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Sie hat sich das Gitarrespielen selbst beigebracht, singt über Themen,
die jeden irgendwie angehen und liebt ihre schottische Heimat. Im
Spot on-Interview verrät Amy Macdonald all dies und vieles mehr. SCHWIERIGER
That’s Maclife!
Listen to Amy!
Vom 22. September bis
26. Oktober spricht Amy
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den roten Zeichen .
Einfach zuhören – am
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Amy ’s around!
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Amsterdam – Melkweg
Brussels – Botaniques
Berlin – Columbiahalle
Cologne – Palladium
Vienna – Wuk
Zurich – Kauflauten
Munich – Tonhalle
Hamburg – Große Freiheit
Brussels [brsəlz]
Cologne [kələυn]
Vienna [vienə]
Munich [mjunik]
Brüssel
Köln
Wien
München
S
he used to sing alone with her
guitar in the style of a troubadour, but now she’s got a record
deal, a band and an internationally successful debut album. With her guitar
and thoughtful lyrics, she sings about
everything from footballers’ wives to
drugs and dancing. With This Is The
Life, Amy Macdonald found herself at
Number One in the UK. Now her
album has just gone platinum. Amy,
21, tells Spot on that she’s excited to
share her music with lots of people, but
she’ll never leave home.
Who listens to your music?
I write songs about such simple
things, and I’m not trying to be something I’m not. At the end of the day,
it’s mostly subjects that anybody can
relate to. I think that’s why it’s got such
a broad audience. «
»
Sing along!
Here are some of the words to two
of Amy’s songs. To listen to her music,
go to: www.amymacdonald.co.uk.
Remember: pop songs often use
slang, so the grammar and punctuation are not always correct!
This is the Life
Foto: V. Phillips (Aufmacher)
The people, they were dancing
to the music vibe …
And the songs, they get louder
each one better than before …
And you’re singing the songs
thinking, “This is the life.”
Amy wrote this song after a great
night with her friends at a concert by
the band Babyshambles. Everyone was
having fun, wishing life could always
be that way. And every night feels like
the night of your life – even when
you’re locked out because your
friend’s forgotten the key.
vibe [vaib] (vibration)
shambles
to lock out
Schwingung; hier etwa: ✌ gutes
Feeling
✌ Chaos, Durcheinander
aussperren
Glasgow the bad kids are referred to as
the NEDs. In London they’re called the
chavs, but they’re all the same. They
don’t take note of what’s going on.
They don’t really read newspapers. «
Tell us about home.
» I absolutely love Scotland and I love
living in Glasgow. We have so much to
be proud of coming from Scotland. We
have the kilt. We have haggis. We have
bagpipes and all the national songs –
the folk music. It’s such a beautiful
country. One minute, you can be in
Glasgow, in the thriving city centre,
and then you take a 20-minute drive
and you’re out in the open with the
mountains. We’re just really proud of
our little country. «
But Scots are also known to be
big fighters.
» There are the bad ones. There were
some horrible troublemakers at my
school, and you think, “Grow up!” In
How did you get into music?
I bought the album The Man Who, by
Travis. I fell in love with it and saw
Travis perform at T in the Park, which is a
big music festival in Scotland. From
seeing them play, I taught myself how
to play guitar. About a year later,
I thought I’d try songwriting. It really
relaxed me and I enjoyed it. I’ve been
doing it for six years now. I’m very
grateful that I can make music and
people hear it.
Interview: Vincent Delgado
That’s Maclife
at the end of the day
to relate to something
broad audience
[ɔdiəns]
haggis
to thrive [θraiv]
troublemaker
to refer to something
[rif
]
Poison Prince
Why would a genius be trippin’
on me?
And he’s looking at me now …
So many lies behind his eyes ...
Some kinda poison prince with
your eyes in a daze
Some kinda poison prince your
life is like a maze
Many people like things that aren’t
good for them. Even a genius – like
one of Amy’s inspirations, singer Pete
Doherty – can make the really bad
mistake of taking drugs. But it’s a lie
that drugs can make life easier. In fact,
“poisons” make it harder for someone
to find a way to a better place.
why is he tripping
on me?
kinda
in a daze
maze
etwa: warum ist er immer high,
wenn ich ihn sehe?
