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LANGUAGE LEVEL: A2 PRE- INTERMEDIATE

GTiene una idea genial, pero no el dinero para desarrollarla?

La soluci6n puede que este en Kickstarter: una web de
empre ndedores que busca pequenos inversores online.
rtists need rich pa- take the risk7 • Later he had an idea:
trons 1. Leonardo da ask people to pay in advance•. "If
Vinci, for example, de- a certain number of people buy
pended on the patron- tickets in advance, there is no
age2of the Medici fam- risk," he thought . But it was only
ily. Today rich businessmen buy an idea. Three years later, he dis-
artworksJ as investments. But the cussed this idea with journalist
digital revolution offers an alterna- Yancey Strickler and web designer
tive: Kickstarter. The Kickstarter Charles Adler. Together they cre-
website offers a new way for artists ated Kickstarter.
to raise' money: crowd funding.
ARTISTIC
A DEFINITION Chen isn't a computer 'nerd' ' like
What is crowd funding? A large Bill Gates or Facebook's Mark Zuck-
group of people invest small sums erberg. He is an artist and musician.
of money in an artistic project. He is part of New York's large com-
Kickstarter founder and CE05 Per- munity of artists, musicians and
ry Chen explains: "In 2002 I was photographers. Kickstarter started
organising a concert in New Or- as invitation-only10 • Membership 11 SURPRISE
leans, but I cancelled. The venue' grew12 quickly, and today it is open Photographer Raquel Ladensack is
wanted €15,000." Chen couldn't to everyone in the USA a typical Kickstarter user. She need-
ed finance for a film project: Land-
scape in Response to Place. She
says: "I needed money to buy equip-
How does it work? mentn_My university suggested
Kickstarter." Ladensack raised
Kickstarter members a time limit. The The more money you
propose a project. It total amount must donate, the better
$3,500 (€2. 705) in less than 30 days.
must have a concrete be donated, or the the reward. Some She says: "I was so surprised by the
goal 21 : a book, film or money is returned. rewards are: inclusion · encouragement from donors!"
object. If Kickstarter Kickstarter chargen in a list of donors,
accepts a proposal. 5 per cent from signed25 artworks,
the artist creates successful proj ects. 'free' copies of a QUICK
a page t o describe Donors don't receive gadget, and lunch with Designers are using Kickstarter to
the project, asks for any profit from their the artist. The service launch gadgets. One of Kickstart-
a specific sum of investment, but they is limited to the USA
er's greatest success stories is Luna
m oney, and sets 22 receive r ewards 24• for the moment.
Tik Designer Scott Wilson invented
a watchstrap 14 that transforms an

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 EXERCISES
Listening Questions

1.Write the correct word in the gaps

provided. The first letter of the word and
a definition are given in parentheses to
help you.
a] Through the Kickstarter (w],_ _ __
(internet page] you can donate money.
b] The Medici family was Leonardo da
Vinci's (p] (sponsor].
cl Someone who writes for a newspaper is
a (j] (reporter].
d) These days (n] (studious,
awkward kids] are regarded as being cool.
e] To join Kickstarter, you have to become a
(m] (person belonging
officially to a group].
fl There is a (possible loss]
to any business transaction.

fJSp.eal< UpYj complemento directo The more money you 2. Insert vowels to create words used in the
entonces se usa solo donate, the better the article.
=t:• ..,.-, I
[:J,.,.. :.J t--I el verba y decim os reward - He aqui Example:
It depends! un ejemplo del doble a] ptrn d] dnr
comparative donde, b] dgtl el gdgt
leonardo da Vinci, for It normally takes en la frase subordinada, c] prjct f] wrstwtch
example, depended a year- It takes tenemos La consecuencia
on the patronage of . seguido de una de la principal (Cuanto Answers
the Medici family- expresi6n temporal mas dinero das en 1.al website, b] patron, c] journalist, d] nerds,
Dependon[d epender indica cuanto tiempo donaciones, mayor es la el member, f] risk
del. Aqui el verbo, se necesita para hacer recompensa). En este 2.a] patron, b] digital, c] project, d] donor,
como siempre algo (Normalm ente ejemplo aparece more e] gadget. f] wristwatch
cuando incluimos requiere un anol. Otro seguido de un sustantivo MORE EXERCISES ON CD
el complemento ejemplo: It takes me en la primera parte y
directo, va seguido an hour to get home good(adjetivo irregular)
de la preposici6n. Si (Tardo una hora en en su forma comparativa
en La segunda.
en cambia no lleva llegar a casal.
ld!•t{lii\1
1 PATRON: palrocinador
2 PATRONAGE: patrocinio
(verSpeak Up Explains]
iPod nano into a wristwatch15 . The 3 ARTWORK: obra de arte
4 TO RAISE: recaudar
project raised $942,000 (€728.031)
Wilson has worked with Microsoft,
Kickstarter's 5 CEO ICHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER!:
consejero delegado
Nike and Dell. Why did he use Kick-
competitors 6 VENUE: local
Quirky is a US competitor. 7 TO TAKE A RISK: arriesgarse
starter? He says: "Itnormallytakes16 S IN ADVANCE: por adelantado
Quirky focuses on inventions 9 NERD: fanatica
a year t o develop a new product. and products. It helps 10 INVITATION- ONLY: solo por invitacion
This way it took 30 days!" developu and sell products. 11 MEMBERSHIP: socios, miembros
It is more business- oriented. 12 TO GROW: aumentar
In Europe there is the French 13 EQUIPMENT: equipo
NO THANK YOU KissKissBankBank which 14 WATCHSTRAP: correa de reloj
The business world is very inter- 15 WRISTWATCH: reloj de pulsera
offers equity in its projects. 16 TO TAKE: tardar (ver Speak Up Explains]
ested in the Kickstarter model. It There's also Britain's 17 CUSTOMER: cliente
reduces risk and creates direct con- Unbound for writers. My 18 SOURCE: fuente
Major Company concentrates 19 DESIGNER: disenador
tact with customers17• But Perry on musicians. The public can 20 BILLIONAIRE: multimillonario
Chen isn't interested. Kickstarter invest27 in a group and profit 21 GOAL: objetivo
22 TO SET: establecer
will remain the ideal source11 of fi- from record and tour sales.
23 TO CHARGE: cobrar
Its first artist Gregoire sold 24 REWARD: recompensa (ver Speak Up Explains]
nance for artists and independent
more than a million album. 25 TO SIGN: firmar
designers 1' . He has no interest in 26 TO DEVELOP: desarrollar
becoming a billionaire20 . 27 TO INVEST: invertir

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EASY ENGLISH //THIS MONTH 0 ON C02
BY JOHN RIGG SPEAKER CHUCK ROLANDO STANDARD AMERICAN ACCENT
LANGUAGE LEVEL: A2 PRE-INTERMEDIATE
MADISON
SQUARE GARDEN
NEW YORK'SFAMOUS VENUE
Pabell6n deportivo y sede de innumerables conciertos.
Madison Square Garden es el estadio mas famoso de
Nueva York; una pieza clave en la historia de EE UU.
his month we visit New
York's iconic Madison
Square Garden. It is
one of the world's most
famous indoor1 arenas .
New Yorkers call it "The Garden."
The venue has hosted2 many of
the world's most celebrated sports
events and concerts.
A MAJOR VENUE
What exactly is Madison Square
Garden? It's a sports venue. It is
home 3 to New York's basketball
The New York Knicks Basketball Team
Why do English people laugh at the
MSG baseball team's nickname?
Because knickerbockers14 are
women's underwear15 in the United
Kingdom. They think of French ladies
dancing the Cancan. But in America
knickerbockers are long shorts16 •
What is the connection between New
York and knickerbockers?The shorts
were traditional dress for New York's
original Dutch17 settlers in the 17th
century. New York was originally
named New Amsterdam. ln 1809,
Washington Irving's History of New
York introduced the caricature of the
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a nd ice hockey teams, the New
York Knicks and the New York
Rangers. It is also a world-famous
concert hall. Elton John h as ap-
peared there 62 times', a record!
He said: "Madison Square Garden
is my favourite venue in the whole
world." And Billy Joel stated5 : "It
has the best acoustics and the best
audiences. It is the holy' temple of
rock'n'roll." In fact, the venue has
hosted historic performances from
groups like The Doors, The Rolling
Stones, The Jackson Five and U2.
Madison Square Garden is still7
popular today. Lady Gaga brought
her Monster Ball Tour there earlier
this year. And young country star
Taylor Swift's concert tickets sold
Dutch settler 'Father Knickerbocker.·
The character became11 synonymous 1
out' in a new record of 60 seconds.
with New York City. 'Father
Knickerbocker' wore19 a cotton wig20, a MARILYN
three-cornered hat21 , buckled shoes22 Madison Squ are Garden has
and knickerbockers. USsportsmen
wear knickerbockers in baseball and, played a central role in the histo-
originally, in basketball. ry of the USA. It was the venue of
President John F Kennedy's 45th
Madison Square Garden birthday party. Marilyn Monroe
4 Pennsylvania Plaza
(8th Avenue between sang "Happy Birthday, Mr Presi-
W31st Stand W33rd Stl dent" and there was a scandal!
NewYork, NY10001 It was here that Rocky Marciano
www.thegarden.com
defeated' Joe Louis in 1951. Joe
Frazier beat10 and then lost11 to Mu-

hammad Ali in the 1970s. It is also
the venue where World Wrestling
Entertainment (WWE) first became
a huge 12 success with stars like
Hulk Hogan.
A GREAT LOCATION
Madison Square Garden is located
in the middle of Manhattan on 8th
Avenue. It's built 9n top of Pennsyl-
vania Railway Station. The streets
outside Madison Square Garden
are yellow: there are always hun-
dreds of New York taxis . If visitors
can cross the road, nearby13 they
will find Times Square and some
of New York's most famous shops,
like Macy's department store.
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r:."'i
The venue has hosted many of
the world's most celebrated
sports events and concerts-
Has hosted. Present perfect.
Tipico ejemplo del present
perfect para indicar que una
acci6n que se ha iniciado en
el pasado aun no ha concluido
en el presente. The Garden
se utiliza todavia hoy como un
Lugar para eventos deportivos
y musicales muy importantes.
Historic performances
from groups like The Doors,
The Rolling Stones, The
Jackson Five and U2- Like.
Esta palabra tiene multiples
s ignificados. En este ejemplo
es un sin6nimo de 'como',
'por ejemplo'. [Ha habido
espect<kulos historicos de
grupos como The Doors,
The Rolling Stones ...].
Pronunciation: Temple-
Las palabras que terminan
con -le pueden sonar como
trabalenguas. En realidad
hay un truco: basta con
invertir la 'l' y la 'e·. Los
estadounidenses, mucho mas
foneticos que los britanicos,
han adoptado este sistema
tanto en las palabras que
terminan en -lecoma con
aquellas que terminan en
-re [par ejemplo: centre
BE/centerAEI. Elsonido
producido por -le y -eres
la schwa 1~1. el sonido mas
comun en la lengua inglesa.
Pronunciation: Knickerbockers -
/'mk~,bOk~z/. Kmuda- La letra
'k' es siempre muda cuando va
seguida de la letra 'n·.
i:XE.,R.CISEs·- ·_.
Listening Questions
. .
1. Match the following words to their
synonyms or definitions.
al venue 1. special, emblematic
bl iconic 2. place of worship
cl performance 3. close
dl huge 4. journey with a series of
stops
el beat 5. act done on a stage
fl nearby 6. place for events
gl tour 7. enormous
hi temple 8. defeat an opponent
2. Insert the correct word to complete the
sentence.
host indoor holy huge
star defeated department
al My football team were last
weekend but it was still a good match.
bl There was an pool for the
wintertime.
cl The city will _ _a beer festival in June.
dl Lady Gaga has become an international
el Jerusalem is a place for
the Jewish, Islamic and Christian religions.
fl Starbucks has been a _ __ _
success in America.
gl Macy·s is a store that
has everything for sale, from shoes to food.
Answers
1.al6, bl l , cl5, dl7, el8, 113, gl 4, hl 2
2.al defeated, bl indoor, cl host, dl star,
el holy, fl huge, gl department
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ld!ef{"tj;VJ
11NDOOR: cubierto
2 TO HOST: albergar
(ver Speak Up Explains)
3HOME: sede
4TIME:vez
5TO STATE: afirmar
6 HOLY: sagrado
7 STILL: todavia. aun
8 TO SELL OUT: agotarse
9TO DEFEAT: derrotar
10TOBEAT: ganar ·
11 TO LOSE• perder
12 HUGE: enorme
13 NEARBY: cerca
14 KNICKERBOCKERS: pantalones
bombachos (ver Speak Up Explains)
15 UNDERWEAR: ropa interior
16 SHORT: pantal6n corto
17 DUTCH: holandes
18 TO BECOME: converlirse
19 TO WEAR: vestir
20 WIG: peluca
21 THREE-CORNERED HAT,
sombrero de tres picas
22 BUCKLED SHOES: zapatos de hebilla
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EASY ENGLISH II THIS MONTH
BY JOHNRIGG
SPEAK UP EXPLAINS BY RACHEL ROBERTS
LANGUAGE LEVEL: A2 PRE-INTERMEDIATE
COMMONWEALTH
THE HISTORY OF AN EMPIRE
DAY
Como cada a no, el segundo lunes de marzo, los Estados
miembros de la Commonwealth celeb ran su union.
~El sfmbolo por excelencia de este dfa? La rein a Isabel.
ritain and the world cel-
ebrate Commonwealth-
Day on March 12th,
20 12. It is the annual
celebration of the Com-
monwealth of Nations- an associ-
ation of the British Empire's ex-col-
onies. Queen Elizabeth II attends1
the Commonwealth Day Service2
at Westminster Abbey with rep-
resentatives of the 54 member
countries. The Queen then makes
a speech 3 which is broadcast'
throughout the world5.
THE GAMES
Does anyone listen to the Queen's
Commonwealth Day speech? Well,
the answer is: no, not really! Com-
Queen Elizabeth II, The Monarch
Queen Elizabeth II is not only
Queen of England and the United
Kingdom: she is al so Queen
of Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, th e
Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New
Guinea, the Solomon Islands,
Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines,
Antigua and Barbuda, Belize,
and Saint Kitts and Nevis. These
16 countries are called the
Commonwealth Realms. Their
total population is 128 million.
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monwealth Day is not important
today. It isn't a public holiday in
Britain, or in any of the 54 member
nations. Celebrations are limited to
the displa/ of the Queen's flag, the
Union Jack7 , on public buildings'
around the world. The Common-
wealth Games, celebrated every
four years, are much more popu-
lar. The Games are similar to' the
Olympics, but include extra sports
such as rugby sevens 10 and net-
ball11. The last edition was in Delhi,
India in 2010. The next edition will
be in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2014.
THE EMPIRE
Why does the Commonwealth of
Nations still exist? The British Em-
pire is no more 12 • Commonwealth
nations are now independent sov-
ereign13 states. And many of these
countries have dark memories1'
of the British Empire. However,
they also share15 the same culture.
Trinidadian journalist Tony Fraser
explains: "We can never escape
our British past. The language
here is English, our traditions
and political systems are English.
The sports we love are English."
Nations with strong republican
movements like Australia and Ja-
maica retain,, the Queen as their
head of state. The reason for this
is simple: respect for Queen Eliza-
beth and the stability of her reign.
Nigerian businessman Lotanna
says: "The Queen has played her
role with seriousness, much more
thananyotherheadofstate."
THE FUTURE
Will the Commonwealth disap-
pear when the Queen dies? This
is very unlikely. The Queen is only
the symbolic head of the Common-
we alth. The new head probably
won't be Prince Charles or even
English, but the Commonwealth
will continue. The 54 member na-
tions share the same goals17: the
promotion of world peace, democ-
racy, liberty and equality. This was
demonstrated by Commonwealth
opposition to South Africa and
apartheid in the 1980s. The Com-
monwealth still has important work
to do. It offers guidance and funds
to its poorer Third World members.
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Commonwealth- Of Natlont Today
- lndtPtnd•rrt MemMt Hllklfl1

