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RIDDLES

2008

CHAT-UP LINES

What to say in the bar.

2009

The Best of the Best.

BUSINESS SPECIAL

Inventions plus tension.

The Best to Come.

CHRISTMAS RECIPE

Get into the holiday spirit.

REMAKES

A look at some good

and bad ﬁlm remakes.

Can Keanu

save the

world? FILM REVIEW

PAUL

NEWMAN

The Day the

Earth Stood Still

The man

and his

legacy.

grammar, error correction,

jokes, anecdotes, trivia, slang,

phrasal verbs, social English...

PLUS,

Can you solve these?

CLASSIC FILM

Can Keanu

save the

world?

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CD index

1 Hello

2 Hero Dies

3 Seeing Stars

4 Story Time

5 Social English - Sightseeeing

6 Functional language: Small Talk

7 Error Correction (low level)

8 Saving Money

9 Telephone Conversation

10 Greek Geeks

11 We’re Not Alone

12 Weird Trivia

13 Corny Criminals

14 Manners Moment

15 Jokes

16 Grafﬁti

17 It’s a Scream

18 Trouble in Paradise

19 Typical Dialogues

20 Dr Fingers’ Vocabulary

21 Quirky News

22 British Bar Chat

23 US Bar Chat

24 Story: The Shop – Episode 3

25 Nightmare Hotel Experience

26 Dumb US Laws (Utah)

27 Dictionary of Slang

28 Error Correction (high level)

29 Idioms : Table

30 Not Kosher

31 Good Deed Undone

32 Travelling Through

33 Off the Cuff

34 Elementary Exam Listening

35 Pre Intermediate Exam Listening

36 Intermediate Exam Listening

37 Upper Intermediate Exam Listening

38 Advanced Exam Listening

Editor’s intro

Hello, and welcome to another issue of

Hot English Magazine, the fun magazine

for learning English.

Magazine Index

3 Editorial

4 Hero Dies

5 Seeing Stars

6 Name Game

7 Personality Quiz

8 Useful Vocabulary: Christmas

9 Useful Verbs: celebrating

10 SB Article: Chugging Along

11 Story Time

12 Basic English: vacation

13 Social English: sightseeing

14 Functional language: Small Talk

15 Error correction & Listening: Saving Money

16 Grammar Fun

17 With a Trace & Telephone English

18 Film Scripts (It’s A Wonderful Life)

19 SB Article: Christmas Festivals

20 Greek Geeks

21 We’re Not Alone

22 Trivia Matching

23 Weird Trivia

24 Dr Fingers’ Grammar

25 Subscriptions

26 Corny Criminals

27 Recipe: Egg Nog and Sausage / Zucchini

& Listening: Manners Moment

28 A Real-Life Stand-Still

30 Father Ted

32 Classic remakes

33 Movie Mania

34 The Day the Earth Stood Still

35 Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly

36 Best of 2008

37 Predictions for 2009

38 Face to Face Infernal Aairs vs. The Departed

39 Paul Newman Tribute

40 Jokes, Grati & Cartoon

41 Misheard Lyrics

42 It’s a Scream

43 Trouble in Paradise

44 Vocabulary: The Restaurant

45 Not-So Typical Dialogues: The Restaurant

46 Dr Fingers Vocabulary Clinic:

Starting Something

47 Quirky News / Riddles

48 Breathing Fire

50 SB Article: Positive Energy

51 Marketing English & Listening:

Nightmare Hotel Experience

52 Dumb Laws & Utah Facts

53 Directory

54 Dictionary of Slang

55 Dr Fingers’ Error Correction, Chat-Up Lines

& Back Issues

56 Anniversaries: December

57 Idioms: Table

58 SB Article: Keep Talking

59 Advertisement

60 Not Kosher

61 Good Deed Undone

62 Tara Hill

63 Phrasal Verbs

64 Tape scripts

65 Answers and Listening: Travelling Through

66 Word of the Month: (Newbie)

For a start, we have a very special issue

this month. There are two new sections

we are introducing. The ﬁrst is riddles.

A riddle is a puzzle or joke that seems

like it doesn’t make sense, but is

actually quite clever once you discover

the answer. The second new section is

a personal favourite of mine. Have you ever met someone

in a bar, and you wanted to talk to them, but felt like you

didn’t have a good opening line? With the new “chat-up

lines” section, you will now have something to say. The lines

are funny and cute. Let me know how you get on with them.

The ﬁlm we are featuring this month is called The Day the

Earth Stood Still starring Keanu Reeves. It is a remake of

a 1950’s ﬁlm of the same name. We have also included

articles about other classic remakes, and an article about

moments in history that made the world “stand still”.

As the holiday season is among us, we have included useful

Christmas vocabulary as well as celebration-themed

useful verbs. One of our Skills Booklet readings is about

holiday celebrations around the world. There is also a

recipe for egg nog, a typical holiday drink.

Well, I could go on and on about the exciting things we have

in this issue, but I guess I should let you read on for yourself.

As always, good luck with your English. And don’t hesitate

to write in with any feedback.

We’ll do anything for our devoted

readers.

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PPS Happy Holidays!

Basic English

Sightseeing.

A Real-Life Stand-Still

Important moments in history and

the movies made about them.

