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Meanwhile9, a study from Anglia Rus sity has found that African elephants plan on cropland11 to coincide with the new m raids are more frequent and more substa the nights are darkest. This suggests that stand that darkness lowers the risk of bei farmers12. Or perhaps they know that hu less and more lightly13 when there is a fu
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Research from the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Charleston, South Carolina, has confirmed decades of anecdotal reports: over half the existing crocodilian species supplement their diet with fruit. It seems that at least 13 of the 23 species of crocodiles and alligators in the world today eat fruit as well as meat. warning (adj.) – alarm to bang – beat, hit to pick up – receive 4 to relay – resent 5 garbled – incoherent, meaningless 6 Chinese whispers (UK English) – broken telephone (US English) 7 croc – (colloquial) crocodile 8 full moon – when the complete disc of the moon is visible 1
(associated with werewolves) meanwhile – at the same time raid – surprise attack 11 cropland – arable farms 12 farmer – agriculturalist 13 more lightly – less deeply 14 signature whistle – high-frequency sound that identifies an individual 15 acquaintance – known individual, (in this case) friend
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/æ/ as in cat /ʌ/ as in cut /ə/ as in occur, supply, aroma /ɜ:/ as in first, turn, earn /ɔ:/ as in court, warn
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Anglo News - the people who live in the past. - WASPs on the wane in the USA Exercise 2
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World News - our tendentious view of terrorism - the Caliphate of Kidults Exercise 2
Technology News - insidious aspects of modern technology Exercise 2
SPEAKING & LISTENING EXTENSION 7 Watch: the procession at Richard III’s recent funeral: http://goo.gl/gR8Q33 Speak: do you agree that the British are obsessed by the past? 9 Watch: Andrew Keen explaining his case: http://goo.gl/Qo55dJ
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NOT WHAT WE’D CALL CHILDREN’S FICTION
This issue1 is primarily dedicated to an analysis of the first 150 years of English literature for children from an adult perspective. The very opposite of what we are talking about occurred recently in Manchester, England. To try to get children to relate to literature, pupils are encouraged2 to come to school dressed as a fictional character to celebrate World Book Day. However, 11-year-old Liam Scholes turned up to3 Sale High School dressed as the sadomasochist Christian Grey from Fifty
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Shades4 of Grey. Liam was not allowed to 5 take part in 6 the class photo and was encouraged to be James Bond instead7. This would just8 be a schoolboy’s prank9 if it weren’t for the fact that Liam’s mother Nicola Scholes, a primary school teacher herself, had encouraged Liam to dress as Grey. Indeed10, she criticized one of Liam’s teachers for dressing up as the eponymous serial killer from the US TV series Dexter. Mrs Scholes added that James Bond – a womanizer11 and an assassin – was hardly12 a better role model than Christian Grey. Further reading: http://goo.gl/Cm47ud
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indeed – (emphatic) in fact womanizer – seducer of women 12 hardly – not really 10
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Defining children’s literature - Fairy tales and adult literature
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Children’s literature: a historical overview - the origins and evolution of books for kids
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Nursery Rhymes - secret adult messages in poetry and songs for English-speaking children
Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (1865) - the book that changed children’s literature forever Exercise 4
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Alcott’s Little Women (1867) - the first American book for girls
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Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883) - the quintessential boys’ adventure
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Twain’s Huckleberry Finn (1884) - the masterpiece of 19th-century US literature Exercise 27
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Kipling’s The Jungle Book (1894) - lessons from the rainforest of the Raj Exercise 26
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Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) - the definitive US fairy tale or a socialist allegory? Exercise 15
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Burroughs’s Tarzan (1912) - Martians in the jungle
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Blyton’s The Famous Five (1942), etc. - the secret formula Exercise 6
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Tolkien’s The Hobbit (1937) - medievalism for the masses Exercise 23
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Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia (1949-54) - misogyny for minors Exercise 28
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Dr Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat (1957) - the Ignatius Loyola of the American Left
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Rowling’s Harry Potter (1997-2007) - hidden agenda: witchcraft or Christianity? Exercises 8, 24
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Cinema: children’s author biopics - based on a true story: fantasy and reality Exercise 23
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SPEAKING EXTENSION Speak: which books most influenced you in your childhood? Do you ever read “children’s books” as an adult?
Alice
Interpreting Alice: the Absurdity of Life D
odgson was a clergyman1 and a mathematician, so it is remarkable that he wrote such a-logical and amoral books as the Alice Adventures. As we have seen in previous articles, children’s literature in English at the time was dominated by didactic books heavy in Christian moralism. Moreover, the structure of Alice’s adventures owes a lot to2 mediaeval dream-visions in which Christian truth is revealed to a dreamer in a visionary dream. Alice in Wonderland has a whimsical3 structure like a dream. Mediaeval works like The Vision of Piers Plowman (c. 1360) include dreams within4 dreams and near the end of Through the Looking-Glass Tweedledum and Tweedledee state 5 that Alice is merely a product of the Red King’s dream, destabilizing our concept of ‘reality’ completely. Moreover, the plot6 in Victorian literature tended to be based on a logical process of cause and consequence. Alice goes into her adventures expecting her experiences to make sense7 but Carroll emphatically suggests that life frustrates expectations and resists a moralistic interpretation. However, Carroll is truly subversive. He wrote, “I can guarantee that the clergyman – churchman to owe a lot to – be indebted to, be inspired by 3 whimsical – capricious 4 within – inside, in 5 to state – declare, say 6 plot – (in this case) storyline, story 1
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to make sense (make-mademade) – be logically coherent 8 rather – by contrast 9 aim – objective 10 wonder – astonishment, surprise 11 to crave – desperately want 12 source – place in which sth. originates
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books have no religious teaching whatever in them – in fact they do not teach anything at all.” Rather8, the aim9 of Alice’s adventures is to provoke wonder10 and fantasy. Like Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1798) Carroll wants his young readers to ask questions but he does not give them the answers. Victorian culture was all about defining and categorizing everything. Carroll inverts this idea and shows how language can be an impediment to communication. Alice craves11 organization and meaning but must learn to accept the absurdity of existence.