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~:"'=:r:::• lrit••tl Monatclt
ld!•t{tJi\1
1 TO ATTEND: asistir
2 SERVICE: alicia religiose
J SPEECH: discurso
pasado significaba oposici6n a un Estado ' TO BROADCAST: transmitir
Speak Up 'bienestar·. Asf pues, autoritario gobernado 5 THROUGHOUT THE WORLD: par to do ~ l mundo
la expresi6n common para privilegiar a 6 DISPLAY: presentaci6n, despliegue
l~ • ;J L.f ... ~ I !-' i 7 UNION JACK: bandera del Reina Unido
wealth quiere decir una determinada 8 BUILDING: edificio
literalmente 'bienestar clase de propietarios, 9 SIMILAR TO: parecido a
Commonwealth - comun·. Por esta incluyendo tam bien 10 RUGBY SEVENS: rugby a siete
La palabra raz6n, en sus orfgenes a los despotas. Hoy 11 NETBALL: deporte feme nino
commonwealth commonwealth el termino tiene parecido al baloncesto
data del siglo XV. designaba un Estado un significado mas 12 15 NO MORE: ya no existe
13 SOVEREIGN: soberano
Hoy wealth significa gobernado en pro del general e indica una
" DARK MEMORIES: recuerdos sombrios
ri queza pero en el bienestar comun, en comunidad polftica. 15 TO SHARE: compartir
16 RETAIN: conservar
17 GOAL: objetivo

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EASY ENGLISH// WORLD
BY ANDY BAXTER
SPEAK UP EXPLAINS BY RACHEL ROBERTS
LANGUAGE LEVEL: A2 PRE- INTERMEDIATE
ELECTION DAY
THE BRITISH VOTING SYSTEM
GC6mo funciona el sistema electoral britanico? Facil,
cad a escano lo gana el que mas votos tiene en un distrito.
Un modelo que tiende a que s6lo haya dos partidos.
magine a horse race,. The first
h orse to finish is the winner.
This system - 'first past the
post2' - is how most people de-
scribe the method of voting that
we use in the United Kingdom.
WHAT ABOUT THE LOSERS?
In a race, the horse that comes
second still gets a prize. In British
politics, if you come second, you
get n othing. Currently, the UK is
divided into 650 a reas or 'constit-
u encies3', and each constituency
has one representative, or Member
of Parliament (MP). In an election,
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the voters vote for representatives
from many parties.
Imagine this situation:
A constituency has 50,000 vot-
ers. 25,001 vote for Party A. and
24,099 vote for Party B. Party A is
the winner - it is the 'first past the
post '. All the votes for Party B are
wasted', even though they only
have two votes fewer than Party A
Is this fair 5?
Imagine n ow that there are
three parties in the constituency:
Party A gets 20,000 votes, Party
B gets 18,000 votes, and Party C
gets 12,000 votes.
ee BRITISH
ee COUNCIL
www.britishcouncil.org/es/spain.htm
Party A is still 'first past the
post' . The winner takes all. But.
if you add Party B and Party C to-
gether, they have 30,000 votes!
That's more than Party A. In
fact, more people voted against
Party A than voted for it. Surely
this can't be democratic?
WHAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE?
Many people think that we should
use these 'wasted' votes.
They say if Party A gets 40 per
cent of the votes, it should have 40
per cent of the seats' in Parliament.
And Party B and C should have the
remaining 36 per cent and 24 per
cent. You should get the same per-
centage - or 'proportion ' - of seats
as people who vote for you. This
principle is called 'proportional rep-
resentation' . Then, if Party A wants
to change a law, and Parties B and
C disagree, they can vote together
and defeat' the government on that
particular policy.
But w ill the main partie s be
happy to change the 'first past the
post' system? We 'll have to wait
and see.
ld!•til1i\1
1 HORSE RACE: carrera de caballos
2 FIRST PASTTHE POST:
el primero en cruzar La meta
3 CONSTITUENCY: circunscripci6n electoral
' WASTED: perdido. desperdiciado
5 FAIR: justo
6 SEAT: escaiio
7 TO DEFEAT: derrotar
8 HUNG PARLIAMENT: parlamento en el cual
ningun partido tiene la mayo ria absoluta

zero conditional, utilizado
para hablar de verdades
absolutas. de casas que
suceden siempre. Las dos
frases, la principal y la
In UK politics, if you subordinada con if, llevan
come second, you get el present simple porque
nothing- Noes diffcil se refieren a condiciones
deducir que vamos a que son ciertas, o casi
hablardel'famoso' ciertas.
conditional ingles,
elllamado periodo Many people think that
hipotetico. Conditional we should use these
porque no puede existir · 'wasted' votes-
una condicion sin una Shquld. Verba
hip6tesis. En este caso modal , seem plea
espedfico se trata del cuando quer e m os
The Last Election
As the article explains, usually
one party wins under Britain's
'first past the post' system, but
this did not happen in the l
ast general election.
The House of Commons has
650 MPs. To have a majority,
a party must win 326 seats.
In May2010 David Cameron's
Conservative Party won 306
seats, whi ch was not enough.
Gordon Brown's Labour Party
won 258 seats, which was
also not enough. The third
party, Nick Clegg's Liberal
Democrats, won 57 seats.
A parliament without a clear
majority is called a 'hung
parliament8 '.
Ideologically, the Liberal
Demo cats were more similar
to Labour and a coalition of
the two parties was possible.
But it was mathematically
impossible: this is because 258
+57= 315: this is less than the
magic number of 326. And so
the Liberal Democrats formed
a coalition with the Conserva tive
Party: this is because 306 + 57=
363, which is mor e than 326.
This is Britain's first
coalition government since
the Second World War.
hacer sugerencias, The winner takes all-
dar consejos o El titulo del articulo,
r ecomendaciones: 'El vencedor se
'Muchas personas queda con todo',
creen que deberiamos hace referenda a una
utilizar estos votos expresi6n proveniente
desperdiciados'. dellenguaje deportivo
Es importante recordar que significa 'hay un
que should es invariable, unico vencedor· . Esto se
que por ser un verba contra pone clara mente
modal no lleva auxiliar con lo que sucede en
en el interrogative ni las carrera s de caballos
en el negativo, ni en el donde tam bien
i nterro gat ivo-negativo, alsegundo
y que el verba que le clasificado se
sigue va en infinitivo, le adjudica
sin el to. un premto.
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INTERVIEW II 0 ON C03
BY MARK WORDEN SPEAKER MARK WORDEN STANDARD BRITISH ACCENT
SPEAK UP EXPLAINS BY RACHEL ROBERTS

LANGUAGE LEVEL: C1ADVANCED

ROXY FREEMAN
ALITTLE
GYPSY
A lo largo de la historia el pueblo gitano ha sido objeto
de recelos y desconfianza, y por ello discriminado.
Roxy Freeman, autora dellibro Little Gypsy, una obra
autobiogr<3fica, nos da una vision diferente de su gente.

n English, the word 'traveller' is a
less offensive term for a 'gypsy'.'
Some people say that 'travellers'
are of Irish origin, while gypsies
originally came from India. Ei-
ther way, gypsies and travellers are
very much in the news in Britain
these days. The recent eviction2 of
a 'traveller' community from Dale
Farm in Essex has been a big media
story, but not all the publicity has
been negative. The Channel Four
documentary series Big Fat Gypsy
Weddings has been a hit3 , while
two books about gypsy life are cur-
rently in the bestseller lists. One is
Rosie McKinley's Gypsy Girl, which
is about Ireland, while the other is
Roxy Freeman's Little Gypsy: A Life
ofFreedom, a Tim.eofSecrets, which
is mainly set in England. When we
went to see Roxy Freeman, we asked
her about society's mistrust4 of gyp-
sies and travellers:
BAD EGGS
Roxy Freeman (Standard British
accent): There certainly are some
people within gypsy and traveller
society that are unreliable5 , just like quite the opposite, we had a very
there is in all social groups, and I strict upbringing, we sort of learnt
think, within the gypsy and travel- to, you know, have manners and to
ler groups, it's the troublemakers' work and be honest, like most peo-
that get all the attention. So they're ple are. And there are lots of people,
the ones that are in the paper, and I think, living on the road that do
they get noticed, whereas the ones have that sort of upbringing, but,
like my family that just live a quiet yeah, it's just the bad eggs 12 that
life, moving around, a sort of no- get the attention most of the time!
madic existence, nobody pays too
much attention, so you're not in the CLAUSTROPHOBIA
press7 ! And we certainly weren't Roxy Freeman didn't begin her for-
brought up8 the way people imag- mal education until the age of 22.
ine, that, you know, all gypsies and She later completed a degree and
travellers lie' and steaP0 and con" has since enjoyed a successful ca-
people. And we absolutely ... it was reer as a freelance journalist and

12 SPEAK UP

cook. Today she lives in a house
but, she says, she finds it rather
claustrophobic:
Ro xy Free man: Because· houses
are bigger, people are like 13, "How
can you fe el claustrophobic in a
house and not in a caravan?" But
caravans have very thin walls 14 -
and wagons - they haven't got all
the layers15 and layers of insulation,
and you can hear everything. So you
can lie on your bed and, if there's a
bird on the roof, you can hear it tap-
ping16 around and tweeting17, and
you can hear the trees blowing in
the wind, and you can hear the rain
tap-tapping on the roof. And then,
when you're in a house, you don't
hear anything, it's quite bizarre. You
hear maybe the stairs18 creaking19 ,
or the clock ticking20, but you don't
hear the sound of nature.
CHILDHOOD TRAUMA
One of the most disturbing things
about Roxy Freeman's book is her
description of her experiences as a
victim of paedophilia. 'Uncle Tony'
was a frequent guest at the family
camp, where he regularly molest-
ed Roxy and her younger sisters.
Many years later, Roxy rep orted
'Uncle Tony' to the police and he
was sent to prison:
Roxy Free ma n: I mean, it started
when I was quite young and it took
a while for me to realise that it was
wrong because I think the nature of
paedophilia, you do get groomed21 ,
so it starts sort of gently, gently,
and it wasn't like suddenly22 over-
night23, "Oh, my God, all this terri-
ble stuff24 is happening!" It took a
while for me to even know th at it
was wrong, and then for a while I
always thought it was, you know, I
was doing something wrong, so it's
a difficult one to explain! Yeah, it
wasn't like suddenly I couldn't trust
ld!et"fiJ;i'i
1 GYPSY: gitano
2 EVICTION: desalojo
3 HIT: exito
4 MISTRUST: recelo, desconfianza
5 UNRELIABLE: poco de fiar
(ver Speak Up Explains)
6 TROUBLEMAKER: alborotador
7 TO BE IN THE PRESS: salir en La prensa
8 TO BRING UP: educar. criar
(ver Speak Up Explains)
9 TO LIE: mentir
10 TO STEAL: robar
11 TO CON : timar, estafar
12 BAD EGGS: ovejas negras
13 PEOPLE ARE LIKE: La gente dice
14 THIN WALL: pared fin a
15 LAYER: capa
16 TO TAP: dar golpecitos
17 TO TWEET: piar
18 STAIR: escalera
19 TO CREAK: crujir
20 TO TICK: hace r tictac
21 YOU DO GET GROOMED: te van preparando
22 SUDDENLY: de repente
23 OVERNIGHT: de La noche a la manana
24 STUFF: asunto
SPEAK UP 13

