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ano XXIII - nº 284 - R$ 18,90

Hollywood BusinessHow Things Work

Green Attitude50 Ways to Change the World

From May 1stTornado Busters

LanguageThe Q Talk

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Natalie Portman in Black Swan

The OScarS aNd The GlOBeS

Interview on CDCarlos Santana

TravelAlaska’s Denali

Park

TourismIan Rankin’s

Edinburgh

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We Are What We Do – diz o

slogan de um movimento,

especialmente forte entre es-

tudantes britânicos, mas que já

ganha adeptos em outras partes

do mundo. E se o que fazemos

determina o que somos, então

vale a pena prestar mais aten-

ção em nossos feitos, certo?

Já era hora de alguém voltar a

ensinar coisas boas e ética bá-

sica (que tal começar com os

políticos...), pois a confusão de

valores já prejudica gente de-

mais – então, ouçamos essas

crianças. Pois vejamos: W.S. Ja-

cques é um gentleman ou um

ladrão? Pessoas que chegam a

Hollywood querendo se tornar

estrelas são ingênuas ou de-

terminadas? Filhos únicos são

realmente menos felizes? Uma

banda militar pode gravar um

disco de sucesso? Perguntas

como essas, levantadas nessa

edição da sua revista, podem

nos ajudar a observar melhor

o que fazemos e, talvez, a ser

melhor o que somos.

Por outro lado – e sempre há

um outro lado – há pessoas

que não são quem dizem ser, e

nem sempre isso é ruim. Como

os vários pintores que trocam

de nome, como os persona-

gens de ficção de Edimburgo,

e como os vários atores e atri-

zes que concorreram ao Oscar

e ao Globo de Ouro com seus

papéis. Sem falar em mais al-

gumas letras, que existem, mas

absolutamente não se pronun-

ciam – talvez para abrir cami-

nho para figuras. Que fazer?

Como saber quem é quem?

Se for um tornado, vamos ca-

çá-lo! Se for um belo parque

no Alaska, vamos visitá-lo, mas

seja onde for, vamos deixar

uma trilha – de paz, amor e

justiça, como canta nossa can-

ção do mês – que sempre po-

derá ser seguida.

Happy Reading!

Karl Kepler

ANO XXIII | N. 284 | ABRIL 2011

INESTA EDIÇÃO...

O movimento WAWWD visa tornar o mundo um lugar melhor; aqui,

metalinguisticamente, já traz uma bela contribuição para o mundo dos idiomas...

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06 PROFILE William Simon Jacques

08 THIS MONTH Storm Busters!

10 TRAVEL Alaska’s Denali National Park

12 WHERE ARE THEY NOW? JC Superstar

13 WE ARE WHAT WE DO An environmental movement for young people.

16 AND THE WINNER IS... The Oscars and the Golden Globes

18 THE BUSINESS OF SHOW BUSINESS Hollywood insider Ross Grossman explains.

22 SILENT LETTERS PART 4 Yet more bizarre English pronunciation.

24 AN ONLY CHILD IS A HAPPY CHILD According to The Observer, at least.

26 Q TALK Maurice Hazan explains how to learn a language.

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ʒ leisure

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28 CREATIVITY AT WORK We meet three remarkable New York artists.

32 A ROYAL RECORD Some decidedly unlikely pop stars...

34 GUITAR LEGEND! Carlos Santana on music... and love.

38 IAN RANKIN’S EDINBURGH The best-selling author takes us on a tour.

42 IN THE NAME OF ART Why artists like to use pseudonyms.

44 THE GOOD LIFE Unusual news from the English-speaking world.

46 WHAT’S HAPPENING Our guide to movies, music and the arts in general.

47 LAST LAUGH Going for a Beer

48 KIDS CROSS fun for the children

49 LETTERS AND CLUB You can write on this page

50 SONG & LYRICS Leave a Trail

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1 Gentleman Thief:

ladrão cavalheiro

2 fiction: ficção,

literatura

3 libraries: bibliotecas

4 worth: no valor de...

5 chartered

accountant:

contador

especializado

6 master of disguise:

mestre na arte do

disfarce

7 nickname: apelido

8 Tome Raider - jogo

de palavras com

Tomb Raider (tome,

livro, volume; Tomb,

túmulo)

9 education:

instrução, cultura

10 confidence:

confiança

6 six

GLOSSARY

PEOPLE EASY LISTENING

Sua especialidade? Roubar livros

antigos das bibliotecas e revendê-

los fora. Alguns o consideram um

gentleman, já outros, não querem vê-

lo nem de longe... BY JOHN RIGG

TRACK 1SPEAKERS JASON BERMINGHAM AND JUSTIN RATCLIFFE

A2 PRE-INTERMEDIATE

IPROFILE

Main picture: the British

Library, near London’s

St. Pancras station.

Above: WIlliam Simon

Jacques, the man

who has stolen many

valuable books from this

and other libraries.

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11 bookseller: livreiro

12 knowledge:

conhecimento

13 they’re too

embarrassed to

admit losing:

eles ficam muito

constrangidos ao

admitir a perda de...

14 auction houses:

leiloeiros

15 book dealers:

comerciantes de

livros

16 to cover library

markings: cobrir

o timbre de

bibliotecas

17 a leopard doesn’t

change his spots:

um leopardo não

consegue mudar

as manchas de seu

pelo

18 tabloid

newspapers: os

jornais populares

19 agrees: está de

acordo

20 scoundrel: salafrário

21 tutor: professor

(nas universidades

inglesas, destacado

para acompanhar

de perto um

grupo pequeno de

estudantes).

22 splashing paint:

jogar tinta

GLOSSARY

seven 7

He was born in 1969 in North Yorkshire. He studied economics at Cambridge University; his tutor Ian DuQuesnay remembers that he was “a competent, but not ex-ceptional student.” He be-came an accountant and lived an apparently quiet life in London’s Maida Vale. Then in 1994 he obtained membership of Britain’s most prestigious libraries. In the following fi ve years, he became the most prolifi c book thief in British history. The books

he has stolen include Sir Isaac Newton’s Prin-cipia Mathematica (1687), Descartes’ Discourse de la Méthode pour Bien Con-duire sa Reason (1637) and Kepler’s Astronomia Nova (1609).

WHO EXACTLY IS WILLIAM SIMON JACQUES?

ten inform the police when books are

stolen. Antiquarian bookseller11 Jolyon

Hudson explains: “Libraries are the

curators of the nation’s knowledge12.

They’re too embarrassed to admit los-

ing13 such important books.” Jacques

sells the books with the help of auction

houses14 like Christies of London and

specialist book dealers15. The police

caught him in 1999 because a London

book dealer saw that he was trying to

cover library markings16.

JAILED“A leopard doesn’t change its spots17.”

The tabloid newspapers18 describe

Jacques as a gentleman thief, but not

everyone agrees19. Jacques alleg-

edly showed no remorse during his

2010 sentencing, and his reputation

has been damaged by his fi rst convic-

tion. The opposite of a gentleman is a

scoundrel20, and there are many peo-

ple who say Jacques is exactly that: a

scoundrel. His Cambridge University

tutor21 Ian DuQuesnay angrily says:

“What William Simon Jacques does is

equivalent to splashing paint22 on the

Parthenon.” ! G

TThe Gentleman Thief1 is a

famous fi gure in both fi c-

tion2 and reality, but Brit-

ain’s most prestigious libraries3

don’t like William Simon Jacques.

This notorious criminal has sto-

len rare books from London’s

British Library worth4 more than

£1,000,000: one example is Gali-

leo Galilei’s Sidereus Nuncius.

A GENIUSJacques studied at Cambridge

University and he is a char-

tered accountant5. He has the

IQ of a genius and is a master

of disguise6. The English news-

papers love him: they gave him

the nickname7 “Tome

Raider8.” But he isn’t

so intelligent after

all. He was caught

in 2002 and spent

four years in pris-

on. Jacques

was arrested

again in 2007

for stealing

1 3 books from

the Royal Horti-

c u l- ture Society valued at

£40,000, was released on bail

and ran. He was found and ar-

rested at his mom’s home in 2009,

and in June 2010 was convicted

and sentenced to 3.5 years.

EMBARRASSINGHow could Jacques steal

such rare books for so

many years? He uses his

education9 to obtain li-

brarians’ confi dence10,

and uses false names

and disguises, so that no-

body can identify him.

For example, at the Lind-

ley Library he used

the name Mr San-

toro instead of his

real name. Another

important reason is that

library curators don’t of-

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1 storm-chasing

season: temporada da

caça aos tornados

2 possibly insane:

provavelmente

malucos

3 thunderstorms:

temporais

4 mountain ranges:

serras, cadeias

montanhosas

5 flat, open plains:

planícies amplas e

abertas

6 reinforced roofs:

telhados reforçados

7 storm cellars: abrigos

no porão

8 rely on storm

warnings: confiam

nos alertas de

tornados.

9 it’s addictive: é

viciante

10 agrees: concorda

11 the ultimate

challenge: o desafio

supremo

12 it weighs: pesa

13 steel-plated armour:

couraça de aço

14 thick: de espessura

15 how storms develop:

como as tempestades

se desenvolvem

16 to rely: confiar,

depender

17 occur: acontecem,

ocorrem

18 to improve: melhorar

I t’s storm-chasing season1 in Torna-

do Alley, USA. Tour companies off er

courageous, and possibly insane2,

tourists the chance to see a tornado

from a distance of only 300 metres. The

season runs from May 1st to June 30th.

DANGEROUS TERRITORYTornado Alley is famous for its thunder-

storms3 and tornadoes. It’s located be-

tween the Rocky and the Appalachian

mountain ranges4: hundreds of miles of

fl at, open plains5. It runs through North-

ern Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska

and Colorado. The buildings in this region

have reinforced roofs6, solid foundations

and storm cellars7. Local people rely on

storm warnings8 to avoid disaster.

ADRENALINE!Tornadoes are very dangerous, so why do

people want to chase them? Documen-

tary-maker Sean Casey says, “It’s addic-

tive!9” His driver Byron Turk agrees10: “It’s

the adrenaline…the ultimate challenge!11”

Casey built a Tornado Intercept Vehicle.

It weighs12 680 kilos and has steel-plated

armour13. Its windows are 4 centimetres

thick14. Casey and his team fi lmed as a tor-

nado hit the vehicle. You can see his docu-

mentaries on the Discovery Channel.

A BIG RISKAre you still interested in storm-chas-

ing? Well, it’s very important to find

expert guides. A company like “Storm

Chasing Adventure Tours” (SCAT) can

guarantee tourists’ safety. They have

years of experience, and understand

how storms develop15. They use ad-

vanced computer systems to predict

the location of the storms. SCAT chief

Todd Thorn says, however: “Guides

cannot rely16 only on the technology.

They must have the ability to read

the sky.” The SCAT team aren’t sim-

ply tourist guides. They also provide

important information to National

Weather Centres on the position and

strength of storms. They help save

lives.

UNBELIEVABLEStorms usually occur17 in the late after-

noon, early evening. Teams must drive

hundreds of miles to arrive at storm lo-

cations. So they leave their base in Am-

arillo, Texas in the morning. The chase

often continues until late in the evening.

What is it like to chase a storm? SCAT

driver Kevin Harned says: “It’s one thing

to see a tornado on TV, but totally diff er-

ent to see it with your own eyes!”

GLOSSARY

THIS MONTH EASY LISTENING

Nos Estados Unidos os tornados são frequentes,

perigosos e assustadores: a mistura perfeita

para experiências abolutamente radicais. A

temporada vai começar, e assim o negócio das

agências de turismo de “storm chasing” vai...

de vento em popa!

BY JOHN RIGG

TRACK 2SPEAKER CHUCK ROLANDO

A2 PRE-INTERMEDIATE

ITHIS MONTH

STORM BUSTERS!

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Documentary-maker

Sean Casey’s “TIV”

(Tornado Intercept

Vehicle). Right: the poster

for the 1996 movie

Twister, which starred

Helen Hunt and Bill

Paxton. Michael

Crichton wrote the

screenplay.

U.S.A.

New York

TEXAS

OKLAHOMA

COLORADOKANSAS

NEBRASKA

Scientifi c teams want to improve18 our ability to predict tornadoes. The international VORTEX research team sends over 30 vehicles to follow each tornado and collect data. The fi lm Twister (1996), starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt, portrayed one of the fi rst VORTEX teams in the 1990s. At the same time, NASA is studyingsatellite images of tornadoes. Today National

Weather Centres can give 13-minute warnings before tornadoes hit. VORTEX and NASA hope to predict tornadoes earlier, so they can warn residents at least 30 minutes before they arrive.This will certainly stop events like the Greensburg, Kansas disaster, which took place on May 4th 2007. On that occasion 11 people died and the entire city was destroyed.

NASA AND VORTEX

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ALASKA’S DENALI NATIONAL PARKÉ o parque nacional

americano mais

radical, tanto

pela temperatura

quanto pela beleza

da paisagem. No

passado, recebeu

a corrida do ouro.

Hoje, é dominado

por águias e ursos

pardos... By John Rigg

Would you like to escape the

modern world? Alaska’s De-

nali National Park off ers visi-

tors a rare opportunity to experience

nature in true solitude. They can see

the spectacular mountains of the Alaska

Range, dramatic glaciers and wildlife1.

The park is 240 miles (390 kilometres)

north of Anchorage and 140 miles (230

kilometres) south of Fairbanks: the two

nearest international airports.

