Your English Monthly B2/C1 TEEN 1

Your English Monthly

TEEN?

Year XXXIX - N. 1 - September / October 2018 - Imprim? ? Taxe R?duite

Teen People

B2/C1

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Saoirse Ronan

Report

Tackling Food Waste ? A Global Problem

Discovering Britain

Regeneration



Find TEEN online (see page 2 for details)

N. 1 - September/October 2018

Common European Framework Intermediate Level (B2?C1)

In this issue look out for:

- present perfect and simple past - reported speech - multi-word verbs - passive constructions - adjectives describing personality - language of bullying; city planning; and

hobbies - `strange' and its synonyms

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Glossary

take the world by storm: (idiom) become very popular very fast extinct: that no longer exists (of a species), i.e. there are none left on Earth threaten: risk, face the danger of

Welcome Welcome to a new issue of your English-language Teen magazine. This time we meet some talented young people who are taking the world by storm*. We visit some of the old industrial heartlands of the UK, and find out how to stay active in a digital age. We think about some solutions to food waste ? one of the biggest challenges currently facing us, and along the way, we've got plenty of fun activities to help your learning.

Liz

Contents

3 Teen People Saoirse Ronan 4 Discovering Britain Regeneration 6 Report Tackling Food Waste ? A Global Problem 8 Faces of Britain Millie Bobby Brown 10 Around the World Being Human 12 Culture and Society Yum! Food Festivals Around the UK 14 Playstation

Around the World

On 22 September the world marks World Rhino Day. The World Wildlife Fund in South Africa started this event in 2010 to focus attention on the five remaining species of rhino alive on our planet ? two in Africa and three in Asia. Around 60 million years ago, there were at least 30 different species of rhino, but most of those are now extinct*. The remaining are the White Rhino, the Black Rhino, the Greater One Horned or Indian Rhino, the Sumatran Rhino and the Javan Rhino. But now these species are also threatened* with extinction. Individuals and organisations, NGOs and zoos all over the world take part in World Rhino Day. You can follow what is happening and get involved using the #worldrhinoday hashtag. What do we need to keep rhinos alive on our planet? Above all, we need to protect their natural habitat.

World Rhino Day

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True or False

1. On World Rhino Day we learn about rhino species that have gone from the Earth.

2. There are five species of rhino alive on Earth today.

3. Three rhino species live in Asia. 4. Millions of years ago there were 30 rhinos

alive on the planet. 5. World Rhino Day is an important day for

environmental awareness around the world. 6. World Rhino Day reminds us to give space to other life on our planet.

True

False

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Answers are on page 15.

adjectives describing personality

Teen People

Passport

Name: Saoirse Family Name: Ronan Place and date of birth: New York, 12 April 1994 Profession: stage and cinema actress Disitnguishing marks: her ability to create emotionally intense characters

Saoirse Ronan

Saoirse Ronan was only 13 years old when she got her first Oscar nomination for her role in Atonement. Her second Os car nomination came at 21 for Brooklyn. Now, at 23 she's won her first Golden Globe as Best Actress, for Lady Bird. This Irish American actress looks all set for* a glittering* career. Let's find out more about her.

Saoirse on Screen and in Real Life

Her name is traditional Irish Gaelic. It looks difficult to pronounce, but is actually quite easy ? it's "sur?sha". She was born in New York to Irish parents. She grew up in Ireland but returned to the US to work. Her father is an actor and loved taking his daughter on to the sets* where he was working and of course, Saoirse fell in love with acting. She began her acting career at the age of 12, appearing in an Irish TV series. She left school when she was still young, but didn't stop studying. Acting helped open up a whole new world. She met lots of actors, directors and read literature and new scripts. Saoirse is best known for her work on TV and in film, but she is also a stage actor, appearing in Chekov's The Seagull. Saoirse is still friendly and approachable in spite of all the fame. She loves Disney films and speaks to her mother via videolink almost every day. They have a warm, open relationship. Saoirse loves living in the US, but she also misses her home country of Ireland.

Who is Saoirse

With getting that many accolades* and that much fame so early on in life, you might think that Saoirse is super confident. The truth is a little more complex. Saoirse has admitted that she doesn't like watching her films after they have been released, and that she suffers from anxiety. Saoirse smiles a lot and is relatively conventional. She loves spending time with her friends and family. In real life, she's the complete opposite of the character she plays in the hit film Lady Bird. "I do understand why my contemporaries want to rebel," she says, "they feel forced into a way of life they don't want. But I've always been lucky. I'm doing something I've always wanted to do. I started acting when I was young and had the support of my parents to do that."

deals with such a universal theme. Together we managed to appeal* to audiences of all ages and all nationalities with this film. I still can't quite believe how much this film has given me".