✌ „kind of“
benebelt; hier etwa: wie hinter einem
Schleier
Labyrinth, Irrgarten
Anspielung auf Amys Album This Is The
Life und auf ihren Nachnamen
hier: letzten Endes
etwas mit etwas anfangen können,
einen Bezug zu etwas haben
viele unterschiedliche Zuhörer
to take note of
something
to get into something
grateful
schottisches Gericht aus Innereien vom
Schaf
blühen, florieren
hier: Störenfried
hier: von etwas sprechen,
etwas bezeichnen
etwas zur Kenntnis nehmen;
hier auch: sich für etwas interessieren
hier: zu etwas kommen
dankbar
WORD WATCH
NED & chav
NED and chav are very negative
words that have appeared in Britain
in the last few years. Both describe
poorly educated teenagers who
typically wear tracksuit trousers,
hooded tops and designer baseball
caps. “NED” comes from “non-educated delinquent”. The word
“chav” may come from the Romany
word chavo, which means “boy”.
Other people say “chav” comes
from “Chatham girls” – Chatham
is a town in southern England.
tracksuit trousers
Jogginghose
delinquent [diliŋkwənt] Delinquent(-in), junge(-r)
Straftäter(-in)
Romani (Sammelbezeichnung
Romany [rɒməni]
für die Dialekte der Roma)
(Rom
Rom [Zigeuner])
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Hi readers! For Spot on’s
New York special, I’m not
going to write an e-mail
but take you on a tour
through one of my
favorite places! On the
weekends, I love wandering around
lower Manhattan – there’s so much to see
and do. So put on your walking shoes
and let’s go!
East Village Skateboarders
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richest people! Across the
street is one of New York’s
first subway stations. It’s
bigger than the normal ones
– with lots of glass windows.
You can also see the Cooper
Union school for artists and
Mud Truck Quick & easy architects, built in the 1850s.
We’ll start at Astor Place, on Eighth Abraham Lincoln gave a speech here.
Street and Broadway – between the East For New York, that’s an old building!
Village and the West Village. There’s a To find Astor Place, just ask for the corner
big cube in Astor Place. It’s a sculpture of Starbuck’s and Starbuck’s. It’s
called “Alamo”, but everybody calls it crazy! There’s a huge Starbuck’s coffee
“the cube”. There are lots of people here shop on the west side of the street and
– especially skateboarders. And you’ll see another just one block away. But you
people spinning the cube. It really turns! don’t have to go there. Every day, the
It’s hard for one person to do it. But with Mud Truck is in Astor Place, with cool
a friend, no problem!
music and great coffee.
Astor Place is really old. It’s named for
John Jacob Astor, who came here
in 1784 and became one of America’s
Walking past Cooper Union, we’re on
Eighth Street, or St. Mark’s Place, in the
East Village. This was once full of punks
Fotos: S. Rodriguez (Aufmacher); J. R. Voss (l. u.); J. Kokinos-Havel (r. u.); privat (1)
Entdeckt Manhattan mit jemandem, der sich wirklich auskennt: Unsere New York
Korrespondentin Mary Beth Maslowski zeigt euch, was ihr nicht verpassen dürft!
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Kenka Just like in Japan
St. Mark’s Cool & colorful
Trash & Vaudeville Punk clothes
Bamn An old-fashioned automat
and get burgers or sandwiches – it’s an
old-fashioned automat. ☺
Spots’ Cafe Good cheap food
Fotos: M.B. Maslowski (6)
and homeless kids. The famous 1960s
musical Hair, about New York hippies,
took place here. Today, this area is fancy
and expensive! But St. Mark’s Place is
still cool. I often shopped at Trash &
Vaudeville in my punk days, and at the
used-clothing store Search & Destroy.