adults. but this was somebody that
I had known since the day I was
born and he was 'Uncle Tony' and
everybody loved him and everyone
adored him, and it was hard for me
to work out25 that this person that
everyone loved was actually th e
wrongdoer26, rather than me. And
then quite often people say to me,
$P,eakUp
l=t: ~ :.JLf.J I f...-l
Unreliable. Informal-
Prefijos negatives.
El prefijo negative
mas comun es.
sin duda, un- que,
colocado delante
del adjetivo, da
a La palabra el
significado opuesto.
Sin embargo, nose
puede emplear el
mismo prefijo con
todas las palabras y
existen 'reglas· que
hay que respetar:
im- delante de p:
possible, impossible;
it- con 1: legal, illegal;
dis- con h: honest,
dishonest; mis- con
t: trust, mistrust.
Pero tambien hay
r ,, SPEAK UP
"Oh, well, you know, it must hap-
pen a lot in that lifestyle! " I don't
think it does happen a lot, I don't
EXERCISES
Listening Questions
think there's like a lot more abuse.
I think there's probably less, gen-
erally, but the way that we were 1. Choose the best answer for each.
a) A more 'polite' word used for a gypsy is
brought up, it was very much sort 1. trailer.
of 'open doors', and, you know, 2. traveller.
the kettle27 wa s always boiling28, 3. wanderer.
and the food was always cooking b) Why have gypsies been in the news
and there were certain people t hat lately?
1. they were committing crimes.
were always welcome in our home 2. they are disappearing.
and he was one of those people 3. they have a successful reality show.
that was part of the family. So, you c) How has society felt about gypsies in
know, my parents wouldn't have the past?
thought twice about letting him put 1. they have welcomed them.
2. they have not trusted them.
us to bed and tuck us in2'1 and look 3. they have tried to evict them.
after us. So it was just an unfortu- d) What is a 'troublemaker'?
nate30 misjudgement 31of who you 1. someone who commits a crime.
can trust, I guess. 2. someone who speaks up.
3. someone who causes problems.
ld!•t{i1i0 e) What was Roxy Freeman's upbringing
like?
25 TO WORK OUT: comprender
26 WRONGDOER: malhechor 1. strict.
27 KETTLE: hervidor de agua Ipara preparar tel 2. undisciplined.
28 TO BOIL: hervir 3. claustrophobic.
29 TO TUCK IN: arropar
30 UNFORTUNATE: desafortunado
f) Why does Roxy dislike living in a house?
31 MISJUDGEMENT: apreciaci6n err6nea 1. she finds it boring.
2. she finds it too quiet.
3. she hates to clean it.
g) Roxy says her abuse by 'Uncle
Tony' was due to
que recordar que (educacionl. proviene 1. the gypsy lifestyle.
existen exc epciones ... de la union del verba y 2. her parents.
judgement. de La preposicion. 3. a betrayal of trust.
m isjudgement.
h) 'Claustrophobia' is the fear of
Una curiosidad-
1. nuns.
We certainly weren't Muchas palabras 2. shopping malls.
brought up the way inglesas son onomato-
3. enclosed spaces.
people imagine- peyicas. es decir
To bring up. Phrasal provienen del sonido
verb. En la voz que producen: You 2. Unscramble the letters to create words
activa quiere decir can hear the rain tap- used in the report. The first letter of each
mencionar, traer a tapping on the roof (se word is given to help you.
colacion : He brought escucha La lluvia que a) pta t._ _ __
the problem up in the golpea en el techo) o b) nstohe h._ _ _ _
meeting (menciono el You can hear the birds c) etahrr r_ _ __
problema durante la tweeting (se escucha el d) ierbazr b._ _ __
reuni on). En el texto gorjeo de los pajaros). e) tiuybcipl p._ _ _ _
encontramos la forma Las chanclas se llaman f) ihapledipao p._ _ __
pasiva brought up flip-flops precisamente g) ypysg g_ _ __
con el significado de par el sonido que hacen h) subae a._ _ __
haber sido educado cuando caminamos.
por los padres: Por lo tanto, con un
(Seguramente no poco de intuicion Answers
hemos sido educados se puede deducir el
1. a) 2, b) 3, c) 2, d) 3, e) 1, I) 2, g) 3, h) 3
en la manera que se significado de algunas 2. a) tap, b) honest, c) rather, d) bizarre,
e) publicity, I) paedophilia, g) gypsy, h) abuse
imaginan). El sustan - palabras por el ruido
tivo upbringing que reproducen. MORE EXERCISES ON CD
 NEWS II CITY LIGHTS
LANGUAGE LEVEL: B11NTERMEOIATE
BY ALEX PHILLIPS

Notes
Dangerous
Z::.~~ Delicacies
One of the most
dangerous events
on the Californian
calendar take·s
place13 on the 4th of March.
The International San Francisco
chocolate salon offers fanatics,
buyers and journalists the chance
to experience the finest in artisan,
gourmet and premium chocolate !
www.sfchocolatesalon.com

Theatrical
Flowers
The Orchid Show
at the New York
Botanical Garden
makes a dram atic
day out this year. Tony award-
winning set designer Scott Pask
and image maker Drew Hodges

Soft Welsh* Voices have collaborated in cr eating

14
~ backdrop for the show that
evokes the excitem ent 15 of
ST PATRICK'S, the Irish national day, is a well-known

[J
Broadway. www.nybg.org
March festival worldwide, due to1 the determination of Irish
communities to celebrate it loudlyl! Yet St David's Day (March
1st}, that of the patron saint of Wales, tends to be3 a quieter af-
fair. St David has always had this problem. A 6th century Celt- ,
ur:~~~fi~
An art exhibition
ic monk', he is credited with5 spreading' Christianity across "·· · in Auckland Ar t
Gallery in New
Wales. A famous story told about him is that once, when he _1!1'.:_~
. ~- Zealand focuses
was trying to preach' to a crowd, the earth raised him up so on 'Victorian Tales of Love and
he w as standing on a hill. People could hear him better then! Enchantment'. It looks back to the
19th century, when explor ation
and archaeological discoveri es
inspir ed im aginative paintings
depicting1' foreign cultures.
A Fruity · www.aucklandartgallery.com

Rhyme
A POPULAR nursery rhyme•
in England starts: 'Oranges
ld!•t{t1i\1
and lemons say th e bells' of • WELSH: gales 9 BELL: campana
St Clements ...' The song refers to 1 DUE TO: debido a 10 BARGE: barcaza
2 LOUDLY: con mucho 11 TO DOCK: amarrar
the days when barges10 used to estruendo (alborozol 12 TOATTEND: asistir
carry this cargo down the River 3 TENDSTOBE: suele ser 13 TOTAKE PLACE :
Thames in London and dock11 t. MONK: monje tener Lugar
near t he church of St Clements. 5 HE IS CREDITED WITH: 11. BACKDROP:
On the last day of March, school se le atribuye tel6n de fonda
6 TO SPREAD: dilundir 15 EXCITEMENT:
childre n would attend 12 a service 7 TO PREACH: predicar emocion
at the sam e church, and sing the 8 NURSERY RHYME: 16 TO DEPICT:
song in hope of a fruit! cancion infantil representar

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- I

CINEMA
BYALEX PHILLIPS

LANGUAGE LEVEL: B11NTERMEDIATE

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

AGOLDEN
TOUCH
Canta nte, compositor, productor discografico, bailarfn,
actory empresario, Justin Timberlake triunfa . lnici6 su
carrera en los estudi os Disney y, como tantos otros que
surgieron de la Factorfa, su ca rrera pa rece imparable.
ust 31 years old, singer- New Mickey Mouse Club, the show
songwriter and now actor, which launched the careers of many
Justin Timberlake has en- superstars of pop, including Britney
joyed incredible success. Spears and Christina Aguilera, and
Born in Memphis, Tennes- actors including Ryan Gosling. Tim- ...
see, he is now one of the world's most berlake met JC Chasez on the show, ~
Q
commercially successful performers. and the two formed the boy band 'N
He has won six Grarnmys, four Em- Sync with Chris Kirkpatrick, J oey
mys and performed with the likes or Fatone and Lance Bass. Timberlake Rock Your Body, led to an infamous'
Madonna and The Black Eyed Peas. sang lead3 and the band were a huge performance with Janet Jackson
success' in the late 1990s. at the US Super Bowl in February
DISNEY AND 'N SYNC 2004. As part of the show, Jack-
Timberlake achieved2 early fame WARDROBEs MALFUNCTION ! son and Timberlake had planned
when he won a 1V talent show called In 2002, Timberlake released a solo that Timberlake would te ar off8
Star Ouest. The prize was to appear album entitled Justified. Its suc- part of Jackson's costume, to ac-
in the Disney Channel series The All- cess, with catchy' songs including company the lyrics of the song. Un-
fortunately, more of the costume
detached than they had planned,
and J ackson revealed her breast'!
Friends and Enemies Timberlake had to make a public
Based on a book by Ben Mezrich, apology 10 for the incident, using
director David Fincher teamed up the term "wardrobe malfunction,"
with19 screenwriter Aaron Sorkin to which was quickly picked up on,,
c reate The Social Network, a sharp,
intelligent movie about internet and made fun of1 2 by the media.
phenomenon Facebook, and the
controversy that surrounded its CHANGE OF DIRECTION
founding. The film features fast-talking
performances from Jesse Eisenberg
In h indsight13 , the incident may
as the ruthlessly2° smart Harvard have contributed to Timberlake's
student Mark Zuckerberg, and Justin career! It allowed him to break
Timberlake as Napster's Sean Parker. out of the 'squeaky clean140 image
that had come from his association

16 SPEAK UP
with Disney. Not only did he entitle
his next album FutureSex/Love-
Sounds (2006) which included the
track SexyBack, another massive
hit, but Timberlake finally began to
branch out15 of his singing career.
FOCUS ON FILM
While he h as continued with his
music career Timberlake has con-
centrated more and more on act-
ing. He started out with small
parts, playing a journalist in t he
thriller Edison Force (2004), and
making appearances in the films
Alpha Dog and Black Snake Moan
(2006). He was also the voice of
Prince Artie Pendragon in the ani-
mated film Shrek the Third (2007).
This h as led to16 bigger roles. He
took a starring part17 in Mike My-
ers' comedy The Love Guru (2008)
and in the drama The Open Road
(2009). He also played Sean Parker,
the founder of Napster, in Speak
Up's acclaimed movie for this
month The Social N etwork(2010).
He contin ued to act in 2011 .
Timberlake was leading man in
two romantic comedies, opposite
Cameron Diaz in Bad Teacher and
with Mila Kundis in Friends with
Benefits. He also played the pro-
tagonist in the science fiction mov-
ieJn Time.
THE ENTREPRENEUR
As well as being creative, Justin
Timberlake has revealed himself
to be a good businessman, too. He
co-founded a clothing line called
William Rast, inspired by Elvis
Presley's fashion tastes. He also
provides celebrity endorsement11
for diverse brands, including Sony,
Audi, Givenchy and MySpace.
1 HAS PERFORMED WITH THE LIKES OF:
ha actuado con artistas como
2 TO ACHIEVE: alcanzar
3 SANG LEAD: fue el cantante principal
4 HUGE SUCCESS: gran ex ito
5 WARDROBE: vestuario
6 CATCHY: pegadizo
? INFAMOUS: tristemente celebre
8 TO TEAR OFF: arrancar
9 BREAST: pecho
10 TO MAKE AN APOLOGY: disculparse
11 TO PICKUP ON: enterarse
12 TO MAKE FUN OF: burlarse de
13 1N HINDSIGHT: en relrospectiva
14 SQUEAKYCLEAN: limpfsimo
15 TO BRANCH OUT: diversificar
16 TOLEADTO: llevara
17 STARRING PART: papel muy importante
18 ENDORSEMENT: promoci6n
19TOTEAM UP WITH: colaborarcon
20 RUTHLESS: implacable
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LANGUAGE LEVEL: C1ADVANCED Up, English sparkling wines have
won severaP prestigious interna-
tional prizes:
SPARKLING WINE Julia Trustram Eve !Standard Bri-

THE GRAPES tish accent): It's been absolutely

phenomenal. In the last eight years,
English sparkling wines have won
no less than five trophies for world

OF ENGLAND
sparkling wines. That's not been
beaten by any other country, so
that really is quite extraordinary,
and this has been in competitions,
GVi nedos en Inglaterra? Pues sf. Es mas, sus vi nos some of the major ones that are UK-
based, but also in France and in
espumosos estim conquistando media Europa. Se trata Italy as well. So it really has put
de una industria to davfa incipiente, pero en vfas de us on a global footing' and that,
crecimiento. El cam bi a elimatico es su gra n aliado. of course, has encouraged a mas-
sive amount of very positive media
he English are generally Henry VIII closed down the monas- interest too, which has definitely
considered to be a nation teries. Since the end of the Second brought English wines into the
of beer drinkers, but they World War, however, English wine public spotlight5 .
consume a lot of wine. has started to make a comeback, In 2010, one of our sparkling
And this may come as particularly in the field of sparkling wine producers won the trophy in
a shock to some of our readers, wines2 • the Decanter World Wine Awards,
but they also produce wine. Wine Julia Trustram Eve is market- which is recognised globally and
was introduced to the British Isles ing director of the English Wine they won the trophy for the best
by the Romans, but wine produc- Producers association. As she ex- international sparkling wine. It's
tion sadly1 went into decline when plained when she met with Speak the first time a vineyard' outside of

18 SP EAK UP

Julia Trustram Eve of English Wine Producers is
enthusiastic about English wine. Above: Denbies
Wine Estate near Dorking in Surrey.
'• Champagne has won that trophy.
That was quite remarkable' .
SHOCKING!
And yet it wasn't entirely surprising:
Julia Trustram Eve: We can cer-
tainly claim that it was the Eng-
lish that invented the Champagne
process . We have documented evi-
dence that in 1662 an Englishman
recorded the process that we now
know as 'th e traditional method,'
wh ich is the addition of sugar
into a wine to enhance' an effer-
vescence. And this was going on
in London and the resulting spar-
kling wines were enjoyed by Lon-
doners more than 30 years before
a certain Dom Perignon went to
Champagne and created this proc-
ess in France, and nearly 70 years
before the first Champagne house
was founded.
CLIMATE CHANGE
In spite of its recent successes, the
English wine industry is still very
small. Total production is 3 million
bottles a year, while the figure for
France is around 7 billion bottles.
Yet English wine production is set
to increase in the future. Climate
change could well play a part:
ld!et{tii\1
1 SADLY:desgraciadamente
2 SPARKLING WINE: vi no espumoso
3 SEVERAL: varios
4 ON A GLOBAL FOOTING: conocidos
internacionalmente lver Speak Up Explains]
5 SPOTLIGHT: pun to de mira
6 VINEYARD: vinedo
7 REMARKABLE: extraordinar io
a TO ENHANCE: realzar. aumentar
9 STILL WHITE WINE: vi no blanco sin gas
10 TO SPARK: desencadenar
Labels
Julia Trustram Eve
travels throughout Europe
promoting English w ines
at tra de fair s and special
events. She told Speak Up
that her aim was to promote
all British wines, not just
the more successful types:
'We're representing a group
of top producer s of sparkling
wines because they're the
onesthatareleadingthe
way, but I don't want to
exclude the delicious still
whit e wines' that we produce
in England, not to mention
the still reds and roses."
We asked Julia Trustram
Eve to list som e of the more
successful English w ine
producers: "Nyetimber
(Sussex) were the ones that
really sparked10 this whole
movem ent, by planting Pi not
and Chardonnay. Ironically,
the couple w ho started the
business are Ameri can!
Ridgeview (Sussex) export to
about 10 differ ent countries,
primarily Northern Europe
and the Far East. The Queen
has served Ridgeview and
Nyetimber wines on a
number of occasions.
Chapel Down [Kent) are
our largest producers;
there's also Cam el Valley
[Cornwall). Bolney [Sussex)
and Hush Heath [Kent). .. "
For more, visit: www.
englishwineproducers.com