A Talented Actor

All the directors she's worked with talk about how talented she is, some say she's a real genius. She's often compared to Meryl Streep and Saoirse is more than happy with that. "Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett have had a huge impact* on screen acting," Saoirse says, "They are so adaptable, taking on very different roles and working in very different genres of film. I aim to step outside of myself when I'm acting," she adds. That might be why she is able to create such convincing* on-screen characters, and might be what makes her such a great actor.

Lady Bird

Lady Bird is an American comedy drama, which has been described as a magical portrait of adolescence. Saoirse plays Christine MacPherson, who insists on being called Lady Bird. She is a troubled, unhappy teenager, who wants to move away from her isolated home to a city where there is more `culture' and more for a young person to do. In the film we see her first loves, watch her find her own path, and struggle in her relationship with her mother, who wants something different for her daughter and believes she doesn't appreciate what she does have. In the end Christine does find a way to leave her home, but she understands what she put her parents through and calls to apologise to them. "I owe so much to the director of the film, Greta Gerwig," explains Saoirse, "Lady Bird

Dreams of the Future

After the international success of Lady Bird, Saoirse starred in two more films ? On Chesil Beach, adapted from another novel by Ian McEwan, and Mary Queen of Scots, where she plays Mary. Saoirse has a wonderful future ahead of her. Although we can't know exactly what shape her future will take, there's one thing for certain ? she'll always continue appearing on stage. "My father always told me that a cinema star is never fully rounded unless they alternate a film role with time on stage," she says. She loves acting but has said she'd like to direct films one day. "I wanted to be a film director even before I began acting," she says, "and sooner or later I am sure I will. Watching Greta [Gerwig, the Director of Lady Bird] convinced me that is what I want to do. There are still so few women directors and we need more of them. Do I also want to write? I'm not sure. I have a friend who's a writer, and another who is a producer, maybe one day we will all work together on a project. I prefer to work with people who I can rely on, friends who support each other, where their motivation isn't only all about money."

Glossary

set for: (multi-word verb) ready for, has built the foundation for glittering: (literally = shining) incredibly successful set: (here) the physical space where actors and crew film parts of a film accolades: praise, prizes and awards impact: when you have a strong effect on something/someone convincing: that you can easily believe in appeal: (here) that people find interesting

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Discovering Britain

simple past and present perfect contrasted; vocabulary of architecture and city planning; prefix `re'

The Midlands and north of England were once the powerhouses* of the industrial revolution that changed the world. But the coal mines* are shut, the great industries of the past have closed and production moved to other parts of the world. So, what's happened to these once-great* manufacturing cities?

Regeneration

The centre of Brimingham, with the new Birmingham Pulbic Library on the right.

The redeveloped dock area of Liverpool.

Reinventing* the City

When the coal mines closed, and the huge factories and mills* went silent, whole communities lost their jobs, and large parts of the country went into serious decline*. The post-industrial landscape was a depressing place in the 1960s and 1970s, but now, half a century later, these cities have reinvented themselves, some more successfully than others, as IT hubs or financial and legal centres, with vibrant* communities and iconic architecture. Let's take a tour.

Leeds

Leeds was a small market town in the far west of the northern English county of Yorkshire, until wool made it rich in the 17th and 18th centuries. Its importance as a centre for selling wool made it the most logical place to build the big mills that made cloth to export around the British Empire during the 19th century. Today, many of the old mills

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and warehouses have been converted into offices and flats, restaurants and bars. Now, instead of the sound of the great steam-powered looms*, the streets are filled with the voices of people going about their business or enjoying life with their friends. At the heart of Leeds is a network of canals. These are man-made `rivers' that were used across England to transport goods, like our motorways today, except they used horse-powered and later steam-powered canal boats and not lorries. One of the best improvements to Leeds city centre is the cleaning up and restoring of the old canals. It's a great place to hang out* in your lunch break or in the evening with friends. Today Leeds is the largest legal and financial centre in England outside London. It has a strong economy and growing employment. If you're into culture, then the city has plenty of interesting museums, it's famous for the Leeds Armouries (arms and armour from around the world), modern art galleries, and an ancient, atmospheric abbey called Kirkstall.

