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Dear email,
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OK, time for a little confession: I donât really like ice cream. Donât get me wrong, Iâll eat a few ice creams over the summer, but given the choice of a savoury snack or a cone filled with vanilla or chocolate ice cream, the savoury snack will win out every time. For the rest of you who enjoy nothing more than a cold, slurpy, sticky treat, youâll find all the vocab you need for discussing and ordering below.
On the other hand, a summer treat I absolutely love is Wimbledon. I canât actually play tennis with any skill. My hand-to-eye coordination is on a par with that of a penguin â no offence to penguins. I do, though, adore the sound of the ball being knocked back and forth and the gentle commentary. If you share this passion, try our quiz on Wimbledon.
Thatâs 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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confession: GestĂ€ndnis | get sb. wrong: jmdn. falsch verstehen | savoury: herzhaft, pikant | cone: Waffel, EistĂŒte | slurpy: schlabberig | sticky: klebrig | treat: Leckerei |
be on a par: auf einer Stufe stehen; ebenbĂŒrtig sein | no offence: nicht böse gemeint | adore sth.: etw. lieben | back and forth: hin und her
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Word of the Week
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class
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Did you know...? Earlier this year, the Oxford English Dictionary added several words from Irish-English. One of them is class, which can be used as an adjective to show approval. In Ireland or Northern England, you might hear âThatâs class!â instead of âThatâs great!â.
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approval: Anerkennung
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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Ihr Gutschein fĂŒr Spotlight
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Sie erhalten die erste Ausgabe unseres Abonnements gratis
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Travel Quiz
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Where in the world?
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How well do you know the tourist destinations of the world? Take our travel quiz â and practise the language of describing places and people as you go.
City nicknames
Americans love to give their cities nicknames. Which nickname belongs to which city?
1. The Big Apple
2. The Big Pineapple
3. The Golden City
4. The Emerald City
A. Honolulu
B. New York
C. San Francisco
D. Seattle
Is that true?
How much do you know about these iconic tourist attractions? Are these statements true or false?
1. Australiaâs Great Barrier Reef, the worldâs largest coral reef system, can be seen from outer space.
2. The largest waterfall at Niagara Falls, on the U.S.âCanadian border, is called Horseshoe Falls because people throw horseshoes into it for good luck.
3. New Yorkâs Statue of Liberty was made in France.
4. Londonâs Tower Bridge is older than New Yorkâs Brooklyn Bridge.
Bafflingly British
The UK has a few surprising adjectives when referring to certain cities and their people. Can you guess the cities that belong to these adjectives?
1. Glaswegian
2. Mancunian
3. Liverpudlian
4. Scouse
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nickname: Spitzname | emerald: smaragdgrĂŒn | coral reef: Korallenriff | outer space: Weltall | horseshoe: Hufeisen | bafflingly: rĂ€tselhaft, befremdlich
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© Image: Georg Lechner
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Answers:
City nicknames: 1. B., 2. A., 3. C., 4. D.;
Is it true? 1. true, 2. false (The name comes from its distinctive shape.), 3. true, 4. false (Brooklyn Bridge opened in 1883; the building of Tower Bridge began in 1886)
Bafflingly British: 1. Glasgow, 2. Manchester, 3. & 4.(both!) Liverpool
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Podcast
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The British-Swiss connection
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In the latest episode of English, please!, we welcome a special guest from Switzerland: Matthias Daum, from Servus. GrĂŒezi. Hallo. What do the Brits and the Swiss have in common? What separates us? Letâs find out:
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© Image: Tobias K. via Canva.com
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Vocabulary
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Ice cream
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Vanilla or chocolate? Cup or cone? Some sprinkles on top? Test your ice cream vocabulary with these exercises.
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tub: hier: Becher | cone: Waffel, EistĂŒte | sprinkle: Streusel
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© Image: Martin Haake
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Business Skills
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How to ask for (and get) more money
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You donât need to kiss your bossâs shoes to get a pay rise! Hereâs what to do instead.
As a special gift, our newsletter subscribers can read the online version of the article for free â but only for a week!
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pay rise: Gehaltserhöhung | subscriber: Abonnent(in)
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© Image: Georg Lechner
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Anzeige
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GrĂŒezi! ⊠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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© Image: Henrique Terreira / Unsplash.com
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Facts and Figures
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Trust in employers
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Do you trust your employer to do the right thing? ÂAccording to the Edelman Trust Barometer, trust in employers has fallen worldwide since 2024. This is a worrying trend for business. The MIT Sloan ÂManagement Review says that employees who trust their employers are more motivated to work, have lower rates of absenteeism and are around 50 per cent less likely to look for another job. A culture of trust is good for productivity and Âcollaboration, and the Harvard Business Review reports that it helps reduce the risk of burnout.
In PwCâs 2024 Trust Survey, 86 per cent of managers said they trusted their employees, but only 60 per cent of employees felt that employers trusted them. What are the reasons for this difference?
Forbes says top managers should involve workers in decision-making, so they feel that their voices matter and transparency is increased. Trust is also diminished when workers are let go in an impersonal manner â simple and personal recognition for good work goes a long way to (re)building trust.
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absenteeism: rate of ~: Abwesenheitsrate | survey: Umfrage | diminish: geringer werden, nachlassen | let go: be ~: entlassen werden | manner: Art und Weise, Manier | go a long way: viel dazu beitragen
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© Image: Cytonn Photography / Unsplash.com
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Im aktuellen Magazin
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Ready for a little light fun?
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Aberdeen and the Highland Games | Meet Greg Asner, the scientist working to save the seas around Hawaii | Voices from the heart of the United States | Quiz: test your travel vocabulary!
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Quiz
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Wimbledon
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Whoâll win the final of the Wimbledon Championships this Sunday? We donât have the answer to this question, but we have five questions (and five answers!) about the oldest tennis tournament in the world.
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tournament: Turnier
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© Image: Shutterstock.com
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From the ZEIT SPRACHEN App
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At the pool
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đŹđ€ż From inflatable animal to snorkel: with our vocabulary list, you can learn all the important words for your next visit to the pool! đ
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inflatable animal: aufblasbares Schwimmtier | snorkel: Schnorchel
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Ihnen gefĂ€llt âZEIT fĂŒr Englischâ?
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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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