Julia Trustram Eve: Global warm-
ing will benefit our wine industry.
We've seen it already.
Those vineyards that were
planted, particularly in the South
of England in the 1970s, say, are
finding that their harvest 11 dates
are getting earlier and e arlier 12 •
If you look to the Champagne re-
gion, it's going to affect them pret-
ty dramatically13 because you need
SpeakUp ·
l =t:~ :.JI.f,, l f:.." j:
...,._ -~. .
Henry VIII
closed down the
monasteries-
Para ubicarnos en el
tiempo, en lnglaterra
los monasteries
fueron disueltos
ent re 1536 y 1540,
cuando Enrique VIII,
como jefe de la Iglesia
angUcana, confisco
las propiedades de
la Iglesia catolica
en lnglaterra. Esto
no solo afecto la
pr oduccion vitivi-
nlcola, sino a toda
la poblacion, ya que
20 SPEAK UP
this slightly cooler climate and this
long growing season, to ensure the
acidity in the grapes 1' , prior to the
traditional method process. And
the warmer the climate, the richer
and the rounder the grapes are go- 1.Write the correct word in the gap
provided. The first letter and a definition
ing to get. are given in parentheses to help you.
So Champagne, if global warm- al What comes as a shock to many is
ing does do what it does, is going that the English produce wine and don't
just !cl ldrinkl it.
to possibly become a very different b) It was (H) !English king,
drink. So you move two degrees 15 famous for his six wivesI who slowed
further north16 and where's t hat? down the production of English wine.
c) The field of Is) (bubbly, fizzy)
The South Eas t of England! So,
wines is a burgeoning industry in England.
yes, you can argue 17 it's going to be dl English wines are now winning Ipi _ _
entirely beneficial. _ _ _ _ _!high endI awards.
Another point, potentially, is e) The fields where grapes are grown for
wine production are called (vl.-:--- -
that maybe vines could be a fu- 1) Champagne was really an (E) _ _
ture crop 18 for England, as some of _____ (Anglo-Saxon) invention!
our more traditional arable crops g) Sugar is added to some wines to increase
are going to find it less easy to its lei (bubbliness, fizziness].
grow in a warmer climate. I think
we're predicting that by 2080 2. Decide whether the following statements
are true or false.
our temperature is going to go up by
a) Wine was not produced in England until
five degrees - is it something like the 20th century. ITRUE/FALSEI
that? - pretty significant, in which b) A future crop for England could be vines.
case it will be too hot to grow !TRUE/FALSEI
c) To say something is 'under the radar'
grapes in the South of Eng- is the opposite of saying it is 'in the
land . We'll be growing them spotlight'. !TRUE/FALSE!
up in Manchester and on the d) The French landed the trophy for best
shores 1' of Loch Ness. Who knows? sparkling wine in 2010. !TRUE/FALSE!
e) The so-called 'traditional method' is one
Manchester Merlot! which involves adding sugar.
!TRUE/FALSE!
f) Global warming is already benefitting
English champagne production.
!TRUE!FALSEI
los m onjes ejerdan a nivel mundial'. gl France bottles more than double the
la beneficencia con Es una expr esi6n wine that England does every year.
los pobres, curaban que seem plea a (TRUE/FALSE!
a los enfermos y menudo para hablar
ensenaban en sus de las relaciones:
centr os de formacion Ever since that last Answers
academica. La disolu- successful deal our 1. a) consume, b) Henry VIII, cl sparkling,
cion de las escuelas business relationship d) prestigious, e) vineyards, f) English,
y los hospitales has been on a g) effervescence
monasticos tuvo completely differen t 2. a) False, bl True, cl True, d) False, e) True,
gravlsim as conse- footing. 0 bien: You've f) True, g) True
cuencias, sobre been working for MORE EXERCISES ON CO
t odo a nivellocal. us for many years.
It's time we put our
Put us on a gl obnl relationship on a
footing -
To put something on
different footing
and gave you a fixed
11!-t"to·t!i\1
11 HARVEST: vendimia
a different footing contract. ;Cuidado! 12 TO GET EARLIER AND EARLIER:
quiere decir cambiar footing no tiene nada suceder cada vez mas pronto
el nivel de una que ver con hacer 13 DRAMATICALLY: drasticamente
cosa. En este caso car rer as m atutinas 14 GRAPE: uva
15 DEGREE: grado
significa 'que nos o vespertinas; eso se
16 FURTHER NORTH: mas al norte
ha hecho famosos llama jogging. 17 TO ARGUE: afirmar
18 CROP: cultivo
19 SHORE: Orilla
LAN GUAGE LEVEL: B11NTERMEDIATE
BRITAIN
PROFESSION:
TOASTMASTER
La palabra toasttiene diferentes significados en ingles.
Asf, cuando hablamos de un toastmaster nos referimos
a un maestro de ceremonias: una profesion muy antigua
que ha ido evolu cionando con el paso del tiempo.
f]:rml~ ob Lloyd has a great job:
------· he is a toastmaster' . As
-~, he says in the accompa-
nying interview, people
l'!l!!lllld' often joke about this:
"So, you make the toast 2 , then, do
you?" By which they sarcastically
suggest that it is simply his job to
put bread in a toaster3 . In actual
fact a toastmaster is a 'Master of
Ceremonies'. or 'MC'. He is the
man (although women can also do
the job) who introduces the 'toasts'
(i.e. speeches which contain mes-
sages of good will for the bride 4
and groom5 , or maybe even for Her
Majesty the Queen) at formal din-
ners and weddings' . He wears a
splendid uniform (look at the pic-
tures!) and has a loud' voice. He
will bang 8 a glass, to attract peo-
ple's attention, and shout: "Ladies
and gentlemen, I call upon' the
best man10 , Mr J ames Wilkins, to
propose a toast11 !" Or, "Ladies and
gentlemen, please be upstand-
ing12!" This service doesn't come
cheap: Bob Lloyd says that he
charges "between £275 (€331) and
£350 (€421)" for a wedding. He be-
lieves that there are about 500 rec-
ognised toastmasters in Britain.
Speak Up readers will naturally be
confused by the two very different
meaningsoftheword 'toast', but so
are most native English speakers!
In actual fact, as Bob Lloyd ex-
plains, the two 'toast' definitions
are connected ...
11!-titJiW
1 TOASTMASTER: maestro de ceremonias
2 TOAST: tostada(sl
3 TOASTER: tostadora
4 BRIDE: novia
5 GROOM: novio
6 WEDDING: boda
7 LOUD: fuerte
8 TO BANG: golpear
9 TO CALL UPON: darla palabra a
10 BEST MAN: padrino
11 TOAST: brindis
12 BE UPSTANDING: ponganse en pie
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 0 0 N C0 5 SPEAKER JOHN YOUNG STANDARD BRITISH ACCENT
i wedding s and other form al
i Bob Lloyd: The first time that ·a
LANGUAGE LEVEL: 82 UPPER INTERMEDIATE
Ladies and Gentlemen!
Like many words in English, 'toast'
has different meanings. A piece
of toast is, of course, a piece of
cooked bread. The other meaning
of toast is completely different.
When we ' raise a toast,' or 'make
a toast, · we raise our glasses and
wi sh people- such as the bride
and groom at a wedding- all
the best in life. On these form al
occasions there is often a
'Mast er of Ceremon ies' or
'toastmast er,' who wea rs a
bright red jacket. Bob Lloyd is
a professional toastmaster in
the English city of Norwich,
where he has anothe'r ceremonial
duty: he is also the deputy town
crier 13 . We asked him about the
origin of the word 'toast':
Bob Lloyd (Standard British/
mild 'East Anglian' accent): It
originates from many centuries
ago, when the wine that was
used at banquets and th ings
like that was not really of a very
good quality. So in large houses
in England there was a man who
was appointed 14 in the cellars15 , to
22 SPEAK UP
look after 1' the wine, and it was his
role to make sure it ta sted good,
or better than it actually was. So
he would experiment with lots of
different spices17 and things like
that, to actually add into the wine,
to make it taste a little bit better .
And when it came to the actual
feast or t he banquet, it was his
role to toast a small piece of
bread, and then to dip 18 it into
these spices, and then add it to
the wine, so that when people
drank it, it obviously had a different
taste. And it was quite a skilled
occupation19 , apparently. He was
actually called a 'Master of the
Toast.' So, when people make;:~
joke and say, "Oh, you make the
toast, then, do you, sort of thing,
you know, w ith a bit of bread?" I
say, "Well, actually, that's how it
originated, that's what people did,
they did toast a piece a bread, roll
it in the spices and add it to the
wine, to make it taste better .
BATH
But how did a skilled servant
evolve 20 into the man who
introd uces the speakers at
occasions?
toast' was made - well, the first
time it was reco rded as being
made- was back in the mid-
seventeenth centu ry, when there
were a couple of young lads21
who were ... attending a banquet
in t he Pump Room s22 at Bath, the
city of Bath down in the south of
England, and, during the course
of the evening, they went into
the spa next door to the Pump
Rooms, where the banquet was,
and they took their glass, which
actually did still have a piece of
toast in it, from the toastmaster,
and they saw in the spa ther e a
lady w ho - well, let's just call
her ·a lady of the night' , shall
we? - and she was taking her
refreshment23 in the spa, in the
waters there, and one of them
decided to go down into the
water, and his cup was empty.
So he scooped up 24 some water
out of the spa and it still had its
bits of toast in it and so he said
to the lady, "Though llikest not
the beverage, I wilt raise a toast
to t he lady!" and he drank the
water, a toast and all, to honour
t he lady in the spa ther e, and
that's the first time we reck on25
that it was actually recorded as
being a toast that was made.
A MAN'S WORLD?
Today it is naturally assumed
that toastmasters are men, but are
there any fe male toastmasters?
Bob Lloyd: Yes, there are, yes,
they are lady toastmasters and
they ar e called 'toast master s'
and not 'toastmistresses'!
Ther e are a number of lady
toastmasters. We do have one
here in Norwich and we have
several around the country now.
So it's not just a male-dominated
profession now, although the
ladies, I think figures2' say t here's
probably, of the t otal amount of
toastmasters, there's probably
about 14 per cent of them are
ladies. Som e ladies do have a
very loud voice, very good at
organising, so it does fall quite
easily int o a lady's rem it27 , to do
that sort of thing as welt!

her children bedtime
Speak Up stories when they used
1 ~: ~ :..1 1{ J I
~
t-"i to go to bed early: Jo
contaba cuentos a s us
hijos cuando se iban a
So he would la cama pronto.
experiment- Entre
los diferentes They did toast
modos de traducir el a piece a bread -
imperfecto al ingles Emphatic form. We
podemos emplear do have one here in
wou/dseguido del Norwich. A primera
indicativa del verbo. vista, el auxiliar e n
Would se emplea con una frase afirmativa
verbos que indican pod ria parecer un
una acci6n pero no con errory sin e mbargo
verbos que indican un noes asi. Esta
estado, a diferencia de construcci6n se
used to, que puede ser em plea cuando se
empleado en ambos quiere s ubrayar o
casas. Por ejemplo: poner en evidencia
Jo would/used to tell alga, ya sea e n la
"'"'
~ fl ln the past, a prostitute was called a
0.
c _ _ _ _ _ of the night.
~0
(.)
9 at work.
forma positiva como
en la negativa.
Let's just call her
a lady of the night',
shall we?-
Particularidades de
las question tags. Por
lo general las tags
lcoletillas] emplean
el auxiliar del verbo
principal pero esto no
siempre es posible,
como en el caso de
let's para sugerir algo.
De a hi pues estas
combinaciones: let's ...,
shall we?: will/won't
con el imperativo:
Be extremely careful,
won'tyou?; Call the
doctor, will you?
. .
·EXERCISES :·.
Listening Questions . .
·: ....... : v :... • • -~ '
1. Decide whether the following statements
are true or false.
al The first recorded toast was in the 18th
century. . ITRUE/FALSEI
bl We can 'raise' a toast or ·make' a toast.
ITRUE/FALSEI
c) Toastmasters can only be men.
ITRUEIFALSEI
d) Atraditional place to toast is at a concert.
ITRUE/FALSEI
el The word 'toast' actually originates in
relation to bread. ITRUE/FALSEI
f) People used to roll bread in spices and
put it in beer. ITRUE/FALSEI
gl Atoast was made for the very first time
in London. ITRUE/FALSEI
hi Women, claims Bob, have a specific
talent for toasting. ITRUE/FALSEI
2. Insert the correct words in the sentences.
groom remit dip quite
refreshment look after lady
al Would you like a to go
with your meal?
bl I think Iwill stay in as Iam _ __ _
tired.
cl lt is the who
accompanies the bride at the wedding.
dl Some people like to a
biscuit into their tea.
el We need a babysitter to _ _ _ _ __
our children in the evening.
gl Opening all the mail is my _ _ _ __
Answers
1. al False, bl True, cl False, d) False, el True,
fl False, gl False, hi True
2. al refreshment, bl quite, c) groom,
d) dip, e) look after, f)lady,
gl remit
MORE EXERCISES 0 N CD
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13 DEPUTY TOWN CRIER: vicepregonero
14 APPOINTED: designado
15 CELLAR: bodega
16 TO LOOK AFTER: ocuparse de
17 SPICE: especia
18 TO DIP: mojar
19 SKILLED OCCUPATION: especializacion
20 TO EVOLVE: cvolucionar
21 LAD: muchacho. chaval
22 PUMP ROOM: sala de bombas
23 TAKING HER REFRESHMENT: relajandose
24 TO SCOOP UP: recoger
25 TO RECKON: creer. considerar
26 FIGURE: citra
27 1T DOES FALL ... REMIT: lo puede hacer
perfectamente una dama [remit: capacidadl
SPEAK UP 23
LANGUAGELEVEL: B11NTERMEDIATE of crystals, tarot cards and auto-
matic writing (or psychography).
Experts say that choosing' the
DANIELLE TRUSSONI right colour of clothes can also
help: each angel has a favourite

ANGELOLOIY
la novela Angelology, de la escritora estadounidense
colour. The Catholic Church is,
however, opposed to su ch prac-
tices, maintaining7 that individual
human beings cannot communi-
cate directly with angels.
For New Agers, on the other
Danielle Trusso ni, es una obra de suspense donde se hand, the Bible and the apocry-
mezclan religion y mitologfa. Un exito de ventas del que phal gospels• are all one: the Arch-
ya se han com prado los derechos para la gran pantalla. angels Gabriel, Michael and Rap-
hael work together with Uriel and
eople love angels. Fa- to see:kl their guardian angel'4• Ap- Metraton, while extraterrestrials,
mous brands have made parently, there are 72 in total: each the occult and angelic apparitions
history (and money) by one h as its own characteristics are all part of the same process.
using angels and cher- and functions. These angels are
ubs1 in their marketing similar to the signs of the zodiac, THE BOOK
campaigns. You can find trinkets2, in that each one of them refers to None of this should be confused
T-s hirts , postcards, books, and a certain period of the year. They with Danielle Trussoni's book An-
even dictionaries and encyclopae- protect individuals who were born gelology. It's a religious thriller
dias with an angelic theme. In re- on certain days, and provide them with literary references that in-
cent years angels have become the with energy and gifts5 ! clude the Book of Genesis, the
subject of a New Age cult. Many myth of Orpheu s, Milton's epic
people have taken inspiration from SACRED AND PROFANE poem Paradise Lost and the Book
th e J ewish Kabala (a belief sys- According to devotees of the New of Enoch (an apocryphal text). Yet
tem much loved by Madonna and Age, we can make contact w ith the author also refers to the New
other celebrities) and have started 'our' guardian angel with the help Age trend in her book.

