & Anecdotes - stories from around the world.

8 Technology News - tech stories from around the world.

9 Language News & Anecdotes - light-hearted linguistic stories

from around the world.

10 Science News: Archaeology & Anthropology - keep up with the past! 11 Science News: Robotics - the latest news from robotic research labs12 Science News: Health - salubrious stories! 13 Science News: Animal Behaviour - zoological surprises EXERCISE 2

14 Internet News: - safer authentication is on its way EXERCISE 2815 Internet News: - don’t let your smartphone ruin your love life 16 Technology: the Technocene – our robotic future - will robots make us happy or simply replace us? EXERCISES 6, 2218 Economics: the upside of conflict at work - how arguing can be good for business19 Economics: are you sabotaging

your financial success? - the sky is the limit if you change your behaviour 20 Economics: it’s all in the mind - there’s only a recession because

we think there’s one EXERCISE 27

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Language news

THE LANGUAGE OF RECESSION

The International Herald Tribune has been looking at the influence of the EU recession on European languages. To start with, economics has become a subject for postpran-dial1 discussion2 like never before. Ordinary conversation in southern Europe is now peppered with3 ‘the risk pre-mium’, ‘the troika’, ‘competitive shock’, ‘market bubbles’4 and ‘bonuses’. Italian has adopted new terms in semi-En-glish such as spreaddite and downgradare. Indeed5, the Herald Tribute claims6 that Italians now track7 the spread8 between German and Italian bond yields9 “with a passion once reserved for soccer”. The prestige of eco-nomics is at an all-time low, just when we have all become economists. Maybe it is due to10 all the unemployment. Galbraith11 once said, “Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists”. Unemployment has spawned12 a generation of ‘nei-nors’ (i.e. ni-nis) in Spain, who neither work nor study. They are called ‘the distressed generation’ in Portugal. However, the best bit of linguist irony comes from Greece where they talk about the ‘nouveaux pauvres’ (neoptohi) in contrast to the Greek word for the nouveaux riches (neoplouti).

OED PUTS ITS FOOT IN IT13, LITERALLY

Britain is up in arms14. After decades of letters to The Times and even books (Quite Literally and Literally the Best Language Book Ever), The Oxford English Dictionary has accepted that ‘literally’ doesn’t just mean ‘verbatim’ or ‘precisely’ but can be used as a vague word of emphasis.

VULGARITY,NOT BLASPHEMY

A vicar in Cambridgeshire, the Reverend Alice Good-man has been criticized by members of her congrega-tion for a bumper sticker15 on her car which reads, “WTFWJD?”. It stands for “What the fuck would Jesus do?”. The Revd. Goodman has defended the use of the sticker saying it is vulgar but not blasphemous.

AMERICAN MESSIAHSA judge16 in Tennessee has changed a baby’s name from ‘Messiah’ to ‘Martin’. Judge16 Lu Ann Ballew was decid-ing which of the parents’ surnames the boy was to use but took advantage of17 the opportunity to order that his first name be changed too. She states that there is only one Messiah “and that person is Jesus Christ”. In fact, Judge Ballew is wrong; over 700 babies were christened18 Messiah in the USA last year. Meanwhile, the most popular names given to babies in Britain last year were Harry and Amelia. The most popular boy’s name in London was Muhammad.

1 postprandial – after lunch, after dinner

2 discussion – (false friend) conversation, debate

3 to be peppered with – be full of 4 bubble – situation in which

market prices are unsustainable 5 indeed – (emphatic) in fact

6 to claim – say, state 7 to track – monitor, follow 8 spread – (in this case) difference 9 bond yield – sum returned to the owner of a bond

10 due to – because of 11 John Kenneth Galbraith

(1908-2006) US Keynesian

economist12 to spawn – generate 13 to put one’s foot in it (put-put-

put) – make a serious error 14 to be up in arms – be very

angry and indignant 15 bumper sticker – adhesive

sign put on the back of a car

16 judge – 17 to take

advantage of (take-took-taken)

– use 18 to christen – baptize

CULTUREThis section of the magazine offers...