SPRING IS HEREIn April the park is waking up2 from its

long winter. Grizzly bears3 emerge after

months of hibernation. Wolves hunt in

packs4 across the snow. Dall sheep5 eat

grass on the mountain side. Migratory

birds, including eagles and swans6, are

returning. Snow ploughs clear7 the park’s

only road, the Denali Park Road. This runs

90 miles (148 kms) into the park. Private

vehicles can, however, only reach Sav-

age River, 15 miles (24 kilometres) from

the entrance. After this point, the road

becomes a dirt track8 and visitors must

travel on the park’s special buses.

IN THE AIRThe buses take visitors deep into the

park. Day excursions visit Polychrome

Pass with its multi-colored cliff s9, Won-

der Lake at the foot of Mount McKinley,

America’s highest mountain, and the

old mining town10 Kantishna. Mount

McKinley is often impossible to see be-

cause of clouds11.

Perhaps the best way to see the Denali

PLACES EASY LISTENING

TRACK 3SPEAKER CHUCK ROLANDO

A2 PRE-INTERMEDIATE

ITRAVEL

Above: Mount

Hunter, or

“Begguya,” in Denali

National Park.

“Begguya” means

child in the local

Native American

language and this is

“the child” of Mount

Denali (which is also

known as Mount

McKinley). Opposite

page (clockwise,

from top left): bear

tracks, a hare, a

panoramic view, rock

climbing at Ruth

Gorge, a lynx, a Dall

sheep.

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1 dramatic glaciers

and wildlife: geleiras

espetaculares e fauna

selvagem

2 is waking up: está

acordando

3 grizzly bears: urso

pardo dos EUA

4 wolves hunt in packs:

lobos caçam em

matilhas

5 Dall sheep: carneiro de

Dall (v. foto)

6 eagles and swans:

águias e cisnes

7 snow ploughs clear:

escavadoras de neve

limpam

8 dirt track: estrada de

terra

9 cliffs: penhascos

10 old mining town: antiga

cidade de mineração

11 clouds: nuvens

12 stunning views: vistas

deslumbrantes

13 moose: alce americano

14 streams: riachos

15 suddenly: de repente

16 heights: alturas

17 the track becomes

very narrow: o

caminho torna-se

bastante estreito

18 settlers: colonizadores

19 people raced to

claim the land: as

pessoas correram para

reivindicar terras

20 to panhandle for gold:

garimpar ouro

GLOSSARY

The region was the home of Native Americans called the Athapaskan (or Athabaskan) for about 12,000 years. Denali means “the high one” in the native Athapaskan language, and it was their name for Mount McKinley. Modern settlers18 fi rst came to the region at the beginning of the 20th century. Gold was discovered in the mountains and people raced to claim the land19. It is still possible to panhandle for gold20 in the

park’s streams and lakes.Naturalist Charles Alexander Sheldon studied Denali’s Dall sheep. The existence of these sheep became diffi cult as more and more people came to the region. So Sheldon petitioned government to create a preserve for the sheep. The Mount McKinley National Park was formed on February 26, 1917. This park was extended and renamed the Denali National Park and Preserve in 1980.

A SHORT HISTORY OF THE PARK

Park is from the air. Flight companies,

like K2 Aviation, take visitors above the

clouds to see stunning views12 across

the glaciers and mountain tops. It is also

possible to land on the glaciers with ski-

planes.

DANGER!The park off ers cycling, hiking, camping,

mountaineering and white-water raft-

ing. Visitors are also free to explore the

park alone. But Denali National Park is

vast and the dangers are real. There are

hungry bears, moose13 and wolves. The

streams14 and lakes are freezing, and

the temperature can change sudden-

ly15. Snow is common throughout the

year. Finally, are you afraid of heights16?

The Denali Park Road goes high into the

mountains, where the track becomes

very narrow17. Passengers suddenly see

down into valleys over a thousand me-

tres below!

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Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock op-

era. The fi lm version came out in

1973 and it is a “cult movie.” Texan

actor Ted Neeley played Jesus Christ: 38

years later he is still playing Jesus in the

stage version1.

THE ALBUMThe fi rst version of Jesus Christ Super-

star came out in 1970. It was an album or

“LP” (long-playing record). Andrew Lloyd

Webber wrote the music and Tim Rice

wrote the words, or lyrics2. Lloyd Web-

ber has written many popular musicals

and today he is one of the richest people

in Britain. His offi cial title is “Baron Lloyd

Webber”: Tim Rice is now “Sir Timothy

Rice.” Ian Gillan sang the part of Jesus

Christ on the album. In 1970 he was the

lead singer of the rock group Deep Pur-

ple: he still is today.

THE MUSICALIn 1971 Jesus Christ Superstar became a

musical on stage. It was a show on New

York’s Broadway. Critics were negative

and religious groups hated it, but the

public liked it. It closed in 1973, after 711

performances. The show also played in

London’s West End. It opened in 1972

and closed after eight years. This was a

record.

THE MOVIE

Canadian Norman Jewison directed the

fi lm. He’s about to celebrate his 84th

birthday. Englishman Melvyn Bragg

wrote the screenplay3. In 1978 Bragg

presented The South Bank Show, a new

TV arts programme. It closed in 2010, af-

ter 32 years.

The cast4 of Jesus Christ Superstar in-

cluded an American singer Carl Ander-

son, who played Judas Iscariot. Carl

Anderson was black and some people

didn’t like this: a black Judas Iscariot

seemed racist. But it wasn’t a problem

for Anderson: he played Judas in the

stage version of Jesus Christ Superstar

many years later. Unfortunately, he died

of leukemia in 2004. Originally, Ted Nee-

ley wanted to play Judas Iscariot, but he

played Jesus. Neeley is still playing Jesus

in the stage version today. He is 67. He

said in a recent interview: “In the show

I say, ‘My time is nearly through5.’ That’s

me in life. I don’t know how much time

I’ve got6.” G

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

Este musical estourou

em 1973 e marcou época,

ao ponto de muitos

ainda hoje lembrarem

suas canções. Por onde

anda o elenco? Judas

(Carl Anderson) morreu

há 6 anos, Madalena

(Yvonne Elliman) ainda

encena e Ted Neeley

continua fazendo o

papel de Jesus!

BY MARK WORDEN

IWHERE ARE THEY NOW?

1 stage version:

versão para teatro

2 lyrics: letras

3 screenplay: roteiro

4 cast: elenco

5 my time is nearly

through: meu

tempo está quase no

fim

6 how much time I’ve

got: quanto tempo

me resta

7 title role: papel

principal (do título

do musical)

GLOSSARY

TRACK 4 SPEAKERS JASON BERMINGHAM AND CHUCK ROLANDO

A2 PRÉ-INTERMEDIATE

PEOPLE EASY LISTENING

Top right: Jesus Christ

Superstar (by Andrew

Lloyd Webber and Tim

Rice) was originally

an album and then a

musical, but the 1973

movie is the most

famous version. Above:

Ted Neeley, who

played the title role7.

He is still playing that

role in musicals today.

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Make a cup of coff ee for some-

one who’s busy, shout with

happiness, don’t swear1 for 30

minutes, pick one piece of litter up2 eve-

ry day, make sure you use both sides of

the writing paper, or shake someone’s

hand. These may not seem like things

that will change the world, but hope-

fully they will help to make it a better

place. At least that’s what the people

from “We Are What We Do” (WAWWD)

think.

RECONNECTINGDavid Robinson had been a commu-

nity worker3 for 25 years when, in 2004,

he decided to write a document called

Reconnecting. It was about the need

for change in society and the power

of people coming together to make it

happen. He gathered people from a

wide range of backgrounds4 to see how

it could be done. They asked the ques-

tion, “What would you ask one million

people to do to change the world?”

Thousands of people from all over the

world replied, and the result was the

best-selling book, Change the World

for a Fiver5 – 50 actions to change the

world and make you feel good. It was

later published in six countries and sold

over a million copies worldwide6.

THE NEXT GENERATIONThe fi rst book was based on the ideas

of people of all ages, but for the next

book they decided to make one espe-

cially for children – and asked them to

create it too. The thousands of interest-

ing, intriguing and wonderful ideas for

actions sent in by almost four-and-a-

half thousand children were narrowed

down7 to thirty, and became Teach

Your Granny To Text8, And Other Ways

To Save The World. (The title is based on

a suggestion by a young lady named Eri-

ca.) Every school in England now has a

copy of the book (pictured next page).

GLOSSARY 1 don’t swear: não

xingar, não falar

palavrão

2 pick one piece of

litter up: recolher

algum lixo do chão.

3 community

worker: assistente

social, agente

comunitário

4 he gathered

people...

backgrounds: ele

reuniu pessoas

de uma grande

variedade de

contextos

5 change the world

for a fiver: lit.: mude o mundo

com 5 libras

esterlinas (aprox.

R$ 12,00)

6 worldwide: em

todo o mundo

7 narrowed down:

reduzidas

8 teach your granny

how to text: ensine

sua avó a usar SMS,

enviar torpedos.

ITHE ENVIRONMENT

Não precisa muita coisa para mudar o mundo,

e geralmente não custa nada. As melhores

idéias vêm das crianças, e estão descritas

num livro de título engraçado: “Ensine sua

avó a escrever torpedos - e outras formas de

mudar o mundo”...

BY DEREK WORKMAN | LANGUAGE LEVEL B1 (LOWER INTERMEDIATE)

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WE ARE WHAT WE DO50 (Small) Ways to Change the World

IDEAS

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YOUNG ACTIVISTSEven with a million copies of the book

in circulation, WAWWD believe that the

best way to teach people how to change

the world is to start when they’re young.

A couple of years ago, with funding

from the Aldridge Foundation, WAW-

WD began to recruit young people

from schools and colleges in England

to be part of their Young Speakers pro-

gramme. After a training course, they

are sent out to do presentations in their

schools and communities. Last year

the Young Speakers spread the “We Are

What We Do” message to over 50,000

children.” We Are What We Do, or WAWWD, is

both a charity1 and a movement. It

is primarily environmental, but it is also

designed to improve human relations.

Its bible, for want of a better word2, is

a book called Change the World for a

Fiver, which off ers a list of simple sug-

gestions.

Today the WAWWD movement is pop-

ular in schools. The “Darwen Aldridge

Community Academy” in Lancashire, in

the northwest of England, for example,

is particularly active in this respect. Two

senior students, Becki Ainsworth and

Sarah Varey, often visit primary schools

THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE

TRACK 5 SPEAKER JUSTIN RATCLIFFE

C1 ADVANCED

IDEAS

Right: Darwen

Aldridge Community

Academy senior

students Becki

Ainsworth and Sarah

Varey.

Below: We Are What

We Do product

examples.

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GLOSSARY

(Ideas to make the world a bet-ter place, taken from Change The World For A Fiver and Teach Your Granny To Text and Other Ways To Change The World)

Don’t sing in the shower1. The av-erage shower takes seven minutes and uses 35 litres of water, when all you really need is two minutes. So just get clean, get out, and save your singing for the rain.

Give lots of compliments. They are free, get easier as you do them regularly, make you feel good and

everyone loves to get them.

Write a letter. You can’t re-read a phone message or put a text message2 on the wall – and who ever heard of a love email! But also, “teach your granny how to text”: she’ll love to be in touch with you.

Make a will3 and make sure your bits and pieces go to the people you really want them to go to. There have been some wonder-ful ways people got back at others from beyond the grave4.

Take time out to listen to some-one5. Don’t make any comments or try to solve their problems, just listen.

Some think that old people ‘just don’t understand’, and that young people have ‘nothing interesting to say’, but WAWWD disagrees. They would suggest you spend time with someone from a differ-ent generation; talk to old people because ‘they know cool stuff you don’t’6, and talk to young people because, funnily enough…. ‘they also know cool stuff you don’t’.

in order to promote “WAWWD” ideas

among small children. Becki Ainsworth

explains:

Becki Ainsworth(Standard British/Lancashire accent):

It’s just a movement going around

primary schools that basically tries

to inspire younger people to take an

active part in the world that they live

(in) and pushes them to try and change

things that we think are unchangeable,

like global warming, things like that,

like with the CO2 emissions, you can

change that just by walking to school,

instead of getting the car or the bus.

Things like that. Simple things.

Sarah Varey has some more examples:

Sarah Varey:An action is a small activity that

anybody can do. It can be anything

from turning the tap off when you

brush your teeth3, or not using plastic

bags, and it’s a way that you can

contribute to a social change.

And the basic idea behind “WAWWD” is

ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS

that if everyone takes a small step4,

then it really can make a diff erence:

Sarah Varey:I think when you see

advertisements about people

starving5 or not having water, I

think it sometimes can overfaze

a child and scare them6, in a way,

so they don’t do anything to

help, but we’re presenting it to

them in small ways that they can

actually do something so it feels

manageable7 for them and it’s fun

as well.

THE LITTLE THINGS IN

LIFE

1 charity: instituição

beneficente, sem fins

lucrativos

2 for want of a better

word: na falta de um

termo melhor

3 turning the tap off when

you brush your teeth:

fechar a torneira enquanto

se escova os dentes

4 takes a small step: dá

um pequeno passo

5 starving: que morrem

de fome

6 can overfaze a child

and scare them: pode

chocar uma criança e

deixá-la apavorada

7 it feels manageable -

parece factível

ACTIONS SPEAK...

1 don’t sing in the

shower: não cante no

banho

2 text message: SMS,

torpedo

3 will: testamento

4 from beyond the grave:

do além-túmulo

5 take time out to listen:

dedique tempo para

escutar

6 they know cool stuff

you don’t: eles sabem

coisas legais que você

não conhece

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É comum ouvirmos que os Golden Globes servem como uma

espécie de prévia para as premiações do Oscar. Nem sempre isso

se confi rma, mas este ano a coincidência foi marcante - Natalie

Portman e Colin Firth que o digam!

