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Year XXXVI - N. 1 - September - October 2015 - Imprimé à Taxe Réduite

English-speaking World

Australia – There’s Nothing Like It UK Today

David Oyelowo Culture and Society

Coffee Shop Culture

TEEN People

Emma Stone

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Welcome

N. 1 - September - October 2015

Hello everyone and welcome back after the summer holidays! We have lots of great articles for you in this issue. You can read about DJs and dance music, there’s an interview with Hollywood star Emma Stone. We celebrate International Coffee Day, start an epic voyage around the English-speaking world and meet a great actor who wants things to change. What’s new this year? On page 10, we have our series, 21st Century. Each article will feature an iconic object from the new millennium – the mobile phone, the peace flag and baggy jeans!

Let’s get reading!

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TEEN People Emma Stone English-speaking World Australia – There’s Nothing Like It! Report The World of the DJ UK Today David Oyelowo 21st Century The Mobile Phone Culture and Society Coffee Shop Culture Playstation

Around the World

The Colour of Your Feelings

A stylish* hotel has opened in Brussels with an original concept*: every room has been painted a different colour to suit a different mood! It’s called the Pantone Hotel and it puts colour at the heart of your stay. Every floor has a colour theme, with different tones* ranging from bright to soft, which visitors can choose according to how they are feeling and why they’ve come to the hotel (business, holiday, relaxation…). Pantone is a catalogue of colour – a colour “matching system” – used by designers everywhere. Since 2000, the company has chosen a colour for the year. For 2015 it’s an “earthy red” called Marsala. Each colour has a unique number, the red on the Swiss flag is 485, while the red on the US flag is 193C. You can explore more at www.pantone.com

Glossary concept: plan, idea hilarious: silly, that makes you laugh a lot stylish: fashionable tone: (here) the quality and strength of a colour

Secret Code

Pantone added a new colour to its catalogue in 2015. It’s inspired by characters in the animated film, Despicable Me, which gave us those hilarious* little creatures who work for Gru, the “evil genius”. Use the secret code to find out what this colour’s called. Pantone says it’s “an illuminating, energetic, friendly and fun-loving shade that immediately calls out to you.”

E = Q I = J

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adjectives describing character

TEEN People

Emma Stone Emma Stone is one of Hollywood’s most talented and engaging* actors. She got her big break* as the young writer, Skeeter, in The Help, and she’s been winning awards for her acting ever since!

Passport Name: Emily Jean, known as Emma Family Name: Stone Place and date of birth: Scottsdale, Arizona, 6th November 1988 Profession: actor Distinguishing marks: She dated the Amazing Spiderman – actor Andrew Garfield, who she met on set.

We hear you started acting when you were very young. Is that true?

Yes! I was 11 when I joined the youth theatre in Phoenix, Arizona.

I was in my first musical there – the first of many – Cinderella, Schoolhouse Rock Live!, Titanic and so on! I moved to Los Angeles when I was fifteen and started my television acting career. I had roles* in the series Medium and Malcolm In the Middle. I got my first film role in 2007, when I was 21. s

Do you think you’ve changed much in the last few years?

Back in 2011, when The Help was such a big success, I was chatty, fairly happy-go-lucky* and enthusiastic about everything, like a little kid. Everything seemed amazing to me. Now, I’m a lot calmer and more thoughtful. I’m a bit less spontaneous and I’m more careful about what I say and do.

I don’t want being famous to change me or to interfere* too much in my life. I try to keep a low profile* when I go out, and avoid places that are too public. I tend to stay away from social networking sites. It might seem strange for a girl in her twenties not to be on Twitter, but I need to be with people, not have virtual relationships with them.

Tell us a bit about yourself. What are your favourite things? Is there anything you don’t like?

