Introduction

1 Finding Myself 10

A Land/scape Nadia Wheatley 10

B Young, Talented and Rebellious Anne-Marie Sapsted 20

Chapter One

All in the Family 22

1 The Trouble with Mother 24

2 This Be the Verse Philip Larkin 28

3 Households and Families: 1990 and 2000 30

Context Box Changing Families 32

4 Family Life 33

A Giving Thanks Laurie Halse Anderson 33

B Taking Responsibility 35

Getting Along in English An Invitation to Dinner 36

Watch Your Language 37

Chapter Two

Youth Culture 38

1 This Thing Called ‘Youth Culture’ Katie Milestone 40

Context Box A New Consumer Group 41

2 My Music 42

A I’m Britain’s Top Teen DJ 42

B Two Generations of Pop 43

3 How I See Me, How I See You 44

A Diet-crazy Girls … and Boys Cahal Milmo 44

B Sonnet 130 William Shakespeare 45

4 The Morning After 46

A Sex After Drinking 46

B Doctor Sarah Brewer Says … 47

Getting Along in English Communicating by Chat and E-mail 48

5 Y2K.CHATRM43 Alden R. Carter 49

Watch Your Language 55

Chapter Three

Science and Technology 56

1 Who’s Boss? 58

A From Calculator to Typewriter Douglas Adams 58

B Remote Control Dave Barry 60

2 Genie in the Bottle 62

A The Flying Machine Ray Bradbury 62

B Oppenheimer 66

C Wernher von Braun Tom Lehrer 66

Getting Along in English Going to the Doctor 67

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3 How Things Work 69

Context Box Science, Technology and Controversy 71

4 Can Science Save Us from Ourselves? Natasha Walter 72

Watch Your Language 75

Chapter Four

Our Fragile Planet 76

1 ‘Where the Cricket Sings’ 78

A The Lake at Petworth J.M.W. Turner 78

B The Lake Isle of Innisfree William Butler Yeats 79

C It Was a Lover and His Lass William Shakespeare 79

D Nice Places Willy Russell 80

Getting Along in English Going on a Tour 81

2 What Happened during the Ice Storm Jim Heynen 82

Context Box Nature and the Environment 84

3 Earth Awareness 85

A Too Much Trouble? Erin Jackson 85

B What Is ‘Eden’ about? Tony Kendle 86

C Economists Are Also Environmentalists Paul Krugman 87

D Cartoons Dealing with the Environment 89

E The Destruction of Habitats 90

Watch Your Language 91

Chapter Five

A Global Marketplace 92

1 Business Is Business Arthur Miller 94

2 Down and Out – and Up? 97

A Poverty Is Relative Mari Marcel Thekaekara 97

B ‘I Have to Keep the Hot Water for the Kids’ Bob Holman 98

C Starting Your Own Business 99

Context Box Towards a Global Economy 101

Getting Along in English Going Shopping 102

3 As Basic as the Screwdriver Stephen Baker et al. 103

4 Freedom and Opportunity 104

A Political and Economic Freedom Milton and Rose Friedman 104

B The Fair Society Will Hutton 105

C NPWA Billy Bragg and the Blokes 106

Watch Your Language 107

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Inform, Educate and Entertain 108

