CONTENTS
4 ISSUE
Don’t Be Disinformed
6 HOLIDAYS
July 4th, Juneteenth and Memorial Day in the US
8 SCOTLAND
Hidden Scotland
10 GLOBAL CULTURE
Discovering Korea
12 TRAVEL
Travel on a Shoestring
14 LANGUAGE / NATURE
The Secret Stories Behind Insect Names
16 MATURITA
Speaking Practice Part 1
18 MATURITA
B2 Language in Use
19 PUZZLES
The Puzzler
20 MUSIC
Imagine Dragons
22 FILM
Superpowered Summer
24 SPORT
Sports with Spice
26 NEWS
Cooliosities
28 COMPETITION
“Write a Nonsense Poem” Winners
30 TEST
Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE)
34 COMIC
Scandal in the White House
EXTRA ARTICLES ONLINE
GLOBAL CULTURE
The Story of North and South Korea
COMIC
Scandal in the White House – the ending
Solutions
Maturita B2 Language in Use Part 3: 01 being, 02 most, 03 hand, 04 with, 05 is, 06 on, 07 letting, 08 another, 09 able, 10 such
What’s So Ladylike About Ladybirds?
1 pest
2 salvation
3 to burrow
4 lunacy
5 nocturnal
6 pincers
7 omen
8 creepy-crawly
The Puzzler
PECULIAR SENTENCES
The sentences contain every letter of the English alphabet, while using as few letters as possible (31, 32, 35). A sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet at least once is called a pangram.
WORD LADDER
TIME LIME LIKE BIKE BAKE CAKE
TREASURE
metal box
HIDDEN CAPITALS
Madrid + Paris
Berlin + Kyiv
Prague + Warsaw
Budapest + London
Oslo + Vienna
Amsterdam + Dublin
WORD PYRAMID
I
is
sit
ties
diets
driest
strides
Imagine Dragons
Sample answers:
1 half an hour / 30 minutes
2 to express / to let out
3 (has) caused / (has) created / (has) led to
4 do
5 tweeting / writing / posting
6 (very) fond of / keen on / enthusiastic about / fans of / mad about
7 apart from / except (for) / other than / outside
Superpowered Summer
1D, 2H, 3A, 4F, 5I, 6E, 7B, 8C, 9G
Cambridge English: Advanced
READING AND USE OF ENGLISH
Part 3:
17 eloquently
18 conceivable
19 disrespect
20 influential
21 discredited
22 incorporated
23 unmodified
24 disprove
Part 4:
25 would benefit from (taking/having)
26 no time were we (ever) aware
27 had not/hadn’t been for that accident
28 are on (very) good terms with
29 can’t/couldn’t have been put
30 had her bag snatched
Part 7:
41E; 42C; 43F; 44A; 45G; 46D
Part 8:
47D; 48A; 49C; 50C; 51D; 52B; 53C; 54D; 55B; 56A
LISTENING
Part 3:
15A; 16D; 17C; 18B; 19A; 20 C
Part 4:
Task One: 21B; 22C; 23G; 24A; 25D
Task Two: 26E; 27A; 28F; 29G; 30H
Scandal in the White House
First row: Richard Nixon, Frank Willis, Howard Hunt, Gordon Liddy
Second row: John Ehrlichman, John Dean, Ron Ziegler, Bob Woodward
Third row: Carl Bernstein, John Mitchell, Mark Felt, John Sirica