I love sushi and I like small, cosy restaurants. I didn’t do particularly well at school, I preferred acting to studying to be honest. In real life I’m very different from Gwen, Spiderman’s on-screen* girlfriend, who is a science genius. My tastes are constantly changing – I like to keep up with the latest trends. You have to think quickly these days and you have to know how to laugh and have fun. I have a dry sense of humour and don’t take myself too seriously! I used to hate my voice when I was a child,

I thought it sounded too deep, more like a man. I’ve learned to make the most of it since then and now I quite like the way I sound.

Is acting hard work?

I always have the same approach to a new film. I spend a lot of time thinking about the role and keep as calm as I can. I listen carefully to what the director tells me so that I can make my performance as good as it can be. When I’m making a film, I need to have someone near me who I can rely on for good advice, Michael Keaton was a real help when we were filming Birdman. I feel great when I’m acting, but I easily get tired doing the publicity for a film after it’s released. That’s when I need to take time out to recuperate*. I love swimming and relaxing by the ocean, then I can go back to work again with my batteries recharged.

What would you say to young actors?

My rule is to never take myself too seriously and never think I’m more important than other people. One day, someone will come along who is better than me, that’s a fact of life and there’s nothing wrong with that. You never know what’s round the corner – the future is full of surprises.

Glossary break: (here) when you become a success engaging: charming, likeable happy-go-lucky: not worrying about the future interfere with: have a negative effect on

keep a low profile: don’t attract attention to yourself on-screen: (adjective) shown on TV or in a film recuperate: build your energies up again roles: parts (in a TV show, play etc)

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English-Speaking World

In this new series of articles we find out about the Englishspeaking world, from Australia, to India, Africa to North America.

Melbourne

Melbourne is a centre of business, it’s where many of Australia’s biggest businesses have their headquarters, and it’s the country’s cultural capital. It’s culturally diverse*, and is famous for its food and cafe culture. It has some of Australia’s best art galleries, museums, theatres and international festivals, as well as exciting street culture and artists’ markets. There are amazing collections of art by Aboriginal peoples, colonial* art and challenging, contemporary works.

Melbourne’s food culture is as exciting and experimental as its art. Here you will find the famous fusion* food – a combination of traditions which are fused, or joined, to create something entirely new and original. Fusion influences are South-East Asian, mostly Thai, Chinese and Vietnamese, reflecting the food culture of the people who have settled here.

Sydney

Sydney is the biggest city in New South Wales, (over thirty percent of Australians live in this southern state). Before the Europeans came the area was inhabited by different indigenous groups who first met

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the present tense; modals with can; challenging adjectives

Australia

There’s Nothing Like It!

Australia was unknown to the western world until the Dutch landed in 1606. For tens of thousands of years before that it was home to indigenous* peoples who spoke at least 250 different languages. Then the British arrived and Australia became part of the English-speaking world. Modern Australia is a vibrant, multicultural island continent with a strong sense of national identity.

the British in 1770, during Captain James Cook’s journey to map and explore the coast of Australia.

Millions of tourists come every year to see Sydney’s amazing man-made buildings, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge, and its natural landmarks, Sydney Harbour, and Bondi beach. This beach is a wide strip of golden sand one kilometre long. It’s wellknown for its surfing, but you should only surf at the northern end of the beach if you’re a beginner, that’s where the currents aren’t as strong. Safe swimming areas are

marked by flags.

You’ll get fantastic views from the Bondi to Coogee walk, which runs for six kilometres along the top of the cliffs, looking down on golden beaches and bays along the way.

This is where you’ll find Sculpture by the Sea, the world’s biggest outdoor exhibition of contemporary sculpture during October and November – and it’s free! www.sydney.com has more information about what to do in this great city.

Gold Coast

Gold Coast is a city of three million people in Queensland, stretching for 52km along Australia’s sub-tropical* east coast, south of Brisbane. It’s a place where modern high-rise buildings meet great natural beauty. From here you can snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef, explore beautiful islands and inland waterways, and experience the great waves of the Pacific Coast.

All kinds of water sports are on offer, surfing schools, kayaking and snorkeling, as well as jet ski. The Gold Coast Highway will take you to the wildlife sanctuary at Currumbin Creek with its golden sands and clear aquamarine water, and the best surfing in Australia at Surfers Paradise.