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SPEAKING & LISTENING EXTENSION

38 Watch Michael Norton talking about experiences vs. stuff:

http://goo.gl/ruZZs3

39 Watch Martin Seligman talking about positive psychology:

http://goo.gl/vb4bS6

40 Watch this video about the artificial creativity of the Painting Fool:

http://goo.gl/1aveh2

43 Watch Track Dogs playing Forever You’ll Be live at:

http://goo.gl/bbwTMa

Check out all their videos on their YouTube channel (trackdogsvideo):

http://goo.gl/nY0YH0

46 Watch this long docudrama about the ‘bodyline’ series:

http://goo.gl/MWEhKo

54 Listen to this recital of Keats’ To Autumn: http://goo.gl/yWPsVX

62 Watch this Australian report about the Thomas Quick case:

http://goo.gl/C3T0BZ

22-25 Travel: Visiting the Limeys – an American in the UK

EXERCISE 2326-27 History: the Mau-Mau Uprising28 Language: does accent matter?29 Language: the problem with English EXERCISE 15

THE EMOTIONS DOSSIER30 Fear is a man’s best friend31 Living without fear32 Time to be Timid33 Shyness & cultural placebos 34 Anger & its audience35 How to clear your head –

emotions under control36 Heartbreak – dying from a broken heart37 The politics of disgust38 Money can buy you happiness39 In pursuit of happiness EXERCISE 5

40 Art: Artificial creativity – the rise of machine art EXERCISE 3243 Song: Forever You’ll Be by Track Dogs EXERCISE 2444 Names: names for movements

that were originally insults46-49 Sports: the Ashes: ungentlemanly

conduct on the cricket pitch EXERCISE 1150-53 Fashion: Naomi Campbell – black is beautiful EXERCISE 754-57 Poetry: Keats’s To Autumn –

coming to terms with death EXERCISE 3158-61 Cinema: Tom Hanks – the all-rounder EXERCISE 1862-63 True Crime: Sweden’s Hannibal Lecter EXERCISE 21

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Feature

U ncontrolled anger – and, let’s face it1, ‘con-trolled’ anger is simply acting – is a bad thing.

It breaks up marriages, ruins families and loses people jobs. However, the impact of anger depends very much on who is angry and who is listening.

Sexism & AngerBoth men and women find anger more acceptable in men than in women. A woman’s emotional outburst2 tends to be attributed to her character, a man’s to external cir-cumstances.3 This is in part because women’s voices tend to go to a higher pitch4 when they are angry – making them sound shrill5 – while men’s goes go to a lower pitch – making them sound dominant.

East is EastA study from the University of California found that angry outbursts2 can gain concessions if one is negotiating with Westerners but won’t if one is negotiating with Asians.

Trouble at HomeDomestic rows6 can be ugly but they are also healthy, according to a study from the University of Maryland. People who suppress their anger in tiffs7 at home die younger than those who don’t. On the other hand, when both partners8 in a relationship express their anger, they both live significantly longer.

Lego Aggro9 If you associate Lego with constructive play, think again. A study of 6000 Lego figures carried out10 at the Uni-versity of Canterbury in New Zealand has found that the faces of most Lego figures are angry, anxious or frustrated. When the figures were first introduced in 1975 most of the faces were smiling. However, scowls11, snarls12 and sneers13 now predominate. Part of the prob-lem is that the Lego figures increasingly reflect pre-es-tablished stories of conflict (Harry Potter, the Hulk, etc.) whereas14 earlier figures were just15 happy builders16, etc. The researchers postulate that the negativity may affect the way children play.

1 let’s face it – if we are honest 2 outburst – eruption 3 Journal of Personality and

Social Psychology, volume 80, p. 86

4 pitch [U] – tone, frequency 5 shrill – high-pitched and

hysterical 6 row /rau/ – quarrel, argument7 tiff – (colloquial) quarrel,

argument

8 partner – lover 9 aggro – (British informal)

aggression10 to carry out – perform, do 11 scowl – frown, glower, glare12 snarl – angry exhibition of

one’s teeth13 sneer – disdainful smile 14 whereas – by contrast 15 just – (in this case) simply 16 builder – constructor

Anger & its Audience

70, 79

Tom Hanks 1989 Photo by Alan Light

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Cinema

T he first decade of Tom Hanks’s career4 in which he played the clown5 in (very) light comedies6 is now

a distant memory. Since then he has displayed7 his ver-satility in roles of deep pathos8.9 However, you never have the feeling with this great actor that life is a tragedy because – be it10 in comedy or drama – he always trans-mits hope and the idea that things can change or at least we can change ourselves. He is somebody one would want to meet because his effortless amiability is transpar-ent on screen11.