Context Box The Media: Friend or Foe? 110

1 ‘Read All about It!’ 111

A Germans Destroy Wembley Martin Wallace 111

B Work Starts and Stops on Wembley Simon Burnton 112

C The Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing James Thurber 113

D Front Pages 114

E A Letter to the Editor 116

2 The Role of Television 117

A TV Is Big Business 117

B Rather than Talking about the Weather Jo Croft 118

C How to Get on TV 119

3 I Saw It on the Internet … so it’s got to be true 120

A Nobody Knows You’re a Dog 120

B The Reliability of Internet Information 120

Getting Along in English Using the Phone to Get Information 121

4 You Can Sell Anything 122

A We Are Speaking of Art Steven Millhauser 122

B AIDA Kevin Needham 124

Watch Your Language 125

Chapter Seven

Turning Conflict into Art 126

Context Box Art in Society 128

1 Prose: Transforming Misery into Words 129

A The Flight of Refugees (April 3, 1938) Ernest Hemingway 129

B Old Man at the Bridge Ernest Hemingway 130

2 Poetry: Soothing the Soul? 132

A The Ultimate Pain Relief 132

B In Flanders Fields John McCrae 133

C Grass Carl Sandburg 133

3 Theatre: A Battle on Stage 134

A A Shakespearian Performance 134

B Henry V: Prologue William Shakespeare 134

C Battle of Agincourt William Shakespeare 135

D Two Performances of Henry V William Shakespeare 136

4 Music: Offering Hope 137

A Extracts from the Resurrection Symphony Gustav Mahler 137

B An Infinitely Hopeful Message Martin Goldsmith 137

5 Architecture: Rising from the Ashes 139

A Coventry: Destruction and Reconciliation 139

B Dresden: Obliteration and Rebirth 140

Getting Along in English Talking about the Arts 142

Watch Your Language 143

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Chapter Eight

The UK – Redefining a Nation? 144

1 What It Means to Be British 146

A Chicken Tikka Massala Robin Cook 146

B Golden Jubilee Speech to Parliament Queen Elizabeth II 147

2 The Great Immigrant Experiment Zadie Smith 148

3 On Tour in the UK 150

Getting Along in English Finding a Place to Stay 151

4 The Parts of the Whole 152

A Devolution in the UK 152

B A New Flag for a Changing Country? 153

C Down in the North 154

5 This England 156

A This Sceptred Isle William Shakespeare 156

B Chocolate Box Englishness 157

C Those Wild and Crazy English Julian Barnes 158

Context Box The UK at the Beginning of the New Millennium 159

6 Pride in Our Past, Confidence in Our Future 160

A Old Empire Niall Ferguson 160

B A Book Review: ‘Sweet Taste of Empire’ Michael Brunton 162

C New Empire: The Triumph of English 163

Watch Your Language 165

Chapter Nine

We the People 166

1 American Dreams 168

A America the Beautiful Katherine Lee Bates 168

B The New Colossus Emma Lazarus 168

C Dirty Blvd. Lou Reed 169

D American Dream Bad Religion 169

Context Box American Dreams, American Nightmares 170

2 God Bless America 171

A Inaugural Speech George W. Bush 171

B Facts and Figures 172

3 An American Quilt 173

A Bound by a Common Thread Jesse Jackson 173

B Lifeblood of the Nation T. Coraghessan Boyle 174

C Assimilation, American-style Robert J. Samuelson 175

Getting Along in English Avoiding Bluntness 177

4 The American Way of Life 178

A The Magic of Baseball Doris Kearns Goodwin 178

B A Sedentary Nation Bill Bryson 180

C Car Culture and the Shopping Mall 182

D The American Way of Life as Reflected on TV 182

Watch Your Language 183

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Chapter Ten

No Man Is an Island 184

1 Making a Difference 186

A We Are What We Do 186

B Hands of Friendship Robert Milliken 187

C The Right Thing to Do Susannah Grant 188

Context Box The Nature of Constitutions 190

2 Freedom of (and from) Religion 191

A Divided America Andrew Sullivan 191

B Godless Science Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee 193

C Science or Religion? 194

Getting Along in English Debating 197

Context Box The USA: Influencing the World 198

3 America and the Rest of the World 199

A A New Empire? Niall Ferguson 199

B The President Doesn’t Like Europeans Alistair Beacon 199

C Help Not Wanted Zahid Hussain 201

D An Alliance for Better or Worse Paul Dibb 202

4 The Challenge of Immigration 203

A The History of Immigration Clay Butler 203

B Crossing the Border 203

C Australianization Timothy Garton Ash 204

Watch Your Language 205

Chapter Eleven

Who Am I? 206

1 Origami Susan K. Ito 208

2 So I Have a New Name – Refugee Ruvimbo Bungwe 211

Context Box Personal Identity 212

3 I’m Not Lying Any More Paul Berges et al. 213

A Beckham Is the Best 213

B We Have Something to Tell You 214

4 My Region, Myself 215

A Four English Accents 215

B A Question of Accent Rose George 215

C Why Can’t the English? Alan Jay Lerner 216

Getting Along in English Being Interviewed 217

5 Believing in Me: Goals and Ambitions 218

A Aim Higher 218

B Find Your Hidden Strengths Marty Nemko 219

C The Road Not Taken Robert Frost 220

D Ships? Maya Angelou 220

Watch Your Language 221

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Chapter Twelve

Moving Out 222

1 Leaving Home 224

A The Road to London Laurie Lee 224

B Free! Lauren Krugel 226

Context Box Moving Out 228

2 Choices 229

A Career Plan 229

B Doomsday 231

C Applying to a US University 232

D Victoria, not Vicky Andrea Levy 234

E Off to College 235

Getting Along in English Finding a Place to Live 236

3 Eveline James Joyce 237

Watch Your Language 241

Skills Pages

Skills Overview 242

Study and Language Skills 242

Reading Skills 258

Writing Skills 265

Listening and Speaking Skills 274

Glossary

Literary Texts 277

Non-fictional Texts 284

Style and Language 287

Historical Documents 293

Acknowledgements 299

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