Inland you can experience tropical rainforests on a tree walk which will take you right up to the forest canopy*, where you might even see koalas sleeping. Out to sea, between May and October, you can watch the great whale migration.

Find out more about this area and the rest of the legendary Pacific Highway at http://pacificcoast.com.au

Uluru and The Red Centre

Sandstone gives the centre of Australia its iconic* red colour and this is where you’ll find Australia’s most recognisable natural symbol, Uluru. This huge rock changes colour according to the time of day and season. At dusk and dawn it is especially breath-taking, turning a deep red. Uluru is at the heart of Australian indigneous culture and spirituality, and has become a powerful symbol for these peoples in their fight for social and political equality in modern Australia.

One of the best ways to experience this special place is in the company of a guide from the Anangu people. The guide will teach you about bush* foods, the unique plants and animals in this UNESCO World Heritage site, and give you an insight into the Dreamtime stories of the area.

For the Aboriginal peoples, landscape has a deep history associated with creation, ancestors and the use of its resources.

Dreamtime stories are told through songs, stories, dance and art. www.australia.com/en/places/redcentre/nt-uluru.html

The country is often known colloquially* as Oz, from the first syllable of Australia, and people from there are called Aussies (pronounced ozzies). This is a good example of Australian slang, where people take a word, often from English, and make is as short as possible – funnily enough, these words are often exported back into modern British English! Here are some common Australian slang words. Can you guess what they mean? a arvo b barbie

The Oz Quiz

How much do you know about Australia?

Take the quiz and find out!

Australia is the world’s sixth largest country in terms of size, but it has a relatively small population, over 80% of which lives within 50km of the coast. It is also one of the driest places on earth. For 50,000 years, Australia was home to many different indigenous peoples, it is now the country of immigration.

Six million people from over two hundred countries have gone to live in Australia since 1945.

TRUE

FALSE

1 The national capital of Australia is Canberra.

2 Queen Elizabeth II is the head of the Australian state.

3 Australia is a British colony.

4 Alice Springs is the town at the centre of Australia.

5 The area along the coast is known as the Outback.

6 The didgeridoo is an example of indigenous cooking.

The answers are on page 15.

c mozzie d g’day

Glossary bush: (here) wild country, with little human activity canopy: the top part of a forest, made up of leaves colloquially: in informal speech colonial: describing the time when Australia was a British colony (country) diverse: which includes a lot of variety

fusion: when two or more things join together to make a new thing iconic: very famous and popular indigenous: original inhabitants of a place sub-tropical: warm places on earth, near the Tropics of Cancer or Capricorn

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Calvin Harris

The World of the DJ DJs started out as a way to get people on the dance floor and having fun at parties, particularly in America. Today’s DJ are megastars, with people travelling a long way to hear the best DJ sets. So, put your headphones on, turn up the volume and let’s get the party started!

The DJ (deejay or disc jockey) plays the music he or she thinks the audience will enjoy the most. Many DJs develop their own distinctive* style. Get the music right and the night will be a success! What equipment do you need as a DJ? Good headphones, a controller*, or mixer, that you can hook up to your laptop, some specialist DJ software and, of course, you’ll need some great music. DJs used to put records onto a turntable*, now they’re more like pop stars themselves – many produce and record their own music.

A DJ’s set is similar to a concert where an audience comes and listens to a performer play music. Tiësto recently played a nine-hour set in front of an audience of 35,000 people from all over the world!

Where did it all begin?

In America during the 1940s they wanted someone who could create a party atmosphere, especially when there wasn’t a live band playing. The DJ was the person who chose the music and changed the records over. It wasn’t always fun being a DJ, particularly if people didn’t like the music you were playing and they made their feelings known! DJs had to wait until the 1960s for their skill to be fully appreciated.

The name disc jockey comes from the word jockey, the word for people who ride horses in races, and disc, another name for a record.

