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INDEX | 2009
The best of Spotlight
Die wichtigsten Artikel des letzten Jahres hier im Überblick zum Nachschlagen und Nachlesen.
COLUMNS
American Life
Supporting Obama 1/09
Ig Nobel Prizes 2/09
Wyoming 3/09
Career change 4/09
Good friends 5/09
Bartering services 6/09
Uncle Sam 7/09
Growing your own food 8/09
Little treasures 9/09
Motel for sale 10/09
Women and bargaining 11/09
Real-life stories 12/09
Around Oz
Gold rush 2/09
Retiring later 3/09
Daylight saving time 4/09
Chinese investment 5/09
The cost of studying 6/09
Green shopping 7/09
Australia’s first saint? 8/09
Digital TV 9/09
Smoking ban 10/09
Recession-free Oz 11/09
Unpopular professions 12/09
As I See It
Baby names 1/09
Manners 2/09
Sneezing in public 3/09
Family planning 4/09
Iraqi refugees 5/09
Before You Go
Laugh at yourself! 1/09
Imitative words 2/09
Jargon 3/09
The nose and smells 4/09
LANGUAGE
SECTION
English at Work
Fluent presentations 1/09
Negotiations 2/09
Coaching people 3/09
Hiring someone 4/09
Press conferences 5/09
Building business relationships 6/09
Saying goodbye 7/09
A plan of action 8/09
Interpreters 9/09
Perfect presentations 10/09
Defining culture 11/09
Giving instructions 12/09
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Facial expressions 5/09
Rhyme 6/09
Lucky numbers 7/09
Envy 8/09
Punctuality 9/09
Mobile phones 10/09
Restaurant tips 11/09
German vs English 12/09
Chef (Wales) 7/09
Lifeguard (S. Africa) 8/09
Baseball player (US) 9/09
Sheep shearer (UK) 10/09
Sandal maker (US) 11/09
Photographer and student
(S. Africa) 12/09
Debate
Britain Today
Supermarket spelling 1/09
Banks need change 2/09
Paint colours 3/09
The recession 4/09
Bank holidays 5/09
Become a teenager 6/09
Breakfast 7/09
Selling old songs 8/09
Scandal in parliament 9/09
Wind farms 10/09
Remembrance Day 11/09
Taking food to the US 12/09
I Ask Myself
Stars like us 6/09
America’s royalty 7/09
Obama’s children 8/09
Star lobbyists 9/09
Blogs and the truth 10/09
(Almost) famous words 11/09
Watergate Hotel 12/09
ARTICLES
A Day in My Life
Fisherman (US) 1/09
Neon artist (UK) 2/09
Newsreader (Australia) 3/09
Firemedic (US) 4/09
Gardener (UK) 5/09
Newspaperman (US) 6/09
Everyday English
Parties 1/09
Relationships 2/09
Injuries in the home 3/09
Being irritated 4/09
Gossiping 5/09
On the phone 6/09
Falling in love 7/09
At the hairdresser’s 8/09
Walking 9/09
Going to university 10/09
Taking photos 11/09
Christmas is coming 12/09
Grammar Basics
The personal passive 1/09
Contractions 2/09
Love affairs (S. Africa) 1/09
May the state take private
property? (Australia) 2/09
School uniforms (US) 3/09
Bad language (UK) 4/09
Spend or save? (US) 5/09
Cosmetic surgery (Australia)
6/09
Lying to get a job (US) 7/09
Limiting air travel (UK) 8/09
The Arctic (Canada) 9/09
Should dogs be allowed in
restaurants? (US) 10/09
Losing outback history
(Australia) 11/09
Afghanistan (UK) 12/09
Features
A second chance in Australia
— Nicole Kidman 1/09
Australia’s year of change —
under Kevin Rudd 1/09
Stories from prison — fathers
read to their kids 1/09
Traditional trading — shops
in London 2/09
A very good holiday — helping in Gambia 3/09
It’s your world — working
abroad 4/09
A race to the top — Formula
One’s Lewis Hamilton 4/09
Question forms (1) 3/09
Question forms (2) 4/09
Uncountable nouns 5/09
“Must” and “have to” 6/09
“Mustn’t” and “needn’t” 7/09
“Can” and “could” 8/09
“May” and “might” 9/09
“Shall” and “should” 10/09
“There is” and “there are”
11/09
Comparisons 12/09
Spoken English
Exaggeration 1/09
Using “tell” 2/09
Insults 3/09
The word “so” 4/09
Celebrating the summer —
Summer events for England’s
high society 5/09
Computers go retro — design
for a “golden age” 6/09
A Memphis love song — the
musical southern city 7/09
Bullock is back — the actress
in a new film 7/09