Paintings Another source12 of inspiration were famous paintings. The White Knight was inspired by Sir Isumbras at the Ford13 by Sir John Everett Millais, while the figure of the Duchess is based on Quinten Massys’ A Grotesque Old Woman.
Chess14 Through the Looking-Glass does not have the same anarchy as Alice in Wonderland. The Looking-Glass world is dominated by the rigid rules of chess but Alice is still not in control of her destiny. She must advance on her journey from pawn15 to queen (i.e. girl to woman) through a set of (seemingly arbitrary) rules and with the worrying feeling that not everyone in the game plays by the rules. It is a powerful metaphor for the process of growing up. ford – place where one can walk across a river because it is not very deep 14 chess – board game played on a board with 64 squares 15 pawn – the most common and least mobile piece in chess 13
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Little Women
Little Women: Alcott’s Bildungsroman Little Women (1868) was the first US novel written specifically for children and one of the first novels anywhere written for girls. It did not, however, appear from nowhere. A number of 18th-century women writers had written conduct books for young ladies – such as Frances Burney’s Evelina (1778) under the guise of1 novels. Such works developed2 into the great female bildungsroman3 of the 19th-century authors like Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Elliot and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The origins of Little Women were unglamorous. Louise May Alcott was an established author of sensationalist Gothic novels4 when her publisher approached5 her with a commission for a book for American girls. Alcott didn’t like girls (except her sisters) and when she’d finished Little Women she described it as ‘moral pap’6. Be that as it may7, she had written a book which has been much loved by generations for nearly8 150 years and hugely9 influential. The novel has been turned into three films, a play, an opera and a musical. The novel had a significant influence on subsequent North American girls’ books such as Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables (1908) and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s The Little House on the Prairie10 (1935).
Louise May Alcott (1832-1888) Louise May Alcott was born into the most intellectually rarefied atmosphere in North America. Her father was a Transcendentalist philosopher and Ralph Waldo Emerson 11 was a neighbour and family friend. Other neighbours in Concord and family acquaintances12 included Nathaniel Hawthorne 13 and Henry David Thoreau 14 . Her father, Bronson Alcott was a man of high morals – vehemently anti-slavery15, eco-friendly, pro-feminist and a vegetarian to boot16. However, he was also enormously impractical and his wife and children suffered economic hardship17 as a result. The original Little Women was just the first half of the novel as we know it and it is semi-autobiographical. Louise May presents a loving home but largely18 paints her father out of the picture – making him fictionally absent, away at war. In fact, it was Louise who went to war as a nurse19 and contracted typhoid fever in 1863. She was then poisoned20 with the mercury used to ‘cure’ her typhoid. This exacerbated her manic-depressive tendencies and caused both physical pain and hallucinations that could only be mollified21 with opium. She was frequently suicidal but in the end died two days after her father in 1888.
Louise Alcott under the guise of – camouflaged as 2 to develop – (in this case) evolve 3 bildungsroman – coming-ofage novel, story about a child growing up 4 Gothic novel – dark supernatural fantasy 5 to approach sb. – come to sb. 1
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moral pap – moralistic nonsense 7 be that as it may – in any case 8 nearly – almost 9 hugely – very 10 prairie – grassland, North American savannah 11 (1803-82) US poet and philosopher 6
acquaintance – sb. who is known (though not necessarily a friend) 13 (1804-64) US author of The Scarlet Letter (1850) 14 (1817-62) US poet and philosopher 15 slavery – (in this case) the subjugation of black people in the Southern States of the USA 12
to boot – as well, too, also hardship – suffering 18 largely – more or less 19 nurse – (in this case) doctor’s assistant 20 to poison sb. – hurt sb. with a toxic substance 21 to mollify – alleviate 16 17
Treasure Island
Stevenson’s Treasure Island A Long Shadow1 Treasure Island (1883) single-handedly2 set up3 most of the English pirate clichés from wooden4 legs to parrots to walking the plank 5. Without Stevenson’s novel we would have no Peter Pan or Pirates of the Caribbean6 . Indeed7, the novel has been turned into a movie 19 times. It is ironic that such an influential book started life as an imaginary treasure map8 idly9 drawn by Stevenson one afternoon to entertain his stepson10, Lloyd Osbourne.
Coming of Age on the High Seas Treasure Island is a mediaeval quest romance11 brought forward into the early modern period. As in all quest adventures, the central character leaves home in search of something valuable, however, what he actually12 finds is self-knowledge. Since the central character, Jim Hawkins, starts out as a boy, the journey of self-knowledge is also a coming-of-age story13; he returns from his adventure a man. In this sense the adventure can be seen as a rite of passage14. shadow – (in this case) influence on what comes after 2 single-handedly – on its own, by itself, alone 3 to set sth. up (set-set-set) – create sth., establish sth. 4 wooden – made of wood (= material from a tree) 5 walking the plank – type of torture used by pirates in which they forced victims to walk along a piece of wood from which they would inevitably fall into the sea 6 the second movie is called ‘Dead Man’s Chest’ in reference to a song from Treasure Island. 1
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Jim Hawkins leaves home.