It’s on top of a cheap Japanese restaurant
called Kenka. It’s just like in Japan!
When you leave, you get a cup of pink
powder. Take it to the machine outside
the restaurant, take a stick, put in the
powder and out comes cotton candy!
The restaurant’s name is written in
Japanese, but above it you’ll see the
monsters in Search & Destroy.
There are lots of places to eat on St.
Mark’s. Go to Spots’ Cafe for cheap
food. Or try Bamn. The food is behind
little windows. You put your money in
Walking south, we see more of how the
East Village is changing. In the 1700s,
the Bowery was one of New York’s most
elegant streets, with nice houses and
shops. The street got its name in the
1600s from the Dutch settlers, who called
it the Bouwerij because it was farmland.
But by the time of the Civil War, in the
1860s, whorehouses and flophouses
were everywhere. From the 1940s, it
became dangerous: the alcoholics and
homeless around here were called
“Bowery bums”.
Today, luxury lofts and shops are changing the look of the Bowery. There’s the
Bowery Hotel, with $600 rooms next to
the old flophouses. And across the street
is one of New York’s cheapest hotels, the
Whitehouse, with rooms for $31.
(And no, the President doesn’t live here,
that’s the White House!) But I wouldn’t
try it. A friend who stayed here hated it so
much that she came to stay with me!
Bowery Hotel New & elegant
This article is in American English
cube [kjub]
Würfel
truck
(US) Lastwagen
East Village
Alternativen- und Künstlerviertel im
Süden von Manhattan
trash
(US) Abfall, Müll, Schund
vaudeville [vɑdvil]
Varieté (Theater mit Musik-, Tanz-,
Artistik- und anderen Darbietungen)
automat [ɔtəmt]
hier: Automatenrestaurant
Bowery [baυəri]
tour
hier: Führung
West Village
cooler Stadtteil im Süden von
Manhattan mit vielen Homosexuellen
sculpture [sk
lptʃr]
Skulptur, Plastik
to spin
drehen
to name something
(US) etwas nach jemandem benennen
for somebody
subway
(US) (New Yorker) U-Bahn
artist
Künstler(-in)
homeless
obdachlos, Obdachlose(-r)
to take place
hier: spielen
fancy
schick
powder [paυdər]
Pulver
cotton candy
(US) Zuckerwatte
settler
Siedler(-in)
Bouwerij [bəυərai]
Civil War
hier: US-Bürgerkrieg (1861-1865)
whorehouse [hɔrhaυs] Bordell
flophouse
(billige) Absteige
bum
✌ hier: Penner
loft
Speicher; hier: Wohnatelier
to stay
hier: übernachten, wohnen
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EXERCISES
Manhattan modals
GRAMMAR
US actress Whoopi Goldberg told you that there were lots of things she
could do in New York without money. Now practice using modal verbs!
To find five new
English exercises
every month, go to:
www.spoton.de ➥
Fun in English
e
Times Squar
(1) You absolutely ________________ (must / can) visit the Statue
of Liberty. It’s a real highlight.
(2) If you _______________ (will / want to) stay in Manhattan, you
_____________ (want / ought to) start looking for a hotel now.
(3) I loved New York! I _________________ (must / should) have
taken a thousand photographs!
(4) I __________________ (couldn’t / can’t) find my map.
I _________________ (might / can) have left it on the subway.
(5) We ___________________ (can / will) be walking a lot, so you
________________ (should / shall) wear comfortable shoes.
Do you know
New York?
GRAMMAR
You’ve been reading a lot about New York City. Now write passive
sentences about these New York facts.
1.
The 46-meter Statue of Liberty _________________________
These exercises are in American English
modals
hier: „modal verbs“ (Modalverben)
to stay
hier: übernachten, wohnen
subway
(US) (New Yorker) U-Bahn
comfortable [kmftəbl]
bequem
Good, better …
New Yorker!
On page 30 fashion queen Kira Plastinina compares
New York to Moscow. Use these adjectives to complete the comparisons in the sentences below.
active • famous • tall
impressive • safe
(to give) to the US by the French government in 1886.