Deejaying really took off in the 70s with the release of the John Travolta film, Saturday Night Fever, which spawned a whole genre of music – disco. The DJ has continued to grow in importance since then, now we rely on* them to give us a good night out.

DJ Stars

Today’s DJs are big stars. Some of the best earn a lot of money, and are used by fashion houses to promote* their brands, either wearing the branded clothes or appearing in adverts – DJs are young and dynamic and can reach a young audience!

Most modern DJs use digital technology, the internet and a CDJ (compact disc jockey), which lets you control CDs as if they were vinyl records*.

Tiësto

Some of the biggest names in deejaying are Calvin Harris, who is the world’s highest paid DJ. He earned $66M last year. David Guetta is next on the list of highest earners, followed by Swedish DJ Avicii, Dutch DJ, Tiësto, who currently works out of Las Vegas, Steve Aoki and Afrojack. Musical virtuoso*, Hardwell, is just outside the top ten earners, but he was voted the number one electronic dance artist in the world by fans in DJ Magazine!

Female DJs

Until recently, the deejaying world was dominated by men. Australian twins Miriam and Olivia Nervo, known by their stage name* NERVO, are examples of how that is changing. These two DJs, musicians and songwriters won a Grammy for their single

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Kool Herc

DJ Grandmaster Flash

Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash are credited with developing the art of deejaying. They were the first to use two turntables, mix songs and create loops –which is the effect of repeating a sound over and over again.

When Loves Takes Over. Miriam and Olivia began in small clubs in Melbourne and now they’re international stars. “Electronic music is full of talented women like Annie Mac, Heidi and Sonique,” Nervo say, “but people don’t talk about them enough. I hope our example will encourage more girls to become DJs. Standing behind a turntable shouldn’t be something only boys do!” The twins studied classical music before getting into electronic dance music, or EDM. They’ve worked with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, David Guetta and Kelly Rowland from Destiny’s Child. They’ve had over 90 million views on YouTube!

Scratch!

Scratching is a technique used by DJs moving a vinyl record backwards and forwards on a turntable under the needle. It makes a scratching sound and it transforms the turntable into a musical instrument. The technique is part of turntablism, the art of making distinctive new sounds and music using turntables and a mixer.

Miriam & Olivia Nervo

Mr Original

David Guetta is a famous DJ, songwriter and record producer from France. He currently gets more radio airplay* than any other DJ. His videos are often in a cartoon style, similar to pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, like the single What I did for love with Emeli Sandé. Here a big ape* wearing a pink hat does crazy things to win the heart of the woman he loves, like punching a shark, killing a robot dragon and travelling in outer space!

David Guetta

Crossword

Fill in the crossword with the correct definitions to discover the modern home of dance music – where many top DJs came from.

1 You wear these to listen to music.

1 2 Person who shows great skill in music.

2 3 The world’s highest paid DJ, … Harris 3 4 The home country of the Nervo twins.

4 5 The sound of a needle moving 5 backwards and forwards on a record.

6 6 Machine with moving plate, for 7 playing records.

7 The fans’ favourite DJ.

Glossary airplay: amount of time a piece music is played on the radio ape: large monkey controller/mixer: machine for DJ, used to mix tracks and create music distinctive: individual, different from other people promote: support (here = encouraging people to buy something) rely on: something or someone

you have confidence in stage name: name you use when you perform turntable: machine with moving ‘plate’ for playing vinyl records vinyl record: black, flat plastic ‘plate’ with songs recorded onto it virtuoso: person who’s extremely good at something

The answers are on page 15.

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UK Today

the passive; simple and continous past

David Oyelowo A classically trained actor, David Oyelowo (pronounced o-yelow-o) has been a spy, a king, a difficult boss and most recently he’s starred in two films about civil rights. He’s a talented actor who believes that prejudice is fought by defying* other people’s expectations*.

Shakespeare and Co.

