Spotlight_Audio_2011-07_Booklet.pdf

Spotlight Audio

LEARNING

ENGLISH

TRAVEL

Adventure

in Namibia

www.spotlight-online.de

Das Hörmagazin für Englisch

7/11

Spotlight Audio 7/2011

Introduction

[1] David: Welcome to the July 2011 edition of

Spotlight Audio. I’m David Creedon from

Britain...

Anne: ...and I’m Anne Alexander Sieder from

the United States. Join us now for a 60-minute

expedition around the English-speaking world

— with stories, language tips and exercises.

David: In just the last 20 years, a lot has

changed about the way people learn English.

Our language focus this month helps us to dis-

cover what’s new — and what’s most effective.

Anne: For our travel section, we’re going to

Namibia. On tracks 5 to 7, you can enjoy the

sights, the sounds, and the sand of this coun-

try in south-western Africa.

David: We have lots of dialogues and exercises,

and as always, you’ll find all the texts in your

audio booklet.

about Elizabeth Hawley, in a text from Spot-

light ’s People section.

So finden Sie sich in jeder Metropole zurecht.

Climbing in the Himalayas is normally just for

the young and fit. But it is a little old lady who

will make your climb official. Since 1963, the

now 87-year-old American journalist Elizabeth

Hawley has been interviewing climbers in her

Kathmandu flat and recording their achieve-

ments in the Himalayan Database. As the

Nepalese climber and guide Dawa Stephen

Sherpa told the BBC: “One of her biggest contri-

butions is keeping the mountaineers honest.”

Source: Spotlight 7/2011, page 7

Schnell und einfach fit

in Englisch!

Mit dem Sprachmagazin Spotlight

verbessern Sie Ihr Englisch für

Urlaub, Alltag oder Job.

Testen Sie jetzt die aktuelle

Ausgabe kostenlos!

www.spotlight-online.de/probe

A Day in My Life

[3] Mark Shields

Anne: For more than 20 years, Mark Shields has

been commenting on American politics in

newspaper columns and on television. He

spoke with correspondent Anthony Zurcher

for our A Day in My Life section.

David: Mark begins his morning by reading the

news — he gets six newspapers every day.

Every Friday evening, he appears on two nation-

al TV shows: Inside Washington and NewsHour

World View

[2] People: Elizabeth Hawley

David: If you were to climb Mount Everest,

there is one woman living in Nepal whom you

would want to meet. Listen as Anne tells us

with Jim Lehrer . Listen as he compares these

shows to news on cable television. He says that

one of NewsHour ’s hallmarks, or defining char-

acteristics, is that the conversation on the

show must stay polite, or be “free from invec-

tive”. Here’s Mark Shields now.

Britain Today

[4] The rules of the road

To be fair, when you drive through British towns,

with their narrow roads and their endless rows

of parked cars, other drivers can be surprisingly

helpful. Oncoming cars will often flash their

lights and stop to let you go first when there

isn’t enough room for two lanes of traffic.

They expect you to thank them, of course, so

you have to wave. This rapidly becomes a bit of

a nuisance; you soon begin to realize how the

queen feels when she has to keep waving all

the time to everyone her car drives past.

Naturally, there’s not much point in waving at

people when you’re driving in the dark. You

have to flash your lights instead. Here, timing is

important; don’t flash too soon, or you’ll blind

the people you’re thanking. Don’t flash too

late, or they won’t be able to see you, and the

people in the car that’s following them will

think you’re going to stop to let them pass.

Driving at night’s bad enough; driving in the

daytime’s probably worse. You need three

hands to drive in Britain in daylight — one to

wave a quick thank you to the car that has just

stopped for you, one to flash your lights to

show the next car you’re going to stop for it,

and another for less important things like the

steering wheel.

Of course, this works only for people driving

towards you. If the car behind you is flashing its

lights, that’s completely different. It usually

means the driver’s in a hurry and wants you to

get out of his way.

It’s all too much for some road users — like

cyclists. Many have stopped using lights alto-

gether, even though they actually seem to pre-

fer riding at night and put on such dark clothes

that they all look like Goths. They even ride

down the right side of the road (in other

words, the wrong side). They have clearly all

David: Do you know the rules of the road? Our

British columnist, Colin Beaven, tells us that

there’s more to driving in England than just

remembering on which side of the road to

drive. This month, he explains that British dri-

vers follow a complicated code of etiquette.

The folks who watch the NewsHour are usually

pretty serious news consumers, and if they

have a bone to pick with you, it’s over some-

thing factual or an argument that you didn’t

make or, in their judgment, didn’t make suffi-

ciently. Whereas the cable news experience is

far more brimming with invective: “You’re

crazy!” “You’re out of your mind!” “Don’t you

love this country?” That’s where the emotions

seem to run higher, from my experience.

The cable news in particular has become far

more segmented in its viewership. A major

portion of the viewers, it seems to me, go look-

ing not for information, but for ammunition, to

the side that they agree with already and to get

their talking points, rather than to hear a bal-

anced discussion.

