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Dear email,
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I love my cat. I’m one of Vice President elect J.D. Vance’s “crazy cat ladies.” My cat is pure joy. A great companion, affectionate, playful, sociable. To my dismay, cats often get a bad rap: online there are countless memes and cartoons about how aloof they are. (I think: Not all people are this or that, and not all cats are, either.) One of my favorite cartoonists is Scott Metzger, famous for his cat cartoons. True, his cats can be aloof or scheming – oh, but so adorable and funny. Below, we have some exercises for you, based on cat vocabulary.
I also love mysteries. In our book recommendations, we have, among others, the wildly entertaining new mystery by Richard Osman, as well as a holiday classic by Agatha Christie. You know what I’ll be doing this holiday season!
Happy St. Nicholas Day!
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Judith Gilbert
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Editor-in-chief, Business Spotlight
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Vice President elect: designierter Vize-Präsident | affectionate: liebevoll, anhänglich | sociable: gesellig | dismay: Bestürzung | bad rap: ungerechtfertigte Kritik | aloof: unnahbar, distanziert | scheming: hinterhältig, intrigierend | adorable: liebenswert, bezaubernd | St. Nicholas Day: Nikolaustag
Note: Judith's editorial is written in US English.
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Word of the Week
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Rawdogging a flight
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Did you know...? This is a new way for men to prove their manliness – by enduring long flights without food, water, sleep or any entertainment. While some describe “rawdogging” as a dopamine detox, experts say it’s unhealthy because people on long flights should eat, sleep and drink water.
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manliness: Männlichkeit | endure sth.: etw. aushalten | dopamine detox: Dopamin-Fasten, -Entgiftung
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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Ihr Gutschein für Business Spotlight
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Sie erhalten die erste Ausgabe unseres Abonnements gratis
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Book Tips
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Winter reading
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There’s a Christmas tradition in Iceland called Jólabókaflóð. On Christmas Eve, people gift each other books, and the practice accounts for a flurry of new book releases in the run-up to Christmas. If you’d like to join in this tradition, or if you’re simply looking for a way to escape the cold outside, the Spotlight team has put together a selection of our favourite books.
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gift sb. sth: jmdm. etw. schenken | a flurry of sth.: eine Reihe von etw. | in the run up to sth.: im Vorfeld von etw.
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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Quiz
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Mysteries on a train
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1. Agatha Christie’s classic Murder on the Orient Express (1934) was inspired by which real crime?
A. The Valentine’s Day Massacre
B. Britain’s Great Train Robbery
C. The Lindbergh Kidnapping
2. Patricia Highsmith’s first thriller, Strangers on a Train (1950), was filmed by which great director?
A. Roman Polanski
B. Alfred Hitchcock
C. John Huston
3. The Taking of Pelham 123 (1973) is about a train that is hijacked. What kind of train is it?
A. A freight train in Pelham, England
B. A subway in New York City
C. A monorail in San Francisco
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freight train: Güterzug | subway (US): U-Bahn | monorail: Einschienenbahn
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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Answers: 1. C: in 1932, the son of Charles Lindbergh, famous for his non-stop flight across the Atlantic, was kidnapped and killed; 2. B; 3. B
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Language
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Feline friends
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What could be better than a warm ball of fur sitting on your feet while you read a good book (see above)? Practise your cat-related vocabulary in our exercises.
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ball of fur: Fellknäuel
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© Image: Martin Haake
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Business Skills
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Making a celebration speech
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It’s the season of festive parties, which might mean a speech or two. If you're planning on giving one, practise the vocabulary you’ll need in our exercises below.
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festive: hier: weihnachtlich
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© Image: Georg Lechner via AI
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Working Life
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Is hard work just a myth?
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American tech entrepreneur Marc Randolph co-founded Netflix in 1998 and was the company’s first CEO. The 66-year-old, who comes from New York state, doesn’t believe that hard work makes companies successful. He says CEOs and entrepreneurs get ahead thanks to their ability to know how to prioritize.
“I think hard work leading to success is a myth,” Randolph told CNBC. “If I can be really smart about which problems I choose to focus on, [that] will make the difference.”
Today, Randolph is a management advisor and public speaker. He tells managers not to waste energy on things that aren’t actually important, explaining that many businesses try to make something perfect before a customer sees it. At Netflix, he says, he learned that perfection isn’t necessary. Instead, the goal should be to get real-life feedback as quickly as possible, even if products are imperfect and half-finished.
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entrepreneur: Unternehmer(in) | co-found sth.: etw. mitgründen | CEO (chief executive officer): Geschäftsführer(in) | myth: Mythos
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© Image: ddp / ZUMA
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Im aktuellen Magazin
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Face value
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Video tracking – who's watching you? | 10 predictions for 2025 | Financial frauds of the century
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Quiz
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Tea time!
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It’s no secret that Brits love a brew. Indeed, they drink 100 million cups daily – that’s almost 36 billion per year. Test your knowledge of the topic of tea in our fun quiz!
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brew (ifml.): Tasse Tee
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© Image: Calum Lewis / Unsplash.com
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Christmas
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Sweet traditions
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At ZEIT SPRACHEN, our editors come from all over the world. We asked ZEIT für Englisch contributing editors about their childhood Christmas traditions. In the run up to Christmas, we’ll tell you more about them. Do you know what a Christingle is? For Rachel Preece, it's an important Christmas memory.
“As a child, the anticipation on Christmas Eve was almost better than Christmas Day itself. As dusk fell, we went to a service at the local church. After what felt like an hour of singing, we were rewarded with sweets stuck on cocktail sticks, which, in turn, were stuck into an orange with a candle on top: a traditional Christingle.
This is, apparently, originally a German tradition, invented in the 18th century, but it became hugely popular in the UK from the 1960s onwards.
Afterwards, we returned home to put out a carrot for the reindeer and some mince pies and a glass of sherry for Father Christmas. My parents ensured Rudolph’s visit was truly authentic – in the morning, we would find chewed-up pieces of carrot on the kitchen floor, and mince pie crumbs all over the table: Father Christmas had obviously been in a rush, he still had many more children to visit.”
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childhood: Kindheits- | in the run up to Christmas: in der Adventszeit | anticipation: hier: Vorfreude | Christmas Eve: Heiligabend | dusk: Abenddämmerung | service: hier: Gottesdienst | apparently: anscheinend | mince pie: süßes Weihnachtsgebäck | chewed-up: zerkaut | crumb: Krümel
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© Image: Al Elmes / Unsplash.com
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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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