24 SPEAK UP

THE AUTHOR
Danielle Trussoni was born in La
Crosse (Wisconsin) but lives in the
South of France with her husband,
the writer Nikolai Grozni, and their
two children. In 2006 she wrote
Falling Through the Earth, a mem-
oir about her father which The New
York Times called "one of the best
books of the year". Angelology is
her first novel, but it is a bestseller
and Will Smith has already bought
the film rights. We asked Danielle
Trussoni why there was currently'
so much interest in angels:
Danielle Trussoni: I think it's fasci-
nating for me as well for anybody
else. I think that, as a culture, we're
hungry 10 for mytho-
log ical experience ,
whether11 it's religious,
fantastical, escapist or
a ny other kind of ex-
pe rie nce , that takes
us out of our daily life
and allows 12 us to see
that there 's some sort
of greater meaning13 or
connection b etween
things. I think that people try to
find it in arts, in entertainment as
well. They're interested in movies
and books with supernatural ele-
ments, because they're looking for
something else.
We then asked her whether she
personally believed in angels:
Danielle Trussoni: I do, but not in
the way that most people would
imagin e. I' m not a practising
Christian and I don't think th at
one day I'm going to wake up and
see an angel sitting by my bed
with wings 14 and things like that.
And I don 't really believe in God or
angels, but I do like to imagine and
I do hope that there's
something that moves
b e tw ee n the ethe -
real or the heavenly1 5 ,
or outside our world
sph e re , and int o t h e
material sphere , may-
be through dreams or
intuitions or something
else. That's the way I
believe in angels.
The Plot
One day, Evangeline, a
young nun16 w ho l ives in the
St Rose convent, discovers
som e letter s that were
written in the 1940s by the
heir ess17 Abigail Rockefeller
and sent to the convent's
Mother Superior. The letters
descri be the discovery of the
perfectly- preserved body of
an angel. They also tell the
ancient story of the angels
w ho betrayed11 God and who
'fell' to earth. It is the story of
the Nephilim, the "offspring19
of the sons of God and t he
daughters of men", who are
m entioned in the Bible.
The book also tells the story
of the 'Angelologists·, a
group of priest s who have
passed on the secret of the
Nephilim from generation
to generation, and who
have been fig hting against
them since Biblical times.
Evangeline also j oins them
in their battle.
ld!·J0}1-1;i'4
1 CHERUB: querubin
2 TRINKET: baratija
3 TO SEEK: buscar
4 GUARDIAN ANGEL: angel de la guarda
5 GIFT: don
6 TO CHOOSE: escoger
7 TO MAINTAIN: sostener
8 GOSPEL: evangelio
9 CURRENTLY: actualmente
10 HUNGRY: avido
11 WHETHER: sea
12 TO ALLOW: permitir
13 GREATER MEANING:
significado mas profundo
14 WING: ala
15 HEAVENLY: celestial
16 NUN: monja
17 HEIRESS: heredera
18 TO BETRAY: traicionar
19 OFFSPRING: hijos
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lrlanda es una republica, pero
curiosa mente La isla de Tory,
delante la costa de Danegal,
esta gobernada por un rey.
Un mona rca que a La llegada
del ferry acude personalmente
a saludar a Los visitantes.
 ory Island has impres-
sive cliffs\ vibrant music
and art, a rare species of
bird- and a King. The first
surprise when you arrive:
the King comes in person to meet the
ferry. Patsy Dan Rogers shakes2 eve-
rybody's hand and welcomes them
to Tory. He has a white moustache
and an earring3 under a sailor's cap'.
Patsy Dan is a true character.
And look at all the rings on his fin-
gers! Born in Dublin, Patsy came to
the island as a young child to live
with a foster farnily5 . In the 1970s he
campaigned against government speak the Irish language. There are
plans to move the islanders to the many monuments, from prehistory
mainland'· Storms7 had isolated To- to the early Christian era. The first
ry for weeks, but the islanders did you see at the port is the Tau cross,
not want to leave, as the inhabit- a cross with only three arms. It dates
ants of the Blasket Islands had to in from the 12th century. This type of
the 1950s. In 1993, Patsai Dan Mac cross is still used by the Franciscan
Ruaidhri was elected King. As is- religious order.
land ambassador he has done more
for marketing Tory Island than a id!et{Jj;ij
million brochures•. 1 CLIFF: acantilado
2 TO SHAKE: estrechar
3 EARRING: pendiente
MEDIEVAL 1, SAILOR'S CAP: gorra de marinero
Only about 150 people live perma- 5 FOSTER FAMILY: familia de acogida
6 MAINLAND: continente
nently on Tory Island. Everybody 7 STORM: tormenta
knows each other, and people still 8 BROCHURE: folleto

Planning a Trip 0 • d'.

Tory Island ~ "'NORl'li!ERN
Tory Island lies 14km off t he north
Donegal coast and is served by two
ferry ports, Bun beg and Magheroarty.
Accommodati on opti ons on the is land
THE REPUBLIC '\
OF•IRELAND
- IRELAND
~ BELFAST

are a hostel, a hotel and apartments.

Y Galway
There is also a cafe/giftshop and a
r estaurant next to the Social Club.
To see the corn crakes, come between
--~ Olimerick
June and mid-July.
For information on the art scene and _...
gallery, check with the t ourist office Cork
(www.oileanthorai.coml. ~
For information on the King, see http:// Jt
patsydanrodgers.littleireland.ie
For general information contact the Irish Tourist board in
Spain: Tel: 91 7456420 I www.discoverireland.com/es
The national car rier Aer Ling us Iwww.aerlingus.com) flies low-cost
from Barcelona, Madrid and Mala ga among other Spanish cities
..
:§
t o Dublin. There are r egular bus services to Donegal, but for the
E
..
::>
z.. ferry ports you need a car.
~
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 LANGUAGE LEVEL:
82 UPPER INTERMEDIATE
The King's Speech
The word 'Tory' is best known as the
nickname for the British Conservative
Party, but its etymology is Irish:
it originally meant a 'rebel' or
·outlaw13 ' . Tory is also the name
of a remote island off the coast of
DonegaL Today Tory Island only
has 150 inhabitants, but it does
have a 'king'. Patsy Dan Rogers has
The round tower constructed from
beach stones dates from the 6th
century- the time when Donegal's
patron saint Columbkille converted
people to Christianity on the island.
If you walk west through the 'capi-
tal', West Town, to the lighthouse' ,
you will see the remains of early
Christian churches. But if you have
little time, go east. Only half an hour
away, you will see the most spec-
tacular cliffs in Ireland. Their pink
granite rock hides many stories. The
Iron Age fort on the promontory was
the domain of Balor, a Cyclops with
an eye in the back of his head, the
Evil Eye. The most spectacular cliff
is called the 'Soldiers of Balor' or
'Great Key'.
AN ARTISTS' COLONY
In early summer, ornithologists
come to the island to look for the
rare comcrake10 . Tory is one of the
last places in the British Isles where
28 SPEAK UP
performed the role since 1993.
This 'king· is proud of his island
and its past:
Patsy Dan Rogers: It was a very, very
tough livelihood14 , but we had the best
of fishermen and we have the best of
seamen15. May God now rest them.
And they kept this island going1' at
you can see and hear this shy1 1 bird.
Farmers are paid to leave part of their
land as a habitat for the corncrake.
Oth er visitors come for the fa-
mous Tory Island art. This tradi-
tion of colourful primitive painting
started in the 1960s. The English
artist and collector Derek Hill often
came here to paint. One day, a local
--·-~~~···-·--·-
the time that it was very rough17•••
the island, the beautiful island that
our parents and our grandparents
and great-grandparents left to us,
a beautiful island out in the Atlantic.
They kept cattle1' , they kept sheep1' ,
they worked on land, they have done,
everything. And now we should
honour this island.
fisherman called James Dixon sug-
gested that he could paint better
than that. "Right," said Derek Hill,
"here are paint and brushes12 , show
me!" Today, the Dixon gallery is full
of artworks. The King was one of the
founding painters of the group. And
he plays the accordion. In fact, Tory
Island nightlife is legendary. Music
and dancing at the Social Club of-
ten goes on all night! To really ex-
perience the island, stay the night,
dance with the King and find out
why they say "Tory is Tory".
ld!·f}j.1 jij
9 LIGHTHOUSE: faro
10 CORNCRAKE: rey de codornices lave!
11 SHY: timido
12 BRUSH: pincel
13 OUTLAW: forajido
14 TOUGHLIVELIHOOD: vida muy dura
15 SEAMAN: marinero
16 TO KEEP GOING:
hacer funcionar. tirar para adelante
17 ROUGH: duro, agreste
18 CATTLE: ganado
19 SHEEP: oveja
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METRIC
INCH 2
3 4 6

LANGUAGE LEVEL: B11NTERMEDIATE

"People from almost every coun-
try of the world, except America,
UNIQUELY BRITISH of course, are surprised that we're
still at this half-way stage12 40

ETRIC
years after we started the change."

D-DAY
Things looked very different back

AD NESS
in 1971, when Britain celebrated
'D-Day' (Decimalisation Day), on
15 Feb ruary. Shiny13 new met -
ric coins re placed the old impe-
Hace cuatro decadas Gra n Bretana adopt6 el sistema
metri co decima l, sin em bargo la cerveza se sigue ld!•t{tJ;tl
1 CURRENCY: moneda
sirviendo en pintas, el peso se ca lcula en libras y las 2 POUNDS STERLINGS: Libras esterlinas
3 WEIGHT: peso
dist ancias en m illas. Un lfo que huele a anti Europa. 4 HEIGHT: altura
5 TO MEASURE: medir
6 FOOT: pie
isitors to Britain need signs are in imperial yards, miles 7 1NCH: pulgada
to be good at arithme- and miles per hour. Petrol8 prices 8 PETROL: gasolina
9 PENCE (PL. OF PENNY!: peniques
tic . First they need to are displayed in pence' per litre, 10 FUEL: combustible
convert their currency1 but most people still talk about fu- 11 ASTONISHED: perplejo
12 HALFWAY STAGE: a media camino
into pounds sterling 2. el10 consumption in miles per gal- 13 SHINY: reluciente
Then they need to understand lon. It is, says Derek Pollard, secre- 14 TO FEAR: temer
15 SMOOTHLY: sin problemas
another type of pound, the British tary of the UK Metric Association, 16 PINT: pinta (US 0.47litros.
imperial measure for weight 3 , as a uniquely British metric chaos. GB 0,57litrosl
17 LIKELY: probable
well as heights' measured5 in feet' "People who visit Britain are as- 18 UPHILL BATILE: dura batalla
19 TO BLAME: culpar
and inches7 • Although cars are de- tonished11 that we have this mix- 20 TO GO WRONG: salir mal
signed in metric, all British road ture of measurements," he says, 21 SILLY: estupido

30 SPEAK UP
~ '
!! Derek Pollard of the
~ UK Metric Association, says
~ that British resistence to
c
~ 'going metric' is silly.
~
9 ~----------------------~
LANGUAGE LEVEL:
82 UPPER INTERMEDIATE
Measure for Measure
In 1971 , Britain finally abandoned
the old currency of shillings and
pence and converted to the decimal
curre ncy, or 'new pence.' At the
time people fear ed14 there would
be chaos, but the operation ran
smoothly15 • 41 year s later, the rest
of the world is wondering when
Britain will similarly abandon
'imperial m easurements', i.e.
inches, feet, yards and miles,
and 'go metric', with centimetres,
m etres and kilometres.
Wh en, observer s ask, will the British
start drinking half-litres of beer,
instead of pints16 , and when will
they weigh themselves in kilograms,
rather than in stone and pounds?
At the moment this scenario
doesn't look any more likely1 7 •
Derek Pollard [above) is the
secretary of the UK Metric
Association and he believes that
his or ganisation is still fighting
an uphill battle11 :
Derek Pollard: We in the UK Metric
Association are actu ally accused
of being traitors! We are told that
Britain's measures are traditional,
and people have even said to m e:
"If you like metric m easures, why
don't you go and live in France?"
To which I reply: "Not only France,
I think I would prefer to live in
Australia, or any one of 200 other
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countries around the world!" But
there is this feeling that m etric is
French.
Derek Pollard believes that
the UK' s hostility to the metric
system dates back to 1973, when
the country joined the European
Union, or 'the Common Market',
as it was th en known. The British
government actively supported
decimalisation in 1971, because
it was seen as essential to
modernisation. But, after 1973,
politicians beca me indifferent
towards the metric system. It
seems that they were, Pollard
says, "Happy to blame19 the
European Union when anything
w ent wrong 20 and one of the
things people didn't seem to
like was metric measures in
their supermarket.'' As a result,
imperial measurements became
a symbol of British independence
and pride. Derek Pollard thinks
that this is ridiculous:
Derek Pollard: If you go to Brazil,
you don't find people saying,
"We're not really Brazilian because
we use the m etric system, we've
got no traditional Brazilian
measurements." lf you go to Spain,
Italy, people don't say, "Oh, you're
not r eally Spanish, you're not really
Italian because you use metric
systems, rather than traditional
Italian or Spanish measures. So
why should it apply to Britain?"
This really is a silly21 argument.
We need to have the most efficient
way to run our economy in this
globalised world, and trying to run
two systems of measurement that
people don't under stand, are not
terribly familiar with ... it's j ust not
going to work.
SPEAK UP31