England and Nigeria

David was born in Oxford in 1976 to Nigerian parents. He spent most of his childhood in a poor part of north London, but he also lived for seven years with his family in Nigeria. When he was in England, David’s father told him he was from a royal family but David didn’t believe him. Then he went to Nigeria and saw streets named after his family. “I had to believe it then!” he said “and it’s made a difference to my life. I am proud of who I am and where I come from!”

David studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Arts (LAMDA). He got a top prize from the academy while he was there. Since graduation he’s been in TV series and Hollywood blockbusters, and he’s had excellent reviews.

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Many of the best actors in the UK work for the Royal Shakespeare Company during their careers. The difficulty for actors of colour is that Shakespeare was writing in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, a time when there wasn’t as much ethnic diversity* in England as there is now. Apart from Othello, who is North African, and one or two others, nearly all Shakespeare’s characters are white and European. No one had dared* put a non-white actor in one of the main roles, until David Oyelowo was cast* as Henry VI when he was only 24.

It’s not easy being the first person to do something!

When the news was announced that he would

“When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised*.”

Reverend Dr James A. Forbes, US speaker, preacher and teacher.

David Oyelowo says: “We’re talking about diversity again and that’s because there isn’t enough of it.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice. I intend to be part of the solution and not the problem. You’ve just got to keep giving good performances.”

be the first black actor to play an English king, there were a lot of negative comments. When people saw how good he was though, those comments stopped.

Critics said Oyelowo had an “electrifying talent”.

This was one of the first examples of “colour-blind casting”, or choosing an actor for a role without taking into consideration the colour of their skin.

Selma

David Oyelowo’s acting career was going well (he was in the first three series of spy thriller, Spooks, about the UK’s secret service department, MI5), and then he began to get parts in some big movies: Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Help, Lincoln, The Butler and Interstellar.

David Oyelowo and his family moved to LA in 2007, and two months later he was shown the script for a biopic about civil rights campaigner, Martin Luther King Jr. During the seven years it took for filming to

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Oscar® Quiz

Are you a film buff*? This quiz is about people of colour who’ve been awarded Oscars®. Do you know who they are?

Lupita Nyong’o • Forrest Whittaker • Octavia Spencer Sidney Poitier • Steve McQueen 1 This iconic African American actor won Best Actor for Lilies of the Field in 1963.

2 This person won Best Actress in a Supporting Role as Minnie Jackson in The Help, 2011.

3 This person was the first black African to win in any category, as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave.

4 This person was Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, 2006.

5 This director was the first person of colour to win Best Picture for 12 Years a Slave in 2013.

start, the actor read everything he could about King. “I learned a lot about him during those years of waiting,” Oyelowo explains, “I hadn’t realised how much physical and mental stress he suffered in the fight for racial equality. I wanted to try and include that in the film. I wanted to try to feel what he felt.”

Although Oyelowo has been in a number of films about race and the civil rights movement, he believes these are films that everyone in the world can relate to. “These stories are powerful first because they are about people. Underneath that outer coating we are all just human beings,” he says.

Glossary casting: choosing a person to play a character in a film, TV show… compromised: when something is not as good as it could be dared: had the courage to defying: (here) challenging, changing ethnic diversity: people from different cultures, religions or groups expectations: what people think you think will do or will happen film buff: person who is very knowedgeable about cinema

The answers are on page 15.

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21st Century

language of technology; adverbs

In this new series of articles, we’ll be looking at iconic objects and ideas from the beginning of the 21st century that have changed lives, fashion and tastes around the world. Let’s discover the things that have influenced the new millennium.

The Mobile Phone

The mobile phone has revolutionised our lives. Mobile phone technology began with phones built into cars, and it’s taken decades to get to today’s 4G phones.

It’s feels as though a hundred years has passed since mobile phones appeared in the 1980s.

The first mobile phones were the size of a small suitcase, expensive to buy and expensive to use.

Mobile technology has developed dramatically since then. Network coverage has improved, our phones are faster, can do a much wider range of things and they’re cheaper to use. Let’s take a trip thourgh the past, present and future of the mobile phone.