2.
Between 1892 and 1954, more than 12 million immigrants
_________________________ (to welcome) to the US at Ellis
GRAMMAR
1.
•
There are about 50 buildings in Manhattan
Island.
3.
that are _______________ than 200 meters.
About 275 species of birds can _________________________
(to see) in Central Park. Every
year, thousands of birds stop
2.
The Statue of Liberty is one of the _________
_________________ landmarks in the world.
in the 843-acre park on their way
north or south.
4.
The Brooklyn Bridge
3.
_________________________
In the last few years, New York has been
America’s ____________________ large city.
(to complete) in 1883.
About 2,000 coats ____________
4.
__________________ (to hand in)
New Yorkers must be _______________ than
most Americans – they walk everywhere!
to the lost-and-found office at
Grand Central Station every year.
government [vrnmənt]
species [spiʃiz]
acre [eikr]
lost-and-found office
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Regierung, Staat
Art(-en)
0,405 Hektar (1 Hektar = 10.000 m2)
(US) Fundbüro
5.
New York is _____________________________
than any other city I’ve seen.
landmark
Wahrzeichen
Fotos: New York City & Company (2)
5.
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Phat!
Super slang
VOCABULARY
In New York, you’ll hear people use slang words.
And you hear these words a lot in music, too!
Can you guess which of these slang words mean
“good” and which mean “bad”?
Gravy!
crump • gimp • crummy • crunchy
• phat • gravy • git • dank
Good
Bad
__________________
__________________
__________________
__________________
__________________
__________________
__________________
__________________
Jay-Z
Look up!
tz
Lenny Kravi
VOCABULARY
New York has lots of famous bridges and buildings. Decide which of the
names below are real buildings.
dge
Brooklyn Bri
Wish you
were here!
GRAMMAR
Imagine your friend has written to you from
New York – but has made a few mistakes!
Find and correct the six mistakes in
your friend’s e-mail.
Hi,
I am in New York now since 5 days. It’s
fantastic! The cit y is so big and full of
action. Yesterday we went on a ferr y and
Fotos: Universal Music (l. o.); D. Hindley (r. o.); New York City & Company (u.)
have seen the Statue of Libert y. We didn’t
go up to the top because it was a lot of
other tourists waiting to go up. Most of
the time, we walk ever y where, and there’s
always anything to see. We could spend
1. a)
Empire State
b)
Head of State
2. a)
American Special
b)
American Standard
weeks here! But of course, we mustn’t see
ever ything this time – I’m sure we’ll be back
soon!
3. a)
Rusty Iron
b)
Flatiron Building
4. a)
Lipstick
b)
Perfume
5. a)
Daily News
b)
Daily Planet
Wish you were here, too!
Bye!
ferry
Fähre
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TALK
Test your
self!
While you’re in
New York …
1. You ask your friend if she wants to go shopping.
She says, “I’m about that.” Your friend
a) wants to go shopping with you.
b) doesn’t think shopping is a good idea.
2. Someone says your clothes are “bad”.
3. Your friend says he has to “bail”.
This means your friend has to
a) be sick (sich übergeben).
b) leave.
4. A boy tells you about a car that’s
“really bitching”. He thinks the car
a) has been stolen.
b) is extremely cool.
5. You hear about someone who is a “baller”.
This person is probably
a) very rich.
b) very fat.
6. You are telling a long story to a friend
and she says, “Yadda yadda”. She
a) wants you to hurry up and get to the point.
b) agrees with what you are saying.
Text: J. Gilbert, L. Montgomery, R. Mote; Fotos: J. Horowitz/Corbis (o.); Avenue Images GmbH (u.)
This means your clothes look
a) cool.
b) old.
9. You hear a
boy on the bus
say he “axed”
his girlfriend.
This means
a) he wanted to get information from her.
b) you should call the police – he’s a murderer!
10. A girl is talking to you about a party and says
7. You hear one guy (Typ ) tell another guy that he’s
a)
b)
a “schmuck”. The other guy says, “Oh, yeah?