Metric Martyrs
In 2001, a Sunderland market
trad er was convicted 33 of two
offences34 (under the Weights
and Measures Act) of using illegal
weighing equipment. His scales35,
which were not capable of weighing
in the metric system as well as
UKMA
The UK Metric Association
campaigns for a single, rational
system of m easure!Jlent and
Can you believe it?
The UK completed its legal
transition to international metric
units in 1995. However :
Draught beer36 must still be sold
in pints.
Road signs must show kilometres
and miles.
Length37 and width31 restrictions
mustusefeetandinches,butcan
use metric too.
The railways r em ain big users of
imperial units, although London
Underground uses metric for
distance and miles per hour for
speed.
Food must be sold in m etric units.
Most British people measure
their weight and height in imperial
units, but these must be converted
·~ ··,~·' .,: •.,." )' . •''
rial currency of pounds, shillings22
and pence. Supermarkets happi-
ly relabelled 23 their products. TV
campaigns captured the public
imagination as t he gove rnment
marched the country towards met-
rication. Britain had planned to
complete the process within a dec-
ade. Instead, while other countries
such as Australia, New Zealand
and, later, Ireland, embraced the
metric revolution, progress in Brit-
ain became painfully2 ' slow.
32 SPEAK UP
imperial, were not authorised for
comm ercial use. Newspapers
quickly labelled him the ··metric
m artyr "' and the name was adopted
by an advocacy group as other
traders opposed toweighing in
metric were also prosecuted.
supports the full adoption of the
international metric system by the
UK; www.ukma.org.uk
to metric for all official medical
records.
Fuel consumption for cars is
almost always quoted in miles
per gallon.
Carpets3 ' may be advertised in
prices per square yard, rather than
square metre.
Vegetables may be advertised in
price per pound, but prices at the
checkout40 must be per kilogram!
' ., ..,, ........ tl~ • .., \ ( .. ~· ,,.,.,..\~$
EUROPHOBIA
So where did it all go wrong? How
did Britain fall out of love with
metrication? From the early 1970s
onwards, explains Pollard, succes-
sive governments failed to take
the issue seriously25. As Britain's
economic powei base shifted 26
from manufacturing and industry
towards financial services, there
was less urgency to complete the
metrication process. And from the
early 1980s onwards, both politi-
cians and the media found a com-
mon enemy: Europe.
Metrication is often presented as
a threat27 to British national identity
and the media has made heroes out
of so-called2' 'metric martyrs' who
break the law by weighing goods2'
only in imperial units.
IRONICALLY ...
Why do the British have such a
deep loyalty and attachment to
their outdated30 and illogical sys-
tem of measurement? According
to the British Weights and Meas-
ures Association, metric has been
a "disaster" for British consumers
because it is not widely under-
stood. "A lot of British people do
not think in metric," agrees Pol-
lard, "but when they say, I don't
understand metric, what they re-
ally mean is, I'm not familiar with
metric because I've not used it."
M-DAY?
40 years after 'D-Day', is Pollard
hopeful that 'M-Day' - a cut-off
date31 for full metrication across Brit-
ain - will be here before the next 40
years have passed? "There will be
residual usage of old measures con-
tinuing on for another century," he
says, "but I'm sure it'll be a lot less
than 40 years when we get the main
changeover32 completed because
Britain's survival depends on it."
'd!·t#Mi
22 SHILLING: chelin
23 TO RELABEL: volver a etiquetar
24 PAINFULLY: extremadamente
25 TO FAIL TO TAKE SERIOUSLY:
no tomarse un asunto en serio
26 TO SHIFT: cambiar
27 THREAT: amenaza
28 SO-CALLED: asi llama do
29 GOODS: articulos
30 OUTDATED: obsoleto
31 CUT-OFF DATE: fecha limite
32 CHANGEOVER: conversion
33 TO CONVICT: declarar culpable
34 OFFENCE: infracci6n
35 SCALES: bascula
36 DRAUGHT BEER: cerveza de barril
37 LENGTH: longitud
39 WIDTH: anchura
39 CARPET: alfombra
40 CHECKOUT: caja
 NEWS II STYLE WATCH
LANGUAGE LEVEL: B11NTERMEDIATE
BY JULIAN EARWAKER & ALEX PHILLIPS

Notes
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so, the students had to arrange 64
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have already signed up13• www.
THANKS TO celebrities such as Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and virgingalactic.com
Beyonce, wigs are no longer' viewed 2 as s trange or embar-
rassing and have come back into fashion3 1Interviewed in ~::;.,~ Happy
British newspaper The Guardian, Vicki Ullah of the company Days?
Wig Boudoir, located in the famous London department store Three-quarters
of British adults
Harrods, claims' that sales of wigs - and hairpieces5 - have
rate" their
gone up by some 40%! British high st reet shops, including well-being15 as
Topshop, Debenharns and Selfridges, report a similar trend' . 7 or more out of 10, according
Selling well are traditional wigs but also the wilder styles. ... Toa. new·s-ui-vey bythe.ottke
16 of
National Statistics. But maybe the
question should be more specific,
for when asked 'How anxious did
you feel yesterday?' more than a
Talking to third said 5 or more ou t of 10.

Your Plate
UK HEALTH authorities plan to
fight obesity, not by taxing' fast
ld!ef{l!;ij
food firms and putting health • WIG: peluca 9 TO MONITOR:
1 NO LONGER: ya no controlar
warnings' on processed foods, 10 TO FOLD: dobla r
2 TOVIEW: considera r
but by promoting a new Swedish 3 TO COME BACK INTO 11 TO TACKLE:
invention: the talking plate. This FASHION: volver a emprender, enfrentar
sinister invention monitors' estar de modo 12 LAYER: capa
portion sizes and the speed at 4 TO CLAIM: afirmar 13TOSIGNUP:
5 HAIRPIECE: inscribirse
which food is consumed, and 14 TO RATE: valorar
peluquin. pos tizo
tells you when you should slow 6 TREND: tendencia 15 WELL- BEING:
down. Plates cost 1,800 euros! 7TO TAX: gravar bienestar
WW'IN. mando.se 8 WARNING : advertencia 16 SURVEY: encuesta

SPEAK UP 33
ENTERTAINMENT
BY JONATHAN CAMERON
SPEAK UP EXPLAINS BY RACHEL ROBERTS
LANGUAGE LEVEL: 82 UPPER INTERMEDIATE
SARAH JESSICA PARKER
WEDON'T NOW
HOW SHE DOES IT
Empez6 a los ocho anosy ha hecho musicales, teatro,
cine y television. Fue precisamente co n la seri e Sexo en
Nueva York que alcanz6 la fama y cuatro Globos de Oro.
Su ultimo gran exito ha sido Tentaci6n en Manhattan.
ince 1998 Sarah Jessica
Parker has been virtually
synonymous with Sex &
the City (Sexo en Nueva
York). First there was the
TV series, which ran until 2004, and
then there were the movies. But Sa-
rah Jessica Parker, who is 49 this
month, had a successful film cmeer
before Sex & the City began, and it
has continued since then. Last year
she starred in two films: New Year's
Eve (Noche de Fin de Aiio) and I
Don't Know How She Does I t (Tent-
34 SPEAK UP
aci6n en Manhattan) , based on the
best-selling novel by a British writer
and journalist, Allison Pearson. The
movie tells the story of Kate Reddy,
a woman who tries to balance1 her
career with being the mother of
small children. Surprisingly, Sarah
Jessica Parker confessed that she
hadn't actually read the book:
Sarah J essica Parker: I was a lit tle
bit afraid to read the book because
books have this wonderful oppor-
tunity; there's this kind of luxury of
/
time in books2 , and cinema doesn't
allow3 for that, you know, we have
a limited time to tell a story, and I
knew that there would be details
that I couldn't apply to my experi-
ence, and I didn't want to fall in love
with things that we couldn't put in-
to the screenplay4, and maybe that's
a foolish5 decision, I don't know, it's
yet to be determined, but I felt like I
was kind of cleaner and more pure
just having the experience of this
screenplay and I loved this script'.
CREDIBILITY
The film also stars Greg Kinnear,
who plays Kate 's husband, Rich-
ard, and Pierce Brosnan, who plays
another man, Jack Abelhammer.
Sarah Jessica Parker thin ks that
the film's characters are credible:
Sarah Jessica Parker: They were
very kind of grown-up, in a way,
because they were about people
who were really in the thick of their
lives7 • They're not, you know, su-
perheroes, they're not heroic in any
way, they're not terrifically wealthy,
they're not on the margins, so
they're telling a sort of everyman's
story• of what it is to be a working
parent' outside the home in this par-
ticular time, and I think, you know,
we are parents in a very specific way
to our generation, and there are a lot
of complications that come with the
choices10 that we're making, and I
thought the story conveyed'' those
and illustrated those complexities
really, really well, and did it in an
amusing way and in environmental
ways that were funny and brought
in12 all sorts of opinions, and I un-
derstood it; I related to13 the chaos,
I related to the desire to manage"
the chaos, I related to the feeling of
being a great failure 15 , I related to
the secret triumphs. All of it is very
familiar to me, and I think it's going
to be, hopefully, very familiar to a
lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of women.
ld!•f{l, i\1
1 TO BALANCE: equilibrar
2 THERE'S•.• IN BOOKS: los libros tienen el lujo Speak Up
de tener tiempo para explicar los detalles
3 TO ALLOW: permitir l =t:~ :J tl.:.~ I Lt:-j
::'.:"'::"'""
4 SCREENPLAY: gui6n (incluye indicaciones
para acto res y directores)
5 FOOLISH: insensate First there was the TV
6 SCRIPT: guia de dialog as Iguion que incluye series, which ran until2004-
solo los diatogosl To run. Verbo con muchos
7 1N THE THICK OFTHEIR LIVES:
significados: correr, huir,
en La plenitud de su vida
8 EVERYMAN'SSTORY: historia de gente corriente escapar. pero tambi en dirigir
9 WORKING PARENT: padre/madre que trabaja (she r uns the company,
10 CHOICE: elecci6n 'dirige la empresal y emitir,
11 TO CONVEY: transmitir como en este caso: 'primero
12 TO BRING IN: incluir fue La serie de TV. que se
13 TO RELATE TO: identificarse con
emiti6 hasta 2004'.
14 TO MANAGE: controlar
15 FAILURE: fracasado
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LANGUAGE LEVEL: B2 UPPER INTERMEDIATE ly5 people who have leprosy, which
is now called Hansen's Disease, still
live there. In the 1960s they changed
DESTINATION: UNITED STATES the law, allowing them to leave the
colony, but many, because they

THETOP10
LUnas va cac iones en Estados Unidos difer ent es e
had grown up there and lived there
all their lives, stay and so you visit
the colony, which is this incredibly
beautiful area. In fact Jurassic Park:
The Movie 2 and 3 was (sic) filmed
there because it looks so prehistoric,
in olvidab les? Les descub rimos di ez destin os poco and so lush', and so green. And you
usuales y poco concurridos. Rin co nes fa scinantes qu e meet these people who were literally
invitan a perderse en ellos y desconectar del mundo. ripped from their families, who lost
all contact with them and grew up
• • or American tourists, lands, they tend to go to Maui or to in this artificial community. So it's
Arthur Frommer's book O'ahu. But there's another one of a very beautiful island with a tragic
Europe on Five Dollars the major islands called Molokai, history, but fascinating to visit, to-
a Day is a kind of bible. which is much less developed2 and tally undeveloped, very few hotels ,
Frommer is now in his looks like it probably did when Cap- very few restaurants, but because
80s and is still active in the guide tain Cook first discovered the Ha- of that, when you go there, you're
book business. So is his daughter, waiian Islands. The reason it's less welcomed very warmly'. They love
Pauline Frommer, who has written developed is there was a famous to meet visitors 'cause they don't get
award-winning 1 books about Mex- leper·colony3 on one part of the is- that many.
ico, Europe and the United States. land for many years. When leprosy
We nsked her to describe some of hit the Hawaiian Islands in the laLe CALIFORNIA DREAMING
her favourite US destinations: 1800s, the Hawaiians were so h or- If Hawaii is hard to reach, then
rified by the disease that the king CaWornia has some great surprises:
Pauline Frommer (Standard Ame- ordered that any~ody with leprosy
rican accent! : Well, I think when would be ripped4 from their families Pauline Frommer: There are many
people think of the Hawaiian Is- and sent to this colony. And actual- wonderful places around the US,