Back in Time…

Early mobile phones were mostly bought by highflying* businessmen and the super rich, but even though they were expensive, there were long lists of people waiting to buy them. The idea that you could be contacted at any time and wherever you were was a totally new concept. However, not everyone was convinced it was such a good idea that anyone could phone you at any time!

The mobile phone wasn’t widely used until the 1990s and early 2000s, when it became relatively common. In 1999, the Blackberry was launched*. This was a revolutionary idea that added a keyboard* to the phone to make writing messages easier.

… Fast Forward

With the arrival of the new century, the changes started happening more quickly. In 2000, the first mobile phone with a built-in camera was launched; in 2001, the first built-in MP3 player; in 2002, Samsung launched its first high resolution, full-colour screen, marking the start of a new generation of mobile phone; 2002 saw the arrival of polyphonic* ringtones; in 2004 we had the first slim* phone; followed by touch screens and ultra light phones, with the internet

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capability needed for multimedia downloads, as well as many other innovations.

3G, or third generation, phones allow you to make digital calls, download files from the internet, receive and send emails. Today’s 4G, or fourth generation, phones give much better web performance*, with faster access to more multimedia content.

IBM Simon

The Smartphone

Smartphones were a major step forward. They have much more powerful processors* than previous models, can store a lot more data and have more advanced internet capabilities, GPS or for sending files via Whatsapp. Smartphones are becoming more like small computers than phones! The latest models let you do almost anything you want, as long as you have the right app, free or paid for. We even have the world’s first dual screen phone – the yotaphone!

I bet you didn’t know that!

The first smartphone was called Simon (the IBM brand), it cost $900 and weighed over half a kilo.

In America, they’ve designed mobile phone masts* to look like imitation trees. They’re covered in antennae but you can hardly see them because they’re so well camouflaged.

The biggest-selling mobile

Nokia 1100

For and Against

Have smartphones, tablets and apps changed young people? Researchers say these digital devices can improve young people’s social skills and stimulate creativity, but excessive or inappropriate use can lead to social exclusion*, anxiety, distress and dependency. You should limit the number of hours you spend on these devices and apps should only be used if they are age-appropriate*. Make sure you don’t give personal information and only use secure networks to access the internet.

The first truly mobile phone was designed

by American engineer and inventor, Martin Cooper, in 1973.

It weighed a kilo, the battery only lasted 30 minutes, it took 10 hours to recharge and could only be used in certain parts of New York… we’ve come a long way since then!

of all time is the Nokia 110, which sold 250 million units in four years!

Some cars in Stockholm had built-in phones at the start of the sixties! The first person to use one was a doctor on a home visit.

Japan: Mobile Culture

Mirror

Apple’s iPhone has been a big success for the company. The late Steve Jobs, who was CEO of Apple Inc, was known for being right about a lot of things in the telecommunications industry. But there is one thing he got wrong – he thought mobile phones would get smaller, not bigger! Use a mirror to find out what he said about a big new Samsung phone!

YOU CAN’T GET YOUR HAND AROUND IT, NO ONE’S GOING TO BUY THAT! The answer is on page 15.

How long do you spend on average on your phone?

What do you mostly use it for? ………………………………………………………………………….................................................................…

What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of the mobile phone? ………………………………………………………………………….................................................................…

How do you think mobile phones could be improved? ………………………………………………………………………….................................................................…

Japan has a highly developed mobile phone culture. Most people in Japan own mobile phones which they use mostly to go on the internet and watch digital TV programmes. The Japanese send a lot of emails and buy everything with their phones, which acts as a sort of portable bank account.

Mobile phone culture has started new trends in Japan, such as books written especially for mobiles, and new ways of communicating, such as emoji (which comes from e, the Japanese word for picture, and moji, which means character). It’s also created negative things like cyberbullying.