Treasure Island describes the buccaneers as a dying breed15. Pirates die and disappear throughout16 the story and they are incapable of engendering17 or inspiring replacements18. Jim Hawkins returns from his voyage convinced that he has had enough of treasure-hunting19 and buccaneering. Throughout16 the novel the pirates – apart from Long John Silver – are presented as puerile, self-indulgent and undisciplined. Therefore20, in many ways they represent the childhood values that Jim has grown out of21.
indeed – (emphatic) in fact treasure map – pictorial explanation of where to find sth. valuable 9 idly /ˈaidli/ – for fun, with no great purpose
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rite of passage – test that marks the transition from childhood to adulthood 15 dying breed – social group that is gradually becoming extinct 16 throughout – during all of 17 to engender – produce, generate 18 replacement – (in this case) new pirates 19 treasure-hunting – trying to find valuable objects that pirates have hidden 20 therefore – for this reason 21 to grow out of sth. (growgrew-grown) – have no use for sth. because you have matured 14
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Huck Finn
Huckleberry Finn: the River of Life The Moral Blind Spot1 The novel presents a morally bankrupt2 society. The most obvious manifestation of this is the existence of slavery3 but the problem goes even deeper. Society is supposedly regimented by the rule of law4 but this clearly does not function in the interests of the majority. Marginal members of society can be killed with impunity and a feud5 of many years can exist without any legal interference. Mob rule 6 is always simmering below the surface 7 and alcohol-induced violence is rife 8. This is the Christian civilization that claims9 the moral superiority to justify slavery!
The River and the Raft The Mississippi River and the raft10 on which Huck and Jim float down it are both central features11 to the story and also essential symbols within12 it. The river represents the route to freedom. However, simply being on the river offers liberation from the oppressive society in which the fugitives live. The raft is a
moral blind spot – inability to see that sth. is immoral because of one’s social and/or cultural assumptions 2 morally bankrupt – decadent, immoral, unethical 3 slavery – servitude (in this case) of black people in the South of the USA 4 the rule of law – the restriction of the arbitrary exercise of 1
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power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws 5 feud – (false friend) vendetta, prolonged dispute between two families or groups 6 mob rule – situation in which a lynch mob replaces the proper functioning of legal institutions 7 to simmer below the surface – be latent
‘level playing field’ 13 in which Huck is able to recognize the nobility of a man that society casts14 as his inferior. Huck is the first white person who treats Jim as a human being; Jim is the first adult who doesn’t treat the 13-year-old like a child. However, the river and the raft are also treacherous 15 . Mist 16 hides17 the turnoff18 to the Ohio River and freedom. As a result, the Mississippi takes the two fugitives deeper and deeper downriver and towards danger. Drifting19 is superficially attractive and both protagonists are adaptable enough to confront wherever the river takes them. However, they are no more in control of their destinies than they were back home. The river may be the escape route from each predicament20 they find themselves in, but it simply carries them on to a worse predicament. They have to learn to stop drifting19 and take back control of their lives.
to be rife – be ubiquitous, be endemic 9 to claim – declare that it has 10 raft – flat platform that floats 11 feature – element 12 within – in 13 level playing field – (in this case) context in which people can interact as equals 14 to cast – present, categorize 8
treacherous – perfidious, unreliable 16 mist – an atmospheric effect that reduces visibility, fog 17 to hide (hide-hid-hidden) – conceal, camouflage 18 turnoff – junction 19 drifting – be passively moved by circumstances (as opposed to deciding where one is going) 20 predicament – bad situation, fix 15
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Anglo-Saxon Names in The Hobbit An understanding of the names can enrich your enjoyment of The Hobbit. Photo by Marina Carresi
Elves:
Hobbits: The term ‘Hobbit’ was invented by Tolkien in the 1920s. He later invented an elegant etymology for the name: he said that it came from the Anglo-Saxon words hol byldan meaning “to build a hole”. From this he developed1 the fictional compound holbytla (plural holbytlan). It is easy to imagine how, over the centuries, this could have evolved into ‘hobbit’.
Tolkien took the original folk6 image of elves as elusive, capricious magical beings and converted them into the wise guardians of the natural world. The word ‘elf’ is, in fact, related to the Anglo-Saxon word Alp, which means ‘nightmare’ 7. Tolkien invented his own complex language – Elfish – for the elves. In Elfish the names Galadriel and Legolas mean ‘radiant garland’8 and ‘green leaf’9, respectively.
Smaug:
Dwarves:
The dragon in The Hobbit is called ‘Smaug’. Tolkien explained the derivation of this name in a letter in 1938: “The dragon bears2 as a name – a pseudonym – the past tense of the primitive Germanic verb Smugan, ‘to squeeze 3 through a hole’.” However, the dragon’s name also suggests Anglo-Saxon smocian (= emit smoke) and it sounds like Modern English ‘smog’ (= pollution in the atmosphere).
The names of many of Tolkien’s dwarves10 were taken from the Elder Edda11 , including those of Balin, Dwalin, Fili, Kili, Thorin, and Thror.