The wonderful thing about doing the NewsHour

over the 23 years I’ve done it is that they’re

insistent — it’s their hallmark — that all discus-

sions are free of invective and on the issues. If

anybody did do a diatribe or a screed against

another person, they would never be invited

back.

What do visitors from other countries find

most difficult when driving here in Britain? For

some, of course, it’s the fact that we don’t use

the right side of the road. I’m not saying we use

the wrong side. I’m just saying that rather than

driving on the right, we use the left.

Probably the biggest challenge you face on

Britain’s roads, however, is communicating

with other drivers. It’s not that you have to

remember lots of technical phrases, like “You

didn’t have right of way”, “It’s time you had

some driving lessons”, and “How dare you

speak to me like that!” It’s simply that the eti-

quette’s quite complicated, so it’s hard to be

polite.

Not all British drivers are polite, of course. Some

are very inconsiderate. In fact, human beings in

general don’t behave well when they get into

cars. If the ghosts of the Neanderthals are still

out there somewhere, they must think that

inventing the wheel was a really big mistake.

ammunition

Munition; hier:

Argumentationsstoff

blind

blenden

brimming with sth.

voll von etw.

diatribe

Hetzrede

face

hier: begegnen

factual

sachlich

flash one’s lights

die Lichthupe betätigen

folks US ifml.

Leute

Goth

Grufti

have a bone

mit jmdm. ein Hühnchen

to pick with sb.

zu rupfen haben

How dare you...!

Wie können Sie es wagen...

inconsiderate

rücksichtslos

insistent

eindringlich; hier: bestimmt

invective

Beschimpfungen

lane

Fahrspur

nuisance: be a ~

lästig sein

oncoming

entgegenkommend

portion

Anteil

right of way

Vorfahrt

screed

Tirade

segmented

untergliedert

steering wheel

Lenkrad

there’s not much

es macht wenig Sinn...

point in...

viewership

Zuschauerschaft

See Spotlight 7/2011, pages 8–9

had nervous breakdowns, which is strange:

you normally think that only motorists have

breakdowns.

Of course, it’s also possible that a driver who’s

flashing his lights at you is simply saying

“hello”, like the man who drives the lorry that

collects the rubbish in the street where my

grandson lives. Being two years old, my grand-

son likes to stand at the living-room window

and watch the rubbish van turn round. Every

week, when the driver reverses, he flashes his

lights to greet the little boy, who waves back

with the greatest enthusiasm. After all, you’re

never too young to learn the rules of the road.

Source: Spotlight 7/2011, page 13

guage, although some Namibians still speak

German, because of the country’s colonial

past.

Anne: 300 sunny days per year means that any

time is a good time to visit Namibia. You can fly

direct from Frankfurt to the capital city of Wind-

hoek. If you’re not yet convinced that you want

to go there, just listen to the next two tracks.

David: First we have an excerpt from the travel

feature in Spotlight magazine, and then you’ll

hear an interview with a Namibian woman.

people, is the driest country south of the

Sahara, so the Nama people of the desert wait a

long time for rain. But this year has been wet.

Some of the dunes even have a thin veil of

grass and flowers on them. My guide, a Nama

named Willy Rooi, says it is rare to see the

desert this way.

Willy is ready to go. He wants to move on

before it gets too hot. We drive away from the

dunes until a strange sight stops our Land

Rover: an acacia tree is being attacked by a

massive growth. Willy laughs and explains that

we are looking at a communal nest. It is the

home of the sociable weaver, a bird that lives in

groups of up to 150.

As we watch, a little bird falls from the nest and

just manages to land on its feet. Small and

uncertain, it calls loudly until another bird joins

it. The smaller one opens its beak and squeaks

to be fed. Soon, numerous young birds are

falling gently to the ground, and the weavers’

workday has begun. Willy says the adults leave

the nest early each day to hunt for insects. They

fly home for a midday rest, leave again in the

afternoon and return at day’s end. Each time a

bird returns, it weaves a piece of grass into the

nest, expanding it in the course of time.

We drive into a field of silver grasses and “fairy

circles”, perfectly round areas of ground where

nothing grows. Willy points to black ears in the

tall grass: “That’s the bat-eared fox. There are

two of them, as you can see.” They are well hid-

den from other animals — except those pass-

ing in a Land Rover.

Source: Spotlight 7/2011, pages 28–33

Anne: How did you do with the two questions?

First, how old is the Namib Desert said to be?

... 130 million years old. And how big is the

country of Namibia? ... About as big as Britain

and France combined. If you’d like to learn

more about Namibia, turn to pages 28 to 33 of

the July issue of Spotlight for the full travel

story.

[6] A sea of sand (excerpt)

Anne: Spotlight ’s deputy editor, Claudine

Weber-Hof, will read us an excerpt from her

story “Namibia: A sea of sand”. As you listen,

see if you can find the answers to these two

questions: How old is the Namib Desert said to

be? And how big is the country of Namibia?

Travel:

Discovering Namibia

[5] Introduction

bat-eared fox

Löffelhund

beak

Schnabel

breakdown

Zusammenbruch; auch:

(Auto)Panne

cricket

Grille

David: We’re off to a more exotic location now:

our travel focus takes us to south-western

Africa. The country of Namibia borders South

Africa in the south, Botswana in the east, and

Angola and Zambia in the north.