Relaxed — books, films and
music for your holiday 8/09
Design city — Toronto 8/09
Good to be home — after
Hurricane Katrina 9/09
Lost boy found — a journey
across Africa 9/09
Dance! — Lindy Hopping in
London 10/09
Lighting up the season —
The Festival of Lights in
India 10/09
Little car, great fun! — the
Mini turns 50 11/09
Politics comes to life — the
British parliament 11/09
Don’t fence me in — Texas
cowgirls 12/09
History
The fall of the Zulu nation
(1879) 1/09
In the footsteps of Charles
Darwin (born 1809) 2/09
Peace in the Middle East
(1979) 3/09
Revolutionary leader George
Washington (1789) 4/09
The story of Bonnie and
Clyde (1934) 5/09
Mutiny on the Bounty (1789)
6/09
“Bring” and “take” 5/09
Numbers in expressions 6/09
“Look” and “watch” 7/09
The verb “get” 8/09
Verbs with “put” 9/09
The word “bit” 10/09
Short forms 11/09
Conversation 12/09
Travel Talk
Internet cafes 1/09
Hostels 2/09
Travelling with kids 3/09
Boating 4/09
Travel in a wheelchair 5/09
Taxis 6/09
Air travel 7/09
KUNDENSERVICE
One small step (first moon
landing, 1969) 7/09
Britain’s year to remember
(historical events) 8/09
One voyage too many
(Henry Hudson, 1609) 9/09
The Great Depression (1929)
10/09
Indian leader Jawaharlal
Nehru (born 1889) 11/09
Sioux leader Red Cloud
(died 1909) 12/09
Language
The tools you need — for
reference and practice 2/09
Write here, write now! —
writing clearly in English in
different situations 3/09
The art of small talk — the
best strategies 5/09
Easy as ABC — the rules of
spelling 6/09
Did I say that? — celebrities’
language mistakes 7/09
Say it simply — communicating with basic skills 8/09
Pass the test! — the right
English exam for you 9/09
On course for English! —
choosing the right language
course 10/09
Log on and learn — online
language learning 11/09
Cultural encounters — how
to make yourself understood 12/09
Science/Environment
Storing up trouble — data
inside your old phone 1/09
Animal magic — healthier
with cats and dogs 2/09
Paint it white! — brighter
roofs save energy and fight
global warming 3/09
The promise of stem cells —
tomorrow’s pills? 4/09
Lonely no more — television
made for the Web 5/09
Edinburgh Festival 8/09
At the launderette 9/09
Coffee 10/09
The tropics 11/09
Meeting people 12/09
Vocabulary
Describing people 1/09
Jewellery 2/09
Furniture 3/09
On a farm 4/09
Beauty and skin care 5/09
In the pub 6/09
On the beach 7/09
Landscape 8/09
A farmers’ market 9/09
First aid 10/09
Sex in the USA — the sexual
secrets our bodies keep
6/09
A new climate of cooperation — saving the planet
12/09
Short Story
The mix-up 1/09
Friends 2/09
The cat sat on the mat 3/09
The day the writer came to
class 4/09
A holiday romance 5/09
Street justice 6/09
A restless place 7/09
Loading the car 8/09
Who shot little Billy? 9/09
The late show 10/09
Connectivity 11/09
Bananarama 12/09
Travel
Dublin your fun — day and
night in Ireland’s capital
1/09
A people’s journey — the
story of black America 2/09
Monuments to faith — England’s cathedral cities 3/09
An island all my own — the
British Virgin Islands 4/09
A riverside rendezvous —
the heart of Montreal 5/09
The garden on Africa’s coast
— the Garden Route 6/09
Life in the slow lane —
Britain’s waterways 7/09
Call of the wild — Yellowstone National Park 8/09
Australia’s Rainbow Region
— beaches and rainforests
9/09
Iron road to the Highlands
— Scotland by train 10/09
Life is a beach and more —
Florida’s Everglades 11/09
Once in a lifetime — our authors’ memories of special
journeys 12/09
Thanksgiving 11/09
Winter sports 12/09
Word Power
Latin words and
phrases 1/09
The film industry 2/09
Greek prefixes 3/09
Natural disasters 4/09
Journalese 5/09
Legal English 6/09
Banking 7/09
Funny-sounding words 8/09
Vehicles 9/09
Fear 10/09
Homonyms 11/09
Adjectives with “-able” 12/09
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