Beorn: The name and nature of this character who can transform into a bear comes from Anglo-Saxon: Beorn means both ‘warrior’ and ‘bear’.
Orcs:
Not The Hobbit
This Anglo-Saxon word referred to demons or ogres and appears in Beowulf in the compound noun orcneas (= ‘monsters’). Orcs and the Italian word orco (= ‘ogre’) – together with the English word ‘ogre’, ultimately4 derive from the name of the Roman god of the underworld5, Orcus. to develop – elaborate to bear (bear-bore-borne) – (in this case) have 3 to squeeze – force, push, compress 4 ultimately – (false friend) in the end, in the final analysis 1
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underworld – inferno, hell folk (adj.) – popular 7 nightmare – bad/frightening dream 8 garland – wreath/crown (of flowers) 5
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leaf (plural ‘leaves’) – piece of foliage
dwarf (plural ‘dwarves’) – midget, (in this case) small species of miner 11 pre-Viking myths known from a collection compiled in the 13th Century 10
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f there is one cultural reference that is specifically American, as opposed to Anglo in general, it is the works of Dr Seuss. Theodore Seuss Geisel (1904-91) was the Ignatius Loyola of the American Left. He realized1 that if you could inculcate certain ideas at a young age, it would be almost impossible to uproot2 them. Some people even ascribe to Seuss a significant role in turning McCarthyist America of the 1950s into the hippy America of the 1960s.
Phonics & Learning to Read Dr Seuss changed the way children learn to read. He focused on creating fun stories that were sufficiently surrealist to connect with small children’s imaginations. Language was treated as an opportunity for playfulness rather than 3 a serious matter4 . This exuberance allowed for5 nonsense words 6 and inventiveness. Importantly, words were often connected by sound rather than meaning. Take two titles: Yertle the Turtle7 and Socks8 for Fox. Both are obviously playful but both have a serious phonic message. Despite the divergence in letters, ‘Yertle’ rhymes with ‘turtle’ and ‘fox’ rhymes with ‘socks’. This sort of phonic lesson could be repeated a thousand times over in Seuss’s oeuvre9. At the same time the illustrations don’t blandly10 reinforce the text, they complement it provoking a reinterpretation of what it’s about. In other words: 2 + 2 = 5. Seuss learned this trick11 from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789). 12 Moreover, by to realize – (false friend) be conscious 2 to uproot – deracinate (technical), eradicate 3 rather than – as opposed to, instead of 4 matter – question, subject, theme 5 to allow for – permit 6 nonsense word – invented word that has no conventionally accepted meaning 1
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turtle – amphibian similar to a tortoise that lives in the ocean
socks – clothing for one’s feet 9 oeuvre – canon, writings 8
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changing the colour and context of everyday objects he forces the reader to question assumptions as well as concepts of normality and reality. Now that’s13 subversive!
The Seeds14 of Complex Ideas Yet15 there are more subtle lessons in Dr Seuss, too. Yertle the Turtle7 started life in 1942 in a cartoon campaign against Hitler. Fox in Socks8 is a crash course in semiotics for kids16! The Sneetches (1961) alludes to the dangers of antisemitism and also provides an introduction to alienation. The Butter Battle Book (1984) – which is inspired by Part 1 of Gulliver’s Travels (1726) (i.e. Lilliput) and has two communities who go to war over the best way to butter bread17 – denounces Reagan’s escalation of the Cold War. All of the Seuss books have fun life lessons of this sort18 appealing19 to children’s sense of wonder20 while steering them away from21 ‘the dark side’. blandly – in an uninteresting way 11 trick – (in this case) ruse, stratagem 12 Seuss had studied English literature at Oxford University 13 now that’s – (emphatic) that’s really 14 seeds – (in this case) origin, genesis 15 yet – (in this case) however 10
kid – child to butter bread – put butter (or margarine) on bread 18 sort – type, kind 19 appealing – attractive 20 wonder – amazement, astonishment, fascination 21 to steer sb. away from – guide sb. away from 16 17
Harry Potter
Harry Potter: Literary Miracles E
ight years after the appearance of the last Harry Potter book and four years after the final Harry Potter film the scale of the phenomenon is still mind-boggling1. The sequence have sold 400 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling series of books in history and Rowling the most financially successful2 author ever. The Potter movies are the highest grossing3 film series in history. Almost more importantly, as a result of Harry Potter, literature explicitly written for children Photo by Karen Roe Hogwarts could be openly read by adults for the first time. Of course, the books are well written but that alone cannot account for4 their runaway5 success. What else what is charmingly20 idiosyncratic in British culture was it that allowed6 Harry Potter to conquer the world? is included, while what is potentially offensive for the British self-image and international tastes can be disOn the Shoulders of Giants7 carded21. This is theme-park England. The quaintness22 J.K. Rowling is well read in the tradition of English litera- of this magical Britain is such that MPs23 at Westminster ture for children and she used this knowledge to borrow gleefully24 refer to the British Parliament as ‘Hogwarts’ elements that are attractive for modern readers while8 /ˈhogwɔ:rts/! avoiding9 the pitfalls10. Her story is a bildungsroman11 Rowling goes through a similar selection process with set12 in an English public school13 and follows in the the literary fantasy tradition. She will happily raid25 Tolktradition of Tom Brown’s School Days (1857) by Thomas ien’s world for wise26 wizened27 wizards28, giant spiders, Hughes and Kipling’s Stalky and Co. (1899). However, dark lords, invisibility cloaks29 and Ringwraiths (i.e. her this is a co-ed14 , multiethnic public school13, which ‘dementors’) but she discards Tolkien’s homosocial17 means that the story can present many of the quaint15 world and his implied disapproval of miscegenation30. and quirky16 characteristics of old-fashioned and elitist Rowling takes from C.S. Lewis his small band of youngeducation in Britain without the claustrophobic homo- sters on an adventure but rejects his misogyny and social17 setting18. This trait19 is repeated again and again; his racism. mind-boggling – astonishing, spectacular 2 financially successful – profitable 3 grossing – earning (before tax) 4 to account for – explain 5 runaway (adj.) – rampant 6 to allow – permit, enable 7 on the shoulders of giants – building on previous advances of other people 8 while – (in this case) at the same time as 1