BY MARK WORDEN AND BOB MOSER

Making predictions is rarely a good

idea as there is a strong possi-

bility that you will be wrong. It’s

diffi cult in sports matches, where there are

two teams to choose from, but it’s even

harder with fi lm awards like the Golden

Globes and the Oscars, where there are

fi ve nominees1 per category. Politicking by

studios and actors that want to win, end-

less forecasting by Hollywood journalists

and deep secrecy by voters cloud the re-

sults for all until awards night.

THE GOLDEN GLOBESThe 83rd edition of the Academy Awards

(which are organised by AMPAS, the Aca-

demy of Motion Picture Arts and Scien-

ces) took place at the Kodak Theatre on

February 27. Often – but not always – the

Golden Globe Awards, which are held six

weeks earlier, are a good indication. The

Golden Globes are awarded2 by the 93

members of the Hollywood Foreign Press

Association (HFPA): these are not the same

people as the 6,000 members of

the Academy of Motion Pictures.

COLIN FIRTHBritish actor Colin Firth dominated

Hollywood’s major awards this

year, winning “Best Actor” for The

King’s Speech at both the Globes

and Oscars. The fi lm is directed by

Tom Hooper, who directed ano-

ther “true life story,” The Damned

United. If The Damned United

was about English soccer,

then The King’s Speech is

about the Royal Family.

Firth plays George VI, the man who reluc-

tanctly became King of England (in 1936),

when his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated to

marry an American divorcee3, Wallis Sim-

pson. George VI (who was the father of the

present Queen) had a problem: he stutte-

red4 and this became particularly traumatic

when he had to address the nation on ra-

dio during the Second World War. The fi lm

tells the story of his relationship with Lionel

Logue, an Australian speech therapist5. Lo-

gue is played by Geoff rey Rush, who was

nominated for (but didn’t win) a Golden

Globe or an Oscar for “Best

Supporting Actor.“ The fi lm

itself lost the “Best Pic-

ture” race at the Globes

to The Social Network

(aka6 “the Facebook

movie”), but won

top prize at the

Oscars.

GLOSSARY

1 nominees: indicados

2 awarded [əˈwɔːd]: concedidos,

premiados

3 divorcee [dıvɔːˈsiː]: divorciada

4 he stuttered: ele

gaguejava

5 speech therapist:

logopedista,

terapeuta da fala

6 aka: also known as,

também chamado

de

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JAMES FRANCOJames Franco was in a unique position on

Oscar night, serving as co-host of the show

while also being a “Best Actor” nominee for

his part in Danny Boyle’s disturbing movie,

127 Hours (that prize went to Firth). Boyle

is famous for fi lms like Slumdog Millionaire

and Trainspotting, but this is far darker. Like

The King’s Speech, 127 Hours tells a true

story, that of Aron Ralston, a mountaineer7

in Utah who was obliged to take “drastic

measures” – i.e. amputating part of his arm

with a penknife8! – when he was trapped

by a boulder9. The fi lm is based on Ral-

ston’s book, Between a Rock and a Hard

Place. Language fans may like to know that

this is a colloquial expression for a diffi cult

situation, but in Ralston’s case it was literal.

PAUL GIAMATTIThe Golden Globes divide fi lms into

two categories: “Drama” and “Musical or

Comedy.” The prize for “Best Actor in a

Musical or Comedy” went to Paul Giamatti

for Barney’s Version (he wasn’t among

the fi ve nominated for the Oscars). The

fi lm, which won the Golden Lion Award at

the Venice Festival, is based on the novel

by the Canadian Mordecai Richler. Sadly,

Richler died in 2001, but his story now lives

on in cinema, thanks in part to the talent of

Giamatti.

NATALIE PORTMANWe apologise for dealing with the ladies

last (and not fi rst), but this is a Hollywood

convention and not ours. Nowadays the

word “actress” is considered politically

incorrect: female stars are also “actors.”

The Oscars began in 1929 (and the Golden

Globes in 1944) and so the female category

in the award ceremonies is still called “Best

Actress.” Natalie Portman won the Golden

Globe for “Best Actress” in the “Drama”

section, for her portrayal10 of an obsessive

ballet dancer in Black Swan, and Annette

Bening won the “Musical and Comedy”

Golden Globe, as a lesbian mother in The

Kids Are All Right... On Oscar night there

was just one “Best Actress” award to give

out, and Portman beat Bening and three

others for the prize.

Among 11 award categories where the

Globes and Oscars overlapped, eight

winners were the same, reinforcing the

popular theory that the Golden Globes

are a good predictor of who’ll win the

Academy Awards.

GLOSSARY

7 mountaineer

[maʊntıˈnıɘ(r)]: alpinista

8 penknife [ˈpɛnnaıf]: canivete

9 trapped by a

boulder: ficou preso

por uma pedra

10 portrayal [pɔːˈtreıəl]: interpretação

Above: Natalie

Portman as Nina

Sayers in Black Swan.

Below: James Franco

as Aron Ralston in

127 Hours. Below left:

Colin Firth as George

VI in The King’s

Speech.

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No palco do Oscar assistimos a um desfi le único de astros: alguns fazem

parte do imaginário popular, outros são considerados revelações. E

você, gostaria de ser astro/estrela? Quais são os segredos do ofício?

Qual é o dote essencial para conquistar o mundo do cinema? A beleza é

imprescindível? Ouça as respostas de Ross Grossman, agente de muitos

artistas, e conheça os bastidores da indústria de Hollywood.

BY TALITHA LINEHAN

Aworld of movie-lovers watched

Hollywood on February 27th,

when the Academy Awards, or

“Oscars,” took place. For the lucky win-

ners, it may just be the highlight1 of their

movie careers, but no matter how suc-

cessful they are now, they had to start at

the bottom2. They all had “day-time jobs”

in bars or restaurants, and they went to

auditions in their spare time3. And they

undoubtedly signed up with a talent

agency4, which probably still represents

them today. The Affi nity Artists Agency is

a typical example. It is headed by5 Ross

Grossman, who was himself a child actor,

and later a comedian, writer and thera-

pist, before becoming an agent. As he

explains, even when you become a star,

there’s no guarantee that it will last:

Ross Grossman(Standard American accent):

Recently Adam Sandler and a bunch6

of other celebrities, Chris Rock, they

were all sitting around, I think it was 60

Minutes7, and they were being asked: “Do

you feel like you’ve made it, do you feel like

you’re good, you’re set?8” And all of them

said: “No, no way!” Because they said: “We

picked up9 a People magazine from fi ve

years ago and we looked at all the people

who were on top and almost none of them

were still on top.” So it is a very fi ckle10

business. I think that the public generally

likes new11. New is interesting to them. And,

at a certain point, I think either the casting

directors or the public gets tired, or wants

something new. Now, there are certain

people, Jack Nicholson, you know, there

are certain actors, Tom Cruise, that are

able to ride the wave and stay on it12, but

eventually13 most of them seem to fade.14

CHARISMAWe then asked him the classic Hollywood

question: What makes a star?

Ross GrossmanCharisma is a big piece. There is an

ethereal fairy dust15 that is on certain

people. How they got that way is a very

GLOSSARY

1 highlight: ponto

alto

2 at the bottom: de

baixo

3 spare time: tempo

livre

4 signed up with

a talent agency:

assinaram contrato

com uma agência

de talentos

5 it is headed: é

dirigida

6 a bunch: um grupo,

monte (v: Speak Up

explains)

7 60 Minutes:

programa de

atualidades

transmitido pela CBS

8 do you feel you’re

good, you’re set?

vocês sentem que

chegaram lá, que

estão realizados?

9 we picked up: a

gente pega

10 fickle: instável,

imprevisível, volúvel

11 the public

generally likes

new: o público

geralmente gosta de

novidade

12 are able to ride

the wave and stay

on it: conseguem

permanecer na crista

da onda

13 eventually: no fim,

ao final

14 to fade: esvanecer

15 an ethereal fairy

dust: uma tênue

poeirinha mágica

TRACK 6 SPEAKERS JASON BERMINGHAM AND CHUCK ROLANDO

C2 PROFICIENCY

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complex... we’d have to have clones

and put people in laboratories to

fi gure out how this person showed up

with this much charisma16, but there

are some people who have so much

charisma, or something about their

character that is so unique, that you

just know: they’re riveting17. It’s like

when you watch a lion or a tiger, you’re

riveted because there’s something so

spontaneous and so strong and so

confi dent18. And that doesn’t mean that

each performance is playing a confi dent

person; they could be playing a nervous

wreck19, but there’s a confi dence about

them, and a oneness of purpose20

and just something very magnetic.

But some people try to create a false

magnetism by being super-big and

important and loud21 and intense, and

it’s not like that22. It doesn’t come from

outside, I don’t think, but some people

try to wow you23 with what they believe

charisma is. But I think, really, what it is

is knowing yourself and making strong,

bold choices with your acting skills24

and with your personality. Personality

does go a long way25. People in

16 to figure out...

charisma: para

entender como

certa pessoa emana

tanto carisma

17 they’re riveting:

são fascinantes,

excepcionais

18 confident:

que emana

autoconfiança

19 a nervous wreck:

um transtornado em

crise de nervos

20 a oneness of

purpose: v. Speak

Up explains

21 loud: alardeiro,

ruidoso

22 it’s not like that:

não é assim que

funciona

23 try to wow you:

tentam te convencer

de que são

admiráveis (v. Speak

Up explains)

24 making strong...

skills: escolhendo

papéis fortes e

confiantes em suas

habilidades de atuar

GLOSSARY

Ross Grossman, head

of the Affi nity Artists

agency, probably knows

everything you need to

know about Hollywood

and the fi lm industry.

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Hollywood want to work with nice

people. So, if you’re talented, but you’re

really not a pleasant person, there will

be plenty of other people who could

take your place.

THAT LOOK...And what about physical appearance?

Are looks everything?

Ross GrossmanYou have to remember that movies

and television are a visual medium: we

can’t forget that. And, because of that,

many fi lms and television shows use a

visual shorthand26. As soon as you see

Paul Giamatti, or just any number of

actors, as soon as you see them, there’s

a whole bunch of script that doesn’t

have to happen because you just get,

“Oh, this is this type of person.27” And

that’s like a visual shorthand for people.

Just as when you see Charlie Chaplin as

the little tramp28, that speaks volumes29.

You know, you don’t have to hear his

entire story. It’s a visual shorthand, so,

yes, the look does count, but that look

could be geeky30, that look could be

odd31, that could be unusual, or plus

size32, or frightening33. It doesn’t have to

always be gorgeous34. It just has to be

unique and striking35.

ENERGYBut, says Ross Grossman, talent, charisma

and the right looks are not enough.

Aspiring actors also need a sense of

initiative. Having an agent isn’t enough:

they should build their portfolios, and

increase their selection of footage, or

“reel.” And Ross Grossman introduced

us to a Hollywood neologism; the

“webisode.” This is a combination of

“web” and “episode”:

Ross GrossmanAnd then, once they have an agent, is

running out there and doing stuff 36,

getting in plays, getting into more

independent fi lms, getting better reel,

meeting people, socializing. If they

can’t fi nd scripts to get in, fi nding

people, acting troupes, people who

want to put together webisodes. That’s

the new trend, is get a bunch of people

together, get some writers together,

start doing some webisodes. Don’t wait

for someone else to make you known.

There’s an expression that I love, and I...

it was from a man named (Wes) “Scoop”

Nisker, he was newsman37 in San

Francisco, and he would always sign off

the news with this phrase38 and that is:

“If you don’t like the news, go out and

make some of your own!39”

GLOSSARY

25 personality does

go a long way: a

personalidade é

importantíssima

26 use a visual

shorthand: fazem

uma “taquigrafia”

visual, um “atalho

visual”

27 there’s a

whole bunch...

person”: torna-se

desnecessário fazer

tantos testes porque

você logo se dá

conta de que “esta

é (ou não) a pessoa

certa” (v. Speak Up

explains)

28 tramp: vagabundo,

mendigo

29 that speaks

volumes: essa

(imagem) fala muito

por si só

30 geeky: sem graça,

sem jeito

31 odd: esquisito,

bizarro

32 plus size: tamanho

XG

33 frightening:

assustador

34 gorgeous:

lindíssimo

35 striking: que

impressiona,

marcante

36 is running out...

stuff: (devem) correr

atrás de várias coisas

37 newsman:

telejornalista

38 he would always...

phrase: terminava

sempre as notícias

com esta frase

39 make some of your

own: produza uma

você mesmo

ENTERTAINMENT

On February 27th the 83rd

edition of the Academy

Awards took place here at

the Kodak Theatre. It stands

on the corner of Hollywood

Boulevard and North

Highland Avenue, in Los

Angeles’ Hollywood district.

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So, you want to be a movie star?And here are some of Ross Gross-

man’s other comments:

What’s the first thing would-be1 movie stars should do when they get to LA?Find a place to live, make sure you

have enough money: the number

one priority is survival. After that,

send out your resumé2 and pic-

ture. You can do that in advance of

coming here3, although if agents

know that you’re out of state, or

out of country, there’s going to be

a higher probability that they’re

going to just toss it in the gar-

bage4!

What’s the biggest mistake people make?The biggest mistake people make

is in perceiving their trajectory

from unknown to movie star5 in a

very short period. Some people

write to me and say: “I want you to

make me famous!” So what they’re

really coming here with is the

dream to become famous. My own

personal theory is that people see

Hollywood and becoming famous

as an antidote to a diffi cult child-

hood6. They see it as a solution for

a diffi cult life. I think it’s better for

people to come here with the idea

that acting is a craft7 that they have

to learn. That’s a far better8 ap-

proach.