Well, you’re a putz!” These two guys
are angry at each other.
are gay (schwul ).
a)
b)
that a lot of “bridge and tunnel people”
were there. She means
homeless people (Obdachlose).
people from other New York City boroughs
(Stadtteile) and the state of New Jersey.
8. A girl tells you that she’s really “skeeved”about
a)
b)
something she saw happen at school. She is
really happy.
disgusted (angewidert ).
ANSWERS
1. a 2. a “Bad” is often used to mean “cool”. 3. b 4. b
5. a 6. a 7. a These two words mean “idiot” and come
from Yiddish – but NYers use them a lot! 8. b 9. a “Axed”
really comes from “aksed” which comes from “asked”. Don’t
use this word – you hear it a lot, but it is incorrect. 10. b
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What am I eating?
NYers call this a submarine sandwich –
because it is long and thin like a submarine. It usually has ham and provolone
Italian cheese and lettuce and tomatoes.
Submarine sandwiches are also called
subs (for short),
hero sandwiches
or hoagies.
Foto: E. Bolis/iStock
NYers call this a bagel with
schmear. “Schmear” is used
in NY but comes from Yiddish.
It means cream cheese because
you schmier it on your bread!
Where am I?
Some places in New York get
their names from their locations in Manhattan. Can you guess
what the names mean and match them to the map?
1. NoHo ____
14
th
Str
eet
2. SoHo ____
A
B
Av
en
ue
Av
A
en
ue
Av
B
en
ue
Av
C
en
ue
D
3. Nolita ____
Ho
ust
on
Str
eet
C
4. TriBeCa ____
Ca
Litt D
nal
le I
Str
taly
eet
5. Alphabet City ____
E
6. DUMBO ____
Ma
nha
tta
n
Bri
dge
F
BROOKLYN
How to get
around
The numbers of the streets and
avenues tell you exactly where you
are, so you won’t get lost in
Manhattan! The avenues always run
north-south while streets run eastwest. Fifth Avenue divides streets into
East and West – so East 14th Street
changes to West 14th Street when you
get to Fifth Avenue.
Every weekday, almost five million
NYers take the subway (U-Bahn).
It’s fast, easy, cheap and it runs 24
hours a day. In Manhattan, subway
entrances are usually on street corners.
To ride the subways (and buses) buy
a Metrocard at subway stations.
Make sure you’re going in the right
direction:
• uptown train (going north)
• downtown train (going south)
• crosstown shuttle (going east or
west).
If you ask people in New York how far
away something is, you might get the
answer in blocks. Going north-south
in Manhattan, 12 blocks is about one
kilometer.
Did you know?
• New York City was founded (gegründet) by the Dutch in 1625, who
bought the island of Manhattan from the Manna-Hatta Indians
for $24. A lot of places in NYC still have Dutch and Indian names!
• The first name for New York was New Amsterdam. It
became New York when the English took over.
•
Stuyvesant Town, between 14th and 20th Streets on the
East Side of Manhattan, is named after Peter Stuyvesant, the first
Dutch governor of New Amsterdam.
Harlem is named after the Dutch city Haarlem.
• Wall Street got its name from the old Dutch city wall that
•
stood on that street in the 1600s.
• The small waterway at the northern end of Manhattan is called
Spuyten Duyvil. That’s Dutch for “devil’s spout” (Schnauze;
auch: Ausguss), because people thought the strong water currents
(Strömungen) there were devilish.
Dutch, Manna-Hattas & Duyvils
Where am I?
1. A NoHo = North of Houston Street
2. C SoHo = South of Houston Street
3. D Nolita = North of Little Italy
4. E TriBeCa = Triangle Below Canal Street (In Manhattan,
“below” means farther downtown, which is farther south.)
ANSWERS
5. B Alphabet City = an area of Manhattan (between
Houston and East 14th Street). The avenues are called
A, B, C and D.
6. F DUMBO = Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass
(a trendy area in the borough of Brooklyn under the
Manhattan Bridge)