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Dear email,
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English is quite simply packed with fabulous expressions. If you don’t believe me, then you need to listen to our podcast English, please! Each time, my colleague Owen Connors presents an interesting word or phrase, sometimes old, sometimes new, but never dull. This is why I was very happy to find the wonderful expression “curtain-twitcher” in this newsletter. Every street has at least one such person – in fact, I’ve been known to twitch a curtain myself when there’s something interesting going on outside my window. Can you guess the meaning? If not, you’ll find the definition below.
My nosiness isn’t limited to the neighbourhood. If I think something’s interesting, I like to pursue it. So, when I found out about Disco Corporation in Japan, a company with no hierarchy, I immediately read up on the company. You can do so, too, below. It’s a fascinating project.
That’s all from me. Next week, Judith Gilbert, editor-in-chief of Business Spotlight, will be back with more stories from around the English-speaking world.
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Inez Sharp
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Editor-in-chief, Spotlight
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packed with: voller | fabulous: fabelhaft, fantastisch | dull: langweilig | nosiness: Neugier | pursue sth.: etw. (weiter) verfolgen
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Word of the Week
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curtain-twitcher
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Did you know...? Did your neighbour’s curtain just twitch? It might have been the wind – or an amateur spy with too much time on their hands. The term describes a person who loves to secretly observe their neighbourhood (and usually doesn’t get a lot of love back for this hobby).
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curtain: Vorhang | twitch: zucken | spy: Spion(in)
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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Anzeige
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Grüezi! … and hello world!
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The ZEIT Switzerland newsletter keeps you up to date with what's going on in Switzerland and how the rest of the world views this small, lovely country. Published every Friday from the ZEIT office in Zurich, the newsletter is written in German and translated into English.
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© Bild: Henrique Terreira / Unsplash.com
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Grammar
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“What” or “which”?
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Use what in questions when the number of possible answers is unlimited:
• What are your daughters’ names?
• What cake are you getting for your twins’ birthday? (It could be anything!)
Use which in questions when there is a limited choice of possible answers:
• Which of the twins is older?
• Which bakery did you get the cake from? Was it the one around the corner or the one at the market square?
Practise this distinction with these exercises.
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© Image: Martin Haake
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Easy English
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Fascinating facts about twins
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Which twin is which? Identical twins can be hard to tell apart. But that’s not the only interesting thing about siblings who’ve shared a womb!
• Identical twins have the same DNA, but they don’t have the same fingerprints.
• Twins can have different birthdays – if the first baby comes before midnight and the second one after.
• “Non-identical twins” are also known as “fraternal twins” and develop from two separate eggs. Essentially, they are regular brothers and sisters who are born at the same time.
• It’s very rare, but non-identical twins can have different fathers. They begin as two separate eggs, so the sperm that fertilizes them could come from two different men.
• There are around 13 pairs of twins per 1,000 births around the world. The African country of Benin has the most twins – around 28 pairs per 1,000 births.
• Older mothers and taller mothers are more likely to have twins.
• According to research, vegan mothers have significantly fewer twin births than mothers who drink milk.
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identical: hier: eineiig | tell so. apart: jmdn. auseinanderhalten | siblings: Geschwister | womb: Gebärmutter | non-identical: hier: zweieiig | fertilize: befruchten | significantly: bedeutend
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© Image: Martin Haake
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Podcast
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A piece of history
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Above, you can see a piece from the Bayeux Tapestry. The embroidery is nearly a thousand years old and shows scenes of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. The spectacular piece of medieval art has – until now – never left France. Next year, it’s going to be displayed at the British Museum in London. For this episode of our podcast English, please!, we’ve invited two French guests to talk about an important document of our shared history and discuss the relations between France and England today.
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tapestry: (Wand-)Teppich | embroidery: Stickerei | Norman: normannisch | conquest: Eroberung | medieval: mittelalterlich | display: ausstellen
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© Image: Photos.com via Canva.com
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Work Life
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The will to work
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What if your company didn’t have any hierarchies and everybody could choose their tasks themselves?
What sounds like a recipe for disaster is actually a successful concept for the Japanese company Disco Corporation. How do they ever get anything done? Find out here.
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© Image: iStock.com
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Ihr Gutschein für Spotlight
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Sie erhalten die erste Ausgabe unseres Abonnements gratis
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Business Skills
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Business communication trends
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Practise useful vocabulary to talk about the latest trends in business communication with these four exercises.
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© Image: Shutterstock.com
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Im aktuellen Magazin
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Escape the crowds!
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Six beautiful places in Britain to enjoy without the crowds | Is the UK quietly rejoining the EU? | Learning English outside the classroom
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Quiz
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Whisky
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Fancy a tipple? Test your knowledge of whisky in our quiz, and learn more about its origins.
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tipple: hier: Getränk
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© Image: Thomas Park / Unsplash.com
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From the ZEIT SPRACHEN App
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Next Wednesday is International Left-Handers Day ✋
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Did you know that around ten per cent of people are left-handed, and that this has been the case since the Stone Age? But why? Find out what science says about being a lefty.
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lefty (ifml.): Linkshänder(in)
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Ihnen gefällt „ZEIT für Englisch“?
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Mitarbeit: Dennis Draber, Judith Gilbert, Susanne Krause, Nadia Lawrence, Mae McCreary, Richard Mote, Rachel Preece, Inez Sharp.
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