1 would-be: aspirante

2 send out a resumé:

mande seu currículo

3 in advance of

coming here: antes

de vir para cá

4 toss it in the

garbage: jogá-lo no

lixo

5 perceiving... movie

star: imagnar-

se passar de

desconhecido a

estrela de cinema

6 childhood: infância

7 craft: ofício

8 far better: muito

melhor

GLOSSARY

A bunch of other celebrities. A bunch quer

dizer “um maço” ou “um cacho” e, portanto

é normalmente usado para dizer a bunch of

flowers (um maço de flores) ou a bunch of

grapes (um cacho de uvas). Mas em inglês,

principalmente no inglês americano, pode-

se usar de modo coloquial para dizer “um

monte”, “um grupo”, ou “um bando”.

Portanto a bunch of other celebrities seria

“um grupo de outros atores famosos”.

There’s a whole bunch of script that doesn’t

have to happen é uma outra frase muito

coloquial, tecnicamente errada na gramática,

mas é aceita como gíria americana e

significa: “Tem um monte de textos/

diálogos que não servem mesmo”.

To show up. To show up tem vários

significados. Na matéria quer dizer

“apresentar-se/ mostrar-se”: how this

person showed up with this much

charisma ([entender] como esta pessoa

emana tanto carisma). Show up também

quer dizer “ser claramente visível ”: this

reflective material shows up in the dark

(este material que reflete aparece no

escuro).

A oneness of purpose. Oneness seria

“unidade”, e portanto a oneness of purpose

quer dizer que “os atores muito carismáticos

têm um único objetivo e são muito

focados”.

Some people try to wow

you. Outro exemplo de

gíria americana. To wow

someone quer dizer que “aquilo que você

faz - ou diz - faz as pessoas dizerem ‘wow!’”.

Em outras palavras, some people try to wow

quer dizer “algumas pessoas tentam forçar

admiração, te assustar”.

A visual shorthand. Shorthand quer dizer

“taquigrafia”. Nesse caso visual, shorthand

quer dizer que a imagem ou o aspecto do

ator consegue transmitir tanto, que elimina a

necessidade de longas explicações. Por isso

a aparência, o aspecto da pessoa já resume

o diálogo.

EXPLAINS

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Last month we looked at silent let-

ters in English, from “l” to “p.” The

letter “q” is never silent and a silent

“r” is very rare, so we will continue with...

S The two most famous examples are the

words isle and island. Island rhymes with

highland1, which contains more silent

letters, “g” and “h.” The word isle is simi-

lar in meaning to island. The “Highlands

and Islands” are the northern and west-

ern parts of Scotland. They include the

Hebrides. Here there is a place called

the Isle of Islay, where they make won-

derful whisky. The “s” is silent in Isle, but

not in Islay!

The pronunciation of isle is the same

as that of another word with a silent “s.”

This is aisle2 (with an “a” at the start). An

aisle is like a row3, another word with a

silent letter, “w.” There are aisles in cin-

emas, theatres and supermarkets. And

there is a big aisle in a church. When you

get married, you walk “down the aisle”

to the altar.

S, PART 2Another word that contains the silent “s” is

viscount. This is a type of aristocrat.

Last month we talked about the diffi cult

pronunciation of words of Greek origin.

Other languages also create problems. The

word bourgeois is of French origin, and the

“s” is silent. According to the dictionary, vis-

count is of French and Latin origin, but the

word fracas comes from the Italian “fracas-

so.” In English it means a noisy argument4,

but the fi nal “s” is not noisy: it is silent.

TEarlier we talked about Scotland. Its na-

tional emblem is a plant, the thistle5. The

second “t” in thistle is silent. The “t” is also

silent in whistle6 and castle: Scotland is

famous for its castles. If you want to un-

derstand pronunciation, you have to lis-

ten: again, the “t” in listen is silent. And

when you travel by plane or by car, you

must fasten7 your seatbelt. The “t” in fas-

ten is silent. It’s also silent in the words

often and Christmas, even if it’s not silent

in the words “Christ” and “Christian.”

ILIVING LANGUAGE

BY MARK WORDEN

TRACK 7 SPEAKER RACHEL ROBERTS

A2 PRE-INTERMEDIATE

Above: The thistle

is the national

emblem of Scotland

and it contains

a silent letter: you

don’t pronounce the

second “t.”

LANGUAGE EASY LISTENING

SILENT LETTERS PART 4

1 highland: planalto

2 aisle: corredor

3 row: fileira, corredor

4 noisy argument:

briga, discussão

barulhenta

5 thistle: cardo

6 whistle: apito,

assovio

7 fasten: afivelar

GLOSSARY

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| The Observer |

I n an interview with Roll-

ing Stone magazine, Natalie

Portman once said: “I would

never have been an actress if I

hadn’t been an only child, be-

cause my parents would never

have let me be the star of the

family at the expense of another

child.” It turns out that1, in terms

of the advantages of life without

brothers and sisters, she was on

to something.

One of the widest-ranging re-

search projects2 on family life

conducted in Britain has revealed

that the fewer siblings3 children

have, the happier they are – and

that only children are the most

contented.

BULLIESThe fi ndings, shared exclusively

with The Observer, suggest that

“sibling bullying” could be part

of the problem, with 31% of chil-

dren saying they are hit, kicked

or pushed4 by a brother or sis-

ter “quite a lot” or “a lot”. Others

complain that siblings steal their

personal belongings and call

them hurtful names5.

The fi gures are the fi rst to

emerge from Understanding So-

ciety, a study tracking the lives of

100,000 people in 40,000 British

households6.

On children and happiness, it

fi nds that:

• Seven out of 10 British teenag-

ers are “very satisfi ed” with their

lives.

• Children from ethnic minorities

are on average7 happier than their

white British counterparts.

• Happiness declines the more

siblings there are in a household.

INSULTSThe fi ndings are based on in-

depth questionnaires complet-

ed by 2,500 young people. The

questionnaires were analysed by

Gundi Knies from the Institute for

Social and Economic Research

at the University of Essex where

the Understanding Society study

is based. She suggested factors

such as competition for the par-

ents’ attention or the fact that

toys, sweets or space need to

be shared. Knies also pointed to

other data within the study on

sibling bullying: 29.5% of teen-

agers complain that brothers or

sisters call them “nasty names8”

“quite a lot” or “a lot”, while 17.6%

say their personal belongings are

taken away from them.

Nem sempre crescer numa família numerosa é positivo. A convivência

com muitos irmãos e irmãs aumenta o risco de uma infância difícil,

segundo esta pesquisa britânica, que pode fi nalmente aliviar o senso de

culpa que assola quase todos os pais de fi lhos únicos...

An only child is a happy child,

says research

MEET THE PRESS / WHAT THE PAPERS SAY MEET THE PRESS / WHAT THE PAPERS SAY BY ANUSHKA ASTHANA © GUARDIAN NEWS AND MEDIA LIMITED 2010 | B2 UPPER INTERMEDIATE

GLOSSARY

1 it turns out that: resulta que… (v.

Speak Up explains)

2 one of… research [rıˈsɜːʧ] projects:

uma das pesquisas mais abrangentes

3 siblings: irmãos e irmãs

4 hit, kicked or pushed: agredidas,

chutadas ou empurradas

5 call them hurtful names: os chamam

com nomes ofensivos

6 households: núcleos familiares, lares

7 on average [æˈvərıʤ]: em média

8 nasty names: apelidos ruins, nomes

grosseiros

9 quarrelling [ˈkwɒrəlıŋ]: que brigam

10 just give up intervening:

simplesmente desistem de intervir

11 inconsistently: sem coerência

12 referees [ˌrefeˈriː]: árbitras

13 guilty [gıltı]: culpados

14 issue [ˈıʃuː]: questão

15 she would rely[rıˈlaı] on them: ela

ficaria dependente deles

STRESSProfessor Dieter Wolke of the Uni-

versity of Warwick, who carried

out the work on tensions between

brothers and sisters, said: “More

than half of all siblings (54%) were

involved in bullying in one form

or the other.” Although there is

also evidence that indicates that

siblings sometimes support each

other, he warned that children

who faced bullying both at home

and in the playground were par-

ticularly vulnerable to behaviour

problems and unhappiness.

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MEET THE PRESS / WHAT THE PAPERS SAY MEET THE PRESS / WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

Honey.

While the fi ndings seem surpris-

ing, experts say there are clear

reasons why more siblings could

reduce happiness. Dr Ruth Cop-

pard, a child psychologist, said:

“In an average home the more

children, the less privacy for

each child. Some love sharing a

bedroom with a sibling but they

would rather choose to do it than

have to do it. There is competi-

tion for parental time.”

PERSONAL SPACEParentline Plus, a charity that of-

fers support to parents, regularly

receives calls about sibling rivalry.

“Families do report concerns re-

garding high levels of confl ict

among siblings and the stress that

this can cause, but the important

thing is to try to help and support

families fi nd more eff ective ways

of dealing with this problem,” said

Alison Phillips, director of policy

and communications.

She has several tips for parents

including: ensure children have

a special place for their belong-

ings; insist they ask if they want

to use something owned by a

sibling, and show fi rmly that you

do not approve of bullying be-

haviour.

Grammar point – o comparativo com

the... the. Podemos usar esse

comparativo para dizer que duas

mudanças ocorrem simultaneamente. The

more siblings children have, the unhappier

they become.

The more children, the less privacy for

each child.

The more you learn, the less you know.

Lembre-se que não se deve separar more

do adjetivo, substantivo ou verbo que o

segue. Um erro clássico é escrever “the

more it is interesting…” Ao contrário,

deve-se dizer the more interesting it is…

Turns out. To turn out é um phrasal verb

com diversos significados. Nesse caso

quer dizer “resultar (do levantamento/ da

pesquisa)” – It turns out that, in terms of

the advantages of life…

Outro significado é “expulsar”, no sentido

de botar alguém para fora de casa – She

turned him out of the house.

To turn out também pode querer dizer

“produzir” – This dairy farm turns out a

million litres of milk each year; ou ainda

“apagar” – Turn out the light before you

come to bed. Um policial pode pedir para

você turn out your pockets (esvaziar seus

bolsos), e se você disser que uma pessoa

é well turned out, você quer dizer que ela

tem uma guarda-roupa magnífico.

To be onto something. Essa expressão

simples quer dizer “ter entendido”,

“encontrado” ou “percebido” alguma

coisa.

Leaving the field wide open. Se você

deixa o campo aberto, remove todos os

obstáculos e assim o “valentão” tem

caminho livre para praticar suas tiranias.

EXPLAINS

sisters.

SOCIABLEFreegard discussed the issue14

recently with her friend, Tanya

Honey, who has one child, a

daughter. Honey admitted that

her daughter, Gemma, seven,

recently wrote “a baby” on her

shopping list. “But friends always

point out that she is a really happy

child. When we go on holiday she

is brilliant at making friends and if

there was a brother or sister per-

haps she wouldn’t be, because

she would rely on them15,” added

Wolke did not study the impact

of such tensions on parents, but

added: “From anecdotal reports,

quarrelling9 siblings increase

stress for parents and some just

give up intervening10. Others in-

tervene inconsistently11, leaving

the fi eld wide open for the bully

sibling.”

REFEREESSiobhan Freegard, the co-found-

er of the website Netmums who

has three children, said that many

mothers felt like “referees12” after

their children reached a certain

age and started quarrelling with

their brothers and sisters.

She questioned whether the fi nd-

ings on happiness were linked to

the fact that children were des-

perate for parental attention.

“With three children, it is three

lots of dinner, three lots of wash-

ing, three lots of driving to after-

school activities, so you do get

less time for each. I like to think

they are getting benefi ts in other

ways,” said Freegard.

She said the fi ndings would come

as a relief to the parents of only

children who often felt guilty13

about the lack of brothers and

Nathalie Portman in the fi lm Black Swan. She says: “I would never have been an actress, if I hadn’t been an only child.”

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Um sistema inovador para ensinar

idiomas, baseado na simplicidade

do uso de imagens. Conversamos

com seu criador, Maurice Hazan, que

ainda acrescenta um conselho para

todos que querem falar outra língua:

evite as dublagens! BY MARINA CARMINATI

Maurice Hazan is the son of a

German mother and an Egyp-

tian father, but he grew up in

France. This probably explains his love

of languages. 20 years ago he began

teaching French in the United States, but

he has since opened the Tribeca Lan-

guage School in New York, where pu-

pils can also learn Spanish, Italian, Ger-

man, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese and even

Hindi. The minimum age for enrolling on

a course1 at the school is just two years

old.

Key to the teaching is a method which

Hazan invented called “QTalk.” This re-

volves around the use of cue cards2 in the

classroom. These are cards with draw-

ings or words which are used to prompt

pupils to talk. Hazan maintains that stu-

dents can become “somewhat function-

al3” in a new language after just one hour.

When Speak Up went to see Maurice

Hazan, we asked him whether it was true

that children had a natural advantage

over adults when it came to learning a

foreign language:

Maurice Hazan(French accent):

When you are a child, you have the

ability to develop what is called

“phonetic synapsis.” Phonetic synapsis

is a function of your brain to create

(sic) connections between neurons. In

short, you can develop an authentic

accent, which becomes more diffi cult

as you get closer to your teen years4.

