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T he question in our headline is not one Spotlight readers need to ask themselves this month. There is so much to choose from in the June issue. Why not visit Shake-speare’s home town of Stratford-upon-Avon with us? The spirit of the playwright lives on in the elegant grey-stone church where he was baptized and buried, in the traditional cream-and-black cottage where he lived for a time, and in the red-brick Victorian theatre on the banks of the River Avon where his plays are performed all year round. “Shakespeare’s England” begins on page 16.

Or what about a fun way to learn how to form condi-tional sentences? Read the story of Callum, a teenager who is trying to get his first part-time job, and his moth-er, Ruth, who has a lot of questions. “If Callum gets the job, will he be too tired to concentrate at school?” she asks herself. Once you have enjoyed Callum and Ruth’s adventure, which starts on page 40, you need never worry again about using conditional sentences.

This month the people of Britain vote in a general elec-tion. We take a look at the positions of the main parties and explain why it is still all about Brexit. Beginning on page 26, we consider the question: “Where is Britain heading?”

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Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon

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conditionalsM

If you would like to improve your use of the word “if”, read our entertaining story

using conditionals.

Contents June 2017 6 World Map M

A look at the issue of air pollution around the world.

8 People E Names and faces from around the world

10 Living Language A Why translation software is just not enough

11 World View E M A What’s news and what’s hot

14 Britain Today E Colin Beaven on the joys of Brexit

24 Peggy’s Place M Visit Spotlight’s very own London pub

25 American Life M US + Ginger Kuenzel on politics

32 Press Gallery A Comment from the English-speaking world

33 I Ask Myself A US Amy Argetsinger on stolen private photos

34 Food A Eating the way our ancestors did

36 A Day in My Life M + An Irishwoman who cares for

donkeys

38 History M The end of the Falklands War

62 The US in Germany M US The search for a US Army post that disappeared

66 Short Story M “The Venetian violin”

Ms Winslow investigates (Chapter 1)

68 Material World M The Taylors go to the Norfolk Broads

70 Arts M Films, exhibitions, podcasts

71 Around Oz A + Peter Flynn on odd politicians

72 The Lighter Side E Jokes and cartoons

73 102 English Things to Do M An Englishman’s garden shed

74 Feedback & Next Month E M A Your letters to Spotlight and upcoming topics

76 My Life in English E Singer and actress Lisa Fitz

15 Sprachseiten 44 Vocabulary M +

The weather forecast

46 Everyday English M + Looking after cats

48 Green Light E

Easy English

50 The Grammar Page M + Using the definite article “the”

51 Language Cards E M A Pull out and practise

54 Spoken English M + Using the word “as”

55 English at Work M + Ken Taylor answers your questions

56 Words that Go Together E + Play and learn:

the collocations game

58 Crossword E M A Find the words and win a prize

60 Lost in Translation A A fun look at interesting words

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www.facebook.com/spotlightmagazine

ABOUT THE LANGUAGE LEVELSThe levels of difficulty in Spotlight magazine correspond roughly to The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages:

EASY MEDIUM ADVANCEDA2 B1–B2 C1–C2

Improve your English

6/2017 Spotlight

M + Julian Earwaker takes us to Warwickshire, the county in

the heart of England that was Shakespeare’s home.

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Where is Britain heading?A The announcement of an election this month caught the country by surprise. What does it all mean, especially in the context of Brexit?

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Spotlight plusPractise the language and grammar of Spotlight with the exercise booklet plus. For the pages in the magazine marked with this symbol PLUS there are additional exercises in plus.

Spotlight AudioEnjoy interviews and travel stories and try the exercises on the monthly 60-minute CD/download. Look for this symbol AUDIO in the magazine.

Spotlight in the classroomTeachers: this six-page supplement will provide great ideas for classroom activities based on the magazine. Free for all teachers who subscribe to Spotlight.

WORLD MAP

All I need is the air that I breathe MEDIUM

Vancouver 12 micrograms/m3

Los Angeles 20 micrograms/m3

Buenos Aires 26 micrograms/m3

Toronto 14 micrograms/m3Saubere Luft ist längst keine

Selbstverständlichkeit mehr. In manchen Städten ist die Belastung extrem hoch.

Spotlight 6/2017 WORLD MAP6 

Clean air is becoming rare, says the World Health Organization (WHO). This month’s map shows selected cities and their air pollu-tion in terms of average levels of airborne par-ticles. The worst one? Onitsha, Nigeria, con-sidered to be the world’s most polluted city.