36 SPEAKUP

but I fell in love with a little beach-
side community called Cambria,
which is in California. The town
was founded by a group of artists;
it still has many galleries in it. It's a
tiny• little town, but there are these
lovely motels and hotels along the
beach, and one of the beaches -
and this is remarkable - has be-
come a rookery' for sea lions10; it's
where they live year-round and
they give birth to their calves 11
there. And you can actually go-
you don't want to get too close 12 to
them because they will attack, but
you can go to this beach and you
see hundreds of them barking 13 and
lolling about ~ and it's very excit-
1
ing. This being California, there's
great cuisine. Nearby you have the
vineyards 15 that you would have
seen in the movie Sideways, about
the two friends who went through
California, so you can go to the
vineyards from Cambna. Or you
can go to Hearst Castle. which is
one of the most important tourist
attractions in California. It's fairly
nearby. Hearst was a major mil-
lionaire who made his money with
newspapers, the movie Citizen
-~. EXI:Rc.ts.Es.;>~::.
·.. Listening Questions . · . :_ , ·_'-
• ·, ·:.t .... " • ,, / • ' -;.~~ ,;:: \
1. Decide whether the following statements
are true or false.
a) American travelers still love Europe on
Five Dollars a Day. !TRUE/FALSE!
b) Pauline Frommer recommends the
touristy islands of Hawaii. !TRUE/FALSE!
c) Jurassic Park was filmed on an island
named Molokai. !TRUE/FALSE!
d) The island is now only populated by
lepers. !TRUE/FALSE!
e) The town of Cambria is a tiny artists'
colony. !TRUE/FALSE!
f) The millionaire Hearst made his money in
television. (TRUE/FALSE!
g) Hearst was a great art collector.
(TRUE/FALSE!
hi Voyageurs National Park is located in
Montana. !TRUE/FALSE!
2. Match the word to its definition or
synonym.
al actually 1. breeding colony
Kan e was based on his life. And b] literally 2. steal in small
quantities
he created this castle, where he
c] lush 3. a dense growth
ended his life as a recluse, but after of trees
World War One he literally went all d) undeveloped 4. hermit
through Europe and pilfered16 great el rookery 5. essentially
f) recluse 6. in reality
art from Europe and much of it is . g) pilfer 7. unmarked by industry
m the castle now. And you see ex- h) forest 8. thriving
traordinary works of art, you learn
about this obsessive, compulsive Answers
man and you see this crazy, crazy 1. a] True, b) False, c) True, d) False, e) True,
f] False, g] True, h) False
house!
2. a) 6, b) 5, c) 8, d) 7, e) 1, f) 4, g) 2, h) 3
MORE EXERCISES ON CO
THE LAND OF 10,000 LAKES
And Minnesota tends to be off the
beaten track17 :
ld!•t{·tii\1
1 AWARD-WINNING: premiado
Pauline From mer: Somebody 2 MUCH LESS DEVELOPED: mucho
perhaps in New York City might menos desarrollado lturistica mente)
not know about Voyageurs Na- 3 LEPER COLONY: colonia de leprosos
4 TO RIP: arrancar
tional Park in ~.lmnesota , which 5 ACTUALLY: de hecho
is a beautiful area with hundreds 6 LUSH: exuberante
7 YOU'RE WELCOMED VERY WARMLY:
of little lakes. \'::t~ islands that are te dan una bienvenida muy calurosa
uninhabited . You get from place e TINY: minuscule
9 ROOKERY: colonia
to place by ca::oe. There's deep1' , 10 SEA LION: le6n marino·
dark fores ts a ll around. Lots of 11 CALF: cria
12 YOU DON'T WANT TO GET TOO CLOSE:
mosquitoes ::: the summer: that's no debes acercarte demasiado
the only ne~a::ve ! But if you want 13 TO BARK: ladrar
14 TO LOLL ABOUT: repantigarse
to go back : o what America must 15 VINEYARD: vinedo
have looke~ ..:..{e before the Europe- 16 TO PILFER: ratear. hurtar
17 OFF THE BEATEN TRACK:
an s got t=:e:e, Voyageurs is a won- fuera de las rutas turisticas
derful pla:::e to go. 18 DEEP: profunda
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 2 CAMBRIA
CALIFORNIA
This artistic beach town is a
pleasant mix of Northern and
Southern California. And, as
Pauline Frommer explains [see
interview!. it is just four miles
south of the famous Hearst Castle
!pictured below).
www. cambriachamber. org
http://seecambria.com
www.hearstcastle.org

MANCHESTER
3 VERMONT
1MOLOKAI
HAWAII
This is the smallest of the
This town is surrounded by
beautiful green mountains. It is
famous for its fly fishing and even
Hawaiian Islands. It is a place that has a 'fly fishing musem.' It was
stays true to its traditions and also the home of Robert Todd
offers refuge from the outside Lincoln. the son of the famous
world. No building is taller than a President. Todd was a serious
coconut tree, there are no traffic amateur astronomer, and
lights and - more importantly- constructed an observatory at
no traffic. As Pauline Frommer his home. His telescope still
explains [see interview!. it was exists and is used by a l ocal
once a leper colony. astronomy club.
www.gohawaii.com/molokai www.manchestervermont.net
http://visitmolokai.com/ www.manchester-vt.gov

4 WILLAMETTE
OREGON
VALLEY,

The Willamette Valley is an agricultural ar ea.

During the spring and sum mer seasons, you will find
road side stands and farmers' markets.
The flat terrain and temperate climate make it a
favouri te for hikers and cyclists, who also enjoy the
college towns of Eugene and Corva llis.
www. traveloregon. com · www.blowingrock. com
www. oregonwinecountry. org
5 BLOWING ROCK,
NORTH CAROLINA
This town with a national park is named afte r a rock
!that's geological, not musical!! formation.
The rock creates strange winds and so light objects
often 'blow' upwards into the sky.
The Cherokee and Catawba Native Am erican tribes
once did battle for the control of this area.
www.blowingrock.org

38 SPEAK UP
6 GREAT
NEVADA
BASI N,

Here you w ill find a

SVOYAGEURS NATIONAL
PARK, MINNESOTA
As Pauline Frommer explains
beautiful lunar landscape. [see interview). "If you want to go
The location is also remote and back to what America must have
so the night sky is spectacular: looked like before the Europeans
in 2005 the National Park got t here, Voyageurs is a
Service Night Sky Team decid ed wonderful place to go." Visitors
Great Basin was one of the must leave their cars to enjoy the
dar kest places in the country. park's many islands, lakes and
Astronomers love it. This year, forests.
the annual Astronomy Festival The geology is also fascinating.
takes place from June 14th to www.nps.gov/voya
16th, 2012.
www.nps.gov/ grba/index. htm

? ANN APOLIS,
MARYLAND
Annapolis is the capital of the
state of Maryland and was very
brie fly [ 1783- 1784) the capital
of the United States.
It is located 26 miles [42 km)
south of Baltimore and about 30
miles [48 km) east of the current
capital, Washington, D.C.
It is named after England's
Queen Anne [1 702- 141.
www.ci.annapolis.md.us

BERKELEY SPR INGS,

9 WEST VIRGIN IA
Berkeley Springs is a historic spa and artistic town in
the West Virginia mountains.
It is only 90 minutes from the Washi ngton/Ba ltimore
metro area.
Visitors can enjoy mineral springs, full-service spas
and more than 100 lodging choices.
www.berkel eysprings.com
www.berkel eyspringssp.com

1OBIG BEND NATIONAL

PARK, TEXAS
' Big Bend' is a curve on the famou s Rio Grande River.
The area has both mountains and desert. The Chisos
Mountains are the main attraction and facilities are
concentrated in Chisos Basin.
www.nps.gov/ bibe

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LITERATURE// 0 ON C07
BY RITA MAVISSNELSON SPEAKER RACHEL ROBERTS STANDARD BRITISH ACCENT
SPEAK UP EXPLAINS BY RACHEL ROBERTS
LANGUAGE LEVEL: C1 ADVANCED
FICTION
Mrluke
La guerra, un dese ngano amo~oso y, por ulti mo, la
carcel han convertido al senor Luke en un ser resentido
y amargado, en un anciano diffcil de tratar.
re you awake, Mr
Luke?"
Mr Luke moved
slowly in his bed
and opened one
eye, then closed it again .
"That's a really stupid question
to ask: of course I'm awake! You
woke me up, didn't you? You
stupid good for nothing ... " Mel-
anie shushed1 him before he got
too rude, "Now, now Mr Luke, I
know you love me. Remember,
I'm your favourite!"
"Piss off! I haven't got any fa-
vourites in this fucking place3 !"
Melanie sighed 4 . She was
very sorry for Mr Luke. He was
difficult most of the time, and
with good reason, it seemed.
Nobody ever came to visit him.
His sister had brought him there
a couple of months earlier, and
said that her family had given
her an ultimatum: either he left
or they would leave ... for good!
His life in the hospice was not
going to be easy.
Mr Luke was never happy with
anything. He hated the food, the
other guests, and all the assist-
ants, Melanie included. He was
arrogant and he was constantly
drawing attention to himself. It
wasn't a surprise his sister's fam-
ily had wanted to get rid ofS him.
'0 SPEAK UP
but he just wanted to be left
alone, to get on with his life ,
go back to work. Most of all, he
wanted his independence. He
couldn't explain the torment,
the anxiety of knowing that eve-
ry hour could be his last. He had
nightmares, and the sound of
bombs invaded his sleep.
He spent every day searching
for a job, just anything as long
as he could get back his dignity
and self-respect.
Yet Mr Luke had had a life. He One cold wet evening he de-
had been young and in love. He cided to catch a bus instead of
felt he'd had a bad deal from life', walking home, and that's when
but that was all in the past. Thirty fate' took his hand ... at the
years in jail had turned him into bus stop he met Christine. She
an angry, bitter7, frustrated man. smiled and offered to share her
It was the end of 1945, and umbrella with him. They both
Mr Luke returne d home af- got off at the same stop, and he
ter five years of fighting in the heard himself saying: "Do you
Second World War; brutal, cru- fancy1° going for a drink? It's
el, devastating years, which opening time and still too early
had turned him from a happy for dinner." Christine smiled,
18-year-old adolescent into a her dimpled 11 ch eeks 12 and
bitter 23-year-old man. rosy lips made his heart leap 13 ,
His family welcomed him and, if he hadn't been so shy,
back home with open arms , he would have kissed her there
grateful that he had not been in- and then 14 .
jured or killed like so many other · Weeks, months passed. He
young soldiers. felt he was in seventh heaven 15 .
Coming back home h adn' t He had kept quiet about his
been easy. His younger sisters friendship with Christine , he
and parents fussed over8 him, didn't want anything or anyone
Fucking place - con un 'beep· yen
Speak Up Fucking fue durante los peri6dicos con
I~ ~ ~ Lf.J I t--"i arias una palabra asteriscosl. Su usa
muy vulgar que noes aconsejable.
habia que evitar.
Shush- El verba Hoy, por el contrario, They would leave ...
es onomatopeyico y si bien mantiene for good! - Se pod ria
proviene del sonido una connotaci6n creer que for good
de La palabra Shhh! transgresora,se usa quiere decir 'para
To shush someone en las conversa cio- bien' pero en realidad,
es una expresi6n nes para enfatizar. empleado de este
coloquial que significa l En EE UU, en La modo, quiere decir
hacer callar a alguien. television se censura 'para siempre!'.

t: .
.. '·.,
...
'· \
t' . : •
,~·:-
• 1. felt anxious.
to spoiP' his happiness. It was
his love, his life.
They never spoke about their
families. Theirtime together was
far too precious and brief to talk
about things like that. The war
had scared Luke deeply. He had
learnt to keep to himself, he pre-
. ferred listening to talking, or just
lying in Christine's arms in com-
plete silence, enjoying the peace
that surrounded them. The past
was still too present in their lives.
One day Christine didn't tum
up17 at the pub at the usual time.
He waited for her in their comer
by the window looking out :or
h er arrival, hoping to see her,
imagining her smiling face as
she apologised for being late.
In his pocket he h ad a gold
ring with a solitaire. He would
ask her to marry h im. He had
a job, something modest, con-
sidering that the war was only
just over, but it meant that they
could find a little flat of their
own18 and talk about marriage,
children, a family.
No one h ad seen h er. Luke
asked the landlord" for some
change to make a phone call.
He dialled Christine's number,
and after a few seconds a male
voice answered: "No, Chris
hasn't come h om e yet . I can
take a message , if you like. I'm
Christine's husband. I've just
left the army, and tonight we
are celebrating."
Luke hung up, holding his
stomach, feeling faint20 and
sick. He ran out into the street,
as if chased21 by a wild animal,
cold sweat22 all over his fore-
head23, tears in his eyes, anger
rising in his breast. The sound of
wartime bombs filled his head,
the vision of a deathly battle-
field poisoning his senses.
He saw her just as she was
about to turn the comer into her
home. He called, she turned and,
in a second, he reached her.
"Please, let me explain!" she
cried.
"My d ear , your husband
will celebrate on his own this
evening!"
He pressed her body against
his own and cupped his hands
around her throat, the sound of
th e bombs gradually receding
as she fell to the ground.
1. Choose the best answer for each.
a} From the story we gather that
1. Mr Luke is very bitter.
2. He has no reason to be sad.
3. He is in love.
bl An ultimatum is a kind of
1. insurance.
2. threat.
3. nuisance.
cl Luke's reaction to coming home from
war was
1. isolating.
2. reflective.
3. joyful.
d} ''Do you fancy?"" is the same as saying
1. Howareyou ...?
2. Do you enjoy ... ?
3. Would you like ... ?
el When he lay down, Luke
2. predicted his own death.
3. fell asleep immediately.
fl The climax of the story is
1. when he gets back from the war.
2. when Luke finds out Christine is married.
3. when he sees Christine turn the corner.
gl The ending suggests that
1. Luke and Christine will marry.
2. Christine killed Luke.
3. Luke killed Christine.
Answers
1. al 1, bl2, c) 1, dl3, el 1, f) 2, g) 3
MORE EXERCISES ON CD
ld!•t}t1;\1
1 TO SHUSH: acallar (ver Speak Up Explains}
2 PISS OFF: ique te den!
3 1N THIS FUCKING PLACE: en este Lugar
de mierda (verSpeak Up Explains}
4 TO SIGH: suspirar
5 TO GET RID OF: deshacerse de
6 HE'D HAD A BAD DEAL FROM LIFE:
la vida le habia tratado mal
7 BITTER: resentido, amargado
8 TO FUSS OVER: mimar
9 FATE: destino
10 DO YOU FANCY: <,te apetece?
11 DIMPLE: hoyuelo
12 CHEEK: mejilla
13 TO LEAP: brincar
14 THERE AND THEN:
en aquel mismo momenta
15 1N SEVENTH HEAVEN: en el seplimo cielo
16 TO SPOIL: echar a perder
17 TO TURN UP: presentarse, acudir
18 OFTHEIR OWN: propio
19 LANDLORD: dueno, patron
20 TO FEEL FAINT: sentirse mareado
21 TO CHASE: perseguir
22 COLD SWEAT: sudor frio
23 FOREHEAD: frente
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 MEET THE PRESS
BYLARRYCARLAT - © 2011 THE NEW YORK TIMES
SPEAK UP EXPLAINS BYRACHEL ROBERTS