Also, children can integrate grammar, or

what is known as “semantic memory,”

without formal instruction. In other

words, they can be exposed to a second

language with no particular order, and

if they are exposed to this situation,

say, in an immersion context, then they

have the unique ability to fragment

this information, make sense of it5 and

produce sentences that they’ve never

heard before. Noam Chomsky, who is

the leading psychologist here right now

in the States, is the fi rst psychologist

to have identifi ed this and he calls this

“the language module.” If children are

GLOSSARY

1 for enrolling on

a course: para

inscrever-se em um

curso

2 cue cards: fichas,

cartazes (cue é

um termo teatral

- “deixa” - e se

pronuncia como a

letra Q, daí o nome

QTalk)

3 somewhat

functional:

operativo em alguma

medida

4 as you get closer

to your teen years:

ao se aproximar da

adolescência

5 make sense of it:

elaborá-la, extrair

sentido

TRACK 8 SPEAKER RACHEL ROBERTS

B2 (UPPER INTERMEDIATE)

INTERVIEW

ILANGUAGE

TALKQ

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exposed to a second language

an hour a week, then they can get some

exposure to this language6,

but they will not become genuinely

fl uent that way.

There is a big myth that adults are not

able to learn a second language: adults

who decide to learn a second language

are therefore very motivated and they

can exceed children’s performance7 in a

one-hour-to-two-hour-lesson-a-week

situation.

DUBBING? A DISASTER!We then asked Maurice Hazan whether

some adults were more gifted8 than oth-

ers when it came to languages:

Maurice Hazan:Yes, it’s true. Some people are more

gifted than others. Some people

have a propensity to learn a second

language and others don’t. It’s all

about your level of fi ltering9, or your

fi lter resistance to the outside world.

The fi lter resistance is how you are

able to embrace or reject the other

world. Let’s imagine, if you can come

from a family where there is clearly no

interest in the world overseas10, then

your chances of becoming bilingual

are limited. Also, if you interpret the

world outside of yours as inferior, as do

most Americans, then you will not be

inclined to learn another culture, and

the main component of a culture is its

language. Dutch people11, for instance,

are remarkably inclined12 to learn many

languages. It is due to many factors,

but one of them, for instance, is the

fact that television programmes are

never dubbed13, but they’re simply sub-

titled. This causes the population to

be exposed to other sounds very early

(on). The programmes are not dubbed

and simply sub-titled, not because

they are (too) lazy14 to do that, but

because they feel that changing the

audio on movies, or documentaries,

produces a very inauthentic version of

these programmes, just as if you were

to have somebody sing in Dutch over a

song of the Beatles: it would make no

sense!15 G

GLOSSARY

6 they can get some

exposure to this

language: pode

haver um contato

com essa língua

7 they can exceed

children’s

performance: podem

superar os resultados

das crianças

8 gifted: dotados

9 it’s all about your

level of filtering: é

tudo uma questão

do quanto você se

permite (ou não)

absorver

10 overseas: no exterior

11 Dutch people: os

holandeses

12 remarkably inclined:

notavelmente

propensos

13 are never dubbed:

nunca são dublados

14 lazy: preguiçosos

15 it would make no

sense: não faria

nenhum sentido

16 pace: ritmo

QTalk is based on a series of images (“QCards” – or “cue cards”) which repre-sent all parts of speech – subjects, verbs, objects, conjunctions, times of day, ad-jectives and the most common vocabu-lary.The QTalk philosophy is simple: “Speak immediately and have fun doing so in every class by using the ‘QCards.’” These materials are used to teach vocab-ulary words individually and then placed side by side for instant communication in complete sentences. Diff erent cards rep-resent, for example, a series of verbs that allow children as young as two to recog-nize “action words.”From simple sentence interpretation, the teacher can move onto scene interpreta-tion, short stories and dialogue games, all increasing in complexity at a rapid pace16, but without the “intimidation” of tradi-tional language learning techniques.

HOW IT WORKS...

Below: the “QTalk” system

being used in the classroom.

Opposite page: the Tribeca

School of Languages in New

York and (left) its founder

Maurice Hazan.

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It is said that New York has been the

center of the art world since the

end of the Second World War, when

it eff ectively replaced Paris. Over the

last seven decades it has continu-

ously given us exciting new forms of

art and that is still the case1 today.

Let’s take the examples of three con-

temporary artists, all of whom moved

to “the Big Apple” in order to further2

their careers. The fi rst thing that strikes

an observer is their unusual choice of

materials, which include leather3, one-

dollar bills4 and the components of old

typewriters5.

CONCEPTUAL ARTMark Evans (www.markevansart.com),

a young Welsh artist, and Mark Wagner

(www.pavelzoubok.com), who is from

Wisconsin, are two artists whose work

requires the patience, attention to detail

and skill of a craftsman6. Evans engraves7

in leather and has a collection of knives

that would be the envy of any butcher8.

Yet he makes sure that his incisions are

only a tenth of a millimeter deep. Wag-

ner, on the other hand, uses razors, scis-

sors and penkives9 to transform dollar

I ART

Na cidade que nunca dorme, a criatividade

sempre está em movimento. Para os

três artistas que encontramos, o desafi o

é transformar em arte objetos de uso

cotidiano.

BY LORENZA CERBINIB2 UPPER INTERMEDIATE

They say that there’s a lot of

money in the New York art

world. This is certainly true in the

case of Mark Wagner, who makes

collages out of dollar bills1. He

talked to Speak Up about his work:

Mark Wagner (Standard American accent):

I use almost completely the US

one-dollar bill. I take the dollar

MONEY! MONEY! MONEY!

TRACK 9 SPEAKER CHUCK ROLANDO

C1 ADVANCED

NEW YORK

Mark Wagner (below)

is originally from

Wisconsin, but,

like many aspiring

artists, he moved to

New York. He works

almost exclusively

with one-dollar bills,

which he cuts up into

their component parts

in order to create

intriguing collages.

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Mark Wagner:Probably a bunch of diff erent

meanings12. It’s really... I think

diff erent people think about the

material in diff erent ways, and I want

them to think about it in diff erent

ways. I’m not trying to hand them13,

you know, like a single meaning about

money, you know, so, depending on

the eyes of the viewer; you know,

like an anarchist will look at the

work and think that I’m trying to like

storm the castle and tear down the

government14, but, at the same time,

a capitalist can look at the work and

see it as a celebration of the materials.

Money creeps15 into so many people’s

lives in so many diff erent ways. I kind

of want my viewers to like fi ll in the

meanings16. I’m curious that everyone

is so interested in money, whether

they’re worried about not having

enough, or whether they have a lot

of money, and they’re worried about

losing it. It’s this very pervasive thing

that fi nds its way into all of our lives.

GLOSSARY

1 that is still the

case: e ainda é

assim

2 in order to further: para expandir

3 leather: couro

4 one-dollar bills: notas de 1 dólar

5 typewriters: máquinas de

escrever

6 skill of a craftsman: habilidade de um

artesão

7 engraves: entalha

8 butcher: açougueiro

9 razors, [ˈreızə] scissors [ˈsızəz] and penknives [ˈpɛnnaıf]: navalhas,

tesouras e canivetes

MONEY! MONEY!

MONEY!

1 dollar bills: notas

de dólar

2 break it down... : decomponho

3 line work from the

outside: trabalho

na linha da borda

externa

4 thin ribbons: fitas

estreitas, fininhas

5 the lights and the

darks: as partes

claras e as escuras

6 leaf patterns: os

desenhos de folha

7 subject matter:

temas

8 portrait: retrato

9 currency: valor

monetário

10 accounting: contabilidade

11 17-foot-tall: de 5

metros de altura

12 a bunch of

different meanings:

um monte de

significados

diferentes

13 I’m not trying to

hand them: não

estou tentando

atribuir, dar

14 an anarchist will

look... government: um anarquista vai

olhar meu trabalho

e pensar que estou

tentando derrubar o

governo

15 creeps: entra

sorrateiramente.

16 I kind of want

my viewers...

meanings: gostaria

que quem olhar dê

o significado que

quiser

and break it down2 into sort of its

constituent parts. So there’s line

work from the outside3 that I... I

separate into sort of thin ribbons4, I

take George Washington’s head from

the middle, I separate out the lights

and the darks5, and separate out the

little leaf patterns6 and separate out

the greens from the blacks. So I have

sort of materials that are sort of the

basic parts that make up the dollar

bill, and then, from those pieces,

I put together new images, and a

variety of subject matter7: sometimes

it’s someone’s portrait8, sometimes

it’s a... a scene that involves a little

fi gure of George Washington that

has... his head is his head and I make

up the rest of his body. Sometimes

the little leaves that are along the

border of the one-dollar bill, you

know, sort of grow into full trees,

and sort of touch on subject matter

that has something to do with

currency9 itself, or American identity,

or trying to make tangible something

about fi nance, something about

the way money works, or the way

accounting10 works. A lot of those

concepts, you know, behind money

are so intangible.

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY!He then talked about his most recent

project:

Mark Wagner:I just fi nished a collage that took

me an entire year, and that’s an

entire year of me working and two

studio assistants. It’s a... a 17-foot-

tall11 Statue of Liberty that’s made

out of 1,121 dollar bills, cut into, I

think the total was 81,695 pieces, or

something; something like that.

INTERPRETATIONSAnd, in conclusion, we asked him

whether his work had a particular

meaning:

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bills into highly complicated collages.

If Evans and Wagner are both concep-

tual artists, then Californian Sono Osato

(www.sonoosato.com) belongs to a dif-

ferent category. She has been creating art

for some 20 years and her work has been

exhibited in such institutions as il DeY-

oung Fine Art Museum DeYoung in San

Francisco (http://www.famsf.org/dey-

oung/), the Laguna Art Museum (http://

lagunaartmuseum.org/), The Oakland

Museum (http://museumca.org/) and the

Di Rosa Preserve (http://www.dirosaart.

org/oldindex.html).

Osato’s enormous sculpture paint-

ings, which can weigh10 as much as 220

10 weigh [weı]: pesar

11 snake bones: ossos

de serpente

THE ART OF

LANGUAGE

1 adding machines:

calculadoras

2 an underlying

inspiration: uma

inspiração de fundo

3 that have been

beaten up and

thrown away: que

foram maltratados e

jogados fora

4 you pull them back

out again: você tira

elas (do lixo)

5 how their shape

implies... sound:

como sua forma

evoca um certo som

GLOSSARY

NEW YORK

Sono Osato and (be-

low and right) some

examples of her

work. Opposite page:

Mark Evans, whose

subjects include

Muhammad Ali and

bulls.

TRACK 10 SPEAKER CHUCK ROLANDO

C1 ADVANCED

If Mark Wagner specialises in

breaking down dollar bills, then

Sono Osato does the same thing with

old typewriters and adding machines1:

THE ART OF LANGUAGE

Sono Osato(Standard American English):

There’s an underlying inspiration2 – I

wouldn’t say so much a theme, but

defi nitely an underlying inspiration

– which has to do with the origins of

writing. And I have been interested

in that for a very long time, about

how objects, especially old objects

that have been beaten up and thrown

away3, and you pull them back out

again4, how their shape implies some

kind of a sound5; and it goes back

to the early instincts, the human

instinct of writing and language,

that a picture, in some cases of

a real thing, eventually became

a letter, which became a sound,

which became an idea. So it’s that

relationships (sic) between objects

and thought and writing. So that is

part of the inspiration. And I start out

almost kind of thinking of text, so

it’s a combination of that and then

topography, human history, how it

moves across land and water, so I’m

combining both things: one is the

tableau of a written text and the other

is the tableau... of a natural surface,

such as the surface of the ocean or a

river, or mountains or that, and I put

the two of them together.

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pounds (100 kilos), are made up of colors,

snake bones11, teeth and typewriter parts.

In her collages, Osato takes a look at hu-

man history and her work could be de-

scribed as a tribute to anthropology and

the development of language.

MARK EVANSMark Evans is 34 years old. He grew up

on a farm1 in the Welsh mountains, prior

to heading to London, where he stud-

ied Fine Art at Middlesex University. He

doesn’t draw or paint2: instead he cre-

ates portraits by scratching and engrav-

ing3 large pieces of leather. He has been

interested in creating art with knives ever

since the age of seven, when his grand-

father gave him a small pocket knife. This

he would use for carving images on trees

around the farm.

And another present, which he received

in his early 20s, would also change his life.

One Christmas he was given a new leather

jacket, but disaster struck4! As he helped

prepare Christmas dinner in the kitchen a

spot of blood5 accidentally ended up on

the jacket. He tried to scratch it off with a

knife, but he scratched too hard. Instead

of getting angry, he decided to use the

surface of the jacket to draw a two-tone

rendering6 of Jimi Hendrix.

1 he grew up on a

farm: ele cresceu

em uma fazenda

2 he doesn’t draw

or paint: ele não

desenha nem pinta

3 by scratching

and engraving:

fazendo ranhuras e

entalhando

4 struck: (aqui)

aconteceu, “bateu”

5 a spot of blood:

uma gota de sangue

6 rendering:

representação

7 it was... went off in

my mind: foi como

uma explosão na

mente acontecesse

8 hides: peles

9 A-list celebrities:

grandes celebridades

10 stately homes -

palacetes, mansões.

11 penthouses:

coberturas luxuosas

MY EUREKA MOMENT

“It was,” he says, “my own private

Archimedes ‘Eureka’ moment. It was as

if an explosion went off in my mind7. I

then spent the next few years focused on

developing this technique at my studio,

I was living as part artist and part mad

scientist, trying to perfect the process

which I’d accidentally discovered.”

Today Mark works with animal hides8

from around the world. His subjects of-

ten include cultural icons, like reggae

star Bob Marley and boxing legend Mu-

hammad Ali. Evans also likes bulls: one

piece featuring these animals recently

sold for £70,000. His work is collected

by A-list celebrities9, sports stars and art

connoisseurs. It can be found in Brit-

ish stately homes10, Los Angeles pent-

houses11 and Saudi Royal Palaces. G

GLOSSARY

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Normally, you would see them

outside Buckingham Palace or

Windsor Castle. Now the sol-

diers who wear the distinctive red uni-

forms and bearskin hats1 have swapped2

royal palaces for the recording studios.