Glossary high-flying: ambitious and successful launched: sold for the first time keyboard: buttons with the alphabet on, you press them to write on a computer etc mast: (here) tall, thin column performance: (here) ability to do something polyphonic: able to make a variety of sounds at the same time processor: (also called CPU/central processing unit) the ‘brains’ of a computer/mobile phone slim: (here) narrow, small social exclusion: separated from your community or society

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Culture and Society

simple continuous; language of retail and business

Coffee Shop Culture The coffee market in the UK is growing in spite of the recent recession. Costa Coffee, Starbucks and Caffè Nero, as well as an increasing number of specialist independents*, are opening more and more cafés on high streets around the UK. Are the British becoming a nation of coffee addicts?

Coffee Break

There are thousands of coffee shops in the UK and most of those, over 1500, belong to Costa Coffee. This big chain* was started by Italian brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa in 1971. It’s now owned by a big hospitality company, Whitbreads, which mostly runs pubs. And this is where big changes are happening in UK culture.

Pubs, especially in rural areas, are closing down, and while the pub will never disappear entirely, it seems that many people are choosing to go to cafés instead.

Cafés are places where people of all ages

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and genders feel comfortable, whether they’re with friends or on their own, and they’re a favourite place for teenagers and young people to meet. You can stay for hours chatting with friends, reading the papers, using the free wi-fi or just watching passers-by*.

Coffee? Not Tea?

So, are the British turning into coffee addicts? Not according to the latest research by the International Coffee Organisation (www.ico.org). In the UK we actually drink less coffee than many

people in the European Union, where most of the world’s coffee is drunk. The most likely explanation is that people are changing the way they drink coffee. Ten years ago, most people would have had a cup of instant coffee* at home or at work, now they prefer cappuccinos and macchiatos at their favourite café!

Coffee House Talk

The number of cafés in the UK, or coffee shops as they are often known, has tripled in the last decade, but they are not as new as you might think. The first coffee

Coffee facts

Coffee is the world’s favourite drink. An estimated 2 billion cups are drunk around the world every day.

The world’s biggest consumers* of coffee are the Dutch who drink 2.4 cups a day.

In the UK, 70 million cups of coffee are drunk every day.

The biggest suppliers of coffee are Brazil, Colombia and Vietnam.

It takes about 40 coffee beans to make a single shot of espresso coffee.

The UK is one of the biggest consumers of fairtrade coffee, where producers are paid a small amount above market price. 8% of all coffee consumed in the UK is fairtrade.

Although the UK has imported most of its coffee terms from Italy, there is one big difference –the latte. In the UK a latte (usually pronounced lar-tey) is a coffee made with a lot of milk, which in Italy is called a “latte macchiato”. You can also buy a “babyccino” which is a small cup of frothy milk topped with a bit of cocoa powder, especially for young children!

shop opened in Oxford in 1650, and the habit spread to London when Greek Sicilian, Pasqua Rosée, opened a stall in 1652. As the century progressed, more and more coffee houses opened up and they became the perfect place for men (women were banned* from early English coffee houses) to exchange news and gossip and to talk business and politics. The political discussions were a worry to the governments of the time. Charles II tried to ban coffee houses because he thought there might be another revolution – don’t forget, the English executed his father, Charles I, in 1649!

Artisan* Coffee

While the big chains are doing well, there are also a growing number of independent coffee shops. Monmouth Coffee is one of these. The company

has three coffee shops in London and an online shop selling beans and ground* coffee. They buy coffee from single farms and estates* or cooperatives, from all over the world and do all their own roasting*. Coffee like Finca San Isidro from a family-run farm in Costa Rica, or Burka Silinga from Ethiopia, which Monmouth describe as having flavours of “black tea and citrus with medium to bright acidity and medium body”.

The company sends its coffee buyers all over the world. They want to know exactly “where their coffee comes from, who grows it, picks it and processes* it … We look to establish a relationship with the grower and exporter of that coffee. We believe that where such a relationship exists, quality, quantity and price requirements can be discussed in an open and equal way. We see this as sustainable, fair and equal trade.” www.monmouthcoffee.co.uk

Idiom

In English, when we want someone to pay attention to what is happening around them, we sometimes tell them to… a “Start up the espresso machine!” b “Grind some more coffee!” c “Wake up and smell the coffee!”