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to avoid – circumvent, not fall in pitfall – mistake, error 11 bildungsroman – coming-ofage story, tale about a child maturing into an adult 12 to be set – take place 13 public school – private residential secondary school 14 co-ed – for boys and girls 15 quaint – attractively old-fashioned 16 quirky – idiosyncratic, eccentric
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gleefully – exuberantly, jubilantly 25 to raid – furtively rob things from 26 wise – experienced, sagacious 27 wizened – wrinkled, old-looking 28 wizard – magician, sorcerer 29 cloak – (false friend) robe 30 miscegenation – interracial sex 24
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THE CHEMISTRY DOSSIER
SPEAKING & LISTENING EXTENSION Watch: here is an excellent Open University series of 4-minute programmes called ‘The Chemistry of Almost Everything’. It’s worth watching all of them but you can of course pick and choose according to what interests you most: from art to aphrodisiacs. http://goo.gl/ofwVCK
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Chemistry: the dangerous science - which chemical substances are a danger to you?
Watch: a well-presented 2-hour Discovery Channel documentary on the history of chemistry in 100 discoveries: http://goo.gl/gTf6ym
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The mysteries of metals - the secrets of the metals that define our lives Exercises 14, 17
Read: an entertaining introduction to the language of chemistry: “Do you speak chemistry?” at: http://goo.gl/NXLCMV
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Popular names for everyday compounds - from brimstone to saltpetre: our guide to chemicals you won’t recognize Exercise 16
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Chemical weapons - chemistry has determined who wins wars since prehistoric times
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Chemical false friends - all the false cognates you need to know Exercise 19
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Chemistry pronunciation - all the difficult terms from the periodic table Exercise 5
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Chemistry idioms - chemical expressions in everyday English Exercise 10
Debate 1: Do you support the ‘free-range kids’ movement? Read more: http://goo.gl/9YXGyO Debate 2: Do you agree with the creation of the LGBT secondary school? Debate 3: Is the ‘old-man’ haircut child abuse?
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Chemistry: Deadly Metals C
hemistry has revolutionized our lives. Almost every single one of the thousands of objects in your home and office or school has been chemically manipulated from the food to the furniture1. In 1930 it was estimated that there were around a million chemical compounds. In 2005 a study from the University of Berne calculated that there were just under 18 billion. The EU has registered 144,000 chemical products. Roughly2 a third are believed to be dangerous but “the vast majority have not been assessed3 for human or environmental safety”, according to Julian Cribbs 4 . Regulatory authorities are incapable of checking all these substances and we currently live in a sort of chemical Wild West 5. At current rates of assessment it will take 50,000 years to evaluate all the chemicals we currently use. A decade ago the World Health Organization estimated that 4.8 million deaths a year were due to6 a selected group of chemicals. Nearly7 one million tonnes of known or suspected carcinogens8 are released9 in North America every year.10 Chemistry has always been a tradeoff11 between technological advances and danger. 18 th -century soap 12 increased the level of hygiene and life expectancy but it was often so alkaline that it dissolved human skin13!
Caravaggio. Lead enters the body nowadays17 primarily through cereals. Lead poisoning can cause lower IQ18 in children.
Mercury Chemistry has always been a dangerous science. King Charles II of England was an amateur alchemist and one theory is that the mercury he used in his experiments killed him. The same substance drove Charles’ contemporary – and England’s greatest scientist – Isaac Newton mad for two years. Today mercury poisoning 15 still occurs, above all19 as a result of eating predatory fish. Mercury poisoning can cause developmental20 damage in babies and small children.
Lead14 Poisoning15 Lead poisoning was first identified and described in the 2nd Century BCE16 by the Ancient Greeks. The most famous victim of lead poisoning was the painter furniture – sofas, tables, etc. roughly – approximately 3 to assess – evaluate 4 Poisoned Planet (2014) 5 Wild West – anarchic situation 6 to be due to – be caused by 7 nearly – almost, just under 8 carcinogen – cancer-causing substance
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to release – emit United Nations Environmental Programme 11 trade-off – compromise, balance 12 soap – substance used for cleaning the body 13 skin – cutaneous organ 14 lead – (Pb) a soft metal
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n the section on metals we saw that the colloquial name for mercury, especially in the past, was ‘quicksilver’. This is only one of dozens of popular terms that exist alongside1 the more technical terms for chemical elements and compounds. Here is a list: >> ammonia – hydrogen nitride. The word comes from ‘salt of Ammon’, Ammon being the Greek version of the Egyptian god Amun. There was an oracle of Amun in an oasis in the Libyan Desert and the priests2 collected ammonia crystals from the dung3 of visiting camels. >> antifreeze – ethylene glycol >> aqua fortis (archaic) – nitric acid >> baking soda – sodium bicarbonate, bicarbonate of soda, ‘bicarb’ >> battery acid – dilute sulphuric acid. Used in car batteries. >> bleach – sodium hypochlorite. Used as a detergent. >> borax – sodium borate. Used as an antiseptic.
