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STEVE JOBS

The man behind the Apple.

Wacky costumes.

Spooky ﬁlms.

MISHEARD

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VOCABULARY

Idioms, phrasal verbs,

expressions, useful verbs, key words…

Obama

Javier

McCain

Bardem

Woody Allen’s latest ﬁlm.

REPUBLICANS &

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the policies,

the people,

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CD index

1 Hello

2 Power Play

3 Animal Instinct

4 Story Time

5 Social English

6 Functional Language

7 Fingers’ Error Correction

8 Haunted House

9 Telephone Conversation

10 Radio ad

11 Cut O

12 Staycations

13 Radio ad

14 Weird Trivia

15 Corny Criminals

16 Marijuana Mishap

17 Jokes

18 Grati

19 Name Calling

20 Tea for War

21 Radio ad

22 Typical dialogues

23 Dr Fingers’ Vocabulary

24 Quirky News

25 Advertising English

26 Technological English

27 Radio ad

28 British Bar Chat

29 US Bar Chat

30 Story: The Shop

31 Radio ad

32 Fake Ferraris

33 Dumb US Laws

34 Dictionary of Slang

35 Error correction

36 Radio ad

37 Idioms

38 Radio ad

39 Odd Organics

40 Paid to Quit

41 High-Speed Chase

42 Business English

43 O the Cu

44 Goodbye

Editor’s intro

Hello everyone, and welcome to another

issue of Hot English magazine – the

fun magazine for learning English. You

know, October is my favourite month:

the leaves on the trees turn beautiful

colours, it starts getting colder, it’s

my birthday, we’ve got Halloween and

it’s getting closer to Christmas – my

favourite holiday season. Anyway, still a

bit more time to go before that.

Well, what an exciting month this is going

to be with the US elections coming up. There have been so

many interesting stories coming out, especially since Sarah

Palin came onto the scene . One that struck me was the

debate over Barack Obama’s remark, “You can put lipstick

on a pig, but it's still a pig.” Was he referring to Palin (after

she described herself as a “bulldog with lipstick”)? Or was he

referring to McCain and his attempts to present his policies

as new (and not a continuation of the Bush era)? Fascinating!

Another interesting nugget of information to come out was

the fact that Palin’s descendants come from Norfolk on the

east coast of England. That’s where my family spends its

summer holiday. Very interesting. Anyway, you can read lots

of amazing things about the US elections, which are due to

take place in November.

This month also sees the start of three new sections: Off the

Cuff (interviews with native speakers in the street); The Shop

(the ﬁrst episode of a new 9-part radio play); and our Skills

Booklet readings (readings which tie in with the Hot English

method). We’ll be telling you more about our language learning

method; or if you can’t wait, you can ﬁnd out more for yourself

on our company website: www.hotenglishgroup.com

Anyway, we hope you enjoy this issue. Have a great month

and see you next time for some more “education through

humour”.

Magazine Index

3 Editorial

4 Power Play

5 Animal Instinct

6 Name Game

7 The Little Prince

8 Useful Vocabulary: Clothes

9 Useful Verbs: Changes

10 Interviews (Skills Booklet)

11 Story Time

12 Basic English: The Car

13 Social English: The Car

14 Functional Language: Creating Understanding

15 Error Correction & Listening: Haunted House

16 Grammar Fun

17 Telephone English & The Simpsons

18 Film Scripts

19 Steve Jobs (Skills Booklet)

20 Cut O

21 Staycations

22 Trivia Matching

23 Weird Trivia

24 Dr Fingers’ Grammar

25 Subscriptions

26 Corny Criminals

27 Recipe & Listening: Marijuana Mishap

28 The Rocky Horror Show

29 Scary Stories

30 Spooky Films

32 The Omen

33 Halloween Costumes

34 Javier Bardem

35 Woody Allen

36 Mc Cain versus Obama

38 Sarah Palin Trivia

40 Jokes , Grati & Cartoon

41 Misheard Lyrics

42 Name Calling

43 Tea for War

44 Vocabulary: Sweets & Chocolates

45 Typical Dialogues: The Sweet Shop

46 Face to Face

47 Dr Fingers Vocabulary Clinic: Time

48 Quirky News

49 Advertising English & Technological English

50 Shaping Seattle (Skills Booklet)

51 Maoris & Listening: Fake Ferraris

52 Dumb Laws & Tennessee Facts

53 Directory

54 Dictionary of Slang

55 Dr Fingers’ Error Correction & Back Issues

56 Anniversaries

57 Idioms: Brick Idioms

58 Publicity Stunts (Skills Booklet)

59 Adverts

60 Odd Organics

61 Paid to Quit

62 Tapescripts & Bar Chats

63 Answers & Listening: High-Speed Chase

64 The Pipes of Peace & Business English

65 Phrasal Verbs: Changes

66 Word of the Month & Credits

PS Remember, if you’re looking for lots more content, please

visit Dr Fingers’ blog www.hotenglishmagazine.com/blog

PPS This magazine is my last issue

as editor of Hot English

magazine. I’ll be passing on the

responsibility (and pleasure) of

that to the latest edition of our

team, Jenna. Of course, I’ll still be

working closely with her behind

the scenes. Anyway, bye for now

and good luck with your English!

GLOSSARY

to come onto the scene exp

to appear

to strike vb

if you are “struck” by something, it

impresses / interests you

lipstick n

makeup (often red) that people put

on their lips

Steve Jobs

The man behind the Apple.

Rocky Horror Picture Show

The movie and its legacy.