LANGUAGE LEVEL: 82 UPPER INTERMEDIATE

THE NEWYORKTIMES

Confessions
of a Tweeter
(_Se conecta usted habitualmente a Facebook o Twitter? jCuidado! Vigile para
que no le ocurra lo mismo que a Larry Carlat. Su relata en The New York Times
demuestra lo adictivas y comprometedoras que pueden ser las redes sociales.

t started June 25, 2008: "Test-
ing, testing. Is this thing on?1"
My first tweet. I began by
trying to make a few friends
laugh . I had no idea how
quickly tweeting would consume
me. Before long2 I was posting
20 to 30 times a day, seven days
a week Some of my posts were
funny, some sad, some a bit ex-
istential- "Living happily ever
aftef is killing me" -some flirty,
some filthy'. I posted daily for
three years with only one excep-
tion - the day my father-in-law5
died. Eventually', I attracted
about 25,000 followers. Not bad
for a non-celebrity.
cookie7 • I posted every hour on
the hour', day and night, using a
website that let me tweet while
asleep. It was an obsession. And
like most obsessions, no good
came of it.
PROBLEMS
Eight months after I began
tweeting, I was laid off' from a
job in the music business. Look-
ing for work in such a bad econ-
omy was very difficult. Almost a
year passed before I finally got
a job at a men's magazine. Just
before I started, I removed my
name from my Twitter feed and
replaced it with my initials, L.C.
One morning, a few months lat-
er, my boss came into my office.
"We need to talk about your
Twitter." he said.
"Sure," I said. "What about it?"
He told me that someone in H.R. 10
had found my tweets and was
shocked11 • My tweets were a clear
violation of the company's social-
media policy. I had a choice: to
delete the account or face12 termi-
nation13 . I chose to leave.
DOMESTIC LIFE
Being unemployed was even
harder the second time. But it

OBSESSION Used to vs. would- lslandpero no /would

Soon my entire life revolved Speak Up Se trata de formas live in a house on Long
around tweeting. I stopped read- I ~:~:J Lf JI ~..:i verbales empleadas Island.
ing, rarely listened to music or para hablar de habitos
y rutinas en el pasado. When he gets older
watched TV. When I was out Eventually. False Am bas pueden ser and sadder -
with friends, I used to go into friend- En ingles utilizadas cuando nos Get como sin6nimo
the bathroom with my iPhone. I esta expresi6n quiere referimos a acciones: de become seem plea
?ecir 'al final' y no I used to/would go into para hablar de una
tweeted while driving, between
eventualmente' como the bathroom with my transformaci6n, de
sets of tennis, even at the mov- en castellano. Esta iphone, pero would un cambia de estado.
ies. ("I love holding your hand similitud entre las dos no puede emplearse De joven a viejo, de
in the dark") When I wasn't on palabras en muchos para hablar de estados feliz a infeliz: Cuando
casas puede ser motive permanentes: I used to sea/llegue a ser mas
Twitter. I would compose things
de confusion. live in a house on Long viejo e infeliz.
to use later. I began to talk that
way, too. I sounded like a fortune

42 SPEAK UP
did mean that I had more time
to tweet. What did I get out of
it? Certainly not fortune or fame
- on Twitter I was, for the most
part , anonymous. But for me,
every tweet was a performance.
About a month after I left the
job, I separated from my wife,
and I moved out of our house on
Long Island and into an apart-
ment in Park Slope. One morn-
ing, I wrote something like, ·'I
would've taken a bullet 1' for my
wife, but now I'd rather15 be the
one pulling the trigger16." To me,
it was just a joke. To my son, it
was a disturbing remark about
someone we both love. He
threatened to stop following me
on Twitter. I deleted the tweet
immediately.
'TWITTERC IDE'
Around this time , my habit
started to feel less like a rush 17
and more like a burden 11 .
Tweeting had become my life.
I began to think seriously about
giving it up1' .
I retweeted some of my old-
er posts, thinking they would
seem new to my bigger aud,i-
ence, but the self-imposed pres-
sure to post constantly was too
much. I was burned out20 .
I finally committed 'Twitter-
cide' about a month ago. Some
of my followers begged21 me to
reconsider22 . But I knew it was
time to return to my life.
TH E NEXT GENERATION
Do I still have the occasional
need to tweet? Do I continue to
compose tweets in my head? Do
I miss my Twitter friends? Sure.
But the compulsion23 has gone.
Now, before I go to sleep, I tum
off my iPhone before I turn out
the lights. When I wake up in
the morning, my first thought is
of making coffee, not of typing
"Someone spiked 2' my coffee
with optimism this morning and
I spat it right out25."
In my next-to-last26 tweet, I en-
couraged everyone to follow my
son. With luck, he will also lmow
when to stop. He is pretty funny.
He will be even funnier when he
gets older and sadder.
(Larry Carlat is a writer, editor and Web
professional who lives in Brooklyn. He is
not on Facebook.)
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1 1S TH IS THINGON?: (.funciona esto?
2 BEFORE LONG: poco tiempo despues
3 TO LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER:
vivir feliz para siempre
4 FILTHY: indecente
5 FATHER- IN-LAW: suegro
6 EVENTUALLY: finalmente
lverSpeak Up Explains!
7 FORTUNE COOKI E: galleta de la suerte
Ique sirven en resta urantes chinos con
un mensaje impresol
8 ON THE HOUR: a la hora en punto
9 TO BE LAID OFF: ser despedido
10 H.R. (HUMAN RESOURCES):
Recursos Humanos
11 TO BE SHOCKED: estar horrorizado
12 TO FACE: afrontar
13 TERMINATION: cese, despido
14 BULLET: bala
15 1'D RATHER: preferir fa
16 TO PULL THE TRIGGER: apretar el gatillo
17 RUSH: descarga de adrenalina
18 BURDEN: carga
19 TO GIVE UP: dejar
20 BURNED OUT: quemado
21 TO BEG: rogar
22 TO RECONSIDER: recaoac :a·
23 COMPULSION: obses·c-
24 TO SPI KE: echa·. :.:.:: •
25 1SPAT IT RIGHT OUT:
to esCL.c· c: --ediaio
26 NEXT-TO-LAST: penultimo
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 . Notes-··
Matt Parker, Ch ris
Amblin and Ayu
kita are t he ...........
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pf band Nedry. The group, w hose
tead singer is Japanese, have
...... been·cO'mpa·redtcl'creative Briti sh.......
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define th eir own musical style a s
:post-dubstep' . Watch out for co·.
!n a Dim Light this March.

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.1s cross9 .
Bruce
Springsteen
and the E Street"' ---
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has been ca lled his angriest 10 yet: ·

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· · singer -songwr iter's poeti c style ·
9f folk- influenced rock.~a~;,lo.og
POPULAR British band Kaiser Chiefs, whose name was in- been concerned by themes such
spired by that of a South African football team, 'Kaizer Chiefs'. as economic and social justice.
release a fourth album,The Fu ture is M edieval, this month.
The group formed in Leeds in the late 1990s 1 a nd h it the Dyk Slows ..
heights2 after Employment in 2005, an album inspired by the Down
new wave and punk rock scene of the 1970s. This new album Trance OJ and
producer Paul van___ _
draws on3 the musical influences of Pink Floyd, The Who and 11
Dyk is regarded -
David Bowie, the band have said. Though they have never as one of the best
won a major' music prize, in 2006, lead singer Ricky Wilson .....OJ.s.in the wor ld. The..G.erman~ .....
won an NME award5 for his dress sense' . born Gr ammy-winner was
among th e fi rst Super star DJs
with the growth12 in popular ity
of electronic music in the 1990s . ..
A new album, Evolution, has a
Jazz from slower pace13 than his others:

the Flames
JAZZ ARTIST Peter White
I1954). whose ambitions to play
like Jimi Hendrix ended when
his brother accidentally set 11N THE LATE 1990S: 7TOSETONFIRE:
Peter's electric guitar on fire' , a finales de los 90 prender fuego
has made a name for himself 2 TO HIT THE HEIGHTS: 8SMOOTH: s uave
hi.lr.P.r!';P. fr~mo!';O 9CROSS: enfadado
playing 'smooth8 ' acousti c j azz
3TODRAWON: 10ANGRIEST:
guitar instead. Influenced by inspirarse en el mas reivindicativo
Crosby Stills and Nash, James 4 MAJOR: importante 11 TO REGARD:
Taylor and Joni Mitchell, White SAWARD: galard6n considerar
releases a new album, Here We 6 DRESS SENSE: buen 12GROWTH: aumento
gusto para vestirse 13 PACE: ritmo
Go, this month.

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Modern Fairytale A NewSt~frt
TAKE A CLASSIC story, a dash1 of Bollywood
and an all-star cast2, and you have a film that ROMANCE and memory
loss are the themes of The
appeals to all audiences. Mirror, Mirror is a con-
Vow 2 , based loosely on a true
temporary version of the Disney classic Snow story. After a car accident,
White and the Seven Dwarfs, but it is very dif- Paige (Rachel McAdams] --
ferent from the 1937 film, which was the first falls into a coma. When she
full length animated feat ure ever m ade. Di- wakes up she not only does
not recognise herfiance
rected by the Indian filmmaker Tarsem Singh, Leo [played by Channing
Mirror, Mirror stars Julia Roberts as the narcts- Tatum], she has also radically _
sistic Wicked' Queen, who worries about her changed her personality! -·-
waistline5 , wrinkles6 and other practical issues, such as find-
ing a rich husband to help her bring money into the kingdom.
British singer-turned-actress Lily Allen plays Snow White as a
feisty7 working girl who is not going let any man, or even seven
of them, tell her how to reclaim her kingdom.

The Chase is On
ld!•t{J.!;\'i
STEPHANIE PLUM. a tough bounty-hunter', 1 DASH: pizca 8 BOUNTY- HUNTER:
is the protagonist of the best-selling books by 2 ALL-STAR CAST: cazarrecompensas
Janet Evanovich. Katherine Heigl has brought reparto estelar 9 TO BRING TO LIFE:
her to life' on the big screen in One For the 3 DWARF: enano dar vida
4 WICKED: malvado 10 0NTHERUN:
Money. Heigl stars opposite Jason O'Mara,
5 WAISTLINE: linea huyendo de La jus ticia
who plays an ex-cop on the run10 that also 6 WRINKLE: arruga 11 ASSIGNMENT:
happens to be her old high school boyfriend. 7 FEISTY: con misi6n, tarea
Her first assignment11 is to arrest him. mucho caracter 12 vow: pro mesa

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BY LINDA LIGIOS
SPEAKER RACHEL ROBERTS
STANDARD BRITISH ACCENT

is Camden. It has great bars, good

clubs, nice venues, it's good for
drinks, it's very vibrant.

And what do you like most about

England?

Hector Giannopoulos: Probably, I

would say the diversity and the
fact that there's many people from
all over the world, especially in
London. That's why I call it "the
capital of Europe" because it's so
multi-cultural, and there's so many
things going on, so it can never get
LANGUAGE LEVEL: 811NTERMEDIATE
boring2•

GLOBAL VILLAGE Is there anything you don't like?

HECTOR
Hector Giannopoulos: I don't like
the weather and I don't like the food!

And are you planning to stay?

GIANNOPOULOS
Este mes nos centramos en el acento de un griego
hablando ingles. Entrevistamos a Hector a quien le
encanta Londres por su dinamismo y diversidad, aunque
destesta el tiempo y la com ida. Vea mos como lo explica.
e continue our se- then at 15 I got a Proficiency and
ries of brief inter- then my English was, I think, quite
views with foreign good at this point and my English
residents in Lon- also got improved (my English also
don. This month improved) from (through) movies
we meet a Greek gentleman1 who and music, lyrics. Then obviously I
introduces himself: came to England and then I started
speaking the language, which was
Hector Giannopoulos (Greek ac- a bit hard before I came here.
cent): Hello, my name is Hector Gi-
annopoulos. I learnt English back What is your favourite place in Lon-
in Greece. I used to study English at don?
school and then I used to go at (to) a
private school as well. So, at around Hector Giannopoulos: I would say
14, I think, I got t he Lower and that my favourite place in London
Hector Giannopoulos: I'm plan-
ning to stay because, if you read the
news, you might know that Greece
is not very good at the moment for
jobs, and I'm 27, so I think I'm going
to continue working here for a few
years, see how it goes3, and if things
improve back home I'll probably go
back at some point. I don't have any
master plan' , I just make it up as I go
along5 and see how it goes.
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1 GENTLEMAN• joven, caballero
2 BORING: aburrido
3 SEE HOW IT GOES: ver c6mo va
4 MASTER PLAN: plan prees tablecido
5 1JUST MAKE IT UP AS I GO ALONG:
lo decido todo sobre la marcha

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(.No? Pueslee esta pagina.
SPEAKER CHUCK ROLANDO STANDARD AMERICAN ACCENT
Esla monda, ya veras ...

LANGUAGE LEVEL: C1 ADVANCED

The Last Laugh

Inner peace
If you can start the day without
caffeine,
If you can always be cheerful1 ,
ignoring aches and pains2 ,
If you can resist complaining3 and
boring people with your troubles,
If you can eat the same food
every day and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when
your loved ones' are too busy to
give you any time,
If you can take criticism and
blame5 without resentment,
If you can conquer tension
<.Ul
without medical help,
If you can relax without alcohol,
If you can sleep without the aid of
drugs ... Then you are probably
the family dog!
Collective nouns
The English language has some
strange collective nouns for groups of
animals. For example, there's a herd
of cows, a flock of chickens, a school
of fish and a gaggle of geese' .
There's also a pride of lions, a
murder of crows', an exaltation of
doves' . and a parliament of owls9 .
. Now consider a group of baboons10 .
They are the loudest, most dangerous,
most aggressive and least intelligent
of all primates. And what is the proper
collective noun for a group of baboons?
Believe it or not... a congress!
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1 CHEERFUL: alegre
2 ACHES AND PAINS: achaques
3 TOCOMPLAIN: quejarse
4 LOVED ONES: seres queridos
S TO BLAME: culpar
6 GOOSE (PL. GEESEI: ganso
7 CROW: cuervo
8 DOVE: paloma
9 OWL: buho
10 BABOON: babuino

GAMES// CROSSWORD
BY MARIAM KHAN
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come to the party".
8 Marsupial that lives in
Australia, with powerful
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17 Influential Spanish artist 12
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the altar.
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