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MEL GIBSON’S

APOCALYPTO

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Welcome

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CD index

Hello

2 Idioms

3 Jokes

4 Graiti

5 Dr Fingers’ Vocabulary Clinic

6 Common Errors

7 Dictionary of Slang

8 Basic English

9 Living Abroad – Bristol

0 Crank Call

Useful advice

2 Stupid Criminals

3 Dr Fingers’ Grammar

4-5 British Bar Chat

6-7 US Bar Chat

8 Dumb US Laws

9 Great Moments in US History

20 Story Time

2 Weird Trivia

22 Typical Dialogues

23 Social English

24 Quiz

25 Quirky News

26 Quotes – Kissing

27 Grammar Fun

28 Fluency Practice

29 Business English

30 Goodbye

Editor’s intro

Hi, everybody, and welcome to another issue of Hot

English. This month we’ve got lots of fun material for

you to learn English. For a start, there’s a new section:

Dr Fingers’ Error Correction Clinic. Well, actually, it’s a

section we had a few years ago and that we’ve decided

to revive . We think you’ll ind it really useful.

Our feature article this month is on Mel Gibson and his

new ilm Apocalypto. You can ind out lots of interesting

things about him and the ilm. We’re also looking at

the world of the “gaffe” – a silly or stupid comment you

make by mistake. The most famous person in Britain for

gaffes is Prince Philip, the Queen’s husband. You can

read about some of the funny (and not so funny) things

he’s said.

Talking about gaffes, I had a strange conversation with

my three-year-old son the other day. We were in the

city of Vitoria walking past a bike rental shop when he

suddenly said, “That’s where I hurt my foot.” He was

right because about a year ago, I’d rented a bike there

and had an accident with Andy: he fell off the back of

the bike and hurt his foot. Anyway, I was surprised that

he’d remembered (he was only two at the time) so I

said, “That’s funny that you remembered that”, meaning

to say that it was “strange” that he’d remembered it

because of his age. However, he understood funny to

mean “funny, ha, ha” and said, “Daddy, why is it funny?

I hurt my foot.”

Anyway, back to some more serious stuff. We’ve

got a new section on our website called “The

Archive”. Just visit: (http://www.

hotenglishmagazine.com/eng/

Archive.php). There are lots of

interesting articles there, and we’ll

be putting more up every month.

The other big news is that we’re

starting the Hot English TEFL course

(see advert on page 2). We will also

be offering special training courses

for non-native teachers of English too. More to follow.

Well, that’s all for now. Have a great month, and see

you again next month for some more “language

development in conjunction with humour”.

What is Hot English?

A funny, monthly

magazine for

improving your

English. Real English

in genuine contexts.

Slang. Business

English. Functional

language. US English. Cartoons. Humorous articles.

Easy to read. Helpful glossaries. Useful expressions.

Fun. Something for everyone. Readers from 16 to 105

years old. From pre-intermediate to proiciency. A

great exercise pack, complete with useful grammar

and vocabulary-based worksheets. Fun material

for teachers. Fantastic 60-minute audio CD. Great

website with listenings, archive, games and exercises:

www.hotenglishmagazine.com. All the English you’ll

ever need! Where can you ind Hot English?

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Error Correction Clinic

Magazine Index

Apocalypto

3 Editorial

4 Phrasal Verbs

6 Idioms

7 Jokes & Graiti

8 Dr Fingers’

Vocabulary Clinic

9 Dr Fingers’

Error Correction Clinic

0 Dictionary of Slang

Mel Gibson special

5 Basic English

6 Amazing World – Bristol

8 Living Abroad – Bristol

9 Crank Call & Useful advice

20 Stupid Criminals

2 Dr Fingers’ Grammar

22 British Bar Chat

23 US Bar Chat

24 Crossword & Answers

25 Subscriptions

26 Dumb US Laws

27 Great Moments in US History

28 Story Time

29 Wordsearch & Joke

30 Trivia Matching & Weird Trivia

32 Vocabulary – Skiing

34 Typical Dialogues –

The Skiing Trip

35 Social English

36 Quiz

37 Quirky News

38 History: Freetown

40 Magistrates

43 Nimbys

44 Quotes – Kissing

45 Great Gafes

46 Royal Gafes

48 Grammar Fun

49 Fluency Practice

50 Business English

GLOSSARY

to revive vb

to bring back to life again

a bike rental shop n

a shop where you pay to use

a bicycle for a limited period

of time. Actually, in Vitoria,

they lend you the bikes for

free – so civilised!

TEFL abbr

Teaching English as a

Foreign Language

Amazing Bristol

Vocabulary: Skiing

and Snowboarding

Word of the month:

cyberslacking

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The Hot English

word of the month is

“cyberslacking”.

I found this one on

the internet. Basically,

“cyberslacking” is

described as the practice of using the internet for

personal or leisure purposes while you are at work. You

know, checking your online back account, booking an

airline ticket, buying books, writing e-mails to friends,

etc. Do you cyberslack? Are you a cyberslacker? Are you

cyberslacking right now? Do you cyberslack very often?

Write in to cyberslacker@hotenglishmagazine.com and

tell us all about your “cyberslacking exploits and which

sites you visit.

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necessarily represent the views of Hot English Publishing, S.L., although we do think one

shouldn’t give beer to a moose, and that Prince Philip is a witty chap.

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PHrASAL vErBS TAkE

Take it out of you

To make you tired; to exhaust you.

Take over a business

To take fInancial and administrative

control of a company.

when i retire my

son will take over

the fishmongers.

All this running

really takes it out

of you.

Take it out on someone

To hurt or attack someone (mentally/

verbally/physically) because you are

frustrated, angry, etc.

Take up a new hobby

To start doing a new hobby

Ever since my

wife took up

golf, I don’t

see her at the

weekends.

It’s great.

just because

you didn’t get the

salmon cat food,

there’s no need to

take it out on me.

Take someone up on an offer

To accept an offer; to agree to do

something that another person proposes.

Take off

To remove clothing.

you remember

that offer of

a lift to the

airport? I’d like

to take you up

on it.

I can’t hear

what you

are saying. I

need to take

my helmet

off first.

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The verb “to take” has many different uses. Generally, we use this verb to refer to

the action of carrying/taking something from one place to another. For example,

“I took my car to the garage so they could repair it.”

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