Father Ted

Life at Craggy Island.

Lightning strikes twice?

A look at some good and bad ﬁlm

remakes.

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Warning from beyond.

Best of 2008

Hot English looks back on 2008.

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READING I

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Hero Dies

World leaders remember Russian author.

The world recently lost a hero. Russian author Aleksandr

Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born on 11th December 1918

and died 3rd August 2008. He wrote novels, plays and was

also a historian. Solzhenitsyn changed Russian history

and literature. He wrote about the Soviet Union’s labour

camp system, the Gulag. World leaders paid tributes to

Solzhenitsyn and his contributions to Russian society. Former

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said that the writer’s works

“changed the consciousness of millions of people”.

Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet ocer in World War II. In 1945,

he was sent to the Gulag for criticising Stalin. He spent

eight years there. After that experience, he wrote a story

about a day in the life of a Gulag prisoner in 1962. Soon

after, the political situation in the Soviet Union got worse.

Solzhenitsyn then wrote about the history of the Gulag

system from 1918 to 1956. Although he won the Nobel

Prize for Literature in 1970, he was then exiled from the

Soviet Union for over 20 years. His courage will always be

remembered. One Russian man said Solzhenitsyn’s books

showed him “the power of literature to change the world”.

ANSWERS ON PAGE 65

1 Pre reading

Do you know what these characters have in common? What’s

your denition of a hero? What do people do to become heroes?

3 Reading II

What do the following dates refer to in the article?

1. 1918

2. 2008

3. 1962

4. 1945

5. 1970

Superman

4 Language focus

Look at the following dates and write

them in word form. For example, 1st

December= the rst of December.

1. 31st December

2. 22nd December

3. 23rd December

GLOSSARY

a labour camp n

a camp for political prisoners,

enemies of the government or

prisoners of war, where they are

forced to do physical labour

to pay tribute to exp

to honour someone or something

consciousness n

your thoughts and mind

to criticise vb

if you “criticise” someone, you say

what you think is wrong with that

person

to exile vb

if someone is “exiled”, they are told

to leave their country

Spiderman

5 Language focus

1. Can you think of any national heroes

in your country? Who? What are they

famous for?

2. Do you have a hero / heroine? Who? Why?

3. Can you think of any famous heroes /

heroines from literature? Who?

2 Reading I

Read to nd out what the person from the article did to become

a national hero.

Batman

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*NTP

UBMFOUFE

Wolfgang

Amadeus

Mozart

(Austria, 27th January

1756 – 5th December

1791).

Still considered one of

the greatest classical

music composers ever,

Mozart played and

composed at the age

of ve. He wrote over

600 pieces in total, and

inuenced many other

classical musicians.

Seeing Stars

5-year-old music genius.

How many ve-year-olds play the piano?

Famous Austrian composer Wolfgang

Amadeus Mozart could. But now, people

are talking about another piano genius.

Her name is Yoo Ye-eun of South Korea. She

surprised her parents at three-years-old with

an amazing talent: she could listen to any

song once and then play it perfectly on the

piano. “She has perfect pitch even though

she has never learnt to play. We never taught

her,” said Ye-eun’s mum, Park Jung Soon.

Little Yoo gave a concert in May with 7-year-

old Connie Talbot, star of Britain’s Got Talent*.

Yoo has appeared

on several Korean

talent shows. Her

performance on

reality show “Star

King” won her £500 and made the audience

cry . This child prodigy is so popular that

she recently played for the Prime Minister

of Singapore. She loves the great classical

composers, like Beethoven, Mozart and

Chopin. Yoo practices every day and says her

dream is to be “a great pianist.” It looks like this

little girl’s dream has already come true .

*Britain’s

Got Talent

Britain’s Got Talent is a

British television show.

Dancers, comedians

or any other talented

people perform in front

of an audience. The

show has three judges:

Simon Cowell, Amanda

Holden and Piers

Morgan. The programme

premiered in England

in 2007 and millions of

people watch it.

ANSWERS ON PAGE 65

1 Pre reading

Match the famous child prodigies to their description.

2 Reading I

There are two child prodigies mentioned in the article.

Who are they?

3 Reading II

True or false? Yoo Ye-eun…

1. … revealed her talent when she was three.

2. … has had piano lessons since she was three.

3. … has never performed for the public.

4. … is a fan of classical music.

Marie Curie

Mozart

4 Language focus

A person who plays the piano is a “pianist”.

In the same way, we say a “violinist” and a “trombonist”.

Can you think of any more words like this?

GLOSSARY

pitch n

if you have perfect “pitch”, you can

sing or play a note accurately

a performance n

if you give a “performance”, you

entertain an audience by singing,

dancing, or acting on a stage

to make someone cry exp

if you “make someone cry”, you

make them sad and cause tears

(liquid) to come out of their eyes

a prodigy n

a person with exceptional talent

to come true exp

if a dream or a wish “comes true”,

it happens

Picasso

5 Discussion

How good are you at the following? (very good, good, OK, bad,

very bad)

drawing

painting

playing music

dancing

speaking languages

other?

Shirley Temple

a. played and composed music at age ve.

b. drew before he could speak.

c. taught herself French and Russian at age four.

d. was a tap dancer at age ve.

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