A widely used measure of air-pollution levels is concentrations of PM10 — particles with a diameter of 10 micrometres or less. In comparison, a human hair has a diameter of 50–70 micrometres. The WHO says cities should limit levels of PM10 to a mean annu-al concentration of 20 micrograms per cubic metre of air. So far, this is wishful thinking.

Such small particles are a “chemical cock-tail” of soot, heavy metals, sulphates, nitrates, black carbon and dust. When we breathe them in, they tear through our lungs and dive deep into our cardiopulmonary system. The result is illness: children grow too slowly or die early, while adults develop heart disease, lung disease and cancer.

Air pollution in cities is worrying, not least because its root causes — vehicle emissions, fossil-fuel energy production, heating and cooking in homes and waste incineration — are unlikely to diminish any time soon.

New York City 16 micrograms/m3

airborne particles [(eEbO:n )pA:tIk&lz]

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Sydney 17 micrograms/m3

Riyadh 368 micrograms/m3

Shijiazhuang 305 micrograms/m3

Johannesburg 85 micrograms/m3

Karachi 290 micrograms/m3

Shanghai 84 micrograms/m3

Tokyo 28 micrograms/m3

Kabul 260 micrograms/m3

London 22 micrograms/m3

Berlin 24 micrograms/m3

Key: The figures above refer to mean annual concentrations of small particulate matter — particles with a diameter of 10 micrometres (PM10) or less — measured in micrograms per cubic metre. Sources: World Health Organization (WHO); headline made famous by The Hollies (1974). Research by Owen Connors and Claudine Weber-Hof

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20 microgramsper cubic metre (m3) of air is the WHO’s

recommended annual limit for PM10 small particles.

Istanbul 53 micrograms/m3

Turin39 micrograms/m3

World’s worst: Onitsha, Nigeria

594 micrograms/m3

Delhi 229 micrograms/m3

8  Spotlight 6/2017 PEOPLE

IN THE NEWS

A few years ago, the violinist Gaelynn Lea, 33,was faced with a choice that not many of us would like to have to make. Lea has osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). One symptom of this illness is that her bones break very easily. To help stop this, doctors could have put metal rods in her arms and legs. But Lea decided against such an operation, be-cause it might have damaged her nerves, and that might have made it difficult for her to play the violin.

This decision is typical for the brave young musician. Born in Duluth, Minnesota, Lea fell in love first with the cello, after hearing it at a school concert. But as she is only around one metre

tall, the cello was too big, and the violin was the only real option. Even playing the violin with her own technique — she holds the instrument like a cello in front of her, not on her shoulder — has presented Lea with multiple challenges. She told the BBC, for example, “I can’t use my fourth finger because of the angle of my right hand.”

This has not stopped the violinist from establishing a career for herself as an electro-folk musician. She has released two solo albums, she tours regularly with her band, The Murder of Crows, and in 2016, she won an important NPR music competition for young artists.

It’s time to say goodbye to the Queen of Soul. US singer Aretha Franklin has told WDIV Local 4, a local TV station in Detroit, Michigan, that she is ending her music career this year. The 75-year-old from Memphis, Tennessee, sang at the church of her father, who was a minister, when she was a child and made her first album when she was a teenager. She has sold more than 75 million records and had more songs on the Billboard music charts than any other female singer. She told WDIV Local 4 that the album she releases this year will be her last: “This will be my last year in concert. This is it.” She said that she plans to spend more time with her family, “but I’m not going to go anywhere and just sit down and do nothing. That wouldn’t be good either”.

Northern Ireland has a long history of conflict be-tween Protestants and Catho-lics. But at Lagan College in Belfast, children from both sides go to school together. Lagan College became the first integrated school in Northern Ireland when it opened in 1981. However, more than 30 years later, only about seven per cent of students in Northern Ireland go to such schools. Integrated schools are defined as schools that try to attract students from the minority religious group in their

locality. Northern Irish actor Liam Neeson, who is 65 this month, is asking for more schools to become integrated. In a

video message, he said that most people agree that teaching children of different

faiths together is bet-ter for everyone. “It’s

time to turn our aspira-tion into reality,” he said.

PEOPLE EASY AUDIO

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multiple [(mVltIp&l] , mehrfach, vielfach

release [ri(li:s] , veröffentlichen

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