alongside – next to, in parallel to priest – holy man, cleric 3 dung – animal excrement 4 treacle – molasses, sugar syrup 5 fool – idiot, stupid person
>> brimstone (archaic) – sulphur. Brimstone and treacle4 was a Victorian cure-all; it is mentioned in Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby (1838). ‘Fire and brimstone’ is a euphemism for the torments of hell. >> carbolic acid – phenol >> caustic soda – sodium hydroxide >> dry ice – solid carbon dioxide >> Epsom salts – hydrated magnesium sulphate (which was used as a purgative). In Britain this compound is traditionally obtained from a deposit in Epsom in Surrey. >> fool’s 5 gold – iron pyrite. In 1577 Sir Martin Frobisher brought back to England 1,180 tonnes of iron pyrite from Baffin Island in
to find out (find-found-found) – discover to be worthless – be of no value 8 to bury – inter, place underground 9 spelt ‘saltpeter’ in US English 10 manure – animal excrement, dung
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northern Canada only to find out6 that it was worthless7. >> gypsum – hydrated calcium sulphate >> laughing gas – nitrous oxide >> limestone – calcium carbonate >> lye – potassium hydroxide >> lodestone – magnetite >> milk of magnesia – magnesium carbonate in water >> pencil lead – graphite >> potash – potassium carbonate >> quicklime – calcium oxide. The bodies of executed prisoners were traditionally buried8 in quicklime. >> rock salt – halite >> rust – iron oxide >> saltpetre 9 – potassium nitrate. The Chinese invented gunpowder by extracting saltpetre crystals from pig manure10. >> sand – silicon >> slaked11 lime – calcium hydroxide >> surgical spirit (UK) = rubbing alcohol12 (US) – ethanol >> vitriol (archaic) – sulphuric acid >> smelling salts – ammonium carbonate. Smelling salts are used as a restorative when somebody has fainted13. >> stomach acid – hydrochloric acid >> washing soda – sodium carbonate
to slake – combine (quicklime) with water to produce calcium hydroxide 12 rubbing alcohol – (literally) alcohol for massaging 13 to faint – lose consciousness, pass out 11
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Chemical Expressions: the Acid Test Chemistry Chemistry is used metaphorically to describe how well (or badly) two people get on1. You can talk about their personal chemistry, say they have a special chemistry or even a strange chemistry: - It is essential that there is good chemistry between the pilot and the co-pilot on long flights. >> a chemical weapon /ˈwepən/ = a device2 that uses chemical compounds to cause death or harm to human beings. Notice the assonance3.
The soil is acidic.
>> acid rain = rain containing sulphur dioxide from traffic fumes and industry. In 1974 acid rain fell in Scotland that was as acidic as lemon juice!
Chemistry Equipment
>> litmus test = an action that confirms a theory. Litmus paper is used to test for acidity (in which case it turns9 red) or alkalinity (in which case it turns9 blue). There is a botanical precedent; hydrangea plants produce blue flowers when the soil10 is acidic but pink and white flowers when it’s alkaline.
Did you know that the name of the video-sharing4 website ‘YouTube’ was originally a play on its chemical homophone ‘U-tube’ – a type of manometer? The name is meant to 5 chime with 6 ‘(boob) tube’, a colloquial US term for ‘television’.7 >> a test-tube baby = a baby born as a result of in vitro fertilization (IVF).
>> a vitriolic attack = acrimonious criticism. Vitriol is an old-fashioned word for sulphuric acid, one of the most corrosive substances there is.
Acid >> the acid test = a crucial evaluation to determine if something is genuine. The allusion is to the testing of a specific material using nitric acid to find out8 if it contains gold. to get on (get-got-got) – get along, be compatible 2 device – mechanism, thing 3 assonance – repetition of the vowel sound in consecutive syllables
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video-sharing – that permits you to exhibit videos 5 to be meant to – be supposed to 6 to chime with sth. – (in this case) be euphonically connected with (through assonance3)
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>> caustic humour = sarcasm. Literally, ‘caustic’ means corrosive by means of11 a chemical reaction.