The result is their new album Heroes.

Heroes came about3 after a £1m deal4

was signed with Decca Records in 2009.

Decca looks after some of the biggest

names in pop music, including Eminem

and Amy Winehouse.

The label is also responsible for launch-

ing the careers of The Rolling Stones and

Tom Jones. Hopes are high that Heroes

will enjoy chart success5 too.

A MILITARY TRADITIONThe Coldstream Guards Band is over 200

years old, and therefore one of the oldest

military bands in the world. They have re-

corded music in the past but nothing on

this scale6. Their regular duties7 involve

guarding the Queen and taking part in

the event on every tourist’s agenda – the

Changing of the Guard. You can also see

them at the Trooping the Colour and The

Edinburgh International Military Tattoo.

The track list on Heroes includes music

from The Ride of the Valkyries, Nimrod

and the fi lm Gladiator. The musicians

say that the album appeals to all ages

and tastes. The adjectives “‘emotional”

and “epic” have been used to describe its

sound.

But if playing a trumpet is diffi cult enough,

doesn’t it make it even harder when you

are wearing a heavy, furry8 hat? Lt. Col

Graham Jones, the regiment’s Director

of Music, said that the hat’s chin strap is

slightly lower9 in order to make it easier

to play certain instruments.

For more information

about the Band, visit

their website – www.

army.mod.uk/music

or buy their album

from

www.amazon.co.uk

GLOSSARY

1 bearskin hats:

chapéus de pele de

urso

2 have swapped:

trocaram

3 came about: foi

realizado

4 a £1m deal: um

contrato de um

milhão de libras

esterlinas (aprox. R$

2,7mi)

5 chart success:

sucesso nas paradas

6 nothing on this

scale: nada desse

porte

7 duties: deveres,

funções

8 furry: peludo

9 the chin strap is

slightly lower: a

alça do queixo fica

ligeiramente mais

baixa

MUSIC

Não é exatamente pop, mas como é intensa e energética essa música da guarda real do

Buckingham Palace! A Deca, mesmo selo de Eminem e Amy Whinehouse, apostou no

potencial da orquestra. O Resultado? O CD Heroes. BY LOUISE JOHNSON LANGUAGE LEVEL B1

Above: the Band of the

Coldstream Guards.

Below: Heroes, their £1

million album. Opposite

page: their director of

music (and conductor),

Lt. Col. Graham Jones.

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WE’RE IN BUSINESS

1 turned down: rejeitou

2 war tunes: canções de

guerra

3 how this came about:

como isso aconteceu

4 pipe bands: bandas de

gaita-de-foles

5 issue a recording

under the same label:

lançar um disco com a

mesma gravadora

6 I then went about

by finding out who

to speak to: procurei

então descobrir com

quem deveria falar

7 A&R guy: agente

discográfico (A&R

corresponde a Artists

and Repertoire)

8 the conductor: o

regente, maestro

9 layer... sounds onto

it: sobrepor um som

sobre o outro

10 epic film score feel:

sensação de uma trilha

sonora épica

TRACK 11 SPEAKER JUSTIN RATCLIFFE

C1 (ADVANCED)

GLOSSARY

WE’RE IN BUSINESS

In 1962 Dick Rowe, an executive at Decca

Records, famously turned1 down a new

group called The Beatles. It was one of the

music industry’s biggest mistakes, although

Rowe later redeemed himself by signing The

Rolling Stones, The Animals and Tom Jones.

Given the label’s rock history, its latest sign-

ing is rather surprising: the Band of the Cold-

stream Guards, who are the British army’s

oldest marching band. They signed a £1 mil-

lion contract with Decca and released He-

roes, an album of war tunes2, and the band’s

director of music, Lt. Col. Graham Jones

(pictured right), explained how this came

about3:

Lt. Col. Graham Jones(Standard English accent):

I looked at great friends of ours, of the

Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, and they’d

released two albums with Decca and I

thought, “Well, if the Royal Scots Dragoon

Guards, who we consider one of the best

bands in the army, pipe bands4, if they

can do it, why can’t we?” So I then saw

the Salvation Army Band issue a recording

under the same label5 and then I defi nitely

thought, “We should be involved in this.”

So I then went about by fi nding out who

to speak to6, and I spoke to Tom Lewis,

who’s the A&R guy7 at Decca, and I went

in with a proposal, and he said, “Well, this

sounds good, let me think about it and I’ll

call you back,” and he called me back and

said, ”We’d like to off er you a contract” and

so we were off ered a contract to record an

album for Decca.

AIR STUDIOSHe then talked about the recording process:

Lt. Col. Graham Jones:We spent, in the end, three-and-a-half days

in the studio, and it was interesting for the

boys because we did quite a lot of work

on click tracks, which is like a metronome

playing in your ear, as opposed to watch-

ing me, the conductor8, so that we could

re-record it and get the tempos exactly

right and then we could layer, by overdub-

bing, sounds onto it9, which gives it this

big epic fi lm score feel10 to it, and then we

could add diff erent sounds and eff ects,

once we’d fi nished in the studio, so it was a

really great experience and the band really

enjoyed being at AIR studios, it really is a

superb place to record and it was the ideal

place to put a military band to recording.

EXPLAINSThe Edinburgh International Military Tattoo. Essa

emocionante parada militar acontece no Castelo

de Edimburgo ao som de gaitas de foles escocesas,

tambores e canhões, durante os meses de agosto e

setembro. A escolha da época não é por acaso: no

mesmo período acontece o Festival de Edimburgo, o

que garante um maior fluxo de turistas. A Edinburgh

Military Tattoo é tão popular que as noites mais

importantes, com queima de fogos espetaculares, são

transmitidas ao vivo pela BBC.

Trooping the Colour. Se você já esteve em Londres

como turista, é quase certo que já viu a famosíssima

cerimônia conhecida como the Trooping of the Colour,

atrativo imperdível dos principais roteiros turísticos. A

cerimônia acontece no Buckingham Palace e ao longo

do the Mall, e tem como protagonistas os regimentos de

Commonwealth e do exército britânico, que marcham

juntos ostentando suas cores. É uma tradição da

infantaria britânica desde o século XVII, embora suas

raízes sejam ainda mais antigas.

MM

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CARLOS SANTANA

GUITAR LEGEND!

IINTERVIEW

Ele é apreciado por todo tipo

de roqueiro desde o Woodstock

Festival. Mas pouco se sabe sobre o

homem Santana, que encontramos e

revelamos nesta entrevista: concreto,

próximo, e apaixonado como um

adolescente!

BY MARCEL ANDERS

ENTERTAINMENT

Milagro Foundation. A fundação Milagro

foi fundada por Carlos Santana junto com

sua primeira esposa, Deborah King (filha

do bluesman Saunders King). Trata-se de

uma organização não governamental,

sem fins lucrativos, que oferece ajuda

econômica para crianças carentes em

todo o mundo, garantindo a elas

formação escolar, assistência médica, etc.

EXPLAINS

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Carlos SantanaEver since 1970, when we went to

Europe, I think something happened

between Germany and Santana, just

like Germany and Metallica, you know!

I think that, for some reason, people in

Germany – it might be a misperception5

on my part – yet it seems like, you

know, there’s something about German

consciousness that is... really deals with

discipline. Their cars don’t break down!

Porsche, BMW, Mercedes, they have

a certain discipline. And because they

are so disciplined, sometimes, when

they hear Santana, it gives them a free

ride to be loose6 and not be so rigid

with effi ciency and accuracy. Those

are incredible qualities: don’t get me

wrong7; I wish we had them in America!

But, at the same time, there’s a balance,

you know, there’s a balance between

being really loose and being really, really

rigid. So, when Santana comes to town, I

think it gives them that free ride ticket of

like “Hey, you know, take off your shoes

and relax” and, like a dog shakes water8,

“Shake it!” you know. And I think that’s

one of the main ingredients why people

identify with Santana. It validates for

them to... not to be so serious.

EATING AT MARIA MARIANor does he limit his activity to music. He

also owns a chain of restaurants:

Carlos SantanaFor me, what I learned from Europe is

that sometimes a chef spends like 20

years developing a sauce. So when he

serves you this food and you ask for

ketchup, I mean, he wants to like kill

you, you know! So it’s the same thing

with... “Maria Maria” is an opportunity

to introduce humans to a diff erent

kind of cuisine. Whether it’s shoes or

restaurant(s) or whatever, people align

with us, it gives us an opportunity to

give that money straight to (the) Milagro

Foundation and be of service. We passed

the mark9 of $4 million that we have

given around the world to children all

over the place, diff erent foundations and

stuff like that.10

GLOSSARY

TRACK 12SPEAKER CHUCK ROLANDO

B2 UPPER INTERMEDIATE

1 record deal:

contrato com uma

gravadora

2 that figure will

doubtless increase:

esta cifra sem dúvida

aumentará

3 trippy: que

evoca “viagens”

psicodélicas

4 I learned to trust

him with it: aprendi

a confiar nele a esse

respeito

5 misperception: erro

de percepção

6 it gives them a free

ride to be loose:

dá-lhes a liberdade

de se soltarem

7 don’t get me

wrong: não me

entenda mal

8 like a dog shakes

water: assim como

o cachorro sacode a

água

9 we passed

the mark: nós

superamos a marca

10 and stuff like that:

e coisas do gênero

Above and opposite

page: Carlos Santana,

who is generally

considered one of

the world’s greatest

guitarists. Carlos

Augusto Alves

Santana was born in

Mexico on July 20th,

1947. He moved to

San Francisco as a

teenager. His band,

“Santana,” became

popular when it

appeared at the

Woodstock Festival in

1969.

Carlos Santana is generally con-

sidered one of the world’s

greatest living guitarists. He was

born in Mexico and moved to San Fran-

cisco as a teenager. His fi rst success

as a musician came in 1969 when his

band, which was simply called “San-

tana,” played at the Woodstock Festival.

Santana didn’t yet have a record deal1,

but since then he has sold over 100

million albums.

And that fi gure will doubtless increase2

with his latest album, Guitar Heaven:

The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time.

It features cover versions of songs like

“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” by

The Beatles, “Riders on the Storm” by

The Doors and “Smoke on the Water”

by Deep Purple. As Santana explains,

he chose the tracks with Clive Davis,

the famous record industry executive

who gave him his fi rst recording deal all

those years ago:

Carlos Santana(Mexican accent)

Clive Davis selected seven and I

selected seven. I selected the songs

that, for me, resonate more from

the point of like when I

used to take LSD or acid

or mescaline or peyote.

“Riders of The Storm” (sic)

is a very, very trippy3 song;

“Sunshine of Your Love,” of

course; “A Whole Lotta Love,” of

course; “Guitar Gently Weeps,” of

course. So I chose the songs that for

me, even a blind man – or, actually,

especially a blind man – would see it,

because all of those songs are very,

very visual. I think that the ones that

Clive selects are more songs that have

to do with the aesthetics of radio,

which I don’t know much about, but I

learned to trust him with it.4

BIG IN GERMANYSantana also enjoys international suc-

cess. His music is particularly popular in

Germany:

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Left: Cindy Blackman is

the new love in Santana’s

life. His fi rst marriage,

to Deborah King, ended

in 2007, after 34 years.

Santana and Cindy got

married on Dec 19.

GLOSSARY

1 have war paint on

their faces: têm

pintura de guerra em

seus rostos

2 who cheated on

you: que te traiu

3 forgiveness: perdão

4 is when there’s

an earthquake: é

quando acontece um

terremoto

5 says the man...

again...: diz um

homem que se

apaixonou outra vez

6 gift: dom

7 when I go onstage...

bubbles: quando

subo ao palco

é como se o

refrigerante (7UP)

tivesse mais bolinhas

8 hey, what were you

doing with that

beat?: o que você

estava querendo fazer

com aquela batida?

(Cindy toca bateria)

9 recipe: receita

10 propose: pedir ela

em casamento

B2 UPPER INTERMEDIATE

Carlos Santana was interviewed by-

Marcel Anders. Here he talks about

his views on women, men and his then

fi ancée (now new wife), drummer Cindy

Blackman, in particular:

Q: Talking about women, you said:

“There’s a big war happening right now

with females and men. A lot of females

seem like they have war paint on their

faces1.” Why? What’s wrong?

A: That’s a good question. I think that a

lot of women tend to generalize, but …

just like I can’t say that all white people

don’t have rhythm, you can’t say that

all black people can sing and dance,

it’s not good to generalize. All I know

is that when we play music, women

forget all about the war and they start

dancing, the war paint comes off ,

because it’s an illusion anyway.

War paint is fear. Love is love. Fear is

fear. If you have problems with one

man who cheated on you2 or he did

this or he did that, you can’t say that all

men do that! I mean, we utilize music

to bring a sense of unity and harmony

and forgiveness3. Women are like the

weather: you don’t know what’s going

to happen. And men are like mountains,

the only time something changes in a

man is when there’s an earthquake.4 I

love both of it. I love the male and the

female, the female and the male energy.

And the best thing that I can say about

that is: “Honor me for what God made

me, and I’ll honor you for what God

made you. Don’t be at war with me,

because you’ll be at war with yourself

anyway.”

Q: Says the man who just fell in love

again!5

A: Exactly. I totally fell in love with

someone who can really, really, really

play. She’s probably in the top three in

the world who can play with

Herbie Hancock or Wayne Shorter.

Cindy (Blackman) can play. To her

it’s a very profound profession: no, it’s

a very profound gift6, not a profession.

And yes, falling in love with Cindy

means when I go onstage it just feels

like the 7UP has more bubbles.7

Q: Does that mean she’s part of your

band now?