Spooky Films

The top ﬁve horror ﬁlms.

Javier Bardem

Flying high, but staying grounded.

Obama Vs McCain

Prepared to ﬁght it out to the end.

Happy Anniversary

October.

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awesome and the Omen is mighty scary.

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READING I

CD track 2

Irishwoman

Power Play

The effects of power.

The most

powerful

people on

the planet

In a recent article

on the 50 most

powerful people in

the planet, the top

four were:

Bill Gates (chairman

of Microsoft);

Does power corrupt people? No! “Power

breeds competence,” says a new study by

Psychological Science magazine. Researchers

are surprised at the results. They expected

to nd that power would aect people

negatively. However, they found that

power actually forces people to act more

intelligently. For example, people in top

job positions make fewer mistakes at work,

researchers say. And people who feel

unimportant and powerless at the oce

make more mistakes. It’s not for lack of

intelligence or ability, though. It’s about how

you feel about your role . Why work hard if

you feel your job is unimportant?

Powerless or Neutral. Then the students had

to perform several tasks . “In the end, the

students in power positions did better than

the others,” a researcher said. “The powerless

participants felt out of control. We believe

that the psychology of feeling powerless is

what keeps society’s poorest members poor.

This new power perspective could help us

ght large-scale poverty ,” she added.

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Eric Schmidt ( CEO

of Google);

America’s Northwestern University and

Dutch researchers tested this theory on

Dutch university students. Psychiatrists

put the students in three groups: Powerful,

Larry Ellison (CEO of

Oracle) and

Sam Palmisano

(CEO of IBM).

ANSWERS ON PAGE 63

1 Discussion

Discuss these questions with your partner. Use these useful

expressions to help you express yourself: Well, it depends on…

I believe… I think…

1. Who is the most powerful person in the

world?

2. Who is the most powerful person in your

country?

3. What would you do if you were the most

powerful person in the world?

4. Does power corrupt people?

3 Reading II

True or false?

1. According to new research, power can be

positive.

2. Power makes people act foolishly.

3. The main point of the article is: more power =

fewer mistakes.

4. The experiment on Dutch employees was to

determine how power aects your work.

GLOSSARY

to breed vb

to produce; to create

a researcher n

a scientist

powerless adj

with no power

a lack of n

an absence of something

a role n

the part you play in something

a task n

a job

poverty n

a situation in which many people

are poor and do not have basic

amenities (water, electricity, etc)

CEO abbr

Chief Executive Ocer

Language alert!

How many parts of speech can you make

from “power”? powerful, powered, etc. What

do they mean?.

2 Reading I

Read the article and nd the answer to question 4.

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READING II

CD track 3

US woman

Animal

Instinct

Animal

behaviour

China is one of

several countries

that uses animal

behaviour, as “early

warning signs” to

predict bad storms.

In 1975, the Chinese

government

evacuated the city

of Haicheng in

Liaoning province

a day before a

major earthquake,

based on “reports

of unusual animal

behaviour and

changes in ground

water levels.”

Animals predict earthquakes.

Does your dog tell you when a storm is

coming? He might… if you watch him closely

enough. Animals often start to act dierently

before bad weather. But how can animals tell

bad weather is coming? Seismologists say

that some animals pick up electrical signals

made by rocks moving underground. Animals

can also sense the weaker “ shocks ” in the earth

before an earthquake .

China recently experienced its worst

earthquake in 30 years. And right before the

quake there were many natural signs that a

storm was approaching . Ten days before the

earthquake, the water in a pond in Hubei

province disappeared. Then, days before the

event, thousands of toads appeared on the

streets of nearby Mianzhu. Local residents

told Chinese ocials the toads were a sign

of a natural disaster, but were informed that

the sudden plague of toads was “normal”.

Finally, right before the earthquake, animals

in a local zoo began to “act strangely”: zebras

banged their heads against zoo walls;

elephants “ swung their trunks wildly”; lions

and tigers (who usually sleep during the day)

were walking around; and peacocks began

to screech ve minutes before the disaster,

reported a local newspaper.

ANSWERS ON PAGE 63

1 Pre reading

Match the names to to the pictures.

1. dog ____

2. toad ____

3. zebra ____

4. elephants ____

5. tiger ____

6. lion ____

7. peacock ____

2 Rank the animals

Now rank the animals according to their intelligence. (Use your

imagination!) Justify the order to your partner.

GLOSSARY

a storm n

violent weather with rain, thunder

(loud noises) and lightning (bright

ashes)

a seismologist n

an expert on earthquakes (see

below for denition)

to pick up phr vb

to detect; to notice

a shock n

a violent movement

an earthquake n

a sudden and violent movement of

the earth. Also known as a “quake”

to approach vb

to come closer / nearer

a pond n

a small area of water (often man-

made)

a toad n

a large frog (an amphibian)

a plague of exp

a sudden and unwelcome

appearance of something in large

numbers

to bang vb

to hit

to swing vb (swung)

to move in circles

a peacock n

a large bird. The male has beautiful

blue feathers

to screech vb

to make a loud high-pitched sound

3 Reading I

Read the headlines below. What could the stories be about?

“Dog saves village from earthquake.”

“Toads warn Hubei province

of quake.”

Now read the article. Which headline describes the story.

4 Reading II

Find three examples from the article of how animals predict

natural disasters.

Grammar alert!

Reporting verbs are verbs we use to tell

something. They are used in reporting

news. Can you nd three in the article in

the last paragraph?

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