Anne: Despite having a coastline of about 1,500

kilometres along the Atlantic Ocean, Namibia is

a very dry country. It has two deserts: the

Namib and the Kalahari.

David: English is the country’s official lan-

When morning comes to the desert, Namibia’s

little creatures start to sing: crickets hum and

birds twitter, and tok-tokkie beetles make the

noise that inspired their name. I hear their sym-

phony on a red dune in the Namib, a sea of

sand said to be 130 million years old. The

desert on the coast of south-west Africa gives

this country its lovely, musical name.

Namibia, which is about the size of France and

Britain combined, but with only two million

deputy editor

stellvertretende(r)

Chefredakteur(in)

fairy

Feen-, Elfen-

hum

summen; hier: zirpen

motorist

Autofahrer(in)

reverse

rückwärts fahren

sociable weaver

Siedelweber

squeak

piepsen

tok-tokkie beetle

Klopfkäfer

twitter

zwitschern

veil

Schleier

weave

weben, flechten

[7] Interview with Pascolena Florry

Oh, yes, I am! And I have got a very big aim, and

I am still learning every day. Maybe the next

time you come to Africa you [will find] me in

the chair of the president. Why not?

I would not be surprised! Also, there’s some

very beautiful singing that’s done at this

camp. Can you tell me a little bit about the

singing?

You know, the reason why we all sing together

so nicely is most of us working here are coming

from the same villages; we did attend school

together. Back in our villages, we don’t have

television and electricity. So singing is [one] of

our hobbies. That’s what we are doing when we

are back at the villages. It’s part of our enter-

tainment.

Anne: But should laws tell us what language to

speak? Correspondent Lorraine Mallinder

asked people in Montreal if they think language

laws are a good idea. Listen to what four of the

respondents said.

guages: Asian people are with Asian people,

French people are with French people and Eng-

lish people are together with English people,

and I don’t think it really works. The people

don’t maybe make the effort to make it work.

And the new immigrants that are coming in:

they are actually taking English directly,

because it’s the overall language, and French is,

like, put a bit apart.

David: Listen in now as Claudine talks with Pas-

colena Florry in Namibia. You’ll hear Pascolena

talk about the “click” language of her people,

the Damara, and about the importance of

singing in the community.

● Pierre-Etienne Lessard:

I think that in Quebec the language laws are

important, because otherwise we would totally

lose our language, particularly in [the] Montre-

al area, where maybe 50 per cent of the people

speak English. It would take only 50 years and

we wouldn’t speak French anymore. So, yes,

it’s important. Yeah.

So what is your name and what is your job

here?

My name is Pascolena Florry and I am the area

manager between Damaraland Camp, Doro

!Nawas lodge and Damaraland Adventure Camp.

And can you tell me: What is the name of your

people — the name of your community?

The name of our community is Torra Conser-

vancy. Torra means “red rocks”. A conservancy

is land that the government gives to the local

people, [to] make them responsible for the

resources in the conservancy so that they can

open hospitality industries like this and benefit

[from] it at the end of the day.

And as far as your people in Namibia [go]: What

is the name of your people? You are not the

Nama; you are the Damara?

Oh, yes, I am a full-blooded Damara. We speak

the Khoekhoe language. That’s our home lan-

guage. We start clicking when we are, like, two

years old, and we are proud [of] our nationality

and our language.

I think you are a very powerful leader for the

people of these lodges.

● Manon Belisle:

I think they’re necessary. Definitely. We need to

protect our language and to avoid the language

[disappearing] altogether. We’re a minority in

Canada, so it’s important — very important. I’m

francophone, but I do speak English. That, too,

is necessary — I mean, it’s not that we just want

to speak French, you know, but I think it’s

important that most people learn French if

[they’re] going to live here.

See Spotlight 7/2011, pages 36–37

● Tania Prata:

No, I don’t at all. I think that here, very much, it

has to be French and French only, and I find

that French people don’t want to make the

effort [to learn] English. English people have to

know English and French, but the French peo-

ple are not even interested in the least bit in

learning English. I think that French people

have the wrong attitude. You live in Canada —

it’s not only that you live in Quebec. You live in

Canada, and you know, you need to know how

to speak both languages here. You know what I

mean?

See Spotlight 7/2011, pages 28–33

Debate

[8] Are language laws a good idea?

David: In the Canadian province of Quebec, six

million people are native French speakers. Sur-

rounded by English speakers in the rest of

Canada and in the United States, Quebec has

fought hard to keep French alive. Strict laws

were introduced in the 1970s requiring French

to be used for everything from education to

sweet wrappers.

at the end of the day letzten Endes, unterm Strich

click Klick- und Schnalzlaute

bilden

hospitality industry Hotelindustrie; hier: Gast-

gewerbebetrieb

in the least bit: not ~ nicht im geringsten

segregation

● Erwan Lansonneur:

Here in Quebec, I think it’s quite difficult,

because there is a kind of a segregation of lan-

Trennung

sweet wrapper UK

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