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Spotlight Audio

Summer

reading

TRAVEL

Britain’s

labyrinths

6/11 www.spotlight-online.de

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LANGUAGE

Spotlight Audio 6/2011

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Introduction

[1] Anne: Welcome to the June 2011 edition of

Spotlight Audio. I’m Anne Alexander Sieder

from the United States...

David: ...and I’m David Creedon from Britain.

Join us now for a 60-minute expedition around

the English-speaking world — with stories, lan-

guage tips and exercises.

Anne: In our travel feature, we’re exploring

mazes, or labyrinths, in Britain. Discover with

us how wonderful getting lost can be.

David: You’ve got to take a book with you on hol-

iday — summer and reading go together! In our

language feature, you’ll learn vocabulary to do

with books, enjoy an excerpt from a new audio-

book and hear an interview with the author.

Anne: If you’d like to read along, you’ll find all

the texts in your audio booklet.

people of different races, is increasing in the

American South.

David: The article uses the words “black” and

“white”. In the US, black people are also often

referred to as “African-Americans”. A more for-

mal word for a white person is “Caucasian” —

but this is rarely used.

Anne: If someone is biracial, he or she has par-

ents of different races.

Schnell und einfach fit

in Englisch!

It seems unthinkable today: less than 50 years

ago, it was illegal for whites and blacks to marry

in some southern US states. Now, those very

same states are seeing some of the fastest

growth in interracial marriages in the country.

In addition to an increase in such marriages,

The New York Times reports that the mixed-race

population in the US is growing far more quick-

ly than experts had estimated before the

results of the 2010 census were published.

“Racial attitudes are changing,” said Marvin

King, a professor at the University of Mississip-

pi. King is black, married to a white woman, and

has a biracial daughter. “Day in, day out, there

is certainly not the hostility there was years

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World View

[2] Changing attitudes

Anne: Until recently, racism was a fact of life in

many southern US states. Our World View sec-

tion brings some positive news: the number of

interracial marriages, or marriages between

get lost

sich verirren, sich verlaufen

hostility

Feindseligkeit, Ablehnung

read along

mitlesen

ago. I think you see that in the fact that there

are more interracial relationships, and people

don’t fear those relationships. They don’t have

to hide those relationships anymore.”

Until 1967, 17 southern states continued to rec-

ognize laws forbidding interracial marriage. That

year, the Supreme Court decided that such laws

were illegal following a court battle started by an

interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving.

Source: Spotlight 6/2011, page 12

eyebrow tinting. Sometimes we do perms. We

often, especially over the weekend, do up-

styles. We do a lot of blow-drying, straightening,

hair styling. ... Usually we’ll do often, like, three

to four [or] sometimes more colours during the

day and quite a lot of haircuts — often both

men’s and ladies’ and sometimes kids’ as well.

Anne: Burglars are people who steal. You could

also refer to them as robbers or thieves. Let’s

practice turning these three words — burglar,

robber and thief — into words that are syn-

onyms for stealing.

David: We’ll start with an example. A criminal

commits...

Anne: Crime.

David: See how we’ve turned the word for the

person, criminal, into the word for the activity,

crime? Now it’s your turn. A burglar commits...

Anne: Burglary.

David: A robber commits...

Anne: Robbery.

David: A thief commits...

Anne: Theft.

David: OK, I think we’re in the mood to hear the

column now. Here’s Nick Lloyd, to read “Noth-

ing to take”.

traits might be useful that show Vincent van

Gogh with one of his ears missing. They might

help someone to identify the criminal.

There seem to be lots of break-ins at the

moment. The national press tells us that crime is

generally going down, but the local paper says

that burglaries are on the up. So what exactly is

going on? Well, it partly depends where you live.

We now have a website that allows us to check

that. You can go to www.police.uk , put in your

postcode, and find out just how much crime

there is in your area.