SmallTom Hanks was born on 9th July, 1956 in Concord, Cali-fornia. His father, Amos, was a chef and the son of Brit-ish immigrants, while his mother, Janet, was a hospital worker of Portuguese descent12. Tom was the third child of four. Unfortunately, Amos and Janet Hanks divorced when Tom was five. After the divorce Jim, the youngest went to live with his mother while Tom and his older sib-lings13 stayed with his father.

Tomfoolery14

Amos Hanks was constantly on the move15 looking for work. As a result, Tom got used to16 regular change but it also meant he had difficulties in establishing close17 rela-tionships. Perhaps to compensate, Tom played the fool18. Tom would say that he was the second funniest member of the family; he claimed19 that his brother Larry – four years older and now an entomologist20 – was funnier than him. However, Larry stated21 that Tom was the clown22.

1 there’s – (informal) there are 2 warring – in conflict 3 to poke fun at sb. – ridicule sb. 4 career – (false friend) profes-

sional trajectory 5 to play the clown22 – act in a

comical way 6 such as Splash (1984), Bach-

elor Party (1984), The Money Pit (1986) and Big (1988)

7 to display – show, (in this case)

demonstrate 8 of deep pathos – able to

evoke pity and sadness in the audience

9 such as Andrew Beckett (in Philadelphia, 1993), Forrest Gump (1994), Capt. John Miller (in Saving Private Ryan, 1998), Charlie Wilson (in Charlie Wilson’s War, (2007) and Thomas Schell (in

Extremely Loud Incredibly Close, 2011)

10 be it – irrespective of whether it is

11 on screen – in movies 12 descent – ancestry 13 siblings – (in this case) brother

and sister 14 tomfoolery – buffoonery,

silliness 15 on the move – itinerant

16 to get used to (get-got-got) – become accustomed to

17 close – intimate 18 to play the fool – play the

clown22

19 to claim – say, state, declare 20 entomologist – zoologist who

studies insects 21 to state – declare, say 22 clown – buffoon

TOM HANKSThere’s1 two people warring2 inside Tom, and the one would definitely laugh and poke fun3 at the other. - ACTOR AND FRIEND, PETER SCOLARI

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GRAMMARThis section of the magazine offers...

SPEAKING EXTENSION

83 Watch this short video about identifying mushrooms:

http://goo.gl/dPtcCr

AUDIO SCRIPTS EXTENSION

Track 1 Conversation point: should mammoths be resuscitated?

Track 2 Conversation point: the logical implication of globalization is the free movement of labour worldwide – do you agree?

Track 3 Conversation point: is Germany too strong in the EU?

EXERCISE 10

Track 4-5 Conversation point: do you know any songs based on true stories? If so, explain what they are about.

EXERCISE 24

Tracks 6-10 Conversation point: what games did you play as a child?

EXERCISE 30

Track 12 Conversation point: do you consider a pet to be ‘part of the family’?

Track 14 Conversation point: if you were to go to a fancy dress party with your ‘significant other’ what would you go as?

EXERCISE 25

65 US vs. UK: trans-Atlantic differences in the language of emotion

EXERCISE 12

66 Translation: The Paris-Hilton Problem EXERCISE 26

68 Metaphor & Phrasal Verbs: a useful approach? EXERCISE 17

70 English in Context: the art of being irritable EXERCISE 5

72 Grammar Focus: Feel EXERCISE 3

74 Word Building: emotional word families EXERCISE 29

76 Emotional False Friends EXERCISE 19

78 Idioms: emotional expressions EXERCISE 14

82 Etymology: coincidence

83 Visualizing Vocabulary: mushrooms EXERCISE 4

84 Phonetics: open o: phonetics for skinheads

85 Subscription Form86 Picture Description

Grumpy

StroppyModel Arturo Pozo,

photo by José Miguel Serrano

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English in Context

My thesis is this: English has a richer, more varied vocabulary for irritability than for any other emotion. Indeed2, I believe that English is unique among languages3 in finding the nuance4 in annoyance.