A: Maybe in the future, but right now

I have learned not to mix domestic

rhythm with the stage, because it’s

very diffi cult to say: “Hey, what were

you doing with that beat?”8 And then

come home and: “Hey, can we make

love?” So it’s not wise to mix business,

music and profession with romance.

It’s a recipe9 for disaster. Maybe in

the future when we’re a little bit more

mature in spirit… I would like to have a

separate band with her and approach

diff erent music, not the Santana music.

Q: What made you propose10 on stage –

in front of all these people?

A: It was spontaneous. I saw her play

and there is something about her, it

excites me to believe that I can wake

up with her every morning. We can talk

for hours about Miles Davis and Tony

Williams and Wayne Shorter. And then

we can talk about children, we can

talk about fl owers – or we cannot talk,

and just drink from each other’s eyes. I

know that in the future we will write an

album together, but right now the best

way to describe Cindy is: she’s an angel

sent from heaven to me.

ENTERTAINMENT

SANTANA ON WOMEN AND

LOVE

Above: Santana’s latest

album, Guitar Heaven,

which was released

on the Arista (Sony)

label in September.

There are many guest

appearances: Ray

Manzarek of The

Doors, for example,

appears on Santana’s

version of “Riders on

the Storm.”

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Ian Rankin published his fi rst novel

in 1986, but success arrived when

he published his second novel the

following year. It was called Knots and

Crosses1 and it introduced a new char-

acter in fi ction: Inspector Rebus, a hard-

ened2 detective who attempts to solve

crimes in the Scottish capital of Edin-

burgh. Rankin went on to publish a fur-

ther 16 Rebus novels, but decided to stop

in 2007, when the detective reached the

age of 60 and retired.

The Rebus books have been adapted for

television and they have been translated

into at least 25 languages. They are said

to account for3 10 per cent of crime fi c-

tion sales in Britain.

Not surprisingly, Rankin and Rebus have

created something of a tourism indus-

try in Edinburgh. There are Rebus walk-

ing tours and you can even download a

free iPhone app called “Ian Rankin’s Ed-

inburgh.”

IAN RANKIN’S EDINBURGH

I A WRITER’S CITY

Se você ainda não visitou Edimburgo, depois de ler esta

entrevista fi cará com vontade. Falamos com Ian Rankin,

escritor muito reconhecido atualmente, para com ele

investigarmos os mistérios (literários) de sua bela cidade.

BY MARK WORDEN

THE DARK SIDEYet Rankin, who moved to Edinburgh

when he went to university, isn’t the

city’s only famous writer. Robert Louis

Stevenson, the creator of The Strange

Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, was from

here, as was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,

the inventor of Sherlock Holmes. More

recent examples include Muriel Spark

and Irvine Welsh, author of the cult novel

Trainspotting. Their books have a dark

side and we asked Ian Rankin whether

the same could be said of Edinburgh:

Ian Rankin

(Scottish accent)

There are two towns, there’s the Old

Town, which runs from the Castle to the

Palace of Holyrood, where the Queen

stays when she’s in Edinburgh, and that

was the original city, but then, in the

18th century, when it became vermin-

PLACES SCOTLAND

1 Knots and Crosses:

lit.: Nós e Cruzes (v.

Speak Up explains)

2 hardened: calejado

3 they are said to

account for: tidos

como responsáveis

por

4 vermin-ridden:

infestada de

parasitas

5 where your

scientists... and

debate: onde

sentavam os

cientistas e os

economistas para

discutir (v. Speak Up

explains)

GLOSSARY

The Edinburgh skyline,

as seen from Carlton

Hill, featuring (left)

the Castle and (right) the

Balmoral Hotel

(at Waverley Station)

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ridden4 and insanitary, those who could

aff ord to move started building a “New

Town” and there was a physical barrier

between the two, there was a lake,

a loch, which is now Princes Street

Gardens. So there was a physical barrier

between these two towns, the New

Town and the Old Town, and the New

Town was a place where rationalism

grew up, it’s a place where your

scientists and your economists would sit

and debate5 how the world was going

to be. And that’s where Robert Louis

Stevenson lived when he was a child, his

father, his whole family were engineers,

they were rationalists, but he was

attracted to the chaos that existed in the

Old Town.

LOW LIFESo, as a young man, he would tiptoe out

of the house at dead of night6 and walk

up the hill, and go to the taverns where

poets and vagabonds and drug addicts7

and alcoholics and prostitutes would

hang out8, and so he was seeing those

two sides, the rational and the chaotic,

the Jekyll and the Hyde. So the city

actually, structurally, has that, it has that

divide9.

And when you arrive in Edinburgh, you

arrive in what seems a very civilised

city, you arrive at Waverley Station,

by rail, which is named after a

novel10. As you step out, the

fi rst thing you see is this

huge statue to Sir Walter

Scott, the novelist,

the biggest statue to

a writer in the world,

we believe, certainly in

Europe. So very imposing

and very cultured, but

if you go outside the

periphery, when you

get to the territory that

Irvine Welsh writes about

in Trainspotting, you see

there’s another side to

Edinburgh, that’s just below

the surface.

INSPIRATIONWe then asked

him why Edinburgh was such a productive

place for writers:

Ian RankinI don’t know. I mean, it wasn’t always

like that. I mean, there’s big gaps

in its history11. I mean, you had Sir

Walter Scott and you had Conan

Doyle, arguably12, although he left and

never wrote about the place. You had

Stevenson, who, you know, didn’t set

his most famous book there, Jekyll

and Hyde is set in London, it’s not set

in Edinburgh. You struggle13, I mean,

you fi nd a few things that he wrote that

were set in Edinburgh, but not many.

Then you get to the modern age, there

seems to be a gap until you get to Muriel

Spark, with Miss Jean Brodie,

although the vast majority

of her books were set

abroad, many in Italy

because she lived

in Italy for many

years. And then

you come to Irvine

Welsh and you

get this explosion

of people

writing about

Edinburgh, in the

vernacular, and

also writing about

contemporary

Edinburgh, and not

the city of the past.

GLOSSARY

6 he would tiptoe

out ... at the dead

of night: ele saia de

casa na ponta dos pés

na calada da noite

7 drug addicts:

toxicômanos

8 would hang out: se

encontravam, ficavam

9 it has that divide:

tem essa dupla

personalidade

10 which is named after

a novel: que ganhou

o seu nome a partir

de um romance

11 there’s big gaps in

its history: existem

grandes lacunas em

sua história

12 arguably:

efetivamente

13 you struggle: tem

dificuldades

14 is a little bit further

on: é um pouco mais

adiante

15 what marks us is the

range of styles: o

que nos distingue é a

variedade de estilos

16 tiny: minúscula

17 it’s very tightly

packed in: é muito

compactada

Right: some of Edinburgh’s Victorian rooftops.

Below right: a streetlamp outside the

Balmoral Hotel. Below: Ian Rankin.

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Knots and Crosses. Embora sem tradução

para o português, esse romance tem como

título um trocadilho que merece atenção.

Em inglês, noughts and crosses (jogo da

velha) é uma brincadeira que as crianças

adoram e Rankin o trasformou em knots

and crosses (literalmente, “nós e cruzes”).

To go on. Atenção a esse verbo que muda

dependendo da estrutura que o segue! Se

vem seguido de um verbo na forma -ing,

quer dizer “continuar”: He went on talking

for half an hour (Ele continuou a falar por

meia hora.). Go on! (Continue, Vá em

frente!). Se, no entanto é seguido por um

infinitivo, quer dizer que fez algo depois

que uma outra ação já tinha acabado:

Rankin went on to publish a further 16

Rebus novels. (Rankin publicou outros 16

romances com Rebus – depois do

primeiro.) After school she went on to

study literature at Edinburgh University

(Depois da escola ela foi estudar literatura

na Universidade de Edimburgo.).

The Palace of Holyrood. “Holyrood” é um

anglicismo do escocês Haly Ruid (Santa

Cruz). O palácio foi fundado em 1128 por

David I e foi destinado para ser residência

principal dos soberanos da Escócia desde o

século XVI.

Your scientists and your economists. Se

os cientistas e os economistas não são os

meus (ou nossos) por que dizer your?

Naturalmente trata-se de um

coloquialismo. Por your scientists entende-

se the typical or average scientists, portanto

os cientistas e economistas de costume,

que já se pode imaginar.

Waverley Station. Essa é a estação

principal de Edimburgo. O nome faz

referência a uma longa série de romances

escritos por Sir Walter Scott. Por quase

um século estiveram entre os romances

mais populares e lidos de toda Europa.

Waverley (1814) foi o primeiro romance

da série e, como Scott não queria

reconhecer publicamente sua autoria até

1827, os outros foram publicados com as

palavras “do autor de Waverley” em suas

capas. Os títulos mais famosos

compreendem Rob Roy (1818) e Ivanhoe

(1819).

I mean. Talvez vocês já tenham notado que

Rankin começa muitas frases com a palavra

I mean: I mean, it wasn’t always like that. I

mean, there’s big gaps in its history. I mean,

you had Sir Walter Scott. Trata-se de uma

expressão coloquial clássica que os

britânicos usam frequentemente ao falar.

Corresponde em português a “quero dizer”

ou “ou seja”.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). Os críticos

modernos são divididos quanto à

habilidade literária de Scott, mas muitos

concordam que foi ele que inventou o

romance histórico. Também foi ele que

“inventou” a ideia de que cada clã escocês

deveria ter o próprio tartan!

EXPLAINS

NEIGHBOURSBut now Edinburgh contains multitudes

of writers, it has changed since… when

I arrived as a student in 1978 I couldn’t

fi nd anybody who was writing novels

about contemporary Edinburgh, there

just didn’t seem to be any. There were a

few historical novelists, Dorothy Dunnett

being the leading example, but nobody

writing about contemporary Edinburgh

and now, since Trainspotting, there are

dozens of authors.

I mean, in my street, I’m not the only

novelist in my street: you know, there’s

Alexander McCall Smith lives two houses

up the road from me, J.K. Rowling lives

just round the corner, Kate Atkinson

is a little bit further on14, there’s Lin

Anderson, the crime writer, nearby,

there’s lots and lots of crime writers in

Edinburgh, as well as literary novelists.

MANY FACESAnd he had more to say on the subject:

Ian RankinAnd what marks us out is the range of

styles15, there’s no Edinburgh school,

there’s no one type of writing about

Edinburgh. So Alexander McCall Smith’s

Edinburgh is very diff erent from Rebus’

Edinburgh, which is diff erent from Kate

Atkinson’s Edinburgh, which is diff erent

from Irvine Welsh’s Edinburgh. And it’s

as though this small city, this tiny16 city,

half a million people, if that, maybe

400,000 people, which can’t grow, it

really can’t grow, it’s got the sea to the

north, sea to the east, hills to the south,

it’s very tightly packed in17, it just seems

to be fascinating and complex to us.

And I began writing about Edinburgh

when I arrived there as a student, to

try and make sense of the place18, to

try and take apart the mechanism19,

almost as though you’re taking apart

an engine, or a watch, or something,

and to see what makes it work, what

makes it the particular city that it is and

that process is ongoing. If I had come

to any reasonable conclusions about

Edinburgh, I could have stopped writing

the books, but I continue to write about

Edinburgh because it continues to

fascinate me and I still don’t know what

makes it tick.20

18 make sense of

the place: tentar

entender o lugar

19 take apart the

mechanism:

desmontar o

mecanismo (para ver

como funciona)

20 what makes it

tick: o que a faz

funcionar (metáfora

do funcionamento

interno de um relógio)

DOORS OPEN

1 without wishing

to give the game

away: sem querer

entregar o jogo

2 warehouse:

depósito, acervo

3 surveillance:

vigilância

4 kith, kin: amigos,

família

5 bothering: dar-se o

trabalho de

6 tailed:

seguido

7 dip further: piorar

8 upmarket spot:

lugar de alta classe

9 scams: crimes

10 skimmed: extraídos,

copiados

11 devices: depósito,

acervo

12 closed shop:

mercado fechado

13 rankled: incomodar,

aborrecer

14 targeted: visavam

GLOSSARY

PLACES SCOTLANDView of Edinburgh

Castle. It is situated

in Edinburgh’s

“Old Town.”

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Ian Rankin(Scottish accent)

So far, it had been another bad

day for Chib Calloway.

The problem with surveillance3

was, even if you knew you were

being watched, you couldn’t

always know who the watchers

were. Chib owed a bit of money...

all right, a lot of money. He

owed other things, too, and had

been keeping his head down,

answering only one or two of his

dozen mobile phones, the ones

whose numbers only kith, kin4

and close associates knew. He’d

had two meetings scheduled for

lunchtime, but had cancelled

both. He’d apologised by phone

without bothering5 to explain

why. If it got out that he was

being tailed6, his reputation

would dip further7. Instead

he’d drunk a couple of cups of

coff ee at Cento Tre on George

Street. It was a pretty upmarket

spot8 – a bank at one time. A

lot of Edinburgh’s banks had

been turned into bars and

restaurants. With cash

machines everywhere,

banks weren’t needed.

The machines had

brought with them a

variety of scams9, of

course; card numbers

skimmed10, the cards

themselves cloned;

devices11 attached to

the machine which could

transfer the necessary

information to a microchip...

There were some petrol

stations you didn’t dare use.

They sold your details on to

other people. Chib was careful

that way. The gangs with the

cash machine know-how all

seemed to originate overseas

– Albania, Croatia, Hungary.

When Chib had looked into it as

a possible business proposition,

he’d been informed that it was

something of a closed shop12

– which rankled13, especially

when the gangs then targeted14

Edinburgh.

