EDITOR’S INTRO

LISTENING ACTIVITY ALL ABOUT NICOLE!

1 Listening I Listen to the information about

VOCABULARY DRIVING

Complete the sentences with the words you hear.

QUIZ DO YOU HAVE A GOOD MEMORY?

How good is your memory? The famous British politician Winston Churchill once claimed that he could remember being inside his mother’s womb. Can you? What’s your earliest childhood memory? Do our quiz and find out whether you have a good memory or not.

ANIMAL SOUNDS

Hello everyone and welcome to my English pronunciation

CALLING IN SICK!

Hi and welcome to the “Business Talk” section of Hot English. These dialogues will help you learn lots of useful vocabulary and expressions.

BIG BROTHER

You may not like it, but reality TV is here to stay. There are all sorts of programmes to choose from such as Popstars, Fame Academy, Survivor, Temptation Island and, of course, Big Brother. Big Brother was the first of its kind, and is the most popular programme in most countries where it’s shown. In fact, it’s so popular that stories from the show often get in all national newspapers. Why is this? Is it the hint of sex? Or the non-stop drama?

THE PUNK ILLUSTRATION

Punk was a musical and social movement that started in the 1970s. You may have heard of some punk groups such as The Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. Who were the punks? What did they want? And what did they do?

HOW TO USE BODY LANGUAGE IN SALES!

We all have to do a bit of

15 TOP TIPS ON HOW TO USE USE BODY LANGUAGE IN SALES!

According to the experts, you have around 7

MISCELLANEOUS TRIVIA

Here are some more interesting facts and figures from around the world

VOCABULARY BEDROOM

Here is some useful vocabulary related to the bedroom.

THE HOTEL BEDROOM

Here’s a dialogue with lots of useful vocabulary

THE PIG A BEDROOM JOKE!

CROSSWORD

ANSWERS ON PAGE 51 Across 3: Things

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 51.

DR FINGERS’GRAMMAR CLINIC

Dear Dr Fingers, My name is Monica and

IMAGE PROBLEMS!

Hi and welcome to the “Business Dialogues” section of Hot English. These dialogues will help you learn lots of useful vocabulary and expressions.

BLUE IDIOMS

This month we are looking at some idioms with the colour blue.

BONNIE & CLYDE

You’ve read the story of Jesse James, Of how he lived and died, If you’re still in need for something to read, Here’s the story of Bonnie and Clyde.”

Weird World Cartoon

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Strange BUT True

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

CUBA

Cuba is one of the most amazing countries I’ve ever visited. It’s home to one of the longeststanding revolutions, a communist dictatorship, cigars, salsa and rum. It is also surviving under a trade embargo with one of its closest neighbours and the most powerful country in the world: the United States of America. But apart from that, Cuba is a very special place with its bolero, rumba and son and its incredibly friendly people. Let’s look at this amazing country.

CUBA

Every month we interview someone who has lived, visited or worked abroad. This month we are talking to Jesse, an Englishman, about his time in Cuba.

British bar chat

Authentic conversations by native British speakers

US bar chat

Authentic conversations by native American speakers

Book Review

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory

Dictionary of slang

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

In The News...

Yellow Submarines Sixty four eastern European tourists were

Answers & scripts

LISTENING ACTIVITY 1 LISTENING I – Picture “a”