Mild IrritationThe standard word to describe some-body suffering from mild5 irritation is annoyed. Other words for this transient6 state caused by things not going according to plan are both-ered and irked. An Elizabethan word that has made an unlikely7 come-back over the last decade or so in youth culture8 is vexed.

Some people – I mention no names – tend to be irritable when they wake up9. We would tend to describe such a person (though not to his or her face) as cranky, though ‘cranky’ can also describe general irritability. Crankiness is cured with coffee (or tea). ‘Cranky’ comes from an old Scots word meaning ‘distorted’10.

The Irritation of YouthMothers are cross. It is a somewhat old-fashioned word (motherese11 usually is) and implies the sort of controlled anger and moral superior-ity that mothers tend to wield12.

Stroppy describes the very dif-ferent form of irritability that charac-terizes teenagers. It implies bloody-minded13 irritability. ‘Stroppy’ seems to be a corruption of ‘obstreperous’, an arcane14 word meaning ‘noisy and

difficult to control’. Another word for adolescent irrita-

bility is bolshie. This is ultimately15 a diminutive of Bolshevik and tells us something of the British attitude to the Russian Revolution.

Grumpy Old MenThe sort of self-important irritabil-ity that we might associate with middle-aged men can be reflected in surly.

The natural state of many old men is irritability – a fact known since at least the times of Seneca, who included angry old men in many of his plays. Old age has its own vari-ety of irritability. Angry old men can be described as grumpy, crotchety or cantankerous. ‘Crotchety’ comes from the old meaning of ‘crotchet’ (= whim16), so the idea is an old person (usually a man) who gets irritable when he doesn’t get what he wants. It has been suggested that ‘cantan-kerous’ is a fusion of ‘contentious’17 and ‘rancorous’.

Irritable older men in the USA are grouchy. This comes from ‘to grouch’ (= complain18).

1 to hone – perfect, refine 2 indeed – (emphatic) in fact 3 among(st) languages – as a language 4 nuance – subtle distinctions 5 mild /maild/ – minor 6 transient – transitory 7 unlikely – improbable, (in this case) surprising

8 youth culture – the language and culture of young people

9 to wake up (wake-woke-woken) – stop sleeping

10 distorted – out of shape, deformed 11 motherese – maternal language12 to wield – (in this case) have 13 bloody-minded – uncooperative and

difficult 14 arcane – mysterious, little known 15 ultimately – (false friend) in the final

analysis 16 whim – caprice 17 contentious – controversial, likely to cause

an argument18 to complain – protest, object

The Art ofBeing IrritableEnglish has honed1 irritability into a fine art.

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AUDIO SCRIPTSThe following pages contain the transcriptions of what is spoken on the audio files.

SPOKEN-ENGLISH TIPSSpoken English is significantly different from the written language: A more limited vocabulary is generally used and it is, by definition, more colloquial.Moreover1, spoken English uses many more incomplete or badly constructed sentences. On the other hand, intonation and stress can be used in speech.

HOW TO USE THE AUDIO SCRIPTSFollow our eight-step process to get the most out of the audio scripts:

Before you listen we recommend that you read through the relevant section of the footnotes2 (not the text itself). This should give you some idea of the subject3 and help you to understand the more difficult vocabulary as you listen.

When you listen the first time, don’t expect to understand everything; listening practice should not be a painful4 process. Simply see how much meaning you can extract from the recording.

Listen more times going back to the footnotes to integrate the information you have.

Once you understand reasonably well, do the relevant exercise.

Finally, read the audio scripts as you listen again.

Stop each time you get lost or encounter a structure that interests or confuses you.

Repeat words or phrases whose pronunciation surprises you.

Two or three days later, listen to the text again without reading to see if your understanding has improved5.

This process is intense and time-consuming. However, it will eventually6 solve the problem most learners have of relating7 the spoken word to the written. Once you’ve done that, the rest is easy!