The answer is on page 15.

Glossary artisan: (here) made in a traditional, skilled way banned: stopped from doing something (by law or rules) chain: groups of shops, hotels, restaurants owned by a single company consumers: (here) buyers/drinkers of coffee estate: large area of agricultural land owned by one family or business ground coffee: coffee beans made into a fine powder independents: small businesses, owned by a family or individual instant coffee: dried coffee, you add hot water to this passers-by: people walking past you roasting: slow ‘cooking’ in an oven to bring out the flavour

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Music Wordsearch Find 15 words from the world of music and deejaying in the wordsearch. Then discover the performer who gave the world’s biggest concert in Moscow in 1997, with an audience of 3.5 million and a live link up with Russian spacestation MIR. album concert console disco loop

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1 TO KEEP A LOW PROFILE A to walk with your head down B to keep quiet so that no one notices you 2 TO NOT TAKE YOURSELF SERIOUSLY A to not have a sense of humour B to be able to laugh at yourself 3 TO RECHARGE YOUR BATTERIES A to get your energy levels up B to put new batteries into your phone 4 TO NOT KNOW WHAT’S ROUND THE CORNER A to be worried about the future B to not know what is going to happen next

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True or False How much do you know about texting? Answers the questions to find out!

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1 The first text message was Merry Christmas and was sent in 1992.

2 You can get an injury from texting too much.

3 It’s impossible to send an anonymous text.

4 The MMS developed from the text message.

5 Young people in the US send more texts than any other country.

6 You can make a charity donation via text.

7 About 1% of text messages never arrive.

8 Texts are also known as SMS, or Short Message Service.

How do you get coffee from beans?

There are many stages to making coffee.

Can you put them in the right order?

a. After picking, the beans are quickly spread out in the sun to dry, or, in the wet method, the ‘cherries’ are washed with water to get to the bean inside and then dried. b. Plant your coffee bean in the ground and water well. c. After three or four years the coffee plant will start to produce fruit. d. The green beans are then roasted and become dark brown. e. The coffee beans (also called cherries) are picked, by hand or machine, when they are a bright, deep red. f. The dried beans, known as ‘green coffee’ at this stage, are sorted, put into sacks and exported around the world. g. The roasted coffee beans are ground, and… drunk!

The answers are at the bottom of this page.

Solutions P. 2 Secret code: Minion yellow. P. 4-5 Australian slang a)afternoon; b)barbecue; c)mosquito; d)good day = hello/good morning; Oz Quiz: 1T; 2T; 3F (the country became a nation with its own government in 1901); 4T; 5F (the Outback is inland Australia, away from the coast); 6F (it’s a traditional instrument of indigenous peoples). P. 6-7 Crossword: 1.headphones; 2.virtuoso; 3.Calvin; 4.

Australia; 5.scratch; 6.turntable; 7.Hardwell: Holland. P. 8-9 Anagram: Hattie McDaniel; Oscar Quiz: 1.Sidney Poitier; 2.Octavia Spencer; 3.Lupita Nyong’o; 4.Forrest Whittaker; 5.Steve McQueen.

P. 10-11 Mirror: You can’t get your hand around it, no one’s going to buy that! P. 12-13 Idiom: c. P. 14 Music wordsearch: Jean Michel Jarre; Idioms: 1.B; 2.B; 3.A; 4.B; True or False: 1.T; 2.T; 3.F (you can send an anonymous message by using instant messaging); 4.T (MMS stands for multimedia messaging service); 5.F (young people in Asia, Europe and Australia send a lot of text messages, they don’t send so many in the US); 6.T; 7.F (in fact about 5%-7% of texts never arrive!); 8.T; How do you get coffee from beans?: b.; c.; e.; a.; f.; d.; g.

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