But you still wonder why that burglar went off

more or less empty-handed. Perhaps it isn’t

easy to find stuff you can sell these days. Lots

of things are really quite cheap in the shops, so

Anne: Before we leave Australia, listen to Kristie

talk about her favourite parts of her work.

A Day in My Life

[3] Kristie Graham

I like the social side of it — to get to know peo-

ple — and having a repeat clientele: you really

get to know people and their lives and every-

thing. And I suppose making people feel good.

They come in feeling really flat, having, you

know, their hair not being the right style or

something like that. You give them a lift and

send them out feeling really good, and they

look as if they’ve had a lift and they walk out

sort of glowing, which is nice.

See Spotlight 6/2011, pages 8–9

David: In our A Day In My Life section, we’re vis-

iting a hair salon in Australia, near Brisbane.

Correspondent Julie Collins spoke with 29-

year-old hairdresser Kristie Graham.

Anne: Although Kristie’s job title is hairdresser,

she does much more than that! Before she tells

us about her daily tasks, here are a few expres-

sions you should know. Waxing is a way of

removing hair from the body or face.

David: If you tint something, you add colour to it.

Anne: A perm is a chemical treatment that

makes hair curly. And an up-style is a fancy

hairstyle in which the hair is put up.

blow-drying

Föhnen

commit

begehen, verüben

curly

lockig

It comes as a terrible shock when you realize

you’ve had a break-in. It happened to some

friends of ours recently; they arrived home one

evening to discover that someone had broken

in through the kitchen window. Luckily, the

burglar didn’t take anything, apart from an ear-

ring — not the pair; just one. For some reason

he, or she, left the other behind.

Wearing one earring is quite fashionable, and

even burglars no doubt like to look smart. But

perhaps the police should be searching for

someone who has only one ear. Those self-por-

eyebrow

Augenbraue

eyelash

Wimper

fancy

ausgefallen

flat ifml.

fertig, bedrückt

give sb. a lift

jmds. Laune heben

Britain Today

[4] Nothing to take

glow

(übers ganze Gesicht) strahlen

hairdresser

Friseur(in)

on the up: be ~

Hochkonjunktur haben

repeat clientele

Stammkundschaft

smart

schick

sort of

sozusagen

David: Our Britain Today column deals with a

rather serious topic this month: break-ins.

Colin Beaven thinks there may be a new trend

in robbery: burglars not taking anything!

straightening

Glätten

suppose

denken, glauben

My tasks for the day include hair cutting and

colouring, waxing, facial waxing, eyelash tinting,

Supreme Court

Oberster Gerichtshof in

den USA

maybe no one wants to buy them in the alley

round the back of the pub any more, which is

where one has traditionally gone to buy stolen

goods — or so I understand.

Then again, with the recession, many of us feel a

lot less well off, so it must be getting harder for

burglars to find something worth stealing. When

the houses they break into are so empty, they

look as if someone’s already burgled them. The

burglars may even feel sorry for their victims.

Can you see sympathetic burglars taking out

their wallets and leaving a few banknotes on the

coffee table — or in the space where the coffee

table used to be, before the owners had to sell

it? We’ll know the recession’s really bad when

we report a burglary, and instead of asking what

they took, the police ask us what they brought.

We haven’t quite reached that stage yet. So we

probably shouldn’t ignore the burglar alarms

we sometimes hear when we’re out for a walk

— much as we would like to.

It’s wrong, I know, but you can’t help wanting

just to carry on walking. You’re late already, and

it’s usually the family cat moving about that

makes the things go off. And anyway, if it real-

ly was a burglar, he’d have run away when he

heard the alarm — unless he was deaf or very

hard of hearing. Frankly, that isn’t likely.

With unemployment and inflation on the up,

though, there’ll soon be nothing left to steal, so

at last we’ll be able to ignore a burglar alarm

without having a guilty conscience.