1 moreover – what’s more, furthermore2 footnotes – notes at the bottom of the page (in this box)

3 subject (n.) – (in this context) theme 4 painful – (in this context) arduous, unpleasant5 to improve – get better 6 eventually – (false friend) in the end 7 to relate – associate, connect, link

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YES NO. 6 TRACK LIST

Mini-debates (27m32s)1. Resuscitating Mammoths (6m44s)

2. A Free Market for Labour (9m06s)3. Is Germany Too Strong in the EU? (11m41s)

4. Interview withGarrett Wall (10m08s)

5. Song: Forever You’ll Be (3m17s)

Monologues:Childhood Games (21m27s)

6. Monologue 1 [US English] (3m32s)7. Monologue 2 [US English] (5m38s)8. Monologue 3 [UK English] (3m55s)

9. Monologue 4 [South African English] (3m51s)

10. Monologue 5 [UK English] (4m30s)

11. Phonetics: Open O (1m06s)

Mini-dialogues (13m58s)12. Dog in Boots (3m03s)

13. Cell Hell (7m16s)14. The Party (3m38s)

15. Picture Description (3m44s)

Total time: 1h21m14s

Photo by Steve, Jurveston

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AUDIO SCRIPTS

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Englishman (EM): OK. First question. Should we clone mammoths?American man 1 (AM1): I think we should, why not? I mean1, they’ve recently found a well-kept speci-men in Siberia with actually2 liquid blood3. I think the only problem is that it’s going to be quite expensive and most likely4 will turn out5 – kind of6 – like… what was the name of the sheep?American man 2 (AM2): Dolly.AM1: Dolly… that they cloned. If she does survive7. I mean1, she was ster-ile, so.AM2: And the purpose?AM1: Because we can, why not?South African woman (SW) : Because there’s8 a lot of other things that could be done with the money to save existing species that are in danger of becoming extinct as we speak.EM: OK, but if a private enter-prise can do that with their own money. I mean1, we spend ridiculous amounts9 of money on football play-ers and arms and things like that.SW: That’s not necessarily good either.EM: Yeah but if it’s private money,

if they can recoup10 the money. I mean1, the thing about that type of genetic research is that they learn so much in the process of reproducing, of doing something whacky11 like cre-ating a mammoth perhaps.AM2: Well – y’know12 – I can see maybe – y’know12 – some animals if it’s to the better good if you can say that, for example, like wolves13. If wolves disappeared I would be all in

favour of trying to clone them and bring them back because they serve an environmental purpose. Y’know12, if there’s some type of purpose that they’re going to serve to benefit us, why not. But some of this…EM: OK, but there is a theory that the megafauna of the last Ice Age was made extinct by a species called Homo sapiens sapiens, that we were responsible for wiping out14 the mammoths, wiping out the woolly rhinos15…AM2: We’re responsible for wiping out most animals, y’know12!SW: But that’s only a theory. That hasn’t been proven either. And I think there are different better ways of

1 I mean – (pause filler) y’know, like, sort of, kind of

2 actually – (false friend) really 3 blood – red liquid typically found in veins and arteries

4 most likely – most probably 5 to turn out – end up, be... in the end

6 kind of – (in this case) more or less 7 does survive – (emphatic) survives 8 there’s – (colloquial) there are 9 amount – quantity, sum 10 to recoup – recuperate, regain 11 whacky – foolish, ludicrous, bizarre 12 y’know – (pause filler) I mean, kind of, sort

of, like 13 wolf (plural ‘wolves’) – 14 to wipe out – exterminate

15 woolly rhino –

Mini-debates (27m32s)

1. Debate 1: Resuscitating Mammoths(6m44s)

Should we clone mammoths?

EXERCISES

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112 1. Illustrations round-up: see if you can identify most of the objects and actions illustrated in the footnotes of this issue.

113 2. Title Tag: can you match these alternative titles to the news and science articles on pp. 7-13?

3. Grammar Focus: replace the ‘feel’ structures in these sentences (pp. 72-73).

4. Visualizing Vocabulary: a couple of quick questions about mushrooms (p. 83).

114 5. Word Search: find words relating to emotions (pp. 30-39, 70-71).

115 6. Prepositions: fill the gaps in this text about the word ‘robot’ with the correct prepositions (pp. 16-17).

7. Match the fashion words from the article on pp. 50-53.

116 8. Crossword for general vocabulary revision.

117 9. Sentence transformation for general syntax revision of structures in this issue.

118 10. Debates: listening comprehension for audio tracks 1-3 (pp. 88-96).