originally referring to the cathode-ray tube used in TVs in the 20th Century 8 to find out (find-found-found) – discover, determine 9 to turn (in this case) go, become
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YES NO. 22 TRACK LIST Mini-debates (22m50s) 1. Parental Rights (10m05s) 2. The LGBT School (8m35s) 3. The ‘Old-man’ Haircut (4m09s) 4. Pronunciation Exercise (3m42s) 5. Interview about Children's Literature (10m12s) Monologues: The Story of My Childhood (13m05s) 6. Monologue 1 [US English] (3m33s) 7. Monologue 2 [British English] (2m42s) 8. Monologue 3 [US English] (2m58s) 9. Monologue 4 [British English] (3m51s) 10. Chemistry Pronunciation (3m36s) 11. Picture Description (4m49s) Total time: 0h58m17s
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areas where the general population around them is not as well off139 as they are et cetera, et cetera. I think the idea that – y’know37 – people in a particular92 school can be a target137 and they probably have to be careful when they’re leaving school or there ought to140 be – sort of19 – adults around until they’ve dispersed. I mean 9, I don’t think that’s the same as when however long you are at school per day, eight hours a day, having to be looking over your shoulder141. I think that’s a different circumstance. SM: Yeah, I mean9, but I think we’ve come back to the fundamental problem that the educational system
needs more investment and needs – y’know37 – teachers need better training and – y’know37 – it needs refurbishment143. AM: And the rise 144 in suicides and bullying93, do you think this is attributable to social media? EM: I don’t think… I didn’t necessarily… I didn’t say there was a rise 144 and I don’t know there has been a rise. I know that there are… there is a suicide rate associated with young people in that situation but I don’t know if… it probably has decreased I think in one sense. I wouldn’t be surprised if it decreased because society is, certainly British society, is much, much more accepting than 142
in the past. And you know there are positive role models. The guy145 who just146 won the Emmys 147, what is the American music award? The American music? AM: The Grammys148? EM: The Grammys! There’s a British guy149 who… don’t know why I said Emmys? …a British guy who is – y’know37 – quite openly gay et cetera, et cetera. That’s – y’know37 – there are a lot of positive role models whereas a generation ago or two generations ago it was… you’d have – sort of19 – silly stereotype things like Are You Being Served?150 and things like that. So, I think that’s changed.
3. The ‘Old-man’ Haircut (4m09s) EM: Did you see this piece151 of news in America about this barber who’s giving ‘old-man haircuts’ to kids 5? Apparently, this barber who’s called Rusty, Rusty Fred from Atlanta. USW: What’s the haircut like? EM: It’s basically – sort of19 – bald152 on top and short back and sides153. It’s meant to154 make your child look like a 70-year-old. Yeah. USW: So like alopecia155. EW: Wow! And for girls as well14? EM: I don’t know if it is just33 for boys. The only pictures I’ve seen are boys. But the idea is that if children have been naughty156 then their well off – affluent, rich, prosperous ought to – should 141 to be looking over one’s shoulder – be vigilant for danger 142 investment – spending money on improvements 143 refurbishment – renovation 144 rise – increase 145 guy /gai/ – man, bloke (UK only)
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parents4 either threaten157 them or actually38 take them in to have their heads done, to be scalped158. Is that child abuse159 or is that...? USW: And even if they are not naughty156! USM: I wanna160 know where Rusty got that idea. Business must’ve been slow. EM: No, no. I can tell you where Rusty got the idea. A mother came in and said that her child had been naughty156 and she wanted her… she to threaten sb. – say that sth. will happen to sb. if they continue to act in a specific way 158 to be scalped – (in this case) have one’s hair cut short 159 child abuse – mistreatment of children 160 wanna – (slang) want to 161 punishment – retribution, act of disciplining
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wanted the child to be given a ridiculous haircut as a punishment161. And he took this up and went with162 it. EW: The man’s a genius! USM: OK. EM: You don’t… I mean 9, do you think that’s acceptable? USW: I think it’s fine, yeah. Did you never go to the hairdresser and get an awful 163 haircut and suffer because of it? EW: My mum used to give me an
awful 163 haircut. And I remember actually38 one day wearing a hood 164 to school on the bus. The bus escort165 made me take my hood 164 off and even she laughed at me out loud166. She’s like 61, “Oh, sorry, that’s terrible”. EM: And then said, “Put it back on! Put it back on!” EW: Yeah! And at school I just 7 remember being so embarrassed. The typical basin haircut167, you know? And that was my mom just7
to take sth. up and go with it – adopt sth. awful – terrible, horrible 164 hood – part of a coat that covers one’s head 165 bus escort – bus monitor, adult who accompanies the children on a school bus as a passenger 166 out loud – aloud, audibly 167 (pudding-)basin haircut – bowl haircut 162 163
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112 1. Illustrations round-up: see if you can identify some of the objects and actions mentioned in the footnotes of this issue. 113 2. Title Tag: can you match these alternative titles to the news articles on pp. 7-9? 3. Interview listening comprehension: answer these questions about audio track 5. 114 4. Word Search: find names and terms from Alice in Wonderland (pp. 18-25). 115 5. Chemical pronunciation and spelling: a varied exercise relating to the chemistry dossier in general and p. 81 in particular. 6. Enid Blyton’s Numbers: a tongue-in-cheek exercise relating to the article on pp. 46-48. 116 7. Crossword: for revision of vocabulary from throughout the magazine. 117 8. Harry Potter multiple-choice quiz: relating to pp. 63-65. 118 9. Debates: varied listening comprehension exercises for audio tracks 1-3 (pp. 88-100).
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122 16. Popular names for chemical compounds: a matching exercise relating to p. 78. 17. Chemical symbols: match the symbols to the element names in English (p. 74-77). 123 18. Phrasal Verbs Round-up: how many new phrasal verbs have you learned this month? 19. False Friends Round-up: test to see if you learned the false friends marked in the footnotes throughout the magazine + see if you learned the chemical false friends on p. 80. 124 20. Wordplay: a word game – relating to the Huck Finn articles on pp. 30-33. 21. Internet Listening: test your listening comprehension with this fascinating talk about better teaching techniques. 22. Peter Pan idioms: did you learn the expressions from pp. 40-42? 125 23. Hobbit Homophones: correct this text about the Hobbit movie. 126 24. Prepositions: fill the gaps in this text about children’s literature and religion. 25. Tolkien names: match the names to their meanings after reading pp. 54-55. 127 26. Reading Comprehension about metaphors: read the poem by Rudyard Kipling and answer the questions (pp. 34-36).