© 2008, John

Rebus Ltda

READING

DOORS OPEN

TRACK 14 SPEAKER MARK WORDEN

C1 ADVANCED

A nd, as an accompaniment to that, Ian Rankin reads an excerpt from his

latest novel, Doors Open. The setting is Edinburgh and the subject is

crime. Without wishing to give the game away1, it tells the story of a group

of respectable citizens who try and steal valuable works of art from the

Scottish National Gallery warehouse2. They also encounter a professional

criminal, Chib Calloway, who is described here:

Ian Rankin’s latest

novel, Doors Open.

Below: the author.

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Artists sometimes adopt names for

simplicity, sometimes to add mys-

tique1. Often, they are given nick-

names by accident2.

PLAYING WITH NAMESDiminutives: Antonio Canal, famous for

paintings of Venice and London, was

known as Canaletto (you can read enter-

taining stories about his activities in Eng-

land in Janet Laurence’s novels, such as

Canaletto and the Case of Westminster

Bridge). His nephew, Bernardo Bellotto,

found success by borrowing3 his uncle’s

pseudonym.

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi is known

for sculptures such as the David in the

Bargello Museum, Florence, under the

name Donatello.

English graffi ti artist Banksy keeps his real

identity secret, partly to avoid arrest for

his guerrilla artistic activities. The pseu-

donym may be based on his real name:

possibly Robert Banks or Edward Banks.

This uncertainty mirrors4 public reaction

to his work. Some criticise it as vandal-

ism. But his distinctive5 paintings, ap-

pearing on walls around the world as if

by magic, use dark humour to generate

debate. One example is an image of two

policemen kissing; another is a Guantan-

amo Bay prisoner on a Disneyland ride.

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

De Caravaggio a Andy

Warhol... faz tempo que

os artistas utilizam

pseudônimos para soar

“chic” em sua época.

Alguns nomes trazem

grandes surpresas...

BY WILLIAM SUTTON

TRACK 14SPEAKER RACHEL ROBERTS

B1 LOWER-INTERMEDIATE

ILANGUAGE

IN THE NAME

OF ART

Two famous artists

who changed their

names. Right: a

self-portrait by

Caravaggio (real

name Michelangelo

Merisi) and (opposite

page) a photograph

of the American

“pop artist” Andy

Warhol (real name,

Andrew Warhola).

A SENSE OF PLACEEl Greco found fame in Spain, working

for the Church. The Spanish found his

name hard to pronounce, but his paint-

ings are signed Domenikos Theotoko-

poulos.

Controversial artist Michelangelo Merisi

is known by the name of his hometown,

Caravaggio. He developed chiaroscuro,

the melodramatic contrast of light and

dark, and shocked society by using a

prostitute as his model for the Virgin

Mary.

THAT ARTY FEELINGSometimes a name sounds more artis-

tic. Emmanuel Radnitzky began using

the abbreviated name Man Ray to avoid

anti-Semitism; but this strange pseudo-

nym suited6 his modernist ethic.

Polish-French modernist Balthasar

Klossowski de Rola chose the memora-

ble name Balthus.

Jack the Dripper. Vocês já devem ter notado o jogo de palavras. Obviamente, Jack the Dripper faz referência a Jack the Ripper (Jack, o Estripador), e poderia ser traduzido como “Jack, o Gotejador”. Não é claro se esse sobrenome teria qualquer conotação negativa...

EXPLAINS

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Architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-

Gris believed that artists, and cities, could

reinvent themselves. He chose to be

called Le Corbusier, perhaps connected

to the word for crow7, but similar to his

grandfather’s name, Lecorbésier.

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas chose

a less pretentious spelling of his name:

Degas. And Andrew Warhola, the son of

Czech immigrants, removed a letter to

become Andy Warhol.

MEANING AND SIMPLICITYBecause Jacopo Comin’s father was

a dyer or “tintore,” he became known

as Tintoretto. (His real surname, which

translates as the spice “cumin,” was dis-

covered only recently by the curator of

the Prado.)

Nicknames have also been attached to

modern artists. Picasso was The Bull and

Salvador Dali The Magician, while Jackson

Pollock was known in London as Jack the

Dripper.

POLITICS AND MANIFESTOESThe Futurists used pseudonyms to refl ect

their modern ideas: Volt (Vincenzo Ciotti),

Fillia (Luigi Colombo) and Luciano Folgore

(Omero Vecchi).

Radical feminism produced the Guerrilla

Girls, a New York collective who promote

egalitarian ideas. The members use dis-

guises8 during interviews, naming them-

selves after dead female artists, such as Fr-

ida Kahlo and Sonia Delaunay.

1 mystique: fascínio,

aura de mistério

2 they are given

nicknames by

accident: são

apelidados por

acidente

3 by borrowing:

tomando

emprestado

4 mirrors: reflete

5 distinctive:

características

6 suited: era

adequado a

7 perhaps

connected... crow:

talvez relacionado

à palavra ‘corvo’

(corbeau em

francês)

8 disguises: disfarces

GLOSSARY

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COACHELLA FESTIVALIndio, California. It fi rst took place

in 2000, and ten years later, it has

become the most eagerly awaited date1

on the musical festival calendar in

California. The Coachella Music and

Arts Festival (www.coachella.com),

which will be held on April 15-17, is

a three-day annual music and arts

extravaganza2 featuring many genres

of music. Two main stages and various

tents host the performers and there

are numerous installation art and

sculptures that are always very popular

with the public.

A MIDWEST MAKE-OVER

Columbus, Ohio. Anyone who

thinks that the Midwest is

behind the times4, should visit

Columbus, Ohio’s Short North

district. This area is home to a

popular arts event called Gallery

Hop. On the fi rst Saturday of

every month, street performers,

musicians and artists take to the

sidewalks5 while shops often

turn into temporary exhibition

sites and art galleries remain

open until late. The result? A

once crime-ridden6 urban

district has become one of the

United States’ most thriving7 art

communities.

BY MOIRA SHEA | B2 UPPER INTERMEDIATE THE GOOD LIFE | NEWS

1 the most eagerly [ˈiːgəlı]

awaited date: a data mais

aguardada.

2 extravaganza: evento

espetacular.

3 it prides itself: orgulha-se

de.

4 behind the times: atrasado.

5 take to the sidewalks: ganham as calçadas.

6 crime-ridden: violento,

com alto índice de

criminalidade.

7 thriving [ˈθraıvıŋ] próspera, florescente.

8 recipe [ˈresıpı] de receitas

9 lodgings: hospedagem,

alojamento

10 is making a comeback:

retorna aos holofotes

11 will record and relay

messages: grava e

reproduz mensagens

GLOSSARY

SURPRISES

IN THE SAND

Port Aransas, Texas. It prides

itself3 on being the largest

Master Sand Sculpting

Festival in the United States

but it’s really much more.

The Texas SandFest, which

takes place in Port Aransas,

Texas on April 15th, 16th and

17th is an event attracting

over 100,000 people for

three days of unbeatable sun

and fun.  In addition to the

Master’s Contests with 24

Master Sculptors competing,

there are also Amateur

contests in which artists

of all ages can take part.

To learn more, visit www.

texassandfest.com

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$THE WEBRECIPE RELATIONS

Finally a food site that has gone

social. That’s what’s happened

with Foodily (www.foodily.com),

a recipe8 and ingredient search

engine that collects millions of

recipes from all over the web.

Founded by two former Yahoo

employees, this site displays your

search results along a scrolling

interface with a photo of the dish,

the recipe and information about

where the recipe came from.

But as the site itself declares,

Foodily not only brings together

recipes but also friends with

Facebook integration. Indicate that

you like a recipe, for example, and it will appear as

“liked” on Facebook. One can also create a menu

YTOYS 50 AND STILL GOING STRONG

Ken Carson – more commonly known as Barbie’s boyfriend – is making a

comeback10. Though he was abandoned by Barbie in 2004, Ken is celebrating

his 50th anniversary this year in grand style. In fact, the toy company, Mattel,

is promoting several new Ken initiatives, such as the Sweet Talking Ken

Doll (right)($19.99) that came out in December and that will record and relay

messages11. Last Valentine’s Day, this toy company also released a Ken and Barbie

gift set. What’s more, Ken is going digital – on Hulu, an online video service,

there is now a live-action digital reality series called “Genuine Ken: The Search

for the Great American Boyfriend” .

C IN TRANSIT GREEN TRAVEL

The “defi nitive guide to eco

tours, responsible travel and

ecotourism.” That’s how Green.

travel, a site that went live in

late January, describes itself.

Created by the nonprofi t

organisation Sustainable Travel

International, the site off ers

4,500 searchable listings of

lodgings9 in over 60 countries,

all of which are ranked by their

eco-credentials on a scale of

zero to fi ve green suitcases.

and then invite friends to share the meal via

Facebook. Foodie networking at its best!

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The Album

THE STROKES: ANGLES10 years ago the New York band The Strokes released their fi rst album, Is This It. Now they’ve released their fourth, Angles (RCA/Rough Trade). The band’s members have been involved in solo projects and so it comes fi ve years after their last album, First Impressions of Earth. The album’s cover (pictured below) is sober3. The famous cover for their fi rst album (which featured4 a young lady in an intimate pose) was considered too extreme for the Amercan market!

The MovieTHE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU Science fi ction writer Philip K. Dick died in March 1982, at the

age of 53. This was three months before the release1 of the

movie Bladerunner, which was based on his book, Do Androids

Dream of Electric Sheep? Since then other Dick stories have

been adapted for the big screen (Total Recall, Minority Report).

The latest example is The Adjustment Bureau, which received its

international release in March (the date for Brazil is April 15th).

Directed by George Nolfi , it stars Matt Damon, who plays

a politician, and Emily Blunt (pictured), who plays a ballerina.

The two have an aff air2 but “mysterious forces” keep them apart.

1 release: lançamento

2 affair: envolvimento,

caso

3 sober: sóbria, séria

4 to feature:

apresentar, mostrar

5 lullabye [ˈlʌləbaı] cantigas de ninar

6 childhood

[ˈtʃaıldhʊd] infância

GLOSSARY

The Other Album

AVRIL LAVIGNE: GOODBYE LULLABYECanadian singer Avril Lavigne made her recording debut in 2002, with the album Let Go, when she was just 17 years old. Almost a decade has passed since then, even if she still looks about 17! Last month saw the release of her fourth studio album, Goodbye Lullabye (on the RCA/Sony label). Lullabyes5 are the songs that parents sing to their children to help them fall asleep. The title “Goodbye Lullabye” would suggest that Ms. Lavigne is saying goodbye to her childhood6, but she says the album is “about life.”

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After the Great Britain Beer Festival, in London, all the brewery presidents1 decide to go out for a beer together.

The president of Corona sits down and says: “Hey Senor, I would like the world’s best beer, a Corona.” The bartender dusts off a bottle2 from the shelf3 and gives it to him.Then the Budweiser president says: “I’d like the best beer in the world, give me ‘The King Of Beers,’ a Budweiser.” The bartender gives him one.

Next the Coors president says: “I’d like the only beer made with Rocky Mountain spring water4, give me a Coors.” He gets it.

Finally, the Guinness boss sits down

and says: “Give me a Coke.” The bartender is a little taken aback5, but gives him what he ordered.The other brewery presidents look over at him and ask: “Why aren’t you drinking a Guinness?”

The Guinness president replies: “Well, I fi gured if you guys aren’t drinking beer, neither would I6.”

HUMOUR | THE LAST LAUGH

GLOSSARY 1 brewery presidents: presidentes

de cervejarias

2 dusts off a bottle: limpa o pó de

uma garrafa

3 shelf: prateleira

4 spring water: água de nascente

5 taken aback: surpreso

6 I figured... neither would I:

eu pensei que, se nenhum de

vocês vai beber cerveja, então eu

também não vou

Going for a Beer

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I’m going to leave a trail1 of peace now

wherever I go

So that there will be a path2 for the

next ones to follow

I said I’m going to leave a trail of love now

wherever I go

And then there might be something left

for them tomorrow

Sometimes it’s so overwhelming3 when

you see how much wrong is going on

That you don’t think you can make any

diff erence

And your confi dence has gone

But if you just do the best that you can do

to make it better where you are

It can create a positive example

And that is always a good start

Why don’t you leave a trail of cleanliness

wherever you go

So that there will be a path for the next

ones to follow

I say why don’t you leave a trail of

kindness4 wherever you go

And then there might be something left

for them tomorrow

(Chorus:) Well if you’re worried about your

future

(I said) You’ve got good reason to

‘Cause we’ve been using up more than

we put back

1 trail: rastro, trilha

2 path: caminho

3 it’s so

overwhelming: a

gente fica arrasado

4 kindness: gentileza

5 the bill is coming

due: o dia de

pagar a conta está

chegando

6 fate: destino

7 oneness: união,

unidade

GLOSSARY

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Leave A Trail, by

Carlos Jones and the

P.L.U.S. Band

Album: Leave A Trail

2010 Little Fish

Records

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I CARLOS JONES AND THE P.L.U.S. BAND

LEAVE A TRAIL

And the bill is coming due5

Now I don’t know how long it’s going to last

But I’ll just do the best that I can

To shine some light in this darkness

For every woman, child and man

I’m going to leave a trail of love now

wherever I go

So that there will be a path for the next

ones to follow

I said I’m going to leave a trail of peace

now wherever I go

And then there may be another day for

them tomorrow

You know the world is in a crisis

You better wake up before it’s too late

If we don’t stop and change the situation

Then destruction will be our fate6!

(repeat Chorus)

Why don’t you leave a trail of cleanliness

wherever you go

And then there may be a world for our

children tomorrow

I said why don’t you leave a trail of

oneness7 wherever you go

And then there may be another day for

them tomorrow

I’m going to leave a trail (repeat)

Why don’t you leave a trail

You’ve got to leave a trail

I know you can leave a trail

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