119 11. Too many words: find the unnecessary words in this extract from the Sports section (pp. 46-49).

12. US vs. UK: practise what you learned on p. 65. 13. US vs. UK: fill the gaps in the chart.

This relates to the whole magazine.

120 14. Idioms: complete the sentences to form ‘emotional’ expressions from pp. 78-81.

15. Pronunciation round-up: review the difficult words from the footnotes.

121 16. Word game: test your vocabulary and understanding of English morphology.

122 17. Phrasal Verbs Round-up: how many new phrasal verbs have you learned this month?

18. Cinema: a quiz relating to Tom Hanks (pp. 58-61).

123 19. False Friends: test how well you have understood pp. 76-77.

20. False Friends Round-Up: review the false friends identified in the footnotes.

124 21. Homophones: replace the homophones so that this excerpt from the True Crimes article (pp. 62-63) makes sense.

22. Internet Listening: test your listening comprehension of this fascinating talk about robots (pp. 16-17).

125 23. Reading comprehension: an exercise relating to the Travel section (pp. 22-25).

24. Listening comprehension relating to the interview with Garrett Wall (audio track 4, pp. 96-99).

126 25. Dialogues: a listening comprehension on tracks 12-14 (pp. 106-110).

26. Translation: correct these real examples of broken English (p. 66).

127 27. Economics: a varied exercise relating to pp. 18-20.

28. Wordplay: another word game relating this one to the Internet article on p. 14.

128 29. Word Building: complete these sentences with emotional words from the families on pp. 74-75.

129 30. Listening comprehension for the monologues (audio tracks 6-10, pp. 99-105).

31. Poetry: use the rhyme scheme to complete these stanzas from the poem analysed on pp. 54-57.

130 32. Cloze exercise: fill the gaps in this article about machine art (pp. 40-42).

131-133 ANSWERS

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11. Internet. Read the article on pp. 14-15 and answer the following question:

Below we reproduce part of the first paragraph of Colman’s article on the 1932-33 ‘bodyline’ cricket tour (p. 46). However, in this version, there is an unnecessary word in each line. Identify it and write it on the right. Don’t look back at the article until after you have finished the exercise:

In July of 1931 the MCC appointed Douglas Jardine to lead England 1 ................................................................................to Australia. From that moment outwards the thin-lipped businessman, 2 ...............................................................................cricket amateur and the old Winchester boy had been mulling over how 3 ...............................................................................to stop off the fabulous Australian batsman Don Bradman from humiliating 4 ...............................................................................to England yet again. The memory of how Bradman on his maiden 5 ...............................................................................overseas tour in year 1930 had decimated all of England’s bowlers still 6 ...............................................................................rankled her. That summer the ‘Don’ had come within 40 of recording 7 ...............................................................................3000 runs, had made up 10 centuries and, even more of a concern for 8 ...............................................................................Jardine, had made himself an aggregate of 974 runs in the five-match 9 ...............................................................................Ashes test series. Jardine had not only been in that England team but he was 10.............................................................................nevertheless determined to prove that this team was skippered by him 11 ..............................................................................would neutralize Bradman, outmanoeuvre the Australians too and in the 12 .............................................................................process regain the coveted Ashes.

12. US vs. UK. Read the article on p. 65 and try to memorize the terms. Then, without looking back at that page, see if you can complete this chart with the missing terms:

UK English US English

1 brassed off t_______________ off

2 ch________________ off teed off

3 browned off s___________________________

4 p__________________ off bent out of shape

5 randy s___________________________

13. US vs. UK. Throughout the magazine we highlight variety-specific vocabulary in the footnotes. See if you can complete this chart with the missing terms:

UK English US English page/footnote reference

1 Chinese w_________________ broken telephone (p. 13, n. 6)

2 bellboy bell______________ (p. 59, n. 14)

3 country b____________________ hick (p. 45, n. 9)

4 dr________________t draft (p. 73, n. 4)

5 underground s___________________ (p. 97, n. 183)

6 dr________________s checkers (p. 100, n. 234)

7 Cluedo Cl___________ (p. 100, n. 235)

8 get a word in edgew_____________ get a word in edgewise (p. 108, n. 453)

9 s________________ boat sailboat (p. 110, n. 502)

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