119 10. Chemistry idioms: did you manage to learn the expressions on pp. 82-83? 11. Monologues: a true-false listening comprehension on audio tracks 6-9 (pp. 105-109). 12. US vs. UK: matching words in British and American English from the footnotes.
128 27. Wordplay: test your vocabulary and understanding of English morphology.
120 13. Pronunciation: a listening exercise to revise the difficult words from throughout the magazine. 14. Metal expressions: fill the gaps to form expressions from pp. 74-77.
130 29. Sentence transformation: revise structures from throughout the issue.
129 28. Narnia multiple-choice quiz: answer the questions about C.S. Lewis and his work (pp. 56-59).
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5. supernatural being. Type of tale 6. shaft for wheels 8. pachyderm – such as Horton 10. Harry Potter’s friend 11. well ventilated 13. popular name for sulphur 14. element previously known as wolfram 15. same as 9 ACROSS 16. tropical tree. Part of one’s hand 17. potassium nitrate (US spelling) 18. Latin preposition used in English 21. easily handled. Anagram of ‘widely’ 28. grown-ups 31. (I/she/he/it) existed. Anagram of ‘saw’ 32. industrious insect that lives in a colony 33. piece of rock – 14 x 12 ACROSS
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35. same as 32 ACROSS 37. boy’s name – Pan? 38. same as 32 ACROSS 39. shade 40. paddle. Homophone or ‘ore’ 41. number. Anagram of ‘net’ 42. depiction, picture 43. nursery ____________ poem for children 45. pronoun; number 46. Argon (chemical symbol) 48. Neon (chemical symbol) 50. same as 6 ACROSS 52. snake-like fish 53. same as 7 ACROSS 54. Associated Press (initialism) 55. object pronoun 56. sodium (chemical symbol) 57. Trinidad and Tobago (internet address)
23. The Hobbit movie. 66 words in this text have been changed for their homophones. Change them back: Anyone reading hour analysis of The Hobbit (on pp. 52-53) is likely to be disconcerted if he ore she has only scene the recent movies. This trilogy converts the slim children’s fantasy into an epic prequel for the Lord of the Rings. Inn sew doing, the filmmakers solve many of the problems that make the book reactionary. However, the wait of changes means that the movies form a storey that is for adolescents and adults – the audience of the previous Lord of the Rings films – rather than for children. To be fare sum of the added material is inspired buy the Appendices that Tolkien added to The Lord of the Rings, sow it could be argued that the changes are faithful to the author's overall vision. Won type of change wrought on the children’s adventure book is the insertion of characters from The Lord of the Rings, presumably to satisfy those filmgoers who Sikh familiarity. Thus we have Frodo appearing at the beginning of the first movie, even though he had knot bin borne at the thyme of Bilbo’s adventure. Later on, we encounter Legolas (Orlando Bloom), Galadriel (Kate Blanchett) and Saruman (Christopher Lee) even though they do knot appear inn The Hobbit. Galadriel was introduced as part of the White Council (an awl-mail committee inn the book) – and Tauriel was invented as a female elf warrior – to compensate for Tolkien’s entirely homosocial fantasy. The Hobbit movies also reprise tropes from the Lord of the Rings films. Gandalf saves the party from the trolls with a gesture that imitates his rock-splitting at the bridge of Khazad-dûm. Soon after, he gives Bilbo almost the same pep torque that he gave Frodo inn Moria. The seen of the fighting mountain giants is changed sew that it is moor like the avalanches on the Caradhras pass. Likewise, the scenes inn Goblin Town are modified to remind fans of the previous movies of the fight action in Moria. Epic elements are added to make the Hobbit movie less of a fantasy. Azog is a dead character inn the book but hear he is converted into the giant albino orc who pursues the company throughout there adventure. Inn fact, their is know hoard of warg riders inn the book. The introduction of Azoz also adds familiarity for Lord of the Rings fans because he is essentially the same character as Lurtz inn the later book. Tolkien’s dwarves are the comical little creatures of fairy tail, inn the movies they are moor like pint-sized Vikings. Thorin, becomes a handsome and noble epic avenger rather than the greedy, bumbling, inexperienced leader of the book. Similarly, Bilbo rapidly terns into an action hero. The movies unremittingly ad conflict to the children’s fantasy. For instants, Rivendell is a plaice that the dwarves enter reluctantly and they are constantly hostile to the elves. Inn the book they are received with music and dance and they do knot want to leave after a fortnight. Most of the battle scenes inn the movies don’t appear inn the novel awe are hugely expanded. The movies remove a number of Harry-Potteresque elements that wood be considered infantile bye a 21st-century teenage and adult audience. For example, inn the book the trolls have a talking purse and, moor importantly, the eagles offer stimulating conversation to there passengers. Talking objects and talking animals are part of fantasy, knot epic and sow they have to be eliminated. At the same thyme the Hobbit movies are re-infantilized inn a number of weighs. For instants, their is the introduction of the character Radagast the Brown, a wizard who is named inn the book but does knot appear. A bizarre cross between Unibomber and a lovable old tramp, this figure seams to have bin added for comic relief. Finally, the scatological gags that punctuate the movies are pure Hollywood and definitely un-Tolkienesque.
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