EDITOR’S INTRO

How you learn English with Hot English magazine

WORD BOOSTER

ACTS OF VIOLENCE II

NATURAL ENGLISH

What’s your idea of the perfect job?

FAVOURITE FOOD

What’s your favourite type of food? Italian I

HAVE YOU EVER HAD AN UNLUCKY DAY?

You’re going to listen to two people talking about their days. You’ll learn some useful words and expressions for talking about this. Plus, you’ll improve your speaking and listening skills.

IS IT A GOOD IDEA TO GET A PET?

You’re going to listen to two people talking about pets. You’ll learn some useful words and expressions for talking about this. Plus, you’ll improve your speaking and listening skills.

DR FINGERS’PRONUNCIATION

Part I Last month we looked at the

DR FINGERS’GRAMMAR CLINIC

Today ’s class: WOULD & INTO Dear Dr

MAN-MADE DISASTERS TRANSPORT

In previous issues of Hot English we’ve looked at man-made disasters involving fire. This month we are continuing with the series and looking at tragedies involving means of transport. Let’s see what happens when the wrong people are put in charge of the world’s finest ships, boats and vehicles.

LEARN ENGLISH WITH SOME USEFUL ADVICE FOR A BETTER LIFE!

Do you want to lead a happy, healthy life? The following is some advice that will help you do just that. However, as well as enjoying the useful ideas, you’ll also learn lots of useful language that you can use when speaking. First, read over the advice. Then, do the exercises on the following pages to help you learn the language and the ideas. Good luck!

ACCIDENT TRIVIA

Every year thousands of people are injured in accidents. Some of them are quite typical: touching an electrical wire that’s connected to the mains, picking up a plate that’s been in the oven for three hours or running over an area of ice. But some accidents are for even stupider reasons. Here is a a collection of the most ridiculous accidents that occurred in Britain. These statistics are compiled every year

SING ALONG

Here are some more classic songs from the world of pop and rock. Have fun singing along with them

THE BAND

This month the most famous cover band in the

ACCIDENTS

Here is a dialogue with lots of useful expressions for talking about accidents.

FUNCTIONALLANGUAGEIN ACTION

Here’s a cartoon about an accident. In this scene, Bruce has had an accident. He rushes into a bar to get a drink. What has he hit?

CROSSWORD

Across 1: To explode. To go _______ 5:

WORDSEARCH

See if you can identify the word below. Then, try to find these words (here on the right) in the Wordsearch. Good luck! Answers on page 61.

AIR IDIOMS

Our monthly look at idioms. Notice how the literal meaning of the complete idiom is of ten different from the actual meaning of each individual word. This month we are looking at idioms related to air.

DRIVE-IN MOVIES

We’ve all seen the movie Grease with John

MIDNIGHT COWBOY

A look at some famous films

REDNECK

This month in our “Urban Tribes” section we are looking at a group of people from the US: rednecks.

In The News...

BARS – The New Disease The “World Health

ROBIN HOOD – THE TRUE STORY!

There have been hundreds of Robin Hood films

Weird World Cartoon

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Strange BUT True

True stories from around the world that are hard to believe!

SYDNEY

A look at some cool places from around the world.

AUSTRALIA

A look at some cool places from around the world.

AUSSIE LANGUAGE

If you ever go to Australia, you’re going to have to know how to speak to the natives. Of course, they all speak English, but there are many words and expressions that are just used in Australia and are unknown in the rest of the world. Here are some of the more common ones:

LANGUAGE LEARNING IN AUSTRALIA

Ferries This month we are looking at some

Quotes BECKHAM DAVID

Here is an interesting collection of quotes about and by David Beckham

British bar chat

Suing big companies! This month John and Jack

US bar chat

Bill Clinton! This month we are going to

Dictionary of slang

Here we’ve got some examples of how to say things in different situations.

Answers & scripts

FOOD FUN 1 PRE-LISTENING 1g, 2h, 3f, 4a,

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