When the police actually catch a burglar, the

person whose belongings have been stolen is

sometimes given a chance to meet him. It’s a

system called restorative justice. The idea is

that talking to the victim helps the criminal to

understand that crime affects real people. And

it gives victims a chance to ask some of the

questions they want answered, such as: “What

made you do it?” and “What was wrong with

the earring?”

“There’s nothing wrong with my hearing, you

know,” the burglar replies. “Just because I’ve

only got one ear doesn’t mean I’m totally deaf.”

Source: Spotlight 6/2011, page 13

of people wander through it every year. It’s a

hedge maze, made of bushes or trees that are

planted very close together. These green, living

walls are more than two meters high and about

a meter wide.

David: In the next three tracks, we’ll look at

some words related to labyrinths, wander

through the maze at Hampton Court Palace

and listen to a famous designer talk about what

mazes are all about.

David: I’m feeling a bit ______ here, to tell you

the truth. ... I’m feeling a bit hedged in here, to

tell you the truth.

[7] Amazing mazes (excerpt)

Anne: We’ll now hear an excerpt from “Amazing

mazes”, written by Julian Earwaker. As you lis-

ten, try to answer two questions. First, how

long does it take Julian to get to the centre of

the maze? And second, when was the maze at

Hampton Court Palace made?

[6] Maze vocabulary

Anne: There’s something symbolic, even spiri-

tual, about a labyrinth. And many words that

relate to mazes have a metaphorical meaning

as well. Let’s take a look at a few of these.

David: Twists and turns are bends in a road or a

path.

Anne: A dead end is a road that has no way out.

David: A hedge is a wall made out of bushes

that are planted very close together.

Anne: Now, use these three terms — twists and

turns, dead end, and hedge — to complete the

following sentences.

David: There aren’t any chances for promotion

at that company. It’s a real ______ job. ...

It’s a real dead-end job.

Anne: When I look back over the last ten years

of my life, I’m surprised at all the ______. ...

I’m surprised at all the twists and turns.

Travel: Mazes

[5] Introduction

affect

betreffen; hier: schaden

alley

Gasse, Weg

bend

Kurve, Biegung

carry on

weiter-

David: This month’s travel feature brings us an

unusual way of experiencing the UK: by getting

lost! Britain has a great tradition of labyrinths,

or mazes. Correspondent Julian Earwaker visit-

ed some of the best, and reports on them in

the story “Amazing mazes”.

Anne: There’s something very childlike about

finding your way through a maze. And part of

the fun is watching children race by. But mazes

aren’t just for kids. The maze at Hampton

Court Palace was built for royalty more than

300 years ago. Today, hundreds of thousands

deaf

taub

frankly

ehrlich gesagt

get lost

sich verirren, sich verlaufen

go off

Alarm schlagen

guilty conscience

schlechtes Gewissen

hard of hearing

schwerhörig

hedged in

eingeengt

likely

wahrscheinlich

maze

Labyrinth

promotion

Beförderung

race by

vorbeilaufen

report

zur Anzeige bringen, melden

restorative justice

etwa: Täter-Opfer-Ausgleich

sympathetic

mitfühlend

well off

wohlhabend, betucht

We’ve made it!” the little girl shrieks with

delight. For the past 15 minutes, I have been

following her voice while she remains hidden

by the tall hedges, leading her family round

the twists and turns of the world’s most

famous maze at Hampton Court Palace in west

London. When I reach the centre, I am finally

able to see my “guide” and her family. We chat

for a short while.

“It took us only a quarter of an hour,” says the

girl. “How long did it take you?”

“Oh, about the same,” I reply. I can’t really

admit that I followed them all the way.

“Now we have to find our way out,” says the

girl’s mother.

In everyday situations, getting lost can be a

stressful experience. But mazes, I discover,

actually make it fun to hit dead ends and follow

unexpected detours. I take my time returning

to the outside world. In truth, it’s not that hard

to find the way. The maze dates from 1690,

and its hedges are now a little threadbare. Why

is it still so popular?