Birmingham

To the south of Leeds, almost in the centre of England, is the city of Birmingham. Once known only for being ugly, the city centre is being redesigned and dramatic new buildings, such as the new city library, are starting to change the appearance and the reputation of UK's second biggest city (although people from Manchester, where we are going after this, say that Manchester is the UK's second city!) Like many industrial cities across Europe, Birmingham was damaged by bombs during the Second World War. In the postwar rush* to rebuild, architects seemed to forget that cities are about people and not about cars and concrete. The architecture was concrete and `Brutalist' and people didn't like it. Birmingham is home to a famous example of what went wrong in post-war city building ? The Bull Ring. It was designed as a huge

Manchester is famous for its pop music especially in the 1980s and 1990s. Some of the most famous bands that originated in the city are Oasis, The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, The Chemical Brothers and The 1975.

Birmingham is an exciting and diverse city with a lot of different influences on its food. The city is the home of one of the UK's favourite dishes, the Balti curry. In fact an area to the south of the city centre is known as `The Balti Triangle' and is where most of the Balti restaurants (known as Balti houses) are. In September, the city also hosts the Zombie Walk ? several thousand people dressed as zombies. Don't worry they are not out to attack, they're raising money for charity!

shopping area but it was surrounded by motorways and you could only get to it as a pedestrian via tunnels which were unpleasant and sometimes the focus of crime. It was redesigned during the first decade of this century and is now a much nicer place to visit. Birmingham isn't often associated with culture

and research, but it should be. The city has six universities, and is home to the famous City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the NEC ? the National Exhibition Centre ? and it is an important hub* for the global economic network. The transformation of Birmingham is a proper Cinderella story!

Manchester

Today Manchester is famous around the world for its two football teams, Manchester United (or Man U to its fans) and Manchester City. Here was the world's first intercity railway (between Manchester and Liverpool). Manchester was the first place in the world where scientists split the atom in 1907 (New Zealand-born Rutherford and his team), and developed the forerunner* of the modern computer (1948 ? the `Manchester Baby'. You can see a replica* of this in the science museum in Manchester). It is also the birthplace of the strongest material ever develop, graphene, a 2D semi-metal which scientists believe will revolutionise computing in the 21st century.

Choose the ingredients

Balti curry was first brought into the UK to Birmingham from India. Which ingredients are used in this popular dish?

garlic

garam masala

During the industrial revolution, Manchester was the centre for cotton production in England. Factories turned cotton grown by slaves and plantation workers in the south of the US into cloth for clothes and household linen ? sheets, pillow cases etc. During this time Manchester had the nickname `Cottonopolis'. Cotton is generally made in developing countries now, where labour is cheaper, so what has replaced this industry? In 2002, Manchester hosted the Commonwealth Games and this encouraged a big transformation in the city. As in Birmingham, many of the 1960s developments have been knocked down, and as in Leeds, many of the old Victorian warehouses have been converted into shops, offices and restaurants, with the upper floors becoming desirable* flats. A penthouse* in Hulme, a fashionable part of the city, will cost you at least ?1M.

Liverpool

Liverpool is the perfect example of a city with a glorious* past and an exciting present, but a pretty difficult time in between! Liverpool grew with the British Empire and increasing trade with America during the 19th century. Here the great ships of the world left to take people to a new life over the Atlantic, or brought in goods from all over the world. When that ended and Liverpool's industries died, the city went into a period of poverty and decline with high unemployment and lots of social problems. The good news is that Liverpool has found its heart again. The waterfront and docks have been transformed and several of the city's buildings have been given World Heritage status by UNESCO. But the journey to regeneration has not been easy in any of these cities. In January 2018 in Liverpool, for example, many people who had invested in a plan to redevelop parts of the city, lost their money when the construction company went bankrupt*. They are still waiting to see if they will get compensation.

onions meat ? lamb, goat or chicken

ginger chilli peppers

Glossary

yogurt yeast turmeric

chocolate fresh coriander

Match each of these to its city ? Leeds (L), Manchester (M), Liverpool (Liv) or Birmingham (B)?

1.

Docks

2.

Law and finance

3.

Cotton

4.

The Bull Ring

5.

Symphony orchestra

6.

Wool

7.

Curry

8.

United and City

9.

UNESCO

10.

Graphene

powerhouses: something that has a lot of power and influence coal mines: place underground where you dig out coal ? fossilised trees once-great: that were important and rich in the past reinventing: (here) making improvements to give themselves a new and better future mill: factory where cotton and other materials are made decline: become less good (in this case with less money and fewer businesses) vibrant: full of life loom: machine for making material from threads hang out: (informal) spend

time with rush: do something quickly hub: (here) an important centre for something forerunner: a thing that comes immediately before another replica: an exact copy of something desirable: that a lot of people want penthouse: flat at the top of a block or skyscraper, usually with terraces and views over a city glorious: famous and impressive went bankrupt: business that closed due to having

debts and/or no money

The answers are on page 15.

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