“It’s part of our heritage,” says Terry Gough,

head of gardens and estates at Historic Royal

Palaces, an organization that looks after some

of London’s great sights. The maze, he

explains, was part of the ambitious plans of

King William III and Queen Mary II to build a

palace and gardens to rival Versailles. I learn

that the maze has an unusual trapezoid shape

because it had to fit in with other mazes in a

garden area called “the wilderness”. This wilder-

ness added mystery and romance to the lives

of the royal court.

“This is the oldest hedge-planted puzzle maze

in the world,” Gough says. “It’s amazing that it

has survived all this time. Think of the people

who have been through it: royalty and

courtiers and then the public from 1838

onwards — millions of people.”

In Jerome K. Jerome’s humorous travelogue

Three Men in a Boat , one of the characters tells

how he visited Hampton Court maze and tried

to help people find their way — “people who

had given up all hope of ever getting either in

or out, or of ever seeing their home and friends

again”. Somehow I manage to escape their fate.

in the more than 500 mazes that Fisher has

designed. Our correspondent visited Fisher in

his studio, and even managed to find his way

back out! Listen in now to hear the maze man’s

answer when asked what advice he would give

to people about to enter a maze.

versive gardener, because grown-ups could

walk round this, and you could reel off all the

Latin names of all the plants, and you could say

how sensibly it fits the landscape, and how

wonderful. But the whole of this place, actual-

ly: it’s entirely designed as a playful space —

for children to play. You can ambush grown-

ups as they walk along the shrubberies, and

you can track them without being spotted right

behind the bushes. There’s a little tree house

Well, I wouldn’t dream of telling people... I

mean, part of the joy is, you know, this appears

to be some sort of obscure labyrinth or maze of

twisting paths and things and — goodness

knows — I guess there’s somewhere we’ve got

to get to. And you know, well, like life, no one

gives you a handbook. No, it’d be quite inap-

propriate for me to ever offer any advice what-

ever. I think we should rediscover the joy of

being kids and relax and play and go in and look

[at] what children do.

I’m offering you the chance to play. Explore a

world that is bigger than we can readily com-

prehend in every respect! Life is haphazard and

confusing and messy and incomplete, and no

one’ll ever tell you all the things before you

have to make a decision. What’s right? What’s

wrong? Life is unexpected. So [you’d] better

get used to play, I suppose.

I mean, take a three-year-old. What is their life’s

work? Play! That’s what they’re to do. And play

is not an optional extra. Play is central. It’s what

you have to do to come to terms with a very

massive, enormous, confusing world out there.

Here we have a playful garden. Now, I’m a sub-

ambush (aus dem Hinterhalt) überraschen

come to terms with klarkommen mit

comprehend

verstehen, begreifen

delight

Freude

detour

Umweg

entirely

komplett

estate

Anwesen, Länderei

Anne: Did you find the answers to the ques-

tions? First, how long does it take our correspon-

dent to get to the centre of the maze? ... A quar-

ter of an hour, or 15 minutes. And second, when

was the maze at Hampton Court Palace made? ...

In 1690. If you’d like to read the full story, turn to

pages 28 to 33 of this month’s magazine.

for that matter

eigentlich, im Grunde genommen

goodness knows

wer weiß

grown-up

Erwachsene(r)

haphazard

willkürlich

heritage

Erbe, Kultur

inappropriate

unangebracht, unangemessen

messy

chaotisch

obscure

rätselhaft, verworren

reel off

herunterspulen

sensibly

sinnvoll

shriek

kreischen

shrubbery

Gebüsch

[8] Interview with Adrian Fisher

spotted: be ~

bemerkt werden

subversive

hier: raffiniert, hinterlistig

suppose

denken, annehmen

Anne: Adrian Fisher is the world’s leading maze

designer. It’s hard to imagine anyone more

passionate about mazes — or about life, for

that matter. Millions of people have gotten lost

threadbare

dünn, spärlich bewachsen

track

(ver)folgen

twisting

hier: verwinkelt

whatever

egal welche(n/s)

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